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How To Change Country/Region In The Google Playstore

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Using the Google playstore is a pretty simple task and you don’t need too much of knowledge or technical information for making the best use of it. There are plenty of applications available in the Google playstore that users can try and use. But according to the terms and policies of the apps certain apps don’t get installed in your country/region. If you would like to access the playstore of another country then you need to change country/region.

Steps To Change Country/Region

First of all, you need to open the Google playstore on your device.

Then you need to go the left side menu in the application and then tap on the Account option.

Then you will see the option Country and profiles if you have access to the country switching options.

Tap this country category and then select the country in this area.

Then it will show you a warning prompt, you need to review it and accept the change. Once you are done with saving the changes, you will be able to browse the playstore of the particular region.

This option to change country/region will be available to you if you were in another country previously and now in a different country. It recognizes the country based on the IP address.

You can also make use of VPN apps to switch to a different country or a region. But just for trying certain apps, it is not recommended.

Learn How To Listen To YouTube Videos In The Background

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YouTube is an online treasure which has full content in it. It has a number of videos which many feel as a treasure for their entertainment. YouTube is one of the many video sharing applications and it is the most popular app as well. But the android application of the YouTube has a huge drawback.  It doesn’t allow the users to continue listening to the audio of the YouTube videos if they turn off the screen.

Playing YouTube Videos In The Background

Many of us would sometimes wish to listen to just the audio while engaging ourselves in some other work but what have you ever thought of making YouTube videos play the audio alone. It is possible and simple to do as well.

Many people think that rooting the android device is the only solution for it, but there is another very lesser known solution which you can make use of if you don’t wish to root your device.

And for that, you should make use of the Firefox browser app on your device. Even though Google Chrome is the most popularly used browser, Firefox browser also holds some excellent features. And especially it can be the best solution for you if you want to play YouTube videos when your screen is off without having to buy any paid app.

It is just very much simpler to do this, just open the browser and search for the YouTube website, then for the video you would like to hear the audio for, then just switch your device’s screen off and you will see the video playing it’s audio in the background, you can listen to them like a podcast.

This is how you can trick this and listen just the audio of the videos on YouTube, but remember this will cost you the same amount of data it costs for playing videos, so use this only when you have sufficient data.

Change The Way Your Android Device Processes With This App

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Android, the most popular and widely used open source operating system ever has got some really cool and amazing features for its users. In fact, the most attractive thing about this operating system is that it allows the users to customize and better their device in many possible ways by installing applications and all. Today we are here bringing you the Viper4Android, an android app. It, in fact, changes the way your Android device processes and puts out the audio and you will be able to see the change clearly. So here we go, follow these steps to get it on your Android device.

Installing Viper4Android To See A Change In Your Android Processes

One thing that you should know before heading towards the procedure is that you should have a rooted device to go forward. Do this process to get the Viper4Android on your device.

  • You need to have the BusyBox Android app downloaded and installed on your device for this process
  • Then open the BusyBox application. Get the scripts downloaded on your device and also give it access to the root folders of your device
  • Then you should get the apk file of the Viper4Android application from the internet. You can get it easily, just download it and then open it
  • And then on opening the app, it will ask you for a few permissions. Just grant it the required permissions. Then install the required audio drivers for your device as it prompts you to do
  • Then your device will be rebooted and after the reboot is done. Just open the application and you will get to explore the awesome features of the application

And you should be and need to be very much careful while performing these steps on your device. They may harm your device if you have done something by mistake, so please make sure you take special care while following these steps.

Essential Tools That You Might Need To Work Offline

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The Internet has become an integral part of our lives that we just cannot imagine our lives without internet. Have you ever imagined your day without internet? But you have to believe us if we say you can get many of your works done even without internet and there are some of the essential tools that can help you in going on with your work offline.

Tools To Help You To Work Offline

Read It Later Tool

Collection of information will be done from various sources on the internet, but what happens to that when we are offline. Don’t worry there are different ways for you to get information or save information offline. There are many tools that can help you with this task of saving content offline.

Pocket, Instapaper are certain apps that can help you in saving the content offline and get access to those web pages, or articles even without internet. Evernote Web Clipper is also another interesting tool that lets you save content offline. These tools let you bookmark various web pages, articles from various websites to access them at a later time when you have no access to the internet.

Email Client

Handling emails is one of the important things in everyone’s day. You can do this task of checking emails without internet as well using this email client. Gmail Offline is one such a web-based chrome extension that can help you with this task.

Note-Taking Tool

A simple snippet editor or a complex word processor, you will definitely need a text editor or a note taking tool to make things better offline. Evernote, Notepad, OneNote can be great offline tools that can help you with this note-taking task.

Office Suite

Microsoft Office is definitely the most popular office suites available in the market that rocks with its features. You can get your various jobs done with the word processor tool.    

Screen Capture Tool

This is another most required tool to make your tasks simple when you work offline. You will be getting the built-in snippet editor in Windows. If you are not ok with it, you can also go with some other available options like Monosnap, Jing.

We hope getting equipped with these tools will make your more productive even when you are offline.

Learn How To Use Skype Even If You Don’t Have An Account

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Skype, the most popular video calling website from the software giant Microsoft requires an account to use the service.

But recently the popular video calling service has introduced a new feature using which the users can now video call with their friends and family even if they don’t have an account.  This comes as an extension to the feature added by the company in 2015 October where the users are given the choice of adding non-Skype users to their conversations.

Using this feature, you will be considered as a guest. All the guest conversations are done with the unique link which one can share with their friends or family to whom he/she wants to talk over the video calling service. The link lasts for 24 hours and allows a text chat for about 300 people and 35 people over a voice or video call.

Screen and file sharing are the basic account features that can be accessed by guest users.

Getting started with Skype:

This is the webpage that one needs to go through to start up the process of accessing account free               Skype.

  • You will find an option called start the conversation, just click on it.
  • Enter a name for the conversation and it will prepare a screen for the conversation.
  • On the left side of the screen, you will find the copy the link option. After copying, you will send that link through various means like messaging, email, Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp many others to the people whom you would like to chat with over the service.

PC users will be directed to open that link using the Skype app, or they can even choose to join the conversation using the web as a guest. Mobile users can join the conversation using the mobile app.

Get started with Skype without an account.