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reopen the explorer locations (that are currently open) when you restart or login to your computer. This is something that must be activated for people who have to frequently install or uninstall applications. Another flavor of this would be to retain the set of open programs when shutting down or restarting the system. Since such a thing is not supported on Windows by default, we will look at a third party tool, Cache My Work, to work around with this....

As you can see from the screenshot below, you can make the layers visible by a mouse-over the square widget on the top right-hand corner of the map. A menu with available layers for your map drops down, and you can click on More… to view additional layers like live webcams, videos, Wikipedia articles on the area, bicycling routes etc. The above screenshot shows a few live webcams around New York City....

But is Brave that good enough to be worth ditching Safari on your iPhone? Migrating browsers is no pleasant task, so let’s check out how Brave stacks against Safari in several aspects and then decide if a switchover is warranted. User Interface Compared to Safari, Brave’s user interface looks strikingly similar — both browsers feature their navigation bars to the bottom of the screen, with similar positions used for the Back and Forward, Share, and Tab Switcher icons....

On paper, the Gear Fit2 Pro is only slightly better than the Gear Fit2, which was launched last year at Rs 15,000 (around $237). The Gear Fit2 Pro, which launched in August is now swim-proof and can withstand 5 ATM underwater. It even has Spotify integration and inbuilt GPS. The Gear Fit2 Pro was launched at a price of Rs 13,590 (around $215), which hasn’t changed yet. Incidentally, the Gear Fit 2 is now available for Rs 11,900 (around $187), which is a solid Rs 1,690 (around $28) less than the Gear Fit2 Pro....

There are many apps on the Play Store that love to store big files on the internal SD card. Take Asphalt or even Temple Run for example. These apps take up the internal SD card space with save data files and give no option to move them to the external SD card. Even if you try to move these files manually to the external SD card, the app will not identify them and will give you missing file errors....

system passwords , including those from websites you visit as well as most from native applications (as long as developers have enabled the feature). Naturally, the most convenient aspect of this utility is that it allows you to locate and view all your passwords in a simple way, which can sometimes be a lifesaver, especially if you forget an important password that you haven’t used in ages. For example, let’s say you forget the password for a website you visit often but that one day it asks you for it despite you having specified for your login information to be remembered by it (which can be caused by its cookies expiring for example)....

So, which earphones should you buy? Should you trust the old player in the game — Sony? Would you rather go with the new player? That’s what we are going to explore in this post today, as we pit the Sony WF-SP800N against the Jabra Elite 75t, and see which Bluetooth earphones sound better. Let’s get started. But before that, Jabra Elite 75t or the Sam­sung Galaxy Buds Plus? Check out this comparison....

Without further ado, here is a list of issues and their solutions that are known to fix this problem. 1. Update Your Windows 10 Windows 10 does a pretty good job of updating your computer. If you have set the update settings to default, updates will be installed automatically when you are not active on your computer. Updates bundle a lot of bug fixes and performance improvements. To check for new updates and install them immediately, press Windows key+I to open Settings and click on Update & Security....

You can change user agent string of your browser and enjoy the iPad interface right inside it. Changing user agent string in Firefox and Safari is easy. But Chrome doesn’t offer a direct method to do it. Here’s a step by step guide to change user string in Chrome and get the iPad interface. Right click on the chrome shortcut and select Properties. Now go to “Shortcut” tab. In Target field, you will find this text written (where “username” is your windows username): Replace the text with the text shown below by copying the text and pasting it inside target field (make sure you have your actual windows username after C:\Users....

In the past, with analog cell phones and old-style PDAs and address books, keeping our contacts updated and copying them from one place to another was a real pain. SIM cards helped solve this problem, but only partially and on cell phones, leaving most people with most of their contacts in their computers. However, nowadays with the help of online services like Google account and Apple’s iCloud, contacts can be stored and updated in real-time across multiple devices, and even if you lose a device your contact list is still safe in the cloud....

So all in all, to get all these features on Android, you will have to install two to three different gesture-based apps. But thank an XDA developer for coming up with an interesting app that promises to take care of everything. fooView – Float Viewer is a magic floating button that brings in gesture based actions on your Android. It’s a system enhancement tool to help you access your favorite websites, apps, games, files, music, photos, and video by a gesture using one hand....

Chromebook’s Built-In PDF Viewer If all you need is the basics, the Chrome PDF viewer might be all you need. It should be enabled by default. If you leave Always Allowed to Run unchecked in chrome://plugins/, you’ll need to right-click to open the PDF. I have my Chromebook set that way to prevent PDFs from opening automatically. Besides just viewing a PDF, you can do some basic modifications. Since PDF creation is also part of ChromeOS, you can extract just the pages you want by printing the document to PDF....

This means that if you want to change something fundamental about OS X – the way it looks for instance, you have to go deep. Thanks to the wonderful Mac community and passionate developers, it is possible. Let’s find out how. Turn The Menu bar Black It might seem simple but this is one of the biggest aesthetic upgrade you can make to your OS X homescreen. Especially if you have a Macbook Pro, the black menu bar really blends in with the black bezels....

An extensive study by Mohammad Aamir Ali, Budi Arief, Martin Emms and Aad van Moorsel, outlines online payments using credit and debit cards and the security issues caused by multiple payment gateways on different merchant sites, was published in IEEE Security & Privacy. The authors of the study, who’re associated with Newcastle University, pointed out that their tool can also be used to guess Zip codes and address data. Hackers can use the tool to correlate location data with the card-issuing financial institution or use a skimming device to figure out which merchant sites swiped the card....

Luckily, we’ve worked on providing you with the top 10 free apps to install on your Android phone, so you don’t have to look at all. Does that make things easier or what? This is a list of great apps to start you off on your new Android device, keeping it clean, safe and easy to use. It doesn’t claim to be a list of the best Android apps out there, although many of these apps could easily qualify as such....

Now, not all of the features might appeal to the average user out there. Keep in mind that Windows 8 is more of a tablet-centric OS. For a geek like me, it brings some significant changes but am still not sure how the average user will rate these some of these new stuff. Not taking much of your time I’ll straight-away take you to the most prominent new changes you will see in Windows 8 and leave it up to you to decide what do you like and what you’d rather not see in this upcoming Windows version....

Notion has been the crown jewel of modular productivity apps. In a short period, the San Francisco based start-up gained in popularity due to its unique take on note-taking and organization. As you may know, Notion is all about organizing your life, collecting thoughts, developing personal wiki, and managing to-dos with a modular approach. It boils down to the end-user on how he wants to organize pages within Notion. One can build a page from scratch or use templates....

Even though the app is very straightforward, it is packed with useful features. So what are these features? And how does one utilize all of them to the fullest? You will find all the answers along with a few Simplenote Android App tips and tricks. The following Simplenote tips and tricks are meant for Android app and most if them might apply to its iOS version as well. 1. Pin Notes Simplenote supports only one type of view mode — list view....

iPhone hotspot keeps turning off can break your workflow. It can interrupt your ongoing Zoom meeting, fails to save changes in a Word file or disrupt your communication with team members. To avoid such a situation in the future, use the tricks below. Why Does My iPhone Hotspot Keeps Disconnecting Before we show you step-by-step instructions to fix the hotspot issue on your iPhone, let’s quickly go over some of the possible reasons behind such behavior....

We talked about a dialer app in the past that uses the T9 contact search feature. To make things better for users in the iOS ecosystem, today I am going to talk about two apps for iPhone that can bulk delete, merge duplicates, and also back up contacts. Now the thing is, you might stumble upon a lot of apps with a simple search on the App Store. But almost all of these apps ask you to pay even before they process a single contact for you....