Previously we have discussed how you can quickly create a movie from your photos using the Movie Maker tool and today I will tell you another out of the box idea that you can use the movie maker for: using it as a video cutter. So lets see how you can use the Movie Maker as a video cutter to cut out a segment from any video. You know that movie scene you always want to play repeatedly or that part of the speech in a talk....
In such situations, a file transfer app is an ideal solution if you have both the phones nearby. With over one hundred million downloads, Xiaomi’s ShareMe app (previously known as Mi Drop) is one of the popular file transfer apps on the Play Store. This app uses Wi-Fi Direct to share files among phones, and the good thing is that the feature even extends to laptops and computers. Download ShareMe Furthermore, this cool app isn’t limited to just Xiaomi phones....
Fortunately, there’s a super simple way to keep using some of Google Drive even if your Internet connection has dropped. Google offers a setting and web app that allow viewing and using some of your Drive files offline. Before we look at how this is done, consider a few things Google has told us about offline access: Offline access is available in Chrome and on Chrome OS devices only.Offline access is available only for Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations....
Take Google Drive and Dropbox for example. I have been using both for a while now, but recently decided to leave Dropbox for Google Drive. In fact, I am moving everything to Google, beginning with cloud storage, and will be covering my journey here. Why Google you may ask? I want to use as few apps as possible and consolidate everything under a single roof. Basically, I am going for fewer apps, extensions, and features to achieve consistency, uniformity, and integration across platforms....
Splitting PDF Files To split the PDF file, select it, add the range (in how many parts you want to split the file and the number of pages you want to include in each of them) and hit the Split PDF button. That’s it. The application uploads files on its server and starts working on it. After sometime it displays a download button for you to download the parts of the file....
Common Features of Stick Computers Stick computers are designed to be an extra computer for most people. They have mobile device processors like phones rather than laptop or desktop processors. They plug directly into an HDMI port on the back of a TV or monitor. These computers usually have a few USB ports along with Bluetooth and micro-SD card slot. For networking, they’ll have built-in wireless but no Ethernet port. Most of them look like a large USB flash drive, but contain a full computer with an operating system....
So today I am going to review a promising app for Android called Hangar – Smart app shortcuts, which pins app shortcuts to the Notification Drawer. As the notification drawer can be accessed from any app or even the lock screen, you can launch your favorite apps from anywhere. So let’s see how the app works and the amazing things it can do. Hanger for Android After you install and launch the app, it will auto activate and you will see shortcuts to 8 of the top used apps on your device....
Earbits is one such cool, free web based radio that can help you find all kinds of music around the world. Lets check it out. Introducing Earbits Earbits is an Internet radio that lets you listen to songs from the genre that suits your taste. It mainly exposes you to new budding artists, artists about whom you may not have ever heard before. Also you can have a good time if you are tired of the same old songs on your PC and want to listen to some new beats....
We already have many apps available for Android to automate tasks on both system and internet level. IFTTT automates the online tasks for you while Tasker for Android (Automagic is a great alternative) takes care of system level jobs. The latter is a very powerful automation tool, if only one figures out the way to use it skillfully. I myself am not a big fan of Tasker because of the complexity involved in configuring it....
Airmail which is an excellent alternative email client for the Mac, and we have also shared here different tips to make the native Apple Mail app work better for you. Those are conventional email applications though, something that is starting to change with the arrival of Mail Pilot, a new mail app that is due to launch soon but with a full beta version available for free to anyone who owns a Mac....
Sure, the new spotlight can do math, convert units, or look for movies playing nearby but it can’t do advanced stuff like shutdown your Mac, search within sites or answer questions like Siri. If you’ve used Spotlight Search in Yosemite, you might be left longing for more. After all, there’s so much potential for that preview area. Thankfully, one developer decided to explore this area and came up with plugins to expand the Spotlight functionality that allows it to do all the things stated above and more....
Hence, it only makes sense to compare both the services and figure which one is more suited for your needs. So we will be pitting both against each other to compare their features and their upgrades. We will start with the common features and then will move on to the uncommon ones. Let the war between Microsoft Forms and Google Forms begin. Visit Microsoft Forms Visit Google Forms Common Features The primary functions of Google Forms and Microsoft are more or less the same and we’ll take a quick look at them....
Your images are available on all devices usually within seconds of them being shot. But surely, there must be some difference, right? Yeah, you nailed it, and they are pretty huge too. So before you go ahead and enable — or disable — any one of them, you definitely need to understand how exactly My Photo Stream and iCloud Photo Library work. What They Actually Do If you use multiple iOS devices, frequent the Photos app on your Mac, or have iCloud installed on Windows, then there’s no reason why you wouldn’t want instant access to your photos across all of your devices, right?...
SendShots (UPDATE: Looks like SendShots is no longer available. We’ve got another nice tool that does the same thing, and more – How to Create and Share Personal Video Messages With MailVU ) allows you to record a private video and send it to anyone in three simple steps. You must have a webcam to record your videos. It automatically detects the attached webcam on your computer and uses it to record the video....
We’ll start by talking about the most basic question – what does it mean when one says he should/should not root his Android? Let’s see. Rooting an Android phone… What Does it Mean? Well, rooting an Android phone simply means to gain administrative privileges (or root access if you are from a Linux background) on the system. When you buy a new Android phone, you are just a guest user on the phone....
So that brings us to an important question—can the QuietComfort Earbuds take the crown as one of the best wireless earphones with ANC. Or, does the Galaxy Buds Pro come with better overall features? Well, that’s what we will find in this post where we compare the Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro with the Bose QuietComfort Earbuds. Let’s get going, shall we? But before that, Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro vs Samsung Galaxy Buds Live: Should You UpgradeAudiophiles should check out these aptX HD headphones that you can buy...
Lately, the company has introduced a swatch of modern features to the Samsung Internet Beta browser. So the standard features like Downloads rub shoulders with modern features like Dark mode. Hence, it only makes sense to put both Chrome and Samsung Internet Beta face to face with each other and see which Android browser is best suited for your needs. App Size Let’s start with the size of both the apps....
In terms of raw performance, several games running on Windows 10 report higher frame rate than on previous versions. Today, we’re going to see one more feature of Windows 10, which, while not directly advertised for gaming, is equally useful for gamers. “Your Disk Space is Running Low” Digital storage space is becoming cheaper by the day. We’re hitting 12TB capacity per HDD (though the pricing is currently insane) and 1TB is now considered standard across PCs....
Gmail also authenticates genuine emails (for instance, if someone has sent you an email twice with images in them). You can also set an email from a trusted source to always display images by clicking on the second link in the above screenshot that says – Always display images from. If you like to control both behaviors i.e. the display or non-display of images in Gmail, dive into Gmail Settings....
Tag My Doc (Beta) is a time-saving web service that uses QR Codes to share documents. Tag My Doc has a basic free service (and a few paid plans) that enables you to share your documents in real time with anyone and everyone who is interested in it. It is a huge time-saver because it saves you from emailing people individually. The concept is simple. Tag My Doc takes your uploaded document and embeds a QR Code on your document....
