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How To Send Any Link From Your PC To Mobile Phone Using Chrome

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Browsing the internet will be a regular task for many of us, we can say. But this task is mostly done in computers rather than on mobile phones. What if we found an interesting piece of an article or something interesting while we browsing in our PC? We will find ways to share it on our mobile phone. Right!! How do you send any link from your PC to your mobile phone?

What I personally do is sometimes I share it using FB messenger. I share to myself. Sometimes I share in Telegram. Sometimes I save the link in Google Keep notes and then open the link on a mobile phone.

Don’t you think it is something that takes and needs some effort? Yes. Right! There is actually a better and simple way to make the process easier. Do check it out.

Steps To Send Any Link From PC To Mobile

  • To begin with the process, you need to open the Google Chrome browser and type in chrome://flags in the address bar and then press enter.
  • Type “Send tab to self” in the search bar of Chrome flags and select Enabled from the drop-down menu or paste the following in the address bar of Chrome. Or just click on this link chrome://flags/#enable-send-tab-to-self
  • Now you are done with the setup, just simply relaunch the browser and you will find a “Send to *device name*” option whenever you right-click a tab or link. If you have logged in your Google Account on multiple devices, choose the device you like to send the link.

So, these are the simple steps that are involved in the process of sharing a link in your PC directly to your mobile phone. We hope you find this process helpful and try to make use of it every day.

Steps To Use Voice Typing Using Google Keyboard

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Let’s be clear that “voice typing” really means dictation. One reason for the rebranding of the term may be because the experience feels different than previous, clunkier versions of dictation tools. This Gboard and Voice Typing are sophisticated enough to give you options of what it believes you said by underlining words and phrases.

How To Activate Voice Typing

  • Open Google Playstore and search for gboard in the search bar.
  • Install the Gboard – Google Keyboard application.
  • Now after the application gets installed, you need to open the app and go through the process of setting it up.
  • When you tap on the app icon after installing, it show an option enable in settings, click on it and you will be directed to settings page.
  • It will direct you to the ‘language & input’ page in the settings section of your device.
  • Now enable Gboard by tapping on the toggle option present next to Gboard.
  • Now, a popup will show up and just tap on ok to continue.
  • Next, it will show a select input method option, just click on it and select Gboard as the input method.
  • Then after setting up the input method, it will ask you to set up permissions, click on that.
  • It will ask you to grant a few permissions to Gboard which you should do.
  • Then finally click on done.
  • After you finish this, just tap on voice typing, then click on languages to add languages you wish to add and finally save.

Talk to write

  1. Open any app that you can type with, like Gmail or Keep.
  2. Tap an area where you can enter text.
  3. At the top of your keyboard, touch and hold Microphone.
  4. When you see “Speak now,” say what you want written.

Replace a word

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the document or message with the word you want to change.
  2. Touch and hold the word.
  3. At the top of your keyboard, tap Microphone.
  4. When you see “Speak now,” say the new word.

Happy Typing!!!! Sorry Happy Speaking!!!

How To Transfer Contacts Between Android Devices Without Gmail Sync

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With the evolution of Android smartphones, we have been so much addicted to the mobile devices that we keep on looking to new devices with new features and keep changing them for at least every two years. If you are one such an Android device fanatic, then you must be regularly be changing your smartphone. Changing your device needs quite a lot of work after as you need to transfer all your data from the previous device to the new one. The contacts especially are the main one and you need to transfer contacts as well.

If we save the contacts in SIM or memory card, then it will be easy for you for doing the copy process. But if you have contacts saved on your device and don’t have Gmail sync, then don’t be worried about how to transfer contacts, here are the simple steps, go ahead and follow.

Transfer Contacts Between Android Devices:

You need to get the application downloaded on your device. The app is called MC Backup. Get it from here.

After downloading and installing the application on your device, just launch it and hit the backup option, and the app will start the backup process where all your contacts will be backed up.

After the backup is done, you will find a backup contact file in your file manager.     

You can transfer it to your memory card and you can either insert this memory card on your new device or just send it via Bluetooth or other means to the new device in which you would like to have the contacts.

All you have to do in the new device is just simply tap on the contact file and it will start copying the contacts to your device.

MC Backup is such a simple application where all your contacts can be transferred without Gmail Sync.

How To Remove Bloatware From Your Android Devices

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Smartphones these days come up with so many pre-installed applications from the device manufacturer. Such applications are most commonly known as bloatware. So, here we go, we are presenting you the process of removing bloatware from your non-rooted Android devices. It is a must know procedure as it lets you and helps you in making your device capable of sufficient storage.

Steps To Remove Bloatware

  • As a first thing, you need to enable developer options in your device. This can be done by heading to Settings -> About Phone -> Build Number (Tap on build number 7-10 times and your developer options will get activated).
  • Now you will see developer option in your settings and tap on it. Then scroll down and enable the USB Debugging option.
  • Now you need to download and install Debloater tool in your Windows PC. It will allow you to remove system apps from your device that you don’t wish to have.
  • After installing the above-mentioned software, just connect your Android device with USB cable to your PC. Now you need to wait for the tool to detect your device.
  • After the device is detected, you will need to scan the apps that are being currently installed on your device, and that includes your system apps. Simply mark the apps that you want to remove.
  • Then, you just need to click on the apply button, and this action will block all those apps from your device. They will no longer be there on your device to consume your memory.

IF you want, you can also undo this process by un-ticking them to access them again. That’s it! You are done, now all those apps will be removed from your device. Your device storage will be free from them.

Go ahead and remove all the unnecessary applications from your Android device.

View Incoming SMS Even When You Use An App In Full-Screen Mode

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One of the greatest things about having an Android phone is that it is highly customizable. There are a lot of applications available in Google’s Android Playstore that allows the users to do a lot of customizations to their device. Being able to read incoming text messages while using an application in full-screen mode is one such a feature that is most required for everyone.

There is a lot of demand for text messages even in this era of internet and social networks. The pop-up messages are the best way to read the text messages that we receive as they will be displayed on the screen wherever you want them to be and no matter what you are doing with your phone. The messages pop-up on your screen even if you are using an application or playing some game.

Reading Tet Messages While On Full-Screen Mode

SMS Flash is the best Android app which allows users to read their text messages from any application’s screen.

SMS Flash application developed by Lakshman Brothers is available online in the Android play store to download for free which you can simply download and install on your device. This very much useful application allows you to read the incoming text messages even when you are watching YouTube videos, or playing some game in full-screen mode. This Android app has some amazing features like blacklist where you can select certain contacts whose texts you may not want to see on the fly. The app even allows the users to personalize the SMS notifications. You can also modify the display duration of the message on the screen according to your convenience. You can also choose the setting regarding where the message should be displayed on the screen. The proximity sensors on your device allow you to dismiss the message. And touching it twice will open the reply box.

Thus with the help of this wonderful application, you can enjoy your device’s full-screen mode without actually missing any important messages.