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If you remember, Instagram introduced a new option called Sensitive controls the previous year. The option allowed users to filter the sensitive content on the ‘Explore’ tab of Instagram. However, now the same feature works in Instagram Search, Reels, in-feed recommendations, and more. The Sensitive Controls of Instagram now work in all places on the platform. Hence, if you are interested in controlling how much sensitive content you see on the Instagram app, you need to follow the steps we have shared....

It’s much easier to check the weather forecast from a phone than on Television or Radio. I’m a weather addict, and I check the weather forecast multiple times a day, especially during the rainy seasons. There are hundreds of weather apps available for Android on the Google Play Store. Some of them were free, whereas others require a premium subscription. I have already used many weather apps, but all those apps come nowhere close to the accuracy level of Google Weather....

Making its first appearance on the Windows operating system in 1991, it was initially just called Media Player. It was included in multimedia-compatible PCs and not sold separately. The small but practical application has gone through several iterations, with the last version (Windows Media Player 12) released in 2009. If you feel like rocking out like it’s 1993, you’re in luck. Microsoft is releasing an improved version of Windows Media Player....

Samsung today officially detailed on how Galaxy Note 7 customers getting their replacement units can confirm it does not come with any faulty battery. The company confirms in its announcement that replacement Galaxy Note 7 units will come with a green battery icon in the status bar. Additionally, the green battery icon will also be displayed on the Always On Screen and the Power off menu. This way, users will be sure that their Galaxy Note 7 does not come with a faulty battery....

There may be some documents that you don’t want anyone to see. You can password-protect them easily if it is MS Word, Excel, or Powerpoint. Steps to Password Protect MS Word, Excel, and Powerpoint Files Below, we have shared some easy steps to password-protect any MS Word, Excel, or Powerpoint files. Let’s get started. First of all, open the file of your MS Word, Excel, and Powerpoint that you want to protect with the password....

Talking about smartphones or tablets, users often face some kind of horrible situation where they lose something important. It’s indeed a horrible feeling when we realize that we have lost or deleted something that was actually very important. However, in this virtual world, tech users often find the way to accomplish anything. Recovering lost data from Android smartphone doesn’t seem to be a hefty task anymore because there are lots of tools available on the internet....

Charging and using your iPhone daily will go off without a raise. If your iPhone shuts down casually, your phone’s battery percentage jumps, or even if your phone overheats when not at work, it may be best to run diagnostics at that time. All these traits are hints nearer to battery failure. Also Read: How To Make iPhone, Automatically Switch To Strongest WiFi Run iPhone Battery Diagnostics on MAC Running diagnostics is a simple procedure and is an effective way to see if your battery needs to be replaced....

But before you can realize the benefits of a balance transfer, you have to consider how much you might be paying in interest now. Let’s say you’re carrying $5,000 in revolving credit card debt at an 18% APR. If you used the card enough to maintain that balance despite your monthly payments, you would pay a total of $900 in interest your first year. Ouch. Even worse, let’s say you paid only $100 per month until the balance was gone....

Until a few years ago, you could create a Messenger account without ever having a Facebook account. That’s not the case anymore, but you can create a Facebook account with Messenger and then deactivate Facebook. Tap or click here to learn more. WhatsApp is immensely popular and is known for its ease of use and end-to-end encryption. There’s now a way to download your data and see everything WhatsApp knows about you....

What is Handoff? To give you a primer – Handoff is a feature present on the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, and Apple Watch, which allows you to start a task on one device and pick up where you left off on another device. It is a part of a suite of Apple’s Continuity features that helps devices work together and share tasks and data seamlessly. The apps that support this feature include Mail, Safari, Maps, Messages, Reminders, Calendar, Contacts, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote....

Emailing became the new way to communicate in the ’90s, and we haven’t looked back. Even though you’ve sent thousands of emails over the years, you probably haven’t put much thought into the special features that email service providers offer. Tap or click here to see 10 tricks to manage your Gmail account like a pro. There have been tons of improvements to the emailing process over the last few years that you might not know about....

How To Backup iPhone The only way to backup iphone content to Pc is through iTunes. By itunes you can take backup of all your iphone and can access it whenever needed. Just follow the below steps to proceed. First of all download and install iTunes in your computer, if you don’t have itunes then downlaod it from here. Now connect you iphone with your computer using apple’s USB cable and wait for itunes to detect your iphone....

Making financial transactions online can open us up to some potentially nasty side effects. If you don’t take proper safety precautions, an enterprising cybercriminal can take advantage of your weak security and crack your accounts right open. That doesn’t mean online banking is always risky, though. In fact, there are several ways to do your banking online that put cybersecurity front and center. Here are some of the most urgent precautions you should take when accessing your money over the web....

We have already shared many guides on changing passwords on popular sites & services. Today, we will discuss how to change and reset your Gmail password. Changing passwords of your online accounts is a good practice you should adopt and make a frequent habit. Also read: How to Change Font in Gmail Easy Steps to Change or Reset Your Gmail Password You can change your Gmail password for security reasons or reset it if you forget it....

Windows 7 allowed users to change the Title Bar Text Color through the Appearance Settings. However, the feature was removed in the latest Windows 10. On Windows 10, there’s no direct way to change the Active Title bar text color. Yes, you can change the title bar color through the Appearance Settings, but you can’t change the text’s colors. To change the title bar text color, one needs to make a few Registry Editor changes....

Having several gestures on your Mac is good because you can perform numerous actions without any hefty loads in seconds. Now you might be thinking that the gestures are all possible on touchscreen devices, devices with dedicated modules for the same, etc., and how this could be performed on the Mac. The answer is simple there is a trackpad on the Mac on which you could assign the gestures. By default, only a few gestures are supported on the Trackpad software, while new gestures could be added to the Trackpad....

Ultrabooks offer a good alternative to traditional laptops. These avoid (to some extent) overheating problems by using low-power components like mSATA SSDs or low-voltage processors and sometimes don’t have a dedicated video card, but these greatly increase the price of these devices. Nevertheless, with heavy usage even ultrabooks overheat and there have been thousands of users complaining of these issues. What causes laptop overheating Image Credit: http: caspercomputerrepair It’s important to know what causes overheating in laptops, as most of us have bad habits when it comes to the way we use these portable devices....

With the rapid expansion of the Internet of Things come new challenges, particularly in the area of innovation. At every point, from the device hardware and sensors to the servers and functionality of the device, there is demand for increased functionality, and for it to be available faster than ever. While advances in technology are making these goals possible, the real key to innovation in the IoT is collaboration. At every level, collaboration is changing how we work today, as developers realize that sharing knowledge and ideas allows them to develop better, more advanced ideas — and do it faster than ever before....

To give you some background, a package manager is essentially a utility that lets you automate the process of installing, updating, and removing softwares/packages on an operating system. The utility comprises of several softwares/packages and allows you to use the command-line utility (or terminal) to enter a bunch of commands that automatically pull up the package and download and install it on your system. While package manager is a common sight on Linux (and even macOS, for that matter), Windows users have been missing out on a native package manager all this time....

Privacy and security of one’s data have become a very important aspect of today’s life. Just using a biometric lock to secure the data on your phone is simply not enough. If you store some important and private pictures on your phone, you will also need to ensure that you lock those applications to protect them from prying eyes. No wonder then that most OEMs have now started including native app lock functionality on their devices....