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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.

Some of the simple Google search tips to note

September 11, 2020 by Satyapriya

Google, the most popular search engine giant has in it some simple tricks that everyone must know. Google Search has some amazing and cool things that everyone must try and so here in this piece of article I am putting together all of those Google search tips in this article, so you can make use of them and make your Google experience smarter.

Type “weather” followed by your Pincode which will bring you the current weather in that particular place that you have to enter the Pincode of
You can even type “movies” followed by the Pincode to get the results of the various shows and timings in that area.
You can easily find the definition of a word that you are searching for by simple typing “define” followed by the word you want the definition for.
Enter the airline and flight number to track the current position of the flight and to know its arrival time.
You can even type the tracking number of packages like FedEx, Ecom, etc to get the tracking link of the product.
See the webpages or websites that are linked to a particular website by typing “link:” followed by your URL.
To get only the PDF files in the results for the word that you have searched, just type the word followed by the keyword filetype:pdf. This is a better way to get the online manuals of various products.
You can actually use Google search as a calculator, just type an equation and pressing enter will give you the result.

These simple tricks are very much helpful for daily usage and I hope you make use of these search tips and be a Google power user.

How to block someone in Gmail

September 8, 2020 by Satyapriya

We are very much connected with the technology and as it helps us to connect with our personal and professional contacts every day, we make use of it a lot. We all may be thinking that the media services have the best features that can protect our privacy from the others, yes, it is true, but the mail services don’t lack behind. Especially the search engine giant’s most popular email service Gmail is no less in providing its users with the most useful features.

If you feel someone is constantly irritating you with emails or if you feel to stop someone from sending you emails and remove from your circles, then it can be possible. Very fewer people know about this, but it is possible. There are simple three steps for blocking someone on Gmail.

First of all, login I to your Gmail account using your login credentials.
Now open the mail from the particular person whom you want to block
You can see a drop down arrow button next to the reply icon to the right most of the sender’s name, just click on it
Now from the drop down menu, click Block followed by username option
Then you will see a confirmation window popping, just click block to confirm

That is it you are done with the process, now you won’t find those annoying emails in your inbox.