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If you haven’t upgraded to the Canva Pro, we have a nifty trick up our sleeves. Using this trick, you can create eye-catching custom templates in no time, whether it’s a YouTube thumbnail, Instagram Story (see best Instagram Story tips and tricks) or Post, or a simple birthday invitation. No kidding. So, let’s see how to create editable templates on Canva. How to Create Editable Templates on Canva As you may already know, templates come in handy when most of your Instagram stories, posts, thumbnails, or feature images have the same content or structure....

I’ve already seen a few users facing an error message while deleting unwanted files on their systems. Files that insist that they are ‘In Use’ when clearly nothing is open on the users system. How can you get rid of such undeletable files? No need to google, we are here to make your life easier. Cool Tip for Windows 10 Users: The Digital Citizen blog has an interesting post that compares browsers to see which one saves battery on Windows 10...

These videos are just plain pointless for the most part. Not just that, but they also come with increased page loading times and consume tons of bandwidth in the process. Thankfully, Firefox now features the ability to block these pesky videos from playing automatically. Finally, you won’t have to rely on extensions (that may or may not work) to help you out in that regard. However, there’s a caveat. Mozilla’s web browser blocks only audible (unmuted) videos....

A backup could be vitally important to revive your profile. Facebook tells you how to keep your information safe by downloading all your messages, wall posts, photos, status updates and profile information. Here are the steps to download all your Facebook information using their built-in download tool. Log-in to your Facebook account. Click on the Home dropdown and then Account Settings. On the Account Settings page, right below you will see a link that says – Download a copy of your Facebook data....

Google Photos is more than just a gallery app. It’s an excellent photo backup service that also churns out neat edits from time to time. Plus, you can always go back in time to check your old memories. And the good thing is that you can search both by dates, place and as well as text. Over time, Google Photos accumulates thousands and thousands of these memories. So, how do you download all these photos to your computer (or phone) at once?...

Open a word document. Hold the Alt key and type in 0164. Release the Alt key and you would see ¤. Similarly there is a numeric code for each character. We will show you how to find them all. We are going to use MS Excel and its two built-in functions – row and char to find the code for all characters. function row: returns the row number of a referencefunction char: returns the character specified by the code number from the character set of your computer...

Portrait Mode is a great way to click photos of individuals with a background blur to simulate the look of a DSLR camera. However, since the bokeh is created by software, you may need to edit your photos to achieve the desired look. Here are a few ways to edit Portrait Mode photos on your iPhone to get the best look. What Is Portrait Mode on iPhone When you open the camera app on your iPhone (iPhone 7 Plus or later), multiple tabs appear at the bottom above the shutter button....

If you have experienced something like this, it’s time you ran a few tests to jump-start the syncing process on Windows 10. Without further ado, let’s see some of the best ways to fix Dropbox sync issues. 1. Shut Down and Restart Dropbox We know, you may have already tried this step, but it doesn’t hurt to try, right? Simply exit the app and re-launch it again. If it’s a simple one-off thing, the odds are that you will see the documents and files syncing after some time....

Whenever I asked it anything, it would show me the expected results on the screen, however, there was no voice output. Bummer for a voice-based smart assistant, right? Initially, I laughed it off as a one-off issue, as I was getting the results in the written form. However, when I noticed it happening almost every time I called for the Assistant, it piqued my curiosity. So the next thing was pretty obvious, to fish for the solution....

As the name suggests, it locks the “click”. That means one tap on the mouse button or the touchpad and you no longer need to keep it pressed. You can just normally select an item, tap or click the button once, then without holding it anymore just drag the item to the destination, and finally click the button again to release the item and drop it in that destination. So, open the Control Panel and launch the interface for mouse settings....

Windows Sandbox possibly is one of the unique and exciting features to debut on Windows 10 in quite a while. It’s kind of a virtual PC built right into the operating system and offers an isolated environment where you can try out suspicious looking apps or websites before actually using them on your desktop. But after updating to Windows 10 version 1903 (which is required to run Windows Sandbox in the first place), you will find this feature missing....

The battle to take over desktops began with Android phones getting a split screen mode followed by Picture-in-picture (PiP). The latter was introduced in Android 8.0 Oreo and lets a user check other apps while continuing to play the video in a small floating window. Our beloved YouTube app also supports the Picture-in-picture mode. However, many users are reporting that the PiP isn’t working for them. Fret not. Here we shall tell you how to fix it....

Compared to other browsers, Chrome also lacks major privacy-related features. You will surely miss Safari’s ability to use content blockers. Or the always-on Private Browsing mode in Brave. But don’t worry. You can still safeguard your privacy while using Chrome at least to a certain extent. Let’s check out how. 1. Clear Browsing Data Chrome saves tiny bits of information called cookies to your iPhone. Cookies help websites remember your log-in sessions and preferences so that you don’t have to start all over from scratch each time you revisit them....

The wide variety of content that YouTube has to offer is the reason why it’s popular, so much so that 5 billion videos are watched on YouTube every single day. Now, that’s a staggering number! From TV series to pet videos, it has all. However, live channels are something that has started to gain a lot of traction in the past few days. On such live channels, people can watch feeds from cameras that are featuring beautiful frames live from around the globe that make you feel that you’re virtually there....

Notion, a modular productivity app, is witnessing a surge in its user base, as noted in its recent valuation. Initially, Notion made the software free of cost for teachers and students. And now, the San-Francisco based startup is making Notion free for personal use. Earlier, the free plan allowed up to 1000 blocks and file uploads up to 5MB. The software’s unique approach to organization and the use of built-in templates for creating a personal organizer to even hosting a blog has attracted several users across the world....

Whether it’s the inner turmoil of Jin Sakai, the sword duels, or the amazing landscape, this game has managed to settle in our hearts for good. After all, games with good storylines are a rare thing to come by these days. Based on this immense love that we have for this open-world game, we have assembled some of the best high-res wallpapers from Ghost of Tsushima that will do justice to the high-end gaming monitor of yours....

We’ve put together some really helpful shortcut keys you can use in Windows 8. Some of these also work for Windows 7, so combine this list with our previous one here and you’ll be the grand master at swiftly moving around Windows. 1. Windows Key+Alt+1 (2, 3, etc.) to Open Jump Lists Open the Jump list for pinned taskbar items using a number starting from the left at 1. For example, we’d press Windows Key + Alt + 4 to open the Jump list for Chrome in our screenshot....

My hate for TouchWiz stemmed from the cluttered UI and the laggy-ness. Both of which have been taken care of if you own any of the flagship 2015 Samsung devices running the new TouchWiz (S6, S6 edge, edge+, Note5 and so on). And while the lower end devices might still face performance issues, most of the TouchWiz features do seep in. TouchWiz, for the uninitiated, is Samsung’s take on Android (5....

For some users, the ringtone picker app gets stuck on a third-party app. So, they want to delete the default settings for ringtone and go back to the Sound Picker or Sounds app. The problem happens because a user opts for the ‘Always’ option instead of ‘Just once’ when the phone asks them to select a default ringtone app. We need to change the ringtone or notification picker app on Android....

If you accidentally add someone to an album or if someone else who has access to the album adds a person, the first instinct is to remove the unwanted person. One would want it to be as easy as pressing the remove button. But, is it that easy? Can you remove someone from a shared album in Google Photos and how to do that? Find the answer in this post....