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While Microsoft Outlook is a feature-rich alternative to Mail and Calendar, it’s not touch-friendly and looks outdated. The Mail app is still your best bet for composing and checking emails. Mail notifications not working can break your workflow. Let’s fix the problem once and for all. 1. Enable Notifications for Mail You should enable notification permission for the Mail app on Windows 11. Follow the steps below. Step 1: Press Windows + I keys to open the Settings menu....

It is worth noting that Google Meet was called Hangouts Meet, but Google renamed it to Meet. Google has decided to shut down (Classic) Hangouts and move G Suite customers to Google Chat (earlier Hangouts Chat) and Meet. Hangouts will be phased out. Note that Google will continue to support classic Hangouts for consumers. And now, back to Google Meet. Let’s begin. 1. How to Join a Meeting in Google Meet The organizer of the meeting will send you an invitation code that you will enter on the homepage of the Meet web or mobile app....

Microsoft Whiteboard is suitable mostly for touch-enabled devices. That said, you can use with mouse and keyboard too. Though the number of keyboard shortcuts are limited, you shouldn’t feel disheartened. Unfortunately, you do not get shortcuts for selecting pens, changing pen size or color, inserting objects in Whiteboard. Let’s hope Microsoft changes that in the future. But there are other useful keyboard shortcuts that will come handy while using Whiteboard....

Widgets have been part of Android since its inception. But they came late to the iPhone and iPad. Due to that, they lack certain capabilities, but fortunately, with time, Apple is adding more features to them. You can add widgets for both Apple apps and third-party apps to your iPad. Without making you wait further, let’s show you how to add and use widgets on Apple iPad. What Are Widgets on iPad Widgets are information boxes that show important content from the associated app without opening the app....

We have mentioned file backup and sync using Syncback, Windows backup and restore method, and apps like Back4sure for your data backup and sync needs. But today, we’ll talk about a tool which is “almost” the ultimate solution for file sync and backup. Known as Dropbox, it is an online backup solution which creates a “My Dropbox” folder on your PC and backs up and syncs whatever you put in it....

using Outlook.com must have noticed the four major options (or sister services) viz. Outlook, People, Calendar and SkyDrive. Indeed, the interface that Outlook featured also gave us hints that SkyDrive and Calendar were being carved in the same mold. And even before we realized, bang goes Microsoft to launch the revamped SkyDrive interface. They said on their blog, “. . . we’ve taken the same DNA from the SkyDrive Windows 8 app and brought that to the web....

Out Of Office (OOO) responses to automate email replies (when you are on a vacation) gives a professional touch to the way we handle our emails. However, most of us have developed or taken up the standard process of detailing only our dates of unavailability in our messages. Let us change this style and give an innovative curve to what the mailers see on our automated responses. Why not try and include details of our engagement during that period (or prior to and after that period) so that the people who were trying to reach us can plan to contact (again) accordingly....

sync with iTunes . This is both a blessing and a curse, since while iTunes makes it seamless to sync content with the iPhone, it also locks each iPhone to the user’s computer. So what happens when you have an iPhone but don’t have your computer nearby and want to load an extra song or custom ringtone to it? Well, until very recently you simply couldn’t. But thanks to a great tool that became available not long ago, now everyone can load custom ringtones and songs to their iPhones regardless of which computer they use....

So what is it exactly? And why is it so cheap? Are we looking at another case of too cheap to be any good? Read on to find out. I’ve said this many times at Guiding Tech: “The cloud is a mystery”. It’s kind of becoming my catch phrase. What it Can Do Unlimited photo backup for just a dollar a month is an awesome deal – I’ll give you that....

Speaking of OEMs, both OnePlus and ASUS are battling the flagship killer market at a $600-$800 price tag. OnePlus has OnePlus 8/8T/8 Pro on the shelves while ASUS is swinging the sword with Zenfone 7/7 Pro. As for software experience, OnePlus is making headlines with a redesigned one-handed approach with OxygenOS 11 while ASUS is sticking with closer to Android UI/UX with a handful and useful add-ons. In this post, we are going to compare the ASUS ZenUI to the Oxygen OS....

You can configure time of shutdown according to day, date and time. After activation of task, this tool sits on your system tray and automatically executes the task at the time you wanted it to implement. You can double click on the icon of the task bar to restore the setting. One unique feature of this utility is appearance of 30-second countdown screen in a window before it performs the specified task....

Behind each suspicious link could lurk malware attacks, virus files, page-load attacks, not-safe-for-work sites, and more. Today, these dangers are heightened because of the common use of shortened links thanks to URL shorteners. The easiest way is to just hover your mouse over a link and check out the full URL at the foot of your browser. If the destination is a known one, you can click through. But what if this does not work and you need some more safeguards?...

Radbox is one such service that helps you save online videos quickly and comfortably, for watching later. It makes the entire process easy by offering a bookmarklet, and hence works on all the browsers. It also works with all major video sites like YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion etc, and offers sharing options. So lets see how it works. You’ll need to sign up with them in order to start using it....

Instead of dragging whole sections into a folder or deleting random files just to make room, consider using a batch file to move the oldest items away and out into a separate folder. Commands For Moving Old Desktop Files ROBOCOPY C:\Source C:\Destination /move /minage:7 So what do each of these commands do and how do you customize it to fit your own system? ROBOCOPY: This stands for Robust file copy....

Today we will compare some of the basic aspects of both the products and leave the rest to you. Turns out that almost all of us would only be concerned with these aspects of both the products so it is only fair to talk about them first when doing a comparison. Rest, once you start using one of them, diving deep into its features shouldn’t be a problem. Compatibility The first and the most important thing we will be talking about is compatibility....

Instead of worrying about errors, it would be a good practice to create the workbook or sheets in such a way that it auto-validates entries and restricts a user from making wrong inputs. This is exactly what the Data Validation tool, under Data tab in MS Excel helps you do. And today we will look at one of its features where you may create a dropdown menu for any cell, row or column and restrict the cell entry to data from the list....

ways to gain more space on the Windows taskbar article and the post on how to optimize the use of Windows 7 taskbar in all possible ways. While the basic tricks are already in place, we are set today to discuss about a Windows tool that helps you perform all those actions from one interface. The tool’s a product of Winaero and is rightly named as Taskbar Thumbnails Tuner. It enables you to customize the taskbar thumbnails in all known ways....

Nike+ Bands and Models Let’s start with the obvious. If you’ve seen the Apple Watch Nike+ you know that the bands are different than regular Apple Watch bands. They’re essentially just sport bands, but with stylistic perforations in them so they breathe a little better around your wrist. Two out of four also feature Nike’s signature volt yellow color. The Nike+ models are available in four color combinations: black/volt, black/cool gray, silver/volt and silver/white....

But just installing a new mail app doesn’t mean the default Mail app will stop working and notifying you. Unlike Android, you can’t choose defaults for mail and browser on iOS. Now that you’ve finally parted ways with Mail app, what do you do? Do you disable the app? Or just turn off the notifications? What’s the best for you? Read on to find out. Disabling Mail Accounts If you want to revert the Mail app into a state of nothingness, disabling Mail from your email settings is the best way to go....

But the fact that deleted files, even ones you’ve emptied from the Recycle Bin, can be recovered, means that there’s some sort of caveat to this whole file deletion process. What is it? Read on to find out. Files Aren’t Really Deleted Spinning hard drives write in physical space. Windows marks this data using pointers. Pointers indicate when a file storage begins and ends. When you press the delete button, Windows only removes those data pointers, the ones that signify the start and end points of the data file....