A better alternative exists — Drop In. It is part of Alexa communication services that instantly connects you with an Echo device to use it as a smart intercom service. You may wonder how does Drop In differ from Alexa calls, right? We will tell the difference between the two in this post. Without further ado, let’s get started. Alexa Calls vs. Drop In: The Main Battle Alexa calls are the usual two-way internet phone calls that one needs to answer using the command or the on-screen buttons (in the app) to get connected....

Whenever Windows encounters a critical system error, it crashes and forces the user to restart the computer. Previously, these errors used to be displayed on a blue background, leading to the name “Blue Screen Errors” (or the blue screen of death as they are infamously known). To help with analysis, the moment it encounters a system error, Windows copies all files in memory into a folder called the ‘crash dump’ (or mini dump)....

Yesterday, for the first time I tried to save an attached zip file using the Gmail Android app and to my surprise, I was denied. The particular feature disables the downloading of zip, exe and other such files that can be a potential threat to the system. Google says that the feature provides increased security. But it can be irritating at times when you know the fact that the zip file was from a trusted source....

And if you opt for a wrong choice, the process of transferring all your notes from one platform to another can be a headache. In past, we have already compared Google Keep with its rivals. In this post, we will pit Apple’s Notes app against Microsoft OneNote to see how they fare against each other. App Size All Apple’s applications come pre-installed and take up about 11GB of space including the operating system....

Google is betting on years of expertise to deliver accurate and quick translation. Apple is taking a different route with close integration with Siri’s assistant and on-device translation. That is a huge privacy boost and would make many users wonder if they should stick with the Apple Translate app or download the Google Translate app from the App Store. While we understand that Apple Translate is still at a nascent stage and shall only present our observations based on our experience with iOS 14 so far....

post a message to their Facebook profiles on their birthdays , or better instead: not to even have to remember to do it. That is the basic premise of fBirthdays, a free app for iPhone that uses the “freemium” model and that does a very simple but important job: It allows you to schedule birthday messages that the app then posts on your behalf to your friends’ Facebook profiles at random times on their birthdays....

Things are different today and our contacts are backed up online. But is it foolproof? Though we can rely and trust on services like Outlook, Gmail and Yahoo, we are uncertain on being hit by bad luck. In case of some malfunction (or any other reason), we could end up losing all the contact details (email addresses, phone numbers, etc.) that we have stored on their servers. So, if you are borderline paranoid like me, you would always create a backup of your contacts and have them stored on your hard drive....

You might know about two great apps called Pushbullet and AirDroid that can instantly pair a smartphone and computer to share the links. But that’s just one of the features of these apps. They can be used for transferring files, images, and videos. They also sync your Android notifications to the PC and AirDroid can mirror your phone, and even help you view your computer remotely. Well, all that’s way too much for anyone who just wants to share links between the devices....

Let’s find out. 1. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Released in the early part of this year, Lightroom from Adobe went free a while back for Android. It has all the basic features that users who’ve already used Adobe Lightroom on desktops/laptops will be familiar with. Light being the essential part of any photo, users can customize it using the Lightroom app to varying results. The app, however, is no desktop alternative....

If you find that you’re running low on Google Drive storage, you can explore several options to alleviate this problem. Outlined below are some of the best tips for gaining additional storage space and using what you already have more efficiently. Empty Your Trash Periodically When you delete files in Google Drive, they don’t initially delete forever. They get sent to the Trash where they can sit and accumulate. Over time, they add up and unnecessarily use up storage....

I decided to activate the Guest account for all of them and protected the administrator’s account with a password. Though enabling guest account helped in drawing a line between browser preferences, history and bookmarks, all my files, especially the ones in a separate partition, were still accessible to everyone using the computer. The only option left for me was to limit the access to private folders from all the users logging in using the Guest account....

The next time you want to catch up on what’s the latest that’s hitting the music charts check out ChartBRAIN. ChartBRAIN lets you watch the top music videos online for free. The free video music site taps the best music charts on the web each week and turns them into streaming video playlists. The second good thing about ChartBRAIN is that the playback of the stream is continuous, so you can just sit back and enjoy the videos as they countdown (or count-up!...

Facial recognition in most cases is well-intended and is meant to make life easier. However, the nature of this technology could possibly pose a threat to the anonymity of those using it. Uses of the technology such as China’s proposed facial recognition database which is intended to be able to identify any of the country’s 1.3 billion citizens in 3 seconds or less have definitely raised some privacy concerns....

Loyal users will argue back and forth until their jaws lock up which app is better for the Mac, but now that both are available on iOS, are they equal on the smartphone as well? Here you’ll find an in-depth comparison of design and features to find out. The Design is No Contest BusyCal has never been much of a looker even on the Mac and it appears the design didn’t get any sort of radical re-imagining for iOS....

This is a U.S. only feature and in order to access this feature, you’ll need to have a mobile phone number added in your Facebook account. We hope Facebook makes this feature available outside United States too because it certainly seems to be a pretty handy one. The above article may contain affiliate links which help support Guiding Tech. However, it does not affect our editorial integrity. The content remains unbiased and authentic....

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....

Even though things are going south for Evernote, it continues to be the number one competitor to Keep. Google has renamed Keep to Google Keep Notes recently (just Google things, you know). So what all does Evernote offer that makes it such a good competitor? Let’s see in this comparison post where we compare Evernote against Keep in 2018. Availability It’s 2018, and Google still hasn’t provided us with a desktop version of the Keep app....

Many of my friends have asked me which of the above two apps I prefer and this article is an attempt to answer them. Of course, it’s usually about what works better. So we will see how both the apps compare in different aspects and which one should you go for. Cool Tip: We have previously covered some amazing Go SMS Pro features. Check it out. Size and Pricing The apps are freely available on Google Play Store and none of them show ads to generate any revenue....

In both the above-mentioned situations, not having such people as friends on Facebook is always an option. But that may not be the most convenient one. Luckily, there’s a way to hide your Facebook photos, videos, and status updates, from people who shouldn’t see them. Hiding a Facebook Status Update From Certain People Let see how we can hide a status message, or a photo/video that we upload using the status tab, from certain people....

Launched in 2016, this cool app not only lets you catch up with your friends over video calls but also lets you play games with them. Ever since the pandemic started, Houseparty has seen over 50 million sign-ups, and well, it begets a simple question — is it better than WhatsApp Video calls? Well, that’s what we are going to find out in our comparison today as we compare WhatsApp with Houseparty....