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The Finder app has default tags like Blue, Purple, Green, Orange, Red, and Yellow. You can remove them from the sidebar, add new ones, and customize the current tags per your preference. Let’s check the default tags first and start customizing them. What Are Tags in Finder When you open the Finder app on Mac, you shall find default tags on the left sidebar. You can attach a tag to a specific folder or file and organize such files or folders efficiently....

Among all the neat tricks Google Maps has up its sleeve, Timeline has to be the most useful one. It can help you retrace your steps easily. Whether it’s the name of the gift shop you visited last month or photos you took along your last trip, Timeline can help you relive all those memories. Let’s see how you can view, edit or delete your location history in Google Maps....

Pioneered by Snapchat and later copied by Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp, Stories feature is one of the most popular ways of sharing updates with friends and public followers on social media nowadays. Although Instagram Stories have been a huge hit, WhatsApp Status — a story-like feature on the messaging service — as well as Stories feature on Facebook failed to garner much response. Since the feature has seen failure on the largest social network and so the Menlo Park company is going to show its users Stories from Instagram....

In this article, we’ll provide you with nine different solutions. You may have noticed that the Compass app is not changing direction even though you are rotating your iPhone. Further, you might have observed that your iPhone’s compass is showing a completely different result when compared with another device. Read this article, and you will be able to resolve all of them. But first things first. Why Is iPhone’s Compass Not Working Here are some of the reasons why the Compass app may not be working on your iPhone:...

But, it’s not nearly as easy as recent reports have suggested. We can’t exactly pack up our suitcases and make home on a new planet any time soon and likely not for hundreds of years to come. We also still have much to learn about Promixa b. So, what does this mysterious new planet offer us? Proxima b is Still Extremely Far When reports indicate that Proxima b is nearby, they mean relative to the entire size of the universe....

As noted earlier, both these speakers are portable, and it’s safe to say that they are smaller or equal to a can. But as we all know, Sony’s XB series is known for its bass, and when outdoors, this feature plays an important role. So, is the new JBL Go 3 better than the older Sony SRS-XB12? Or, is the SRS-XB12 still the reigning king when it comes to audio?...

How about having the current US President Donald Trump tell you where to go and where not to in his own unique manner? Sounds interesting right? Karta GPS, an open source offline navigation app, which also contains curated content from services like Foursquare and Yelp. The service recently added two new voices to give users on-the-go directions as well as help them find restaurants and popular spots in the area....

We have already compared Google Keep with Google Tasks. In this post, we decided to put Google Keep alongside Microsoft To-Do and see how the standalone tasks app weighs against the highly praised note-taking app, Google Keep. Fasten your seatbelts! App Size Keep is a product of Google and as such, it comes pre-installed on some Android devices. In case you want to download it from the Play Store, it weighs 13-14MB....

TickTick is not free. Since it is a third-party app, it needs paying customers to continue add new features, troubleshooting, and offer customer support. Do you need TickTick? Will you continue using Microsoft To Do app? Let’s find out. Get Microsoft To Do Get TickTick 1. UI (User Interface) Microsoft To Do comes with a clean UI that has no bottom or sidebar menu. I am surprised they still managed to keep everything simple and within reach....

Here are two extensions (for Chrome and Firefox) that can help you set up smart scrolling and ensure that you can scroll a page even when the mouse scroll button refuses to work. Scrollbar Anywhere (Chrome Extension) Scrollbar Anywhere behaves just as its name suggests. You can scroll a webpage from any part of your browser by simply pressing the right mouse button and drag scrolling the mouse. The behavior is as if the scrollbar is just right under the pointer....

In this week’s edition, we are looking at Android devices that offer great hardware and build quality without burning a hole in your pocket. While there are a lot of options available in the budget smartphone market, we understand how difficult it is to find the right one. So without any further ado, let’s find out what the web has to offer if you are looking for a great budget smartphone deal....

That was until Microsoft announced Windows Phone 8.1. And it got me genuinely excited to play around with something Microsoft made, and I haven’t had that feeling in years. When opportunity presented itself in form of Nokia Lumia 630, I jumped on it. Like you, I’m looking in as an outsider who was always mystified with this innovative and refreshing OS but it just didn’t do enough to warrant attention....

There are some tools one could install on his Android phone to push all these notifications to Windows, but most of them worked with just calls and message notification. One had to reach out to phone to check third-party notifications from apps like Gmail and Facebook, until DeskNotifier came out. DeskNotifier is a new and improved app for Android using which you can push almost all the important notifications from Android to Windows over Wi-Fi or by using a data cable....

We’ve already talked about aero peek before. Regarding aero snap and aero shake, the former lets you resize windows by just dragging-dropping them to the screen corners, while the latter lets you minimize other windows by shaking the active window. The above features might be useful to many, but they can also be annoying to some. Disabling them is possible, and we will discuss a quick and easy way to do it....

It’s the first phone to have the Social Camera interface, specially designed for India, which makes social sharing and discovering a breeze. But that’s not the only gimmick that the Galaxy J7 Max boasts of. The 13-megapixel camera is coupled with a wide aperture of f/1.7 which results in bright and vivid pictures. But it would be a shame if we couldn’t utilize the camera app to its 100%, right?...

If you have been using this almost bezel-less phone, you must have encountered some issues, especially with the battery life. But, worry not, help is here. We have explored some of the most common issues afflicting the Samsung Galaxy S8 and how to solve them. So, let’s get started. 1. Battery Issues There are only a few smartphones with a considerable good battery life and unfortunately, the Galaxy S8 isn’t one of them....

The Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+ comes packed with a gorgeous display — the Infinity Display. With a native resolution of 1440 x 2960, AMOLED screen and an edge-to-edge aspect ratio of 18.5:9, it makes up for a more than an impressive display. Plus, let’s not forget the faster response time and power efficiency of AMOLED screens. And this format is clearly better for watching videos and trailers since you get a lot of space, compared to conventional phones....

Let’s start with the basics and see what Windows Snap feature is and then let’s check out the Snap Assist that would be a part of Windows 10. Understanding Windows Snap Feature Windows Snap is a Windows Management feature that helps while you are multitasking. Basically, if you don’t have a dual monitor setup for extended Windows, Windows Snap feature can provide some much-needed assistance. Suppose you are making a project and need to refer to an article on your browser, you can use Windows Snap rather than switching windows all the time....

One of the easiest ways to take a screenshot on Windows 10 is by using the Windows key + Print Screen shortcut. However, if you want to annotate the screenshot or perhaps crop a specific part of it, you’ll need to rely on a separate tool. Thankfully, the Windows 10 October 2018 update introduced Snip & Sketch, a screenshot utility, to simplify the process. With the tool, you can easily take screenshots using the Windows key + Shift + S shortcut, and then edit or annotate the screenshot immediately thereafter....

And it’s not far off. Reddit started as a simple website for sharing links, which users up vote and down vote and ultimately the best content makes it to the front page. It remains that same simple site at its core, but I am sure most of you would agree that in the past few years, it has transformed from being a content sharing platform to a phenomenon. Heck, movies are being made on Reddit response....