With the evolution of smartphones, there has been a parallel advancement in technologies like phone cameras and speakers. Speaking of which we came all the way from a VGA camera to a powerful 20 MP quad-lens camera set-up. The same we can say for the speakers as well. Earlier the speakers were just regular sound output. However, thanks to the rise in technology today we have Dolby Atmos Sound which provides a better sonic experience....

Windows OS has improved a lot over the last decade. Starting from the interface and various under-the-hood changes, it has managed to stand the test of time and technology. With Windows 10, we now have Settings App that manages various technical aspects of the OS. Many of the system tools that were previously present in the Control panel have been moved as well. Let’s discuss the System Configuration Tool. The MSConfig Tool is accessible from the search box....

As you know, Zoom is a video chat and meeting application that provides the best solutions for remote learning and meetings. But due to recent situations, there were many issues with the app. Many people could access zoom meetings without invitation by zoom bombing. So to prevent, zoom introduced Waiting rooms for zoom meeting. When enabled, the participants willing to join the meeting will wait in the waiting room, and the owner can see and allow only required persons into the meeting....

The messaging application Signal has a fair share of security measures. WhatsApp stores your chat data on the cloud, while signal only maintains a local backup in your storage. So there are no issues about your data being uploaded to any server at all. After the recent controversy regarding WhatsApp, many people have shifted over to Signal and are now looking to make the most of it. This article is for those who are new to Signal and wonder how they can backup and restore their Signal App chats....

Snapchat is a popular instant messaging app with peculiar functions, making it widely accepted among the younger generation. The application is mainly used for its privacy & security features. Your messages disappear in 24 hours, and you can send any content on the app. However, it can become addictive and dangerous for kids. This article will go over why you should block the Snapchat application on your phone and the methods with which you can achieve that....

When Zoom’s popularity exploded as employees shifted to working from home due to COVID-19, bad actors quickly took advantage of the security weaknesses in the videoconferencing platform. Besides resulting in the new term “zoombombing,” these security breaches showed the privacy implications that you need to consider when you use cloud-based services. But before you even start thinking how to protect against the security vulnerabilities of these tools, you need to understand what kind of privacy the service providers themselves offer for the data they collect from your users....

How To Add Hotmail, Office, And Other MS Live Services To Your Domain Visit https://domains.live.com and Type your domain name into the blank box. Since setting up mail is the default option, we’ll leave it like that for this tutorial. Click Continue. 2. Next, you can choose whether you want an already existing Windows Live account to be the domain administrator or, you can set up a new Live ID to be the administrator account....

One of the minor irritants for those of us who have slight OCD tendencies is that there’s no way you can remove built-in iPhone apps – the best you can do is tuck them away inside a folder, which in my case is called unused. But YouTube user Jose Rodriguez has found a couple of ways to actually render them invisible – at least for now. The main method, shown in the video below, works for iOS 9 to 9....

While many of us know about and use the simple four digit passcode or more complex alphanumeric passcode to secure the data on our iOS devices, I recently discovered an interesting option built right into the system that I find to be more secure than a simple passcode and more convenient than an alphanumeric passcode. As mentioned in a recent episode of the Mac Power Users podcast, you can make your passcode more complex without complicating it by using more than 4 digits without involving letters and still using the num pad....

Once your up and running on Google Apps, the first logic step is to start creating some users. MrGroove covered this in his earlier groovyPost however today I’m going to dig a little deeper with a bit more detail and screenshots so we can easily refer back to the steps in future Google Apps groovyPosts (yes… more are definitely on the way!). First, Login to your Google Apps account by going to http://google....

Everybody has their sense of taste when it comes to Music. Some prefer a more bassy sound signature; some prefer the highs while some prefer the balanced sound signature. Well, whatever may be the case for you, if Music is of utmost importance to you, then we have got you covered. You can set the sound signature of any music coming through your Windows PC by configuring the equalizer according to your liking....

If you’re a Facebook marketplace seller, you’d know that one of the key ways to get your products seen by buyers is by using tags. Tags are keywords that describe your product and help people find what they’re looking for on the Facebook marketplace. But how do you add tags on the Facebook marketplace? Product tags helped buyers find your products on the Facebook marketplace. For example, if someone searched for “dresses” and you had a listing for a dress with the tag “summer dresses,” your listing would show up in the search results....

One feature that is still absent from Sticky Notes: backing up, saving, and restoring your Sticky Notes. This makes it a little bit tricky to bring all this important data with you to another device. Microsoft doesn’t provide a convenient way to back up your Sticky Notes, but you can still do it. This article shows how you can back up and restore your Sticky Notes to another device....

All of Quentin Tarantino’s movies are part of the same universe – except Jackie Brown, which has its own – and here’s how Once Upon a Time in Hollywood fits into it. Tarantino’s film career as the world now knows it began in 1992 with the crime movie Reservoir Dogs and hasn’t stopped ever since, directing a total of 10 films (even if both Kill Bill movies are often counted as one), the latest one being Once Upon a Time in Hollywood....

WhatsApp is a global application, and it is possible to find a language barrier when communicating with your friends. Although WhatsApp has not built an official feature for translation in the application, there are proven ways many users have used to translate messages automatically without spending much time on it. When conversing with a friend, you don’t share a common language, you may have a problem understanding each other. That is why, as explained in this guide, you need to learn the best ways of automatically translating WhatsApp messages without spending too much time....

Cryptocurrencies are becoming more and more popular, but many people don’t realise that they’re also taxable. In this post, we’ll go over some tips on how to avoid tax on cryptocurrency in Australia, so you can keep as much of your hard-earned money as possible. Stay tuned! Tax on crypto in Australia According to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), about 500,000 to 1 million Australians own cryptocurrency. Although it’s becoming increasingly popular, it can be tricky to avoid taxes on it....

But it shouldn’t take comprehensive federal legislation to motivate a company to examine how they handle customer data and enable personal privacy. Instead, companies can elevate the role that their security auditors play, step up their privacy practices and work to understand the regulatory environment of today while planning for what’s in store for tomorrow. Why do companies conduct privacy audits? Audits are nothing new for many businesses, but privacy audits are a different kind of experience....

In news that has perhaps been on the cards ever since the zombie spinoff was first announced, it has been officially confirmed that The Walking Dead and Fear The Walking Dead will cross over. Speaking at this past week’s New York Comic Con, franchise creator Robert Kirkman announced that the property’s two television entities would collide at some point within the next twelve months, with a single character from one show set to appear in the other (he deliberately did not specify which show the character is from)....

Mission Control is a tool that I use every day on my Mac to quickly locate open app windows. In my opinion, though, finding a specific window in the Mission Control view can be a challenge if you have many app windows open at once. The good news is that it’s easy to group like applications while using Mission Control. More importantly, enabling grouping places the relevant app icon near groups and single windows....

Last week, it was revealed that an Apple TV 4 jailbreak is scheduled to be released in the very near future. That’s great, but the news comes with an asterisk: the jailbreak will only work with devices running tvOS 9.0 or 9.0.1. If you’ve updated to tvOS 9.1, 9.1.1 or any of the new betas releases, there’s no way to downgrade back to 9.0 or 9.0.1. Thankfully, there are still plenty of fourth generation Apple TVs available in the wild that come installed with one of the first two versions of tvOS....