best and most useful apps are the ones that we take for granted but that are so essential that we use them everyday. For me, this is the case of Speed Test, a simple, yet very powerful app that allows users to measure the speed of their internet connections. The app was released by Ookla, the team behind the extremely popular SpeedTest.net website, which performs for computers the very same function that their iOS app performs for the iPhone and other iOS devices....

It also has a lot of other neat features, such as a version tracker that keeps track of previous versions of your notes, and other standard ones such as tags for organization and a ton of storage. Here are some ways to use Simplenote: to do lists and remindersa grocery list that you share with your familynotes from a meeting or a classa draft for a blog postbrainstormingkeeping a journallists of movies, restaurants, or booksany kind of text...

Many times, a few trivial issues hamper connectivity and make the pairing a painfully slow process. Fortunately, there are easy ways to fix the connectivity issues between the Samsung Galaxy Watch and your phone. Also, we have a section explaining the fixes to common notification problems on the Galaxy Watch. So do read till the end. 1. Clear Cache Data If the pairing process takes a lot of time, you can try clearing the cache data....

We shall cover differences between One UI and One UI Core and supported devices. Finally, we shall leave you with whether it is a good idea for you to buy the One UI Core phone. Let’s get started. What Is Samsung One UI Core One UI is the customized Android skin installed on Samsung Galaxy smartphones. It comes in two variants – regular One UI and One UI Core. For starters, One UI Core isn’t a beta version of One UI....

With the advent of Facebook, it has become very easy to monitor a friend’s birthday and wish him, but in today’s fast-paced life, it’s not uncommon to loose track of that as well. So today, I will talk about an application called Birthday Scheduler for Fb Lite for your Android, that will automatically schedule the happy birthdays and virtual gifts to your Facebook friends and let you live guilt-free! Once you have downloaded and installed the Birthday Scheduler for Fb Lite application on your Android device, you are good to go....

elegant ones , unique ones and even multipurpose ones . But you don’t have to go for one of these extremes, especially if all you want is a simple calendar that gets the job done without costing much. That’s why in this entry we take a look at two different iPhone calendar alternatives that are completely free and that provide slightly different takes on managing events for basic calendar users....

In the past, with analog cell phones and old-style PDAs and address books, keeping our contacts updated and copying them from one place to another was a real pain. SIM cards helped solve this problem, but only partially and on cell phones, leaving most people with most of their contacts in their computers. However, nowadays with the help of online services like Google account and Apple’s iCloud, contacts can be stored and updated in real-time across multiple devices, and even if you lose a device your contact list is still safe in the cloud....

The Concept We do, or I should say what we love doing here at Guiding Tech is ‘tweaking’. We love playing around with the default settings that a product (software, web app, operating system etc) comes with, and make it useful in some amazing ways. So the new logo is born out of that concept – tweaking the computer. And if you observe carefully, you’ll also see a bit of GT in it, meaning (obviously) Guiding Tech....

Firefox is slow. But even that’s an understatement to how badly it runs on a netbook (I’ve been playing around with one lately). One of the main uses of netbooks is web browsing, one of the few things which the underpowered netbook processors are able to do without hiccups. But not with Firefox. As usual, it’ll take an incredible amount of time to start up. It works fine as long as you have five or less tabs open, but add a couple of more and it starts to stutter....

However, have you ever paid any thought on how much it would cost to make an iPhone? Renowned financial services company, IHS Markit has made a breakdown of the iPhone 8 Plus’ bill of material (BOM). According to their report, the iPhone 8 Plus carries a BOM cost of $288.08, which is higher than any previous iPhones. Apple spends around $7.36 in basic manufacturing which makes the BOM cost of the iPhone 8 Plus rise to $295....

This post will talk about top 10 free software that one must install on his new Windows computer. I’ve tried to limit the article to only those tools which, in my opinion, should be the first 10 tools one should install and use on a new PC. If you have other opinions and suggestions for tools, which I am sure a lot of you would, I urge you to share them in the comments so that all our readers can take a look at them....

These movies have either some element of Sci-Fi, or futurism, or animation or have used technology to make something as plain as a house filled with ordinary furniture look beautiful. Like a painting, even. I’ve handpicked wallpapers from these movies that look the best on your desktops, tablets or other mobile devices. Hope you like! You’ll easy find the description of these movies on IMDB and it’s worth checking them out if you haven’t....

What’s the point of offering a superior call quality experience when the calls fail to reach on the other side? That can push you towards Telegram rivals such as Signal, WhatsApp, or traditional calls over the carrier. Before you go with them, you should follow the steps below to troubleshoot Telegram calls not ringing on your iPhone. 1. Enable Background App Refresh This is essential for apps running in the background to deliver new notifications including messages and calls....

While notifications not coming through may have a number of reasons behind it, you can fix that problem with some solutions. Let’s check the troubleshooting tricks below for iPhone and Android. 1. Check Group Notification Settings (iPhone) If you have accidentally disabled WhatsApp group notifications from your iPhone, WhatsApp won’t send you notifications from any group. Follow the steps below and make sure to enable the notification toggle for groups....

Notion is my go-to recommendation for anyone looking for an ultimate productivity app. You can create notes, manage tasks with reminders, build a personal Wiki, set up a bookmark page, and more. Those functionalities are just the tip of the iceberg. With the use of Notion templates, you can take the overall experience to the next level. Notion became fairly popular in the education sector too. Students and teachers have been using this modular productivity app to ditch other alternatives such as Google Docs, Microsoft OneNote, and task management solutions such as Todoist....

Notion has been the crown jewel of modular productivity apps. In a short period, the San Francisco based start-up gained in popularity due to its unique take on note-taking and organization. As you may know, Notion is all about organizing your life, collecting thoughts, developing personal wiki, and managing to-dos with a modular approach. It boils down to the end-user on how he wants to organize pages within Notion. One can build a page from scratch or use templates....

If your Android has slowed down and seems to take considerably more time for performing the same tasks, then it’s time to clean it up and get rid of the cache and junk files. Thankfully, there are apps that can help you do this easily and you don’t have to manually remove the cache of each app through settings. But there are a host of apps that claim to be good at this....

you want to lose weight, stay fit and – most importantly – maintain your health ! Of course, staying motivated or finding tools to keep track of the job isn’t always easy. That’s where we come in. Let’s take a look at just three of the best free exercise apps out there for Android devices. As you might have guessed, there’s no dearth of such apps on the Play Store....

An alternative to copying and pasting contents between PowerPoint and Word files would be to convert the Word document into a PowerPoint. There are three ways to go about the conversion of Word documents to PowerPoint. They include: Using the Export to PowerPoint Option on Office for Web Using the Word Web App, Microsoft 365 subscribers can easily convert Word documents into PowerPoint Presentations. The Presentation is created based on all summarized sections of the Word file and using AI, images, fonts, and icons may be added....

real work . It’s not surprising though, with the plethora of extensions available to fulfill your every need. Also, with Chrome Packaged Apps gaining traction against desktop apps, the Chrome ecosystem has matured a lot. As advanced as Chrome is when it comes to web technologies, it is still a pretty big memory hog. And running multiple extensions at once can only make it worse. So, instead of running dozens of different single purpose extensions, why not try some of these all-in-One extensions instead....