As fellow tech lovers, I’m sure you can all appreciate the complexity. There are plenty of options, but no one phone feels perfect. In a country like India, where phones aren’t subsidized by carriers, we have to pay the full retail amount of that particular device. So naturally, iPhones are usually out of the question for most Indians. Me included. Being in the Android environment for more than 4 years now had also made at least one thing easier....

What do you do when a program does not respond or hangs indefinitely on your machine? Often, user hit the Ctrl + Alt + Del or Ctrl + Shift + Esc combination to launch task manager and put an end to end that process/application. However, I have faced situations when that fails to work too. Under such circumstances, the Windows Command Prompt is the only option that I see. It is easy to kill a program from there and get things working again....

Apart from that, there are added disadvantages that range from someone else using your smart home assistant to order things to a hacker listening to your confidential talks and gaining access to data stored on your smart assistant servers. The Privacy Paradox Per se, tomorrow a government employee walks into your house and asks you to allow him to place a few bugs inside, I’m pretty sure you’d be taken aback and will resultantly ask him to politely (or not) leave the premises, won’t you?...

Recently, they added the native Portrait mode to Stories that blurs the background in photos and videos. They also keep on increasing their sticker collection with interesting stickers. Now they have come up with yet another cool feature. You can now share your or someone else’s Instagram posts in your Stories. Basically, you will now be able to reshare the videos and photos to your Story with proper credits as their username will be shown in the Story....

If you are using Spotify on a free account, the app displays some ad banners on the player and also plays advert tracks after every couple of tracks to generate revenue. While the banners ads were not much of a problem to me as Spotify remain minimized most of the times, the voice ads were really annoying. Moreover, as I am using Spotify in India, none of these adverts them made any sense to me....

The main difference between Google Maps and Waze is that the former is data-based, whereas the latter is community-based. It means every member using the Waze app can report information related to traffic conditions, accidents, speed, and police traps, etc, for free to the Waze server. Further, it comes with an online map editor, to update roads, landmarks, house numbers, or even add new buildings. And just like every other navigation app, Waze also comes with a voice-guided driving assistance feature....

Not just that, an outdated browser cache can cause anomalies, or prevent sites from loading at all. Regardless of your reason, the process of clearing Safari browser cache and history isn’t all very clear. After all, there’s seemingly no built-in setting in Safari that lets one do that, right? Unless you know where to look. But if you know that and find the option grayed out, then here are some detailed instructions on how to get around that as well....

Migrating data, usually, is easy because we can just copy it from our old machine to the new one. Applications, however, cannot be copied in the same way. You need to install them on your new computer. Then there are compatibility issues too. Some for example work on Windows XP but cannot be used in Windows 7 or Vista. ( Image Courtesy – smudie ) Other problem is that you need to again set up your preferences ( or custom settings) of your old programs....

Of course, this requires you to log into your PlayStation account as well. Here’s how you can connect your PlayStation account to Discord. Why Should I Link My PSN Account to Discord Once you connect the PSN account to Discord, you can share the following with Discord users. Your PSN Online ID in Discord profile. The PlayStation games you are playing currently. It won’t show any data history, though. For how long you have been playing the game....

With the voting buttons on Microsoft Outlook, users can create a poll. Once this poll is sent out, recipients can click on the buttons to cast a vote. Of course, the recipients of the poll must be using Microsoft Outlook. Here’s how it works: Inserting Voting Buttons in an Outlook Mail The voting buttons on Microsoft Outlook make setting up a poll easy. Users can choose to either make use of the default voting button names or create custom names....

many ways in which you can shutdown Windows 8 but almost all of those require some click and select events along with some mouse button taps. It sometimes seems quite a task to shutdown Windows 8. I have no idea why Microsoft made something so routine this complicated but today I am going to share a simple trick I use on my Windows 8 that shuts it down with the click of a button on the taskbar....

As of 2020, the estimated number of email users was 3.9 billion. However, this means the average email user is exposed to spam emails daily. One of the best ways to deal with such emails is to create email aliases. Email aliases are disposable email addresses. They help to add an extra privacy layer to your email account. You can also use them to sign up for newsletters or on websites that you aren’t sure of their integrity....

If you have ever worked on Picasa you must have noticed the two options it gives a user after a fresh installation. The options are to either allow Picasa to limit its scan to the My Documents folder or allow a complete control over all the photographs in your entire hard disk. Now if all your photos are limited to the My Pictures folder then selecting the first option solves the problem, but if you have a scattered collection of snaps then you must go with the second one....

You can delete a video on TikTok from the recording, editing, and publishing screen, or even after posting. Although the process is easy, there’s no way to retrieve the videos once deleted. So if you’re sure, proceed with the below steps. Note: All the below-mentioned methods are applicable for both Android and iOS. How Do You Delete a TikTok Video Before Posting Once you’re done with the video, there are a few more steps to post a video on TikTok....

Fortunately, you can turn off these automatic app updates and then open the Play Store to update the apps manually. Here’s how to disable automatic app updates on Android and iOS. Should You Disable Automatic App Updates You may have decided to disable the automatic app updates to save up on mobile data or any other reason, but it won’t help you in the long run. There are two reasons you need to reconsider before disabling automatic app updates – experience and security....

Chrome has had a password manager and autofill option for a long time, but they were not useful and left a lot to be desired. The revamped password manager is a start, but I am still not going to use it. Don’t get me wrong; I am a Google fanboy. So much so that I have spent the better part of the last month moving everything to Drive, Keep Notes, and Gmail....

It is not just users with touchscreen laptops that face this error either. Others have reported witnessing the on-screen keyboard notification in their system tray or on their Windows lock screen. There are a few ways to fix this annoying feature. Let’s begin. 1. Remove From System Tray Do you notice the on-screen keyboard icon in the System Tray area? Right-click anywhere on the Taskbar and unselect Show touch keyboard button option....

That said, there are also various updates and improvements to how Apple Music functions by design. One significant and noticeable change is the way that Apple Music keeps playing related tracks automatically after the end of an album or playlist. You may love this functionality or not. For those patiently waiting, Apple is set to release the iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 in Fall, which means around fourth week of September this year....

Or, you can enable the Offline Availability settings to access them during your no-internet days. Yep, it’s that convenient. Creating graphs on Google Sheets can turn out to be a tedious process, especially if you’re not well versed with the somewhat complex network of tools and settings. Whether it’s plotting the colorful lines or bars or reversing the X-axis and the Y-axis and copying the same data to a different sheet, creating graphs and charts isn’t as hard as it is made out to be....

Many third-party photo editing apps promise more features, but most of them are paid or come with a subscription. Meanwhile, the Photos app is good enough for basic editing needs on Mac and makes share-worthy pictures. Here is how to edit pictures using the Photos App on Mac. Quick Edit With Auto Enhance The Photos app comes with an Auto Enhance tool that automatically adjusts the color and contrast of your pictures to make them look more vibrant....