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Read and follow the methods in this post meticulously and let us know which one worked the magic. Note: The solutions in this post apply to the basic Fire TV Stick and Fire TV Stick 4K models. Also, these solutions apply to the 1st and 2nd Generation Fire TV remotes. 1. Move Remote Closer 2. Reactivate Remote Using Voice Button If the Fire TV Stick remote is unresponsive, try holding the Alexa voice button on the remote for 3 – 5 seconds until the blue light flashes....

All the fixes detailed below apply to the Fire TV Stick and Fire TV Stick 4K. So irrespective of model, these solutions should help you remove the Netflix woes. 1. Force Stop Netflix If the Netflix freezes or is unresponsive on your Fire TV Stick, you should close/force-stop the app and launch it again. Step 1: Launch the Fire TV Stick Settings menu and select Applications. Step 2: Select ‘Manage Installed Applications’....

On the other side of the spectrum, there are those who prefer to have the least number of apps possible, so as to save time when taking care of their productivity stuff. If you identify with the latter group, then read on as we will take a look at Acompli, a really cool iPhone productivity app that serves as an email app, calendar, file manager and more. Let’s start with email, the most prominent part of Acompli....

Cause and Effect The way this platform will work is quite simple. If a user who has Adblock Plus installed visits a website, only the whitelisted ads will be displayed for him, rather than all the ads. The whitelisting part will be the domain of an ‘independent committee that will take control of the Acceptable Ads initiative’, making the process transparent. This platform is part of the marketplace that Adblock has been running since 2011, and their operations and communications director, Ben Williams, observed – But even since 2011, the program has not had the best effect....

On Android, there isn’t even a built-in dictionary. Google Play Books has one, but it’s restricted to the app. A few years back an app called WordLookup showed up (it hasn’t been updated since October 2013, bad sign). It was a poor hack where you needed to highlight and share the word to the app and you’d get a floating notification that would disappear in 10 seconds. Now we have a slightly better tool in the form of Power Reading: Word Snitch....

Read on to find out the best ways to do so on Android. Schemes Schemes – the one scheduling app to rule them all. With it you can schedule SMS, Facebook and Twitter status updates, and even send emails, all from one handy interface. For starters, you’ll need to log in to Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail to provide the app with required permissions. All of this is done via the web UI so the app doesn’t have access to any of your passwords....

Authy provides a beautiful interface, which is easy on the eyes and functional as well. It offers multi-device sync with cloud backups. Useful for when you lose access to your smartphone. Get Authy LastPass is a popular password manager developer who has released a 2FA app which offers cloud backups and multi-device sync. Get LastPass Authenticator Time to see which 2FA should you trust with your online world and why....

Today we’ll be focusing on a simple aspect of Automator. How to select photos from anywhere on your Mac and resize them to a set resolution. If you’re a web publisher or a photographer, you deal with image resizing constantly. More often than not, you’re resizing the image to one specific resolution – maybe a couple of them. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just select the photos, right-click, select an option and have the photos resized and transported to a defined folder?...

Why is that, you ask? Let’s dig deeper. People Prefer Practicality This might just be the biggest reason why new innovative features in smartphones aren’t coming in by the dozens. We’ve seen Sharp release a phone without bezels, but how many people do you know own that device? Heck, it didn’t even launch in most countries outside Korea. And the biggest reason for that was the practicality of using Android OS on such a device....

If you’re still wondering why: Check out our Ultimate Guide to Chromecast. Over and above all the media stuff, Chromecast can now be considered a serious productivity companion. For it supports streaming for all your Office documents from iPhone and Android. And yes, I know the Chrome extension lets you mirror the PC’s screen to Chromecast, essentially negating the need for such an app. But that’s not such a smooth experience....

We have talked about an amazing app in the past that proves the aforementioned point. The app called AppConfig gives you the ability to set specific Android settings to individual apps based upon your comfort. So if you want your video playing apps like MX Player or YouTube to always open in full screen mode with maximum brightness, the app would do that for you. The AppConfig app didn’t require root access and was for the masses to install and run....

There are plenty of screen filter apps out there that can give you color filter over your screen. Also, in the past, we had shared about some screen dimming apps that would let you add a black filter over your screen. Thus, dimming down the screen. But such apps actually make use of a service in the background to keep the screen filter always on until the user turns it off....

Notebook is a free notebook app with great designs and smart gestures. The developers have claimed it to have built it meticulously with special attention to every minute detail. So without further ado, let’s quickly jump right in and see whether Zoho Notebook’s features really lives up to its tagline. 1. Amazing Design Zoho Notebook comes packed with an amazing interface. Not only is it super easy to navigate around the app, it also presents elegant notebook covers to spruce up the experience....

why both Flipboard and Feedly are the two best news readers for iPhone users to get their news content on. Out of them though, Flipboard turns out to be quite more interesting due to its set of features that take it beyond a mere tool to enjoy your Google Reader content. Let’s take a better look at this excellent iOS app for information consumption. A Broad Focus Perhaps the most distinctive feature of Flipboard is, quite surprisingly, its lack of focus....

It might not be as small as the Garmin Dash Cam 55, but it packs an impressive feature set. The N2 Pro can record every little detail that goes outside and inside your car. With neat LCD screens, high-resolution recording, and handy alarms there is nothing to dislike about the Vantrue N2 Pro and the Garmin Dash Cam 55. So, it seems only fair that we pit the popular Garmin Dash Cam 55 with the Vantrue N2 Pro and see which is the better car dashboard camera....

There may be few who would not mind loosing a few MBs of hard disk space to redundant data, but for folks like me who would rather get rid of old and useless data instead of having them take up storage space, I have found a simple solution to remove the older Chrome versions. OldChromeRemover is a nifty terminal based tool that checks for any older version of Chrome installed on your system (Canary builds as well) and provides you with an option to delete them all at once....

The reason iOS 8’s encryption is so beautiful is because it works in the background even if you didn’t expressly enable it. If you have a PIN/passcode lock or Touch ID enabled in iPhone 5s and higher, congratulations, encryption on your iPhone/iPad is already up and running. But what do I mean when I say “beautiful”, a term as arbitrary as Apple’s promotion jargon? What does encryption do and why should you be glad it’s enabled on your device?...

The Basics: Enable Remote Desktop By default, remote desktop is turned off for security reasons. To enable it, go to Control Panel -> System and Security, under the System heading click on Allow Remote access. In the window now opened, tick the Allow Remote Assistance connections to this computer checkbox and the Allow remote connections to this computer checkbox as well. Although Windows 10 Home users can tweak this settings, their PCs don’t support incoming RDP connections....

For the people in the former camp, today we are going to see one of OneDrive’s nifty feature which is very useful. What is it? Ever been in a situation where you needed some files which are stored on your PC? We all have been there. The usual answer to this is Remote Desktop or Shared Folders. But those are way too complicated solutions. Setting up RD to access just some files is like bringing a gun to a knife fight....

Scratch that, even influencers, athletes and other celebrities are constantly divulging information on Twitter and many of you might be interested in not missing out on their tweets. And for those of you who are in a habit of maintaining an RSS reader to consume information from worldwide publications, authors and people you’re interested in hearing from, here is a tool to help you do so on Twitter. Almost half a decade back, Twitter used to serve RSS feeds, which was a useful tool but the micro-blogging platform stopped the RSS feeds in 2013....