This feature allows users to turn off distractions like social media updates or email notifications for a period of time, so you can get things done without interruption. Google’s Digital Wellbeing offers a great set of tools to curb phone addiction. With the Focus mode add-on, you’ll be able to define the apps that usually cause a distraction, and enabling Focus mode effectively pauses them for the entire duration the mode is active....

Despite looking complicated from the outside, your iCloud storage comprises of four main categories of data—iPhone backups, iCloud Photos, iCloud Drive, and general app data. Let’s dive in and check them out in detail. iPhone Backups By default, your iPhone is configured to back up data to iCloud so that you can easily restore your device in the event of data loss. That happens when you charge your iPhone, although you can also initiate backups manually....

You may have heard people praising the hassle-free iPhone setup from scratch. iPhone’s native backup feature plays a major role in it. In this post, we will cover everything about iPhone backup. How to perform a full backup, selective backup, customize default settings, which app usually takes more space, how to backup using PC or Mac, and more. Let’s get started. What Are the Default Settings For iPhone Backup By default, Apple uses its iCloud platform to backup iPhone data....

Microsoft has introduced a raft of interesting changes and features in Windows 10 this year, the most recent ones coming to Version 1903 or the May 2019 update. One of the new items is Tamper Protection, a security feature that’s enabled by default on all Windows 10 devices. We’re going to explain what this new feature does, how it works, and how you can enable it on your computer if it’s not activated already....

For the immense love that we have for this sport and its players, we have compiled some of the best wallpapers of the players of the 2018 World Cup. 1. The Mighties Did you know that Antonio Carbajal (Mexico) and Lothar Matthaeus (Germany) hold the record for most World Cup appearances? Download the wallpaper in full quality 2. Cristiano Ronaldo: Superhuman This image is a flawless interpretation of the talent of the Portuguese footballer....

Though the escalator is largest for sightseeing purposes, the largest escalator overall is in Hong Kong, measuring a staggering 800 meters. The purpose for that is, however, purely commercial. What’s it About? The escalator was made with one basic objective: promote tourism. Located in the Enshi Grand Canyon in Hubei province, the location of this wonder is perfect. The Enshi Grand Canyon is a tourist hub, with several thousand visiting the site every month....

Launch Day Impressions We were present at the event when Xiaomi’s Hugo Barra made a stunning entry in what looked like a hoverboard. An hour into the presentation came the price reveal, and it was quite a shocker. All those features for less than Rs. 10,000 for the 16GB model? Sounded too good to be true. But when we got a chance to play with the device in the demo area, we weren’t disappointed....

The problem with having photos and videos stored on your phone is that the gallery is easily accessible to the prying eyes of friends and family who’ve just asked you for your phone to play around with it and check its features. And usually, your phone is the device that is most likely to contain your most crazy photos which were clicked without any thought when you were in a completely different state of mind (you getting the picture, right?...

So if you own an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad with the latest iOS 7, here’s how you can jailbreak it using this tool. What You Need to Know If you never had a jailbroken iOS device, know that performing this process always poses a potential risk of rendering your device unusable. The risk is almost non-existent of course, but it is there, so proceed at your own risk. Once the jailbreak if done though, your device will be able to access the Cydia Store, which is somewhat like the App Store, only that it provides a wide selection of apps, tools and tweaks not authorized by Apple....

Another such design is explaining an image through text. Not only can you choose what text to use for the picture, you can select where the text should reside, how big or small it should appear, and what color the overall design should consist of. The instructions below provide exactly how this is done. The steps are very precise and need to be followed perfectly to achieve the desired effect....

I still remember when Windows Vista was out, how people used to write tricks to get XP like Classic Start Menu but now everyone praises it when it got even better in Windows 7. I agree that Windows 8 Start Screen may look a little complicated at first, but the full screen coupled with an amazing search feature kind of makes it the best. It’s not that we didn’t have the search feature in Windows 7 Start Menu, but now when you compare it to Windows 8 Start Screen, it looks a tad slow and bounded....

The tweak bypasses the login screen at startup that has previously been an unavoidable part of Windows. If you are only using your computer for personal use in your home, there is really no need for password protection, and it only serves as yet another stop on the long road to your desktop. Keep on reading to see how to remove that pesky login screen with just 3 quick steps....

These are OS specific shortcuts. If you want to learn about app specific shortcuts for Safari, Chrome, Evernote Mail etc, check out our dedicated guide to the most useful keyboard shortcuts for popular services. Just Switched to a Mac? Get our eBook – The Ultimate Guide to OS X Yosemite for a Mac Beginner. It is the perfect eBook for people who want to get a hang of a Mac and how to get the most out of it....

If you carry around a lot of Office documents or presentations that you then have to showcase to your colleagues, or if you just want to throw up a slideshow of photos or a home video on the big screen, you can do that by using Microsoft’s Project My Screen app. What Is Project My Screen Project My Screen is a companion app for Windows 8 PCs that allows you to project/mirror what’s displayed on your Windows Phone 8....

There are a few apps available which help you to back up data while switching phones. But the ones that are free requires a lot of manual work and the others that are hassle free always comes with a price tag. You might already be aware that Apple released an app called Move to iOS for anyone planning to switch from Android to iOS. The app focuses on transferring data from user’s Android device to a new iPhone running on iOS 9....

Though most loved Google Plus, many still favor good ol’ Facebook and Twitter over the former. If you have already moved to Google Plus but don’t want your friends on Twitter and Facebook to be left out of your updates then SGPlus for Chrome can help you. What is SGPlus SGPlus is a nifty Chrome extension to merge all your daily dose of social networking at one place. It brings the control to update your Facebook and Twitter timeline right through Google Plus thus saving you from the trouble of updating each one individually....

The tools we will be exploring today illustrate how to make the process of browsing the world wide web friendly for children. This involves both keeping them safe as well as making the process easier for them especially in the case of younger kids. Zoodles Kid Zone Zoodles Kid Zone offers both a fun and educational experience to children while still remaining safe. Parental controls are available and the content provided is carefully selected by the Zoodles team....

While adding the speaker icon, the developers covertly injected a feature that can turn the icon into a mute button. However, the feature is still experimental and therefore needs to be upgraded from Chrome’s Flags page. It’s ‘experimental’ though, meaning it might not work and could possibly break your Chrome. So proceed at your own risk. We are quite the risktakers here at Guiding Tech so let’s see how to quickly mute tabs in Google Chrome....

Even if you are not a Sci-Fi fan, there must be a time when you have more than one song as a personal favorite and would like it to be your ringtone. So it’s either the red pill or the blue and the decision can be tough. But what if I told you that you take both the pills? And yes, pill means the ringtone you set up on your Android....

Yes, there are ways to disable these dreaded Blue ticks, but that’s essentially a barter system — if you can’t let others see, you can’t see the Blue ticks either. But we are talking Android here and more often than not, it has its nifty share of apps which comes packed with smart workarounds. And just a heads up guys, it’s not the same old trick of disabling the data connection or going offline....