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How To Use Reverse Lookup To Find An Email Sender’s Identity

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Many of us might be receiving emails from the senders’ that we might not be aware of. In that case, before responding to their email or doing any further action we would like to know the details of the email sender and because of the lack of awareness, we withdraw the step. We all know how to look up information of an unknown number as we are very much acquainted with Truecaller. But what if we wish to know the information of mail sender but stuck as we don’t know the process. Here are a few ways you can try reverse lookup.

Facebook

Facebook, the social network giant is the best place to find information about the people. The search box available on the Facebook page allows the users to search for the user using their email id. So you can try searching for the email id that you received the email from. It will show the Facebook account of the person linked to that particular mail id and if you find that account, then you will be lucky enough to get all the information you need. And the thing to note is that as per Facebook privacy settings, people can even opt not to get found with email search.

Email Clients    

Email clients like Mailbird allow the users to extract information of the email sender using these applications. And even it is also very easy to perform the search operations through these applications and you can get the required information easily.

Browser Extensions

You can even do the reverse lookup for the contact information of the email sender using Chrome extensions. Rapportive is one such an extension that you can look up for. Users can get information of email addresses for various email domains.

Reverse Email Search Engines

There are also some email search engines which let you search contact information of the sender and you can get information from them. EmailSherlock, Pipl, Social Catfish, Spokeo are some of the email search engines that allow you to get the required information.

Thus email sender’s information can be known in various different ways.

YouTube Picture In Picture Mode In Any Android Device

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Android Oreo has brought the users the most awaited features of all time the YouTube’s picture in picture mode feature, but those who have got devices that run on Android Oreo or highly only will be able to enjoy this feature and what happens to the maximum number of people who haven’t had Oreo run devices, don’t worry you can still enjoy this feature by getting this feature on your device regardless of the platform that your device is running on.

There are a bunch of applications available in the Google play store that offer the users with this feature and we present you with some of the best applications that you can try your hands on. So, here we go

Android Apps To Try For Getting Picture In Picture Mode

Float Tube Video Player

This can be your perfect choice for getting this wonderful feature on your device. You can get this application downloaded and installed on your device for free like you do any other application and it is even pretty easy to use it and all you need to do is just play the video on YouTube, then click on the share option right below the video, click it, and then select the Float Tube Video Player Option and it will open a floating window with the video that you have shared. It is that easy, so do try it.

Floating Apps (Multitasking)

You can get this application for free from the Android play store, so get it downloaded and installed on your device and you need to grant it a few permissions that it will ask you when you first open the application. This will place an icon on the notification bar which you can further customize. Tap on it and then select YouTube which will open a floating window of YouTube, now browse and play your desired video.

Telegram Bot

If you use Telegram text messaging and chatting application, then you must know that there are apps for various services in that application and the popular video sharing platform even has a bot there. The bot allows you to browse and play videos without actually leaving the chat application and you can even play the videos in the picture in picture mode in that app. Tap on the button on the top right corner of the pip window to return back to the app.

So, we hope from these many ways, you may find one to enjoy this feature.

How To Lock Your Android Device With Just Double Tap

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We might be doing the process of locking and unlocking some hundreds of times a day and that may damage our phone keys. But to secure your device and make your keys safe, you need to make use of other locking procedures where you don’t have to use the phone keys. Any other locking features like face unlock, pattern unlock first needs you to press your phone key but here is how you can set up the unlock process on your phone with a double tap. Check the process here.

  • To begin the process you must be needing an application that will enable the double tap to unlock on your android device
  • And for enabling this unlocking feature, you need to download and install the Easy Lock android application on your device and it is available for free in the Google playstore, so get it downloaded and installed on your device
  • And once to make it work properly, you need to restart your android device after the application got installed on your device, so restart your device
  • And now the open the application and allow the app certain permissions to run properly by giving it the required permissions from inside the application
  • Then you can just simple double tap anywhere on the screen to lock it
  • Every time you double tap with your fingers on your screen the Easy Lock application will get activated and will lock your device instantly and easily.

So, go for it if you don’t have this double tap to lock and unlock your device feature in your device, some phone manufacturers offer this feature by default and if you are not lucky enough to get that inbuilt feature, don’t worry this application is there for you. This process of locking and unlocking is not only good for your phone keys but also good for your fingers as they don’t need to work hard, so try this for sure.

Send Anonymous SMS To Annoy Someone You Know

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Sometimes we may want to send anonymous messages to someone we knew either to annoy them or play a prank with them. You can’t get a new SIM every time you get this thought or occasion to play a prank or annoy. When we think about sending an SMS without your identity being revealed, you can send anonymous SMS by relying on a few websites. So, here we list them down for you.

You can use these websites to send anonymous messages to any mobile number.

Websites To Send Anonymous SMS

SeaSMS

If you are looking for a website that allows you to send messages to any number, then you must give this website a try. The best thing about this website is that it allows you send free SMS or MMS to any number worldwide without registration. The process is also pretty simple, just head to the website, enter the number to which you wish to send the message, then type the message and then finally click on send.

TextForFree

If your target is some US number, then this is the right choice. Infact this website doesn’t allow you to send messages to Indian numbers. This service is exclusive for United States numbers and it is completely free. The only negative thing about this website is that it has a character limit for text messages and you cannot send more than 140 characters in a message.

TxtDrop

This is yet another best free anonymous text messaging website in the list. This website isn’t filled up with unnecessary ads and all like the other ones. It has a pretty simple user interface and is very much organized. The important thing is that you can only use this website to send messages to any mobile numbers in Canada and United States.

Armsms

Unlike the above mentioned two websites, this website doesn’t just focus on the US. Infact this website also allows you to send free sms to any number across the world just like the first one in this list. The texting service is highly popular and it is one of the best services to send anonymous sms.

These are some of the services that allows you to send anonymous sms to play or prank with someone you know.

Steps For Adding Third-Party Apps As Shortcuts To Google Assistant

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Google assistant is a highly powerful tool and it does a lot of things. Google has started tightening the screw and introducing deeply tied in-app actions to Google assistant. If you want to browse and add third party app shortcuts to Google assistant, then follow the below steps.

Adding Shortcuts To Google Assistant

  • As a first step, you need to open the Google app, then click on more menu on the bottom bar. From here you need to navigate to Settings>Google Assistant.
  • Here click on the services tab and open shortcuts.
  • Here on the next screen, it will show you all the third-party application shortcuts that Google Assistant supports. Now tap on ‘+’ to add your favourite shortcuts and then it will show you a confirmation on Google assistant.
  • Here, it will show all the third-party app shortcuts under the tab ‘Your Shortcuts’.
  • For example, you can Twitter Messages as a shortcut keyword for getting the Messages from Twitter.
  • Now you are done with the setup, you can go ahead and say “ Hey Google, Twitter Messages ”, and it will bring you the messages from your Twitter.
  • The best thing is you don’t actually have to say the exact phrase, but you can say something closer to the original command and Google assistant will process it.

That is how you can set up a command or add shortcuts to Google assistant.