Many of the complaints are valid, but iCloud is also dramatically underrated in key aspects. Not once, but twice now it has saved my entire computer from complete doom. I would have lost all my files, all my applications, and all my data had it not been for Apple’s seamless iCloud integration. It has come a long way over the years and now it’s no longer even necessary for me to perform computer backups....

The Office clipboard saves multiple copied items (up to 24) at once. If you have any Microsoft Office apps (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.) on your PC, you can make the best of this clipboard. A good thing about this is the clipboard is easily accessible across Office products. For example, the content you copy from Microsoft Word and save to the clipboard is also accessible in PowerPoint. Here’s what you’ll need to do to access and use the Office clipboard on your computer....

This tool can backup your entire Flickr photo-stream. It provides you an option to download photos in 6 different sizes. It also downloads important photo metadata such as title and tags.You could download up to 500 photos in bulk using this tool. The tool runs on Adobe AIR platform. At the first run you need to connect it to your Flickr account. Here are the steps. Click on “Connect to Flickr” button....

If you think that signing out of the Facebook Messenger will help you by hiding your online presence, think again. Facebook’s mobile app has a nasty little hidden setting that can let others know about your presence, even without the Messenger. However, as always there’s a fix for that and we will talk about it here. There are ways in which you can protect your online presence or hide on Facebook when you want....

Cortana can now expand the search of your personal stuffs to OneDrive along with the files you have saved on your personal drive. Office users can choose to work on a single file with multiple users at the same time. One thing I personally liked is the ability to create a shareable link of the files you have saved on the OneDrive directly from the explorer right-click context menu. Cool Tip: See how to add OneDrive as a Network Drive on Windows and use multiple accounts at a given time....

Now, I could have opened these services one by one to disconnect my Facebook account but there were not one or two, but a huge number of apps that I gave permission for auto-posting on Facebook as soon as I made a new update. After a bit of a research, I found an easy way to disconnect these apps, or restrict their wall access. These things are there on Facebook, but are not served on a platter....

By default, your Apple account chooses the payment method you usually use to pay for apps and subscriptions. If your preferred payment method cannot process your payments, you can update the payment method. This post will show you how to change the payment method for your Apple account on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Change Payment Method on iPhone and iPad The steps to change the Apple account payment method remain the same for iPhone and iPad....

Not all the PC buyers are tech-savvy enough to know that. They buy the PC, are happy to get those tools, don’t know that the junk is slowing their system down, and finally once the trial period of the tools ends, all kinds of silly warnings start showing up now and then. And without a doubt, it’s frustrating. The best way to deal with this issue is, well, to get rid of them....

RSVP-ing gives an event organizer or host an idea of how many people would be attending and how to properly plan for their presence. When you send out your event invites, the next thing to expect is your guests’ response confirming their availability (or unavailability) to attend. When they do, you get to know the number of people for whom you need to arrange food, drinks, etc. To ensure that your guests RSVP, however, you have to make it easy for them to do so....

So, it’s time to switch gears for a moment. How about you try creating a video masterpiece? It doesn’t have to be too over-the-top, but it looks good, has some pretty effects and most importantly was stupid easy to make. Try out Cameo, a free app from Vimeo that offers all of that. You can put together a pretty solid video on your iPhone in a very short amount of time....

These answers are usually same all the time and if only there was a way to record your steps the first time you install Windows and replicate it in the future, it could really save a lot of productive time. Luckily, there’s a way out in such situations and that’s by creating an unattended installation disk. The process is fairly simple. So let’s have a look. The Trick We will be generating a file called Autounattend....

TeeVee 3 is one app that’s trending in some of the forums, but is priced at $2.99. However, I’m not quite willing to pay for an app just to track my TV shows, even if it is merely the price of morning coffee. So after some research I came across an app called tv show tracker 3, which supports a freemium model. It comes in an ad-supported lite version with the option to upgrade to ad-free for just a dollar....

Now with the Google Chrome build 23 for Windows you can turn on the Do Not Track requests to opt out of tracking. This feature will basically tell the websites you are visiting that you don’t want to be tracked and request them to stop collecting anonymous data. However, the website you are browsing holds the right to deny the request. But then what’s the harm in enabling the feature for the ones that do acknowledge the request....

Why Enable This Mode? The reason most people engage Developer Mode is to install Linux or Windows. Once you have access to the underlying operating system, you can modify some advanced features like SSH and USB booting. This is, as the name says, for developers and technical people. The safeties are off and you could compromise your security by running in this mode. Don’t worry though, you can always switch back....

But some issues are major such as when Google Play Services doesn’t work as intended. And, because of that, other apps also don’t work. When you open them, you are greeted by the error ‘This app won’t run unless you update Google Play services.’ For the uninitiated, Google Play Services is a preinstalled, system app that helps in updating apps from Play Store. It also acts as a framework for Google and its apps on your device....

Cool Tip: We have already seen many amazing Xposed framework modules that you can install on your device, like changing the application fonts or managing system startup items. Today I am going to show you how you can get an adaptive status bar that changes color based upon the color scheme of the apps you are working on. So for example, if you are using Hike on your Android, the status bar will turn blue to match....

That’d be pretty bad. Aside from losing out on crucial OneDrive statuses and the ability to manage the cloud storage service, you are left in the dark as to whether OneDrive is even functioning normally. There are a few possible reasons why the OneDrive icon can go missing, and the following troubleshooting tips should help you get it right back. Unhide OneDrive Icon Windows 10 often tends to hide various icons just because there are too many of them on the system tray....

Once enabled, this feature makes the screen shrink to the bottom left or right edge to ease one-handed operation on the device. So if you are sipping coffee or carrying a bag with one of your hands, you can still use your big screen devices easily and reach out to all the four corners with a single hand. My research told me that it’s a default feature in some of the large screen Samsung devices too....

Firefox’s rock-solid performance, huge extensions library, and wide cross-platform availability make it the perfect Chrome alternative. It’s also great at preserving user privacy. If you’ve used Chrome for a while, you must have accumulated a sizable chunk of browsing data. And to switch to Firefox without missing a beat, you must import your Chrome bookmarks and passwords. How do you do that? On the desktop, there are multiple approaches that you can take to get your Chrome browsing data imported into Firefox....

move or add your contacts to the fresh account all over again? Well, if you migrated from Hotmail/Live Mail then the old and existing contacts should be intact. If not, you will still be able to create the list in few minutes. Outlook provides integrated features to import contacts from services like Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. If you need the support for something else you can use the Import from file option....