Author: Akhil

Great news for all the Android users, now you can search your lost Android Phone with the help of Google. Google bought it’s new feature as part of Android Device Manger. You’ve to login with the same Google account on your phone and PC, then just type ‘find my phone’ into the Google search and the top result with the live Google Map with the locations of your Android devices. The new feature gives you to ring your device. Here’s how it works:   It’s really easy to find your phone with the Google search as simple as trying in a query and waiting for…

Twitter kicked off new feature called Twitter Samvad, a digital governance as part of Government’s ‘Digital India Initiative’. The new feature will deliver a set of Tweets from the Government agencies and Leaders to your Mobile as SMS alert. The SMS feature will provide updates on Government services, policies and activities to all those who signed up for this feature through 16 Government accounts as in the starting phase. To subscribe: You just need to give a miss call to a unique number assigned for each accounts. After placing the miss call, you will start receiving a set of tweets…

In Google it allows to search with our voice, however when you do voice search google listen in the default language. If you want to speak in multiple languages, d worry you can change it in a few taps. Select multiple languages: Open Google app setting or swipe Google Now cards and select setting in the menu on the left side. Now open the Voice section > select languages. This will pop-up with dozens of languages with a checkbox. You can select five languages for your device and make sure you have long pressed to pick a default language as…

We all use Internet on our Mobile Phones but don’t know what’s eating up monthly data allowance? Here I’m telling some tricks to control Mobile Data consumption. Ways to control data consumption Disable unwanted Push Notifications: Push notifications eats lots of data especially social networking apps. Smartphone owners can disable notifications of apps which is not that much urgent. You can do this by go through system setting. Track data usage: In Android and IOS you can track data usage of each apps to know which app eats more data, you can even disable background data. You can do this…

Recently I face some problems with Google Chrome browser while surfing Internet, Chrome becomes unresponsive and sometimes it lagged. At that time I switched to Firefox. Switching between browsers is not a big deal. We do many customization with extensions, sync etc. If you wanna migrate to a new browser, here are few tips which really come handy. Sync:   Google really makes it easy for Android users with Chrome on the basis of complete browsing history. Firefox having a service called Sync which helps you to sync all your browsing data between your devices. Opera has a browsers on Android, IOS and Windows so it also helps you to…

The most popular messaging app Whatsapp rolled out its latest calling feature to all the android users with good sound quality. To get Whatsapp calling feature you have to follow few things. Firstly, go to play store and update Update Whatsapp (2.11.561 is the latest version) after the update open Whatsapp and ask someone who already has the feature, after getting the call you will see a complete changed interface. If you can’t see that option then just restart your phone then again open Whatsapp that seems to do trick for some users. Here is some screenshots of Whatsapp calling…

As Whatsapp rolled out calling feature with invites, which means you need to get a call from the person who already enjoying the calling feature. But the invites have been slow, but few scammers circulating malware in the way of fake Whatsapp calling invitation. What scammers actually do? They are spreading a fake invitation with a link, as you tap on the link it will proceed to www.whatsappcalling.com, and you will be ask to complete survey, then it will ask you to download virus affected apps, finally you have to invite more people. In this way your smartphone will affected…

Every mobile phone has a unique number associated with it, which is called IMEI Number (‘International Mobile Equipment Identity’), that will helps to find your device with in the mobile network. If you lost your device you need to give IMEI number to the Police department to find out your phone, or to the mobile network to black list your device which will restrict other to misuse your device. If the phone is with you then you can easily find out the IMEI number, there are apps that will help you to find out the IMEI number or heading to Setting >…

Google chrome is an awesome browser, there is no doubt in it. It helps in various things but it also provide fun even you are not connected to the Internet. As a Google chrome user you will be familiar with the T-Rex Dinosaur, which comes when you are not connected to the Internet. Here comes the interesting thing is that the offline dinosaur is a game which will be active by pressing the space bar and now your chrome is charged into a moderately addictive game. And it’s not only for chrome desktop version, the dinosaur game is also available…

For some reasons after some time you would like to clear all the search or apps history from the Google Play Store. It will not take long time to clear the history, everything will clear within seconds. Fortunately, as other things Google makes it so simple to clear all the stuffs. Here’s the way to clear all your history Open Play Store in your phone or tablet Slide out menu from the left side Tap ‘setting’ Under the ‘setting’ choose ‘Clear local search history’ That’s it! Now little more involvement needed to clear all your previously downloaded…

We all share files and folders with our dear and near ones and the shared links will work forever until you manually removes it. So today I’ll tell you to create ‘auto-expiry date’ for the shared links of your files or folders. Google Drive not shows you the option but you can simply add the ‘auto-expiry date’ for your shared files or folders with a simple Google script which will work for gmail and drive. How to create expiry date for your files in Google Drive   The file or folder which you shared with public or either with a specific people, you can set specific time to expire…

Weather is an important, especially if you love to travel or just to know if it’s warm or will it rain. At this time Ok Google comes handy for you. Google Now has included card for weather for your current location as well as for other locations. Google Now weather update is powered by The Weather Channel. It will reveal the conditions for the next few hours and if you want detailed information it will provide 5 days weather forecast. Google Now does something more than just giving immediate information, it will give you alert about the weather conditions in…

The most favourite messaging app Whatsapp gets an update few weeks before which allows you to use Whatsapp on your PC. Which means you can chatt with your loved ones without taking phone in your hands while you working on PC. Earlier this feature allowed only in Google Chrome browser but now this feature started other browsers too which is Mozilla Firefox and Opera. Open Whatsapp and click the menu where you can see Whatsapp web as the new option. If you can’t see that option goto setting>apps>Whatsapp and click force stop then again open Whatsapp that seems to do…

The number one search giant Google has released a new app called YouTube Kids which is built specially for kids to browse and watch all their own. The YouTube Kids app eliminates all the not so friendly videos and includes all the contents from educational, shows, music and cartoons. So this means you can give your smartphone or tablet to your kid without any fear that your kid tap accidentally on unwanted videos. Parental Feature is another great thing of YouTube Kids app, which allows you to set timing from the range of 1 to 120 minutes. As…

After Whatsapp web now Whatsapp allows you to make calls your near and dear ones. Whatsapp call feature is similarly like Viber, but as considering the user base of Whatsapp it’s a huge deal. This calling feature is not available in official app, it might take few more weeks to get the official update. But if are eager to use then you have to download the apk of Whatsapp app from the official website of Whatsapp. Moreover you need the latest version of Android (which is Lollipop) to get this feature. To get this feature you have to uninstall…

Android Lolipop is an awesome OS by Google, it has lots of great features and Material Design which look stunning. One of the new feature in Android Lolipop is ‘Screen Pinning’. It does exactly what it actually means; it pins the screen to a particular app. It comes handy when you give your Device to some other person, for example: your friend borrow your phone to call as he say ‘my battery is dead’ or some other lines of this kind. Or kids asks you phone to play games. At this situation ‘Screen Pinning’ will allow you to lock on…