The possibility of an upcoming album from Frank Ocean has had people waiting patiently on their edge of their seats for over a year now. The album finally dropped, entitled Blonde, and was met with overwhelming praise. But the intense lead-up spawned a plethora of Frank Ocean memes, jokes and viral tweets especially in recent months. Finding Frank Ocean The R&B artist delayed the album time and time again, even disappearing after The New York Times had apparently confirmed a release for Aug....

Quantum is designed with speed in mind and has neat features like a built-in screenshot tool. One of the best parts of Firefox is that it allows installing extensions and add-ons to add functionalities otherwise missing from the default browser. These extensions and add-ons are beneficial to many. Especially those who work on specialized tasks in the browser on a recurring basis. Take online writers for instance. In many cases, they create content directly inside online editors....

Sadly, I can’t say the same thing about the Office web apps. You can’t add or install a font of your choice. Instead, you have to settle for the limited fonts. So, what do you do in situations like these? One of the most obvious solutions is to switch to either Google Docs or Zoho Writer. Or in worse situations, you can launch Office on your PC, and go about your projects....

headers and footers in MS Office, don’t we? Well, it is one of the best ways to make some object, text or graphic appear on every page of a document. Say for example, you are creating a document for your client and you wish to have the company name, logo, etc. printed on every page of the hard copy. There is nothing better than this feature to do that. You can vary things like page number, section-based header and footer, even-odd page sequences and a lot more....

But hey, OneNote is free and you can use all those GBs of free OneDrive cloud storage to store your notes. If you’re using the desktop version OneNote (not the Modern Windows app version that comes installed in Windows 10), you should know of one big pro feature. OneNote’s ability to password-protect individual sections. Of course, this is really helpful for keeping private things, well, private. But OneNote also offers keyboard shortcuts and other settings that help you quickly lock the already password protected content....

Like most people, I am using a third-party app like Google Authenticator to generate OTPs for my different accounts. Be it banking, foreign exchanges, or even social media accounts. While this works amazingly well, there are times when people lose their smartphones or are unable to access it when they need 2FA to log in. For this very reason, at the time of scanning 2FA QR codes using the app or device of your choice, you also get backup codes....

On desktops, it’s pretty easy to block ads and tracking (I’d recommend you start out with Ghostery). On Android, you can’t enable OS wide ad blocking unless you’re rooted (browser ad blockers exist). Apple, whose business model isn’t dependent on ads, surprised everyone by introducing “Content Blockers” in iOS. What this feature does is it allows developers to create apps that will block ads and tracking directly in Safari (and apps that use Safari View Controller to load web pages)....

Google Drive’s web app doesn’t let you check folder sizes. Don’t believe it? Check it yourself. Of course, you can either download or sync a folder to your PC or Mac and then check its size. But that’s quite a data-intensive hassle if the folder has a lot of data, and you’ll only end up downloading it just to check a small detail. Fortunately, there are a couple of workaround methods to check folder sizes in Google Drive without having to download your data locally....

browser cache . It stores web pages, images, CSS, audio, video and other downloaded content which helps in faster display of web pages the next time you visit those websites. Even before we see how to delete browser cache on Google Chrome, let me tell you few good and not so good things about clearing cache. Since cache is a folder stored inside computer, huge collection of such files may run you out of disk space and slow down your computer....

In the navigation bar, hover over the Account & Lists menu. Then click Your Account. Scroll all the way down to the very bottom of the Account page. Here you can see a carousel of “Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations.” Underneath that over on the right, locate the tiny link that says View or edit your browsing history and click it. Here you can see every single product you recently searched for or stumbled upon....

Similarly, to completely uninstall programs on Mac, you could simply go into the Applications folder and delete an application, and that would be that. Or would it? We Mac users have all had files that left some unwanted traces behind it. How do we make sure that the entire application gets deleted, thus ensuring we’re not wasting any space or resources on something unused? Enter AppCleaner, a simple and efficient application that gets the job done....

Leave The Phone at Home? I don’t like to run with my phone. The weight of it annoys me and I hate wearing a band to hold it while I run. I want to have as little stuff with me as I can while running. I also don’t like the phone ringing in the middle of my music. Sure I can turn on do-not-disturb, but I’d rather be free of that distraction....

Let’s see how to get it done. Step 1: Go to the Mi Home Services page for Google Assistant on your Android and tap on Setup. Visit Mi Home Services That will take you to the Google Home Control settings page. Once in, tap on the little Plus icon at the bottom-right corner. Having done that, type Mi Home and hit the search button. To link your Mi account and Google account, you’d need to enter your Mi credentials on the Mi login page....

While the combo of SUB and IDX file can be used on modern day players like GOM, POT Player, and VLC, they might not be compatible with your phone, handheld, casting devices and your TV. They just need the good ol’ text format subtitle in .SRT format to work and we often download them from many online sources. But then, there’s the issue that has always haunted subtitles and that’s perfect syncing....

Cool Tip: Usually in PCs with Windows pre-installed there is a recovery image already present and you can also make your own recovery image by using the recimg command in CMD. But not all are comfortable with using the command line, so there’s an app for that! It’s called RecImgManager, provides a nice GUI and makes the process intuitive and simple. Follow this step-by-step process to create your own custom recovery image....

Lock Screen is a new concept introduced in Windows 8. Desktop and laptop users may not find the addition much useful but tablet users will love it. This lock screen will make sure that a user does not make any accidental taps while the device is in his bag pack. There are two prominent elements that make up the Windows 8 Lock Screen. The first one is the background photo that takes up up to 95% of the lock screen while the second one are the apps that you can pin to it to gain direct access....

If you ask me, automatic updating of the podcasts is not at all necessary. The chances that you will watch all the episodes right when they are available are 1 in 10. Moreover, many users who are on a limited bandwidth would just hate it when iTunes drains their bandwidth in the background when all they had in mind was to listen to music in the library. Disabling Podcast Auto Updates To control the update frequency of an individual podcast on iTunes open the Podcasts tab from iTunes library....

On Windows 10, OneDrive makes use of various badge types to relay file statuses. For the most part, they serve their purpose well by letting you know whether your files are either actively syncing or already synced with the cloud. But only until you change File Explorer’s View mode to List or Detail, which is where things start to get tricky. Needless to say, the green check marks displayed over fully synced items don’t quite fit well the minuscule icons that the List and Detail modes feature, thus making it next to impossible to distinguish between certain file types....

Though it’s quite a useful feature, it may not appeal to everyone. For example, you may rarely use the feature, and Screen Recording just ends up wasting screen real-estate on your Control Center. Not just that, it may also pose issues in terms of both privacy and security. Especially if you shared iPhone and iPad with others or in a testing environment. And then there’s the whole matter with kids — do you want them to have access to such a feature?...

These tools show the current upload and download speed of your network. Thanks to them, you can quickly know when the speed drops. I have been using Internet Speed Meter on my Android phone for a while, and now I’m so used to it that working on a PC without monitoring internet speed seems odd. While Windows 10 comes with a native bandwidth monitoring tool, it doesn’t offer a tool to monitor internet speed....