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How To Hide Files, Photos And Apps On Your Android Device

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Our smartphones contain a lot of our personal information which we don’t need to be publicized. Anyone who has the control of our phone will obviously control all our data and if you are among the ones who don’t wish it to be like that then don’t worry, here I am to explain to you how to hide your various files and stay tension free even if you give your smartphone to someone. There are a variety of options to hide files on your device and let us go through a few of them

Apps To Hide Files On Android

File Hide Expert:

Most of the android devices don’t have the ability to hide files by default, but thanks to these wonderful applications and there are a number of such applications available in the Google Play store. You just need to download the File Hide Expert application from the Play store and open the application, this app works like a basic file management application and you can just add files here by clicking on the folder icon on the top right corner of the app startup screen. Then add as many files as you like and also add files of any type and after you are done with adding files and folders, then head to the previous screen and click on Hide All option which will make them invisible in any other file managers and galleries. You can make them visible again by just clicking the restore all button or you can even bring a particular file or folder visible by just clicking the x icon parallel to the particular file or folder.

KeepSafe:

And the most important thing that you shouldn’t forget to do is enabling password for this app. Just open the app and click on the menu, then click on settings, now check the enable password option and then enter the password.

If you are searching for the most efficient photo hiding app, then this is the right one you are searching for. Along with hiding your photos, it can also help you in saving your sensitive data like passwords and id cards. You can simply download the app from the Playstore and set up is pretty easy.

Just open the application and it will take you through the PIN setup process, set up the PIN, after that you can just click on the add picture option on the bottom right corner of the app screen. You can also add pictures to this by just sharing the pictures you would like to hide and then selecting the KeepSafe option from the share menu.

Hide files without any third party apps:

There is actually a simple trick using which you can easily hide any type of files that you wish to without having to download any third party applications. All you need to do is just add a “.” At the beginning of the file name that you wish to hide, you can edit the file name in your file manager. This simple trick will prevent the files, pictures and audios, videos from showing up in their respective players.

 

 

How To Enable The Floating Bubble Of The Google Dialer

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If you are aware of the new Floating Bubble feature that Google has recently rolled out exclusively for its very own Pixel and Nexus series, you might want it on your device too. But if you are not, don’t mind I will let you know what it is and how to get it on your Android device. The Google Dialer in Pixel and Nexus devices has got a new update called the Floating bubble which basically allows the users to make the different call actions without being on the call screen. A Facebook Messenger kind of a chat head will be seen as soon as the users exit the call screen which can be moved all over the borders of the screen. Users can tap it to find three options which are speaker mode, mute the call, end the call.

Enabling Google Dialer Floating Bubble

Let us now look at the process of getting this feature in our Android devices

Note: Your device needs to be rooted for this process

  • Download and install the Google Phone APK
  • In the next step, you have to set this Google Phone app as your default phone app. You can do that by going to Settings>Apps. Then tap on the gear icon which you can find on the top right corner of your device’s screen. A new app configuration screen will appear, select option Phone App and then tap on the app that you just installed. It will have a navy blue icon
  • Now head to /data/data/com.google.android.dialer/shared_prefs using any root file explorer of your choice and then tap dialer_phenotype_flags.xml to edit
  • Once the file is opened, search for the string G_enable_return_to_call_bubble, change the value set from false to true, save the file and exit
  • Now head back to Settings>Apps>Phone App> then tap on Force Stop
  • Then open the app to reload it in the system memory

That is it, you are done with the process, you can experience the floating bubble feature in the Google Dialer the next time you make a call or receive a call.

Learn How To Disable Protected View In Microsoft Word

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Protected view feature is the most well-secured feature incorporated inside Microsoft Word which helps in preventing from being attacked by any virus, malware that may be retained in the documents. This feature is specially made and designed keeping in mind the security of the device of the users and protecting their devices from virus and malware attacks. The protected view gets activated every time the users download the document. This feature just works fine and alike the normal mode, but if the users wish to enter edit mode, then just a few more clicks are required. This feature works just fine for all the users who bother about their security and safety, but for those people who feel annoyed to go through a few more extra steps for entering the edit mode while their document is in protected mode.

Stop worrying if you are also among the list of those people who don’t wish to go through those extra steps. Here is the simple process using which you can simply disable the protected mode in the Microsoft Word document.

Note: This process of disabling the protected view  in a Word document is explained as per the settings of the latest Word software, so settings may vary if you are using an older version of Word

Disabling Protected View

  • First, you need to open the software MS Word, then choose a blank page and create a new document
  • The new document, just click on the file menu and then on the left side bar, click ‘Options’ option at the bottom
  • Now the Options windows will be opened where you need to click on the Trust Center option from the left side bar of the window
  • Then a new window of the Trust Center will be opened where you need to click on the Protected View option from the left side bar, there you can find a few options regarding the protected mode of the Word
  • Uncheck all the options you see there which are related to the protected mode and then click ok which will disable the feature in the Word document

You can check all the boxes back if you ever wish to get back that feature enabled

How To Create Shortcut Text Phrases In Your Android

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Typing is the most used processes these days as the communication these days is happening over the internet through messages. We all may not be fast at typing but definitely would wish to be fast. And to be fast at typing, first of all, you need to get used to the keyboard, there are a lot of tricks and tips that can help you to gain typing speed and be a pro at it. Today, in this article I am going to show you another simple trick which will help you type really quickly. We may feel bored of typing long text phrases and typing the same thing a lot of times, what if they have some keyboard shortcuts which will help us and save our time. Right!

Creating Text Phrases With Gboard

The Gboard from android has this inbuilt feature which we can make use of to be fast at typing on our Android devices.

  • First, open your settings, then scroll down to language and input, click on it
  • Then go to Gboard
  • Now open the Dictionary option
  • Then go to Personal dictionary, then click on all languages
  • Hereby selecting the plus icon you can just add shortcuts to various text phrases that you regularly and most frequently used by the full phrase in the first box and then entering the shortcut to that word in the box below

That is it, you are thus done with the setting up of the keyboard shortcuts for long phrases, now as soon as you enter the shortcut words to the long text phrases, the keyboard will show up the phrase in the suggestion which you can just select to get it typed and make your work really fast and quick.

Do try these simple steps and create your own text phrases for the words or sentences that you use the most and make life easy.

Some Of The Best Tools For Troubleshooting Network Issues

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Network issues are such a bad thing that they make us feel so annoyed and helpless at the same time. If the internet is available, then you can solve problems and troubleshoot various issues, may it be a minor hardware problem, or software problem or something minor, but what can we do if the problem is with the network itself, we cannot do anything, it becomes almost impossible to think anymore. Just kidding!!

But these days we have become so much dependent on the internet that we search for everything on the internet.

Tools For Troubleshooting Network Issues

Speedtest:

If you haven’t completely lost your network connection, but have been experiencing some ups and downs in the network, then you should try testing your network speed in the Speedtest by Oakla which is very popular for performing network test and checking the speed of the network.

Wireshark:

This is one of the most used network analysis tools.  It shows you each and every bit of traffic to your network, and that’s why you need to filter to see only what you need. You can select a wired or wireless network connection and then the Wireshark will show you a live list of connections of all the network traffic on your machine. Click on a certain packet to view in detail.

NetCrunch Tools:

It is a tool that can take multiple roles for you and helps you in troubleshooting the network. You can register in it with your Facebook, Google or Microsoft account and then you will see a home page with three options before you. It has about twelve useful tools, of course, everyone one of them may not be useful for you, but they are a good package.

Microsoft Message Analyzer:

This is an official tool from Microsoft. It is packed with a ton of options which is quite overwhelming for the users. But if you take some time in understanding it, then you might feel it as a very useful tool for your network.

Make the process of troubleshooting network issues a fun with this kind of tools.