But, it’s more special when you know that the person actually remembers your birthday and they took some time to either call you or leave a warm message. If you don’t the like the fake birthday wishes or you want to know who actually remembers your birthday without a Facebook reminder, you can hide your birthday from your Facebook account. In this post, we tell you how to hide your birthday from your friends on Facebook....

Over time, Google Docs has become the preferred tool for collaborative projects. It allows you to create shareable forms, track document changes, and more. So, it comes as no surprise that you can also create and add hyperlinks to your Google Docs. This helps make documents informative without stuffing information in the document. Keep reading to find out how to do it. How to Add a Hyperlink in Google Docs on Desktop Creating a hyperlink in Google Docs is as easy as selecting the text and then adding the link address using the link icon....

Make Sure Your Device is Backing Up iPads and iPhones should warn you if they haven’t backed up to iCloud in a few weeks. It won’t do this if you don’t first configure your device for iCloud backup. Some people just assume it is there automatically, but you still need to configure it. Other times backups just messed up, so it’s worth a check. Head over to Settings->iCloud and make sure Backup is set to On....

You can access Google Drawings directly from drawings.google.com or open it from Google Drive. In Google Drawings, you can add multiple images, text, layer images, and perform various other image manipulations. We have covered all that in the post. Let’s get to know how to create a collage in Google Drawings. How to Create a Picture Collage in Google Drawings Step 1: Open drawings.google.com in a web browser on your PC....

There’s no root involved in the trick or you would be asked to flash system files. Everything is simple and doable with a smile on your face. Floatify is the app which will help us in getting the heads-up and lock screen notification on the phones running Android KitKat. That’s not all, users who have upgraded to Lollipop can use some of the app features to make the notifications more accessible like quick reply and mini heads-up notifications....

When customizing your Mac to read text on your screen, you can change the speed and voice. Moreover, you can enable your device to read out content in other languages. Keep reading to find out how you can make your Mac read documents and emails, along with the different ways you can tweak this feature. These tips will work regardless of whether you’ve got a MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, or iMac....

While talking about how to access shared Windows folder on Android the other day, I also gave a brief insight into how you can share a folder on Windows and make your sharing password protected when connected to a public, unsecured network. We also saw the way to see a list of all the shared resources under a single roof to manage shared content or data. This feature is quite helpful, but I think what’s missing is the inability to monitor those shared folders and who’s trying to tamper with the data in them....

Word often gets far less credit than it deserves. While Microsoft has not made it easy to place and move images inside Word, it does offer ways to do so. The only trouble is finding the correct tools for the job. These options are not so obvious and can be hard to see if you don’t know where to look. That is where we come in. I will show you how you can place images in Word without having to curse Microsoft while pulling your hair out or biting your nails off!...

hide private photos and videos on Android . I am sure many Android users must have started storing their personal media on phone without the fear of someone discovering them after reading that article of ours. No doubt, photos and videos are important and should be secured but so are the text messages, especially the ones you wouldn’t want to be revealed to someone else accidentally. I have a few crazy friends who never text me for a reason, still I love to read them and have a laugh....

With trendy face filters, cool stickers and even GIFs, Instagram Stories give a colorful makeover to your activities. However, there’s only one thing that still irks me about Instagram. We still can’t add music to Instagram Stories, nor can we post video stories longer than 15 seconds. On a few good days, this 15-seconds time limit might not be enough to express yourself. Bummer, right? In this post, we will show you how to post Instagram Stories longer than 15-seconds on both Android and iOS....

Smaller photo sizes make it easy to transfer or upload media. If you have moved large photos from iPhone to Mac and want to cut down on image size, read along to reduce picture file size on Mac too. First, we will show you how to reduce image file size on iPhone or iPad and move to the Mac. You can check our dedicated guide if you want to reduce video size on your iPhone....

Several Google Home users have been sailing through the same boat. For instance, someone connected their Google account to a friend’s Home speaker or a family member’s account to Google Home. Similarly, an ex-partner’s account would be linked to the Google Home. The problem is that all linked accounts can see the search history for commands made on Google Home. It’s important to remove such linked accounts to protect privacy....

This is most useful for those using YouTube on Android TV. Since the TV app doesn’t support multi-account, you might end up seeing irrelevant search terms and watch history from your family members. Instead, you can reset the YouTube watch history and search keywords from the YouTube mobile and desktop apps. Reset Watch History in YouTube Mobile Apps Let’s start with YouTube mobile apps and then we will move to the YouTube desktop app....

The nifty trick can be managed through the Shortcuts’ app Automation feature. You can schedule Airplane Mode, enable/disable it automatically as per the location or when you open an app and more. How to Set up Automation for Airplane Mode While we’ll be sharing generic steps to set Airplane Mode automatically, the exact steps might vary as per your need. Step 1: Go to Shortcuts app → Automation tab. Step 2: Tap Create Personal Automation or + from the top right corner....

You show the Live Photos you’ve taken with your friends who don’t have an iPhone 6s yet. They’re amazed, as mine were. They ask you to send the photos to them. Uh oh… that’s where things get a little complicated. Since Live Photos require 3D Touch to view and 3D Touch is only available on the iPhone 6s, can only 6s users experience Live Photos? Erm, yes and no....

The Remote Desktop Protocol or RDP is a key feature in Windows 10 Pro. With that enabled, you can connect to computers on the network, either to troubleshoot issues or to work from that computer/server. But it can stop functioning abruptly at times and leave users like us in a fix. So, if you are facing connection issues with Windows Remote Desktop, here are a few solutions that might work in your favor....

Today we’ll talk about a small, yet significant point in this debate – syncing read positions for ebooks between devices. How do you make sure that when you turn off your tablet and pick up your phone during the commute that the book you were reading will pick up from where you left off? If you just buy books from Kindle, this kind of stuff is easy. But it gets complicated when you add your own collection of DRM-free ePubs....

Today, we will talk in detail about Prey and how it works. It comes in both free and pro versions, and luckily, the free version is decent enough (read “has essential features”) for everyone of us to install and use. If you own a laptop, I’d take a step further and say that this is a tool you must use. Lets see how it works. Installing and Setting Up Prey’s Anti-theft Solution Step 1....

Windows Hello is another method of signing into your Windows 10 device and all it takes is a touch of your finger or a scan of your face — no need to type passwords anymore. For this feature to work, you’ll need two things: A Samsung device with a fingerprint scanner, running on Android Marshmallow or later and Samsung Flow app installed.A Windows 10 PC that is compatible with Windows Hello, is running the Creators Update and has Samsung Flow app installed from the Windows Store....

One thing that’s still missing is the feature to upload a new profile photo directly from the app. Of course we can select a profile photo from the existing photos that are already in an album, but I wanted to directly upload the photo to the profile album and then apply it as a new display profile pic. Here’s one of the ways you can do that. Note: Currently there is no direct way to upload photos in the Profile photo album using the apps and this is just one of the many workarounds that’s possible....