Cross-Platform Availability User Interface The user experience is on point though. Every menu, settings, profile, is easily accessible with few taps. Spotify’s user interface looks quite appealing for the dark mode lovers. I have seen many users sticking with Spotify for the beautiful interface. The app uses standard bottom tabs to navigate options. I like the gradient effects that catch the prime color from the album cover. My only problem with Spotify is the ‘Your Library’ menu....

Of course, the Davids of the PDF world cannot be compared to the Goliaths like Adobe when it comes to a face-off. I just started with it so that I can illustrate the appeal of portable software that are lightweight and do their core jobs well. Sumatra PDF is an open source viewer for Windows (Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7). You can use it to open PDF, DjVu, EPUB, XPS, CHM, CBZ and CBR and MOBI files, which pretty much covers the popular eBook formats....

Each tool has its own unique features and use cases. Groups can be used as an interactive tool between multiple people on both platforms while broadcast lists and channels can be used solely to broadcast messages. Even though broadcast lists of WhatsApp and channels of Telegram basically perform the same function, they are poles apart. If you are a regular user of WhatsApp you may know how Broadcast messages and groups work....

So all in all, to get all these features on Android, you will have to install two to three different gesture-based apps. But thank an XDA developer for coming up with an interesting app that promises to take care of everything. fooView – Float Viewer is a magic floating button that brings in gesture based actions on your Android. It’s a system enhancement tool to help you access your favorite websites, apps, games, files, music, photos, and video by a gesture using one hand....

These settings are essentially a handful of modes which when enabled let you have a superior music experience — both with and without headphones. And it gets even better if you can combine them with an equally superior feature-rich app built by Samsung. So, in this article, we’ll be exploring two options, Tweaking the built-in audio settingsUsing an in-house app So, without further ado, let’s get started. 1. Tweaking the Built-in Audio Settings Pick Sound Quality and Effects This setting which is hidden at the lower end of the Sounds and Vibration settings, lets you tweak the equalizer bars so that you end up with a great sound system....

Now, not all of the features might appeal to the average user out there. Keep in mind that Windows 8 is more of a tablet-centric OS. For a geek like me, it brings some significant changes but am still not sure how the average user will rate these some of these new stuff. Not taking much of your time I’ll straight-away take you to the most prominent new changes you will see in Windows 8 and leave it up to you to decide what do you like and what you’d rather not see in this upcoming Windows version....

But since last year things have started to change. The improved quality of online journalism and the decline in the magazine industry forced them to reconsider. And boy did it work. Re-imagining The Magazine The A4 size pages did not work with the 10 inch iPad or the 8 inch iPad mini. Magazines had to go the same way web did – Responsive. Magazines now work as a collection of stories, more like a novel filled with chapters unlike a traditional magazine with half-paged articles, two-page images, etc....

1. Check Internet Connection Let’s go through the basics first. Ensure you have enough network bars or a working Wi-Fi connection to update apps successfully. You can also use Speedtest or fast.com to check the current internet speeds. Download Speedtest on Android 2. Check Device Storage This one of the most popular reasons behind apps not updating error on Android. If your Android phone is running out of storage, it won’t update apps on your phone....

Google officially announced Google Classroom in 2014. The Classroom lets the teachers and students create the near-perfect digital classrooms on the web. The software is tightly integrated with other Google services such as Google Drive, Google Calendar, Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Forms for a seamless experience. With Google Classroom, teachers can create a digital class, invite students, hand-out assignments, ask questions, and more. Google Classroom allows teachers to grade the assignments, communicate with students, create templates for assignments, and more....

It is also touted as a lightweight browser and comes without any in-app ads — one of the annoying things that pester every Mi Browser user. If you downloaded it recently or itching to use it soon, check our compilation of 11 useful tips and tricks for Mint Browser that will help you enhance your browsing experience. Download Mint Browser 1. Add or Remove Icons on Start Page The default start page of Mint Browser houses shortcuts to various popular sites....

Portable apps, unlike traditional apps, does not need installation to run and don’t take up much of disk space — enabling them to be stored on USB drives and played directly from there — hence the ‘portable’ name. We’ve listed down 11 of the best portable games that you can carry around in your pen drive and play whenever the going gets tough or you just want to. Canabalt An endless running game which needs you to ‘outrun the demolition of your city with just one button’....

iPhone and iPad users face different kinds of issues related to Safari. Some see a blank, white page and others get errors like ‘Safari cannot open the page because iPhone isn’t connected to the internet,’ or the browser freezes and crashes without loading any page. The following fixes will help you resolve all kinds of problems related to Safari not loading pages on iOS and iPadOS. Let’s start. 1. Restart Phone and Modem To start the troubleshooting process, restart your iPhone and iPad....

1. Disable Lock Screen Services Samsung’s Galaxy smartphone portfolio includes phones other than the S-series and Fold-series phones. The company also makes A-series, M-series, F-series smartphones for developing countries. These are affordable phones with flagship-like features. And Samsung has a habit of packing these phones with lock screen services to cover up the costs. Glance is one such lock screen service that comes pre-installed on A-series and M-series lines of Galaxy phones....

Do people find it difficult to hear you during Zoom or Skype call sessions on your Windows computer? That could be because your PC or headphones’ microphone volume is low or muted. To fix the problem, you should check and adjust your audio device’s microphone volume accordingly. In this guide, we’ll show you three different ways to change the microphone volume on a Windows 10 PC. Before you proceed, you should note that you might have to adjust the microphone volume of every audio device you use on your computer....

Windows operating system and software installed on it often create Temporary files (or Temp files, for short) on your computer. These files come with their benefits, and tend to have negative effects on your PC in the long run. Accumulated temporary files can eat up storage space on your computer’s hard disk as they sometimes run into a couple of gigabytes. Deleting them can free up storage space and consequently speed up your PC’s performance....

The error specifically hints at needing specific files and libraries pre-installed to ensure the game runs on your Windows PC. Do you get the same error often? Here are the fixes for the ‘necessary prerequisites have failed to install’ error when installing the Epic Games Launcher on Windows. 1. Run the Epic Games Launcher as an Administrator One of the easiest methods that can be employed to fix the self-update failed error includes running the Epic Games Launcher as an administrator....

The S Pen is a great tool, I’ve found it handy in more occasions than I’d actually imagined. But what are the best apps that can benefit from a stylus-powered phone? Look no further. 1. OneNote Even though OneNote is great for taking quick notes and works well with any keyboard, it also works really well with a stylus too. On the Note5, the S Pen seems to be ever so slightly more accurate and more fun to work with on OneNote....

While there’s no direct way, you can still caption images in Google Docs with a few workarounds. In this article, we’ll go through some of those methods. So, without further ado, let’s get right into it. 1. Use the Drawing Panel Using the Drawing panel is probably the most effective way of captioning images in Google Docs. Here’s how to use it. Step 1: Open your Google Docs document and use the Insert menu at the top to navigate to Drawing > + New....

There are several ways to fix MPG files not playing on Windows. You can install the missing codec, download the file again, or use third-party apps to play MPG files without issues. 1. Download the MPG File Again If you have downloaded a corrupt MPG file from the web, you can’t play it using the Windows Media player or any third-party software. Such files won’t show thumbnails in the File Explorer app....

Many apps and services on the web don’t support WebP and many often struggle with the WebP upload errors. So if you’re tired of getting stuck with the WebP upload failure messages then read along to learn how to save WebP as JPG or PNG on desktop. 1. Use Preview App on Mac Before we jump to third-party apps and extensions from the web, let’s talk about a couple of default solutions on Windows and Mac....