In this article, we show how to activate Bedtime Mode on your Android handset. What Is Digital Wellbeing and Why Should You Use It? In the modern world, smartphone addiction has become a real thing. A recent study states that smartphone addiction has a similar impact on the brain to that of drug addiction. Given that smartphones today are such an indispensable part of human lives, the dangers of overusing them will inevitably manifest....
ADB was specifically designed for Android developers, but there are many useful things you, as a regular consumer, can do with ADB. These include sideloading applications, rooting your phone, transferring files between your phone and your computer, creating backups, and recording your screen. But how do you get started with it? Install ADB on Windows Download the Platform Tools for Windows. (You can download it for Mac or Linux, too, on the same web page....
While switching to Safari is as easy as making it your default browser and doing all of your browsing work in it, you might have some data stored in your other web browsers that you would like to import to Safari. Fortunately, Safari does have an option that helps you import data to the browser from your other browsers. The feature lets you import data like bookmarks, web browsing history, and saved passwords....
RecalBox is an operating system that includes a wide variety of video game consoles, arcade systems and PCs. It is one of the most popular alternatives to RetroPie and has some significant advantages. This guide will go through the steps necessary to get RecalBox up and running on a Raspberry Pi. Get the Appropriate Hardware First thing’s first. If you don’t already have a Raspberry Pi and all of the associated bits and bobs, you’ll need to purchase them....
Installing Slack Apps To start this process, visit the Slack Apps page. Make sure you’re signed in to the workspace you want to install the app on first, however, as each app will only install once per workspace. For example, I have several clients I write for, and each site has their own workspace, so if I install the Google Drive integration while I’m signed in to the Make Tech Easier Slack room, it will only install for MTE and not the rest....
Before Getting Started Before you are able to perform this feat, you need to make sure you are signed in with the same Google account on both your PC and Android phone. You should align the two in advance. If you’re not sure how to switch between Google accounts on Android, check out our earlier article which describes how to easily do so. Also, this is only applicable for apps in the Play Store....
Use the Find My app on your iPhone The easiest and quickest way to locate your missing Apple Watch is by using the “Find My” app on your iPhone. If your Apple Watch is set up with your iCloud account, you can simply log in to the “Find My” app and locate it, as your Apple watch location will be included in the device list. Follow the guide below to do this:...
Materials you need Android phone or tablet. Not all devices will work, but I used a tablet running Android 4.4. Much older devices probably won’t be able to handle the software. A speaker. You don’t need anything fancy. In fact, a cheap speaker may work better than a higher-end one. The latest version of the Google App. Get Started by enabling OK Google The device you want to repurpose needs to be able to recognize the OK Google command....
While the AR creator community is constantly working on new effects, and there’s an abundance of them to experiment with, you might have your own creative ideas when it comes to AR filters. You can try them out and put them into practice anytime. Here we show how you can build your very first Instagram custom AR filter. 1. Download and Install Spark AR Studio To build your very own Instagram AR filter, you need a program called Spark AR Studio....
Situation When iPhone first launched, we created a category called “iPhone” for every article related to iPhone. Later when the iPad was released, we again created another category call “iPad”, since at that time, iPhone and iPad are two different devices. When Apple merged all its mobile OS into the current iOS, there seems to be very little differences between iPhone and iPad anymore. In this case, rather than maintaining two different categories of similar context, it is much more efficient to merge them together into one single category....
Mounting is the process of creating a virtual CD/DVD drive on your computer so that it can run ISO files just like a disk drive would. Unmounting, meanwhile, is like hitting the “Eject” button on your disk drive. In this article we’ll show you how to do both of these things by simply using the tools contained within Windows. How to Mount an ISO File We’re assuming that you’ve already created the ISO file you want to mount, or that you at least have the ISO file in question on your computer and ready for use....
Note: This whole tutorial will be done in the terminal Installation To get started, first install the dependencies. Alternatively, if you are using GIT, you can checkout its Github page for more detail. Extract the file: You should now find a “riofs-master” folder. Enter the “riofs-folder” folder and compile it. Before we can mount our bucket, we have to configure the configuration file for riofs. In your terminal: This will copy the default configuration file to your local folder....
1. Open an Apple Pages File Using iCloud If you have a .PAGES file on your Windows PC, you can still rely on Apple to open or convert it using iCloud. To use iCloud, you need an Apple ID, and if you own an Apple device, you already have one. You can also create an Apple ID even without owning an Apple device. You won’t be able to access everything Apple device owners can, but you will be allowed to give Apple Pages a go....
Adding these shortcuts is not a difficult task, but each browser does it differently. Here are the directions for each of the popular browsers: Chrome, Firefox, and the new Microsoft Edge. Pin a site on Chrome Open the website you want to pin. Click the three dots in the upper-right corner. Click on “More tools.” Choose “Create a shortcut.” In the pop-up window, you can change the name of the shortcut and force the site to open in a new window if you prefer....
Get the app Just about any Linux distribution with online repositories will have this package available, normally as just mpg123. Ubuntu users can find it in the Software Center or from the command line with In the event that your distribution does not have binaries available, you can download the source code here. The Basics A single track can be played in a simple and pretty obvious way, just mpg123 followed by the filename, as in: Which will play the single track from start to finish with output something like this:...
So if you ever need, here is how you can use the Windows Group Policy Editor to block users from installing removable devices. Prevent Installation of Removable Devices Since we are using Group Policy Editor to manage the changes, you need to have a Pro or Enterprise version of Windows and depending on your needs, you can apply the changes to the whole network. First off, press “Win + R,” type gpedit....
The Problem With Disk Clean Up Techniques There are different ways to free up some hard drive space on the primary Windows partition. This includes: Cleaning up the temporary files, browsing data, thumbnails of websites and emptying the temporary internet files folder Deleting Windows hibernation files / shadow copies Compressing files and folders to save disk space Removing Log files and system generated temporary files during installation of a specific program....
Oh no! It’s gone!! You can’t remember where you used your Android last or where you could have set it down. You’re sure you put it in your purse like you always do. The first thing you do is use a friend’s phone to call it hoping to hear it or that someone will answer it. Nope. Now what? There isn’t any way to retrieve the information on the phone, and you sure as heck don’t want someone to have access to your email and private information, so it’s time to remote wipe your Android....
Using the Root Account A simple way to recover or reset a forgotten password for a WSL user is to use the root account. In most WSL distributions, the root account is enabled and does not have a password set. Since WSL automatically logs in to the set default account without a password prompt, we can change the configuration file and set the default account as root. To change the configuration, we need to use the WSL instance executable....
A factory reset will erase all the information on your hard drive. Any files that you haven’t backed up to Google Drive or an external hard drive will be lost. If you would rather just remove all the configuration and extensions that you have added to your profile, choose a standard reset rather than a powerwash. This will return your profile to default settings, but you’ll be able to sync all of your saved data back to it....
