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Fujifilm Instax Mini 11 Vs Mini 9 Should You Upgrade

The Instax Mini 11 is not just another iterative upgrade. It packs quite a few significant features. Like its predecessor, it’s available in a bunch of attractive colors. And guess what, it uses the same film-based printing mechanism. More importantly, it’s dirt cheap (compared to its competition). So, this brings us to an important question—what improvement does the Instax Mini 11 bring to the table? And is it worth upgrading to the Mini 11 if you already own a Mini 9?...

January 22, 2023 · 6 min · 1108 words · Caroline Bremer

10 Fixes For Screen Time Not Showing Data On Iphone

Even though you have been using iPhone with Screen Time enabled, sometimes Screen Time displays a message saying ‘As you use your iPhone, screen time will be reported here’. We faced the issue ourselves, but fortunately, we were able to find a few ways to fix it. We’ve outlined a step-by-step procedure to help you go about when iPhone screen time won’t update. Let us get started by checking the screen time settings....

January 21, 2023 · 6 min · 1253 words · Vicky Crowley

10 Incredible Features Of The New Paint 3D

Well, that’s not all, Paint 3D is more than just seeing the third dimension of objects. With ease, you can draw beautiful scenes and objects and flip it to form a scene. So, without further delay, let’s take a quick tour on what more you can do with Paint 3D. 1. Canvas When you first launch the new paint app, it’ll present you with a white canvas. Similar to its predecessor, all the actions happen here....

January 21, 2023 · 5 min · 952 words · Ute Bledsoe

12 Ways To Fix Icloud On Windows 10 Keeps Asking For Password Issue

After you enter the password and 2FA code, you can sign in alright. But then, after 10-15 minutes, a dialogue will pop-up asking you to re-enter the Apple password. It’s annoying. Thankfully, there are a number of ways to get rid of that message. Let’s begin. 1. iCloud Is Down What’s that got to do iCloud asking for a password on Windows 10? Some users found out that when the server is down, their iCloud app would disconnect and sign out automatically....

January 21, 2023 · 5 min · 890 words · Claude Riebe

15 Amazing Spider Man Homecoming Wallpapers Hd Full Hd 2K 4K

The Spider-Man: Homecoming garnered quite a bit of applause after it was first showcased at Los Angeles, California on June 28, 2017. The film has publicly released on 5th July in the UK and some other countries. Today, i.e. July 7 is when it hits the USA, India and most parts of the world. While Spider Man gradually turns into a boy from a man and secures his place in the Avengers, let’s see some high-quality wallpapers that would be perfect for your smartphone, tablet, or PC....

January 21, 2023 · 1 min · 181 words · Margery Kraemer

17 Best Hd And 4K Holiday Wallpapers For 2018 That You Must Get

We have curated some of the best holiday and Christmas wallpapers in HD and 4K, to make the wait till December worthwhile. Take a look! 1. Who Doesn’t Love Gifts? Did you make your gift list yet? If you are still struggling with your holiday list, don’t forget to check out our accessories list. Also, if you have difficulty keeping track of your gift ideas, let the best note-keeping apps be your new BFF....

January 21, 2023 · 4 min · 721 words · Michelle Faz

2 Free And Secure Services To Encrypt Cloud Files

There are a lot of services which offers cloud encryption of files on services like Dropbox and OneDrive. But most of them are complicated and come with a price tag. In our strive to bring you the best, here are two services that are free, cover major desktop and mobile platforms and are easy to use. Windows Drive Encryption? This is how how you can go about it using Truecrypt....

January 21, 2023 · 3 min · 478 words · Ellen Smith

2 Free Online Tools To Convert Compress And Merge Pdfs

As much as I’d like to see the death of PDF, it is still useful (and sensible) for a lot of people, especially Office users. If you have to deal with PDFs now and then but don’t want to download a dedicated Windows app, you’re in luck. You can convert files to and from PDF, compress and merge them in mere seconds for free with the help of these two online tools....

January 21, 2023 · 3 min · 594 words · William Halley

20 Best Iphone Apps With Useful Widgets

Initially, the widget functionality arrived on iPhone with iOS 8 in 2014. But it was limited in several ways and accessible only through the iOS Today View menu. iOS 14 lets you add widgets to the home screen. You can choose from various widget sizes as well. The developer community is already hard at work to get their apps ready with the iPhone’s latest widget trend. We are barely into the second week of the iOS 14 and the App Store is buzzing with smart and functional widgets support offering apps....

January 21, 2023 · 7 min · 1432 words · Louise Mcguire

21 Best Workona Tips And Tricks For Beginners

Call it a tab, session, or bookmark manager, Workona provides useful features for all of them. You can manage your currently active tabs, save them for later use, suspend tabs, and launch your frequently visited pages. Workona is an amazing productivity tool to manage tabs. Let’s see how to make the most of it with these Workona tips and tricks for beginners and everyone else. Download Workona for Chrome...

January 21, 2023 · 8 min · 1665 words · Goldie Surles

3 Awesome 3D Wallpaper Apps For Android

Today, we have assembled a list of 3 awesome 3D wallpaper apps for Android. And don’t get me wrong, these aren’t just made for the high-end phones. These wallpapers look equally stunning on every device. For one, the feature image is from the Xiaomi Mi Max 2. 1. 3D Parallax Background With its stunning layered effects, myriad themes and battery efficiency techniques, 3D Parallax Background remains the de facto standard for 3D wallpapers....

January 21, 2023 · 2 min · 394 words · Karen Murphy

3 Best Fixes For Windows 10 Autocorrect Not Working

Before you proceed, it is important to note that autocorrect (on Windows) only works with Universal Windows Platform (UWP) applications (i.e., Windows Store apps). Apps developed by Microsoft or apps installed from the Microsoft Store fall under this category. Examples include Outlook, Microsoft Edge, Mail, and so on. If Windows autocorrect doesn’t pick out grammatical errors while you’re typing in third-party apps, that’s how the tool was designed (not) to work....

January 21, 2023 · 4 min · 850 words · David Solis

3 Best Ways To Free Storage On Fire Tv Stick

Some Fire TV Stick users have reported slow streaming performance and other glitches when their streaming stick was low on storage space. Some have also reported a constant display of a ‘Critically Low on Storage’ error message on their TV screen. You don’t have to wait till your Fire TV Stick displays a low storage warning before you free up storage space on the device. You can occasionally check the streaming stick’s storage status to determine how much of the built-in storage you have used and how much capacity is available....

January 21, 2023 · 4 min · 743 words · Jennifer Carpenter

3 Cool Wallpaper Apps For Android

on the powerful Android smartphone I own today . Apart from using its smartness to ease my everyday tasks, I want to make sure it looks presentable. I always want my phone to stand out among the crowd and that’s what makes me use custom vibration patterns, exclusive fonts, etc. However, today I realized that I never talked about one of the most basic things about customizing the phone: Wallpapers....

January 21, 2023 · 3 min · 524 words · Cynthia Oneal

3 Powerful Clipboard Utilities For Mac For Better Productivity

Which is why you should give it more power. What if you could recall the last 100 things you copied with the press of a button? Paste in the 9th last thing you copied just like that? Create snippets and instantly enter them into a text field? It’s easy. Try some of the utilities listed below. 1. Pasteomatic Pasteomatic is not a clipboard manager but a snippet manager with links to the clipboard....

January 21, 2023 · 4 min · 645 words · Jason Marin

3 Tips For Perfect Presentations Using Keynote For Ipad

However, another area where the iPad excels but is not fully taken advantage of by most iPad owners is presentations. The best example of this is, again, Apple’s own slideshow application, Keynote, which is extremely powerful and allows iPad users not only to create amazing keynotes, but also to present them in the best way possible. And this is exactly the aspect of Keynote that we’ll show you today, letting you know about a few tips to make the most of Keynote presentation software....

January 21, 2023 · 3 min · 537 words · Tonya Spraggins

3 Ways To Create Temporary Short Urls With An Expiry Date

Bitly is one of the better known ones. There are quite a few others in the crowd out there. Then there are some temporary short URL services which allow you to set an expiry date with the short URL. The advantage is that whatever you are sharing via the short URL comes with a time limit. Temporary short URLs are something you should consider if you do a lot of forum postings and do not want your share to be always available....

January 21, 2023 · 3 min · 437 words · Martha Sharp

4 Best Cross Platform Shareit Alternatives For Iphone And Ipad

SHAREit is incredible with the local file transfer. However, it comes loaded with ads. You need to put on your spy glasses to locate the send and receive buttons on it. Ok. I might have exaggerated that bit. But seriously, it is full of ads. Fortunately, many SHAREit alternatives exist to do the exact job. That is, you can transfer files between various platforms such as iOS (iPhone, iPad), Android, macOS, and Windows using Wi-Fi direct....

January 21, 2023 · 4 min · 831 words · Titus Baptiste

4 Best Smart Locks That Work With Google Home

So if your house has a majority of Google Home devices, here are the best smart locks that you can invest in. But first, Take a look at these cool outdoor smart lightsSmarten up your front door with these nifty peephole cameras 1. Wyze Lock WiFi & Bluetooth Enabled Smart Door Lock The highlight of this Wyze smart lock is its quiet mechanism. At the same time, setting it up is a piece of cake, just like any Wyze device....

January 21, 2023 · 3 min · 620 words · Kim Leblanc

4 Best Thunderbolt 4 Docks For Macbook Pro

These Thunderbolt 4 docks for MacBook Pro are fast and give you faster speed when compared to regular USB-C docks. This feature is of great help, especially if you are a professional who deals with regular file transfers. On top of that, this small port can not only handle speed but can also handle power and video signals. So, if you want to upgrade your docking station, here are the best Thunderbolt 4 docks for MacBook Pro....

January 21, 2023 · 4 min · 851 words · Charles Roquemore