So let’s talk about the new feature as to what it is all about and how it’s gonna be useful for both, the user and the developers. What is Android Instant Apps Android Instant Apps is Android apps running on your phone without installing themselves. Basically, whenever we open up a website which needs us to install an app to continue or we get a link in our instant messaging which redirects us to a page on Play Store to install an app to view the contents, things become quite tedious....

While I was exploring the Zenfones for the last couple of days, I came across the feature called Motion Gesture and Touch Gesture as a part of the Zen Motions features on Zen UI and they are remarkable. Using these features, you can increase the accessibility on the device and get things done. So let’s have a quick look at these features. There are two different types of Zen Motion available namely Motion Gesture and Touch Gesture and the options can be found under settings....

Despite being an indispensable resource, approximately two-thirds of the world’s population faces the serious issue of water scarcity. In addition, about one third of the world’s ground water basins are being unsustainably depleted. With diminishing groundwater supplies, and a large number of persons having severely limited access to potable water, an intervention of sorts is needed. All is not lost however, especially not with Omar Yaghi of UC Berkeley (University of California, Berkeley) on the case....

Through the years, iPhones have been benchmarks for the industry and introduces the world to technologies that were unheard of. Though Apple has been slacking off in the innovation department for the past few years and has even at times played catch-up with its competitors, they have always maintained the gold standard when it came to quality. Another aspect that has remained unchanged is how Apple has been pricing their iPhones....

Although there are a number of other reasons to ditch the Facebook app like it eating into your storage and data, draining the battery and making other apps, as well as the device sluggish, privacy concerns surrounding the app, remain the most pressing. Every app requires a certain degree of permissions from the user to access either your contacts (in the case of apps like Truecaller), images (in the case of photo-sharing apps like Instagram) and the likes....

While the name gives away its main function (tracking heart beats), we will today see why recording heartbeats is important and how the sensor works. Why Tracking Your Heartbeat is Important? Heart beats are a vital parameter of your heart which can reveal many things about its health. From diagnosing a simple chest pain to knowing the health of heart muscles, so much can be known by checking your heart beats....

No surprises there since a lot of those folks use the host of features baked inside Instagram. Noticed the stories with colorful backgrounds? While there are many built-in and direct ways to add colors to your Instagram stories, one feature is hidden. We are talking about adding a solid background color. Wondering how to do that? It’s easy. Let’s proceed. Add Color Block to an Instagram Story You can add a background color while composing a text story in the Type mode....

Thanks to Mr. Zuckerberg, we can easily connect with our friends and chat with them.. yes “them”, without the need of using other group chat tools. There’s a feature in Facebook which allows a user to add multiple friends to a chat, a feature which many are not aware of. So let’s see how we can add more friends to a Facebook chat. Add More Friends to a Facebook Chat Making it a Group Chat Step 1: While you are chatting with a friend, click on the small gear icon at the top of the chat frame and click on the option Add friends to chat....

However, that’s not the reason why we like the VLC player. The main reason is that, despite being a free software, it offers many more functionality than any of the paid software out there in the market even today. Of many things that the VLC player has to offer, Mouse gestures is something really awesome. However, most users don’t know about this feature. Similar to the keyboard shortcuts, with Mouse gestures, you can simply move a mouse around the screen and control the playback....

If you belong to the second category, today is your lucky day. In this post, we’ll tell you how to get the Shot on watermark on a photo taken from any Android phone. Recently, you’d have seen many photos online having the Shot on watermark. While some OEMs like OnePlus have this feature built-in, others do not provide it. But, that’s not the end of the story. No matter what Android device you own, you can add the Shot on watermark on your photos....

Thankfully, you do not need any third-party apps to block websites on your iPhone or iPad. That’s because the built-in Screen Time controls on iOS 13 and iPadOS are more than sufficient for the job. Let’s put them into action. Blocking Sites Using Screen Time The Screen Time functionality lets you easily block websites using the Web Content restrictions built into it. The feature made a debut with iOS 12....

Thankfully, iOS has a tight set of built-in restrictions that make blocking unwanted or adult-related content on Chrome a breeze. And with the new Screen Time feature in iOS 12, restricting access to websites on the iPhone or iPad part of your family group is easier than ever before. If you are a parent, you’re going to love it. Block Specific URLs The built-in restrictions of iOS have always served as a useful means to blocking websites not just on Safari, but on third-party browsers like Google Chrome....

While we have made so much advancement in technology, some basic things like these continue to bother a lot of us. Of course, tools like GIMP and Photoshop are pros at doing it, but not everyone is a pro at them. That’s where photo editing apps and websites come into the picture. Thanks to them, you can easily change the background color of an image. The process involves two steps — make the background transparent and add a background color to the transparent image....

In this post, we’ll share the steps necessary to change the default download location on Windows 11 for various file types. So, without further ado, let’s get right into it. Change Default Download Location for Apps, Documents, and Media By default, Windows 11 stores all downloads – apps, documents, media, and other important files to the local drive. Over time, the primary storage my run out of space or you’d like to store specific files in a different drive....

Change Profile Icon on iPhone The Prime Video app on your iPhone is quite capable enough to let you make changes to your profile, including your picture. Here’s how you can change profile icon in the Prime Video app on your iPhone. These steps are also applicable to iPad users. Step 1: Open the Prime Video app on your iPhone. Step 2: Tap the profile icon at the bottom-right corner....

Following a recent update, YouTube has hidden the ability to change video quality under the advanced menu. It’s a small change, but it can be troublesome for normal consumers to find the option they are looking for. It will help you save internet data, but if you are already working with unlimited internet data, you shouldn’t be dealing with 480p or 720p (HD) video quality in the first place. We will start with YouTube mobile apps and then move to the YouTube web to change video quality....

If you’ve been using Adobe Photoshop on your Windows 10 running computer, I’m sure you have come across the scratch disk error at least a couple of times already. It’s quite annoying if you don’t know how to get past the error, and it can have a detrimental effect on your workflow. However, it is quite easy to fix, and you can get Photoshop up and running on your PC in no time....

In this post, we will show you the steps to create and add a password to your ZIP file on Mac without installing any third-party applications or using any websites. Create Password Protected ZIP File on Mac Along with saving storage space, a ZIP file can also save you time while transferring large files from your Mac. The Terminal app on your Mac lets you create a password-protected ZIP file that can be shared across devices....

And another hidden feature of Office Online apps is the Survey feature of Microsoft Excel. Excel’s Survey feature lets you create a basic structure of a survey, which is then shareable with your friends and family group. The Survey in Excel doesn’t have any fancy features like File upload, Conditional Logic, or Branching. Instead, it just gives you some basic options like paragraph, choice, drop-downs, and a few other options....

It is essential to delete old files and maintain only recent backups for preventing the backup files from consuming memory space. However, if you would like to free up memory space on your PC, here’s what you can do to delete them: Note: On Windows 10 backup files are stored in the C: drive. Delete Old Backup Files in Backup and Restore Backup and Restore was an inbuilt-in feature on Windows 7....