A lot of developers are aware of this and have tried their hands at cracking this market. We’ve highlighted those apps here before. But every one of them had some problem or another. Either the data wasn’t great (most apps use proprietary data) or the app was laden with ads. Some even required a premium subscription to enable navigation. Now, it looks like there’s finally a true Google Maps substitute for offline users....

Talking about my carelessness, I downloaded the update file from a file hosting service as a free user using the default browser. I was so excited about flashing the new ROM that I didn’t realize that the download was interrupted in between which caused a failed installation resulting into a bricked ROM. For the rest of the time, while my phone was in the service center, I kept cursing myself for not checking MD5 checksum of the file before installing....

The Books app is another great system app that gives you the option to manage your PDF files. This post will show how to add, rename, and share PDFs in Apple Books on your iPhone and iPad. How to Add PDFs in Books App on iPhone and iPad It’s natural to be surprised that Books app does support PDFs by default. That means you won’t have to download anything or do anything extra to start off....

An naturally, with these apps on your Galaxy Active 2, you’ll be able to expand the functionality of these watches. For instance, this watch doesn’t let you add reminders for drinking water, though it has a water counting widget. The same is true for voice memos. Though it has a speaker, you can’t add voice notes natively. That’s when third-party apps come to the pictures. From taking notes to reminding you at fixed intervals and tracking your runs, these apps raise the functionality of your smartwatch....

At times, the text doesn’t at all match the speech in the video, which can change the interpretation of sentences and phrases. Hence, it’s vital that your videos — both upcoming and already uploaded videos — should have the right text by its side so that the true meaning is not lost. In such cases, deleting a video and re-uploading it is out of the question since only you’ll lose out on the views count and other stats....

the basics of Keynote (Apple’s own presentation tool) and even shared some cool Keynote tips with you. However, it’s never enough when it comes to ways in which you can improve your presentations and make them stand out, right? That’s why this time we cover two very important tips to really bring them to life: Adding music and videos to your Keynote presentations. Let’s go ahead and learn how to do this....

Gmail Meter is not a plug-in or software, but an Apps Script which runs on the first day of every month and sends you a monthly detailed report of your Gmail activity. The report is in the form of graphs, pie charts, column charts, and simple numbers. Don’t get turned off – it’s all quite simple to understand. Set up Gmail Meter The video below illustrates the process nicely. It starts with creating a spreadsheet in Google Docs (remember Google Docs is now a part of Google Drive)....

If you often use Google Maps for navigation, you’d know that the app usually suggests the quickest route, which is usually a highway. However, highways can be unpredictable, and avoiding them can be a great way to find new routes. With that in mind, let’s get started. How to Temporarily Avoid Highways on Google Maps Depending on your device, avoid highways settings on Google Maps is easy to find and enable....

If you say, “I have never edited the Registry ever on Windows,” you are both right and wrong. Though you might have never opened the Registry editor and changed the settings directly (i.e by typing regedit on the run dialog box), you have actually changed it a lot at times while installing a program, making a change in Windows settings or even while changing the desktop wallpaper. It happened behind the scenes, but it did happen....

But if you don’t feel like going through all the options in parental controls, and only intend to block certain websites, then you could do it in internet explorer. Here’s a step by step guide to block any website internet explorer. Open Internet Explorer. Go to Tools-> Internet Options. In Internet Options dialog box, go to “Content” tab. Under “Content Advisor”, click “Enable” button. Go to “Approved Sites” tab. Type the website you want to block in the box given and hit the “Never” button....

to stay fit in today’s busy world . It’s more for lack of time than anything else. We have all the tools in the world to build up good habits . In fact, there’s so much of information that it’s easy to get sidetracked from implement even the very simple workout routines. For instance, the question that springs to mind is – do I hit the gym or should I workout from home?...

I probably missed a step or two in the installation process because as far as I know, all the browsers let the user decide if it wants to choose them as default. This was just an example and this can happen sometimes when some changes to the system change default browser without letting you know. You only find that out when you click on a link on, lets say, a chat window on your IM client and it suddenly opens the link in the new browser you installed, instead of your favorite browser....

By default, Google Docs offers a one-inch margin size for all four sides of a page. But you can customize the margins as per your needs. This post will show you how to change margins in Google Docs on Desktop and Mobile. Change Margins on Desktop Using the Ruler Icon Margin is an area in your document that prevents your content from touching the edges of the page. If you are using Google Docs on your desktop, the first way to change the margins is by using the Ruler....

To present your slideshow in the best way, you’ll need to consider details like the projector dimensions at your workplace or wherever you plan to present it. After checking that, you should adjust the slide size in Keynote so that the content doesn’t look out of place. Here’s how to do it on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Change Slide Size in Keynote on iPhone and iPad You can create some really cool and interactive presentations using Keynote....

Luckily, changing the default browser in Windows 11 is easy and takes only a few minutes to make the required changes. Let’s say you want to open all hyper links and open specific file types like PDF or HTML using a specific browser, you can do that. Read on to know what you should do to turn your favorite browser into the default application for browsing the web. How to Manually Set the Default Browser First, you should install the browser that you want to set as a default....

If you use multiple browsers for different browsing purpose then checking history of each of them can be boring and time consuming. Hence we share this wonderful tool called Browser History Spy that can help you here. This Windows-only tool provides a single interface to look into the histories of Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox (hope that list will expand quickly). Let us see how it works. After having downloaded the application there are two things you may do....

Many of you mostly want to clear your browsing history to erase your online activity. However, there is much more to it. After extended periods of usage, your browsing data on Safari takes up quite some space on your device. So, clearing it can help you gain some additional storage as well. Further, clearing your browsing history can erase junk from your browser and improve its performance as well. Hence, let’s understand how to do it on iPhone, iPad, and Mac....

Google Photos supports the HEIC format, but you can only view HEIC images if you uploaded them from an iOS device initially. So the only way to work with HEIC images — if you received a batch from somewhere — on an Android device is to convert them to the JPG format. Thankfully, there are a handful of apps and online services that you can use to convert HEIC images to JPG on Android easily....

Now, when there is an appointment, there has to be a date and time associated with it. What bothers me with this field is, not all appointments require a schedule on absolute dates. Sometimes, we have to work with referential dates. For example, a week from today or something like 2nd Tuesday in August. What do you do in such scenarios? Probably, you navigate through the calendar, find out the exact date and then make a choice....

However, links are usually long. One would be disappointed if they had to type such a link and many would skip watching that video. An alternative exists where you create a Quick response aka QR code for your video and then print it on the invitation. The recipient would have to scan the QR code, and they will be able to watch your video. But how does one create a QR code for video?...