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In times like these, muting helps. Instead of unfollowing your friend during football season, just mute him. Or better yet, specifically mute some keywords and hashtags related to the football event. It sounds simple but the problem is that not every Twitter app (official and third party) offers similar services and everyone’s situations are different. Down below, I’ve compiled the easiest ways to mute users and keywords for the top apps for every major platform....

indie games but last year Apple took another step to dominate this field. It officially released support for third party controllers baked into iOS 7. Prior to which you had to download jailbreak tweaks and map the buttons yourself to play games with your controller. Right now, there are many Apple certified controllers available on the market and some of them are not half bad. The library of games compatible with MFi (Made For iPhone) controllers is ever expanding but they still cost around $100....

This is most useful for those using YouTube on Android TV. Since the TV app doesn’t support multi-account, you might end up seeing irrelevant search terms and watch history from your family members. Instead, you can reset the YouTube watch history and search keywords from the YouTube mobile and desktop apps. Reset Watch History in YouTube Mobile Apps Let’s start with YouTube mobile apps and then we will move to the YouTube desktop app....

So, what would you do if you want to restrict your child’s computer usage (or of anyone else) without these parental controls? Well, of course, you’d surely opt for an alternative software but if you’re one of those geeky Mom or Dad then you’d probably like do it via Command Line. So, let’s see how you can do it. Restrict Windows 10 Usage for Any User We’re going to use the net user command to limit the usage of a particular user....

Creating an Account After you log in to rollApp, you’ll then connect your cloud accounts. In this example, I’m connecting my Box account. If you have 2FA on, rollApp supports the connection. I had no problems adding my Dropbox or OneDrive, both have 2FA on. You need two-factor authentication! Check out our guide on how to enable it on critical websites. Premium Versus Free Pricing rollApp’s free version lets you read, but not change files....

If you tend to use almost all your data usage for the month, or if you’re traveling and need to minimize your data usage, this guide is for you. Download Your Music The best way to save mobile data is not to use it at all! With Spotify Premium, you can download up to 10,000 songs to each of 5 devices. If you don’t have Spotify Premium or your phone does not have enough storage for songs, skip to the next portion of this guide, where we will manage your streaming settings....

Here we shall tell you how to save single and multiple photos from the Files app to the Photos app on the iPhone and iPad. All the photos and videos taken from the iPhone’s or iPad’s Camera app will appear in the Photos app by default. Some photos and videos from third-party apps will appear too. In case they don’t, this post shall help you. There are multiple ways to achieve that, depending on the number of files and the file’s location....

Most users rely on a stable internet connection to transfer data using various mediums such as cloud services, email, chat apps, etc. But what if there is no internet connectivity? Suppose you are traveling and you need to transfer files from your phone to PC or vice versa. And you’re not carrying a USB cable and mobile data isn’t exactly reliable. What do you do in such a situation? How do you move files?...

Just like how you can connect two AirPods to a single iPhone and share audio simultaneously, Dual Audio on Samsung smartphones lets you do the same. It’s a feature that allows you to connect two pairs of headphones or earphones to a single phone and then stream the same media onto both devices simultaneously. This requires a Samsung Galaxy smartphone running on One UI 3.0 or later. Here’s how to use Dual Audio feature to listen to music with another person....

Stopping them entirely is also not an option because we do not want to miss out on those cute photos from your crush or those thought-provoking posts from your friends. However, curtailing or stopping your Facebook page’s notifications will certainly give you some much-wanted relief. To let Facebook know that you do not want to see that many notifications every day, you can tweak a few settings. You can either customize the notifications according to different categories to a certain time limit or you can completely block all notifications from one or multiple pages that you manage....

A free and easy app called Live Camera is available for iOS regardless of your iPhone model and lets you capture Live Photos using a handy trick. You can then export it as a real Live Photo or in other formats like a movie or animated GIF. Taking a Live Photo with Live Camera The trick to how Live Photos work in Live Camera is that you won’t actually be taking a photo at all....

It won’t be a stretch to say that you use Docs, Sheets and Slides for personal or work use. Google Drive has an easy to use interface for browsing and viewing files. But there isn’t really a tool for transferring ownership of a file from one account to another. Yes, you can share documents but that only gives the other person access to the file. The ultimate control over admin tools for the file stay with the original owner....

If you want to bring up the lyrics for songs as you play them on Spotify, here’s how to do it on the desktop, Android, iOS, and even on a TV. Intro to Musixmatch Spotify’s partnership with Musixmatch ended a few years ago. However, the Musixmatch app, available on all devices, will still detect your Spotify music and display its lyrics. Musixmatch has lyrics for over 6 million songs, so they’re often even available for lesser-known artists....

However, sometimes due to certain reasons, the Play Store could stop working or doesn’t update automatically. It could also be that the apps won’t download due to an outdated version of the Play Store. In cases like these, one needs to either manually update Play Store or force it to look for an update. That’s exactly what we are gonna discuss today. Let’s see the three methods in which you can perform a manual Play Store update on Android....

Before We Start In this process we will be downloading Windows 8 Pro while installing it. Thus make sure you have a seamless internet connectivity throughout the process.If you are installing the upgrade on a desktop, make sure you have uninterrupted power supply.Make sure you close all the memory hogging applications before you run the upgrade. Trust me, it’s a wise idea to do that. Let’s Begin… Step 1: We will be using Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant which you need to download first....

If you don’t know HTML or don’t have the time to mess with hosted solutions like Blogger or WordPress, you can use a free and easy solution: Flavors.me. Simply put, Flavors.me is a host that allows users to create personal websites (in a way, similar to WordPress or Tumblr). It has a basic layout and a very streamlined interface. Here’s how you can get started: 1. Sign Up for Flavors....

Until now, this experience was just a feature in Google Maps. Now Google has broken it out as its own app (on both Android and iPhone) and boy is it worth downloading. Let me tell you all the awesome things you can do with this new app. Recommended: 10 places you must visit in Google Street View. How to Explore in Google Street View The Street View app includes a lot more stuff than just what the Street View cars capture....

The Finder app has default tags like Blue, Purple, Green, Orange, Red, and Yellow. You can remove them from the sidebar, add new ones, and customize the current tags per your preference. Let’s check the default tags first and start customizing them. What Are Tags in Finder When you open the Finder app on Mac, you shall find default tags on the left sidebar. You can attach a tag to a specific folder or file and organize such files or folders efficiently....

Instagram rolled out a new snazzy feature, which allows users to use face filters while sharing a live video last week and has now made the glasses filter available across their app on Android and iOS. The new sunglasses face filter, rolled out first exclusively for live videos, is now available for use with Boomerang, Rewind and other camera formats and creative tools. When this filter is applied, users can tap to change the scenery reflected on the glasses....

administrator account if they are not clear with their security fundamentals or are not really sure of the level of privilege that comes with it. However, people tend to work as administrators more often than required and this poses the concern of malware threat and unwanted programs. Accidents are prone to happen, and the same makes our machines vulnerable to malicious installs from the internet or shared users. The latter of which could be intentional....