Before iOS 16, you had to rely on third-party alternatives or the iCloud web to create contact groups. It wasn’t the most convenient solution. Apple has made it dead simple to create the same in the Contacts app on iPhone. Before you get started, make sure your iPhone runs iOS 16 update. Otherwise, you won’t find an option to create lists on iPhone. Here’s how you can create or remove contacts lists on your iPhone....

We are talking about the shape crop. Sometimes, instead of adding a simple square or a rectangular image, we want it in a different shape. Suppose you are creating a card for your friend in Canva and you want to crop an image in heart shape as such Canva doesn’t provide a direct option for that. However, there is a workaround. Whether it’s a heart, circle, or any other shape, here you will get to know how to crop images into shapes in Canva....

Lock Screen is a new concept introduced in Windows 8. Desktop and laptop users may not find the addition much useful but tablet users will love it. This lock screen will make sure that a user does not make any accidental taps while the device is in his bag pack. There are two prominent elements that make up the Windows 8 Lock Screen. The first one is the background photo that takes up up to 95% of the lock screen while the second one are the apps that you can pin to it to gain direct access....

Here’s how to use them. Google Forms Themes Using Google Forms to collect your friends’ or coworkers’ input is quite easy, as you probably already know, but the problem is that those forms don’t have anything interesting about them. They’re just, well, forms like any other forms, even if the service itself is a great one (it can even be used to track expenses). With that said, let’s say that you’ve just started creating your brand new form that you can’t wait to share with your friends or coworkers....

We will be covering the steps for all the devices in the most straightforward method. However, you need to know a few things before you delete your Discord account. What to Know Before Deleting Your Discord Account When you delete your Discord account, all the associated account data will also get permanently deleted with an option to retrieve it within 14 days. However, after the 14-day grace period, you won’t be able to revive your Discord account....

Furthermore, I love sharing my photos on Facebook, and I used to upload the same sets of images to Facebook also. Now the problem was, as I am not on an unlimited bandwidth plan, using twice the bandwidth for same set of snaps always questioned my conscience (read hurt my pockets). Not to mention the extra work I had to put in to upload them to Facebook. Hence automatically uploading my photos from Dropbox to Facebook made perfect sense for me taking into account both the above mentioned hassles....

Google Chrome is my default browser across devices. I use it regularly to browse the internet. Recently, I activated dark mode on Chrome accidentally, which made the homepage, settings, and some other things black. Turning it off wasn’t an easy task. So I thought that others could also be wondering about how to turn off dark mode in Chrome. Hence, this post. Let’s see how to have Chrome get rid of this darkness....

Then there’s CTRL+U which underlines a word to add a little more emphasis to it, though it is something which is usually not advocated because of the similarity between an underlined part of text and a hyperlinked one. There’s a slightly better way if the usual ways of placing emphasis on a word or line isn’t cutting it for you – do a Double Underline. Yes, it’s one of the little known members of Word keyboard shortcuts....

customize its appearance as much as possible with custom themes that reflect what I like and that set apart my PS3’s home screen from the rest. Let’s take a look at two different ways in which you can install custom themes on your PS3: Downloading them from the web to you computer and getting them from the PSN. Downloading Themes To your Mac or Windows PC To do this, you will need a USB drive (formatted in the FAT32 format) to carry the theme over to your PS3....

The one-day blackout of Wikipedia didn’t bother me, and since we at Guiding Tech do not support SOPA, PIPA or any such draconian laws, we have been spreading awareness against these laws too in our own way. Having said that, there’s no doubt that Wikipedia is an incredible resource and there could be many around the world (students for example) who’d feel crippled if they couldn’t access Wikipedia for a day....

Gmail of course has conquered user attention to quite a great extent but older services like Hotmail (or Windows Live Hotmail as it is known now) have also matured in the background. This article is a simple guide on why and how you should migrate from Gmail to Hotmail. Why Migrate from Gmail to Hotmail? The first and foremost reason to catalyze your navigation towards Hotmail could be the changes in Google’s recent privacy privacy policies....

convert PDF files to Word documents , edit them and save them again as PDF files . There are many tools available using which you can directly edit your PDF files and do other useful PDF operation even without converting them. However today I am going to show you how you can edit and encrypt your PDF document using Microsoft Office 2013. If you are using Word 2013 on your computer – the latest version of the most famous document editing application for Windows – you will now no longer have to rely on a third-party tool to edit PDF files....

Here, I’d like to show how to beautifully highlight a specific text or paragraph of an article and share it on social media using your Android phone. Highlight Text in an Article in Attractive Way You can easily create attractive text and share it on social media using a new app called Xcerpt. This app is specifically created for Twitter but it can be used with other social media apps too....

If you’re interested in knowing how to use Chrome’s autofill feature on your device, this post will show you the steps involved in enabling and disabling autofill in Google Chrome for both PC and mobile. So, without further ado, let’s get right to it. How to Enable or Disable Autofill in Google Chrome (On PC) Whether you’re looking to set up the autofill feature for the first time or want to disable it for good, accessing Chrome’s autofill settings is pretty straightforward....

Reading Pane on MS Outlook can drastically ease and speed up the activity of viewing emails (of course when there are lots of them in the unread list). You know how it works, just click on the email (you do not have to double click and open it) and a preview of the message becomes available on the Reading Pane. Then you may actually open it in full view if it is required....

Today we’ll tell you how (and why) to use a stronger AES encryption standard, how to set a password that’s almost impossible to crack, and which software to use to create encrypted zip files. AES vs Zip 2.0 AES is the hot new encryption standard. It’s already the industry standard. If you’re dealing with encryption, you’ve got to use AES. It comes in two flavors, 128 bit and 256 bit....

Sadly, sometimes, the apps only work on Wi-Fi. That is, when you switch to mobile data, they do not work as intended. Of course, nobody would like to be in such a situation. Fortunately, you don’t have to be. Here you will find some fixes to resolve the issue of apps working on Wi-Fi only and not on mobile data. Let’s check them out. Restart Phone Before we start diving into other solutions, restart your phone....

Sometimes when you send a message to your friend via Facebook Messenger, it doesn’t go through. You often notice the waiting for network error at the top in the yellow banner. What does one do when every other app is functioning normally except Messenger? Don’t worry. Here we will tell you how to fix this problem on your Android device. Let’s gets started. Restart Device The first thing that you should try is restarting your phone....

Firefox is updating way too often (then you haven’t been on Chrome yet!). That’s a part of its rapid release cycle strategy, that is – 6 weeks between each new release. It might be good news for you if you were peeved with the earlier version, but it is a problem for your add-ons (and their developers) as they simply have to keep up. Well, Firefox just hopscotched from version 12 to the latest Firefox Version 13....

indexing mechanism that speeds up searching of files in the system. Instead of going through each drive and directory, Windows simply searches for the associated index and maps the real location of the file. However, the performance of search indexes is not always accurate and pleasing. Sometimes you may see messages that search results are slow, search results might be incomplete, media is not present in the search location or Windows search indexer has stopped working....