Posts

Twitter has finally updated their app, allowing users more control over who can reply to their tweets. Sometimes, you want to share something and would rather leave it without any comments or discussions following it. Well, you can do that now. No more having to check back and respond to comments when you don’t want to. Let’s see how that works on the web, Android, and iOS platforms. 1. Set Who Can Reply to Tweet on Twitter Web Step 1: Open Twitter in your favorite browser and click on What’s Happening box on Twitter to create a new tweet....

This made me realize that people need to sort all kinds of lists in alphabetical order all the time. Stocks, answer sheets, customer names, sales, and so on. This led me to research on the topic some more and sure enough, people have been asking this question for ages. Let’s see if we can answer it for you. 1. Alphabetize First up on the list is Alphabetize which is a free online tool that will help you sort any kind of list in alphabetical order....

While YouTube is trying its best to make things easy for its users, it messes up sometimes while translating the titles. And not everyone enjoys the automated translation, which is often off the mark. Some people know multiple languages, and they are okay with the original titles. So in this post, we will tell you how to stop YouTube from translating video titles. Why Is YouTube Translating Video Titles There could be many reasons for the same....

rows and columns of a data set on an Excel sheet? I am sure that all Excel users have come across such a requirement. The question is how do you go about doing it? Do you put in manual effort to reshuffle the data or is there a trick available to do that? Yes, there is one and we are going to see that today. The feature is called transpose and is available as a special paste option....

Now, with iOS 8 out for a couple of weeks, we’ve realized it was best not to get too excited about Notification Center widgets. Because Apple, as always, has a different take on the usability of widgets from the rest of us. For Apple, widgets are just for consuming information and not for inputs. Extensions are a bit better, but they could be a lot more. A Notification Center widget can’t do complicated calculations, Apple said, and quickly backtracked on the decision after Twitter rightfully exploded....

This is especially true when it comes to emulators from other consoles that require ROMs, since both the emulators and the ROMs (games) they use are packed within a Zip file. And since the emulator has already been installed, that would mean installing it all over again. In this tutorial we are going to show you a workaround to this process that will let you directly access your Vita wirelessly via FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and install games for the emulators you already have there....

The proper dark or black theme is limited to Office 365 subscribers only. On Windows, you get a lighter version of the black theme known as Dark Grey. It is available for all subscribers. The methods mentioned here let you disable the Grey theme too. Let’s dive into the steps of disabling black theme on Microsoft Office apps. Disable Dark Mode in Microsoft Office Apps on Windows There are two methods to do so....

Today, most web browsers have the ‘mini apps’ component baked in or support it independently. Google Chrome is taking that to the next level with the Progressive Web Apps. Several developers are opting for the Progressive Web Apps (PWA) that install the web-wrapper of their app (also called as Chrome apps) on your PC or desktop. The issue arises when you want to remove these apps on your device. You can’t go with the standard ways to uninstall Chrome apps on your Windows or Mac....

Here, in this post today, we present you with the steps on how to use the Facebook Profile Guard to protect your profile photos. What is the New Facebook Profile Picture Guard? This new feature helps secures your Facebook profile picture by not letting others (Read, Facebook strangers) take screenshots of it, add tags of their own or share it in any way. This new feature is currently available only in the Android app and is yet to find it’s way to the iOS users....

Nobody likes to deal with unnecessary mails and reducing stress of managing the barrage of mails is exactly what we’re gonna help you with. Since Gmail is the client of choice of a majority of people, let’s see how those nifty filters can help keep our blood pressures in check. Beginners Guide: If you’re unsure about any of these terms, make sure you check out our guide on tags, filters and labels for Gmail....

As the name suggests, text shortcuts allow you to create shortcuts for frequently used phrases such as your email ID. The feature makes even more sense on iPad as typing on a giant screen using the default virtual keyboard might not be everyone’s cup of tea. Besides, not everyone uses an expensive keyboard with an iPad. 1. Create Text Shortcuts on iPhone First, we will show you how to create text shortcuts to type quickly on iPhone and then move to iPadOS to do the same....

webcam and a microphone for easy internet video chats . However, resolution of these cameras range from 1.3 to 2 MP on an average and do not deliver a clear quality even if you are browsing on a faster connection. Most of the smartphones too have a front facing camera to directly start a video conference on mobile , but they are very blurry because of low resolution of the front camera....

But for many reasons, you might want to make the switch to Google Chrome. While it may not be as energy efficient on your Mac, it has a huge web app and extension catalog plus it’s pretty fast. If you thought that by switching to Chrome you’d have to leave your perfect iCloud harmony behind with Safari, you’re wrong. Check out these helpful tips and extensions that can bring iCloud syncing over to Google’s browser....

Though both these smartwatches look the same at first glance and the most confusing thing is that they are priced the same. Well, almost. So, does that mean both the watches have the same features? Do they have the same feature-set? That’s what we shall attempt to answer in our comparison today when we compare the Huawei Watch GT 2 with the Samsung Galaxy Active 2. As it’s going to be a long one, let’s get started....

There were mods for some of the famous games, but applying them was not an easy task. But now you can use Game Modder, a Windows tool developed by XDA developer thunder07 to easily patch your APK files. According to the developer: We will be needing the game APK file to mod it for the device. To do that, first of all download and install the game from the Play Store....

A lot has changed between then and now. Rumors that once looked absolutely ridiculous are now coming to fruition, and rumors that seemed to make sense last year don’t make sense anymore. While Apple hasn’t confirmed anything yet, and likely won’t until September, it’s worth breaking down what seems plausible and what’s a stretch for the upcoming iPhone(s) in 2017. Three New iPhones – Likely It sounded pretty odd at first, didn’t it?...

But, it’s not nearly as easy as recent reports have suggested. We can’t exactly pack up our suitcases and make home on a new planet any time soon and likely not for hundreds of years to come. We also still have much to learn about Promixa b. So, what does this mysterious new planet offer us? Proxima b is Still Extremely Far When reports indicate that Proxima b is nearby, they mean relative to the entire size of the universe....

While there are many screen sharing applications available, not all of them are easy to use. Today we’ll talk about an effective and fast tool that enables anyone to quickly share his Windows computer screen online. This service is known as Logmein Express. It allow users to share their screen totally free of cost. All the shared data is totally encrypted by using 256 bit SSL encryption technology. You need to download and install the software from Logmein Express website....

upgrading to Windows 8 from Windows 7 using the Upgrade Assistance tool, you are given two options: You could either use the tool itself to upgrade the Windows or create a personal bootable media (DVD/USB drive) to install Windows 8 manually. If you have downloaded and created the ISO file during the upgrade itself, that’s fantastic. However, if you have not made any bootable media during the upgrade but would like to create one now, here’s how it is done....

You could use Migration Assistant, but if you hold an administrator account on your Mac and you know your way around OS X, then you can make this process a lot faster and fail-proof. Let’s take a look at how to go about this. Note: For this exercise, we will assume that you have administrator access to your Mac and that the Home folder of the account you want to transfer is already populated with some items in it....