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When I got my hands on the Galaxy Watch 3, it could barely last a day. One night, I went to sleep with the watch showing 42%, and the next morning, the battery was dead. No kidding. Compared to the previous smartwatches, the Galaxy Watch 3 has a shorter battery life. For instance, the 46mm Galaxy Watch lasts up to 4 days on a single charge. Nevertheless, I tinkered around the watch and made a few changes, and thankfully, I made the battery last a little bit longer....

Now, do you really have to stay awake till 12 just to do that? You want a way out, right? You want a way to be able to write posts and schedule them to be updated on your profile at a time of your choice. And today we are going to tell you how to do that on Google+. Steps to Schedule Posts on Google+ To be able to schedule posts you will need to install a Chrome extension called Do Share....

You can filter these apps categorically or simply use the search function. While there are apps for finance, property, productivity, banking, health, fitness, and there is no dearth of games, there are also apps with adult content like violence and games with explicit scenes, jokes and images. It is our job, as a parent, to protect the innocence of our kids by restricting their access to these sources. This is why Google has developed some parental control tools right inside the Play Store app to help you decide which apps can be accessed by your kids....

I am sure it’s not only Gmail, but almost every leading email service has more or less similar kind of restrictions on attachment for security reasons and thus changing the service provider is not an answer. So now what? With the same question in mind I started my hunt to find a solution to the above problem and rested when I got my hands on Kicksend. (of course, there are other ways, like using Opera Unite, but we are talking about more easier ways here) Kicksend is a free web service that lets us send files (as email attachments) to our family and friends without restrictions of any kind....

Hence today I will show you how you can shutdown your Windows 8 computers in four different ways (includes a bonus tip!) based on the kind of device you are using (desktop, laptop and tablets). Now, the ways discussed here aren’t the only ways to shutdown Windows 8 on those devices, and you could actually use most of these ways on any of the devices. But I have categorized them in accordance with what’s most convenient for each device....

presentations even with some frequency, then you must know that one of the primary concerns when creating one is to find just the right kind of icons and graphics to use on them. Ideally, your graphics or other images for presentations should be large and come with transparent backgrounds to provide maximum flexibility when creating a keynote. But what if instead of using image files you could use icons that work and behave just like fonts?...

Haven’t we all gone through the experience where you sat down to show your recent vacation pictures to your friends, and just as you click on the folder the thumbnails take ages to load on your Windows PC. That can turn out to be quite an exasperating affair, especially if you have to locate a few important photos quickly. That issue is more rampant in systems carrying plenty of media files inside folders....

Part of what makes Android great is that there is no lack of options. Of course, not all Android phones are created equal. If you have a budget or aging phone, you can’t expect it to perform blazingly fast. That said, you don’t have to settle for snail-speeds, either. While most budget phones will run at least somewhat decently right out of the box, it doesn’t take too many months before you notice a bit of slowdown....

What Is Systemstats? Systemstats is a root process in OS X that keeps account of everything that’s going on in your Mac on a system level. It is used to retrieve information about things like system stats and power usage. For most of the time, it runs in the background, using almost 0% of your CPU’s processing power. But the systemstats process has been known to go rogue and taking up 100 to 300% of CPU processes....

It’s almost 2019, and anything wireless can be connected — be it your smart home devices or your browsing history. So it’s a huge bummer when you can’t sync your fitness tracker to your favored app. But don’t worry. We have a nifty workaround to sync the Xiaomi Mi Band 3 with Samsung Health. It is a tad complicated but manages to get the work done. Let’s see how to get it done, but before that let’s check what’s the need to sync....

With Android P, Google added the screenshot option in the Power button itself. Truth be told, I miss the palm swipe gesture of taking screenshots that’s present in Samsung devices. Several other brands have similar gestures or a quick setting to take screenshots. These shortcuts and features are quite helpful. But unfortunately, not all devices have them. And it becomes an issue when the Power button is broken, or the Volume down button is broken in case of devices that require pressing both the Volume down and Power button....

But, if you’re stuck with an old PC (like me) with no such luck, don’t despair. With the help of a few tips and tricks, it can not only access Wi-Fi, but can also act like a virtual router. Let’s find out how! Good Things Aren’t Free Okay, so let’s get one thing clear. Nothing can magically enable a PC to somehow get wireless capabilities without any additional hardware. This just won’t happen....

The black background on your iPhone could be due to dark mode or color accessibility settings enabled on your iOS device. We have covered several ways to remove the dark screen or dark background on iPhone and iPad. You will know how to turn the dark mode off from Settings, Control Center, Focus modes, and Accessibility Settings. Let’s get started. 1. How to Get Rid of Black Background on iPhone From Settings One of the easiest ways to turn off dark mode on iPhone or iPad is from Settings as shown below: Step 1: Open Settings on your iPhone and go to Display & brightness....

If you fell into the latter camp, then you’re finally in luck. While iOS 13 offered no way to disable Siri’s contact suggestions (aside from a somewhat crazy workaround that we will talk about as well), Apple has included an option with iOS 14 that can allow you to easily switch them off. So without any further ado, let’s check out how you can go about disabling Siri’s Share Sheet contact suggestions on your iPhone....

For instance, some people have been receiving news notifications about football when they haven’t watched a single football match in their lives. While Twitter calls these notifications ‘News for you’, in reality they don’t seem they are actually for us. If you are also bothered by these updates, you can turn them off in the Twitter settings. Here’s what you need to do. Disable News For You Notifications Step 1: Open the Twitter app and tap the profile picture icon at the top-left corner....

Not everyone is happy with that. Quite a few people are leaving Facebook citing privacy, security, and other issues, and for them, one option is to unlink Spotify from their Facebook account. The problem is that Facebook doesn’t want to let you go. But we are adamant. Let’s begin. 1. Create a New Account Well, don’t pile on me for suggesting this first. You will create a new Spotify account with a different email ID than the one you used for your Facebook account....

I had this in mind for my 10.1 inch Samsung Note 2 tablet for a long time. I knew it would serve well as my laptop’s extended display. But none of the apps were compatible with Windows 8 at that time. Luckily, now iDisplay has launched a beta driver for Windows 8 which seems to be working quite decently. So let’s have a look at how to connect it wirelessly and use your Android device as an additional desktop that complements your laptop screen....

The News app is capable of delivering articles directly to your iOS device in a distraction-free reading format. Most importantly, you can customize the news so you only read about what interests you and don’t even have to look at any topics that you don’t care about. Follow along some of the necessary steps for setting up Apple News and getting the most out of it. Set Up Your Customized News Sources When you launch Apple News for the first time, the app will ask you to pick a few sources you’re interested in reading about....

One fact I want to share is, I use PortableApps Suite on my USB Drive and I was looking for a way I could integrate Dropbox to it. Though I couldn’t get Dropbox to work, I managed to find a way to use Google Drive using a portable app. I was fine with that because all I wanted was to work on files and automatically sync them online. Dropbox or Google Drive, as long it worked, I was happy....

Paint 3D carries a bunch of exciting features. Those include stickers, 2D shapes, the ability to use PNG images, a wide variety of brushes, and much more. We have covered all of them in this post. Let’s check how to use Paint 3D to edit images. Open Photo You can either start drawing on the blank canvas in Paint 3D or edit any existing photo. To edit an old image, go to Menu in Paint 3D....