Copy Paste Character is an incredible web service that hosts almost all characters one can think of. Amazingly, you just need to click on any of those characters and it gets copied to your clipboard. You know what to do next, Ctrl + V anywhere you like. Let us check more of what comes along. The moment you visit their website you will be presented with a set of characters (they call it their favorite set)....

To expand our choices, today we will see at to how we can download themes from Microsoft Windows 7 online theme collection. Microsoft provides lots of amazing themes for its users who are on Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions. You can start exploring them right away on Microsoft Official Windows 7 themes repositories. The website makes it easy for us to hunt for themes by categorizing them under different category....

Anyway, here’s the sitch. Clicking on a link and being tossed over to your default browser, waiting for it to load, reading, and then pressing the back button to go back to your previous app is all very jarring and rote. What is this, 2011? We can do better. How? By using popups first made popular by chat heads in Facebook Messenger. Chat heads just like that, only instead of opening a chat, there will be a web page....

Chrome is a powerful and feature-rich browser but unless you know how to customize it properly and make use of its hidden features, you’d probably get frustrated with it soon. This ebook is your one-stop resource for everything you need to use it productively and save time. You’d be surprised to know that even though Chrome is a mainstream browser now, very few of its users utilize it to its full potential....

It’s Not Spying, It’s Tracking The scary sounding stories made it out to be that Windows 10 could access all your local files and was tracking accessing your other personal data. Both of those stories were attributed to misquoted or misattributed quotes from Microsoft’s privacy policies. The quote, first pointed out by Rock Paper Shotgun was as below. The scariest part was “files in private folders”. WHAT? Microsoft has access to my personal files?...

The encrypt-decrypt service for Gmail messages that was to come as an extension for Chrome is no longer a Google project and has been turned into an open-source project as of February 2017. While popular messaging services like WhatsApp have successfully implemented end-to-end encryption, Google is still to come forward with something similar for their Gmail users. If you’re tired of waiting for Google to come up with a secure way for you to send and receive messages, then SecureGmail, a browser extension which also happens to be an open source project on GitHub is readily available....

Google recently rolled out background image feature (see the update above). There is nothing innovative in Google’s move as they simply copied the most striking feature of Microsoft Bing (btw, you can check out Bing theme pack and wallpaper collection ). Having said that, I love this feature because now, I longer need to hop on to Bing frequently to check those tempting background wallpapers. This feature is only available on Google....

Adding holidays is simple. Here are the steps. Sign in to Google Calendar. On the left pane, under “Other calendars” area, click on “Add” link given at the bottom. Now select “Browse Interesting Calendars from the menu”. In the screenshot below you can see I’ve already subscribed to calendars of some countries. The list of interesting calendars will appear on the right. You can preview any calendar or subscribe to it by clicking on the “Preview” and “Subscribe” links given on the right....

There are a couple of reasons to delete unwanted emails in Gmail. First, by keeping your inbox clean, you can find the relevant emails quickly and easily. Google counts Gmail space against the base 15GB of Google Drive storage. After a few years, your Gmail inbox will fill up with thousands of emails that take a good amount of storage in Gmail. If you exceed the 15GB storage, you will have to opt for the Google One subscription plans....

After setting up a group, you can pop it into the email and mail a single message to several people a a time. To be clear, all the terms such as Contact Group, Contact List, Email group, or Distribution list are the same. So, don’t get confused among them. It’s important for every Outlook user when he/she plans to send a mass email to a group of recipients, including employees, co-workers, or friends....

In reality, not all notifications are created equally. You might want to run to your handset if you’ve been waiting for an important call or your phone’s battery is low, but you might not care so much if it’s nothing more than an email or text message. Unfortunately, most Android devices give the same basic Notification blink for most types of alerts. Luckily, there are easy ways to take control of LED notifications, whether you wish to silence your LED notifications completely, or even assign color codes to the LED light so you actually know what’s going on before you turn your display on....

attention to mobile pages as only few visitors visited my site using a smartphone. But today, a significant percentage of visitors comprise of smartphones and tablets, and hence it has become necessary to take care of looks and presentation there as well. If it was a page on computer, a one could have easily debugged using the option from Chrome’s right-click context menu but that’s not the option with the pages on mobile....

By default, both Apple and Microsoft give the least amount of storage. The case is worse in Apple’s scenario as the company uses the 5 GB storage to backup iPhone apps, Settings, and files. All these options are switched on by default. And it’s very likely that you might fill-up space quicker than you anticipated. As a new user, you might get irritated by constant iCloud storage full prompts. Besides, there are a couple of reasons to avoid using iCloud in favor of rivals....

I know that this is usually considered the “price” of buying a Samsung phone. You get an awesome screen, a great camera, now a metallic body but you have to live with the bloat. Power users usually root and install a custom ROM but that’s too much of a hassle for most users. And if you’re using something like Note5, installing a custom ROM means losing on important features like notetaking with S Pen and annotated screenshots....

The SmartScreen Filter warning box will tell you that the program you are about to run might be risky and comes with only the OK button which stops the execution of the program. There is a More Info link on the dialog box using which you can launch the program, but most of the users get confused before figuring it out. Moreover, if you have a good antivirus installed on your computer, SmartScreen filter is simply unnecessary and just slows you down....

If you are sick and tired of Reachability kicking in without you intending it to, or if you have hands that are large enough to make the gesture useless in the first place, then disable it. Let’s check out how. But besides that, I also want to go through a number of other annoying gestures and features that you can tweak or get rid of for a better experience on the iPhone....

Sometimes, you wish you could do more on Facebook chat instead of use colons and semi-colons to express your moods. Like, inserting an image in the chat maybe. For those times, try out Facebook Chat Codes Maker from Smileyti.me. The Facebook Chat Codes Maker allows you to create Facebook chat codes from any image and use it while you are chatting with your circle of friends. These are also called Facebook image code makers....

Back Tap is an accessibility-related functionality, and Apple has designed it in a way for anyone to take advantage of. Once enabled, Back Tap allows you to bind various iPhone features such as Siri, the Control Center, and even shortcuts. As its name implies, you can then enable it by tapping the back of the device. Back Tap also relies on the built-in accelerometer, so you can set it up on any iPhone that’s capable of running iOS 14....

Some users are experiencing difficulties while playing video over Firefox Quantum rather than Google Chrome. And that is indeed annoying. Below is an example of what a video should look like when it’s playing correctly. On the other hand, some users have noticed that their videos only appear in an isolated area. And that too in small rectangular thumbnail even in a full-screen mode. While this issue can be frustrating for avid Facebook users, there are solutions out there which have been proven to work....

By default the gridlines are active on Excel. But depending on the kind of a data a worksheet contains, it may not have the gridlines. As a result, it could become difficult for you to read across the rows. Here’s how gridlines appear if you haven’t see them. Let us learn few things that we should look at if the gridlines are missing and we want to bring them back....