You can share guides with friends and family, collaborate with others when planning a vacation, or even to create a list of places you like to visit. While there are many apps that help you plan your travels, and the convenience of built-in Apple Maps on iPhone is unbeatable. The Apple Maps Guides feature is very helpful if you like to see where destinations are related to each other. You can find the most convenient route, whereas creating a list of places to see lacks that extra layer of visibility....

New artists and song recommendations are welcome, but sometimes Spotify goes way off with them. So it’s a good idea to clear the plate and start afresh. Unfortunately, Spotify doesn’t offer that one-click refresh button. So you’ll have to follow a bunch of things. Here’s how to get started. 1. Remove Liked Songs When a new song on Spotify catches your attention, liking it is understandable. After all, nobody likes forgetting the name of a song they loved – only never to hear it again....

using iCloud to store their purchases, app data, music (using iTunes Match), device settings and more. Yet there are times when we download a useless app or we realize we have many apps on our purchase history that we don’t need anymore and would like to completely erase them from iCloud. So, is this possible? Well, yes and no. But in order to better understand the answer, let’s take a closer look at how iCloud manages our purchased apps....

But that’s just mobile web. Of course, the fact that developers are using HTML to code up responsive, mobile-first websites means the advantages have clearly transferred to the web at large. But still, a lot of stuff on desktop web pages does run on Flash. Recently, there’s been a movement online to kill Flash once and for all – Occupy Flash. I’m not joking. It’s an actual movement. They have a manifesto and a website and everything....

However, not everybody uses Teams. While the integration aims to let you use the app easily, removing it is confusing. Luckily, unlike other preinstalled apps, Teams can be deactivated or removed from your system. Continue reading to see the exact steps that will help you do this. How to Disable Microsoft Teams If you want to prevent Teams from starting up by itself and using your system’s resources or sending you notifications, the best option is to disable the app....

Perhaps you prefer the old-fashioned way of bookmarking the webpages that you want to visit on your other devices. Or you find the tiny ‘Send’ icon that pops up on the address bar whenever you click on it a distraction. Or perhaps there’s a cheeky family member who keeps pestering you with tabs. Whatever the reason, you can disable ‘Send to Your Devices’ on any of your devices should you want to quite easily....

If you are sick and tired of Reachability kicking in without you intending it to, or if you have hands that are large enough to make the gesture useless in the first place, then disable it. Let’s check out how. But besides that, I also want to go through a number of other annoying gestures and features that you can tweak or get rid of for a better experience on the iPhone....

While some people are able to spot them, most users just click Next after Next and never bother to read between the lines, and the next thing you know, you have a new add-on in your browser and your default search engine is now a custom adware page. And the worst part is removing these things from the system. It takes a deep registry cleaning to get rid of such spam software....

With a few new updates, you can also edit the name of a location and a whole lot more. Before I dive into it, let me give you a quick background. Maps Ain’t Perfect Since I’ve been living here in the same locality since childhood, I pretty much know every lane and corner of it. Which meant that every time I opened Google Maps when I was home, I could easily spot the errors and hope they would fix the most glaring ones....

For editing screenshots, we will use the built-in Preview app. Though third-party screenshot apps may offer more features, the Preview app packs enough punch to tackle your needs. Capture Screenshots on Mac Just like Windows, even macOS comes with a built-in screenshot capturing tool that you can summon with keyboard shortcuts. While you might be capturing screenshots, keep on reading to know how to crop, resize, or even annotate them....

It is because of the importance of iCloud accounts and because there have been some issues in the past where people has lost access to theirs, that Apple has recently introduced a new two-step verification for iCloud accounts. With this, only the authorized user of an iCloud account will be able to change its password and perform any other transactions with it. Here is how to set up the two-step verification process for your iCloud account....

Sometimes, though, you may run into trouble getting the App Library to open or work properly. If that happens, then here are several tips and fixes that should help you get it up and running again. Upgrade/Update iOS 14 Do you find it impossible to access the App Library? The feature is only available starting iOS 14. If you’ve yet to upgrade your iPhone from iOS 13 or earlier, go to Settings > General > Software Update and install the latest system software upgrade for the iPhone....

Apple might be gearing up to implement the feature on the next batch of iPhones, where Force Touch will be an alternative to the long press we have nowadays. Now all that’s required is special Apple hardware. But for Android lovers, MohammadAG, a renowned developer, has implemented the trick without using any special hardware and you can use the feature before any iPhone user. All you need on the phone is root access with Xposed Framework installed....

So today I will show you how you can work with themes on Windows 10 on the new UI and also a way to get back the familiar UI from the days of Windows 7, which most us might be comfortable with. Let’s get started. Working with Themes on Windows 10 The Themes settings on Windows 10 can be accessed using the Personalization option using the right-click context menu. Here when you click on Themes, you will just see a link that says, Theme Settings....

It occurred to me that there must be an app on the Play Store to get the same feature with better control on my Xperia Z and indeed there was one. Light Manager for Android is a simple app that gives you complete control of your device’s LED pulse notification light. With the recent updates, the app works for Lollipop devices as well. Also, it provided way better control than the stock MIUI settings and thus even MIUI users can have a look at it....

This is because Reddit doesn’t play the sound by default as it is primarily a text-based platform. Moreover, Reddit mutes the sound by default for certain videos, especially if they’re NSFW (not safe for work) content. Fortunately, there are a few easy ways that you can use to fix this issue. In this article, we have provided methods for both the Reddit app and web application. Let’s start with the web version....

dedicated windows application to keep the folders between Google Drive and local computer in sync, and any changes made, either on the server or the linked local folder is reflected in real-time. The app for Android, however, misses this feature and the official app is yet to get this feature. Google Drive Sync is an app for Android that aims to fill this gap. It’s a nifty app that brings two-way sync for Google Drive on Android devices, just like we have it on our PCs....

Moving email accounts isn’t an easy decision. Your old email account has lots of important emails and contacts which you would not want to lose. Luckily, Gmail provides an easy way to import all your old emails and contacts from other email clients such as Yahoo and Hotmail. Apart from that, Gmail will also continue to import new mails of your old mail account for the next 30 days. This is the time frame given to you which you can use to let your contacts know that you’ve switched to a new email address....

As one of the most popular PDF readers, Adobe Acrobat has several features, one of them being insert attachments. This feature can be used to embed Word documents into any PDF. Apart from Microsoft Word files, you can insert other file types into a PDF. However, for file types such as EXE, VBS, or ZIP file formats, Acrobat warns that it won’t open the file once attached because of the frequent association with malicious programs that may damage your computer....

GIMP is one of the best free image editing tools that you can get on Windows 10. It packs in a bunch of amazing features that allow you to do everything from remove backgrounds from images to use layers to add multiple components to any image. One of the best things about using GIMP is that it makes use of the FreeType 2 font engine that includes support for a variety of different fonts that you can add to your image....