How do you stay safe on the internet? Well, by making sure the site isn’t known to spread malware, by forcing HTTPS everywhere, and by disabling cookies for websites like Facebook who try to follow everything you do online. How can you do all that and more? Chrome extensions of course. Check out these must-have security extensions below. 1. HTTPS Everywhere The HTTPS protocol puts a secure wall between your computer and the web server you’re communicating with....

Before you proceed, you can check our dedicated Instagram resource page to find solutions to specific issues affecting Stories, Instagram Live, IGTV, and more on our website. That page also contains a lot of useful tips and tricks to elevate and improve your Instagram experience. So now, let’s move to useful solutions for fixing Instagram on your iPhone. 1. Check the Internet Connection The lack of a good internet connection could be a prime suspect in the case of Instagram not working on your iPhone....

The beta version of iOS 14 is available for testing on iPhones, which is a great way to explore new features. However, note that beta versions are often unstable and full of bugs that might break certain critical functions on your iPhone. As per Apple’s annual update release cycle, you can expect the iOS 14 final version to release around September. While that arrives, we take a closer look at the privacy features set to arrive for the Photos app for iPhones....

Starting the Windows Explorer is an easy task if you have the item pinned to your taskbar on Windows 7. You can further pin more folder locations to the already pinned item and open them quickly by accessing the right-click jumplist. However, there are certain locations that can be launched more quickly using the Run dialog. Considering that you have not changed the default Windows Explorer location, the following commands should open the locations stated besides them:-...

Today we’ll be focusing on a simple aspect of Automator. How to select photos from anywhere on your Mac and resize them to a set resolution. If you’re a web publisher or a photographer, you deal with image resizing constantly. More often than not, you’re resizing the image to one specific resolution – maybe a couple of them. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just select the photos, right-click, select an option and have the photos resized and transported to a defined folder?...

Take Soluto for an example. The program lets you to change settings for only some of the less important applications, but it locks system programs like Antivirus, Network, etc. as a measure of protective defense. Autoruns on the other hand, is a tiny tool that lets you control every nook and corner of your Windows startup process. The downloaded zip files contain two portable executable files. The autoruns.exe is the GUI tool while the autorunsc....

Calm has been around for past few years and has a loyal userbase. Meanwhile, Waking Up arrived recently and continues to climb the popularity charts. Let’s understand how these two meditation apps differ and which one you should use. Let’s begin. Platform Availability Both Calm and Waking Up are supported on Android and iOS. Neither of them has any app for the desktops. Get Calm Get Waking Up User Interface Calm will ask you to choose your purpose for meditating before continuing with the lessons....

So in between the dilemma of sharing and protecting, there arises a question — can people know if I screenshot their Facebook profile pictures? If you’re the one taking the screenshots, then the answer is a resounding No. Facebook doesn’t inform the person if you take a screenshot of their profile picture. Unlike Snapchat, here the only notification you’ll get is from your phone that you have taken a screenshot....

Today we will compare some of the basic aspects of both the products and leave the rest to you. Turns out that almost all of us would only be concerned with these aspects of both the products so it is only fair to talk about them first when doing a comparison. Rest, once you start using one of them, diving deep into its features shouldn’t be a problem. Compatibility The first and the most important thing we will be talking about is compatibility....

Take a look at the images above once again. Can you believe that they were created using MS Excel? You must, because we are going to show you how to use MS Excel charts to create such designs. Note: We have used MS Excel 2013 to illustrate the steps. If your version of the software is different, the navigation options will vary a little. However, the process remains the same....

Some of those times, your fears might turn out to be true. Hence it helps to know about these enemies of your computer and get a basic understanding of how they work. That could help you deal with them in a faster & better way. Malware is any malicious program or software that’s designed to exploit a computer user. Malware is basically an umbrella term covering computer viruses, worms, Trojan, spyware, rootkit etc....

portable Dropbox app . Of course, all this because both the portal and the computers on which they could be accessed had a number of restrictions in place. While using the portable Dropbox app proved to be a useful workaround, the task remained cumbersome to some extent. A better way out is to upload these files directly from a browser to a Dropbox folder which can then be synced to any device whenever required....

Suppose you want to backup different folders at different locations on your PC using Dropbox. One solution is to copy and paste each of them inside “My Dropbox” folder. But moving each folder one by one is a time consuming process. Dropbox Folder Sync is a Dropbox addon that lets you sync any folder with Dropbox easily in a few clicks. And you don’t need to change the location of that folder....

As we at Guiding Tech always insist on getting your work done in a more easier and user-friendly way, today we will see as to how to get hold of some important features quickly through the Windows Mobility Center and hence save you time and effort. Windows Mobility Center came to life with Windows Vista and got better with time. You can consider it as a remote control for Windows which can be used to access all the commonly used Windows settings like changing the power plan, adjusting the volume or screen brightness etc, all from one place....

Well, this is not the first time a publisher has restricted an app to just a few countries, but this time, it was personal. Nothing could keep me from waiting to try my hands on the love of my childhood, the show which was the reason I came running home after school. So if you aren’t in the mood to wait for the official release of Pokémon GO in your country, here’s how you can get it....

Password Security and Two-Factor Authentication We’ve covered how to setup two-step aka two-factor authentication or 2FA before in this post. The purpose of an audit is to make sure it works properly. If you use your Dropbox password on other websites, now is the time to change it. If you keep important stuff in Dropbox (like your 1Password database), change your password if it’s been more than six months. Regularly changing your password keeps your information secure in case of a breach....

In addition to that, though, there is quite a neat iOS feature that not many of you might know about and that can be tremendously helpful. With it, you can have your iPhone speak notifications to you (using Siri’s voice no less), which can be tremendously handy in some specific scenarios, like when you are riding a bike, working out or simply whenever you are just to busy to pick up your iPhone....

Whether you are working on the good ol’ Windows 98/XP or you have the latest beta version of Windows 8 installed, the default Windows Explorer file handling tool is usually a pain to work with. Working with the conventional tool means that there’s no option for a user to pause the ongoing file operation. Also one has to stick to the default file buffer size which tends to decrease performance on a faster processor....

Google Slides is versatile and gives you a few different ways to add charts and diagrams. You can either create them directly here or link them from other Google entities like Sheets. Plus, you can also create diagrams outside of Slides and add them through add-ons like Lucidchart. Cool, right? So without further ado, let’s get started. How to Link a Chart in Slides If you already have a chart created on Google Sheets, it’s super easy to link them to Slides....

Google Play Books happens to be an excellent eBook reader and a great alternative to the Kindle app if you know how to use it effectively. Besides being free, it lets you add notes and highlights, and sync read positions between devices. All the functions work for your ebooks as well. The syncing takes place with a Google account, and the notes are saved in Google Drive. Sounds exciting? Let’s begin our journey of adding ebooks to Google Play Books on Android, iPhone, and PC....