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Samsung calls it Intelligent Wi-Fi. The feature remembers the wireless router you use frequently and enables Wi-Fi when you go near the wireless router. Using Bixby routines, you can create automated tasks that allow you to auto-connect Wi-Fi, and run other tasks based on location. We will show you how to set it up in the Bixby app. Use Intelligent Wi-Fi on Your Samsung Phone First, we shall take a look at how to use intelligent Wi-Fi on your Galaxy phone....

Why This Matters The obvious answer is you’ll have trouble finding stuff on a messy desktop. Sure you can use Spotlight or Alfred, but that approach isn’t always efficient. With too many desktop icons, your Mac could slow down. In rare circumstances, you could lose your stuff. Worst of all, you can’t see your awesome wallpaper with a messy desktop. HiddenMe: A Temporary Solution If you haven’t gotten to desktop zero yet, HiddenMe is a free app that hides your desktop icons....

While talking about the Reset and Refresh feature of Windows 8 the other day, we mentioned how both are different. While the Refresh option makes sure your files and settings are retained, Reset makes the computer as good as new (factory reset). Although the refresh option retained the Metro apps and files, it was not able to take care of all the desktop applications installed. RecImg from SlimWare is a nifty application that works just like Windows 8 refresh feature, except that it preserves all the files and applications installed on the system drives (including games as well)....

If you are looking to prevent your child from accessing the internet entirely, then blocking Safari is pretty easy to do via Screen Time. Alternatively, you can choose to block unwanted websites on Safari, and even impose time limits on either the browser or sites individually. There’s also the option to manage restrictions remotely from the comfort of your iOS device should you want to. Let’s look at how you do each of these in turn....

If you want to change the look of your documents for a specific purpose, altering the background can also impact. Whether it’s a menu or a poster for an event, you can alter the background of a document. That’s why the Pages app is apt to give you the option to change the background color. We will show you how to do that on your iPhone and Mac. Change Background Color in Pages App on iPhone Nearly all features of Pages app are usable between the iPhone and Mac....

Google Play Store has a plethrora of applications to better open different media files. Be it a new app to make calls, your new web browser, a swift messaging app or a swanky music player — an Android user is always on the lookout for a new app to adorn his or her home screen. Now, let’s say you use different apps to play videos and listening to music but you accidentally hit Set default and created default action to use a player to play all the media files....

Let’s see how to get it done. Step 1: Go to the Mi Home Services page for Google Assistant on your Android and tap on Setup. Visit Mi Home Services That will take you to the Google Home Control settings page. Once in, tap on the little Plus icon at the bottom-right corner. Having done that, type Mi Home and hit the search button. To link your Mi account and Google account, you’d need to enter your Mi credentials on the Mi login page....

What you need is a Bluetooth car adapter. This provides a medium for your car to receive a Bluetooth signal and then pass it directly through to your speakers. There are a couple of different options for the type of car adapter you might want. Wired Bluetooth Adapters Wired Bluetooth adapters stick somewhere on your dashboard, wherever you decide and generally have a few control buttons plus a built-in microphone....

But all that just feels like hard work, right? Like you’d need to learn how to program and create all that stuff on your own? Well, not really. All you really need is your iPad, a couple of dollars and some time. If you have a TV, even better! Just mirror the iPad display using an HDMI cable or an Apple TV and you’ve got a real dashboard going....

The electronic business card works the same way as physical cards provide your contact details to intended recipients. The business card can be used as an email signature and placed within an outgoing email. To create your personalized business card on Microsoft Outlook, here are the steps to follow. How to Create a Business Card in Microsoft Outlook Creating a business card on Outlook ensures that your email recipients always have your contact information handy....

QuickShortcutMaker allows users to create convenient shortcuts on their home screens without having to traverse the interface of an app. If you think about, we mainly carry out a limited amount of activities when using an app. With QuickShortcutMaker you have the ability in many cases to jump straight to your desired action. How it Works On opening the app, you will notice 3 tabs. These are Activities, Applications and Favorites....

All the mid-range and high-end Samsung smartphones come with an AMOLED screen, meaning they can take advantage of the Always On Display function. Taking a page from Apple’s book, Samsung has also introduced lock screen widgets on the One UI 3.1. Let’s learn about all the lock screen customization possibilities on a Samsung Galaxy device. Enable Always On Display To extend the battery life on a Galaxy device, Samsung disables the AOD function out of the box....

silent automatic update making the future updates easier. It’s not that the automatic updates were missing in the previous versions, but from this version the updater will not ask for UAC control even if a user had it enabled. It’s always good to keep an updated copy of the software on the system but with Firefox updates, things go a bit different. I still remember that they released more than five beta versions for Firefox 12 before they came out with a stable release....

If you hand over your Mac to someone else, for example, you may not know what he or she was up to during their browsing sessions. Put kids into the equation, and that becomes a serious issue due to the numerous harmful websites out there. That is why you may want to disable Safari’s Private browsing windows on your Mac. If you have macOS 10.15 Catalina installed, then it’s easily doable due to the presence of Screen Time....

Kids can be stubborn at times and parents have no choice but to play their videos and look for child-friendly content and apps on Google Play Store. Our kids challenge us every day when it comes to handling our smartphones. Give them an Android phone for a video call with their grandpa and they will show you the settings on your phone you didn’t even know existed. The kids mode is not for kids anymore....

Case in point: Instagram. Facebook recently added Download Your Information link option to give users some control over their social media lives. Some media outlets then asked Facebook to do the same for Instagram too. While there are apps available for both mobile and computer that allow users to download Instagram photos, Instagram has now made it easier for everyone to do it directly from its website. Download Your Instagram Data The feature is currently available on the website only, so you will have to visit Instagram in your browser....

This disc will contain Windows system recovery tools and it can be used for multiple purposes. You can boot your computer using this disc and also restore your computer to a previous state when needed. How to create system repair disc in Windows 7 To create a system repair disc, click on start button. Type Create a system Repair Disc. Press Enter (even typing repair would do). Select the drive from the drop down menu....

Thankfully, Apple reintroduced the functionality with the iOS 13.4 and macOS Catalina 10.15.4 updates. So if you are using an iPhone, an iPad, or a Mac with the latest system software updates installed, it’s incredibly easy to share entire iCloud Drive folders with others. To make things even better, you can use the iCloud Drive web app at iCloud.com to share folders as well. So without any further ado, let’s check how this functionality works on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and iCloud....

some of which we have already shown you ) with every new release of OS X. Sadly, the vast majority of Mac users only think about and use Preview for viewing a few photos and for reading PDFs on their Macs, when in fact they could be doing a lot more with this small but powerful tool, which is equipped to handle and manage PDFs with ease and proficiency. Here are a few things that you can use Preview on your Mac for when it comes to PDFs:...

Now though I have moved on to Spotify, I still find myself using the Last.fm scrobbler. But unlike the above two, I don’t need to use an additional tool to scrobble the music. The Last.fm scrobbler comes integrated with both the desktop and the smartphone app of Spotify. So let’s see how we can use this feature. On Spotify for Desktop Open Spotify Preferences from Edit ->Preferences. From here you can control almost every aspect of Spotify....