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How to enable Gmail preview pane using simple steps

September 21, 2020 by Satyapriya

Gmail, the mailing service from Google is the most used mailing service without any doubt. Large amounts of people use Gmail for their primary source of communication. But many people might not be aware of the various features that the Gmail offers. Don’t worry I will let you know the various useful features that the service offers its users. But as of now in this article, I am going to show you the process of enabling the Gmail preview pane feature.

This feature helps to have an email preview on the same screen that you are along with the other emails on one side. This gives the users ease of access to the various emails in the Inbox and makes easy to switch between the emails.

Steps for enabling the Gmail preview pane feature:

At first, you must be logged into your Gmail account
You will see a gear icon on the top right corner of your screen, click on it and then click on settings
Then you will be directed to another screen with various options, now choose labs tab
Now you will see search for a lab option there, type preview pane in the box and you will find the preview pane result below, just enable it and click on save changes
Google will load the page again after saving the settings
Now you can see an icon just beside the gear icon on the top-right corner of the screen where you can change the orientation of the pane, you can choose either vertical or horizontal.

That is it you are now done with setting up and can now be able to view email preview.

How To Add A Multitasking Sidebar In Your Android Device

September 19, 2020 by Satyapriya

Android is undoubtedly one of the coolest mobile operating systems available. Android provides its users’ apps for everything right from customizations to multitasking. Multitasking is the new normal trend. To make multitasking much more fun and easier, Android has tonnes of apps to try. One among the many is Panels, which gives you a multitasking sidebar on your screen. It gives you access to your favorite applications, shortcuts, contacts, and widgets.

Adding Multitasking Sidebar With Panels

As a first step, you need to have the Panels application downloaded and installed on your android device.
Once you are done with downloading and installing the application, now you should grant certain permissions that the app will prompt.
Then you will be taken to the main interface of the Panels app.
Now, you will find a few options there, just tap on the activate toggle button to turn it on.
If you are done with turning the setting on, just tap on the view option.
Here, you can adjust the icons, text, position, order anything you wish according to your taste.
You can also choose and go to more settings to setup other options like dim background, swipe and hold options etc.
Now, you are done with the setup, it is time for testing.
Just go to the home screen, and swipe the right edge of the screen.
Then you will find a sidebar opened with a list of apps displayed in it.
Swipe it once again to get the full app switcher.

That is it, this is how you can get a customizable multitasking sidebar in your android device with the help of some pretty simple steps.

How to use the beta version of an android application

September 18, 2020 by Satyapriya

You may have heard this word beta one time or the other. Every android application’s update will be first released on its beta version which is being tested by a set of people called beta testers and after testing it for some time, the update will be released to the application after making any required changes. If you also want to use the android beta app then here are the simple steps that you can follow

Open the Google Playstore and search for the application that you want to use the beta
Now go to the bottom of the screen and there you can find an option Become a beta tester, click on the I’m in button available there.
It will show a pop-up screen with a message to join the beta program, click on join
Then you will see the earlier become a beta tester option changed to beta sign up in progress
It will take a few minutes after which you can find the updates if any
Install the updates and test them before anyone can.

But you have to remember as it is a beta version, the application may not be stable and not all the android applications in Google Playstore have beta testing options.

Learn how to extract text from images using OneNote

September 16, 2020 by Satyapriya

Sometimes we may like the text in an image a lot and we may want it to be kept as our status update or we may just want to send it as a message to someone. In such cases, the option we have is just typing the message. No, actually there is another simple and easier option which lets us extract text from images. And that process will be done using a technology called the OCR which means Optical Character Recognition, there are a lot of ways we can do that, but here in this article, I am showing you how to extract text using OneNote.

OneNote is the best OCR tool and it is also among the very lesser known features of the app that users rarely use. And this features is also the one that puts this application ahead of Evernote.

You need to just follow these instructions to extract text from the images.

Open a blank page in the application.
Then click on the insert tab and then on pictures option, select the image file that you wish to convert from image to text.
Right-click on the image and just tap on the copy text from picture option from the drop-down menu.
Paste it wherever you want.

Thus pull out text from images using this simple process.

How to sign-in to multiple Gmail accounts at once

September 12, 2020 by Satyapriya

Many of us may have been using multiple accounts of Gmail. There may be a need to do that as well, a mail for official reasons, and another one for personal use. But with this procedure what becomes difficult is signing in with all the emails we have separately to check the accounts, what if we are able to check all the accounts at once. Sounds great right! Yes, we can actually do that.

You don’t have to log out of one Gmail account to check the inbox of the other account. And the process to sign in with multiple Gmail accounts is pretty simple and explained in this piece of article. Just go through this.

This process actually is very simple and interesting as well as you just have to sign in with anyone of your login credentials of anyone Gmail account and the other ones will automatically be logged in. If you apply Gmail delegation to all your accounts, then you can check all your emails in a single inbox.

To do that just login into any of your Gmail accounts that you wish to include the inbox in the primary mail and go to Settings>Accounts>Grant Access to your account and here you just have to add your primary Gmail Id through which you would like to view the emails regularly. And as a final step, you have to click on the confirmation link sent to your primary mail. The verification process will take up to 30 minutes. Follow the same process to include the other emails ids as well. And you will then be able to access all the emails from you multiple Gmail accounts at a single place and through a single login.