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How to get the battery level of the Bluetooth device on your Android Phone

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The world has been taking a shift over wireless technologies. May it be listening to the audio, or connecting to the internet, everyone is going wireless. Have you ever wished to know the battery level of the device connected via Bluetooth to your device right on your device and without having to access that Bluetooth device? It sounds great right!!!! And it works great as well. Here is how you can get that done

  • To start with you have to get the application BatON  from the Android play store which is available to download for free
  • Then connect the Bluetooth device to your Android device, pair it and connect it
  • Now when opening the application you will be able to see the battery level of the Bluetooth device connected and you can also get to see the battery level by just swiping down the notification panel
  • The percentage of the battery refreshes every 3 hours and you can also set it to refresh more frequently
  • Click on the hamburger icon in the application and click on settings, then tap auto measure
  • Then click on the Measure frequency and then select 15 minutes from the list

That is it, you are done, and do try the BatON application.

How to get network activity displayed in the Status bar

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Are you curious about knowing the status of your networking activity on your Android device? Yes, that would be the answer from many people. That curiosity to know the internet speed is quite common among internet users. Many of us know how to know the speed of the internet on our PCs and laptops. Follow these simple steps.

  • This process starts with you from downloading an Android app called Internet Speed Meter  app from the Google play store which is available to download for free
  • The application installs an internet reader in the middle of the status bar, but the app is highly customizable and allows you to change the position, data limit, speed or transfer units, and much more
  • If you wish to make changes, just open the application, head to Settings by clicking on the gear icon, you can see a lot of options that you can customize according to your choice and desire

Internet Speed Meter can thus be a great app and can help you get to know the speed of your internet as it allows you to monitor your network activity right from the status bar.

Here Are The Password Managers That You Must Check Out

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Password managers which are gaining popularity slowly over time are not only for the convenience of the user but also help the user with their security and privacy. And to protect your privacy at the best, you need to be using the perfect password managers. While there are many such managers available for the users online, here we present you with some of the best programs for managing your passwords to stay safe and secure online.

Password Managers, You Must Check Out

Buttercup

This is a pretty useful tool for managing your passwords that allows you to save your password locally. As it will not upload your passwords anywhere your passwords will be fully secure and safe from any theft and thus your privacy and security will be best with this tool. This tool even allows you to upload your passwords to your online cloud storage services. Buttercup tool is available for all users via various platforms like Windows, Linux, Android, iOS.

LessPass

This is a completely different password manager that allows the users to create an account with a unique, strong, and secure master password that they will remember and LessPass will then take over and guide the user and help the user in managing his/her passwords. When you start using this password managing tool for logging or signing up in an account, it will automatically create a password based on the master password that you have created and this password will not be stored anywhere and LessPass will recalculate the password the next time when you try to login into that site.

Remembear

This is yet another very useful and simple use a password manager. Fingerprint sensor or recognition is more secure than any other process. This password manager from the VPN company Tunnel Bear uses the fingerprint sensor to make the password management process a better and an easy one. But for using this your device must be having this fingerprint recognition sensor and it can remember for you all your online information and card information as well.

So, do try these password managers and make your life easy.

Applications that help you find serial keys in Windows PCs

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You may know the drill of entering the serial keys and if you have paid for a subscription or purchased an application ever. The internet has evolved a lot these days that it has become very easy to track down any keys that you have paid for or purchased earlier.

If you ever lose the keys to the paid application or program, then you have to find them by yourself. There are plenty of KeyFinder applications available on the internet that can help you in this regard. Let us have a look at a few such applications

Magical Jellybean KeyFinder

It is the standard key recovery tool. Using this application is pretty much simple, you just need to download and run it. Then it will automatically scan your Windows registry and finds product keys for various products like Microsoft Office, Windows, and 300 different programs. Whereas its paid version allows recovery of up to 8000 programs.

Its best feature I the ability to save the keys as a text file. Just select File>Save As.

 LicenseCrawler

It has more features than the earlier tool. It allows the users to save the keys in different formats.

This tool also has network support which allows the users to find serial keys from the other computers on the network.  But this tool isn’t entirely free and you have to watch a text-based ad.

 SterJo KeyFinder

This one is the last tool on our list, but definitely not the least. It scans for keys immediately after launching the tool. It offers the same kind of features as the first tool on this list. It gets regular updates which helps to have a better interface.

So I hope these applications will be helpful and useful to you in case you need to find your Windows keys.

You must know these amazing Google Maps tricks

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Google maps is undoubtedly the most popular and best available out there in the Google play store. It offers the users some great features like real-time navigating, ETAs, live traffic info, the ability to discover places, etc. But do you know that this mapping service has some hidden tricks inside it not many people know? So, today, in this piece of article, let us learn some tips and tricks that will be most useful. So, here is the list of tricks, just go through them

  • Even you planned a trip from your current location to your destination, but sometimes there may arise a need to add a stop in between your location and destination, you can do this by tapping on the three-dot icon and then tap on the option add stop and as you add a stop, you can observe a change in your trip, add as many stops as you and tap done to start the trip
  • You can avoid tolls while choosing your directions through navigation. You can just tap on the route info option while seeing the directions to your destination, and it will show you if the best route has tolls. You can set up the settings to avoid tolls by going to route options and then checking the avoid tolls option and tapping done
  • Click on the location icon at the bottom right of the application screen, then you will see a blue dot in the center of your screen, just tap on it and then select the option to save your parking which will save your parking location on Google Maps. Tap on info if you further want to edit it

Do you know that you can actually find directions inside a particular mall or a building? Maps allow you to view floor-wise directions, all you have to do is just search for a particular building or a mall and tap on it to zoom a bit. But for this, you should be present at that particular location