But wouldn’t it be better if the system clock had options to show more than one clock ? Turns out that the system clock in Windows Vista and higher versions does allow you to add up to 2 additional clocks. That would mean that you could now quickly compare different time zones by pointing your mouse on the time at the right-hand bottom corner of your desktop. This article gives you a step-by-step guide to add those additional clocks....
Google Play Books happens to be an excellent eBook reader and a great alternative to the Kindle app if you know how to use it effectively. Besides being free, it lets you add notes and highlights, and sync read positions between devices. All the functions work for your ebooks as well. The syncing takes place with a Google account, and the notes are saved in Google Drive. Sounds exciting? Let’s begin our journey of adding ebooks to Google Play Books on Android, iPhone, and PC....
You do not have to go through the long process of adding the watermark through image editors like Adobe Photoshop or GIMP. Instead, you can use the built-in editor on your iPhone to add a watermark to photos. Or, if you are not happy, you can use photo editing apps for iPhone like Snapseed or Canva. The best part is that the process is simple and barely takes more than a minute....
In Windows, you’ll find that by default most of the programs run in the standard mode (even if you are using the admin user profile). But there are programs (like the Windows 7 DreamScene Activator we talked about) that need to be started in the administrator mode for them to function properly. Also, at times, even common applications like the Notepad need to be run as administrator, like you saw yesterday in our edit HOSTS file post....
Smart Settings for Android is an all new app using which you can not only change your Android profiles manually, but can also create event based triggers and time based schedules to change them automatically. So let’s see how to use this app to create profiles and switch them automatically. Configuring Smart Settings Download and install the Smart Settings app from the Play Store to get started. When you launch the app for the first time, you will see some pre-configured profiles like Normal, Airplane Mode, Battery Saver mode, etc....
I mean, we’re getting there. It’s starting to be possible to control lights from your phone, turn on your house’s heating from anywhere, and have the garage door open automatically when you get home. Reading on smartphones is getting better as well. Unfortunately there’s no robot to automatically infuse all the knowledge in the world into your brain. But there’s Kindle to make reading, even on web pages less of a strain for your eyes....
If you are using Spotify on a free account, the app displays some ad banners on the player and also plays advert tracks after every couple of tracks to generate revenue. While the banners ads were not much of a problem to me as Spotify remain minimized most of the times, the voice ads were really annoying. Moreover, as I am using Spotify in India, none of these adverts them made any sense to me....
You don’t have to be a Photoshop wizard to change the color of an object. The whole process is surprisingly easy to perform on your PC or Mac. We will go through two methods and showcase a couple of examples to change the color of an object in Photoshop. Let’s get started. 1. Use Object Selection Tool Selecting an object from the rest of an image is tiring. That often puts off regular users....
Fortunately, there is a way to clear your Continue Watching list on Netflix. The secret lies within your viewing history. This can only be done on a computer while logged in to Netflix’s website. Manage Viewing History to Clear ‘Continue Watching’ List To clear out your Continue Watching List on Netflix, you have to delete the titles in that list from your viewing history. Thankfully, Netflix makes this easy with the ability to remove entire series instead of just individual episodes, though that’s also possible....
Apart from fixing WhatsApp glitches on iPhone and Android, clearing the cache also frees up internal storage on your phone. It’s one of the effective ways to free up storage on your iPhone and Android phone without deleting apps. Before we show you how to clear WhatsApp cache on iPhone and Android, let’s have a word about it. WhatsApp Cache Explained The cache is a collection of small files that WhatsApp stores on your phone to improve app performance....
Google Chrome’s Print to PDF option is a basic built in functionality. But it is these little things that are making it win the battle of the browsers. Printing to PDF is a very useful failsafe to have around when there is no printer to be found. It’s also useful if you want to archive webpages for a later read. HTML doesn’t save so well; that’s where printing to PDF keeps the layout nearly intact....
If you want to print the document, it is practical to split the content between pages. However, maintaining a paged format isn’t necessary if the document is only intended to have a digital format. Google Docs offers a pageless feature that allows users to type and scroll through text without needing page breaks or spillovers. Here’s how you can enable the pageless feature on Google Docs for PC and mobile....
If you love watching many videos on Facebook, there is a feature for creating a video playlist. This post covers the steps to create a video playlist in the Facebook app on iPhone and Android. While Facebook allows you to save videos and posts, you can also create a dedicated playlist with all your favorite videos. This feature caters specifically to video content on Facebook. You can also add videos from a playlist to the Saved tab....
While the in-house Watch app lets you choose from a wide range of watch faces and complications, some third-party apps like Watchsmith give you a free hand in creating a custom watch face. The good thing is that the process is no rocket science and lets you design a custom watch face in no time. Now that it’s settled, here’s how to create a custom Apple Watch Face. How to Create Custom Apple Watch Face Using Watchsmith Watchsmith lets you play with different complications....
If you have your data right, you can just arrange it in any number of rows and columns and get a graphical representation of your data. Here’s how to do it. Plot Your Axes Like any other MS Excel trick, you have to start somewhere. Open a blank Excel sheet and decide your X axis and Y axis data. For my example, I’ve chosen Year v/s Inflation % for each year....
But you have a choice when it comes to letting Google keep your data around or not. Your activity across all apps is accumulated into one gigantic heap in your Google Account. And it’s up to you to decide how you want to go about clearing things up — either automatically or manually. Deleting Data Provided that you are signed into a Google Account, any activity that you conduct using Google products and services is logged online....
About disabling the browser history all together, there’s no such thing in Chrome and browsing in Incognito mode is the only option left with the user. But you can certainly disable the inbuilt dictionary in few simple steps. To disable Chrome inbuilt history click on the wrench icon to open Chrome menu and click on Settings. On chrome settings page, click on Show advanced settings at the bottom of the page and click on the button Languages and spellchecker settings....
If you have a pet kitten or a bird, they’d love to walk on the keyboard or play with the mouse. Besides accidentally bumping the keyboard or mouse, those are all plausible reasons that wake up your Windows 11 PC. And if you’re certainly taking a break, it’s a good idea to disable anything that makes you take a break from your break. We’ll show you how to stop the mouse and keyboard from waking up your Windows 11 PC....
OneDrive is fantastic when it comes to syncing stuff, and it’s my go-to cloud storage for nearly everything — except when I use Google Docs, that is. And I also love it when OneDrive captures screenshots automatically and names them in sequence so that I can find whatever I’m looking for easily. But those annoying banner notifications that show up when grabbing a screenshot? Not so much. They are major distractions that take ages to disappear, not to mention that subsequent screenshots taken in quick succession show the damn things as well....
Two-factor authentication or 2FA ensures that your Google account gets accessed only when suitable evidence of access right gets confirmed. With 2FA, apart from the account password, users need to provide other means of verification to access the account. With Google, this other means of verification comes in different forms explained below. How to Enable 2FA Using Google Prompts You may use Google prompts if your Android phone is signed into a Google account or an iPhone with Google apps....
