But things went haywire when we attempted to reset the phone. It powered off to restore the device, there were gear icons, but it never finished. As a matter of fact, I got a sad smiley after after the Microsoft logo and then the phone didn’t boot. We tried the soft and hard reset using the power and volume down button, but in vain. So as a last resort, we thought to flash the phone and that’s what I am going to talk about in this article....
Today we will look at one such bot which can pull information from Wikipedia and do other stuff, all through Whatsapp. Disclaimer: Wikipedia doesn’t have any official bot and the bot being used here is of Duta, which aggregates stuff from the web, based on your queries. While they claim they don’t spam you (in my experience they didn’t), the way in which this works means they can see your mobile number....
Apple needs to add a digital signature feature to Pages for your document. This guide will show you a quick workaround to easily insert a signature in Apple Pages using the Preview app on the macOS. Creating Your Digital Signature Using Preview on Mac Before you can insert or add a signature to a document in Apple Pages, you’ll need to create your digital signature first. The Preview app on the macOS lets you do that with ease....
To take advantage of all the benefits, you should consider switching to Gmail. But for someone who has been using Yahoo or Hotmail since ages, switching isn’t easy. Don’t worry, there are workarounds if you don’t want to give up on those services so soon. There could be two situations when it comes to switching to Gmail from Yahoo mail and Hotmail. You want to integrate your old email account with Gmail....
Email tracking is an active area with requirements stretching from personal use to more professional needs that range from sales lead tracking to validating official documents. Options abound. One such is Yesware. When you reach the homepage of Yesware, it might seem that the primary targets for Yesware’s email tracking service are salespeople and their CRM needs. That is true because the company makes a suite of products for the sales and CRM industry....
Most of these apps are free but if you are using Android Jelly Bean and above, you can do without these apps installed on your device. With Android Jelly Bean and above, all these options are integrated to the Android settings and today I will show you how you can configure it to stay mindful of your monthly data plan without using any third-party apps. Setting Monthly Data Limit To get started, open the Android settings and navigate to Data usage section to have a look at the amount of data you have used....
However, at times, we want to add our own personalized stickers to our Stories. Unfortunately, Instagram doesn’t provide a direct way of doing it. But there are workarounds to achieve it. Here I will tell you two methods of doing it. While one needs a third-party app, the other method requires the help of two websites. Before you get confused, let’s jump into the steps. Method 1: With App Step 1: Download AnySticker app on your device....
Recently we covered an article on how to disable taskbar thumbnail preview and we asked you to keep a watch for more tips and tricks on thumbnail previews. Here’s one. This will help you change the size of thumbnails (preferably make it bigger) if you do not like the default. This has to be done through a registry hack, so be sure that you want to continue with this trick....
fonts are perhaps one of the oldest and most differentiating ones. In fact, the Mac was the first computer with beautiful, varied fonts that were proportionally spaced and came preinstalled on every Mac as a result of Steve Jobs fondness of typography. At the time though, the decision was not too popular among tech enthusiasts, but we all know how essential it turned out to be down the road. Did you know?...
manage my contact information on my computer. But with Windows 8 I got a chance to switch to the People app. Besides being able to manage contacts, I found few more advantages in the form of staying connected to my social accounts. However, when I imported contacts from the different services that I use, I found that I had multiple entries for some people on the list. Say for example, one from Facebook, one from Google and another one from Skype, all for the same person....
Because of that, it is extremely important for most of us to take care of our data usage as much as possible (don’t forget to take a look at our review of DataWiz, a great app to monitor your data consumption). So with that in mind, here’s a pretty effective guide that will help you slash some MB out of your monthly data consumption on your iPhone. Ready? Great. To start, on your iPhone head to Settings and tap on Cellular....
This limitation of WhatsApp Web not only eats up your time, but the frequent switching can be annoying in the long run. Thankfully, there’s a way to open and run multiple WhatsApp Web accounts. If you use Chrome, this method is as easy as switching the tabs on your browser. Here, we’ll explore two methods. While the first one employs the Incognito mode of Chrome, the other one makes it possible through a dedicated Chrome extension for managing sessions....
Link Spotify to Alexa Download Alexa on iPhone Download Alexa on Android Step 2: Go to the ‘More’ tab. Step 3: Open Settings. Step 4: Select Music & Podcasts under Alexa Preferences. Step 5: Select Spotify under the Services menu. Step 6: Tap Enable to Use. Step 7: Sign in with your Spotify account details for authorization. You have successfully linked your Spotify account with Alexa. Now, it’s time to set it as the default option....
books , magazines, newspapers etc. Then there are ways to put text on an image too. You must have seen examples of those. Wrapping text around images is pretty easy in MS Word. Something more interesting is wrapping images that have different shapes or maybe having that done across an image. For instance, check the image below. We have put text on an image completely and modified the wrapping alignment to make it look the way we want....
However one very basic thing that was missing was the ability to access Android clipboard memory on computer and vice versa. But not anymore! Thanks to amazing application ClipSync now available on Android Play Store, a user can now keep the clipboards at both the locations in sync over Wi-Fi and ease up many small tasks which usually required lots of typing. Using Clip Sync to Sync Clipboard Step 1: As the tool is based on client-server architecture, you will have to install the client on your Android device and the server on your Windows computer....
Whenever you open a Google Doc, Slide, or Sheet files shared by others, save pictures from Gmail to Google Drive, or download pictures via Google Drive link from the web, all the media end up in the Shared with me section. After a couple of months, you may not need those Drive files. So you can remove them and clear up the clutter so that only the files important to you are visible....
Till I was on my old display driver everything worked smooth. None of the games crashed, no blue screens, no problem with the FPS et al. But last week when I updated the driver to its latest build, I was gifted each of the abovementioned problems on a platter. Cool tip: Backing up the default software drivers in Windows is a prudent thing to do so make sure you check our drivers backup article too....
Microsoft has deprecated several features and also removed some from Windows 10 while moving to Windows 11. If you enjoyed using those features on Windows 10, then unsavory experience might happen if your computer doesn’t meet the Windows 11 hardware requirements. So the ideal solution is to go back to Windows 10. In this post, we will show you how to roll back to Windows 10 from Windows 11....
Office 2013 and would like to use always. It gives that metro feel. More importantly, it carries new features. For example, it is easier to view the list of recent documents, pin important documents , etc. However, despite it being my favorite, it is not always convenient to use. And, one such annoyance for common users is that it shows the backstage view (instead of the file explorer like or lower versions) whenever you wish to save a newly created document....
The best solution would be to back up all photos to a service like Flickr, Google Photos or Apple’s iCloud Photo Library. But that means that all your photos are not always on your phone. If you want to have the best of both worlds – keep your photos on your device while saving space, you’ll need to compress all the photos. And of course, merely zipping photos up and saving them isn’t going to help you....
