browsers , when using Facebook , or when we’re on our mobile phones . Traces of private information can linger around indefinitely if it’s not manually removed. There are many tools out there that clear passwords and other private data but another issue arises apart from this, like when data isn’t entirely removed from a drive. A hacker can still obtain old data even if you’ve deleted it. One such tool to ensure no traces are left behind after deleting private data is called Privazer....

These features allow users to make additional notes or provide context for words in the body of a document. Footnotes and endnotes also help provide references or further comments on different parts of the main text body. However, you’ll need to use them to enhance the reliability of the text in the body. To insert them in a Word document, here’s what you should do: Insert Footnotes and Endnotes in Word The footnote appears on the bottom of the page, which provides refererence, while an endnote is listed at the end of the paper on separate pages....

an email signature . It’s actually a good practice when it comes to email correspondence. What’s not a good practice however is to type the signature line every time you create a new mail. Rather, you should set a signature as default and it would appear with each mail of yours. Almost all email services have this as an option. And today we are going to see how to create and use the same on MS Outlook....

An average office worker sends dozens of emails every day. You can convert each email in the opportunity to market yourself and your business in those individual emails you send, every single day. Many people treat their email signature like an afterthought or stick with whatever comes by default on Gmail/Outlook or third-party email apps. In such cases, you are marketing these apps and services and not yourself, which makes for a real missed opportunity....

GIMP is the free photo-manipulation tool available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Though it has been around for a while, it lacks the shape crop feature. However, that doesn’t mean you cannot achieve the same in it. All you need to do is follow a workaround. You can then crop images in any shape. In this tutorial, we will tell you how to crop a picture into a circular shape in GIMP....

Speaking of customization, Microsoft gives you the option to change the look of your mouse cursor on Windows 11. Whether you’re just bored of the generic cursor or you want it to be more prominent and easily visible, you can change the look of the cursor with just a few clicks. Here’s how you can customize the mouse cursor on your Windows 11 PC. How to Change the Color and Size of the Mouse Cursor There are a few default cursor options in Windows 11 if you want to change the way mouse pointer looks....

The Notification Center on Mac combines all the data from various apps and stores them in a single place. You can also add Apple’s built-in widgets or third-party ones with different sizes. You can even use Notification Center to turn on your Mac’s Do Not Disturb mode. Access Notification Center on Mac Notification Center lives on the right side of the Mac. There are two of ways to access it easily on Mac....

Don’t worry. We shall help you in doing that. Currently, when you are trying to delete the photo from the Google Photos app, you must be surprised to find out that the photo gets deleted from iPhone and eventually iCloud too. Right? All you want to do is delete all pictures from Google Photos but not from iCloud. In other words, you want to unlink Google Photos and iCloud. Let’s see how to do that by understanding the working of these two services first....

You might like notifications from a particular website, but if they’ve suddenly started to bombard you with it, then it’s time to shut them up from your end. These tricks can also be used to manage desktop notifications in case you’ve accidentally granted a site permission to push notifications to your browser and wish to revoke it. Chrome users can choose whether they want to deny notification access to all the websites or to specific ones but Firefox users don’t enjoy this liberty....

Personal Renamer is an awesome tool which can be used to batch rename files easily. It is different from other renaming tools because you can also set it to monitor a specific folder for a specific time interval. If you move any file to that folder, it automatically renames it according to the values you’ve set. Here is a step by step guide to use this tool. Download and install Personal Renamer on your computer....

It’s the only smartwatch in Android land to run the latest version of Wear OS with Samsung’s One UI Watch. While it has many health tracking abilities, it misses some important features based on your region. For example, Blood Pressure monitoring isn’t available on the Galaxy Watch 4 in the US region at the time of writing in April 2022. Thankfully, there is a workaround for this issue. If you have a Galaxy Watch 4 or Galaxy Watch 4 Classic, here’s how you can enable the Blood Pressure feature (and ECG too if it’s not available in your region)....

In Windows 8, Microsoft has introduced the feature of fast startup (fast boot) which can boot up Windows in 1/10th time as compared to earlier versions and disabled the option to hibernate from the default power options. Fast boot is a great feature but it does not save an active session as the hibernate option did. If you are missing the Hibernate option in Windows 8 and would like to enable it, here’s how it’s done....

Smart Lock feature keeps your phone unlocked when connected to a trusted device or in familiar territory. There’re a few different versions of Smart Lock on Android, and we shall walk you through all of those and more. So, let’s get right to it. How to Enable or Disable On-Body Detection in Android Smart Lock Enabling On-body Detection Smart Lock will keep your device unlocked as long as it is in your hand....

One of the best workarounds to get over an overloaded Chrome browser is by enabling sleeping tabs. Similar to the sleeping apps on Android phones, sleeping browser tabs help reduce memory usage. This lets you use the free memory for other important work. And when you need the tab again, you can click on it to wake it up. Cool, right? While Chrome doesn’t have a native feature, it does let you tweak the flags to enable sleeping tabs....

Sharing One Contact at a Time iOS, unlike Android, does not have a built-in export/import feature for contacts. You can, however, share contacts one at a time. This is a painful affair but if you only have a handful of contacts and for some reason can’t download the app we’re going to talk about below, try this out. Go to the Contacts app, tap on the contact name and scroll down till you find Share contact....

For instance, the Magic Keyboard’s backlight may not adjust properly to the surrounding ambient light levels. Or, it may fail to turn off alongside your iPad and end up draining the battery. The fixes that follow should help you resolve such issues. Uncover Ambient Light Sensor The Magic Keyboard’s backlight automatically changes in brightness based on the ambient light level. In dark surroundings, the backlight increases in intensity, and vice versa....

That shouldn’t be hard to resolve seeing how well the app was really designed. Just follow through the guide and you should be able to see weather forecasts for tomorrow in no time. Let’s begin. 1. Update the Operating System A simple trick which will take just a few moments of your time, but can do wonders. Press Windows key+I on your keyboard to open Settings and select Update & Security....

Some common errors that we will try to solve in the guide below are: Netflix opens up to a black screen.Gets stuck on the loading screen.There was a problem with this download.Error code H403: Sorry, there was a problem communicating with Netflix servers. Let’s start with the easy solutions which should fix the problem. If they don’t, then you can proceed to the tricky ones. 1. App Update Launch the Windows Store, open menu to select Downloads & updates....

Initially, I thought that particular, video didn’t have a sound. However, after playing other videos and audio files, it hit me that the Windows update broke the audio playback on my PC. Fortunately, one of the solutions mentioned below got back sound on my laptop. So if you are also going through the same trauma, try the solutions mentioned below to fix the sound issue in Windows 10 update. Let’s get started....

One such problem occurs with the Settings app. When opening it at times, the Settings app can become unresponsive for quite a few seconds, and even crash ultimately. That was a persistent issue ever since the iOS 12 beta, and remains unresolved as of iOS 12.1. However, several known fixes can help. Most prominently, the requirement to have all iOS 12 stock apps installed on your device. So, let’s work through that, as well as many other troubleshooting methods to patch up the Settings app....