This kind of targeting is creepy, intriguing and (usually) effective, all at the same time. However, the fact is that Google makes a large portion of their money from advertising and they probably don’t intend to stop targeted advertising anytime soon. Be this troubling to you or not, Google Ads are here to stay. So, how exactly do Google’s all seeing eyes work? Google Ad Targeting Contextual Targeting With this type of targeting, ads are displayed to people based on the type of content on a website....

New Google+ features do just that. And, the cover profile/cover photo thing is another booster. Today we intend to tell you about changing cover photo and customizing profile in the new interface. Let us see how to go about doing it. As you log on to Google+ you will be able to spot the tool icon towards the left pane. Select Profile and hit the button saying Edit Profile (refer image below and sections marked in red)....

We are going to use a keyboard button remapping tool that’s free and open source. I am talking about PowerToys. It was developed in-house by Microsoft and carries a lot of interesting features. One of them is the ability to assign a custom function to any key by remapping it. Let’s begin. What Is PowerToys PowerToys made a debut with Windows 95 and always enjoyed being one of those background character actor....

Similarly there are lots of other gadgets available from Windows to fulfill your needs. Some of the popular gadgets are slideshow, calendar, CPU meter, picture puzzle, weather, stocks and currency. First, How To Add or Remove the Sidebar In Windows Vista, sidebar comes with installation of Windows but you can block sidebar display by right clicking on the sidebar icon in the taskbar and then clicking exit. If you want to open sidebar again on the desktop then you have to perform following steps: Click Start Button > Click All Programs > Click Accessories > Click Windows Sidebar....

If you are using Spotify on a free account, the app displays some ad banners on the player and also plays advert tracks after every couple of tracks to generate revenue. While the banners ads were not much of a problem to me as Spotify remain minimized most of the times, the voice ads were really annoying. Moreover, as I am using Spotify in India, none of these adverts them made any sense to me....

macOS doesn’t currently have an easy solution to automatically sync Downloads, but there is a relatively easy workaround to make this happen. Best of all, you don’t need macOS Sierra for most of this to work. 1. Create New Downloads Folder in iCloud Drive First, you need to create a new folder in your iCloud Drive from your Mac. Call it “Downloads” — though technically you can name it whatever you want....

We will be using Bittorrent’s awesome Sync app to make this happen. Let’s see how. Installing Sync on your Phone and PC Download and install the Sync app for your PC from here. Similarly install the app on your phone from Play store. We have already shown you how to set up Sync on your PC, so I will not go through that again. On the phone, after you have installed the app, tap the plus icon in the lower right corner of the screen and then on New backup....

iMessage . However, being such an essential aspect of everyone’s lives ( as much as email in some cases), it is important to know how to keep your messages safe and protected in case something happens to your iPhone or other iOS device. Here’s is how you can do it and also how you can read your message backups on your computer without your iPhone. Backing Up Your Messages Step 1: To start, you will need to perform a local backup of your iOS device via iTunes to have all its information on your Mac or PC....

Getting Started The process begins by signing in to your Dropbox account on the web. On the left, you will now see a new option for File requests. Clicking it will give you an option to Create file request. Once you click that, you are greeted with a dialog box prompting you to type the name of the file that you are requesting. Dropbox will suggest creating a new folder to place this file in, although you can select an existing folder to add this file into....

Google Chat is accessible in Gmail web or the official app for Android and iOS. Like on Google Hangouts, users can block contacts on Google Chat in different ways. We’ll explain some of the methods in detail below. How to Block Someone via Chat in Gmail Web Once you block one of your contacts on Google Chat, it also takes effect on other Google apps such as Photos, Google +, and Google Maps....

Having said that, it’s the Google Docs web app that is the most flexible when it comes to changing the background color. It literally lets you pick any color that you want. The mobile app for Android, iOS, and iPadOS also enables you to change the background color of documents, but in a somewhat restricted form. Google Docs – Web App Changing the background color in a document with the Google Docs web app is ridiculously easy....

A big part of my day is looking at the prices of things in dollars or pounds. I’m not a compulsive shopaholic, just an avid tech reader. And every time I come across the price of a new gadget, I have to do a bit of mental math. $500 for the new iPad, so that’s five hundred by sixty – five by six – thirty, thirty thousand Indian rupees. When figures are in tens or hundreds this is easy but that’s seldom true....

Since Canva doesn’t offer any option or a template to create a table, you’ll need to draw a table yourself or edit one of the templates. We’ll show you how to create and customize a table in Canva. So, let’s begin. How to Make a Table Using Elements in Canva If you’re looking to create a table with different cell sizes and customize it as per your needs, you can open a blank template in Canva and draw a table from scratch....

But what if you want to play those audio files on a standard CD player, like the one in your car? (I know, I know, CDs are hardly in vogue these days, and will soon be extinct, but there’s no escaping them just yet) While some players will allow you to listen to MP3 or WMA files, you rarely find a standalone CD player that works with FLAC. However, you can pretty easily create an audio CD from FLAC files, using the popular (and free) software ImgBurn....

Adobe Muse is a free click-drag-and-drop website creator and editor created for the Adobe Air platform. This means you’ll need to download and install Adobe Air before you can run Adobe Muse. The main navigation revolves around the menu at the top, where there are four main sections: Plan, Design, Preview, and Publish. The Plan phase is where you can access all of your webpages, and also create new webpages or rearrange their order....

We will show you how to use PowerPoint to edit photos and add the transparency effect without leaving it. The transparent image effect lets you merge two pictures. In this, the foreground will always be visible, crisp, and sharp, including a background image. Using this effect, you can add trees to an image of a field, or use your imagination to create those transparent effect movie posters. The possibilities are limitless....

You don’t enjoy social networking any more and you want to get rid of it.You don’t feel secure on Facebook and having privacy issues.You spend (or waste) too much time on Facebook.You’ve migrated to a different network. Twitter, may be? See, there could be so many reasons. Hence, this article is for those who think they’ve had enough with this Facebook thingy and wanna quit. As always, Guiding Tech is here to help....

Chrome has had a password manager and autofill option for a long time, but they were not useful and left a lot to be desired. The revamped password manager is a start, but I am still not going to use it. Don’t get me wrong; I am a Google fanboy. So much so that I have spent the better part of the last month moving everything to Drive, Keep Notes, and Gmail....

But as I grow older, I want the launcher to be a place from where I, you know, launch stuff. Apps, actions, anything. It’s not a thing I want to stare at to admire or figure out where I want go next. This why I love SpringBoard on iOS (yes, I own an iPhone as well, we dual users do exist). Another thing I love in iOS is the Spotlight search....

Thankfully, it’s more than possible to download and install Chrome entirely offline, just like any traditional desktop application. And you don’t have to go out of your way to do that either. Let’s get started. Why You Should Install Chrome Offline By default, Google only provides you with a ‘stub’ installer to install Chrome. This installer (which is about two megabytes roughly) doesn’t contain the actual files required to run Chrome....