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Do your friends or colleagues always complain about spotty audio quality with your WhatsApp calls? Your phone’s microphone may be acting up. Before you move to normal calls or other apps like Telegram or Signal, use the tricks below to fix WhatsApp microphone on mobile. Let’s start with the basics, shall we? 1. Enable Microphone Permission for WhatsApp If you have disabled the microphone permission for WhatsApp on iPhone and Android, the app can’t access it....

Fortunately, you won’t have to make some crazy workarounds. Here’s how you can troubleshoot the problem. 1. Restart App When apps on your iPhone start running into problems, restarting them is the first thing you should try. Besides the app, you can also restart your iPhone, it’d help. 2. Disable Background Refresh Background App Refresh is a feature on iPhone that allows apps like Spotify to constantly look for new content even when you’re not using them....

There are several reasons behind Facebook Marketplace not showing all listings. It can be due to an authentication error, corrupt cache, sketchy extensions on the web, or more. 1. Check the Network Connection If you have network connection issues on your phone, Facebook will load the home page from the device cache. But when you move to the Marketplace tab, it won’t show product listings. You can temporarily enable Airplane mode and disable it after a few seconds to reset the network connection....

Microsoft Teams might be an excellent team communication tool, but it does act up at times. Before you move to Teams web or mobile apps and settle for an inconvenient experience, here are some useful methods to fix Microsoft Teams problem that states operation failed with an unexpected error. 1. Reopen the Microsoft Teams App Were you trying to join a new channel or compose a recent group call in Teams?...

When you have the latest graphics card, high-end RAM, and superfast SSD installed on the PC, keeping a tab on the PC temperature is more than important to ensure smoother and effective performance. We’ve compiled nine effective ways to reduce the CPU temperature on your PC. 1. Make Sure You Have Enough Fans for Airflow Most PC cabinets come with a few air intake fans and one exhaust fan at the rear....

The problem occurs when you are unable to empty the Recycle Bin. There can be many reasons behind it. Some users say that the option to empty Recycle Bin is grayed out while others report that the option is simply not present. Before we go ahead, I will also share how you can show or hide the Recycle Bin on your desktop because sometimes, it is not visible which makes it difficult to empty the Recycle Bin or even recover files from it....

Google Drive app for Windows and configure it to access multiple Google Drive account in the same Windows profile. However after few updates of the app, the trick ceased to work and users started reporting that they get errors when more than one account was configured. So today I am going to share yet another technique using which you can simultaneously sync more than one Google Drive account on your Windows computer....

keyboard shortcuts that emulate multiple mouse clicks, certain other tricks can help you get better and improved experiences. One such way is to use bookmarklets on browsers. There could be many such tricks, some of which you might have discovered in the course of using the internet every day. I have tried rendering a few processes for myself in order to expedite the way I search the internet. And in my attempt to do so I also realized that there are two parts to it....

Recently YouTube announced that users on the platform are watching billion hours of videos every day, which roughly translates into 100,000 years of time spent watching video footage. These videos are weird at times — in a surprisingly good way, though — and sometimes even completely senseless. You might be even surprised that someone shot a video of the thing you just saw. Those who have been ardent YouTubers, must have realised that most of the popular videos on the platform are either funny, satirical, How to guides, exercise/yoga related, popular music track or web series....

ISO files are used to distribute disc images. For example, iso files for operating systems like Ubuntu (Linux distro) could be downloaded from the net and then burnt to a CD to create a bootable operating system disc. This tutorial will discuss three things:- How to extract ISO files from a disc Extracting iso files from CDs and keeping them safe could be useful. Suppose you are considering backing up your Windows installation disc....

If you use Safari on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, then you can easily use an array of third-party content blockers to remove unwanted clutter from loading onto the browser. But while content blockers are synonymous with ad blocking extensions, they work quite differently and have certain advantages and disadvantages. Let’s dig into them below. How Do Safari Content Blockers Work Content blockers are tiny apps that contain lots of rules, each with their specific triggers and actions....

Facebook offers many features to stop interacting with someone. Those include snooze, take a break, unfriend, and mute. Unfollow is also one of them. It’s quite helpful in situations when you don’t want to unfriend someone but still stop seeing their posts on your feed. Let’s see what the aftereffects of unfollowing someone are. To understand that, you need to know what is follow on Facebook. Let’s start with that....

How Does the 2-step Verification System Work? The 2-step verification introduces a second layer of protection by using a one-time verification code that is sent to you via a text message or a voice message to your mobile device. Google will ask for this code if it senses that you have logged in from a new browser or a new device, other than your default ones. You have to key in this code after the password to authenticate your Google account....

Among them is the Voice Control feature that’s designed for people who want to control the Mac instead of using the keyboard or mouse. If that is your situation, or you just want a new way of using your Mac without the hassles of typing on a keyboard or using your mouse, read on to find out what Voice Control is and what you can do with it. What Is Voice Control on Mac Voice Control is a macOS Catalina feature that allows you to control your Mac computer using simple voice commands that are propagated by the voice recognition technology....

Now, if you want you can hide the reading pane and the calendar pane in want of more space and detailed view of the message pane. Then, there is a third variant where you can keep all panes intact, yet gain little extra space by switching to the compact view. In this case the folders pane is contracted to a narrow strip. We will see today how to do that and how to make full use of the compact view....

Really, this is the first phone in a while that targets iPhone more than anything else. Samsung has for a couple years now poked fun at its superiority, but generally carved out a nice place for itself in the market. It stopped aggressively going after Apple the way it used to because enough people got on board. Now, Google is taking a whack of its own. You’d probably think this should get Apple riled up....

And if you follow the world of fitness accessories, you must know that the Xiaomi Mi Band 4 bundles plenty of features. From steps counter to tracking your daily runs and your heartbeat, this small band can surely pull off a lot with ease. And the Samsung Galaxy Fit e is no different. Well, that’s the picture you get on the first glance. Hence, it only makes sense to pit both Xiaomi Mi Band 4 and the Samsung Galaxy Fit E against each other and see which fitness tracker is right for you....

Well, that’s not all, Paint 3D is more than just seeing the third dimension of objects. With ease, you can draw beautiful scenes and objects and flip it to form a scene. So, without further delay, let’s take a quick tour on what more you can do with Paint 3D. 1. Canvas When you first launch the new paint app, it’ll present you with a white canvas. Similar to its predecessor, all the actions happen here....

These tools offer sketch effect, magazine effect, burning photo effect, celebrity poster effect and various other similar funny image effects. Check them out. 1. Dumpr.net Dumpr.net provides lots of effects such as photo to sketch, cube effect, photo reel effect and many more. It’s simple and easy to use. A nice feature about this tool is that you could quickly share the transformed images with friends. 2. Faceinhole Faceinhole offers to fill your face into pre-defined dummy body....

This is why in this post, we skip those popular, often far too used online tools to focus on other that, while less popular, are just as useful if not more. Now, some of you might find some familiar services in this list but we can bet you’ll find some new ones too. Ready? Let’s get started. 1. Get Your To-Dos in Order With Any.Do For just about any student out there, having a to-do app to refer to is essential....