Beautifully Informative See Our Ultimate Guides And Ebooks

Yes, beautifully informative is the apt phrase to describe our new Ultimate Guides and Ebooks section. Top notch content packed in a superb design! We’ve been working hard on this for the past few months, and it has turned out quite well I’d say. The idea behind this new section is to showcase stellar content on a particular topic in a way that will not only benefit the reader immensely but also make him enjoy the reading experience on all devices, be it a laptop, mobile or a tablet....

November 1, 2022 · 2 min · 265 words · Erin Ellison

Burn Note Create Share Timer Based Self Destructing Notes

That helps when we have something very confidential to share and wish to leave no trace whatsoever. Stuck for a similar need? Burn Note is what might help. All you need to do is navigate to the service website, type your message and click on the Send button. Well, that’s not just it. If you want you can expand the Options menu and choose the type of note display, enable/disable timer, set expiry time and choose a password....

November 1, 2022 · 1 min · 180 words · Andrew Chang

Connect Outlook 2013 With Facebook To Follow Friend Updates

importing contacts , chatting with Facebook friends etc. Now in Outlook 2013 Preview, we can see an interesting feature using which you can connect Facebook, LinkedIn and other such social accounts and follow your friend’s activity right from the Outlook desktop Interface. So let’s have a look at how it can be implemented. Note: This trick won’t help you importing any of the Facebook or LinkedIn contacts to Outlook 2013....

November 1, 2022 · 2 min · 345 words · Roy Stroud

Easily Search Gmail And Google Docs At The Same Time

Log into your Gmail account and click on the wrench icon to go to the Settings page. Select and display the Labs tab which displays all the experimental apps for Gmail. Scroll down to the Apps Search lab feature which should be somewhere near the top itself. Click Enable and Save. Now, any search that you initiate within Gmail will also search through your Google documents, and the doc results will appear beneath the Gmail results....

November 1, 2022 · 1 min · 137 words · Marla Edwards

Firefox View Web Page Source Code On An Editor Of Choice

The understated steps apply to Firefox. Step 1: On your browser address bar key in about:config and hit Enter. Step 2: Search for view_source.editor.external and change the value to false by double clicking on it. Step 3: Now, search for view_source.editor.path and set its value to the .exe location of the desired editor. I am sure most developers will vouch for it because you will be able to perform actions more easily....

November 1, 2022 · 1 min · 129 words · Donna Kelley

How To Create Amazing Word Clouds With Wordle

Wordle is described as a “toy” for generating word clouds. For me it is a powerful information visualization aid. Let’s start with what Wordle does. It allows you to create a graphical display of words and format it with different colors schemes, fonts, and layouts. More frequently occurring words are more prominently displayed on the word cloud. Here’s a ‘Wordle translation’ of Kipling’s famous poem, ‘If’. Creating a Wordle word cloud involves pasting a bunch of text or importing it via an URL or RSS feed from a website....

November 1, 2022 · 2 min · 337 words · Guadalupe Uhlig

How To Hide Text In An Image With Imagehide

One thing which was common to both the processes was that the user had to first make a text file and then zip it to bind it with the image file. There was no way to directly insert a text in the image file and hide it. Now with ImageHide, a freeware for Windows, you can hide your messages directly in an image file without the botheration of zipping it....

November 1, 2022 · 2 min · 393 words · Robert Lewis

How To Make Photoshop Cs6 Run Faster On Any Computer

The biggest problem, though? Users tend to complain that Photoshop slows down after a few months of use. And this complaint is the same for Windows as well as Mac users. So let’s see what can anyone do to make Photoshop run faster and perform better. Tweaks Under Preferences Local Cache & History Hit Ctrl + K (or Cmd + K on a Mac) to access Preferences for Photoshop on your computer....

November 1, 2022 · 2 min · 406 words · Beatrice Greenlee

How To Stop Using Notepad To Remove Rich Formatting With Puretext

Workarounds have existed, more notably using Notepad to remove the rich text formatting and convert it into plain text. But that hasn’t done anything for productivity as it introduces an extra step. So, here we look at a tiny freeware called PureText which helps us do away with Notepad and instead use the Windows Hot Key to paste text to any application without formatting. PureText is a 13 KB application that downloads as a Zip file....

November 1, 2022 · 2 min · 267 words · Lyla Leger

How To Take Screenshots From The New Apple Tv

Xcode Screenshot: Available to Most Mac Users Even if you don’t plan on software development, Xcode is a handy and free app to have on your Mac. After you connect the USB-C cable to your Mac (I keep mine connected all the time), open Xcode. For practical reasons, you’ll need to have your TV on to do this. That way you can see what will show up on your screenshot. What is a USB-C cable?...

November 1, 2022 · 3 min · 505 words · Elmer Reichmann

Instantly Push Links From Any Desktop Browser To Any Phone

transfer web pages, phone numbers and other useful information from the browser to our smartphone in order to continue the work on the go. The only limitation of the trick was that it was limited to Chrome and Android. So today I will talk about another service called Site to Phone using which one can transfer web links and text. What’s great is that it works for all the well known browsers and on almost all smartphones and tablets running on different operating systems....

November 1, 2022 · 3 min · 584 words · Edna Perez

Instantmask Removes Background Of An Image

To get started, you need to download and install it, and then open the image you want to change, in the tool. Now, check the green and red pencils in the tool. These pencils can be used to make an outline near the area you want to remove from the image. After marking the areas of foreground and background, hit preview button. You will see the magic of this tool....

November 1, 2022 · 2 min · 277 words · Jason Low

Make Your Android Child Safe With Kaspersky Parental Control

However, when it came to web browsing, that app failed miserably. You could hide all the web browser apps on your device to safeguard your kids’ online activity, but that will only restrain them from learning from many good and legit websites. The app doesn’t give any option to block certain web pages with potential vulgarity. It’s an all or none thing with it. So to make things right, today I am going to talk about a promising app from the house of Kaspersky Labs which will take care of all the parental control needs you wish to have on your kids’ Android device....

November 1, 2022 · 3 min · 611 words · Tonya Quilliams

Monitor And Save Clipboard Text On Windows For Easy Recovery

Ethervane Echo is an extender for the default clipboard that saves every text entry you ever save. Instead of copying data to a notepad application for later use, just install Echo to retrieve the old text items. There are different sections of Echo that help categorize the content. For example, text saved from within a browser window will be listed in it’s own section called Browsers. You can also save regularly used clips – thus called Sticky clips – to a unique location to avoid accidental deletion....

November 1, 2022 · 4 min · 652 words · Jessica Bizzell

Search Create And Edit Notes With Siri On Your Ios Device

We’ve already shown you a few tips about how to use Siri in various ways and how to make it more secure. This time though, we will focus on using Siri for one very specific purpose: Mastering its ability to work with your iPhone’s (or other iOS device) native notes application. Searching Your Notes Using Siri Searching your notes in Siri is deceptively simple: Just tell Siri “Search my notes” and it will show you all the notes you have stored in the Notes app....

November 1, 2022 · 3 min · 459 words · Charla Nguyen

Top 7 Classy And Funky Cases For Iphone 6

There are thousands of iPhone cases out there. Everything from dirt cheap to super classy. But which are actually worthy buying? If you’ve got a new iPhone 6 and want to put that baby in a case (either to get a better grip on those curved sides and slippery back or you think it might just save you from Bendgate), check out our recommendations below. Learn about iOS 8: Now that you have an iPhone 6 to play with, it’s time to get acquainted with the power features of iOS 8 like widgets and extensions....

November 1, 2022 · 3 min · 635 words · Lena Mendez

Video Oneplus 2 Vs Lg G4 And Zenfone 2 Deluxe

So we decided to pit them against the OnePlus 2 and see how they compare when it comes to the speed. Watch the videos below and decide for yourself. And we’ll be posting many more such cool videos, so don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel. OnePlus 2 vs LG G4 – Speed and Performance Comparison Now, some commenters did point out that the default launcher of OnePlus 2 isn’t up to par with others and the speed issues are likely caused by that....

November 1, 2022 · 1 min · 180 words · Anthony Smith

2 Cool Gesture Based Music Players For Ios Devices

Today we will be looking at gesture based music players. This type of music player tends to be more intuitive as well as more convenient when compared to players which use static buttons. For example, many people use their mobile devices to play music in their cars. Driving requires your full attention, so gesture based music players let users control music playback with minimal effort much like an in-car stereo would....

October 31, 2022 · 4 min · 807 words · James May

3 Quick And Simple Tips To Speed Up Your Mac

speed or performance . Considering that, here we have gathered a few tips that can help you speed up your Mac even if you’ve had it for not that long. Let’s take a look at them. Improve Start Up Speed By Managing Your Mac’s Login Items Macs tend to turn on pretty fast by default, but if you have a lot of applications set to open upon logging in, they can noticeably affect the time it takes to start up since they use both your Mac’s RAM and CPU, just like with Windows PCs....

October 31, 2022 · 4 min · 661 words · Rosalind King

3 Very Useful Tips For The Maps App In Os X Mavericks

maps applications on smartphones for a while now, Apple only recently integrated it own Maps app on OS X Mavericks allowing users to have native-level access to maps right on their Macs. But there’s a lot more that you can use Maps for in Mavericks than just looking up directions. So let’s have an overview of some of the most important things you can do with this app. 1. Send Addresses from OS X Maps Into Your Contacts In a past entry we have already showed you how you can share your iPhone’s maps and directions with people in your contacts....

October 31, 2022 · 3 min · 553 words · Bradley York