Widgets are fun, informative, and highly customizable if you know what you are doing. They can also consume a lot of system resources, including battery juice. Take care of these small nuances when using them. Let’s begin. 1. Create New Widget Maybe a bug or some simple, mundane error is responsible for the widget not working or updating error? That can also cause the app to not launch when you tap on it....

The issue can be from the website you are trying to visit, the device itself, or due to Chrome browser. Nevertheless, we will find the cause and go back to smooth video playback in the Chrome browser. 1. Check Internet Connection Due to a buggy Wi-Fi adapter on your PC, you might be having problems with the internet connection. You can visit Fast.com and check current internet speeds on your computer....

Firstly, you can check if you’re experiencing network connectivity issues with your LAN or router, or getting a message about network problems. Once you confirm that network connectivity isn’t the issue, you should troubleshoot the problem. We’ve compiled useful troubleshooting tricks below to help you fix the Windows 10 network connection issues. 1. Check Power Connection The first thing you should inspect is the reliability of the power adapters that come with the routers and modems....

Microsoft recently rebranded Xbox Game Pass as PC Game Pass, and if you have subscribed to it, the Xbox app remains the central place to download games, engage with the community, and more. The app failing to download games may leave you frustrated. Here are some helpful methods to fix Xbox app not downloading games on Windows 10 and Windows 11.. 1. Check Internet Connectivity Most Xbox games weighs over 1GB-2GB in file size....

You can’t check the videos of your friend’s recent trip or your cousin’s latest birthday party moments when Instagram fails to load stories for your account. Before the situation confuses you, use the solutions below to view Instagram stories on the go. 1. Restart Instagram It’s a good idea to completely close Instagram on your phone and reopen it to load stories. You can do that on iPhone and Android....

iPhone lagging out of nowhere leads to an unpleasant experience. Whether you take pictures, scroll your social media home, or type an email, iPhone lag completely ruins workflow. Before you head to social media to blame Apple or order a new iPhone from the company website, use the tricks below to troubleshoot iPhone lag. 1. Ensure Ample Storage on iPhone When you deal with low storage on iPhone, you will experience lag in usual activities like saving a video or photo....

You’ll consider using the default Mail app or another third-party app like Spark when Outlook stops receiving emails on Mac. Before moving to a different mail app, use the tricks below to get new emails in Microsoft Outlook on your Mac. 1. Keep Outlook Open in the Background Unlike the default Mail app on Mac, you can’t receive new emails on Outlook in the background. You must open the app to get new messages....

There are a number of reasons behind the Telegram Connecting problems. But before we jump to any steps, it’s always safe to check if the Telegram is having issues on their end or not. 1. Check Downdetector It’s advisable to check Downdetector to see if Telegram is having issues on servers or not. Visit the Downdetector website and search for Telegram. If you notice huge spikes in the last 24 hours graph, then sit back, relax, and let the company fix the issue on their end....

You might miss important messages or group chats when push notifications fail to work on WhatsApp. Also, you won’t want to open WhatsApp just to check new notifications. It’s a tedious, time-consuming, and not a practical solution. Let’s go through the steps above and fix the notification issue on WhatsApp. 1. Check If You Have Muted a WhatsApp Contact or Group You might have muted several contacts or groups on WhatsApp....

There can be various reasons behind this issue, ranging from a dirty audio jack and misconfigured settings to a faulty update. In this post, we’ve outlined a few effective solutions that will help fix the headphone detection problem in Windows 11. So, let’s start. 1. Clean the Audio Jack The headphone jack on your PC can easily gather dust and debris over time. If your Windows 11 computer is not recognizing your wired headphones, you can start by cleaning the headphone jack....

Sadly, there’s no 1-click way to automatically upload all photos from Dropbox to Google Photos (there’s no API yet). So we’ll need to do this manually. But once it’s done, you can start to reap the many, many benefits of Google Photos. Step Zero: Install Google Photos Backup First thing you need to do, even before we start gathering photos from the 63 different services you’ve signed up for, is to install Google Photos Backup....

Disk Cleanup , Disk Defragmenter and System Restore . A big list resides as part of Accessories->System Tools and if you know how to use them all, you would probably don’t need any third-party tools. Check Disk is one tool that many people are unaware of in spite of being one of the oldest error checking tools in Windows’ arsenal. It comes with every version of Windows and has great potential to keep your hard disk fit....

Same is the case with videos. People usually prefer short and interesting video clips rather than long videos that beat around the bush. Of course while recording a video, most of us don’t keep track of time and often end up with a long and boring video. That’s exactly why we’ve got video editing tools. If you are not bestowed with the art of editing a video then you could give Magisto a try....

Ever faced this situation? All these issues can be pretty frustrating at times if you have no clue about networking. Fortunately, Windows 7 comes with a built-in Network Diagnostics tool that can be used to repair a troubling network connection. To start the diagnostic click on Start button and type in fix network in the search box. You’ll see a bunch of options showing up. Click on the one that says Find and fix networking and connection problems....

Searching and deleting duplicate images one by one is a time consuming process. Hence we decided to cover a free tool known as VisiPics to find and delete duplicate images automatically. It can detect duplicates irrespective of image resolutions or minor cosmetic changes. How to find duplicate images using VisiPics Download and install this tool on your computer. Now select the folder that contains pictures, in the folder tree. You can also select the whole computer drive....

You might have seen plenty of maps in your lifetime and are wondering, what was wrong with those? Truthfully, none of them have ever been completely accurate portrayals of Earth. In fact, some of them don’t even come close. The Mercator projection, a very popular one up until the last few decades, is dramatically inaccurate. The most notable fault is that Greenland looks huge compared to tiny Australia, when the reality is that Australia is order of magnitude larger....

When you open any Google product site from Chrome browser on your PC, you must have noticed that it always signs you in with a particular account. That account is referred to as the default account. If you have signed in with your work and personal accounts, you might want to change the default account. Let’s see how to do so and also understand default accounts in detail. What Is Default Account in Chrome The first impression with Google Chrome is quite vital and often ignored....

This is exactly what’s happening with us in the digital world. Wi-Fi or wireless fidelity, on which most digital devices rely for Internet connectivity, is no longer secure and anyone with the right know-how can easily access your private network and see your entire web activity. This spells doom for most Internet users. However, there is still hope and you can protect yourself from such cyber threats. But first, you need to know what Krack is all about....

What Is Shared with You on iPhone As the name suggests, Shared with You is a section in Apple apps that displays the media content that other people have shared with you over iMessage. It collects all the shared media from iMessage conversations and showcases them in a single section in supported apps. Meaning, you no longer need to scroll through hundreds of iMessages just to find that perfect music recommendation from friends or family....

iZat.. What? I’ve recently come across a setting in my Android phone that made me scratch my head, called Qualcomm iZat. It’s located in Android’s Location settings and my phone describes it as hardware accelerated location estimation. “Um, what?” was exactly my response when I stumbled upon it, along with “Why is this here?” Turns out that it’s pretty cool technology, developed by the renowned chipset manufacturer Qualcomm. So we thought it would be valuable to shine some light on the subject since it could really benefit users who haven’t been exposed to it yet....