App List If your friend is new to the Android world, this is the perfect tool to help get them started. Here I’ll describe the way I prefer to use it. First of all, install List My Apps from the Google Play Store, here. It’s free. Launch List my Apps and you’ll get an easy to use interface. To kick things off, make sure you tick Always link to Google Play, even the app does not come from there....
Disappearing WhatsApp Messages There are a few things we should clear up first. If you think that this will turn WhatsApp into some kind of Snapchat replacement, think again. WhatsApp (which has a dark theme now) has approached the issue differently. Namely, once you enable the feature, WhatsApp messages will disappear after an interval of seven days. This will happen whether the messages are sent to a person or a group....
Apple Health is pre-installed with all iPhone devices and gives you a lock screen ID card with your contact details and medical conditions. It also allows other health apps to send health information about you, so you have a one-stop shop if you need to check some health data about yourself. How To Set Up Your Apple Health Lockscreen Profile First, look at how to locate Apple Health on your iPhone and set up your lock screen profile....
How to Share Alexa Skills When you do find a useful or fun Skill that you want to share with friends or family you can do so over social media or by sending them a direct link. Open the Alexa app on your phone or go to Alexa on the web and choose Skills from the options menu. Then look through your current collection of skills or search for the one you want and open its description card....
Read on to find out how. Windows 10 Sharing Features: Files, Folders, Printers, and USB Storage The Windows 10 Creators Update, in particular, enhances the sharing experience, with an improved sharing menu available in File Explorer and apps such as Microsoft Edge. Bluetooth is also much easier to set up and share files. Some of these topics we’ve covered for earlier versions of Windows or even earlier releases of Windows 10....
Google recently made a change on Gmail which allows users to enable SSL encryption (also known as https) for the entire site/application where previously SSL was only used on the login page . Being that I’ve been using GMAIL recently for more than just transitory throwaway email (I know… I know…) I’m very happy Google decided to further protect it’s customers by adding SSL to the entire site! Let’s Quickly get to the How-To Enable SSL for All Pages inside Gmail: Login to Gmail and Click Settings 2) Scroll to the bottom and Click the Bullet Always use https and Click Save Settings...
Every 10 minutes over 200 hours of video get uploaded to YouTube. This volume makes reviewing each video to see if it meets YouTube’s Community Standards just impossible. That’s why YouTube decided to allow every user in the YouTube Community to flag videos. Unfortunately, this also means anyone can flag your video; sometimes for no reason at all. So one of your videos is flagged? Don’t worry; you can still get it back!...
Scan Documents and More with Office Lens For the purposes of this article, I am using the iOS version. After launching Office Lens for the first time, you are greeted by a quick tutorial which gives you an overview of the type of things you can do with Office Lens. Files scanned can be used in other Office apps such as OneNote, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The most important part of setting up Office Lens on your smartphone is giving it access to the camera....
Hello again to all Photoshoppers reading this tutorial! For today’s tutorial, we’ll take a look at a few things you can do to hair in any photo or image. Hair edits are pretty simple, but require a lot of patience unlike other basic touch ups. So arm yourself with confidence and patience and let’s go! You Will Need: Photoshop CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6/CCA photo of someone who isn’t bald… :DSome free timePatience...
Use Pidgin IM with Google Apps Account On the main Pidgin window, click Accounts and then Manage Accounts. Now, click the Add button, and in the window that appears, select XMPP from the list of protocols. Now, go ahead an fill in the form with the user name from the Google Apps account you want to use, then fill in the domain of the website using that account. Fill in the password (if you want to input it every time you log in, for security purposes, leave Remember password unchecked)....
Today, we’ll show you how to use reader view in the desktop versions of Chrome, Firefox, Vivaldi, Edge, and Opera. Chrome Chrome has a built-in reader view called Distill page, but it’s hidden. You must enable it by customizing the Chrome shortcut. You might want to make a copy of the Chrome shortcut before changing it. That way, you can still open Chrome without that option if you want. Right-click on the Chrome shortcut you want to use to enable the Distill page option and select Properties....
Using the New Clipboard in Windows 10 The new Clipboard is not enabled by default, but you can turn it on in Settings. Head to Settings > System > Clipboard and toggle on Clipboard history. If you have multiple Windows 10 devices running version 1809 or above, you might also want to turn on the Sync across devices option. That allows you to share your Clipboard content between your office and home computers, for example....
Windows 10 1803 Sound Settings To check out the new options for sound, head to Settings > System > Sound. There you will see options to adjust the levels of the sound input (mic) and output (speakers) connected to your system. There are also important advanced features like the ability to control the audio preferences of individual apps. This is replacing the Volume Mixer available in previous versions. You’ll find the new sound settings page under the “Other Sound Options” section....
With all the recent press, Twitter’s popularity is surging. 9.3 Million visitors in March and growing. Although I’m still deciding if Twitter is right for @groovyPost, I’m sure many of you groovyReaders out there are already using Twitter. Therefore when I found this groovy tool called OutTwit I knew I had to write-up a quick article. Although there are a million Twitter tools out there, OutTwit separates itself by quickly integrating itself into Microsoft Outlook (the tool most of us have open ALL DAY LONG....
Installing Voicemod Voicemod is just one of many voice modification tools out there, however, this one seems to be the cleanest. To start off, let’s visit the site to start the download. Here you’ll start off by clicking the Get Voicemod Here button. When you click there you’ll be asked to either login to your Discord, Google, or Twitch account. Since we’re using Voicemod for Discord I just logged into my Discord account (although I don’t believe it matters what account you use to login)....
Power on your Kindle Fire and tap the gear icon at the top of of the screen then tap the More button. Next, on the Settings page tap Restrictions. Set Enable Restrictions to On. Create a password by typing it in twice then tap Finish. Next you’ll see that Restrictions and Password Protected WiFi are on. When WiFi is password protected, a key icon appears in the upper left corner of the screen....
Adobe Flash and Windows RT is No Longer Supported Flash is no longer supported. And Microsoft no longer supports the RT OS. How to Manually Remove Adobe Flash from Windows 10How to Manually Remove Adobe Flash from Your Mac While HTML 5 is taking over the duties of Flash on the web, there’s still plenty of sites that use it. If you go to a site that requires Adobe Flash, and it isn’t approved on Microsoft’s Whitelist, you’ll see a screen similar to this....
Internet Explorer Blank Page When you open a new tab in Internet Explorer, its New Tab Page opens up to your frequently visited sites. This is what all of the major browsers seem to do these days. However, if you’d rather a new tab open a blank page, here’s how to set it. For IE 9 and IE 10, click the gear icon on the right side and select Internet Options....
Access the Mini Toolbar Starting with a simple improvement, you can now access the Mini Toolbar with a right-click. This tiny tool lets you format cells, fonts, alignment, and more. Work Better with Borders Borders are wonderful ways to format cells and make them stand out with subtlety. Now when you click the border button, you have options to Draw a Border, Draw a Border Grid, and Erase a Border....
It looks like Microsoft decided to not address the mini tablet market, as there’s already small form factor tablets running Windows 8.1 available like the Dell Venue 8 Pro or the Lenovo Mixx 2. Instead, the company is addressing a need that its partner’s aren’t meeting — a top of the line Windows 8.1 device. Here’s a look at what was announced yesterday at the Surface event, and more details on what you can expect to see later next month....
