This website helps you sign up with your Google account and automatically gathers all links to your online accounts on various websites and helps you ‘Clean up your existence’. The app doesn’t delete your accounts directly, rather guides you to the appropriate links and instructions to do that yourself. One can even schedule the deletion of an account — sort of like a wishlist for getting disconnected. As far as the privacy and data security of your various accounts go, the company maintains that they regard those two things as ‘extremely important’....

Introduction to Droid Explorer When it comes to tools and applications using which one can manage an Android phone using the computer, Droid Explorer is state of the art. It has many features apart from the basic one – the ability to easily access Android phone on a computer. So let’s see how we can install the tool and then have a look at some of the interesting features that it provides....

Annotating images and PDFs is useful for all sorts of people. It’s useful for me as a tech writer for showing you exactly where to click on a screen using arrows and making sure my email address is blurred out. It’s useful for designers and developers when critiquing designs by adding text on the photo itself. And annotating PDFs (requires subscription to paid Evernote Premium account) can be useful for an editor or a businessman....

Let’s learn more about Adobe Bridge, including how it can save you time when dealing with Photoshop images. What is Adobe Bridge? Adobe Bridge is a standalone organizational tool included in the Adobe set that is mainly used to manage your Adobe files and organize them as best and fast as possible. In fact, the app’s organizational capabilities are so powerful that, if you so wish, you could even use it to organize all kinds of files in your computer....

Times have changed and most of us tend to have our data these days on cloud storage services like Dropbox. Not that they aren’t safe, but, stories of people hacking in to such services or data being compromised due to security vulnerabilities have come to light in the past. Today we will see how we can easily encrypt the data we store on our Dropbox account to ensure additional safety....

The sudden trigger in work from home shift has spiked the demand in accessories such as microphones, speakers, webcams, laptop stand, wireless headphones, and more. Most of them are either out of stock or costing 2x/3x from the original price. The ones in stock have more than two weeks of delivery time, which is not ideal for the end-user. Among all the hardware products, you can replace the webcam and microphone with your smartphone using apps and services such as EpocCam, iVCam, DroidCam, and iCam....

Thanks to developers who always find a way to get best features of one Android device to others, we can now get a similar feature on any Android device and that too without root access or Xposed modules. So let’s have a look at how to get this feature, but before that, there are some important points you must go through. Note Before Getting Started The feature is best suited for devices which have AMOLED displays as it doesn’t use any power to display black pixel....

The free iPhone app Remindify capitalizes on this idea. Instead of setting reminders for yourself using text, all you do in Remindify is pick a time, date, and one symbol to remind you of exactly what you need to do. As a result, it’s quick to add reminders and even quicker to get them and grasp the concepts – short, sweet and to the point. Set Your Visual Reminders First, if you haven’t already, you should probably download Remindify free for iPhone and iPod touch....

If you are someone on a lookout for a calendar with a tad more aesthetic appeal, then look no further. An app which goes by the name of SolCalendar – Calendar / To-do promises to combine the features of the stock Android calendar and the much-needed fun element. SolCalendar: An Overview SolCalendar is a fantastic calendar app that brings in eye-catching widgets, smart stickers, integrated weather reports in a beautiful UI....

This feature can be put to use either when one of your loved ones or friends are in a secluded spot during late hours and you need to keep a track of their location in order to ascertain their security or just keep a tab on a friend’s ETA during a get-together. The location sharing feature is a useful one as it gives the owner of the device full control over for how long their location will be shared and with whom....

Android Testing Menu is present since the Gingerbread era and the method of accessing it has also remained the same. The only changes were the addition of few more settings with the introduction of ICS. The menu is divided into four main sections as shown in the image above. Note: This menu contains some settings which may change the functioning of your phone and incorrectly configuring them might subject you to network, Wi-Fi or some other problems....

Any which ways, most of us don’t care what Google’s servers have on us — because let’s face it, we aren’t a threat to any government organisation that ‘could’ be using that information. But by force of nature, I’m a bit sceptic about Google or anyone else for that matter of fact tracking and storing information about my whereabouts or saving my voice searches. I’m not paranoid, absolutely not. It’s just that I love my privacy and don’t feel the need to share my life with Google — we all have friends for that....

Apple has learned to remedy this problem with their similarly designed “S” releases by adding a new color. The iPhone 5s added gold and the iPhone 6s added rose gold. Since the iPhone 7 is the first iPhone that keeps the same design for a third year in a row, Apple threw in two new colors: black and jet black. If you look around the Internet, you won’t find very many complaints about the similar design....

While Facebook and Messenger stories offer different features, posting on one of them publishes it on another automatically. That saves us from the trouble of posting it again on the other platform. But what if you want to add a second photo or video to your story? How to do that? Well, you are in the right place. Here we will tell you how to add a second photo or video to your Facebook and Messenger story....

Samsung calls it Intelligent Wi-Fi. The feature remembers the wireless router you use frequently and enables Wi-Fi when you go near the wireless router. Using Bixby routines, you can create automated tasks that allow you to auto-connect Wi-Fi, and run other tasks based on location. We will show you how to set it up in the Bixby app. Use Intelligent Wi-Fi on Your Samsung Phone First, we shall take a look at how to use intelligent Wi-Fi on your Galaxy phone....

Why This Matters The obvious answer is you’ll have trouble finding stuff on a messy desktop. Sure you can use Spotlight or Alfred, but that approach isn’t always efficient. With too many desktop icons, your Mac could slow down. In rare circumstances, you could lose your stuff. Worst of all, you can’t see your awesome wallpaper with a messy desktop. HiddenMe: A Temporary Solution If you haven’t gotten to desktop zero yet, HiddenMe is a free app that hides your desktop icons....

While talking about the Reset and Refresh feature of Windows 8 the other day, we mentioned how both are different. While the Refresh option makes sure your files and settings are retained, Reset makes the computer as good as new (factory reset). Although the refresh option retained the Metro apps and files, it was not able to take care of all the desktop applications installed. RecImg from SlimWare is a nifty application that works just like Windows 8 refresh feature, except that it preserves all the files and applications installed on the system drives (including games as well)....

If you are looking to prevent your child from accessing the internet entirely, then blocking Safari is pretty easy to do via Screen Time. Alternatively, you can choose to block unwanted websites on Safari, and even impose time limits on either the browser or sites individually. There’s also the option to manage restrictions remotely from the comfort of your iOS device should you want to. Let’s look at how you do each of these in turn....

If you want to change the look of your documents for a specific purpose, altering the background can also impact. Whether it’s a menu or a poster for an event, you can alter the background of a document. That’s why the Pages app is apt to give you the option to change the background color. We will show you how to do that on your iPhone and Mac. Change Background Color in Pages App on iPhone Nearly all features of Pages app are usable between the iPhone and Mac....

Google Play Store has a plethrora of applications to better open different media files. Be it a new app to make calls, your new web browser, a swift messaging app or a swanky music player — an Android user is always on the lookout for a new app to adorn his or her home screen. Now, let’s say you use different apps to play videos and listening to music but you accidentally hit Set default and created default action to use a player to play all the media files....