Why would you want to change your username on Instagram in the first place, you ask? Well, there are several reasons why you might consider this option. Perhaps you’ve outgrown your old username and want to align it better with your current personal or professional image. Maybe you’re rebranding yourself or your business and need a username that reflects your new identity. Whatever your motivation may be, changing your username can help you create a more authentic and engaging presence on Instagram....

In this article, we want to show you how to check if your iPhone is refurbished or new. This will help you confirm claims that the iPhone was bought new and is just being passed on to you if you’re buying a used device. Further, we’ll also help you understand if buying a refurbished iPhone is a good choice or not. Let’s begin. Also Read: How to find the IMEI number on iPhone...

While Chrome is fast and reliable most of the time, you may periodically experience that your browser is slowing down. This can be due to cache and cookies building up over time with usage. It’s a good idea to eliminate cached data and residual files from your browser regularly. Here’s how you can clear cache and cookies on Google Chrome for web, Android, and iPhone. Since each platform has different steps, we’ve divided the guide into separate sections....

All that is available at the push of a button, after you key in the desired name, of course. On an average Facebook sees as many as 2 billion searches every day, needless to say how Facebook uses that data, but your search history can reveal a lot about your Facebook habits, good or bad both. If you have ever paid attention to that little search widget on the Android app, you must have noticed that Facebook keeps a track of what you have searched and when....

Whenever you see a currency or a measurement unit that is not of your native region’s standard, your iPhone prompts you to convert the same. There is no need to check the conversion formula or use the calculator app. Or if you calculate it yourself since you were a mental maths wizard in fourth grade – the school’s over, and your iPhone now has one-upped you with its built-in unit conversion feature....

reviewing Outlook.com , the all-new email service from Microsoft the other day, I mentioned how the service would be replacing Microsoft’s both Hotmail and Live email services. We have already shared tricks like how to convert your old Hotmail and Live email address to a band new Outlook.com email address, import Gmail and social media contacts and lot more. One feature I loved about Outlook.com that I didn’t find in Gmail is the ability to use different email aliases to monitor a single email account....

Whenever things go south, you can use these restore points to go back to the previous state of your PC. Essentially, you’ll be able to undo the bad changes made to your system. This post will cover how to enable, create, and use the system restore point on Windows 10. How to Enable System Restore on Windows 10 As the system restore function doesn’t come pre-enabled on some computers, you need to enable it first so that Windows can automatically create a system restore point before making a system-wide change or tweak....

Swipe between apps, open mission control, check Notification Center, or go to your desktop — all this, and more, is possible with a flick of your fingers. If you aren’t using gestures on your Mac, you’re doing things the slow way. In this post, we explore the built-in gestures on an Apple Mac: how to use them, customize them, and fix them when your mouse or trackpad stops working. We’ll even show you how to expand on those gestures with third-party software!...

For example, Incognito mode can foster bad habits — you may find yourself messing around aimlessly searching for stuff that you wouldn’t dare to do in a regular browsing session. Or perhaps you want to stop other users from using Incognito mode for nefarious purposes. And if you have kids around, it’s crucial that they can’t browse anonymously whatsoever. Regardless, turning off Chrome’s Incognito functionality isn’t the most convenient thing to do, and even impossible on platforms such as iOS....

Fast forward a few years, I couldn’t help noticing the gaps in this password implementation (I won’t call it a password manager, though). Due to lack of a master password, anybody who had access to my laptop could see my passwords. All they had to do was go to Settings > Manage Passwords and click on the little eye icon. On top of it, you can count the number of Android apps that support Smart Lock on your phone, on your fingers....

Turning off in-app purchases comes in handy if you share your phone with kids and want to prevent them from making unauthorized purchases in games or elsewhere. The process to do this is pretty straightforward, depending on whether you’re an Android or iOS user, and can be completed in minutes, as you’ll see in this post. Let’s start! How to Stop Accidental In-App Purchases on Android Well, this is more like restricting the in-app purchases than disabling them....

It’s a no-brainer actually. We had no idea extracting audio from a video files using Audacity would be so easy. See for yourself. Step 1: Download and install Audacity. Step 2: Open a video file by going to File -> Open. Step 3: Again navigate to File but this time choose Export. Choose the file format to save the audio to and click on Save. Note: If you see an error message like, “xyz is a video file, Audacity cannot open such files” then consider downloading FFmpeg for Audacity....

Portrait Mode is a great way to click photos of individuals with a background blur to simulate the look of a DSLR camera. However, since the bokeh is created by software, you may need to edit your photos to achieve the desired look. Here are a few ways to edit Portrait Mode photos on your iPhone to get the best look. What Is Portrait Mode on iPhone When you open the camera app on your iPhone (iPhone 7 Plus or later), multiple tabs appear at the bottom above the shutter button....

Microsoft Word has a feature that allows users to keep track of changes to documents. This feature is called Track Changes, and it comes with Microsoft Word 2013 and later versions. With this feature, users can change track changes made to documents using a particular font style, size, or color. All of these ensure that you visualize edits better. Here’s how to edit the font when tracking changes in Microsoft Word....

Live captions is an accessibility feature that generates real-time transcripts to let users enjoy videos irrespective of the language they’re in. You may have used Captions on YouTube to watch videos in a different language than yours. However, that feature doesn’t work outside YouTube. The Chrome’s live caption will make it easy for everyone who consumes audio/video content without missing out on them. Let’s understand how live captions in Google Chrome works, where it will work, what media types are supported, and how to enable the feature....

If you are typing in Word by conventional standards, having to not worry about your capitalization can be great. However, if what you are typing requires unconventional punctuation or structuring, for example, a poem, auto-capitalization can get in the way. The good thing is that with most Microsoft Word features, users can determine if they want to enable or disable them. You can update your settings if your Microsoft Word app does not automatically capitalize text when it should....

However, that’s not all this smart speaker is capable of. Your Google Home can also double up as a Bluetooth speaker. This feature, introduced in August 2017, gets rid of the hassles of connecting to the Wi-Fi network or enabling the Guest mode and turns your Home device into a Bluetooth speaker in a jiffy. So, let’s see how to play music through Bluetooth on the Google Home. Step 1: Enable Bluetooth Pairing Go to the Device settings at the upper-right corner of the Google Home app and tap on the three-dot menu....

WhatsApp has been rolling out several updates on iOS and Android platforms, most of which are limited to beta versions. That means just a few users who enroll and participate in their developer beta program for both platforms can access and use the features under these updates on eligible devices. Among the slew of updates is the ability to secure WhatsApp chats using fingerprint authentication. It’s been roughly six months since the Facebook-owned social messaging app introduced biometric authentication for iOS models....

Sharing One Contact at a Time iOS, unlike Android, does not have a built-in export/import feature for contacts. You can, however, share contacts one at a time. This is a painful affair but if you only have a handful of contacts and for some reason can’t download the app we’re going to talk about below, try this out. Go to the Contacts app, tap on the contact name and scroll down till you find Share contact....

Creating a custom power plan might not be uncommon for you if you’ve been using Windows for years. But did you know that you can import and export power plans in Windows? If not, we’ve put together this guide to teach you everything you need to know about importing and exporting power plans on your Windows 11 PC. Why You May Want to Export or Import Power Plans on Windows 11 Importing and exporting power plans in Windows may seem counterintuitive and useless, but it can be helpful in a handful of situations....