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Fortunately, a new Mac app called Hides restores these features. The app lets you use your Mac in “Single App Mode” as well as quickly hide all of your windows with a single click or keyboard shortcut. Hides is $4.99 in the Mac App Store but well worth it if you’re often in a busy environment but need to get some private browsing done. Hide Your Entire Desktop If you want to hide your entire desktop with Hides, utilize the Preferences panel that opens upon first launching the application....

There are many reasons to do it. For instance, I use it to test various Instagram story features. Similarly, someone might want to check if their crush is viewing their stories or not. You can also fool your friends with this trick by giving them the impression that you have shared the story with everyone. In case you are wondering how to show your story to one person only, there are two methods to do so....

Facebook offers an option to hide stories from specific users on the platform. Here’s how you can use it. Hide Facebook Story from Someone You need to tweak a setting in the Facebook app to hide all the upcoming stories from specific friends. Follow the steps below. Step 1: Open Facebook on your iPhone or Android. Step 2: Tap on the hamburger menu. Step 3: Scroll down and select Settings....

After all, it’s an AI-based recognition in Google Photos and it can go wrong at times. By fixing those mistakes, you can help the Google Photos app to tag people in photos correctly. Being a responsible tech company, Google offers several options to improve face recognition in Google Photos. That way, you fix the wrong faces detected by Google Photos and improve the overall algorithm for better results in the future....

There are many options to customize your Live Camera Feed in PowerPoint. We will show you how to insert Live Camera Feed in Microsoft PowerPoint on Mac. The Live Camera Feed feature is available in Microsoft PowerPoint app v16.64 for macOS. We recommend checking whether you are using the same version of the app on your Mac or not. Update PowerPoint for Mac How to Enable Live Camera Feed in PowerPoint Microsoft PowerPoint has added a feature called Cameo to add a Live Camera Feed in individual slides of your presentation....

Microsoft has just introduced paid SkyDrive storage plans , new SkyDrive apps for Windows, Macs and mobile operating systems and a whole lot of new feature additions and enhancements. We’ll take up the new SkyDrive in a detailed article very soon but let us first focus on, what I believe, is the most important piece of information in this whole announcement – the free storage space that used to be a whopping 25 GB is now being reduced to a mere 7 GB (when compared to 25 GB) and new SkyDrive users will have to be content with that....

However, most of the devices don’t provide either of them and the sensor can only be used to unlock the device and some other feature like taking a photo, etc. But that limitation is only valid till your device is on Android Lollipop. With Marshmallow, Google has included native support for fingerprint unlocking and, therefore, 3rd party apps can take advantage of the feature to provide apps that could lock apps and much more....

Locking parts of a document allows you to restrict the changes that can be mad to it. On Microsoft Word, there are two ways to go about it using the restrict editing feature or content control option from the developer tab. Here’s how to use both methods: Restrict Editing Feature The restrict editing feature on Microsoft Word allows users to create section breaks within a document before locking them. Certain sections of the document are editable while there’s no way to make any changes in other parts....

And by lock and key, I mean face and voice. A free and awesome Android app called AppLock scans your face and listens to your voice as a security template. Then, once those specific traits are applied as a password for your apps, your Android phone will be able to tell when it’s really you trying to gain access and grant it. Setting Up Face and Voice Recognition When setting up AppLock, the first step is to choose your unlock phrase....

We will cover how to permit others to edit Google Sheets for limited and multiple people. We have covered the steps for web, Android, iPhone, and iPad. We have also mentioned how to stop others from editing your Google Sheets. Let’s get started. How Google Sheets Sharing Permissions Work There are three levels of sharing permissions in Google Sheets and other Google Drive services. Can view: With this setting, the collaborators can only view the data in your spreadsheet....

Today, we will see how to make Safari or Opera as your default browser. The scenario remains the same – you had been using Safari or Opera as default and some changes to the system caused another browser (like Chrome or IE) to set itself as the default. So now you need to change it back to the way it was. Make Safari Your Default Browser To set Safari as default, you would first need to visit its Preferences....

We are going to talk about all such tools placed under the View tab, in the Window section. Let us explore each one and see which of these can come in handy for ya’ll. Add New Window How do you create a copy of the current document you are working on? Do you close your document, copy the original and paste the copy? Now, that isn’t the best way..Just navigate to View and click on the New Window button....

The Explore page displays popular photos, searches, and locations. However, it may not show the content you want or like to see. If your Explore page shows content that doesn’t interest you, there’s no need to delete your Instagram account to start again. You can manage the content that appears on the Explore page, to an extent. First, let’s check out how the Explore page works. How the Instagram Explore Page Works Before we discuss managing the content on your Explore page, let’s check out how it works....

One of the powerful tools to view documents online is Google Docs. It supports most file formats. Including DOCX, PDF, XLS, CSV, etc. Some extensions mentioned here will redirect you to Google Docs to open the file. So, let’s dig in. Docs Online Viewer for Chrome and Firefox Docs Online Viewer is an extension that is available for both Chrome and Firefox. With this extension, you can open probably any file format you want....

Apple released OS X Mavericks recently. The best part of all? This latest version of OS X is completely free and available right now from the Mac App Store. Now, installing a new OS always seems like a daunting task, but thanks to it being available digitally, the installation of OS X Mavericks can be as simple or as thorough as you want it to be. So, if you plan to upgrade to OS X Mavericks, let’s take a look at a few different steps that you should take care of before doing so....

He installed the printer drivers on his computer, and he was successfully able to print and scan documents. But he was looking for the ability to use the wireless features of his printer so as to print directly from his Android smartphone. While I was setting up his printer for Wi-Fi and cloud printing, I realized that the whole process can be documented for my readers. So here are two ways in which you can print wirelessly from your Android device....

Recently, WhatsApp has introduced a new feature that lets you react to messages with different emojis. We’ll show you how to do that on different platforms in this post. At the time of writing, WhatsApp only offered six emojis in the reaction pop-up without any option to replace or use other emojis. Use WhatsApp Chat Reactions on Android and iPhone The steps to access WhatsApp chat reactions remain the same for Android and iPhone....

Microsoft Word has a Voice feature that houses Dictate and Transcribe options that aid in converting audio to text. You can record the audio directly or upload it in Word and convert it to text. The transcript of the text can be edited and exported. Here’s how to use Microsoft Word to record and transcribe your audio recordings. How to Record Audio in Microsoft Word You can save time and energy by dictating your thoughts to Microsoft Word....

Browsers are less secure than dedicated password managers. In a browser data breach, your data might become vulnerable to hackers. You need to remove remembered credit cards from your iPhone completely. 1. Remove Remembered Credit Cards from Safari When you try to add payment information through Safari on Mac or iPad, the browser saves the information to auto add card number and expiry date in future transactions. Here’s how you can find the remembered credit cards and remove them using Safari on iPhone....

Nostalgia or not, I think they’re still of great use: CDs are physical backups of all the music that you can’t live without. Also, they’re a source of great, high quality, lossless music. Now you’ve ripped CDs before, and they’re far from lossless. Can you make those digital files copied from your CD sound better? You bet. Exact Audio Copy (EAC) calls itself an “audio grabber” for audio CDs. I think that’s an accurate way description — basically, it copies (or “rips”) music from your CDs to your hard drive....