Motion Photo is a small video captured before and after taking a still picture. Google Photos app automatically creates this video. You don’t need to do anything except enable the feature. Motion photos look awesome and are definitely worth sharing. But how does one do that? That’s what we will see today in this article. But before that, let’s get to know how to create motion photos. Create Motion Photos Step 1: Open the Google camera app on your Pixel phone....

The feature, actually a setting, was released with the launch of iOS 13. You can now turn off autoplay of video previews, but it will work in native Apple apps only. Third-party apps will include a setting for the respective app, if any. Let’s begin. 1. What Are Video Previews Video previews are a short preview, usually lasting about 3 seconds of a video that you can watch before the actual video plays....

Thankfully, Sony provides a nice piece of software called Content Manager Assistant that offers a unified interface for transferring your media across your PS Vita and your Mac or PC. Let’s learn how to set up the this tool and how to transfer content with it wirelessly. Content Manager Assistant: Installation and Setup To start, download the Content Manager Assistant application from Sony’s website (Mac version / Windows version) and run it on your computer to install it....

Don’t get it wrong here; it’s not a screenshot of a Google Maps. After you are done using this tool, you will find that it is stylized enough for you to qualify it with a ‘wow’. Map -> Image is a free web tool coded by Stamen Design, a design studio in San Francisco. And that’s the default place you spot when you land here. But you can very well fly to other places around the globe by plugging in a city or a town name (or a ZIP code for U....

You could use AVG Rescue CD (now available to AVG free users too) in such situations to repair your infected PC. It is a portable version of the AVG Antivirus and can be used as a bootable CD or USB flash drive. There are four other tools are available in the package which you could use to perform some other necessary functions. They are:- Midnight CommanderWindows Registry editorPingTestDisk Here is the step by step guide for creating AVG rescue CD/USB flash drive and removing viruses or malwares with its help....

For example, I was not able to sync files and folders between my Android phone and my computer and 20 mins later, I found that the real reason was the 10 mins time difference between the phone and PC. You can only imagine the level of frustration I was in. But I won’t let that happen to you. Here is a detailed guide on how to sync files and photos between your PC and phone using the BitTorrent Sync and for the sake of simplicity, I have covered three different scenarios you can use the app in....

However, to be able to use this new hacking tool you will need a PSM developer license, which Sony no longer offers. Thankfully, there is a new way to obtain a renewable PSM license called PSM+, which is a service created by the Vita hacking community and available for free. Now that you know the basics, let’s learn how to use PSM+ to obtain your developer license, which will let you run your first native homebrew on your PS Vita down the road....

Safety Check allows you to take control of data you share with your friends and family who use your Apple ID. This post will explain how to use Safety Check on iPhone and how it is a step ahead to secure your privacy. We used an iPhone running on iOS 16 Public Beta for this post. Safety Check will be available with the iOS 16 update from September 12 onwards for eligible iPhones....

Thankfully, you can avoid such scenarios and protect your data from drive failure using the Storage Spaces feature on Windows 11. And here’s a guide explaining everything you should know about using it on your PC. What Are Storage Spaces in Windows 11 and Why Should You Create One Storage Spaces is a feature built into Windows that lets you create an array/group of two or more physical hard drives to create a larger virtual drive or Storage Pool that you can use to store and protect your data....

One of two potential problems is likely causing the trouble. I discovered this for myself last night helping two of my friends install iOS 10. Neither of them were properly receiving the new iMessage effects once they should have been up and running. Some users, however, also report not being able to send effects either. If you’re in this situation, fear not. I have two solutions that should fix the problem....

migrating contacts from one service to another. Precisely that is why most services allow you to import and export the contacts list , either directly or through a file. Besides, most of them are now offering you to import contacts from social networking websites like Facebook, Google + and LinkedIn. It is definitely a strategy to buy more customers. And why not, it reduces so much effort on the customer’s end....

Now, if you don’t want to pay the $99 fee required for a developer’s license, there is a fairly straightforward way to get iOS 9 beta running on your device. Just read along and follow this complete guide on how to do it. Important Note: Before proceeding, know that beta versions of any OS (including iOS 9) are not finished by any means and are usually plagued by several issues....

Having a Retina Display Macbook: These Macs boast high density displays that, while allowing for more screen real estate, can also suffer from readability issues due to smaller fonts.Using a large-screen iMac or a Macbook on a stand: In both of these scenarios, the screen of the Mac usually sits a few inches further, making the default text size also harder to read.Eyesight problems: I know this one sounds funny, but the truth is that as we age, our eyesight deteriorates and having smaller fonts to read on a screen becomes more of an issue....

Excel sheets we usually give a name to every column and sometimes, to rows too. Our intention behind creating headers is that we (and the people we share our sheet with) may easily understand the data matrix and the data within it. However, there is one flaw with doing just this much. If you notice closely you will see that the headers scroll away as you scroll the document (down or left)....

agree to some list of permissions the app would require on your phone for proper functioning. If at all it needs to use your phone’s network connectivity, you will have to agree to a permission of Full Network Access. Software for Windows on the other hand do not usually ask for such kind of special permissions. All they require is admin access at times, and they can do pretty much anything on your system from creating desktop icons to rebooting your system....

Google+ is an interesting social network. The social network offers, in my opinion, much more features than its competitors, both in terms of possibilities to create content (the photo features I was mentioning, which are constantly receiving useful improvements), but also in the way users control the way they’re able to share the content they’re creating. The new additions have been announced in a post on Google+ (where else?) by Dave Besbris, its VP of Engineering....

If, however, your iPad workflow involves mainly writing and navigating across apps, then iOS 9 offers a new set of keyboard shortcuts for your physical keyboard that will make your life a lot easier. While third party apps will take a little while to implement the new keyboard shortcuts of iOS 9, the most important and productivity-heavy Apple native apps already support this feature. Read along to find out everything you need to know about them....

Nicetranslator is definitely one of the quickest web based translation tools available. It is based on the Google translation tools and works like a charm. All you need to do is hit the “add translators” button and choose a language from the given 52 languages You can select more than one language to translate at a time. In the example I selected Arabic, Greek, Hindi, Chinese and French languages. Now write anything in any language in the given box....

An app launcher is your gateway to the entire mobile experience. It is the first thing that you see when you unlock your phone. So you should always use the most comfortable launcher. If you own a Mi phone and don’t like the default MIUI system launcher, you will find many of its alternatives on the Play Store. One of the best among them is the popular Nova Launcher. Now you may wonder how does Nova Launcher fare against the MIUI system launcher?...

This time though, the clever developers at InfiniDev have created NDS4iOS, an iOS app that can be installed right from Safari, thus circumventing Apple’s strict App Store moderation to allows users to play emulated Nintendo DS games on their iOS devices. Best of all? There is no need to have a jailbroken iPhone or iPad to make this work. Read along to learn how to play Nintendo DS games on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch....