But with Android Oreo, Google went a step ahead with the picture-in-picture (PIP) mode for the Android phones. PIP mode is an advanced alternative to the split-screen mode. Here, you get full freedom to move around a tiny app window on your screen. For instance, you can use the Google Maps in PIP mode and simultaneously search for good restaurants on Chrome. Last year, Netflix received the support for PIP mode on Android....

The Photos app on Windows 10 isn’t one of the most optimized of apps around. It takes ages to launch, lags while loading photos, and even renders certain images incorrectly. The app also crashes to make matters worse, either randomly or repeatedly when performing routine tasks such as editing and printing. If the Photos app keeps giving you grief, don’t worry. There are a handful of troubleshooting tips that you can go through and get it to function correctly....

The error usually pops up when you boot your computer for the first time, and it can be annoying as hell. Sometimes, it simply refuses to go away. Here are some ways to fix ‘RVC is already running’ error once and for all. 1. Update OS and Apps The error may manifest due to a corrupt file or recent app update. I would recommend you to update the Windows first....

From the many backup related errors that you can get, the ‘Some Files Were Unavailable During the Last Backup’ message is probably the worst, especially since you have no clue as to what exactly was wrong in the first place. Usually, this happens due to a number of reasons ranging from poor network connectivity, glitched backup controls to conflicting files. And, that means working through a number of fixes, which hopefully should take care of this issue....

We will take a look at some solutions that can solve this issue and get you up and scrolling again in no time. Without wasting more of your time, let’s begin. 1. YouTube is Down Well, this is certainly possible and has happened in the past before. There are a few ways to check that, and one of them is really cool. First, the easiest way is to click the link below and go to Down Detector which will tell you if YouTube is down and if yes, in which part of the world and what services are affected....

Though it wasn’t something people were complaining about, you’d be greeted with a vertical volume slider instead of the horizontal one, in the future updates. What’s more, it’s located on the screen edges that makes it easily accessible. But as luck would have it, Android P will take its own sweet time to make its way to your phone. Heck, it’s not even official yet. So, in the meantime, here’s a nifty way to get Android P’s media control on any Android phone....

at a very fast pace and I would not be surprised to know if it has completely replaced the default music player on your desktop and smartphones . But one thing that I am sure you might be missing on Spotify is a sound equalizer. Sound equalizer is one of the very basic features of a music player but still after tons of updates, it continues to remain absent on Spotify....

Works with Note5 too: The method mentioned below works well with a Samsung Galaxy Note5 too, as it has a pretty similar variant of TouchWiz UI as the S6 edge+. Getting Started First things first, the Private Mode is simply a name given to that mode where a user can hide media on their Samsung phones. Anything that is private or you don’t want others to see. It could be a bunch of files or even folders, it works fine for all....

Both Vista and Windows 7 have several useful built-in gadgets like clocks, weather, RSS feed widget etc. But if you are still on XP (don’t worry, more than 50% of people who use personal computers prefer XP), and are wondering how to get these gadgets on your desktop, then read on. This article talks about two tools that help you add a variety of desktop gadgets to Windows XP. UPDATE: Both the tools we talk about in this article – Yahoo Widgets and Google Desktop – are no longer available....

You can add internal links within a document in Google Docs and to let the reader jump to specifically linked sections. That helps if you’re creating a brochure in Google Docs or making a custom template. We will be cover ways to link paragraphs, specific lines and create a table of contents in Google Docs. How to Link Sections in Google Docs In Google Docs, you can directly hyperlink particular section/chapter headings within a document using the link option....

However, with the new image editing features of Microsoft Word, making a watermark image in it isn’t that difficult. Surprised? Yes, you can use Word to make some cool watermarks. You just need to combine a couple of image-editing tricks and a dash of creativity, and you’ll be sorted. Why Microsoft Word? You may be wondering — why pick Microsoft Word? Especially when there are so many tools available for offline as well as online usage....

Today I am going to demonstrate how you can map any Windows folder as a Windows drive so that you can map the folders that are pinned to your library after installing the desktop application. This way, you get to use them like hard disk partitions and at the same time it’s free to use without any limitation. Plus this is a nice way to get to the frequently used folders quickly from anywhere on your Windows machine....

In the past, we have already seen how to monitor data usage on an Android device using the Onavo app. Using it, we could not only monitor how much of the cellular data each app was consuming, but also restrict certain apps only to Wi-Fi so as to save bandwidth. But the app only gave us a gist of the data and not a real-time activity of how and when the apps are actually using the connection....

hide private photos and videos on Android . I am sure many Android users must have started storing their personal media on phone without the fear of someone discovering them after reading that article of ours. No doubt, photos and videos are important and should be secured but so are the text messages, especially the ones you wouldn’t want to be revealed to someone else accidentally. I have a few crazy friends who never text me for a reason, still I love to read them and have a laugh....

HQ Trivia hit a new record on Christmas day as 730,000 people logged on simultaneously at 9 p.m. Eastern Time to compete for an unusually large jackpot prize worth $12,000. Available only on iOS until now, the game is all set to release on Android on January 1. Registration for the game started last week. However, you can play HQ Trivia on your Android device right now. But first, let’s check out what is HQ and how to play this game....

The Facebook-owned photo-sharing app has over 700 million users who now have the ability to post photos on the social network without the app. Before this update, users logged in to the web app of Instagram could only browse, like, comment, search and see the notifications, but couldn’t post an image. Now, with the update rolled out, users also get the ‘camera’ icon as it appears on the Instagram app, which enables them to post an image from their device’s gallery....

When WhatsApp launched voice notes, users could only record voice clips. However, WhatsApp released a feature that allowed users to listen to voice notes at an increased speed over the years. Now, WhatsApp allows users to preview voice notes before sending them out in its latest update. This feature eliminates the fear of sending awkward messages or having to re-record a voice note. Here’s how it works on various devices....

Microsoft Word has a Voice feature that houses Dictate and Transcribe options that aid in converting audio to text. You can record the audio directly or upload it in Word and convert it to text. The transcript of the text can be edited and exported. Here’s how to use Microsoft Word to record and transcribe your audio recordings. How to Record Audio in Microsoft Word You can save time and energy by dictating your thoughts to Microsoft Word....

For example, delete a password from Chrome, and it’s gone forever. Whether you did that intentionally or accidentally, the browser only gives you a few seconds to undo your action, with no way to recover it after that. And since Chrome syncs your changes as soon as you open it on another device, you can’t retrieve the password that way either. Just the other day, I went on a cleaning spree to get rid of unwanted passwords that had accumulated over the years....

Using iTunes you can manage your terabytes’ of music and sync them to your portable players in the blink of an eye. If you are like most of us you must be having redundant music files in your iTunes library. Surely today’s computers come with practically endless disk space and having few duplicate tracks doesn’t make a difference but it counts when the music is on, lets say, a portable USB thumb drive which has limited space....