Mahesh Makvana
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10 Alexa Features You Should Be Using on Your Amazon Echo
Alexa on your Amazon Echo device can do much more than you think. You can use it to safeguard your home, get traffic details, set up reminders, and more. Here’s how to get the most out of Amazon’s virtual assistant. → Read More
How to Make Your Keyboard Light Up
Need to see your keyboard in the dark? Turn on the backlight on your Windows or Mac computer. If supported, you can enable the light using a keyboard shortcut, a built-in app, or your keyboard’s dedicated app. We’ll show you your options. → Read More
How to Use “Secret Conversations” on Facebook Messenger
Using Facebook Messenger’s “Secret Conversations” feature, you can ensure your messages and calls are end-to-end encrypted so that only the sender and the receiver can access them. We’ll show you how to utilize this feature on your iPhone or Android phone. → Read More
How to Force Restart an iPhone 11
Force restarting your iPhone 11 is a good way to fix various system issues, unresponsive behavior, and other app problems. You don’t lose your data when you do this, and we’ll show you how to perform the process on your phone. → Read More
Can You Split Screen on iPhone?
Splitting your screen can make multitasking a cinch, allowing you to use apps side-by-side without having to constantly switch between them. It’s easy to do on most PCs, Macs, the iPad, and even on Android. But what about iPhone? → Read More
How to Connect Apple AirPods to a Windows Laptop
Connecting Apple AirPods, AirPods Pro, or AirPods Max to your Windows laptop is as easy as pairing any other Bluetooth-enabled device. Once done, you can use your AirPods to listen to music as well as talk to people in online calls on your laptop. Here’s how to do that. → Read More
How to Use Disk Cleanup in Windows 10
Using Windows 10’s Disk Cleanup utility, you can get rid of unwanted files and free up your storage space. The tool finds unnecessary files on its own, so you don’t have to manually locate any items. We’ll show you how to use this useful tool on your PC. → Read More
How to Password Protect a Word Document
To protect the contents of your Microsoft Word documents, add password protection to them. Doing so prompts the user to enter the password each time the document is opened. We’ll show you how to do that using a built-in Word feature. → Read More
How to Find Saved Wi-Fi Passwords on Android
Your Android phone saves the password when you connect it to a Wi-Fi network. Later, you can find and use your saved passwords to connect other devices to your network. We’ll show you how to get Android to reveal those network passwords. → Read More
How to Bookmark a Website on iPhone
To access your favorite websites faster, bookmark them in your iPhone’s Safari browser. You can then edit your bookmark list and add or remove sites from it. We’ll show you how to do just that. → Read More
How to Turn Off Wi-Fi Calling on Android
If you’d prefer your phone to use your cellular network and not Wi-Fi calling to make and receive calls, it’s easy to disable the Wi-Fi calling feature on your Android phone. We’ll show you how to do that. → Read More
How to Update Android
By updating your Android phone or tablet, you get the latest bug fixes, general performance and stability improvements, as well as possibly new features. It’s quick, easy, and free to update your Android device and we’ll show you how. → Read More
How to Change the Passcode on Your iPhone
Think someone has figured out your iPhone’s passcode? If so, consider changing your passcode to something different and stronger. We’ll show you how to do just that on your phone. → Read More
How to Password Protect a ZIP File on Windows
Want to protect your ZIP archives with a password? While Windows doesn’t have a built-in option to do that, you can use free apps like 7-Zip and WinRAR to add password protection. We’ll show you how to use those apps. → Read More
How to Turn Off Focused Inbox in Microsoft Outlook
Focused Inbox brings all your important emails together while keeping all other emails in the Other tab. If you don’t use this inbox, turn it off in your Outlook desktop, web, or mobile version. We’ll show you how to do that. → Read More
How to Restart a Computer
Whether you want to bring new changes into effect or resolve minor glitches, it’s easy to restart your computer based on Windows, macOS, Linux, or Chrome OS operating system. We’ll show you how to do that. → Read More
How to Remove an Email Account From Microsoft Outlook
If you don’t wish to use a particular email account with Microsoft Outlook, or you’d like to close your Outlook account completely, it’s easy to do that. We’ll show you how in this guide. → Read More
How to Remove a Drop-Down List in Microsoft Excel
Removing a drop-down list from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is as easy as selecting the drop-down cells and choosing an option. This keeps the values that you’ve chosen while the drop-down was present. We’ll show you how to do that. → Read More
How to Copy Text From a PDF
Copying text from a PDF file is as easy as opening your PDF in a compatible reader, selecting the text, and choosing the copy option. We’ll show you how to do that in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox. → Read More
How to Change the Default Web Browser on Windows 10
Windows 10 makes it super easy to change your default web browser. This way, you can set Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave, or another browser of your choice as the default. We’ll show you how to do that. → Read More