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few basics about Siri and some tips that can help you work much better with it. This time, we take a look at a few essential settings of Apple’s digital assistant and at how to make it more private and secure. Configuring Siri First, let’s start by learning how to configure Siri and tailor it to better suit your specific needs. On your iPhone, go to Settings > Siri. There you will be able to see if Siri is enabled and, most importantly, the different configuration options that you can use to adjust it....

Icon Size Icons in OS X can be scaled to almost any size right on the spot, although most Mac users don’t know about this. This allows you to view files on specific windows in a size that is comfortable for you. To enable this feature, select the Finder and then on the menu bar, select View, then Show Status Bar. If you have the icon view selected, this will display a slider at the bottom right of any Finder window, letting you change the icon size instantly just by sliding it....

For Microsoft Outlook users, there are two different features allow you to withdraw emails – Recall and Undo Send. The presence of the Recall or Undo Send feature depends on whether you use Outlook for Desktop app or Outlook for Web. Besides, there are some key differences between these two features. Difference Between the Recall and Undo Send Features in Microsoft Outlook Despite being offered with similar intent, the Recal and Undo Send features work different in Microsoft Outlook....

I know, you’d wonder: why bother with a dedicated app when you can use any screen recorder app? Well, you still have to edit those videos to create a time-lapse out of them. That’s why a dedicated app works. You can record time-lapse videos to show off your process of making the digital art or montage clips of your workflow. You can even add multiple clips on a single screen on Instagram to make it a cool, distinct story....

Make Sure Your Mac Isn’t Just Confused If your backup has trouble booting and you aren’t sure what’s wrong, the first step is to run Apple’s Disk Utility. We cover basic Mac hard disk troubleshooting here. If these programs don’t fix your symptoms, it’s time to go searching your hard drive for your critical stuff. Decide What You Need to Recover If you don’t have a regular backup of your Mac, you might have everything you need somewhere else....

make our accounts more secure they are working harder to provide unique features too. For instance, the huge storage space that you get these days with web based email services like Gmail and Outlook.com. Impressive, right? That is exactly why I see no reason to delete any email. Rather one should practice the art of archiving as many as possible; you never know when you may require one. However, there are chances that you may delete a message accidently or even intentionally and later realize that you shouldn’t have....

using your PS3 , your PS Vita and your PSP . Sometime ago, Sony introduced an online store for users to buy digital games directly from it. However, it is just recently that it has allowed gamers to not only buy games and download them manually, but now it also lets them start remote downloads from it, although your PlayStation systems won’t turn themselves on automatically to do so. This is how it works....

Use Firefox for some time, and you’d be surprised at the amount of clutter that builds up within the New Tab page. Even with Pocket recommendations turned off, you still have Top Sites and Highlights occupying the entire screen! What They Do Both the Top Sites and Highlights sections on the New Tab page function very similarly. The former displays whatever sites that you visit frequently, while the latter shows a mix of both recently visited and bookmarked sites....

While the process is easy, it can be time-consuming. The ideal thing to do would be to take the aid of a laptop or a tablet since a bigger screen will help you maneuver through the watched episodes and shows better. At the same time, the Netflix app for Android and iOS doesn’t have extensive settings. Let’s see how to reset watched episodes and TV shows on Netflix. How To Reset Netflix’s Watched Episodes From Queue Step 1: Open the Netflix website in a browser on your computer and log in with your credentials....

It turns out, there is a pretty good solution already. That is to just convert your Live Photos into animated GIFs or videos before you want to send them out. Animated GIFs have become forms of expression in recent years on the web. Plus, this way friends can see the animation without technically viewing the actual Live Photo. Two apps in the App Store do this pretty well. How to Convert Live Photos to Animated GIFs with Lively Lively is an app you can download for free that can convert live photos to either animated GIFs or videos....

adding contacts from an email account to Windows Phone 8 . If you have already tried that then you must have understood that the process actually includes setting up of an email account on your phone . That by default makes your email messages sync with your device. Now, there could be a chance that you have set up multiple accounts but want updates from only one or two of those....

Well, if you are wondering how to set up your Windows 11 PC with an offline account, you’ve come to the right place. In this guide, we will show you how to easily bypass Windows 11’s request to log in with your Microsoft account and create an offline account. Let’s get to it. Windows 11 Will Require an Internet Connection and Microsoft Account at Setup Microsoft recently released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22557 for its testers....

Sharing screen is probably one of the most important features of Google Meet. During your work from home routine, you might require someone’s help to troubleshoot problems. You can fire up Google Meet, call your seniors, and share screen for guidance. You can also use the Whiteboard function for better understanding. In this post, we will explain how to use Screen Sharing on Google Meet and how you can use some extensions to level up Google Meet sharing capabilities....

That’s Not How You Say It When you hear Siri mispronounce a name, try to correct it immediately. Tell it “That’s not how you say it.” Siri will then ask “How do you pronounce the name?” Then it will listen for your pronunciation. After it hears the name, it will thank you for the correction. It then offers three samples based on what it heard. Listen to all three and select the correct pronunciation....

Switching from Android to Android phone can be painless as you are probably using the same Gmail ID to sync notes, tasks, contacts, and apps. When switching from Android to iPhone, you need to use relevant tools to make the transition as smooth as possible. In this post, we will talk about easy ways to transfer contacts from Android to iPhone. We will also mention adding Outlook contacts to iPhone....

The snag you often encounter here is that you are not able to recall where you kept your USB cable after using it the last time. As we all know, it takes ages to transfer files via Bluetooth and, hence, you end up frustrated, eventually postponing the process. Use AirDroid to Transfer Files between Android and PC AirDroid is one of the best apps that lets you manage and control your Android device from a web browser “over-the-air”, which means that you do not have to connect a USB cable to transfer data....

Turn Off Autofill on Chrome While there are several autofill tools available for Chrome, its integrated autofill feature is widely-used. Despite the fact that Chrome is developed by Google, it is still vulnerable and until a fix is released, it would be better to turn off the autofill feature. Here is how you can do that. Step 1: Click the Menu key located at the top-right corner of the browser window....

Microsoft answered Slack’s growing popularity with the introduction of the Microsoft Teams in 2016. And the software giant continues to add new features to meet consumer demand. Also, it has quickly adapted to a growing trend of video calling apps while many have to deal with messy backgrounds or inadequate lights during a call. In this post, we shall guide you on how to add background blur for video calls in Microsoft Teams....

Flipping an image means rotating it 180 degrees either horizontally or vertically. The final image is the mirror image of the original picture. Things slightly differ for flipping an image, layer, or selection in GIMP. If you have wanted to use the flip tool in GIMP, you will find everything about it in this post. Here is a guide on how to flip an image in GIMP. There are two methods to do it....

As we install more and more applications on the computer, the startup time increases and the PC becomes slower because many programs add themselves automatically to the startup list. So, the result is slow Windows startup and a slow computer overall. So how do we take care of the problem ? Well, Windows comes with a System configuration utility (MSCONFIG) which can help us resolve Windows startup problems. You can stop a few unnecessary programs from starting up while loading Windows....