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Chinese OEMs such as Oppo with Color OS and Xiaomi with MIUI have been aggressive with modifications on top of Android. With the launch of the Google Pixel 3a family, the company is targeting affordable flagships by the likes of Realme and Xiaomi. At first glance, you will hardly find any differences in the specs sheet. Xiaomi offers a better chipset while Pixel delivers a better camera. But that’s all relative compared to the big difference between the software experience....

always open in maximized mode . With that knowledge, you must have applied the setting to many items. And if my guess is correct, your favorite browser must have been a part of that list. However, when we talk about browsers, you may want to open them in full screen mode instead of just maximized – a good way to get more browsing space. You might also know that you can easily toggle the full screen mode by hitting F11 function key on the keyboard....

The auto upload feature whenever I am connected to Wi-Fi saves my time. The Auto Awesome effects created by Google+ are fun to view and share and the Stories they create are like icing on the cake. Adding to all that, the unlimited storage space for photos uploaded under 2048px is like winning a lottery. But with all these photos that are automatically uploaded by the apps, it is always recommended to create albums every once in a while....

However, I have been already missing the priority email service of Gmail and on top of that, spotting a new email is not easy on Outlook because of marginal formatting difference. After working for hours, when reading out emails itself looks tiring, categorizing them into unread and read using just the bold and regular font type respectively does not provide much of a help. Today I will show you how you can apply some color and font effects on unread mails in the preview pane and easily spot them without the need of keen observation....

check disks and other troubleshooting activities . But do you always tend to do a time consuming full-on troubleshooting instead of narrowing down the issue? Sometimes you might know what has gone wrong or might be facing trouble with a specific thing. In such cases, running a full troubleshoot is a waste of time and resources. For example, say your command prompt is not showing up and you doubt that a virus infection is the cause; you may just try to enable it again and see how it works....

When it comes to computers, copy/paste is just a matter of few keyboard shortcuts or a drag and drop using the mouse pointer. But things changed with smartphones and laptops. These touch screen devices can never give us the kind of freedom we had with a keyboard and mouse, of course, apart from the fact that they fit in our pockets. The question we will answer today is, how can we make the copy/paste functionality easier on our Androids?...

Yes, the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 will succeed the infamous exploding Galaxy Note 7 which cost the company millions of bucks and their reputation too. Since Samsung just launched their flagship S8 and S8+ devices and know where all they went wrong — especially the fingerprint scanner — we’re hoping they rectify their mistakes. In the meantime, let’s look at some of the most relevant rumours surrounding the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 8....

The shortcuts we’ll be making today involve shutting down, restarting, logging off, hibernating, and switching a user account. We’ll make shortcuts to these commands and then assign a unique keyboard combination to each of them to make launching them really easy. No longer will you need to open the start menu to perform these particular operations. Simply enter your key combo and you’ll be on your way. Using the Shutdown Command from the Command Line There are plenty of switches that can be used with the shutdown command, as you can see here with shutdown /?...

Owing to the global pandemic, many folks are working for home and are looking for the perfect video calling app to have a face-to-face chat with family members and professional contacts. On the iOS side, the iPhone and iPad owners have the FaceTime app, while the situation on Android is a bit more complicated. While Google Duo is a capable contender, we have another rival Skype to consider. Lately, Skype has been adding new features that favor the mobile users a lot....

Take an animation-less slideshow and compare with a presentation with well-animated elements, and tell me which one looks better. Let me guess — it’s an animated one. A PowerPoint presentation with good animation not only manages to captivate its audience but also adds a unique element to it. But like image-editing, it’s very easy to go overboard with PowerPoint animations, especially if one is not well-versed with them. Hence, we have taken it upon ourselves to come out with a guide for using PowerPoint Animations — whether it’s on an image or a text....

First, I want you to remember that what you download and do with your computer is your own responsibility! Unfortunately, we are not in the position to help you out if you “accidentally” pirate any software or seasons of Friends. You’ll need a BitTorrent client for your computer. As a Mac user, I prefer Vuze, although I’ve heard great things about Transmission and uTorrent as well. How to use Vuze You can usually get by with any ol’ client, as long as you can interact with it....

I went ahead and clicked it the conventional way, but it got me thinking – how to take a quick selfie using the shutter button? Could that be done? My research led me to an app named Dactyl Trial. Let’s have a glance on how it works. What is Dactyl? Dactyl is an app that lets you use the fingerprint sensor as a shutter button on most of the popular apps....

The ship is the result of a joint venture between two Norwegian companies — Yara International and Kongsberg Defence Systems. The ship is being made in Norway and according to a report in the VentureBeat, it will initially deliver fertilizer along a 37-mile route in the country. “As a leading global fertilizer company with a mission to feed the world and protect the planet, investing in this zero emission vessel to transport our crop nutrition solutions fits our strategy well....

Want to find some information for a class your taking? Another quick search! But what about our devices actually making decisions on their own? What about learning and adapting to different situations? Computers are certainly capable of making some decisions and predictions as it stands. For instance, if you attempt to carry out a Google search, you will notice that you will be fed with suggestions for the item you are searching for even before you complete typing the search query....

Many WhatsApp users rely on media files such as images, videos, and audio to get things done. But when the media files don’t work as expected, it simply spoils the experience and forces you to adopt an old route such as email. There are multiple factors behind an unexpected download error on iPhone and Android. Go through the troubleshooting steps below to fix the issue. 1. Update WhatsApp WhatsApp frequently updates its app on iOS and Android....

Available on both Android and iOS, Opera Touch has been designed from the ground up to make interacting with webpages using just your thumb a breeze. It works super-fast, carries minimal bloat, and the insanely intuitive Fast Action Button (FAB) makes other browsers look dumb in comparison. But the FAB aside, there are a host of other features that you can use to super-charge your browsing experience. Let’s go over them....

Introduced in 2018, music alarms work on all Google Home devices such as Home Max, Home Mini, Nest, and Smart Displays. They work as normal alarms and get most of the cool features of standard alarms in Google Home. Let’s see the solutions to get back music alarms on your Google Home devices. 1. Reboot Google Home If you were able to set the music alarm earlier and now you cannot, simply reboot your Google Home device....

[Spoilers ahead] If you recollect, the Black Widow appeared in Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame pummeling to her death. Sigh. Well, it seems all is not lost yet. This talented spy cum assailant is set to set the silver screen ablaze with her origin story. Set somewhere before the events of Avengers: Infinity War, this movie will most likely reveal Black Widow’s mysterious past, her time in the strange Red Room, and how she came about to be the world’s most dangerous assassin....

The problem with signing physical documents by hand isn’t signing itself, it’s what happens next. Do you mail the papers? Fax them? Scan and email them? And if you already received them in digital form, you’re unnecessarily complicating things by printing out papers. This is where digital signature (also known as E-Signature) apps come in. These apps recognize PDF documents and can identify editable parts of a document. So you can use them to add signatures in signature boxes or words in text boxes....

Microsoft Teams app is great for team management and communication. It’s up there among the likes of Zoom, Skype, etc. Despite its amazing features, there’s one thing I do not like about the Microsoft Teams Windows app: it starts automatically whenever I boot Windows. If you also dislike that and you’ve come here searching for answers on how to stop Microsoft Teams from starting automatically on your Windows 10 PC, then you’re on the right page....