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In such scenario, desktop notifiers present themselves as a more reliable and expedient solution. They promise to keep you updated on new mails and remind about latest events through pop-up bubbles. Staying with that, let us see how we can enable desktop notifications for Gmail and Google Calendar. The best way would be to use Chrome’s built-in notification package. And you would need to do three things in order to configure the setup....

Snapseed can also apply the disintegration or dispersion effect which is usually limited to Adobe Photoshop and other desktop tools. If you know your way around image editing tools, you must know that this effect can easily be created with apps like PicsArt. While the shortcut may look tempting at times, let me tell you that creating something from scratch has rewarding results. Since there aren’t any readily-available filters and effects for the dispersion effect, we’ve found out a couple of tools to achieve that....

Whatever your reasons for not accepting the digital platform may have been, the Government (with blessings from the Reserve Bank of India) has taken a bold step to push its citizens to stop relying solely on cash. For petty reasons like paying for local grocery and local transportation in autos/cabs, cash till a limit is still good. But, certainly not for bigger expenses. Just like most people, even I was skeptical about using the internet to pay for things....

However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that you need the entire world to start ogling at your work. Perhaps, you only want people who actually know about you to check in. Or maybe you like your blog being kept entirely private. But can you do that? Yes, you can! Tumblr features an array of visibility options that you can use to impose some serious privacy measures on any blog of your choosing....

This made me think and hence this post. Here, we will tell you how to hide things such as dock, app, quickdrawer, and status bar in Action Launcher. How To Disable Dock Surprisingly, disabling the dock in Action Launcher is not an intuitive feature. If you are coming from Nova Launcher or any other launcher for that matter, you would look for a toggle to disable it, but that’s not how it works here....

Firefox’s rock-solid performance, huge extensions library, and wide cross-platform availability make it the perfect Chrome alternative. It’s also great at preserving user privacy. If you’ve used Chrome for a while, you must have accumulated a sizable chunk of browsing data. And to switch to Firefox without missing a beat, you must import your Chrome bookmarks and passwords. How do you do that? On the desktop, there are multiple approaches that you can take to get your Chrome browsing data imported into Firefox....

Thanks to hard working developers, they just recently came up with a version of Xposed that works on Android. But the installation is tricky. I am sure you all must be excited to finally get Xposed on your Lollipop ROMs. So let’s check it out. Read These Points Carefully Before You Continue Currently the Xposed framework only works on devices running on ARM 7 and above. If you are not sure about your device, you can install a simple app called Info to get the architect information of your device from there....

WhatsApp’s Block option is a nift privacy feature that doesn’t notify users when they get blocked. But once you are blocked on the IM app, there are some smarter ways to learn whether your acquaintance, potential customer, or date has blocked you. Here’s how to start. 1. Check Last Seen and Online Status This is the first thing you can check to see if someone on WhatsApp has blocked you....

That is, you can create a video from still pictures by adding music and effects. You may be wondering what gigantic tool you would need to download to create such a video. Well, get ready to be surprised for you don’t have to install anything. The app that lets you create this is pre-installed on your Windows 10 computer. We are talking about the Photos app. Yes, the app comes with an amazing video editor that will help you in making a video slideshow with pictures....

Let’s at least be thankful that Google is letting you know why the apps won’t work. Now, everything would have been fine if one could update Google Play Services easily. But that’s not the case. If you search for Google Play Services in the Play Store, you won’t find it. Well, then, how does one update it? Don’t worry. It’s not rocket science. Here you will find four ways to update Google Play Service manually on your Android phone....

make it non-scrollable . That way the header row would always be visible irrespective of how deep you scroll. With soft copies that works absolutely fine. But, when you wish to print the document or convert it to PDF, for example, the header row prints only once. Whereas with data on multiple pages you would want the first row or column to appear at the top row of each page, right?...

RoundPic is a free online service that gives the edges of your photos a makeover by rounding them off. It works very simply: Browse to a photo on your hard drive and upload to the service. Alternatively paste in the URL of a photo that’s already online. Then click Round it! and wait a few seconds. RoundPic takes you to a screen where you can give your image a few more finishing touches like picking the corner(s) should be rounded, the type of rounding (on a scale from 1-12), the background color), and the dimensions and file-size of the newly rounded photo....

Of the many PDF or Kindle converters, Kindle/PDF (K2PdfOpt) is one. It stands out for intelligent cropping and its batch processing features. K2PdfOpt just doesn’t do a simple conversion; it maximizes the reading area of a PDF file and makes readability better on the 6-inch Kindle screens. It converts the PDF file to a bitmap and then automatically maximizes the viewing area by cutting, cropping, and reassembling the viewable areas....

However one very basic thing that was missing was the ability to access Android clipboard memory on computer and vice versa. But not anymore! Thanks to amazing application ClipSync now available on Android Play Store, a user can now keep the clipboards at both the locations in sync over Wi-Fi and ease up many small tasks which usually required lots of typing. Using Clip Sync to Sync Clipboard Step 1: As the tool is based on client-server architecture, you will have to install the client on your Android device and the server on your Windows computer....

But do we really have them categorized to the last byte? Well, I get my videos from different sources and to be frank, don’t care to sort them out of sheer laziness. I don’t even remember as to which folders I have dumped them to. When it comes to search, we all know that no one can do it better than Google. But that’s only limited to the online searches....

Now, when I started looking, I stumbled upon a free and open source software called the Open Broadcaster that is basically a tool for live streaming. But can also be used to record screencast and videos, webcam and external source without any issues. The tool is indeed promising, so let me show you how you can use it to create screencasts on your Windows PC. Recording Screencast using Open Broadcaster To get started, download and install the Open Broadcaster on your computer and launch it....

One of the best ways to keep your Instagram account safe is to ensure that you are the only one with authorized access to the device(s) you use it from. But what if you have forgot to log out from someone’s computer that you may have used? Or perhaps, you didn’t log out of your account on your previous device before selling it off? You can never be sure the buyer won’t (try to) access your account behind your back....

Use Firefox for some time, and you’d be surprised at the amount of clutter that builds up within the New Tab page. Even with Pocket recommendations turned off, you still have Top Sites and Highlights occupying the entire screen! What They Do Both the Top Sites and Highlights sections on the New Tab page function very similarly. The former displays whatever sites that you visit frequently, while the latter shows a mix of both recently visited and bookmarked sites....

That aside, the Frequently Visited section can also act as a significant distraction. Often, you will likely end up getting sidetracked instead of doing what you originally intended. Thankfully, it’s simple to remove whatever appears in that section, and you can also eliminate the functionality entirely. Delete Entries Any site that shows up within the Frequently Visited section is removable quite easily. To do that, just press and hold the icon for a couple of seconds, and then lift your finger....

The good news is that it is possible to resize the Windows 10 taskbar to your liking. In this article, we’ll learn how to make the Windows 10 taskbar smaller or larger in a few different ways. Let’s begin. How to Make the Taskbar Larger If your work requires you to constantly use the taskbar for accessing the Start menu, switching apps or using the Action Center, here are a couple of ways through which you can make the taskbar bigger and easily accessible....