Skype has made it so easy to connect, network, and transfer knowledge through video calls. In fact, during my sister’s stay in the US, she regularly used to help her son with math homework over Skype video calls. In situations such as these or during intense knowledge sharing sessions, don’t you sometimes wish for a capability to revisit those conversations? Thankfully, Skype call recording was announced on all platforms except Windows 10....
CF-Auto-Root is a simple rooting mechanism for stock ROMs and useful for those who wish to keep their device as close to stock as possible. The process will not install any custom recovery on the device and thus you cannot install any custom ROM even after rooting it. The process is a bit risky and might brick your device but that’s only when you flash wrong file or lose patience in the middle of the process....
That’s what we will look at today. The importance of taking every precaution to safeguard your data cannot be stressed enough. That’s why OneDrive also comes with ransomware protection. Let’s begin. 1. Set up OneDrive The first thing you will do is download and install OneDrive or install the latest version from the Windows Store. Open the Windows Store and search for OneDrive to install. If you already have it, click on the menu to select Downloads and updates....
Share the Entire XD Prototype with Others First, we will show how you can share the entire XD project others and then use multiple flows to share a specific UI part to clients or reviewers. Step 1: Launch Adobe XD and open one of your current projects. Step 2: Make necessary changes before you plan on sharing the prototype. Step 3: Move to the Prototype tab and add the necessary interaction to your mockups....
A few days back, we took up a really productive keyboard for iOS called the ReBoard that eases up multitasking on iPhone. It was a feature-rich product, but costs US$1.99 with in-app purchases for some elements like Dropbox and other things you need to use. For those who are looking for an alternative just to share files and photos easily using the keyboard, we have found a free keyboard that you can install and use....
In comparison, Slack shows all channels by default, so why doesn’t Teams? Well, Microsoft may have its reasons, but we’re sure that the company will fix such niggles in the future updates. The good news is that you don’t have to wait for them. There is a way to show all channels in the Teams app. It’s just not selected by default as it should be. Let’s begin. No More Favorites Option The early users of Teams would recollect the confusing favorites feature....
Burst mode can be very helpful at times. Let’s take an example where your son is about to reach the race finish line and you want to capture the perfect moment when he touches the victory ribbon. You can either try and take a single image and miss the moment, or you could have your phone camera take 20 of them one after another and then select the one that suits the best....
Why is Skitch so Cool? Doing screenshots on a Mac is simple with a few special keyboard shortcuts. Skitch also has those keyboard shortcuts. That’s nothing new. After you do a screenshot in Skitch, it lets you annotate and modify the screenshot. Then Skitch makes all those images easy to find. Finally, it lets you share them. All these functions make Skitch invaluable, but you can still do all this stuff from the menu bar with a few special programs....
Of course you can check the folders for changes and even check file attributes manually for precise monitoring, but come on, doing such tasks manually is not what a Guiding Tech reader is supposed to do. 😉 Today, we will talk about a nifty application called GiPo File utilities that’ll get this job done easily. Tracking Folder Changes Step 1: Download GiPo File utilities and run the installer. Installation is very simple; just follow the onscreen instructions and complete it....
My parents came over to our place last weekend and the entire family went for a weekend trip. As usual, we took plenty of photos on my DSLR. Now, after the holidays, I was faced with the simple task of transferring the files to our family WhatsApp group just so that each one of us has the photos directly on our mobile device rather than downloading it from cloud storage or a Facebook album....
However, if you didn’t like the app you installed, you cannot uninstall it straight away. We have already seen how you can batch uninstall bulk of applications on your droid and its still preferable if you have a rooted device. However, if you don’t have a rooted device, you can directly uninstall the apps from the browser itself. Just log in to the Play Store and click on the My Android Apps link to see all the apps that are currently installed on your device....
If you have downloaded the file on your device directly, and you are looking for a way to verify the checksum on the device itself, Android File Verifier is an amazing app that can help you out. To get started download and install Android File Verifier (AFV) on your device and launch it. On the main screen SFV will ask you to select the file you want to check the hash for....
Asking the baristas is always an option, but why bother them when you can retrieve it from your phone itself. Plus this is a useful method to know because it can come in handy in many other situations when you desperately need the Wi-Fi password of a network you previously connected to on the phone. Before we get started, it’s important to make it clear that the process only works on rooted and jailbroken Android and iOS devices respectively (the part about this not being straightforward on phones)....
A few days back we talked about how to ease the copy-paste functionality on the Android and it has really saved some time. Today I am going to talk about an amazing app launched on the Play Store just a few days ago that bring the undo-redo and find-replace function to your Android. The name of the app is Inputting+. So let’s go ahead and install it from the Play Store....
This is the case with the OFW 3.36 for PS Vita, which allows players to run the latest version of TN-V, the most popular PSP emulator. However, while installing and running TN-V11 is a fairly straightforward affair as long as you have any of the required exploit games and follow this tutorial, there are issues with the OFW 3.36 and later versions that prevent the proper installation and execution of game emulators and other homebrew if installed in the traditional way....
Slim ICS is a light-weight Android Open Source Project which is just 70MB in size. The ROM only includes the basic functionalities of Android OS and one can install the apps on a need to use basis. So let’s see how we can install the ROM and configure it. Before we Begin Make sure your HTC One X is rooted and has the latest official ClockworkMod running as the default recovery....
Here’s everything you need to know about Live Captions and how you can use the feature on your iPhone. Besides, we’ll also show you some cool ways in which you can use Live Captions. What Is Live Captions on iPhone The Live Captions feature transcribes audio into text and displays it on your iPhone’s screen in real-time. It’s extremely helpful for users who are deaf, hard of hearing, or just don’t want to use the loudspeaker in public places....
The Jaybird Run XT and the Samsung Galaxy Buds are two of the newest earbuds in the market that promises a ton of features. From a uber cool touch panel of the Samsung Galaxy Buds to the quirky companion app of the Jaybird Run XT, these two audio accessories pack a solid set of features, at least on paper. But is there any more to these features? Today, we will take a look at the Jaybird Run XT and the Samsung Galaxy Buds and see how these two earbuds differ from each other....
In this entry we’ll show you how to use Automator to create keyboard shortcuts to launch applications on your Mac, which should prove very useful since most Mac apps can’t be launched by custom shortcuts. Let’ get started. First, open Automator and choose to create a new document. From the available options (where you can choose a Workflow, Application and such), select Service. Once you do, you will be shown the Actions library....
SkyDrive as the default cloud service , Microsoft has a decent desktop and modern app using which you can manage your files online. But as I prefer Dropbox over SkyDrive because of the enhanced 2-step security , I was looking for an app to help me with out with it. After searching Microsoft Windows 8 store I came to know that there is no official Dropbox app (for the time being) to manage files using the modern UI....
