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So the question of the hour is, how would you hide these apps from prying eyes, and yet make it accessible in a jiffy? We pondered over it a lot and came up with this amazing solution below. Since most of the smartphones aren’t rooted, not only the below solution would be more than apt but also (yes, again) simple to pull off. So, here’s how you can hide apps in Android without Root The precondition for this to work is that your phone would require any one of the below launchers,...

I needed around 2 GB of space and I was left with just 682 MB. But after a few hours I was able to reclaim the junk space on my iPhone and play the game I wanted. Here’s brief documentation on how I was able to delete as much as 3 GB of junk on my iPhone. I am sure it will help you, whether it be today or tomorrow....

The answer: File System for Dropbox App. With this app, your Dropbox files show up as another volume in the Chrome File Manager. Easy peasy. Let’s check out the steps. Install the App The app is available from the Chrome web store. This app isn’t the same as the official Dropbox App. You need to follow the link or search for File System for Dropbox. Configure Access to Your Dropbox File System for Dropbox shows up as a volume in your File Manager, so you must mount your Dropbox account....

Adding page numbers to a Word document is useful when you are handing it out to others. It makes it easy for others to refer to the material without being lost in words. Microsoft uses a slightly different UI for Mac and Windows. On Android and iPhone, Word is now part of the single Office app that Microsoft released a couple of years ago. We will cover all three Microsoft Word applications on Mac, Windows, and Mobile....

A neatly labeled chart is hands down better than a complex web of numbers and percentages. Mind you; I said neatly labeled because an unlabeled chart is as useless as a piece of IKEA furniture without an instruction manual. Yep, Legends and Data labels are as essential as the rest of the elements in the data set. How to get that done, though? Well, it’s quite simple. How to Add and Format Legends on Google Sheets for PC Legends are to a chart what signboards are to a road....

At times, the text doesn’t at all match the speech in the video, which can change the interpretation of sentences and phrases. Hence, it’s vital that your videos — both upcoming and already uploaded videos — should have the right text by its side so that the true meaning is not lost. In such cases, deleting a video and re-uploading it is out of the question since only you’ll lose out on the views count and other stats....

Since you probably have a few game emulators on your PS Vita, you might have experienced issues, like some of the games running too slow on the Super Nintendo emulator, a few games looking too distorted on your Vita’s screen, or even having some of them crash before you get a chance to play them. If you have experienced this or any other issue running games on the emulators on your PSP or PS Vita, then read along to learn how to adjust your game emulators’ settings for the best gaming experience....

Mr. Silent, Auto silent mode is an amazing app that not only automates the aforementioned task at a specific location or for a pre-defined time, but also takes care of your events from the calendar and individual contacts’ incoming calls. After you install and launch the app, it will give you 4 modules that you can configure. Let’s look at them one by one for clear understanding. Time Slot As the name says, in this mode you can create a specific time slot like your office hours and silence your phone accordingly....

sharing those huge video files among them privately via torrents . However, there has to be a download time associated with everything and that’s what I can’t stand when I wish to watch the videos. So, I devised a mechanism to get rid of the waiting period. Sounds interesting? Read on if you are a torrent freak. You do not have to change the way you download things. What you can actually do is to manage them remotely....

With the Block feature, you can stop any unknown person trying to share files with you. Also, blocking someone will effectively delete any files shared by the person. More so, it will also revoke the person’s access to files you’ve previously shared. We’ll cover how you can block and unblock someone on Google Drive on both mobile and PC in this post. Let’s get started. How to Block Someone on Google Drive on PC Blocking someone on Google Drive will delete any files that the person and vice versa have shared....

Yet there’s one fundamental flaw within the application, and that’s the overly dark color scheme of the Incognito windows. At times, it’s almost impossible to distinguish individual tabs when viewing contrasting web content. Not fun when you can’t even identify the tab that you’re currently on since everything just merges into the title bar. Fortunately, you don’t have to keep on blundering through your Incognito sessions trying to find out exactly what tab you’ve got opened....

Initially released in 2005, Opera Mini web browser went on to include endeavoring features such as the much-needed ability to download files, custom skins, multiple search engine options in the built-in search bar, a speed dial option, and efficient navigation. It’s still popular among Android smartphone users on slower 2G or 3G networks. Download Opera Mini Even now, Opera Mini sticks to its fundamental principles — to provide a fast, sleek, and an active web-browsing experience....

The post will cover changing image backgrounds having a single solid color and multi-colored backgrounds as well. Without further ado, let’s get started on how to replace the background in GIMP. How to Replace Solid Background Color in GIMP If the background is simple and consists of only a single color, you can use the following method to replace it. In this method, first, we need to remove the background color, and then we will add the new background....

Setting availability status during working hours gives a clear idea for others to interact with you. The ability to change Microsoft Teams’ status is available on both the desktop and mobile. We will cover them in the post. But first, we will start with Microsoft Teams Windows and Mac apps. Microsoft Teams Desktop App It’s quite easy to change status in Microsoft Teams. Follow the steps below to learn how to change status in Microsoft Teams and what options are available to use as Teams status....

You can dig the Layout menu in Word and make relevant changes to the page layout. After making all the required tweaks, you’ll need to save the document as a template to use it again. In this post, we will go through all the relevant options to change the page layout and save the same as a template. Change Page Size Microsoft Word uses the document size and layout as A4 by default....

Besides offering adjustable transparency, Drawings also provides other editing features such as size, color adjustments, shadows, and reflections. The transparency feature is different for shapes and images. Also, it is buried down in a way that one might find it difficult to access and use it. That’s what we are going to help you with. Here you will get to know how to change the transparency of images and shapes in Google Drawings (and drawings inside Google Docs)....

In this post, we will walk you through the steps needed to get a new username on Instagram, and we’ll also highlight the differences between your Instagram name and username. Username vs. Name Before getting down to the nitty-gritty, you should note one thing. Your Instagram account has a username and a name is different. The username is unique to your account. When used with a @ symbol, other users can tag you in posts and comments....

This is one of those bizarre problems that one thinks should have been solved already. Thankfully, there’s someone trying to do that as we speak. It’s called Point. What’s the Point… Point is a Chrome extension (mobile apps are coming soon), where you can highlight text directly from the website, quote it and then discuss it with your friends on Point in a clean little window in the bottom-right corner of the screen....

Just the other day my colleague Ashish posted a query about buying a router in a specified budget, which I tried to answer in a rather detailed way to help out. Which has lead me to writing out my thoughts for buying a router that could be useful for everyone. Don’t Let Jargons Confuse You This is the easiest pitfall that you can fall into. So, let’s understand a few basic concepts....

beats audio . Listening to music is such a wonderful experience on it. But the sad thing is that the factory-made earphones are below standards. Forget about sound quality, even the plugs don’t fit well in ears and tend to be uncomfortable. That led me to buy a Sony headphone to enjoy the music while traveling but there was another problem. As the headphone lacked the music control button, I had to unlock the phone every time I had an urge to skip the track....