However, those are active scenarios. What about the passive scenarios when you are not using the Echo Show? By default, the Echo Show displays a slideshow of quality illustrations showing off its different skills and features that to be quite honest get boring in the long run. Thankfully, this assistant lets you use its smart display to show your photo collection in a slideshow. Modern digital photo frame? Indeed! Now that we have established the basics let’s see how to get it done....

However, if you are using Windows 8 on a desktop or a laptop, you understand the pain of shutting it down or re-powering it. We have covered the various ways to shutdown Windows 8. And, to help you cut down on the steps we also worked on creating a taskbar shortcut for the same. Cool Tip: Windows 8 users may be missing the Hibernate option that used to work as a great session saver on previous versions....

Creating a custom table template on Microsoft Word is quite easy. All you need is the Quick Tables feature on Microsoft Word, and you can create and use the custom table anytime. Here’s how to create a custom table template. How to Create a Custom Table Template in Microsoft Word On Microsoft Word, there is a feature called Quick Tables. It contains several pre-created layouts and table designs that you can edit further....

Whenever things go south, you can use these restore points to go back to the previous state of your PC. Essentially, you’ll be able to undo the bad changes made to your system. This post will cover how to enable, create, and use the system restore point on Windows 10. How to Enable System Restore on Windows 10 As the system restore function doesn’t come pre-enabled on some computers, you need to enable it first so that Windows can automatically create a system restore point before making a system-wide change or tweak....

Nested labels were introduced last year and they have gone a long way in meeting demands for categorizing and sub-categorizing your inbox. Here’s a primer on how nested labels function: Labels are like folders for your incoming emails. But labels are more flexible because an email can be marked with more than one label (you can’t put an email in more than one folder). Nested labels are like sub-folders. Nested labels can be used to further mark out emails that fall under a common label....

Looking for a perfect restaurant for a family outing on the weekend? Or stuck with several hotel options for the summer trip? You can always create a poll in a WhatsApp group and ask other members to vote for their favorite restaurant or hotel from the list. The ability to create a poll in WhatsApp chats and groups is available on iOS, Android, and desktop. Update WhatsApp on Your Phone or Desktop WhatsApp has recently started rolling out polls on mobile and desktop....

Starting a chat with a new contact on WhatsApp isn’t a user-friendly task. You have to save the contact on your phone first, then open it using WhatsApp and only after that, you can start chatting. You can leapfrog all those steps by creating QR codes for your WhatsApp profile. Unlike its siblings — Facebook and Instagram, currently, WhatsApp doesn’t offer a native way to generate or scan QR codes....

One of those features is the ability to theme every single aspect of the keyboard. You can use different backgrounds in Gboard on Android with colors or a custom image. You can go further up a notch on iOS and set individual themes of keys, keystrokes, borders, gesture trails, etc. This level of granular details for theming lets you make your keyboard look the way you want it to. Here’s how you can customize and theme Gboard on your iPhone to its full potential....

However, not all programs allow you to map custom keyboard shortcuts by default. Take Firefox for instance; it offers the standard set of keyboard shortcuts you’d find on most other browsers, but no option to let you map your own. Thankfully, there’s a very simple solution to that problem and that’s what I’ll be talking about in this article. So, let’s jump right into it and see how you can customize keyboard shortcuts in Firefox 67....

However, when it comes to customizing the widgets, Apple has placed several limitations. For example, you can’t play with the widget’s size, nor can you place it just about anywhere on the home screen. That being said, you can pick from several available sizes and styles. At the same time, you can fill the home screen of your Apple iPad with widgets displaying information that you deem important. All you need to do is unlock the screen....

To trim down your Instagram addiction, you can always use the Screen Time function on Android and iPhone. But it’s more of a temporary lock on your Instagram usage. Besides, it’s very easy to bypass the time limit and get extra time for Instagram feed browsing. You can also disable your Instagram account temporarily, but that won’t serve the purpose either. Instead, it keeps the door open for you to go back to the same Instagram addiction in the future....

Deleting a Reddit account is quite an easy process, on both web and mobile devices. However, there is a lot more that you need to know and be aware of before deleting your account. So, let’s understand what happens if you delete the account. What Happens When You Delete Reddit Account Permanently Essentially, no one can see your username anywhere on Reddit. This includes removing your username from your post history, comment history, karma, cake day, avatar, and any other profile information....

The dark mode is almost on every app and is one of the most in-demand features of 2019. You’ll find it on Windows 10, macOS, iOS as well as iPadOS, Android Q, web browsers like Firefox and Chrome, plus many popular apps such as Messenger, Gmail, Twitter, and more. The options to disable the dark mode are also present alongside that. If you use your smartphone at night, it’s probably a preferred option for you compared to working with a bright screen that puts more strain on your eyes....

How to Enable Google Now on Tap? Go to Google App settings > Now on Tap > Hit the Toggle button to enable it. The Last week’s update included selecting text from any screen for search and not just text but also Images. It also got many bug fixes to increase its accuracy. So, with this update, I thought to revisit Now on Tap feature and start using it on a consistent basis whenever needed....

Today we will talk about a simple tool for Android called File Locker, using which you can easily lock any file using a password and secure the access to it. So let’s see how the app works. Locking the Files Step 1: Download and install File Locker on your device from the Play Store to get started. The app works on all the devices running on Android 2.1 and above....

But what if there’s someone else in the middle listening to everything you’re sharing — loud and clear. No, I’m not talking about that sneaky friend who goes around spreading rumors, I’m pointing finger at messenger apps such as Facebook’s very own Messenger. There’s no doubt that Facebook can see what your best friend and you are talking about in a regular chat. The regular conversation is not encrypted and this gives hackers full access to the data going from your device to your friend’s....

Whether it is due to tinkering with settings or a software issue, ringtone can stop working on Android phones for a variety of reasons. You don’t need to opt for factory resetting your device. All you need to do is check a few settings, and your phone will start ringing again. What are these settings? That’s what we will tell you here. In this post, you will get to know how to fix the ringtone not working issue on Android....

Either way, generally speaking mail notifications are easy enough to fix that anyone can go into their phone and resolve the problem as long as the problem is on the user’s end. Let’s explore a few options. Disable Low Power Mode Before proceeding to anything else, first it’s worth checking to see if you have Low Power Mode enabled on your iPhone. (This feature is only available on iOS 9 and up....

Battery optimization is a necessity. However, going overboard with excessive optimization can ruin the whole experience. Several OnePlus users discovered the perils of the same over the last few months. OnePlus continues to implement pretty dramatic changes to the phone’s battery optimization settings. This setting kills the apps running in the background even when you whitelist them in the settings. The worse part is that even when you manually flip the Do not optimize switch, these apps manage to revert to their original status....

And to make matters worse, iTunes suggests that you reset your device to factory settings! Yeah, and have your music, photos, and contacts removed just to connect to iTunes. What the hell, Apple! Not everyone syncs to iCloud! In short, the error is caused by nothing more than a corrupted iTunes database file messing things up on your iPhone or iPad, and in no way does something like that warrant a complete factory reset....