Thankfully, that’s not the end of the road. There are various ways to connect your iPhone to your Windows laptop to sync and transfer photos and music. And in this post, we will discuss some of the ways. The first method uses iTunes to you connect and sync your phone’s content. The second method utilizes the age-old connecting a cable to access the phone’s gallery. However, before you proceed, make sure you have a USB-C (or USB-A) to Lightning cable handy....

Third-party apps like UniConverter give you plenty of room to play around when it comes to converting videos to a different format or compressing them to a smaller size. Truth be told, dealing with video files can be confusing. There are several audio-video formats, and not every app offers the support for most, if not all, of those formats. For instance, Instagram Stories shows a blank screen if you try to upload a UHD video....

If you want to share DOCX documents and collaborate with others in Google Docs, for example, you must convert them to the GDOC format. Thankfully, it’s quite easy to convert your documents using Google Docs itself. Let’s check how you can convert DOCX documents to the GDOC format in both the Google Docs web app on desktop and the Google Docs mobile app for Android and iOS. Note: Converting DOCX to GDOC may result in formatting issues....

On a computer, it is so easy- Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V. How about smartphones? Well, Android and iOS have their own ways. We will talk about Windows Phone 8 today. It is quick, simple and easy. You can copy any chunk of text from anywhere and paste it at another place where you are allowed to type. Note: The Windows Phone 8 device used for this post is Nokia Lumia 920....

Nandroid backup is not like other backups that create different backup files for distinct settings. It creates a mirror image of the current state of your ROM to an image file that includes everything and when you restore it, every tiny detail (like call records and widgets) will be restored to your phone. Note: The device should be rooted and must have a custom recovery installed in order to create a Nandroid backup....

photos being uploaded every day, Facebook has become one of the most popular destinations for sharing photo albums online. Sharing your pictures with those who have a Facebook profile is easy but how does one share them with someone who doesn’t own a Facebook account? Luckily, Facebook provides a way to get a public link for your photos or an entire photo album. Through this link, you can share the album with just about anyone online....

By default, macOS comes with most-essential keyboard shortcuts to improve your productivity. But there can be times when you want to access certain menus or functions such as Notification Centre or Do Not Disturb mode repeatedly and miss the absence of those swift keyboard shortcuts. Thankfully, you can always assign custom keyboard shortcuts for them. The functionality doesn’t end here. You can also create keyboard shortcuts for third-party apps like Firefox, Pixelmator, and more....

Back in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, OblyTile was the go to program for such tasks. But the app does not function in Windows 10 and here there was a time to look for an alternative. While browsing XDA the other day, I came across an alternative to OblyTile using which one can create custom tiles in Windows 10. However, the app doesn’t work out of the box and requires some advanced settings to get the pinned apps working....

Well, I am sure you must have also faced a similar situation with Samsung’s Bixby. Thankfully, most of the settings in the Galaxy S20 series is customizable as per your preference. And disabling or deactivating Bixby is one of them. Not only can you disable Bixby Routines on your Samsung Galaxy S20/S20+, but you can also remap the action of the side button, named Side Key, to the app of your choice....

Fast forward a few years, I couldn’t help noticing the gaps in this password implementation (I won’t call it a password manager, though). Due to lack of a master password, anybody who had access to my laptop could see my passwords. All they had to do was go to Settings > Manage Passwords and click on the little eye icon. On top of it, you can count the number of Android apps that support Smart Lock on your phone, on your fingers....

That’s where justdelete.me comes in to save the day. This online tool is an awesome collection of links which can make the deletion of a website account a breeze. However, it should be noted that some accounts are unfortunately impossible to delete. How it Works As of writing this article justdelete.me has a directory of 477 links which seeks to make deleting your accounts for various services easier. Note: Even without actually clicking on them, the color-coded links seen above give users information on the difficulty they will encounter on attempting deletion of their account....

But how do you enable it? If you were hunting around the app looking for that toggle or switch to turn on dark mode, then you won’t find any. There’s a reason as to why. OneDrive’s dark mode integrates with the native dark mode functionality present in iOS 13. So you must enable it on the system level to enjoy dark mode in OneDrive. Let’s see how you can do that, and then go through a few other additions and changes in OneDrive....

The Apple Watch is an accessory that generally lasts only a single day on a full charge. This isn’t ideal if you’re on a long trip or away from the charger for a while. In such a scenario, the Low Power Mode on watchOS 9 can extend the battery life of your Apple Watch. Here’s how to enable Low Power Mode on your Apple Watch and why you should. Let’s start with the basics....

We can take steps to reduce our battery life usage, but, wouldn’t it be better if we just had the right number to start with? Thankfully, there’s one thing they can’t lie about: battery specifications. In this guide, we’ll help you calculate how long you can actually expect your next laptop to last. The Formula The calculation is quite simple to do. We’ll go into how to find the numbers in a moment, but here’ how we do it:...

Often, I find the preset categories in Screen Time to be downright awful. For example, Skype falls under the Social Networking category, but I often need it for work. I don’t like that using it counts in my app limits. And when it comes to downtime, I prefer having access to certain apps such as Books or iChess. Love falling asleep while reading or doing a round of chess. That’s why I like to exclude certain apps from downtime and app limits....

You would need the product keys if you reinstall the software or reinstall Windows. And the fastest way to take a backup of all the product keys in your PC is by using a tiny tool known as LicenseCrawler. All your software license keys rest inside Windows registry and LicenseCrawler can retrieve all those serial numbers easily. This software is specially made for locating all the software keys inside your computer, therefore it does the job pretty well....

For instance, if you save a bookmark on your PC and you want to visit the same on your Android phone, it will appear automatically under Bookmarks if sync is enabled. No manual work is needed. However, the feature doesn’t work as intended sometimes. That is if you save the bookmark on PC, it doesn’t reflect on other devices or vice versa. Don’t worry; it’s nothing serious. Just follow the fixes mentioned below to solve the bookmarks not syncing issue on Chrome....

There can be multiple reasons behind why the webpage that you are trying to access won’t open without a hassle. It can be adware or malware, an error in your LAN settings or Firefox’s proxy settings itself. It is also possible that the webpage/website is itself at fault, and in that case, I can’t help you. Let’s take a look at some solutions and methods that will help you fix the proxy server connection error....

This guide will help you fix a variety of common issues resulting in Google Duo not working on your phones. Whether you can’t launch the app, connect calls, or facing video/audio call quality issues, our recommended solutions should help you fix the app. Let’s begin. 1. Google Duo Connection Issues These are some of the most basic steps that needs to be checked out. You should begin with your Wi-Fi connection and also try mobile data to cross-check, just in case....

That’s not all. Even the missed call notification counter in the notification panel starts acting up. That is if you clear the missed call notification in the panel, typically the counter should reset to 0. However, now the counter starts piling up the missed calls. So removing it doesn’t have any effect. I can understand your pain. Fortunately, many fixes exist that will solve missed call notification not showing on Android phones issue....