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Experimental Camera Apps For Android Users From Google

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Google has launched the camera stills app last year which has become quite popular among iOS users. Now it has offered its Android users three experimental camera apps that they can try as a part of app experiments.

With the increased use of smartphones, we have been depending on a lot of apps these days to get our memories clicked. Even if you have a nice camera, you must definitely need a perfect camera application to make the picture look perfect. If you are just tired of trying and finding the best camera application that suits your needs, then stop that search as here are the applications from Google.

Experimental Camera Apps From Google

Storyboard

If you have got your videos and looking for different ways to present them, then you must check out this wonderful application. Storyboard makes a single-page layout that looks like a comic book using the shots from your video. You are even given the choice to select various effects for your layout page. And the application is pretty simple to use as well as it allows the users with a simple user interface. And Google released this application exclusively for Android users, so go check this one for sure as it is available for free.

Selfissimo

Selfie is everywhere and selfies are for everyone and if you are one such a selfie addict, then this application from the search engine giant will surely impress you as you don’t need to click the camera option every time for each pose you need. You can simply launch the application and tap on the screen once and get ready to pose, it will click snaps of all your poses. And Selfissimo will give you elegant black and white styled photographs. And you can choose to save the entire photoshoot or save individual ones.

Don’t miss trying out these experimental camera apps, you will fall in love with them instantly.

A Few Things That Make Yahoo Search More Worth Than Google

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Google search is the world’s most popular search engine undoubtedly, it is also the most widely used search engine. But there are a few interesting and most useful things that only Yahoo search is capable of doing. It doesn’t matter how much you are used to searching in Google. Here we present you to some of the really cool tricks using Yahoo search that make Yahoo a better option. In fact, we are going to tell you some really interesting tricks that you will be capable of doing only using Yahoo.

Search Tips For Making Yahoo Search Better

Take a look at the few search tips that only works with Yahoo.

  • Composing emails in Yahoo is quite easy with the help of this search tip as you just need to search !mail prisat@outlook.com, which is the keyword mail followed by the mail id to which you wish to send the mail. Searching this will open the new email message in your Yahoo Mail
  • You can get the lyrics of a particular song from your favorite artist very easily using yahoo. You just need to type Linken Park lyrics if you want lyrics for all his songs or Linken Park’s heavy lyrics for getting the lyrics of the Heavy song
  • Putting the square brackets on both the sides of your keyword that you are searching for will bring you the results of the exact keyword.

Ex: Searching [Taylor Swift] will only get you the results of web pages with Taylor swift in them and not Swift              Taylor

  • Get the Wikipedia pages of some people or any website or any other thing that you may want to know directly from the Yahoo search. Just type using the keyword !wiki India, which will bring India’s Wikipedia page

These search tips make Yahoo useful than Google search.

Send A WhatsApp messages to a number without adding it in your contacts

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WhatsApp, the world’s largest messaging platform has almost replaced offline messages and has become so much popular among people. In fact, it has even replaced the word message, people actually WhatsApp me instead of message me. It amazes the users by introducing lots of new features all the time. But it has some flaws as well at the same time, and one of the major flaws that people feel is that the messaging application doesn’t allow the users to send a message to someone (who doesn’t have any common group with them) without adding them in the contacts.

But don’t worry, we have a workaround solution that allows you to send WhatsApp messages to a number that you don’t save in your phone book. Let us now dig into the simple process

  • In the first step, you need to download Click2Chat WhastApp from the Google Playstore
  • Then open the application and on the page that is opened you have to enter the country code and mobile number of the person to whom you wish to send the message
  • Then in the space below, enter the message you wish to send them and finally tap on Send now, which will direct you to the WhatsApp application and you have to hit send there again
  • You can also choose to Send later option for scheduling the WhatsApp message and sent it at a later time

Click2Chat WhtasApp, thus allows you to send messages to someone without adding them to your contacts.

How To Reset BIOS Settings To Default On Your Computer

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BIOS which is called as the Basic Input and Output System is the basic system behind our PCs and laptops booting process. Our systems very normally and casually perform the boot process every time we switch on our devices. But what if something corrupts this process and prohibits our system from booting, this may turn into a terrifying problem as you don’t actually know how to proceed when your computer doesn’t start at all.

In some cases, opening your computer’s housing will void your warranty, and you run a significant risk of permanently damaging your computer while doing so. If you can’t access your BIOS, your best course of action is to take the computer into a tech department instead of doing it yourself.

Reset BIOS

There may be a number of reasons for this problem, and if you ever happen to encounter this kind of a situation, here are the simple steps that you can try to reset your BIOS settings

  • You need to turn on the computer first and then keep on tapping either F2, F12, or delete key to access the BIOS or UEFI. UEFI is the newer version of BIOS and it offers
  • Once you see that open, you can see the option Setup Defaults at the bottom, click F9 which works many PCs, then it will ask for confirmation, just click yes
  • In case you don’t find that option, then you can find the option Restore Factory Defaults under the security tab
  • Clearing the BIOS and setting them to their Factory Defaults will remove any kind of changes that you have made, so remember that

After resetting, just save and then exit to make those changes effect.

Caution: Be careful when altering BIOS settings. The BIOS interface is designed for advanced users. You can change a setting that could prevent your computer from starting correctly and you could suffer a potential loss of data.

Learn How To Block Pop Up Ads In Your Android Device

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Every one of us might be very much irritated of pop up ads whether it a personal computer or a mobile device, Pop-ups can be annoying. We will now let you know how to actually put a full stop to this irritating problem by showing you the process to block those pop up ads.

Pop ups can be of three types and they will be seen while browsing the web, full-screen ads in applications, ads in the notification area.

Let us now take a look about how you can defeat all these different types of pop up ads.

 Stop Pop up ads in Chrome browser:

  • Open the browser and click on the three dot icon on the top right corner of the screen, then select Settings and then navigate to site settings
  • Tap on the popups entry and check whether the slider should be set to block sites from showing pop-ups
  • Another simple step you can take is enabling the data saver mode in the Chrome browser’s settings menu. Navigate to Menu\>Settings>Data Saver>tap the slider to turn it on

 Block full-screen pop ups in applications:

The full-screen pop-ups in the applications can be gotten rid of if you upgrade to the premium version of the application.  Or else you can also use the settings and disable the ads. Visit Settings>Apps & notifications>Advanced>Special app access>Display over the apps

Now turn off the allow display over the apps.

Control ads in the notification area:

Blocking the ads in your notification area of your Android device can be very easy. And this can be done by just simply disabling the notifications for every single application that annoys you with pop-ups. Head to the app settings and then click on app notifications and then click on block all. And you are done.