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Some Of The Tech News Digests That You Must Give A Check

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You must very much be able to stay updated with the tech news from the world of technology through ComputerEra. But you may not be able to or interested towards learning the whole news as it may take a lot of your time, so here are some of the tech news digests that will give you a quick tech digest or podcast. Do check them out for sure.

Techmeme Ride Home

This is a news digest platform that will give you a 15-20 minutes duration and it will have the tech news highlights that can give you an idea of the tech news of the day. If you are going to work or to home back from work, then you can catch up all the tech news that has happened in the day. This podcast can be accessed through RSS feed on any podcast applications.

Morning Reader

Morning Reader is another really useful and interestingly curated news app with a simple and clean interface. It shows you the headlines from only a single source. It presents the news by picking the best news source for you. Morning Reader has got a separate section for various important sections of technology news like the cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. You can make use of the web app or even create a shortcut in your mobile or even have the application downloaded.

Tech News Weekly

Tech News Weekly is another most essential and useful podcast for tech geeks. This team now has got a weekly tech podcast that has got a twist. It is all about taking a deep dive into the biggest tech news of the week. This will definitely be a great option for those who don’t have time to check the tech news every day.

TechBites

This is another useful one in our list of the tech news digests with a two-fold approach to the daily technological news. It curates the best news from different tech sources and creates a full homepage with the information of tech news that you may need or want to know.

So, don’t miss trying out these sources. Stay updated with technology.

Creating Custom Desktop Icons On Your Windows PC

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Many of us might have got bored of the same old regular icons on our computer screens in our Windows devices. Don’t you ever want to try something new? Now, in this article today we are going to learn about creating custom desktop icons in your PC.

Creating Custom Desktop Icons

Rainmeter , the best customization tool for Windows is very good at creating custom icons for your programs. The icons range from immersive to regular. The best thing about this program is that there are already some fan-made icons available which you can make use of.

Rainmeter settings are text-based since it is necessary and important for you to learn the creation process of icons before you start downloading and installing icon packs, the more you learn, the better and more customized you will become.
Now let us see the process of creating a simple icon with this wonderful program

• Head to the C:\Users\[PC Name]\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins, the PC Name should be replaced with the name of your PC
• Right-click on a blank space and click on New, and then click on Folder
• Now name the folder that you have created, that it should represent the contents
• Now, after creating, just double click the folder and create another folder within it, name the folder with the name of the icon that you wish to create
• Then create another folder within it and name it @resources, this folder will hold your icon images

You have created three folders overall

• Now double click the second folder and right-click on the blank space and click on New, and then on Text documents
• Now open the text document created by double-clicking on it and just copy-paste the following thing

[OverwatchIcon]
Meter=Image
ImageName=#@#\[IconName].png
H=[Height]
LeftMouseUpAction=[“[Address]”]
[Rainmeter]
Update=1000

• IconName should be replaced with the name of the PNG file that you should be using for your icon
• Height for changing the size of your icon
• The address should be replaced with the address of your program or a website address
• Now go to the @Resources folder and paste your PNG file which you would like to use as an icon
• Then replace that PNG file with the parameter you have entered for the IconName
• Now replace the Height parameter in your INI file with the size of the icon

You are now done with creating the icon, let us now learn how to place it on the desktop

• Now just right click on the welcome to Rainmeter window and then click on Rainmeter and then click on Manage
• You can see a window open, you can see your created icon under active skins option
• Select the folder that you have created earlier and double click on the INI file, that is it you will see the skin on your desktop

This process may seem a bit long and may need a bit of mind into it, but remember that this will your Windows PC a new look and you must definitely give it a try and create your custom desktop icons.

Unlock Your Phone With A Simple Ok Google Command

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Unlocking your android device can be done in various ways. Like I have mentioned in my earlier articles, you can easily unlock your device without having to enter any PIN, password or pattern as they will be irritating at times. I have described to you the process of unlocking a phone using the face detection feature in my earlier article. If you haven’t checked it yet Click here. I used it for a long time. I want to try new every time and the unlocking process has a lot of options that we can try. So, today let us go through the simple process of unlocking an Android device with a simple Ok Google voice command.

Unlocking Your Device Using Ok Google

  • Go to settings in your android device
  • Then click on security
  • As this is one of the smart unlock features we are going to use, first your device must be locked using any of the other secured locking features like a pattern, pin, or password.
  • Then you will see an option smart lock, click on it
  • Now confirm the password that you have set
  • It will take you to a screen which says about the smart lock, just read it and click on understood
  • Then click on Trusted voice
  • Here turn on ‘From any screen’ and ‘Trusted voice’ options using the toggle button
  • It will take you to another screen, click on Get started
  • In the next page, just say Ok Google command three times after which it detects your voice and directs to the next page with some information, click Yes I’m in
  • Confirm your password for the last time
  • Finally, click on finish

Use this simple set up process and unlock your device using the Ok Google voice command within no time and without any kind of hassles.

Quickly Search For Things With Just A Photo – Quick Photo Search

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When you got a doubt while reading a book, then what you usually do, you may be referring to a dictionary or an encyclopedia. You may also go on searching for it on the internet. All of these are time taking processes and if you are away from home and don’t have access to dictionary and encyclopedia. Then you will be left with the option which is searching on the internet. As we all know it is not that easy to find some information on the internet and we all know that when we are in search of something it will present us with many other things and we get easily diverted from our topic. A quick photo search is the need of the hour and will actually make your task simple.

Socratic For Quick Photo Search

So, for this purpose, there is an application available in the Google play store. The Android app is called Socratic and it is available to download for free and you can just download it on your device for free.

When you find something that you think you need a better understanding of, then you can just simply take a photo of it using the camera option in the Socratic app and search for it. It will then present you with the available answers from the internet by searching it online for some related answers.

This wonderful Android app with a quick photo search is even very much helpful in helping your children with their homework. So, do give it a try and get the information at your fingertips without having to struggle with searching for the information online.

You may be knowing about Photomath application but it is only for math problems whereas this Socratic is for you all kinds of queries. It comes with a cool interface, so do try it for sure and make your life easier.  The app can help you solving various kinds of questions, it may be History, Science, GK, Maths and many others.

How To Exclude Certain Domains In Google Search Results

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The power of Google search operators doesn’t need any kind of explanation and descriptions. No one denies accepting the fact regarding the power of the Google search engine. With just a little added effort, you can simply make sure that you get and find the domains and the exact content that you wish to have or looking for. One thing that you need to do that is just simply excluding certain websites the results that you don’t wish to have in the results and if you think that those are the websites that you don’t care much about. So, here is how you can manage your Google search results.

Exclude Certain Websites In Google Search Results

It is pretty simple to exclude certain keywords from your result, all you need to do is just place a simple hyphen in front of the word without space.

So, let us take an example to let you understand it better. If you are searching for microlenses but you don’t want any results with canon, so all you have to do is just use the keyword ‘ microlenses –canon’ in the Google search and then simply press enter.

In the same way, if you are looking to exclude certain domains from your search results, then if you are searching for something and don’t wish to get the certain domain result in the Google search results, then you should be searching with the keyword followed by a hyphen followed by the domain name ( there should be space between the keyword and the hyphen but not between the hyphen and the domain name). Just like the above-mentioned example, you need to replace the keyword with the domain name.

For example, if you are searching for raspberry pi but don’t wish to have the Wikipedia page of the raspberry pi in the search results, then you should be searching ‘raspberry pi -Wikipedia’

So, we hope this simple trick will help you in organizing your search results better.