Mess around with the highlighter for a while, and it seems as if Acrobat Reader DC provides no option to change the default color. But thankfully, that’s not the case. There are in fact several ways to swap highlighter colors — it’s just that Adobe has needlessly put them away in places where no one would bother looking. Highlight Properties Dialog Box Let’s start off by looking at a method to change the color of your highlights after you’ve already applied them....

In a nutshell, we seldom take our chances when it comes to our online avatars and the same can be said about our Instagram search history as well. Now, if it’s only you using your phone, it doesn’t make much difference. But if at times, you’ve to hand it to your colleagues, your search patterns can reveal a lot about you. And sometimes, search suggestions can be a little embarrassing....

If you’ve been using Adobe Photoshop on your Windows 10 running computer, I’m sure you have come across the scratch disk error at least a couple of times already. It’s quite annoying if you don’t know how to get past the error, and it can have a detrimental effect on your workflow. However, it is quite easy to fix, and you can get Photoshop up and running on your PC in no time....

I love Netflix like everyone else. The fact that I can now control my Netflix profile using Google Assistant will only make the experience better. Yes, Google has just announced voice match support for individual Netflix profiles. This means you can now use Google Assistant to play content from your Netflix profile instead of the main account. Different Google accounts can be linked to different Netflix profiles. This was not possible earlier....

This is useful for someone who regularly addresses large gatherings or café/restaurant owners for taking feedback from customers. Instead of handing out feedback forms, you can ask users to scan a QR code and fill-up the form. No manual input is needed from your side and all the data neatly gets organized by Google Forms on the web. Before we go ahead and show you how to convert Google Form to QR code, let’s first understand how you can get Google Forms link from the web....

People visit YouTube for various reasons — new music releases, movie trailers, gaming videos, to watch their favourite shows on the platform, stand-up comics and much more. It could be that you prefer skipping over the credentials in a music or movie trailer and skip to the fun part, or you want to share the clip starting from a particular point with a friend. It’s completely possible for you to do this on YouTube and in this article we’re going to list out two easy methods of doing the same....

By using custom vibration patterns to Ringtone, Text Tone, New Email, and specific contact, you can guess which contact is trying to reach you just by vibration pattern. Create Custom Vibration Pattern The ability to create custom vibration patterns on iPhone is hidden in the Settings menu. Here’s how you can access and create a custom vibration pattern on your iPhone. Step 1: Open Settings on iPhone. Step 2: Go to the Sounds & Haptics menu....

Thankfully, that’s where Screen Time comes into play. By using it, you can disable Safari’s Private Browsing mode quite easily. So let’s check out how. But rather than stopping at that, you will also find ways to prevent the usage of third-party browsers that would otherwise circumvent the restriction. Blocking Private Browsing Screen Time offers a dizzying array of features to monitor and control the usage of apps on your iPhone....

Then there’s CTRL+U which underlines a word to add a little more emphasis to it, though it is something which is usually not advocated because of the similarity between an underlined part of text and a hyperlinked one. There’s a slightly better way if the usual ways of placing emphasis on a word or line isn’t cutting it for you – do a Double Underline. Yes, it’s one of the little known members of Word keyboard shortcuts....

While some people are able to spot them, most users just click Next after Next and never bother to read between the lines, and the next thing you know, you have a new add-on in your browser and your default search engine is now a custom adware page. And the worst part is removing these things from the system. It takes a deep registry cleaning to get rid of such spam software....

This is the cause of one of the biggest frustrations in Windows. Every app has its own update mechanism. Every time an update shows up, you are told about it after you launch the app. Then if you wish to update, you need to click a couple of buttons and sit there waiting while the update downloads and installs itself, often with your supervision. Ninite solved the problem of installing apps in bulk....

That’s why Codebox’s web app – that’s called PDF to Flash Page Flipper (or Flip) – appealed to me. It’s an app that can replicate the more interesting animations found on my iPad or a similar tablet and put them onto my laptop. In fact, it’s almost better, allowing you to turn any old PDF file into a superior flash-based and flippable book. The conversion process is fairly easy, with a lot of customization options that really don’t need to be messed around with....

The reason was to fix the poor RAM management which killed most of the apps and games running in the background even with the in-built 6 GB of RAM. Developers on XDA forum mentioned that it was done in order to make the device battery-friendly but I was not quite convinced with that statement. Well, thanks to developers at XDA, things can be fixed, but that would require system level access on the OnePlus 3 and therefore rooting is necessary....

We can take steps to reduce our battery life usage, but, wouldn’t it be better if we just had the right number to start with? Thankfully, there’s one thing they can’t lie about: battery specifications. In this guide, we’ll help you calculate how long you can actually expect your next laptop to last. The Formula The calculation is quite simple to do. We’ll go into how to find the numbers in a moment, but here’ how we do it:...

You would need the product keys if you reinstall the software or reinstall Windows. And the fastest way to take a backup of all the product keys in your PC is by using a tiny tool known as LicenseCrawler. All your software license keys rest inside Windows registry and LicenseCrawler can retrieve all those serial numbers easily. This software is specially made for locating all the software keys inside your computer, therefore it does the job pretty well....

Driver-related problems are common with the Windows OS. While some Windows 10 users battle with driver issues post-installation, some aren’t even able to install drivers on their computers. If you notice an error message that reads, ‘The driver being installed is not validated for this computer’ whenever you try to install a driver on your Windows device, this article is for you. One would encounter this error mostly while trying to install an Intel graphics driver on a Windows computer....

For many users, Facebook also works through Google search. That should give you some idea about the significance of the search. But what if it stops working? Scary, right? Many users often the issue where Google doesn’t display search results. In some cases, the search bar on the home screen doesn’t work. For others, the Google app doesn’t show search results. To save you from going through this trauma more, let’s fix the issue ASAP....

However, the Camera Upload feature in OneDrive does have problems. At times, it may fail to back up your photos and videos to the cloud. Thankfully, there are some fixes that you can use to resolve this issue. Let’s get started. 1. Update App OneDrive’s development team for iOS is very diligent and releases updates quite frequently. If there’s a known problem with Camera Upload, then a new update is almost bound to fix it....

Microsoft OneNote is one of the popular note-taking solutions. The software is available on iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Web. OneNote uses OneDrive to store and synchronize the data across platforms. Millions of users use the note-taking app there as it is free, comes with tons of features and sharing options out of the box. With such popularity and usage, OneNote does come with some annoying behaviors. For example, you cannot synchronize data to other cloud storage platforms....

The thing that is supposed to help us solve an error itself needs troubleshooting. Ironic. Well, I hope you’re ready with your sleeves rolled up because these solutions warrant your focus. Disclaimer: We assume that you are well-versed with tinkering around the registry entries. If you don’t know your way around inspecting the .reg files, we do not encourage you to download and use registry files from random locations without understanding what they are for — such files can crash your PC or render it unusable....