If your mouse’s cursor gets frozen often, here are some of the best ways to fix your mouse cursor stuck on a Mac. 1. Force Reboot Your Mac Start by employing the customary solution – rebooting your Mac. Since your cursor is stuck, it would make it hard to get to the reboot menu using the macOS interface on your Mac. Hence, a force reboot using the power button is your best way out....

Apart from its impressive looks, the Alta Hr also packs impressive features like the heart rate tracking mechanism, automatic exercise recognition, sleep tracking, etc. What’s more, even the battery is expected to last up to seven days. With this impressive features in mind, let’s have a quick roundup on some of the best bands for the Fitbit Alta HR. 1. Swees Milanese Stainless Steel Here’s a great band that is designed to give off the perfect style statement....

We have using the Samsung Galaxy S20 ever since it arrived in our office a couple of days ago, and we are amazed by the capabilities of the camera. Hence in this post, we have compiled the best camera tips and tricks for the Samsung Galaxy S20 and S20+ to help you get the most out of this phone. As it’s going to be a long post, let’s get going, shall we?...

When you start or stop streaming a title in 4K Ultra HD, your TV screen can flicker or turn black for up to five seconds. The black screen issue could be due to a bug in the Fire TV Stick’s Fire OS or just some basic hitch in the device’s operation. The type (and format) of content being played could also be a contributing factor. We outline the major possible causes of this issue as well as their respective fixes in this post....

Windows 10 packs many built-in tools to let its users receive files from other devices wirelessly. Bluetooth is a great example. It’s not the fastest file transfer protocol on a Windows computer, but it gets the job done. And also lets you connect Bluetooth speakers and headphones. However, there are times when Bluetooth doesn’t work on Windows 10. Some Windows users have reported cases where they were unable to receive files from other Bluetooth-enabled devices....

Facebook is building interactions, and to add more bricks to that they recently announced a slew of Timeline apps. ( you may want to check out our review of Facebook Timeline first ) Facebook Timeline apps are like third–party add-ons which integrate with your Facebook Timeline profile and add real-time interactivity between you and your friends. Any activity that you engage in on these services is shared across your social network....

I could make my way to the home screen and just say “Ok Google, what’s the cricket match score” and it would tell me. I love not doing things. But I’ve switched between many launchers since. I did my stint with Aviate, then I had my honeymoon period with Nokia’s Z Launcher. Recently, I installed EverythingMe and it’s doing me good. But that’s a topic for some other day. Today I want to take the voice search aspect out of the home screen and spread it across the OS....

However, if you haven’t got Samsung, there’s no problem at all. Thanks to a lot of apps available on the Play Store, anyone can achieve this on a compatible Android device. We have already seen how to watch multitask while watching videos and look for words in a dictionary on floating apps. Adding to these, today we will see how to watch YouTube videos and perform web browsing on floating windows....

On Android, there isn’t even a built-in dictionary. Google Play Books has one, but it’s restricted to the app. A few years back an app called WordLookup showed up (it hasn’t been updated since October 2013, bad sign). It was a poor hack where you needed to highlight and share the word to the app and you’d get a floating notification that would disappear in 10 seconds. Now we have a slightly better tool in the form of Power Reading: Word Snitch....

This is why it is so rare to find a to-do app like Any.Do, which is not only free and great looking, but that is also simple and even fun to use. Contrary to the common practice in the app market, Any.Do showed up on Android first to much acclaim, making its appearance on the iPhone later which was not only much more significant but also very anticipated. Let’s take an in-depth look at what makes Any....

There are awesome email apps available for iOS like Mailbox, Google Inbox and even Microsoft’s Outlook (which might even be the best Gmail client for iOS) to help you manage the email workload. All those apps make it easy to organize emails and set up reminders so you can deal with the email later, without fail. But wouldn’t it be great if there was a really simple way where you could just read the email subject and decide if you want to let go of it or deal with it later?...

post a message to their Facebook profiles on their birthdays , or better instead: not to even have to remember to do it. That is the basic premise of fBirthdays, a free app for iPhone that uses the “freemium” model and that does a very simple but important job: It allows you to schedule birthday messages that the app then posts on your behalf to your friends’ Facebook profiles at random times on their birthdays....

Best of Guiding Tech in April 2012 21 Incredibly Useful Bookmarklets For Better Online Browsing If you are heavy user of bookmarklets, this is a post that should interest you. Even if you don’t use them much, you should take a look at the cool ones we’ve listed. You never know when they might come in handy. 15 Useful and Lesser Known Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts Did you know all of these Firefox keyboard shortcuts?...

Check it out! Best of GT – June 2012 4 Excellent Tools to Improve English Grammar As a blogger, I know how important grammar is for any language. It is the fabric of a language, and when that language is English it becomes especially important because English is the lingua franca – the “mother tongue” – of the world. Thankfully, these days you don’t have to hire a tutor to teach you the basics of grammar....

Best of Guiding Tech in March, 2012 15 Best VLC Media Player Keyboard Shortcuts For Using It Productively If you are someone who has never tried VLC, it is high time you try it first. For others, these keyboard shortcuts will further smoothen their experience of using this awesome media layer. 3 Impressive Tools to Share Keyboard and Mouse Between Two or More Windows PCs Not everyone of us needs 2 computers at one time, but when we do, using different keyboards and mice for each is troublesome....

While you can always use a regular Smart TV, many TVs are specially designed for RV. Since motorhomes don’t have typical 110W power outlets, RV TVs rely on 12V inputs and some extra durability features. Before getting started: Here are the best streaming devices to turn your regular TV into a Smart TV Check out the best solar equipment and accessories for camping. These are some of the best solar lights for camping....

There are numerous uses of VPN tech which bypass geographical restrictions on certain websites and content to staying anonymous on the internet. There are a significant number of VPN services that can be used free of cost, but they should be avoided as they cap the internet speed as well as provide only limited bandwidth per month. In case your free VPN service doesn’t restrict your browsing speed or bandwidth, they definitely are taking something from you — your browsing data, email address and other sensitive details....

Resizing and changing the resolution not only decreases the file size but also makes them suitable for usages like web upload and wallpaper. Lightning Image Resizer is a freeware which provides a convenient platform to bulk resize images and change their resolutions, without any significant loss of quality. The tool is portable in nature and thus needs no installation of any kind. Let us now talk about how to process images using it....

secure your most important files and folders so that no one can access them even if they have full access to your computer? Perhaps you share your Mac with someone else and don’t want to create a whole new account for that person or you want to have your most vital information covered against possible theft. For these and other similar scenarios, I’m going to show you how to create an encrypted folder on your Mac that you can actually lock with a password to secure it and take with you anywhere you want....

We have talked about an amazing app in the past that proves the aforementioned point. The app called AppConfig gives you the ability to set specific Android settings to individual apps based upon your comfort. So if you want your video playing apps like MX Player or YouTube to always open in full screen mode with maximum brightness, the app would do that for you. The AppConfig app didn’t require root access and was for the masses to install and run....