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However, if you have a computer which is always connected to the internet and you have no qualms about keeping it running constantly like a server then today we will see how to set up a personal cloud service on that PC using a service called Tonido. The benefit here is that your computer’s hard drive becomes the storage destination so that takes care of the limit issue. The service also lets you sync 2 GB of files which automatically modifies files across all the devices when it’s changes on one....

reviewing Outlook.com , the all-new email service from Microsoft the other day, I mentioned how the service would be replacing Microsoft’s both Hotmail and Live email services. We have already shared tricks like how to convert your old Hotmail and Live email address to a band new Outlook.com email address, import Gmail and social media contacts and lot more. One feature I loved about Outlook.com that I didn’t find in Gmail is the ability to use different email aliases to monitor a single email account....

Another thing that you can do on WhatsApp or any other messaging app is to send invites to people. No, you don’t have to send a boring text message. You can send personalized digital invitation cards. The e-invite cards are cost effective and save a lot of time. But how does one create a digital card and send it across? Don’t worry. In this post, we will tell you a few ways to create digital cards....

If you’re not careful, your Slack account can become cluttered before you know it. To tackle this, regularly removing channels that you no longer use from your sidebar is a good idea. So, how do you get rid of a Slack channel? We will walk you through the process. You’ll learn how to delete a Slack channel that has been archived, as well as one that hasn’t. The tips in this article apply to the desktop app, and work for both Slack on Mac and Windows....

Usually, a significant chunk of your iCloud storage quota is filled by iOS and iPadOS system backups. And that presents a ripe opportunity to reclaim back some storage, especially if you no longer use the device associated with a particular backup. Or if you plan to use alternate means to take a backup of your iPhone or iPad. While you can easily delete system backups from iCloud via an iPhone, iPad, Mac, or PC, you must also know of any potential implications....

YouTube offers all tools to manage your data from the app. For starters, you can even delete the YouTube watch history from the app. Here’s how to do that. Delete YouTube Search History From App YouTube uses a similar interface on both the iPhone and Android. In the screenshots below, we will use the YouTube Android app. You can follow the same steps on the YouTube iOS app and delete your search history....

Another such change lately is the ability to let user uploaded videos to play automatically. Oh, this not only is an annoyance (especially if you’re at work) but also a bandwidth hog. On a computer, it won’t make such a difference, but on a limited data plan, it’s a pain in the wrong places. Thankfully, there is an easy to turn it off and carry on Facebook-ing peacefully. Let’s see how to do that....

how to sync game progress on Android , you’d know that I now own not one but two of these devices. One annoying problem I suffered from maintaining multiple devices is multiple notifications. Each time I got a new notification , friend request or a message on Facebook, both my devices notified me simultaneously. Gets irritating after a while. Gmail, Google+ and Facebook were the three most annoying apps when talking about multiple notifications and uninstalling the apps in one of these devices was not the solution I would settle for....

Boon for the fact that you can easily visually connect with any past searches and reference them at a later point in time. But if you are concerned about your privacy, thankfully, this feature can be easily removed. So, let’s get started and see how to disable and remove Google recent history screenshots from the Google app. How to Access Google Recents? The Google Recents can be easily accessed through the third tab of the Google App....

Then there’s CTRL+U which underlines a word to add a little more emphasis to it, though it is something which is usually not advocated because of the similarity between an underlined part of text and a hyperlinked one. There’s a slightly better way if the usual ways of placing emphasis on a word or line isn’t cutting it for you – do a Double Underline. Yes, it’s one of the little known members of Word keyboard shortcuts....

Pinterest is one of the most addictive platforms. Once you start using it, you never want to leave it (I say it from experience). If you discover something interesting, you can bookmark it or save it in one of your Boards. Boards are the visual bookmark tools. You can create multiple Boards on Pinterest. These Boards can be public or private and can be shared with others. However, these Boards are available only inside the Pinterest website or app (understandably) and that doesn’t work offline....

Your MacBook’s battery goes through charge cycles. For example, you could use half of your notebook’s charge in one day and then recharge it fully. If you do the same thing the next day, it will count as one charge cycle, not two. In this way, it might take several days to complete a cycle. The new Battery health management feature prevents the battery from charging fully and stops its life from degrading slowly but gradually....

These designs go a long way in helping developers understand how you want your website to look and make the development process a bit easier on their part. However, there are only a limited number of ways you can export the designs from the software. You can either choose to save them as an XD file and hope the developer already has the software installed on his system or export each artboard as an individual PNG file which can be a bit inconvenient to use....

Know Computer Name Using Command Prompt This method makes use of the command prompt in Microsoft Windows. For Windows 8 or 10, click on the start button, type cmd in the search box and click on the result. In windows XP and older version, open run command (Win+R), type cmd and press Enter. A command prompt window will open up. Type the word “hostname” and press enter. Your computer name will appear....

If you have experienced something like this, it’s time you ran a few tests to jump-start the syncing process on Windows 10. Without further ado, let’s see some of the best ways to fix Dropbox sync issues. 1. Shut Down and Restart Dropbox We know, you may have already tried this step, but it doesn’t hurt to try, right? Simply exit the app and re-launch it again. If it’s a simple one-off thing, the odds are that you will see the documents and files syncing after some time....

Well, there are a few ways to go about doing this. If you only have a few songs that need album artwork, you can probably get away with the one-by-one approach to adding album artwork. But if you have a large library of songs without artwork, a sweeping third-party application might be necessary. Let’s take a look at the different strategies. Use iTunes to Replace Each Song’s Album Artwork If you only have a few songs that you need to get album artwork for, you can do so right in iTunes without the help of any third-party software....

From the many backup related errors that you can get, the ‘Some Files Were Unavailable During the Last Backup’ message is probably the worst, especially since you have no clue as to what exactly was wrong in the first place. Usually, this happens due to a number of reasons ranging from poor network connectivity, glitched backup controls to conflicting files. And, that means working through a number of fixes, which hopefully should take care of this issue....

Some content is offered for free and some of it is paid. Free or not, the Microsoft Store is an important content repository for Windows 10 machines. It’s therefore quite irksome when an error is encountered which affects the usage of the Microsoft Store app. One such error is labelled 0x800704cf and tells users, “You’ll need the Internet for this. It doesn’t look like you’re connected to the internet. Check your connection and try again....

iMessage works only on Apple devices – iPhone, iPad, and Mac. But sometimes the service faces downtime or suffers from glitches. You might also have some contacts that have either turned off their iMessage service or are currently experiencing poor internet connectivity. So you can send a simple text message instead of an iMessage. This post will show how to force send a text message instead of iMessage to a contact on iPhone....

That’d be pretty bad. Aside from losing out on crucial OneDrive statuses and the ability to manage the cloud storage service, you are left in the dark as to whether OneDrive is even functioning normally. There are a few possible reasons why the OneDrive icon can go missing, and the following troubleshooting tips should help you get it right back. Unhide OneDrive Icon Windows 10 often tends to hide various icons just because there are too many of them on the system tray....