On your phone, notifications can be annoying, especially for little apps. Blocking notifications is a smart move, especially at work. Even a slight beep from a notification can destroy your focus, according to studies. In actuality, it’s just as annoying as using your phone. Here’s how to completely disable Android notifications or disable them for only some apps. Please take note that following instructions assume that your phone has stock Android 8 Oreo....

How to Turn on/off Startup Sound in Windows 11 – Guide Microsoft introduced Windows 11 with a number of new features which include a new extremely delicate and light start-up sound that sounds perfectly. This one feature was disabled by default in Windows 10 to make the operating system suitable for people working in private. However, the startup sound can spoil the decor of places like meeting rooms, conferences, seminars, etc....

Guide: How To Turn On/Off Twit­ter News Notifications Are you getting weird and unrelated ‘News for you’ notifications on Twitter? You are not alone. That’s because Twitter recently launched new news related featuresOne of these is to send push notifications to users about news based on their interest. However, these warnings are annoying and are (as of now) not personalized at all. For example, some people have received news reports about football even though they have not seen a single football match in their life....

How to Turn on Super Duper Secure Mode in Edge – Guide There is an old joke among Windows users: “Internet Explorer is the best browser, download a better browser”. In others words, Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s old Internet browser, has been around for years, and few people really like it. That’s a big reason why Microsoft released Edge in 2015, its new and improved browser. Microsoft has put a lot of effort into improving the browsing experience with Edge and it has paid off....

How To turn on Whatsapp Dark Mode On Desktop – Guide WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging services in the world. With over 1.5 billion users worldwide, the app literally connects people around the world. Stay up to date, Facebook has added a number of new features for WhatsApp. But one of the most anticipated features remains Dark Mode. With Android 10 and Apple iOS 13 introducing a system-wide dark theme, most apps are already supported....

How To Unblock Someone On Snapchat – Guide Blocking is often the easiest way to get out of an unpleasant or potentially angry conversation. However, there are times when we block someone on messaging apps like Snapchat out of momentary anger. Have you ever blocked someone out of anger on Snapchat? If yes, are you looking for a way to unlock them? If your answer is yes, you’ve come to the right place....

How to Upgrade your WiFi for a Faster Connection – Guide We’ve put together some simple, cheap and practical tips tips which will help you get faster internet connection and stop waiting for Netflix buffer. Everyone wants a faster internet. But there is a lot of information and a lot of potential solutions that you can try, and not all of them work. Any tips are simply fake, while others are too technical and/or expensive....

How to Use App Library on iPad – Guide Keeping track of all the apps on your iPhone or iPad can be a challenge, but the App Library has made it easier. This one feature lets your device intelligently organize apps into folders based on categories like Suggested Apps, Recently Added Apps, Social, Entertainment, Shopping, Music, Games and more. You can open the app library with a simple swipe, open a specific app from your folder, do a search for the right app, or browse all your apps alphabetically....

How to Use Custom Icon packs on One UI 4 – Guide The first One UI 4.0 beta firmware update based on Android 12 brings tons of new features, big and small. We have detailed many of these changes over the past few days and will continue to do so as more features and changes are discovered. Speaking of which, you might be happy to know that One UI 4.0 Beta finally lets you download and install icon packs from the Google Play Store....

How to use Different text Sizes in each App on iPhone and iPad – Guide Until the release of iOS 15, you could only change the text size system-wide. This was fine for some as it also automatically adjusted the text size, but there are some cases where you might not want the entire app to have larger text. Fortunately, with iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, this is no longer an issue....

How to Use Google Col­lec­tions on Phone – Guide Google is giving an AI upgrade for its collections feature – essentially Google’s own interpretation of Pinterest, but incorporated into Google Search. Initially a name given to the organization of photos, the Collections feature released in 2018, it lets you put something aside for later examination of any type of output – images, markers or map locations – into groups called “Collections”....

How to use iPhone Background Sounds – Guide Before the WWDC in June, Apple announced that the background would come to iOS to help users find focus, calm and rest. Now on iOS 15 beta, the feature is available for testing. Read along to how to use iPhone background sounds on iOS 15, what you get, what you don’t get, and more. Background sounds come with six options: balanced, bright or dark, ocean, rain and stream....

How to use local app search in Android 12 – Guide Local app search is something on the best Android phones for a while now, but Android 12 changes the interface a bit. With the update, Google combines local app search into a more universal local search that will return results for contacts, apps and even system settings. That’s a bit of a confusing boon if you’re just reliant on searching apps....

Libre-office is already defined up when Linux is installed. The program offers full access to all features of Microsoft Office, but to be completely honest, it’s not Microsoft Office. Only the experience and comfort of using Microsoft-related programs is provided by the software. Installing and using Microsoft Office on Linux used to be difficult, but with time and the sophisticated technological life the world is heading towards, it has become possible and quite simple to do so....

How to use Netflix with Google Assistant and Google Home – Guide Finally, now you can ask Google Home to play, pause, rewind and do just about anything you want with Netflix. This tight integration with Netflix and other services makes Google Home the ideal intelligent home platform for DIYers. Here it is how to use Netflix with Google Home. Google Home is one of Google’s most popular smart DIYs home offers....

How To Use SD Card As Internal Storage On Android Devices – Guide many android phones come with tons of storage, but unfortunately they don’t meet the growing daily storage needs. A solution to this problem lies in the possibility of using SD cards as an alternative storage medium on your Android mobile device. android phones comes with sausage feature called Adoptable Storage which allows users to add an extra layer of storage for music, photos, videos, files, etc....

In Windows Explorer, you won’t see any free space; instead, you’ll see that a hard disc is showing less capacity than it actually has, for instance, 1TB shows 700GB. Fortunately, Windows 11/10/8/7 PCs allow you to monitor the complete disc space allocation state, including unallocated space, under Disk Management. In order to show you how to utilize free space on a hard disc, external hard drive, and other storage devices, we’ll use allocating unallocated space on Windows 11/10 as an example on this page: We have mentioned steps below to Use Unallocated Drive Space in Windows PC...

How to View Metadata of Photos on iPad/iPhone – Guide Every time you take a picture, there’s a lot more going on with yours. phone than just applying some filters and pressing take button. Your iPhone (and virtually every other camera) captures a lot of different information about these images. Most photos on your iPhone contain shareable image file format data known as EXIF. This data is commonly called metadata and can be useful in many situations....

How to Watch ABC on Roku – Guide The American Broadcasting Company, ABC, is owned by Disney – ABC Television Group. It has been in the entertainment business for over 75 years, and over time it has transformed the way it streams content to its viewers. What originally started out as a monochrome channel that could be tuned to TVs, has now grown into a broadcasting giant catering to TV owners, internet users and smartphone users....

This service is provided free of charge; there is no payment. While using a hidden number can help protect your privacy and ensure that no one has access to it, you may want to let people know that you are doing so. Some people may decide not to answer if the caller is unknown or if they are not anticipating a call from you because hidden caller IDs are often connected to spam callers....