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How to get the battery level of the Bluetooth device on your Android Phone

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The world has been taking a shift over wireless technologies. May it be listening to the audio, or connecting to the internet, everyone is going wireless. Have you ever wished to know the battery level of the device connected via Bluetooth to your device right on your device and without having to access that Bluetooth device? It sounds great right!!!! And it works great as well. Here is how you can get that done

  • To start with you have to get the application BatON  from the Android play store which is available to download for free
  • Then connect the Bluetooth device to your Android device, pair it and connect it
  • Now when opening the application you will be able to see the battery level of the Bluetooth device connected and you can also get to see the battery level by just swiping down the notification panel
  • The percentage of the battery refreshes every 3 hours and you can also set it to refresh more frequently
  • Click on the hamburger icon in the application and click on settings, then tap auto measure
  • Then click on the Measure frequency and then select 15 minutes from the list

That is it, you are done, and do try the BatON application.

How to get network activity displayed in the Status bar

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Are you curious about knowing the status of your networking activity on your Android device? Yes, that would be the answer from many people. That curiosity to know the internet speed is quite common among internet users. Many of us know how to know the speed of the internet on our PCs and laptops. Follow these simple steps.

  • This process starts with you from downloading an Android app called Internet Speed Meter  app from the Google play store which is available to download for free
  • The application installs an internet reader in the middle of the status bar, but the app is highly customizable and allows you to change the position, data limit, speed or transfer units, and much more
  • If you wish to make changes, just open the application, head to Settings by clicking on the gear icon, you can see a lot of options that you can customize according to your choice and desire

Internet Speed Meter can thus be a great app and can help you get to know the speed of your internet as it allows you to monitor your network activity right from the status bar.

Applications that help you find serial keys in Windows PCs

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You may know the drill of entering the serial keys and if you have paid for a subscription or purchased an application ever. The internet has evolved a lot these days that it has become very easy to track down any keys that you have paid for or purchased earlier.

If you ever lose the keys to the paid application or program, then you have to find them by yourself. There are plenty of KeyFinder applications available on the internet that can help you in this regard. Let us have a look at a few such applications

Magical Jellybean KeyFinder

It is the standard key recovery tool. Using this application is pretty much simple, you just need to download and run it. Then it will automatically scan your Windows registry and finds product keys for various products like Microsoft Office, Windows, and 300 different programs. Whereas its paid version allows recovery of up to 8000 programs.

Its best feature I the ability to save the keys as a text file. Just select File>Save As.

 LicenseCrawler

It has more features than the earlier tool. It allows the users to save the keys in different formats.

This tool also has network support which allows the users to find serial keys from the other computers on the network.  But this tool isn’t entirely free and you have to watch a text-based ad.

 SterJo KeyFinder

This one is the last tool on our list, but definitely not the least. It scans for keys immediately after launching the tool. It offers the same kind of features as the first tool on this list. It gets regular updates which helps to have a better interface.

So I hope these applications will be helpful and useful to you in case you need to find your Windows keys.

How To Save Whatsapp Status Without Taking Screenshot

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WhatsApp status feature even though it faced a quite a lot of difficulties from the people in the beginning, it is now becoming popular among the people as they started liking it and everyone is choosing to update their status on WhatsApp over updating their FB status as it more secure and private. So if you have found something interesting and would like to have it saved on your device, you can’t do it, unfortunately, WhatsApp doesn’t have any such feature available as of now. But you can get it done with the help of a simple application available in the Google play store and the other process even allows you to do it from your file manager.

Saving WhatsApp status

Method 1

  • First, to start with the process, you must be having Status saver for WhatsApp Android application installed on your device, you can get this application for free from the Google’s Android play store
  • Then you need to open WhatsApp and load the image or video that you wish to save
  • Then open the Status saver for WhatsApp application and you will find two options on the open screen images and videos, tap according to your choice
  • And it will show you the status that you have just seen and you will get the download option on your screen, click on it to get it downloaded

Method 2

  • You must be having a file manager of your choice for saving the status using this method
  • Navigate to WhatsApp/Media, then tap on the three dot icon on the top right corner of the file manager screen and then tap on ‘folder options’ option
  • Then on the next pop-up window, just check the checkbox show hidden files
  • Then you will find a folder with the name .statuses
  • Tap on it to open it and find the status that you wish to save
  • Copy and paste the WhatsApp status that you wish to save to the some other location

Hope these simple and easy steps may help you preserve some memories.

A Simple Bookmark Trick For Instantly Composing A New Mail In Gmail

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Gmail, a popular mailing service from the search engine giant Google has a lot of amazing and interesting features in store for its users. And it is very much known as a fast service. And the users send and receive a number of emails every day. If you are also among those people who compose a lot of emails every day and send them, then you should definitely be needing this shortcut which allows you to cut short the process of opening the Gmail inbox and then clicking on the new button to start composing a new email. But there is a simple bookmark trick for you.

Bookmark Trick

This Google’s mailing service is a cloud-based service and therefore there will be an URL associated with everything. All you need to do is just bookmark that particular URL of that particular task on your toolbar and make your task simpler.

  • A special URL that will lead you to a simple email window and you should be logged into your Google account if you wish to access the clutter free email window using the above URL
  • And if you wish to open that URL with some default parameters, then you can make use of some specific strings
  • And let us now see the strings that you can make use of if you wish to open the new compose window with default parameters

&to=contacts, you can also add multiple contacts in a single string, but you have to separate

&cc=you can add cc recipients with this string if any

&bcc=add bcc recipients using this string if any exist

&su=add subject of your email using this string

&BODY=this string can be used for adding the body of your email

%20 is a special character that you can make use of if you have to leave a space

This quick URL bookmark trick can come to you as handy at times for sending quick emails without any hassles.