What Is Systemstats? Systemstats is a root process in OS X that keeps account of everything that’s going on in your Mac on a system level. It is used to retrieve information about things like system stats and power usage. For most of the time, it runs in the background, using almost 0% of your CPU’s processing power. But the systemstats process has been known to go rogue and taking up 100 to 300% of CPU processes....

But the more I use Rdio, the more I miss Spotify. Even when I was using the free plan via Hola Unblocker on the web, I liked it better because of the UI, easier controls, better playlist support, and a great plugin library. Even the Android and iOS apps look pale in comparison to Spotify apps. But one thing Rdio does have going for itself is native Chromecast support. Spotify seems to be working on its own standard for streaming to connected devices, so it looks like Chromecast support isn’t coming anytime soon....

Thankfully, you don’t have to switch browsers on your iPhone to match the one on your PC. You can still use Safari and still get your bookmarks synced across to either Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox (sorry, Microsoft Edge fans), and vice versa. Apple officially supports that functionality, so you don’t have to use any third-party apps or services. In Comes iCloud for Windows To start syncing bookmarks on your iPhone with your PC, you must have iCloud for Windows app installed....

So, let’s solve this with Visual Hashing. Visual Hashing is a cool browser add-on for Firefox and Chrome that detects a password while it is being mistyped and changes the color to indicate that you typed it in incorrectly. Let’s take this with an example after installing the add-on for the respective browsers. This is how my password field looks after installing the Firefox add-on. Visual Hashing displays four colored boxes in the password field....

However, there was still no way a PC user could uninstall the modern apps that came pre-installed with Windows even when he has no intention of using any of them. For example, for me, apps like Mail and Finance hold no significance at all. There’s no option to uninstall these apps directly, but still, Microsoft has provided a way to remove them from the system using the PowerShell menu. So let’s have a look at how we can remove the Modern system apps from Windows 10....

Before We Start In this process we will be downloading Windows 8 Pro while installing it. Thus make sure you have a seamless internet connectivity throughout the process.If you are installing the upgrade on a desktop, make sure you have uninterrupted power supply.Make sure you close all the memory hogging applications before you run the upgrade. Trust me, it’s a wise idea to do that. Let’s Begin… Step 1: We will be using Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant which you need to download first....

But with iOS 16, some new Focus Modes have been added for iPhone users. One of them is Gaming Focus Mode, and this post will show you how to use it on iPhone. We used an iPhone running on iOS 16 Public Beta to take screenshots. The Gaming Focus Mode will be available for iPhones running iOS 16 and above, iPads running iPadOS 16 and above and Macs running on macOS Ventura and above....

Apple uses on-device intelligence to find, detect, and extract text from images on the iPhone and iPad. Following the iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 updates, you will see Live Text enabled on your iPhone. If you have problems extracting text from images, you need to turn on the option from the iPhone Settings menu. Here’s how to do it. Enable Live Text Live Text isn’t an app or menu on the iPhone....

The New Outlook.com Rules Tool Outlook.com is turning into one of the most feature-filled free email providers out there and its rules tool, which allows the user to sort messages in a more organized way, is a pretty good example of that. Note: If you use the Outlook email client for desktop, check out how to create email subject rules and folder based rules. The tool was announced a while ago and its worldwide roll-out wasn’t as quick as Microsoft claimed it would be; still, that doesn’t diminish the merits of the new Outlook....

Setting up the Universal Clipboard is quick and using it is quite easy. We will explain what Universal Clipboard is and show you how to activate and use the feature. These tips will work as long as you use a device that meets Apple’s Continuity requirements, which is anything with at least macOS Sierra 10.12 or iOS 10. What Is the Mac Universal Clipboard Introduced in 2016, Universal Clipboard allows you to copy text and images – plus other content – from one Apple device and paste it onto another....

YouTube for Android came with many new features to maximize video viewing experience for the user. The ability to pre-cache videos on Wi-Fi network while charging the phone was a great addition for those who are on a limited mobile bandwidth plan. Another great thing YouTube recently introduced was the ability to view the entire YouTube video history directly on the app and even delete it from the web. The trick works on YouTube for Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean and could be very useful at times when you are having a debate with your friends over a coffee, or you wish to share a funny video with your colleges in the office....

Now you must be wondering – does it mean anyone can send me a Whisper and spam my chatbox? No, you can block Whispers from strangers so that you can receive messages from your followers. We’ll show you how to enable that feature too. As for sending Whispers, there are multiple ways to send them. Before we get into that, let us first understand who you can Whisper to on Twitch....

make the slides interactive with real-time data and processes. And when you are doing that you have to be very condensed. I mean, you cannot have your material scattered outside of the presentation and stack them for the conclusion show. People want to see things the right away. Personally, I feel that integrating all requisites into the slides is the best solution. That’s why we discussed earlier a way to integrate a complete website to a PowerPoint presentation....

Yes, until yesterday, if you added a hashtag or a profile in you bio, it was shown as a simple text. But now, both the hashtags and profiles are clickable in your Insta bio. Although the feature is cool, many people aren’t able to add hashtags and profile links to their profile. Even worse, for some people, hashtags aren’t working in their bio. Are you one of those? Sorry to hear about your trouble, but, hey!...

However, one thing that was missing on these portable browsers was Flash player plugin and due to lack of admin rights the installer failed in the middle of the process. I tried installing the plugin on a computer where I had administrative rights and later on use the same portable version on a public computer, but it didn’t work out as I expected it to. So here’s an alternative method I found that works most of the times....

In this article, we’ll tell you everything that you need to know about wallpaper updates, along with how to set a different Lock Screen and Home Screen wallpaper on iPhone. So let’s get started. iOS 16: The Biggest Update to Wallpapers on iPhone Apple has always done a great job of adding a beautiful set of wallpapers. Initially, we were disappointed to see that iOS 16 missed out on a good collection of wallpapers....

how to create your own keyboard shortcuts on your iPhone as well as 21 useful ones for working with text on your Mac. This time though, we go a little further to show you how you can take advantage of your Mac’s text input settings to create your own set of keyboard shortcuts for you to use with almost any Mac app. Let’s get going. Step 1: Open System Preferences on your Mac and click on the Language & Text menu to reveal its settings....

Airmail which is an excellent alternative email client for the Mac, and we have also shared here different tips to make the native Apple Mail app work better for you. Those are conventional email applications though, something that is starting to change with the arrival of Mail Pilot, a new mail app that is due to launch soon but with a full beta version available for free to anyone who owns a Mac....

While OneNote is not going away for sure, it points to the fact that Microsoft is making a lot of changes. Let’s see what they are and what they mean for us, the end-users. What’s Happening OneNote 2016 is the legacy version which comes pre-installed with Office 2016 suite of apps. Microsoft designed the Office 2016 for desktop. Meanwhile, Office 365 is a cloud version that works online. Microsoft released a new version of OneNote for desktop and calls it OneNote or OneNote for Windows 10....

Let’s look at how we can migrate our tasks and to-dos kept with Google Tasks to some other to-do list services. The tool for the data migration task seems to be Google Tasks Porter. Google Tasks Porter works both ways as the screenshot below also tells you – Google Tasks Porter lets you save multiple “snapshots” of your Google Tasks data, and download them in iCalendar, Outlook, and Remember The Milk formats....