We Got Practical Solutions to Common Problems It’s not like NASA’s Space program is confined to only Houston, Texas and the International Space Station (ISS). There is plenty of R&D work going around various centers of NASA and we’ve seen loads of practical solutions being part of our daily lives because of the research efforts being done for NASA. Even though some of these are more myth than true, there certainly are some spin-offs that were because of the direct consequences of NASA’s experiments....

Today we plan to discuss a cool trick to help us give an image a complete round shape easily using Paint and Word. It may not seem like an exact crop activity, but the result is good enough. And then you may save the resulting creation as an independent image or place it over some background. Here’s how to do that. Steps to Crop a Round Shape Using Word and MS Paint We are going to take help of MS Word here....

Symptoms of a Hard Disk Problem The worst noise you’ll hear from a mechanical hard disk is a clicking or grinding noise. That means the drive is failing. At that point, the drive isn’t repairable. It’s time to back up your data and then replace the drive. You already have a backup though, right? Not all drives exhibit symptoms in this way. Sometimes you’ll get the prohibitory no symbol at startup or a flashing folder with a question mark....

Word automatically replaces two hyphens with an em dash, but if you use Google Docs for word-processing instead, you won’t get that functionality by default. Fortunately, there’s a keyboard shortcut that you can use to get the em dash. And, Google Docs also lets you substitute characters — such as consecutive hyphens — with the em dash provided that you tweak some settings. Without any further ado, let’s see how we can do that....

Note: Please make sure you have completed all the steps of part 1 of the guide before continuing. Transferring the ROM to the Phone’s SD Card In the first part we asked you to download and transfer the zip file of the ROM you would like to install to the SD card. If you did that, wonderful. For those of you who missed the step, reboot your phone in the bootloader mode (refer to part 1 of the guide to see how it’s done) after downloading the ROM and select the option Recovery to load the ClockworkMod recovery....

However, if you’re collaborating with your team members, it’s important that you know how to streamline the experience. After all, you wouldn’t want your colleagues working and reworking on the same block endlessly. Thankfully, Zoho Docs (writer) comes with a nifty option which lets you lock a certain part of the document while collaborating with others. Hence, in this post today, we will explore how to lock Zoho Writer during collaboration and other advanced features....

I shall guide you through the entire process on different platforms and steps on how to use it. Also, you can use it in some use cases. Let’s begin. Pop-Out Chat Window in Teams Desktop App That will work on desktop apps for Windows and macOS. Sorry, Linux users. The interface is largely consistent across the platforms. Launch the Teams app, initiate a chat with any team member like you always do, and there are a few ways to pop-out a chat window....

There are some tools like Connectify and Virtual Router that claim to provide a solution to the above problem but to me they created additional problems rather than solving the one I have. Soon after I installed Connectify, I started having random crashes with the infamous Blue Screen Of Death. Luckily I came across a web service called Virtual Access Point (found on Raymond’s blog) that offers an easy solution using the built-in Virtual Wi-Fi technology in Windows 7....

The Windows Registry Editor opens your world to a range of tweaks and customizations. Using it, you can modify the existing settings of apps and built-in settings. And as you may have expected, the Registry Editor also lets you play with the Taskbar’s settings and aesthetics. However, there’s a slight catch. The Registry Editor lets you resize the Taskbar and not the icons directly. When you decrease the size of the Taskbar, the size of the icons will also change....

The real-time collaborative feature is a boon, but it could also be a bane if team members start ‘trespassing’ on data cells and sheets all at the same time. For instance, there can be complex formulas that shouldn’t be touched by everyone. It could lead to data-chaos. Google Docs recently solved this problem by introducing restrictions on editing cells (and also another layer of protection where you can also protect entire sheets)....

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....

Here we shall tell you how to save single and multiple photos from the Files app to the Photos app on the iPhone and iPad. All the photos and videos taken from the iPhone’s or iPad’s Camera app will appear in the Photos app by default. Some photos and videos from third-party apps will appear too. In case they don’t, this post shall help you. There are multiple ways to achieve that, depending on the number of files and the file’s location....

I love to watch movies on my laptop at night with a tub of popcorn. And a major issue I face while watching a movie is the volume. As I prefer to watch these movies late at night, I have to be sure that I am not disturbing anyone with the loud volume. However, these movies never maintain the volume. The volume goes all soft when two people are talking but in scenes involving violence, the same volume can wake up everyone nearby....

During group video calls, the admin might want to showcase the current screen, file, present PowerPoint slide, etc. using screen sharing. It makes the whole conversation hassle-free. You can also share the iPhone and iPad screen directly to Zoom video calls. The feature can be useful when you want to showcase something on iPhone or iPad screen to Zoom participants. I wanted to show my dad some of the options to change on his iPhone to fix the issue....

One can always use the internet as a mode of transfer using apps like WhatsApp or Bump, but why waste bandwidth, no? And what about videos that usually have gigantic file sizes? So today I am going to talk about an alternative using which you can share photos and videos between these devices over Wi-Fi, even without an access point to connect to nearby. Sharing Photos or Videos Using PhotoSync First, we will see how we can transfer photos from one device to another when both of them are connected to the same Wi-Fi connection....

We don’t mean for you to spy at your kids or elder ones all the time. Instead, you can track your family member’s location without intimating them, add geofencing, and do more with your iPhone. 1. Use Apple Find My App Before you go ahead and use the Find My service from Apple, you must set up Family Sharing from the Settings menu. Step 1: Open the iPhone Settings app....

Don’t get it wrong here; it’s not a screenshot of a Google Maps. After you are done using this tool, you will find that it is stylized enough for you to qualify it with a ‘wow’. Map -> Image is a free web tool coded by Stamen Design, a design studio in San Francisco. And that’s the default place you spot when you land here. But you can very well fly to other places around the globe by plugging in a city or a town name (or a ZIP code for U....

People around the world are adjusting to the new work from home style of setup. The practice has let to a surge in video calls and webinars. Most companies have switched to video conferencing apps like Zoom, Skype, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, etc., to create digital meetings. What about those who do not have good quality webcam on their computer? Thankfully, there are webcam apps that allow you to use your iPhone or Android phone as a webcam on Windows and macOS....

The previous DND mode was unintuitive in certain ways. The limited customization options weren’t exactly useful. The Focus Mode carries the standard Do Not Disturb mode as well as other Focus profiles to use as the situation demands. What Is Focus Mode on iPhone Focus mode is an improved version of the old Do Not Disturb (DND) mode. The Focus mode carries multiple Focus profiles such as Do Not Disturb, Work, Home, and more to let you customize the notification and calls behavior on the iPhone....

When it comes to taking notes, Microsoft’s OneNote offers just about everything you’d need. On the platform, you can take notes quickly, move them around in any order, and even categorize them into multiple notebooks. If you have a touch supported device, you can even take handwritten notes on the platform. But the best part about jotting down notes on OneNote is that it allows you to convert your handwriting into text in just a matter of seconds....