Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system enjoys a comfortable lead over the rivals in the desktop OS market share. Used by over 1 billion users, the Windows 10 OS covers a whole set of devices ranging from a few hundred bucks to a five-figure price tag. While Microsoft has done an excellent job with Windows 10 scalability, one issue keeps coming up for users – some fonts, text, and menus look blurry or fuzzy....

To be fair, we won’t be creating proper emojis but stickers. Most popular apps now support stickers, and you won’t see any difference. But if an app doesn’t support stickers, the custom graphic that we create will be sent as a picture. You can create an emoji of your pictures using several popular apps on Android. While you can pick photos with different expressions for more of a comical feel, you can further customize its features such as eyes, hairstyle, hair color, facial shapes, accessories, etc....

Before you proceed, check that your device isn’t muted. You should also examine the AirPods speakers or ear tips to see if dirt or particles obstruct audio output. Note: The solution in this guide applies to all generations or editions of the Apple AirPods – AirPods 1, AirPods 2, and the AirPods Pro. 1. Check Battery Percentage The next thing you should check is the AirPods’ battery status. For iPhone and iPad, place both AirPods in the charging case, close the lids and reopen them....

complete guide to Twitter lists to ways to improve your Twitter experience . One other way (that is often ignored) to improve your Twitter experience is to use its image galleries as an effective form of communications. As the old cliché goes, a picture speaks a thousand words. When Twitter just speaks 140 letters, it should be the mouthpiece when you are feeling tweet-handicapped. Twitter Image Galleries or the User Gallery is the place in your account where all the images you’ve uploaded in your Tweets are aggregated and organized....

access your documents anytime and anywhere isn’t a novelty these days for most of us; it’s a necessity. The incredible growth in popularity of cloud backup services and smartphones are a clear indication of the fact that people need to (and love to) stay connected at all times. It also helps you to decentralize your work. May be you started working on a PowerPoint presentation at office and couldn’t get it done....

Would you believe me when I say that all the editing and effects related job on the above photos was done on a 4” Android phone? If you believe it, I appreciate your optimism but for those of you who don’t, hang on. Wait till I talk about Pixlr Express for Android today, a fantabulous, easy to use photo editor for Android. Pixlr Express for Android Though the app has a suffix that says ‘Express’, it is not a compact version of any desktop application tool....

The scenario got changed with the iOS 13 and iOS 14 update. Apple doubled down on the reminders app and gave it a huge makeover in the looks and functions department. The app can now compete toe-to-toe with the established options like TickTick from the App Store. Another feature-packed task management app is TickTick. It is a complete package with cross-platform availability, Pomodoro, habit tracker, and more. We will compare Apple Reminders to TickTick in this post, and conclude which task management app is better for your usage....

There are awesome email apps available for iOS like Mailbox, Google Inbox and even Microsoft’s Outlook (which might even be the best Gmail client for iOS) to help you manage the email workload. All those apps make it easy to organize emails and set up reminders so you can deal with the email later, without fail. But wouldn’t it be great if there was a really simple way where you could just read the email subject and decide if you want to let go of it or deal with it later?...

Powered with the new Snapdragon 636 processor, 4GB RAM, a dual camera, and an onboard storage of 64GB, it’s no surprise that the Zenfone Max Pro M1 has been launched as a direct competitor to Xiaomi’s Redmi Note 5 Pro. So, should you buy the Zenfone Max Pro M1 merely for the feel-good features or is there something more than meets the eye? In this post, we weigh its pros and cons to help you decide....

Now, wipe the confused look from your face with the new Bing Airport Maps. Bing Airport Maps are what air travelers need, as apart from taking you from the entrance to the boarding gate, the maps include information on parking garages, ticket counter location, terminals and gates, baggage claims, currency exchange, restaurants, cafes, and more. ( do read our comprehensive guide to Bing Maps while you are at it) Bing Airport Maps covers 42 airports in the United States with more expected to be added soon....

Whether you’re new to Apple’s set-top box or just looking for a glamorous and modern shopping experience right from the comfort of your couch, check out these top five, free shopping apps on Apple TV. 1. QVC QVC was one of the first apps out of the gate to bring an interactive shopping experience to Apple TV and it’s still a fantastic app. It combines the best of both worlds: live television with the hands-on aspect of the Internet....

It’s always better if you get a quality portable charger to save your smartphone from running out of juice. This is why we have handpicked some of the best deals on portable chargers for you to buy this Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Let’s check them out. 1. Jackery Fit Premium 10,200mAh Dual USB The Jackery Fit Premium 10,200mAh portable charger can be charged two times faster thanks to the 2....

In hindsight, I’m very glad that I was taught this method, because it helped me to think on a more holistic level, which as I learned later in life, was essential for creative thought processing and ideation (and even more effective studying [PDF]). The only downside to mind mapping was the time it took to create one, and how easily it could be lost or damaged. I hated coloring in my circular boxes and carefully placing clouds here and there so that they wouldn’t collide with other ones....

However, Bing is not my personal favorite. So, I started looking for a way to change it to Google. You may want to switch too, or may be quite content with the default. What’s more important is that there is no direct and simple way to change the default. Cool Tip: Want to learn how to change the default save settings on MS Office? Worry not. We have it covered here....

How about creating your own customized stock watcher that stays on top of other windows and keeps a track of your favorite stock while you are working on other stuff? Sounds interesting? Let us see how to get it done. Steps to Create a Stock Watcher To reach our objective we are going to use a tool called On Top Replica, which can clone any window and keeps it on top of other running applications....

There are plenty of screen filter apps out there that can give you color filter over your screen. Also, in the past, we had shared about some screen dimming apps that would let you add a black filter over your screen. Thus, dimming down the screen. But such apps actually make use of a service in the background to keep the screen filter always on until the user turns it off....

Windows 8 product key email you got after upgrading and you are now looking for a way to recover it. The second reason could be that you never got the product key sticker of Windows 8 that’s installed on your computer and you are now looking for one. The first issue is pretty standard, but I think that I have to throw some light on the second one. Now when you buy a laptop with Windows 8 pre-installed in it, you might not find the Windows Genuine Sticker on the back of the laptop that you used to for the previous versions of Windows....

In this post, we have compiled a list of the first 7 things that you should do on your new Samsung phone, to get the most out of it. As it’s going to be a slightly long list, let’s get started, shall we? 1. Set up Navigation Gestures You might already know that most Samsung devices ship with the conventional navigation bar at the bottom. If you’re looking for a more intuitive navigation system, you should enable the gestures straightaway....

problem of slow startup . There could be various reasons as to why Windows takes a long time to boot. One of the reasons is that a lot of programs and services get added to the startup menu as the computer’s life progresses. If that is the only problem, you can remove useless programs from the startup menu by using msconfig. However, more often than not you will need to do a lot more that just managing the startup processes....

Having said that, WMA has a wide presence too and users with MP3 players sometimes face issues because the player won’t play WMA files. Free WMA to MP3 convertor is an effective tool which converts WMA into MP3 file format easily. This free to use tool can batch convert WMA files into MP3 format and vice versa. It exports all the associated tags from the source file to the converted file....