I might have exaggerated that, but the settings are buried down. And if like many other users, you also don’t know how to launch Google Assistant settings, well, you are at the right place. In this post, we will tell you how to activate Google Assistant settings on your Android phones, iPhone, and Google Home. Do read till the end, you will find some bonus tips too. Let’s jump in....

With trendy face filters, cool stickers and even GIFs, Instagram Stories give a colorful makeover to your activities. However, there’s only one thing that still irks me about Instagram. We still can’t add music to Instagram Stories, nor can we post video stories longer than 15 seconds. On a few good days, this 15-seconds time limit might not be enough to express yourself. Bummer, right? In this post, we will show you how to post Instagram Stories longer than 15-seconds on both Android and iOS....

Most Android apps are at least 60 MB in size and can rake up to several gigabytes for games. Before you realize it, these auto-updating apps can wipe out your mobile data limits. By default, most Android phones are configured to fetch the latest app updates automatically when connected to the mobile data or Wi-Fi network. Luckily, it is possible to set your phone to download updates only through a Wi-Fi network....

Why Would You Want to Wait? If you’re using Windows 8.x, Windows 10 isn’t that much different. Windows 7 users will see it as a major change. Windows 10 isn’t compatible with all hardware and software. Other people have privacy concerns with the new operating system. Whatever your reason, it’s your computer and your choice. Microsoft pushed the Get Windows 10 (GWX) along with other Windows security updates. Attempts to uninstall the updates don’t always work, GWX comes back....

You can use a third party dummy text generator or the methods in-built into MS Word. Word’s RAND function enables you to insert MS Word’s own dummy text automatically: =RAND(paragraphs, sentences) Here, the paragraphs value is for the number of paragraphs of dummy text that Word will generate, and sentences is for the number of sentences per paragraph. Simply type the formula at the place in the document where you want the dummy text to start and then press Enter....

Thankfully, this process is avoidable because there is a fabulous add-on for Firefox called PlayLink. Aptly named as it takes what you are playing in your browser and links it to another browser of your choosing, or a desktop media player of your choosing. How Do I Get My Hands on this PlayLink thing? The good news here is that it does not take a lot of work to get this baby up and running....

Once you’ve connected Drive and Photos, it’s not easy to delete synced pictures from either of them. If you remove a synced image from one platform, Google will erase it from both of them. Yup, you read that right. So in this post, we will be taking up the scenario where you can delete photos and videos only from Google Drive without removing the same files from Google Photos. Let’s get started....

PowerToys is an open-source program aimed at providing a set of tools for greater productivity. With Microsoft’s PowerToys utility, you can resize images individually or in bulk right from the file explorer with a few clicks. Read on to learn how. Download and Install PowerToys To resize images, you need to install PowerToys on your Windows PC and enable the Image Resizer option. Here’s how to do that. Step 1: Head over to the Microsoft PowerToys releases page (link below) on GitHub....

Your Best Bet: Continuity With Your iPhone If you have both an iPhone and iPad running at least iOS 8.1, that’s all you need to send and receive SMS messages on your iPad. Even though you’re on your iPad, people will see those messages as if they were on your iPhone. How to Set Up Your iPhone to Send SMS Messages From Your iPad The weird part of this setup is that you do it on your iPhone, not your iPad....

People often share media files over messaging apps like Telegram and Signal. However, with specific auto-download options in Telegram, you can ensure that not every photo or video gets auto-downloaded in the background and lands in the device storage. Telegram Android App First, let’s talk about the Telegram Android app and stop the Telegram auto-download in the background. How to Stop Telegram Auto-Download on Android Step 1: Open Telegram on your Android phone....

If you want, you can also perform a face swap with just about anyone in a standard photo editor. I guarantee it’ll work even better and look even more accurate, yet it’s not very time-consuming at all. All you need is some decent photo editing software like Photoshop or Pixelmator. Face Swapping For the tutorial, I found a free stock photo of three people on Imagebase. You can download it there too if you want to practice using the same image....

While some people still prefer physical books, ebooks are quite popular these days. Mostly because people own multiple devices and have ebooks stored on all of them. This is great but it introduces the problem of keeping track of what you’re reading on each device and pick up where you left off. It’s nice to be able to move fluidly between devices when reading books and not have to manually figure out where you were with a book when reading it on different devices....

Spotify offers the ability to upload your music to your library on one device, and that music will be available on all Spotify-friendly devices that you own. Though Spotify offers a large music library, sometimes you may find that the songs you are looking for are not available. One of Spotify’s unique aspects is that it blends a typical streaming music service with the playback of music you have stored on your own PC....

Adobe Comp CC, one of their most recent offerings, exemplifies this push towards mobile creativity via a great, free iPad app (a free Adobe account is required) that lets you create stunning drafts for different media, including mobile apps, websites, and designs for print. When you open the app, you are presented with different formats to choose from to start your project. These include all current iPhone models, A4 sheets, the most used web formats and even business cards....

It is simple, easy-to-use and quite fast in cleaning the junk. How To Use Ccleaner Ccleaner has an easy interface. To get started with the service download and install Ccleaner on your PC. Run the application by double clicking on the program icon. As you can see in above screenshot Ccleaner has four sections in the left hand sidebar, namely: Each of these sections has some unique functions: Cleaner – It mainly removes temporary files from the system....

We will first set up Google Drive native app to make relevant files offline on Mac. Then we will show you to work on those files without an internet connection using the Google Chrome browser. Without further do, let’s get started. Setup Google Drive on Mac If you frequently deal with Google Drive files on Mac, we recommend setting up the Drive client. Follow the steps below. Step 1: Download and install the Drive client on your Mac....

Screen Time also serves as a parental control system since it can place restrictions on what a child can access, who they can contact, and how long they spend on apps, websites, and more. Apple first introduced Screen Time with iOS 12 in 2018 to help users be more intentional with their time on the iPhone and iPad. This post will help you understand how to make maximum out of the Screen Time function on Mac....

What Is Snap Map Snap Map is an interactive map that you can use to locate your friends, view stories from around the world, explore new places, and a lot more. Plus, you can also add your own stories to Snap Map for the world to see. And it’s not just limited to your phone as you can explore Snap Map on a web browser as well. If you’re curious to know more, read along to learn how to set up and use Snap Map in Snapchat....

Once you receive this warning, your iPhone will stop taking in the power supply. Although it says that it will resume when iPhone returns to normal temperature, there are ways in which you can completely prevent this from happening. Before we get into it, let us understand the need and the importance of this feature. Charging on Hold Due to iPhone Temperature: A Much-Needed Feature When Apple introduced the battery health level indicator on the iPhone, it made us quite vigilant about the rate at which it was depleting from a full 100%....

Apple iPhone 7 (Jet Black / 2GB+128GB) Deal Price: Rs 49,999 After the announcement of the availability of Apple’s upcoming flagship or the anniversary edition, Apple iPhone X. The prices of Apple’s iPhone 7 have come down. But that does not take away the fact that iPhone 7 still is a pretty solid phone and with this sale the 128GB version is available for an amazing price. The iPhone 7 features a 4....