Yes, these wallpapers were made using cutouts, acrylics and a lot more – with the process taking around two days to complete. Thus, whether it’s the wallpapers or the layout of your home screen, a lot of effort goes into planning the correct picture and the right layout. So, when a phone like Google Pixel 2 comes up with a whole new home screen design and a promise to boost productivity levels (in search), it’s all but natural that you’d want to emulate this look on your Android....

You can now add new features to your Google Docs and Sheets and, since we’re talking about third-party add-ons, I’m sure developers will seize the opportunity and provide users with some great functionality. It’s quite easy to use this new feature. Here’s how you can get started with it. Gettting Started With Google Docs and Sheets Add-ons Step 1: Open a document in Google Docs or Sheets and, in the top menu, click Add-ons....

Microsoft however decided that this feature wasn’t worth the transition to Windows 8. Today I will show you how you can get back Windows 7 gadgets in Windows 8. We cannot get back the official Windows 7 gadgets, but we will be installing a third-party tool on Windows 8 to get similar desktop gadgets. 8GadgetPack is a software that brings back the Windows 7 desktop gadgets to Windows 8. If you are going to use the desktop mode in Windows 8 more frequently than the Modern UI, you should definitely try out 8GadgetPack....

Here are the quick steps: Step 1. Choose Page Layout tab on the Ribbon. Go to Page Color -> Fill Effects. Step 2. In the Fill Effects box, click on the Texture tab. Step 3. Click through the texture swatches on display (the names appear just below) and then select the swatch for Parchment. Step 4. Click OK. Word applies the parchment texture to the background. Alternatively, you can also experiment with the other ‘paper’ textures like Papyrus, Paper Bag, Newsprint, Recycled Paper, Stationery, Blue Tissue Paper, and Pink Tissue Paper....

Inserting a checkbox into a Microsoft Excel file is quite simple. However, this requires the Developer tab on your Excel Ribbon. The Developer tab is available on all versions of Excel (2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Office 365). Here’s how to access it to include checkboxes in Excel. How to Customize the Excel Ribbon to Show the Developer Tab The Developer tab provides access to more advanced functions and features of Excel....

Spotify country restriction and started using it, but there were many restrictions imposed on a free account. Spotify can really nudge you or even irritate in some cases to buy the premium service. To be frank, I really wished to buy the premium service, but then my credit card was of an Indian bank. End of story! For these reasons, I switched back to Google Music. However, I was already hooked to Spotify and one of its features I missed the most in Google Music was integration of Last....

The only way to get ringtones for your iPhone is to buy them from iTunes, which, unfortunately, is the only seamless way to get them installed. Moreover, if you want to create a custom ringtone, you’d have to dip your toe in the muddy waters of file conversions. Plus, not to forget the fact that you’d have to manually sync them through iTunes. Inconvenient, right? Well, all is not lost yet....

past entries , we have shown you a few interesting options for managing your tasks on your iPhone or other iOS device. However, the Mac has its own application to do that, called Reminders which, depending on your usage, can be a tremendously capable application. So if you use Reminders on your Mac regularly, read along to learn a few useful tips about it that will definitely make it even more useful for you....

So, I’ll show you today something similar to split-screen window feature. You can actually open multiple windows and multitask with your current Android phone. So, let’s see how you can do it. Opening Apps in Multiple Windows Android N lets you open two apps in split-view. Meaning in two unique windows. But, the app that I’m going to show you today can let you open apps in multiple views (Windows)....

Indeed, iOS gives an option to create Albums manually, but that only helps when you have no more than a handful of photos. What I was looking for was an app that could easily provide me with clutter-free albums and help me cherish the good times I have with my family and friends. Tidy Photo Album for iOS Tidy is an amazing app for iOS that’s built for the task....

Many people aren’t aware of this, but it is possible to password-protect individual documents and larger groups of files on your Mac (as well as on other platforms.) Individual documents can be password-protected using a hidden feature in Pages, while a bunch of files can live in a password-protected drive stored right on your Mac. That’s right, these features are available without any software or purchases. Protect Individual Documents with Pages If you don’t care to password-protect large groups of files or anything outside of standard documents, you can use Apple’s Pages app to get the job done for individual files....

While the new Groups has its own advantages, many of you might not want to automatically join Groups which your friends invite you to, and also you might not want those group chats and notifications popping up all the time. So today, we’ll tell you how you could quickly leave multiple Facebook Groups without getting stuck in Facebook’s maze of user controls. Here are the steps. On the left sidebar of your Facebook profile homepage you’ll find an option that says Groups....

Using iTunes you can manage your terabytes’ of music and sync them to your portable players in the blink of an eye. If you are like most of us you must be having redundant music files in your iTunes library. Surely today’s computers come with practically endless disk space and having few duplicate tracks doesn’t make a difference but it counts when the music is on, lets say, a portable USB thumb drive which has limited space....

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....

Opera Max is a new app from the Opera team that wants to help you out. The app acts as a VPN, compressing the data you receive on the way. This is especially useful when you’re watching a YouTube video or streaming a TV show. The app claims it can cut your data consumption by half. Let’s test that claim. How to Use Opera Max Once it’s set up, there’s not much for you to do....

If you use Chrome on your iPhone or Android smartphone, then it’s more than possible to save any web page that you come across in the PDF format. But rather than sharing links to any third-party apps or services and converting web pages to PDFs that way, what I will show you only require the use of native functionality on both platforms. Convert Web Pages to PDF — Chrome for iOS On the iPhone and iPad, Chrome can appear too simplistic....

Evernote organization works in two fundamental ways. You have a single notebook where you store stuff. Or you have a stack of notebooks (sometimes referred to as nested notebooks). You can think of them as files and folders but with notes. You should do your best to organize and save content in relevant files and folders, especially make use of the Tags feature. But the best way to extract information from Evernote is the search bar....

Encryption is not software that you can break in few seconds or minutes. It can take hours or even days. So, the best way to keep a message safe is to send it in encrypted form and let it self-destruct after 1 viewing or after few hours/days if the recipient doesn’t view it. Well, that’s what I’m going to show today. Let’s see how you can do it. Want a safer web browsing experience?...

Nevertheless, with a wide variety of shows available even on mobile devices, how will you make sure that your underage kids stay away from the rated content? Well, Prime Video has some clever parental controls baked into its services to prevent kids from watching something that only the adults enjoy watching. 1. Set Up a PIN for Your Account The first step involves setting up a PIN for your account....

Let’s say you have a potluck tradition in the family, and you created the upcoming get-to-gather for two months. And now the Google Calendar is ready for sharing with family members. We will show you how to generate a shareable link on Google Calendar and integrate it with your existing calendar using Google Calendar web. Let’s get started. Add Calendar in Google Calendar First, we will show you how to create a new calendar in Google Calendar....