While that will let you legitimately access content from other region, you can also engage in secure web browsing using the native Silk Browser or the Firefox browser. In this article, we guide you through the process of installing a VPN on your Fire TV Stick among other things. Does Your Fire TV Stick Need a VPN You might wonder why you could need a VPN on your Fire TV Stick....
Tools like file downloaders, cloud storage apps and program updaters generally gobble a lot of bandwidth and speed down our browsing activity. In the same context, it could be a good idea to manually limit the allocated bandwidth and gain some for general purpose tasks. Here’s how to do it on Dropbox. Navigate to Dropbox’s system tray icon, right-click on it and open the Preferences. Similarly, the limits can be updated and changed on most downloading tools....
Digital fillable forms are as important as their physical counterparts. Whether it’s for a simple book request from the library or for requesting office stationaries, electronic forms are useful in many scenarios. The best part is that handling them is simple and straightforward. All you need to do is fill up the details, attach the form, and send it over in an email. No headache of rotating a paper around....
You can access Google Drawings directly from drawings.google.com or open it from Google Drive. In Google Drawings, you can add multiple images, text, layer images, and perform various other image manipulations. We have covered all that in the post. Let’s get to know how to create a collage in Google Drawings. How to Create a Picture Collage in Google Drawings Step 1: Open drawings.google.com in a web browser on your PC....
That is, you can create a video from still pictures by adding music and effects. You may be wondering what gigantic tool you would need to download to create such a video. Well, get ready to be surprised for you don’t have to install anything. The app that lets you create this is pre-installed on your Windows 10 computer. We are talking about the Photos app. Yes, the app comes with an amazing video editor that will help you in making a video slideshow with pictures....
On Android, the Your Phone app let’s you use some basic features of your phone without touching it. Out of all those features, making and receiving calls are quite useful, especially if you spend a lot of time working on a Windows PC. That said, to make and receive calls from your Windows 10 PC, you need to fulfill some requirements. Read on to know what they are. What Is Required to Make and Receive Phone Calls on Windows 10 You’ll need a PC and an Android phone with the following specifications for the call functionality to work: Your PC or laptop needs to be running Windows 10 May 2019 build – Windows version 1903, or higher....
While Google Maps already lets you measure the distance of your journey by various modes of transportation, it can also measure distances between different points or even calculate an area of any property on the globe. We’ll show you how this feature works on mobile and PC. Let’s get started. How to Measure Distance in Google Maps on PC Whether you’re trying to calculate the distance along a straight line or a more complex route, measuring distances on Google Maps’ web app is quite simple....
Whether it’s via Chromecast or HDMI cables — the options to mirror your phone’s screen to the TV are numerous. However, if you happen to own an iPhone and an Android TV, the situation gets a bit tricky because of the obvious reason — clash of the tech titans. Worry not, help is on the way in the form of AirPlay. Despite the several features of AirPlay, it alone can’t pull off such stunts....
If you carry around a lot of Office documents or presentations that you then have to showcase to your colleagues, or if you just want to throw up a slideshow of photos or a home video on the big screen, you can do that by using Microsoft’s Project My Screen app. What Is Project My Screen Project My Screen is a companion app for Windows 8 PCs that allows you to project/mirror what’s displayed on your Windows Phone 8....
So, I’ll show you today something similar to split-screen window feature. You can actually open multiple windows and multitask with your current Android phone. So, let’s see how you can do it. Opening Apps in Multiple Windows Android N lets you open two apps in split-view. Meaning in two unique windows. But, the app that I’m going to show you today can let you open apps in multiple views (Windows)....
I am sure there is always an app in the chrome web store to replace a corresponding windows application. There are apps for playing games, listening to music , editing photographs, taking notes, social networking and much more. The only disadvantage to users is that Chrome does not have any built-in option to manage and organize these installed apps, and once when they grow in number it becomes tough to keep a track of them....
These logs are saved on the account of both the users and they prove useful when you want to review your chat records. But, for certain chats, you might want to disable this archiving feature for added privacy. So lets see how we can easily disable the feature while chatting with a contact. Cool Tip: While we are talking about Gmail chat, we covered a nice article on how to know if a contact blocked you on Google Talk....
Well if you also experienced something similar to this, don’t panic, no spirit possessed your PC. Chances are you might be a TeamViewer user and one of the several affected ones due to widespread hacking of TeamViewer accounts. Majority of the users reported few days ago but some users also claimed experiencing such an attack as far as six months back. But even after the numerous reports, TeamViewer was adamant on not admitting it got hacked and instead blamed user’s poor password choices....
DFU mode (Device Firmware Update mode) is mostly used when you wish to Jailbreak your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Activating this mode becomes necessary to bypass the standard restoring procedures and load custom firmware on your iOS device. Another very popular use of DFU mode is when you wish to downgrade your iPhone from its current iOS version. Note: Do not mistake DFU mode for Recovery mode. Both are very similar but not the same....
But iCloud’s (and now iCloud Drive’s) problem is that it isn’t very good. It’s nowhere near as feature rich or stable as Dropbox. For instance, iCloud Drive doesn’t even show a visual indicator when it’s syncing files. Recently, there have been a barrage of users all reporting that iCloud Drive was accidentally deleting their files. Most of it was happening when trying to move files when it was still syncing....
We’ve already told you: There are apps that help you delete photos and ones that do the same for screenshots. But even when you use the apps we’ve talked about above, the photos aren’t deleted immediately. It’s the same as how files from PCs aren’t really deleted when you click that Delete button. So if the image you just deleted isn’t really gone, how do you get it back? Alternatively, how do you make sure the image is really deleted?...
GIMP, the free photo-editing tool, is one of the best alternatives to Photoshop. It offers several ways to remove the image background by making it transparent. However, one of the easiest and useful methods (you will know why) involves using layer masks. Before we dive into the steps of using layer masks to clear the background, let’s briefly understand layer masks. What are Layer Masks Layer masks are used in image-editing to control the visibility of the layers present below a layer....
How to Install Titanium Backup to Backup and Restore AppsHow to Backup and Restore SMS, Call Logs, Wi-Fi SettingsHow to Schedule Backups (Current Article)How to Restore Individual Apps from Nandroid BackupHow to Freeze/Uninstall System Apps We have already seen how we can backup all our user+system apps along with their app data using Titanium Backup. Now the thing about backup is that it should be updated from time to time. Suppose you had to flash your phone for some reasons, and you realize that the backup you have was taken weeks ago....
The main advantage of sleep state is it doesn’t drain the battery of laptops. It uses very small amount of power. Also, if your computer’s sleep state gets extended for a long hours then it hibernates by default. How to put your computer on sleep You can do this by various ways. By pressing power button of laptop (if power setting allow it to sleep), also by closing the lid of laptop, by using the option in the start menu in desktops etc....
First released in April 2013, Swype had already revolutionized typing on smartphones. Swype faced a stiff competition when Google released its very own version of a keyboard in May 2016 – the Gboard. Surprisingly it arrived for iOS first, then later for Android in December of the same year. From this point, there was no turning back. Nuance pulled a plug on Swype earlier this year. That helped Gboard became the undisputed favorite and gain user popularity....
