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How to enable Gmail preview pane using simple steps

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Gmail, the mailing service from Google is the most used mailing service without any doubt. Large amounts of people use Gmail for their primary source of communication. But many people might not be aware of the various features that the Gmail offers. Don’t worry I will let you know the various useful features that the service offers its users. But as of now in this article, I am going to show you the process of enabling the Gmail preview pane feature.

This feature helps to have an email preview on the same screen that you are along with the other emails on one side. This gives the users ease of access to the various emails in the Inbox and makes easy to switch between the emails.

Steps for enabling the Gmail preview pane feature:

  • At first, you must be logged into your Gmail account
  • You will see a gear icon on the top right corner of your screen, click on it and then click on settings
  • Then you will be directed to another screen with various options, now choose labs tab
  • Now you will see search for a lab option there, type preview pane in the box and you will find the preview pane result below, just enable it and click on save changes
  • Google will load the page again after saving the settings
  • Now you can see an icon just beside the gear icon on the top-right corner of the screen where you can change the orientation of the pane, you can choose either vertical or horizontal.

That is it you are now done with setting up and can now be able to view email preview.

How To Add A Multitasking Sidebar In Your Android Device

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Android is undoubtedly one of the coolest mobile operating systems available. Android provides its users’ apps for everything right from customizations to multitasking. Multitasking is the new normal trend. To make multitasking much more fun and easier, Android has tonnes of apps to try. One among the many is Panels, which gives you a multitasking sidebar on your screen. It gives you access to your favorite applications, shortcuts, contacts, and widgets.

Adding Multitasking Sidebar With Panels

  • As a first step, you need to have the Panels application downloaded and installed on your android device.
  • Once you are done with downloading and installing the application, now you should grant certain permissions that the app will prompt.
  • Then you will be taken to the main interface of the Panels app.
  • Now, you will find a few options there, just tap on the activate toggle button to turn it on.
  • If you are done with turning the setting on, just tap on the view option.
  • Here, you can adjust the icons, text, position, order anything you wish according to your taste.
  • You can also choose and go to more settings to setup other options like dim background, swipe and hold options etc.
  • Now, you are done with the setup, it is time for testing.
  • Just go to the home screen, and swipe the right edge of the screen.
  • Then you will find a sidebar opened with a list of apps displayed in it.
  • Swipe it once again to get the full app switcher.

That is it, this is how you can get a customizable multitasking sidebar in your android device with the help of some pretty simple steps.

How to use the beta version of an android application

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You may have heard this word beta one time or the other. Every android application’s update will be first released on its beta version which is being tested by a set of people called beta testers and after testing it for some time, the update will be released to the application after making any required changes. If you also want to use the android beta app then here are the simple steps that you can follow

  • Open the Google Playstore and search for the application that you want to use the beta
  • Now go to the bottom of the screen and there you can find an option Become a beta tester, click on the I’m in button available there.
  • It will show a pop-up screen with a message to join the beta program, click on join
  • Then you will see the earlier become a beta tester option changed to beta sign up in progress
  • It will take a few minutes after which you can find the updates if any
  • Install the updates and test them before anyone can.

But you have to remember as it is a beta version, the application may not be stable and not all the android applications in Google Playstore have beta testing options.

Amazon India Launches Smart Plug, powered by Amazon Alexa

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Amazon India yesterday launched an Alexa-powered smart plug. The device which is originally announced in 2018, enables users to control compatible gadgets and appliances with the help of voice commands.

There are a huge range of devices which include lamps, table fans, electric kettles, mobile chargers, televisions, air coolers, air purifiers, and many that work with the Alexa smart plug.

There are currently various smart plugs available in the market that are enabled by Alexa. People are already using to smart power their appliances. But now, Amazon has launched its own smart plug.

Amazon Smart Plug

According to Amazon, the device has a 6A power rating and comes with a state retention feature that helps the devices go back to their last state in case of power outage.

The setup is pretty simple as the users just need to plug in a 3-pin standard electrical socket setup and connecting it with the Alexa app in your device. After setting up the connection with the device, users can recite the command to on it or off it on any fire tv, echo dot or Alexa devices.  

The smart plug also enables its users to setup scheduled actions. The users can setup actions to turn the light off every night and schedule it to turn on every morning. The application even enables users to control their connected appliances remotely.

This Amazon smart plug is priced at Rs.1999. It is now readily available for purchase in the Amazon store. It is also available at a price of Rs.999 if purchased as a bundle along with Echo dot.

The product is also available for purchase at select Croma and Reliance Digital outlets.  

Learn how to extract text from images using OneNote

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Sometimes we may like the text in an image a lot and we may want it to be kept as our status update or we may just want to send it as a message to someone. In such cases, the option we have is just typing the message. No, actually there is another simple and easier option which lets us extract text from images. And that process will be done using a technology called the OCR which means Optical Character Recognition, there are a lot of ways we can do that, but here in this article, I am showing you how to extract text using OneNote.

OneNote is the best OCR tool and it is also among the very lesser known features of the app that users rarely use. And this features is also the one that puts this application ahead of Evernote.

You need to just follow these instructions to extract text from the images.

  • Open a blank page in the application.
  • Then click on the insert tab and then on pictures option, select the image file that you wish to convert from image to text.
  • Right-click on the image and just tap on the copy text from picture option from the drop-down menu.
  • Paste it wherever you want.

Thus pull out text from images using this simple process.