Granted, a lot of the popular travel portals have similar features, but if you live and die by Google, you will like the way Google Hotel Finder has been neatly packaged. The service is limited to hotels in the US though. Google Hotel Finder starts off like the usual search with a location. The dropdown auto-suggests locations for you. Search results get immediately displayed with snippets of information like – Hotel Class; User Rating; Price per night; and Compared to typical....

That’s the definition you will get in the dictionary. When it comes to browsers, a browser cache is something similar but not so hidden. A browser cache is a special folder tucked away among other folders that stores web page elements that a browser thinks it will need again. It could be graphic files (banners, buttons, icons, ad-files etc.), photographs, script files, and even HTML pages. Browser caches are not mere rubbish bins but a mechanism to speed up the way we browse the web....

What exactly are extensions? If you’ve used Chrome or Firefox on your desktop you already know about them. Extensions are little pieces of code that add functionality and inter-app communication. For example, after installing the Pocket extension in Chrome on PC, you can click the extension icon to send the current page to your Pocket queue. Easy. Until now, this wasn’t possible with iOS. But since this is Apple and iOS is mobile, the implementation of extensions is different from what you and I have known....

Whether you own an Android phone or iPhone, the results after updating them are the same. What are those? You will get to know here. We have divided the post into three parts: what is a software update and how to know you have received one, what happens when you update your phone (and precautions to be taken), and what happens after you update your phone. Let’s get started....

computer viruses – and people are rightly fearful of them. Many have also heard about (computer) worms, which are nasty programs designed to spread as much as they can to infect computers. A rootkit, on the other hand, is devious in a different way. This unwanted code on your desktop is used to gain control over your desktop by hiding deep inside your system. Unlike most viruses, it is not directly destructive and unlike worms, its objective is not to spread infection as wide as possible....

While many users are of the opinion that Google’s ARCore is just a response to Apple’s ARKit. That is just the tip of the iceberg. While Google’s launch date for the ARCore might have been close to that of Apple ARKit, the two have a lot less in common. Apple with its closed ecosystem is likely to lead the AR game, but, Android has some big plans and wants to bring AR to more than 100 million devices....

The Runtime Broker was developed by Microsoft in-house and is pre-installed with Windows. The application RuntimeBroker.exe is an executable system file, and you will find it running under the Processes tab in the Task Manager. Let’s understand what this process is, how it works, why you need it, and how to troubleshoot it if required. What Is Runtime Broker It was developed by Microsoft and has been part of the Windows OS since Windows 8....

There is quite a number of Android Launchers which aren’t popular but yet provide the functionality and customizations along the lines of the popular ones. While some launchers excel in speed, other excel in the level of customizations — the choices are many. So, we have put together a list of 10 best Android Launchers that you probably haven’t tried before. Let’s jump right in! 1. Nano Launcher “Less is More” — this is the motto that the Nano launcher....

These tricks will help you get the most out of your OnePlus 10 Pro. So, without further ado, let’s get started. 1. Smart Search Do you often switch between the App Drawer and Files to search for apps, contacts, or documents? If yes, you will fall in love with the Scout feature of your OnePlus 10 Pro. A small search bar on your phone’s home screen displays every matching result – whether it’s a document, setting, or an app....

So, without further delay, let’s get started. 1. Fast Finder Storage in smartphones run into several gigabytes, these days, thanks to the hundreds of songs, high-resolution videos, and pictures. And sifting through them to locate a single file can be frustrating and agonizing. Fast Finder comes to the rescue in situations such as these. Fast Finder is a light Android app which searches and gathers the results under a single roof....

We will show you 15 awesome Run commands that’d help you bypass a series of clicks, thereby making things faster in your daily usage of Windows. Do note that the Run hasn’t disappeared in Windows 8 either. It might not show up like it did in its predecessors, but a simple Win+R keystroke would bring it up. Hence knowing how to use it is only going to help you. I think it’s safe to assume that almost all of you have used the Run box at least once to open up tools quickly that are embedded deep into the system....

Apple’s MacBooks come with costly but limited SSD space and a barebones option to optimize the storage on macOS. So when you’ve the habit of downloading same files couple of times to be safe or just making copies, the Mac’s storage does tend to bloat up over time with duplicate ones. Removing those duplicates will create more room for new downloads and app installations. However, the task to find and delete the duplicate files on Mac is daunting....

AlphaBay was shut down following the arrest of its owner, Alexandre Cazes aka Alpha02 and Admin, a Canadian national who was living in Thailand. He was arrested by the Thai authorities on behalf of the United States. The largest dark web website, which had been running for over two years, was accused of facilitating buying and selling of over 350,000 illegal materials including drugs, firearms and cybercrime malware. Its servers were seized in Canada and Netherlands....

We are living in an era when we can have almost everything in the palm of our hands, thanks to advancement in science and technology, so, why not bring in the beauty to your system? In this series, we have curated a set of 21 beautiful wallpapers in HD, FHD and 4K resolution to adorn your system. And in the process, travel a tiny bit to the far off corners of this place that we call home....

However, you can only receive taskbar notifications from your Outlook mail on Windows 11 if you have enabled the option. In most cases, the notification option is enabled in-app on Outlook. Here are the three best ways to enable Outlook mail notifications on your PC. 1. Update the Microsoft Outlook In-App Setting If you notice that taskbar notifications from your Outlook app are not popping up, the first place to check is your Outlook Settings....

calculator app that could offer what I needed. After checking out several of them, though, I realized that Apple’s own calculator app is not only tremendously capable, but that it also offers a set of neat little features that make it ideal for almost every user. Here’s what you need to know to make the most out of Apple’s native OS X calculator. 1. The Four Modes of Calculator This came as quite a surprise to me, but it turns out that the Mac’s Calculator app actually boasts four different modes that might suit you depending on your needs....

Previously we had shared about how to make your monitor display eye-friendly as the day passes. Here, we’d like to share some Chrome extensions that will make your Chrome browser easier on the eye in the dark, as you browse the web. 1. Turn Off the Lights Turn off the lights is a feature pack Chrome extension to control how web pages should be displayed at night. It turns the background of web pages to black so that you can easily ready the text or watch videos without straining your eyes....

One major advantage from several third-party weather apps as of late is the ability to forecast precipitation down to the very minute. For instance, at your current location, the app is able to tell you that it will rain in seven minutes. Perhaps it might forecast that it will snow in three minutes, then stop 40 minutes later. It’s remarkably useful for planning a commute and even an entire day around the weather....

But even if Siri is still some time away from the Mac, the current Voice Dictation feature on OS X Yosemite is a surprisingly powerful improvement on previous versions of it, delivering a much more interactive experience for users of Apple desktops and laptops. Here are a few great Dictation tips that you will definitely want to put into practice if you own a Mac with the latest OS....

If you take screenshots on your PC often, you’d agree that it really is a nifty feature. Tap the Windows & Print Screen (PrtSc) buttons on your keyboard, and an image of your current screen will be saved to your computer. However, Windows automatically saves screenshots in PNG format by default. So how would you convert PNG screenshots to JPG? If you ever need to save/convert your screenshot(s) from PNG to JPG or other image formats, there are a couple of tricks in Windows that allow you to achieve that....