Although Windows 7 introduced the “pin to taskbar” feature to put frequently used program shortcuts permanently on the taskbar, there’s one more way to get quick access to your favorite programs and apps without going to the start menu or desktop. It’s the inbuilt toolbar feature that’s available in all Windows versions. By creating a custom toolbar, you can easily access your favorite programs. You can add as many programs as you want and organize them in a proper manner....

This is why I love Shazam (just remember to turn off notifications in iOS, they’ve gotten really click-baity recently). Doesn’t matter what kind of music I point it towards, Shazam identifies it all. It can be purely instrumental music playing in an Italian cafe, or a Bollywood song on the top of a busy street in Delhi. Weirdly enough, none of it’s a problem for Shazam. Shazam introduced me to Angus & Julia Stone after all....

User Privacy . The rise of social networks and their several-pages-long privacy agreements that most people don’t understand has caused many to inadvertently share more than they would have liked. Things got even more complicated with the rise of smartphones and apps, which have virtually unlimited access to our login information to several services, as well as to other critical data. Because of this, it has become more important than ever to protect our data from external applications that might have access to it without us even knowing....

OneNote is known to be a digital notebook that integrates deeply with Microsoft’s Office 365 Suite of apps. It can handle pretty much every file type, can perform simple mathematical calculations inside notes (no one else does it), and comes with one of the best OCR technology in the category. Get OneNote Dropbox Paper has decided to take a different approach. With no desktop apps for Windows and Mac, it wants to win hearts on the back of a minimalist design with a robust set of features....

So if like me, you too want to get early access to these beta apps, I’ll show you how you can get it on any Android. However, one thing you must be aware of is that these beta builds might have bugs and might even crash on devices and that’s the reason they call it a test playground. So while you get all the awesomeness before everyone else, there is a chance of things going south on a few devices....

Now, Mozilla has made a comeback in the desktop space with Firefox 57 aka Quantum. The newly-released browser is claimed to be twice as fast as Firefox was six months ago and use 30% less memory than Google Chrome. In addition to being fast, the Quantum also comes loaded with new features and a completely overhauled design. The new version is available now for Linux, Mac, and Windows users. Here are some of the reasons why you should check out Firefox Quantum....

Why? For a superior phone experience, of course. So, before you take it out for a swing, check out the points below. 1. Set up Navigation Gestures Gestures are cool. They are way cooler and intuitive than buttons and at the same time, lets you save quite a bit of screen real estate. Hence, enabling navigation gestures should be your top-most priority. To enable them, head over to the Settings > Convenience Aid > Navigation keys, and then tap on Swipe-up gestures and you’re good to go....

Most of the budget smartphones memory are no match for some of the huge apps like Facebook or Messenger which hog up a third of the available memory. As you might already recall, memory hogging apps are also the cause of Android phones slowing down. So, how do you solve this particular issue? Hermit is a lite apps browser which aims at providing an apt alternative to some of the heavy apps....

Movies.io is a cool web service that gives you a basic overview of the movies in the simplest way possible. Before we proceed any further, let’s use the service to search for a movie. To do so, open the Movies.io homepage and type in the movie name in the search bar. The service will provide you suggestions as you type, and you can select the one who want the summary for....

This mid-range Android smartphone comes as a value-for-money proposition and offers some impressive features as well. Now, I have been using this smartphone for quite sometime. While there are somethings really great about it, there are some loose ends as well. Here I will be talking about my experience after using it as my primary phone for over 90 days. Now, before we move forward, I’d like to tell you that, in this long-term review, I’ll be talking specifically about observations and not just hardware specifications....

However, I do feel that the ability to edit screenshots is the next big thing. This is the reason why Google has added this functionality to the upcoming version of its mobile operating system Android P. That’s great news, but, since Android P is available only as a developer preview, how on earth is it possible to get this new OS on your phone, especially when the developer preview is limited only to the pixel users....

Google recently rolled out background image feature (see the update above). There is nothing innovative in Google’s move as they simply copied the most striking feature of Microsoft Bing (btw, you can check out Bing theme pack and wallpaper collection ). Having said that, I love this feature because now, I longer need to hop on to Bing frequently to check those tempting background wallpapers. This feature is only available on Google....

Google Play Books happens to be an excellent eBook reader and a great alternative to the Kindle app if you know how to use it effectively. Besides being free, it lets you add notes and highlights, and sync read positions between devices. All the functions work for your ebooks as well. The syncing takes place with a Google account, and the notes are saved in Google Drive. Sounds exciting? Let’s begin our journey of adding ebooks to Google Play Books on Android, iPhone, and PC....

You can enable password protection for your Microsoft Word files to avoid compromising sensitive data. We will show you how to add a password to a Microsoft Word document on Mac and Windows. Add Password to a Word Document on Windows Let us begin with how to add a password to your Microsoft Word document(s) on Windows. We will use a Microsoft 365 account to show the steps. Do note that the Web version of Microsoft Word doesn’t support this feature....

While there’s no direct option to superscript or subscript text in the Google Docs toolbar, doing so isn’t that difficult either. In this guide, we’ll cover superscript and subscript text, how to use them, and ways to add/remove them in Google Docs are. What Are Superscript and Subscript Superscript is the numbers or letters formatted to sit slightly above the regular text line. This kind of text indicates ordinal numerals, mathematical functions, or footnote or endnote numbers in a document....

This move will definitely be hard on a lot of users, especially those who, like me, got used to working with iPhoto for so many years. Even worse: for most of us, our photo albums hold a huge number of dear memories, and as with every update, there is always the possibility of something going wrong when the time comes to migrate to the new Photos app. With that considered, here are a couple of short guides on how to back up your iPhoto library both the simple way and the not-so-simple way....

The ransomware has not only exploited the backend vulnerabilities in Windows but also the bad habits of not updating OS, not having an updated anti-virus, not following safe web practices and few more. One of them that has particularly proven fatal is the apathy towards backing up important files. Why Don’t We Backup Files? The blunt answer is that we are lazy. That’s it. There’s no psychological hidden reason for why we don’t do it....

Windows applications which require network access to work smoothly . Whenever we talked about them, we mentioned a note that you must allow the program through a Firewall if at all you have one installed on your system. I personally feel that Windows’ inbuilt firewall provides enough security to a regular home user and is extremely easy to use. If you are one of such users, today we will see how you can block and allow individual programs through Windows Firewall....

Most of these spoilers are from popular social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter. Some of your friends consider it their birth right to spoil the movies just for fun but they really don’t understand that how important it can be for an individual who has waited for quite a few months just to enjoy the show like everyone else. So today, I will share with you a few tricks that you can use to fight such spoilers on Facebook and Twitter and make sure you enjoy the show or a movie without any spoilers....

But don’t worry. There are multiple other methods that you can instead make use of to get your computer to boot in Safe Mode. While you are at it, your computer will not lose any data. To be on a safer side, remove third-party programs from Windows 10 startup. So without any further ado, let’s check some methods to know how to boot Windows 10 in safe mode. 1. Press Shift+Restart Provided that you can launch into Windows 10 normally, the easiest way to get your PC to boot in Safe Mode involves performing a simple computer restart....