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Zoom is undoubtedly one of the most popular video communication tools in recent times (and we’ve published the ULTIMATE guide on it). You can also record your meetings and sessions, and this feature makes it easy to revisit the meeting details at a later point in time. And unlike Skype, here the recordings do not disappear after the 30 days. While Zoom also lets you save recordings of meetings and sessions in Cloud, this option is only available for Business and Education accounts....

While it’s much easier to find lost AirPods on an iPhone, you can use some tricks to try and track it down using an Android device. If you’ve lost your beloved AirPods and don’t have an iPhone, here’s how to find your lost AirPods on Android. I. Find Lost AirPods Using Android’s Bluetooth Menu This method is helpful if you’ve lost your AirPods indoors or within a small area. We will use the Bluetooth menu within the Settings app on Android to try and establish a connection with the AirPods....

No software is perfect and Google Maps, unfortunately, is not an exception either. There are times when we see blank Google Maps on our Android phones or the Google Chrome browser. This can get exasperating when you’re in a hurry to reach the airport in an unknown city or trying to make your way through a busy avenue during office hours. This problem generally happens when you have too many bugged cookies in your browser or cached data in your Android app....

However, nothing is perfect. Sometimes, when we least expect it, Bluetooth starts throwing tantrums on Windows 10. Either it doesn’t connect with the already paired devices or Windows doesn’t detect the available Bluetooth devices. So what should one do in such circumstances? Well, not to worry. Just follow the solutions given here to fix the Bluetooth cannot connect issue on your Windows PC. Let’s go through the solutions. Restart Computer As always, the primary solution is to restart your PC....

There are a few issues with the onscreen keyboard in iPadOS. For example, it may not show up when you want to start typing. It could freeze or lag. Or swipe typing may fail to work. If that sounds familiar, then here are several troubleshooting tips that can help you patch things up. Let’s get started. Keyboard Lags or Freezes Is the iPadOS keyboard freezing after you bring it up?...

Now before you go ahead and smash your iPhone with a rock, just hold on! It happens due to a trivial reason that takes mere seconds to solve. Why Does This Happen? The ‘A Device Attached to the System Is Not Functioning’ error has been plaguing iOS devices for a few years due to various technical issues — which we’ll go over briefly later on. But if you started receiving this error quite recently, and it happens specifically on an iPhone 7, iPhone 8, iPhone X, or iPad Pro, then it’s most likely due to an issue with your file transfer settings....

Hopefully, after trying out the below-mentioned fixes, you won’t have to press the X mark to hide the screen controls. Those on-screen buttons will disappear automatically. Let’s get started. Turn off Switch Access and Accessibility Menu Android 9.0 introduced a cool accessibility menu on Android phones and tablets. I enabled the setting on my Google Pixel 2 XL and discovered a new button in the bottom panel that offers quick access to notifications, Google Assistant, recent apps, and more....

But things went haywire when we attempted to reset the phone. It powered off to restore the device, there were gear icons, but it never finished. As a matter of fact, I got a sad smiley after after the Microsoft logo and then the phone didn’t boot. We tried the soft and hard reset using the power and volume down button, but in vain. So as a last resort, we thought to flash the phone and that’s what I am going to talk about in this article....

But those are the system settings — a simple tug on the toggle button and you are all set. But there exists another way by which both the Windows start menu and the taskbar can be made translucent. Though it’s a tad tedious process, the end results are quite impressive. So, on that note, let’s start how to get transparent start menu in Windows 10. 1. Add User Before making any changes to the Registry keys and values, a user needs to have complete access....

This makes it possible to have some impressive sounds coming from devices with simple speaker setups like phones and tablets. Android devices are no exception and some phones such as the Samsung galaxy S line even ship with a surround sound feature. This is quite intriguing but how does it work, and how can you enable it on your Android phone? How Virtual Surround Sound Works In order to gain a better understanding of virtual surround sound, it’s useful to look at how regular stereo sound works....

No one wants those things out in public and the best way would be to hide the notifications from the lock screen and make your smartphone private. Notification Content on Android Hiding the sensitive notification content option was introduced with Android Lollipop and was much required after Android adopted iPhone-like feature to pop these notifications directly on the lock screen. The phone asks you the question if you would like to hide content in notification when you set up your device initially....

Make Sure Your Device is Backing Up iPads and iPhones should warn you if they haven’t backed up to iCloud in a few weeks. It won’t do this if you don’t first configure your device for iCloud backup. Some people just assume it is there automatically, but you still need to configure it. Other times backups just messed up, so it’s worth a check. Head over to Settings->iCloud and make sure Backup is set to On....

You can access Google Drawings directly from drawings.google.com or open it from Google Drive. In Google Drawings, you can add multiple images, text, layer images, and perform various other image manipulations. We have covered all that in the post. Let’s get to know how to create a collage in Google Drawings. How to Create a Picture Collage in Google Drawings Step 1: Open drawings.google.com in a web browser on your PC....

However, at times, we want to add our own personalized stickers to our Stories. Unfortunately, Instagram doesn’t provide a direct way of doing it. But there are workarounds to achieve it. Here I will tell you two methods of doing it. While one needs a third-party app, the other method requires the help of two websites. Before you get confused, let’s jump into the steps. Method 1: With App Step 1: Download AnySticker app on your device....

Everything was going smooth until the last few updates of the player rolled out. Suddenly, after the update, users weren’t lost audio on some of their video files. This was because DTS & DOLBY audio codec supports are now removed from the official MX Player due to licensing issues. That’s the reason users are not able to hear any audio while playing videos that have DTS/DTSHD/AC3/EAC3/MLP audio tracks. Instead they will get a popup message saying that only the video will be played, sans the audio....

Google Photos comes pre-installed on phones running Stock Android. But you can install it on other Android phones too and even iPhone. You can also access the pictures from its web version available at photos.google.com. Now, let’s check how to make sure your pictures are private in Google Photos. How Do I Know My Pictures in Google Photos Are Private For that, you need to understand the working of Google Photos....

edit the photos you have shot on your mobile and make them look better. Last week we talked about an app called Snapseed, discussed some of the basics of the app and left the rest for my next article. As promised, today I am going to talk about the remaining features of the app and how you can use them on your photos to add the ‘Wow’ effect. We’ve already seen how the app can be used to fine tune the photos....

The Find feature allows you to identify all occurrences of a certain word, while the Replace feature allows you to substitute words. Here’s how you can use both features. Find Text By using a simple shortcut on your keyboard, you can access the Find feature on the Navigation panel of Microsoft Word. Here’s how it works: Step 1: Launch the Microsoft Word document. Step 2: Press the CTRL + F keys simultaneously to launch the Navigation pane....

Today, I’m going to talk about two ways you can mirror your iphone or any iOS screen to your Windows PC. While there are many applications available such as Mirroring360 and Reflector 2 for screen mirroring, they cost around US$ 14.99, which is slightly on a higher side. Helping you to save a few bucks, I will share two free third-party apps you can use to mirror your iOS device screen using a built-in service called AirPlay mirroring....

Begin With the End in Mind – Use Offline Apps Whenever possible, search for an offline alternative for your apps. Both Gmail and Google Docs have offline equivalents. When you are on a free Wi-Fi connection, launch these apps and load your data into them. Pocket is a great resource for this. Add long web pages you want to read to Pocket. Then launch the Pocket app on your Chromebook and it will download the pages....