Let’s admit it. You’ll use several online services that require a unique and strong login info every time. Using the same weak password can make you vulnerable to hackers. And that’s why a password manager is important. Both Apple and Google’s eco-system is filled with several options. And choosing a suitable one with maximum security is a crucial process. After all, you are going to fill it with all your confidential information, and some of it may include access to the banking and shopping sites....

You are on a computer where you do not have administrative rights to install antivirus software. But you need to scan for malware, and You want to double-check your system (or just a single downloaded file) for potential security threats by running it through a spyware scan. I can give you a few more backdrops of security threats we face in our everyday use of computers, but let these two show you the importance of having a good alternative security solution at hand....

But efficiency demands that you do sync them, and keep them updated. Earlier we have looked at multiple ways to move contact information between email clients, backup your iPhone contacts, and even move contacts between two mobile operating systems. Today, we will try to save ourselves a bit of labor again by automatically extracting phone numbers from our emails and syncing them to all our devices. So, say hello to our new friend on the web – Morse....

Personally speaking, I am not a fan of Facebook chat. With contenders like Skype and Gtalk, Facebook chat always seems to fall behind. Apart from chat however, Facebook has become a necessary part of my life. It has become easy as hell to check on with friends, view their snaps, schedule events. Likewise, for others, may be the chat part of it has become integral to their Facebook experience....

activate picture password feature on Windows 8 , I have been looking for ways to get the similar feature on my Android Phone. Thanks to XDA developer kevdilu , Android users can now use similar photo gesture unlock feature on their devices as well. The app comes in both lite and a paid version. In this article, I will tell you how to use the lite version to access the feature and then we will be talking about the difference between the lite and the pro version....

However, if you have a Gmail account, Google has made it easy for you to separate the two. Further, Gmail has fantastic features for all set of users — from regular to power users. However, the often confusing ones are Mute, Archive, and Snooze. All the three functions are interesting and sound similar but perform very different roles. In this post, we will dive deep into these three functions and understand the primary differences between them....

Goodbye Nexus, Hello Pixel This event is going to be special for another reason. Well, special might not be the choicest word, but it will be the event where Google finally kills the Nexus name. They stuck with it till last year and called their products the Nexus 6P and 5x, when a year earlier they had launched the Nexus 6. There can’t be a Nexus 7 as we already have a tablet by that name....

Google knows there’s a segment out there that needs a bit of hand holding. Good To Know is a Google initiative that teaches greenhorn computer users all about the dos and don’ts of online safety. Good To Know is very much like those public service campaigns we see on popular media these days. But more than them, things like ‘setting unique passwords’ or ‘how to use Google SafeSearch’ impact the way we use our computers every day....

Not only does the battery case provide your iPhone with extra juice to power the device, but also attends to your music needs. It also gets a bigger battery in its case than Apple’s official battery pack which is priced at $99. Apple’s battery pack gets a 2365 mAh battery while Griffin Reserve gets a 3000 mAh battery pack. The Reserve case also charges via your iPhone’s Lightning charging connector — meaning no need to carry an extra USB to charge the case....

It’s Not Spying, It’s Tracking The scary sounding stories made it out to be that Windows 10 could access all your local files and was tracking accessing your other personal data. Both of those stories were attributed to misquoted or misattributed quotes from Microsoft’s privacy policies. The quote, first pointed out by Rock Paper Shotgun was as below. The scariest part was “files in private folders”. WHAT? Microsoft has access to my personal files?...

This new update follows Messenger’s Instant Games update that the company announced on Wednesday, which allows users to play games within the Messenger app. Reactions were first rolled out for posts by the company more than a year ago and their popularity seems to have grown ever since. “We’ve been listening to people and know that there should be more ways to easily and quickly express,” the company stated while launching reactions Comments only had a ‘Like’ button beforehand and the addition of reactions is surely going to boost interactivity within post comments....

Aforesaid, MIUI 9 comes with a lot of enhancements and features and well, if you ask me, some of these features were long overdue. However, apart from these, MIUI 9 has a nifty tool hidden and it goes by the name of Game Booster. As suggestive of its name, it boosts the performance of your games. In this article today, we will see how the tool works and how it helps in boosting gaming performance in MIUI 9....

Researchers have found that the reason behind you ignoring the warnings and popups is that you might be weak at multitasking. BYU’s Information System Researchers have found that 90% of users ignore PC security warning if they pop up at the wrong time. In the new study, which was done in collaboration with Google Chrome’s security engineers, they’ve concluded that the reason is “dual-task interference” or multitasking. After conducting MRI tests, they found that an interruption during important tasks like typing, watching a video or uploading files can lower the neural activity....

Scratch that, even influencers, athletes and other celebrities are constantly divulging information on Twitter and many of you might be interested in not missing out on their tweets. And for those of you who are in a habit of maintaining an RSS reader to consume information from worldwide publications, authors and people you’re interested in hearing from, here is a tool to help you do so on Twitter. Almost half a decade back, Twitter used to serve RSS feeds, which was a useful tool but the micro-blogging platform stopped the RSS feeds in 2013....

But wouldn’t it be better if the system clock had options to show more than one clock ? Turns out that the system clock in Windows Vista and higher versions does allow you to add up to 2 additional clocks. That would mean that you could now quickly compare different time zones by pointing your mouse on the time at the right-hand bottom corner of your desktop. This article gives you a step-by-step guide to add those additional clocks....

Word is versatile and allows you to add citations in many widely popular formats like APA, MLA, Chicago-Style, GOST, IEEE, and ISO. The steps are easy, and the process is streamlined. We are subscribed to Microsoft 365 plan and would be using Microsoft Word installed on Windows 10. However, the steps should be quite similar for other versions of Word available too. Let’s begin. How to Add, Find, and Edit Citations to Word Let us begin with adding and editing citations in Word....

However, Windows has removed some useful tools like the Toolbar on Windows 11, and now, it’s a little challenging to add folders and files to the Taskbar. We have a little workaround. So if you want the Taskbar of your laptop to be the hub of all important things, here’s how you can pin File Explorer and folders to the taskbar in Windows 11. How to Add File Explorer to Taskbar in Windows 11 The Taskbar in Windows 11 has the File Explorer icon pinned to the Taskbar by default....

To protect the sensitive information, the Pages app lets you add a password to them. In this post, we will show how to add a password to a Pages document on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Add Password to a Pages Document on Mac Let us begin with Macs since many use it work on documents in the Pages app. We recommend installing the latest update of the Pages app on your Mac....

subtitles available? Don’t worry, this is a common problem that PS3 owners face due to the complete inability of the PS3 to read .SRT subtitle files. If you happen to have a film or movie file with the .AVI format however, here is a nifty trick to embed a subtitles track on it that can easily be played on your PS3. Let’s see how to do this. Getting Your Movie Ready Step 1: The first thing to do is to find some subtitles for your film if you don’t have them already....

If you have a hacked PS Vita though (learn how to hack yours in this entry, there are some serious benefits to it), things get even more complicated, since you can’t update your firmware to access the PSN. This potentially leaves some Vita owners stuck with the games they had on their systems before the official firmware was updated. However, there is good news. With qCMA and a bit of work, you can back up the games on your hacked PS Vita and delete them from your device to make room for new ones, which in turn you can transfer to your Vita via your PS3 following the steps on our previous entry on this topic....