While most of us are comfortable with the default size of text on our smartphones, there may be situations where-in you might want to increase the Android text size. For example, if one of your grandparents (with weak eyesight) are to use your phone for some time. No prizes for guessing that such a setting ... Read more
Facebook has begun rolling out a new feature that's aimed at securing users' profile picture from being misused. The functionality is called 'profile picture guard'. It's disabled by default, but you can easily enable it if you need more control on who can download/share your Facebook profile picture. In this article, we will quickly discuss ... Read more
Like me, I am sure most of you'd be receiving a lot of email on daily basis. Some are important, while most are spam. Google's email service Gmail does a pretty decent job of filtering out spam by default. However, among important emails too, some usually require urgent attention. So what can you do to ... Read more
So you are a WhatsApp user. You know the meaning of those ticks that appear next to messages you send - single tick means message has been sent, double tick means message has been delivered, and when the double tick turns blue, it indicates the message has been read. But - assuming you weren't continuously ... Read more
Gmail is no doubt one of the most popular web-based email services available today. For people like me, who use Gmail for their official work, having the Gmail app on phone is a must. Whether you want to check for any new incoming email or compose a new one, the first step is, obviously, to ... Read more
Whenever you, say, set an alarm or connect to WiFi on your Android phone, a corresponding icon appears in the status bar. Have you ever felt like removing any of these icons, but couldn't do so because of lack of knowledge on how to go about doing it? If that's the case, then you've come ... Read more
WhatsApp is unarguably one of the most popular mobile messaging apps today. The app offers a plethora of features, and one among them is the ability share images. Quite a standard feature, right? But do you know you can edit your picture messages so as to give them, let's say, a personal touch? In this ... Read more
The battery icon on your Android phone does a decent job of giving you an idea about the current battery capacity of your device. In case you want to see the remaining battery in terms of percentage, you can do that by pulling down the notification bar twice. But what if you don't want to ... Read more
Using an Android Marshmallow-powered device? Have you ever noticed that separate row of app icons which appears on the top when you launch your device's app drawer? Those are basically suggestions that pop up based on your usage of apps. For example, in my case, the row contains icons for Gmail, Chrome, WhatsApp, and YouTube. ... Read more
It won't be a stretch to say that not every smartphone user is tech savvy, especially when it comes to apps. For example, the other day, a family friend asked me if I could tell the name of the app that was triggering some unwanted notifications on their Android device? Or whether there's an easy ... Read more