We will help you remove the confusion and make it a bit easy to pick the correct cable. But first, you need to know the difference between Thunderbolt and USB-C. Let’s get started. What Is Thunderbolt Intel’s Thunderbolt first made its debut in 2011. There have been quite a few iterations till now and Thunderbolt 3 is the latest version. Though the Thunderbolt 3 made a debut in 2015, it arrived at the peak of USB-C creating a rage in the electronics world....

We, here in Guiding Tech, thought to remove the confusion and make it a bit easy for you. Here, we have compiled a list of some of the best USB 3.2 Gen 2 (previously, USB 3.1 Gen 2) cables that you can buy. What Is USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C So, what is USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C standard? The madness started in 2017 when the forum announced changes to the way manufacturers marketed these cables....

Wizmouse is a nifty little application that lets you scroll on any application window without focusing on it. It will come in handy when you are on a window having multiple scroll bars. Download and install the 570 KB tool on your computer. It will ask you to configure the settings first. Check the boxes you want to activate. This program stays hidden in the system tray. You can enable or disable the program by right clicking on it and selecting “Enabled” option....

Fortunately, the Indian market has also seen a quite a handful of good budget dual camera options. Notable among them are Xiaomi’s Mi A1 – the flagship model from Xiaomi, Honor 9i – the first phone in India with four cameras (dual cameras at both the front and the back), Lenovo K8 Note, and the newly launched InFocus Turbo 5 Plus. All these phones are in the sub-Rs 18,000 range and pack admirable camera specs along with decent hardware specs....

There are some apps that ask for unnecessary permissions, yet we can’t help but use them anyway. Take Facebook and its Messenger app for example. Both of them track location all the time while you are using the app and also in the background. Same goes with Google services and many other apps. Now I am not sure what they do with this data, but I’m not really comfortable sharing this information....

Taking Engagement Further The need for the new ‘Community’ platform is a logical evolution of what YouTube intends to do. Where YouTube creators could only reply to comments on their videos earlier, now they can do a lot more. How much more? In their own words, this is how YouTube describes it – So, rather than asking their fans to follow them on Twitter or like their Facebook pages, creators can have a single place to interact....

To be honest, I don’t like the idea of pressing the Back and Home button to navigate in between apps while working on an Android device. In the past, we have talked about an app called GMD Gesture Control for Android using which one can get iOS like gestures in tablets. But the app only worked on a rooted device and creating personalized gestures was a bit challenging for a normal user....

In the past, we had shared some extensions for secure browsing on Chrome. But, here in this guide, I’d like to go a little broader. I’d like to explain to you the basics of security in browsers (no matter what web browser you use) and also add some cool tips that will give you complete safe browsing experience. This guide is simplified for the Average Joe. The Security Basics What is HTTPS?...

So, when it comes to securing your files or apps, a built-in app locker or secure folder is always safer than third-party apps. The good news is that your OnePlus 5 also comes bundled with a couple of smart tricks that lets you hide and lock your files and apps without having to rely on third-party apps. So, without further ado, let’s get started. 1. Secure Box Setting Up Secure Box The Secure Box is a fairly new feature for the OnePlus devices and made its debut in the OxygenOS version 4....

Apps such as DuckTales, Office Suite Pro 8, Star Wars Rebels: Recon Missions and many more are offered for free while in-app purchases in free apps like Jetpack Joyride or Angry Birds has been made free. Click here if you’re accessing via your desktop, and enter your email address in order to receive the app download link via email. A link will be sent to your email. Log into your email account using your smartphone and click on the emailed link....

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....

Getting Started To get started, don’t go looking around for any new app on your phone. The Live Broadcast feature is built right into the camera app itself, but the stock camera app that comes with the Note5 or the S6 edge+. So, if you’ve installed any new ones, hunt for the original one and open it up. Once you do that, hit the Mode button where you get to see the various options....

Using your iPad and want to make a call but don’t want to reach over to the iPhone that’s charging on the other end of the room? Just call using the iPad. It’s easy. How does it all work? What do you need to make it happen? Let’s find out below. How To Enable The Calling Feature Handoff is the feature that allows iOS to “hand off” a task to a compatible device over the air....

Furthermore, if I wanted to monitor some additional information, I could use tools like Kiwi and Process Explorer. All these information can be very useful at times when you want to have a look at how the installed applications are using your computer resources. Wouldn’t it be great if you could quickly monitor the app activities on your Android phone too? Today, a high-end Android smartphone is as good as an entry level laptop, and thus it’s always advisable to know how the installed apps are using your device’s resources and if at all they are being misused....

Many developers don’t make full use of the Notification API for Android. They’re not giving you full control of how the notification should look in the notification drawer. For your information below are the notifications types. Bundle: Collection of multiple notifications into one single notification. (Like we have in Gmail.)Head-Up Notification: You know that. (eg. WhatsApp)Multi-Line Text: Notification with a large chunk of text or data in it.Elastic List: Minimized version of Multi-line text but can be stretched to get the full view of it....

Use SoundHound to Play Playlists Since Spotify ended their lyrics partnership with Musixmatch, they’ve been working to help third party apps detect when it is playing so they can display lyrics for users who still want it. One such direct partnership is with SoundHound, a Shazam-like music detector that also displays Spotify song lyrics. But there’s an interesting edge case here. If you have Spotify premium, SoundHound can play your playlists without affecting the Spotify app, so that you can have two devices playing at once....

Share a Printer with a Mac or PC If you already have a printer for your Mac or PC, you can connect your Google account to that printer. First you’ll need to install Chrome on a computer that already prints to that printer. Don’t worry, Chrome doesn’t need to be running to share the printer with your Chromebook. After you install Chrome, log into your Google account. Usually it’s just Gmail, but if you have a domain administered by Google, log into that email....

Though it would take only a couple of minutes, I found this exercise quite annoying. After all, we are living in 2018 – the age of automation. Since choosing the preferred Wi-Fi network is not a built-in Android feature, I started scouring the Internet for effective ways to automate this task. As luck would have it, I landed on just the right solution, thanks to the array of Wi-Fi apps on Google Play Store....

Here is a cool tip on multiple ways of copying a cell value to the rows beneath it or filling the rows with a number series. Method 1 Select a cell or a number occupied cell that you would like to copy to or fill the series with, in the cells below it. Hover towards the bottom right corner of the cell till your mouse pointer turns into a cross symbol....

And this applies to everything you upload to the internet. Images, videos, PDFs, Mp3s, any form of digital media. We’ve already told you about RIOT, the image optimizer, but today we’ll talk about an app that promises to optimize all kinds of digital files for you using the best standards out there. FileOptimizer FileOptimizer (Windows only) uses publicly available and often awesome engines to aid file optimization. The installation is also pretty swift....