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How To Find And Delete Duplicate Files In Your Android

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One of the many problems that the Android users face is that their devices sometimes will be filled with duplicate files which further makes their devices run really slow. This is something really annoying. Why stay calm when the duplicate files are making your device run slow. The better one can do is removing those files and make their device run smooth. But this thing is not any easy and it is impossible if one needs to go through all the files manually, but there is an application that helps you with this meticulous task. So, just follow the steps below.

Delete Duplicate Files With The App “Duplicate Media Remover”

  • First of all, you need to get the Android app Duplicate Media Remover downloaded and installed on your device
  • Then once the application is installed, just launch the application
  • Then it will ask you to choose the folders. Choose the particular folders that you wish to let the app scan for the duplicate files
  • Now you need to wait for a few seconds until it finishes the scanning
  • After the scan gets finished, it will display you all the scanned files
  • Then you can just click on the show duplicate files option after which you will be listed with the duplicate media files
  • Then you can simply choose and select the files and delete them if you wish

This is such a really simple and cool way using an Android app to get rid of the duplicate media files on your Android. We hope you make use of this application and get rid of the all the duplicated stuff on your device and make it work smooth, quick and fast without the delay that is being caused by the duplicate media files that eat away the storage in your device.

Here Is How You Can View Saved Passwords In Your Android Device

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We might be using save password option quite many times and we use it for saving our various passwords. And it is normal and usual that we forget our passwords and what if we haven’t got them written or saved anywhere, don’t worry if you are stuck in such kind of a situation and for this you will have to have an Android device in which you have that password saved and you can view the saved passwords and make a note of them for logging with the password from somewhere else.

WiFi has become our main source of internet these days and wherever we go we get WiFi, but it cannot be easy to remember all those different passwords and what if we don’t have the passwords noted down somewhere, don’t worry, as today’s article will let you learn how to view the passwords that you saved on your device.

There are different procedures for rooted and unrooted android devices, so keeping in mind the most number of users who might be using unrooted devices, here we are presenting you the process of viewing the WiFi passwords that were saved on your unrooted device.

View Saved Passwords Of WiFi

  • For taking a look at the saved passwords from a rooted device, you will be needing a file manager
  • The file manager that you are using should give you access to the root folders. So choose root explorer or some other application like it
  • Now navigate to data/misc/wifi in the file explorer and look out for a file with the name wpa_supplicant.conf.
  • Then open the file with the inbuilt text or HTML viewer
  • Now here you will get to see the different networks and their respective passwords that you can take a note of for referring in future

You can try the process using other file managers like ES Explorer also, so give it a try.

How To Take DSLR Like Lens Blur Photos With Android Camera

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Who doesn’t wish to add the DSLR kind of touch to the photos clicked with the smartphone camera and you don’t have to bother a lot to do this and there are a few applications on the Android play store that makes the process a pretty simple and easy one. So, here is how you can capture the DSLR like lens blur photos on your Android camera.

Using Google Camera

Google Camera application is now available all the Android devices, so get it downloaded and installed on your device from here.

Once done with the installation, just launch the application and as it asks for permission, just grant it and click on next to continue.

Now swipe left to find some options and you will find the lens blur option there. Tap on it and it will give you a tutorial which gives you the basic understanding of capturing the lens blur photos using your Android phone’s camera.

After you are done with the tutorial, you can just click on the next option and then you will be directed to the Camera. Position the camera towards the object and slowly raise your device keeping your object in the centre.

This act will create a blurred background and you can refocus if you wish.

Using AutoFocus

Get the AutoFocus application downloaded and installed on your device from the Google play store.

Then launch the application and select your default camera. This application allows you to convert already created photos into lens blur or you can also click new lens blur pictures with this application with the help of the smart focus option.

You just need to draw over the area that you would like to keep the focus on. Then you need to choose the soft focus option and select the area that you wish to apply the soft blur.

Now select the hard blur option and select the area to which you wish to add this hard blur effect.

Then click on next and select your blur effect and save the image and you are done.

Using these simple applications you can create DSLR kind of lens blur photos with the smartphone camera. So, just give them a try.

How To Share Or Bookmark A Specific Part Of A YouTube Video

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YouTube has a huge collection of some very interesting and useful videos, and sometimes we may find some videos interesting and wish to share them with our near and dear ones. There are a lot of tools for saving, sharing videos from the most popular video sharing website. But what if we liked only a certain part of the video and the rest is just doesn’t worth sharing it, we cannot waste our time just to download it, cut or trim it using a video editor and then share it, it takes a lot of our time. But don’t worry, there is another simple process using which we can simply share and bookmark the specific part of the video.

Learn How To Share A Specific Part Of A YouTube Video

• You should enable a Chrome extension called YouTube Bookmarker and it enables you to just create multiple bookmarks in a single video
• Just go to Chrome web store and search for it
• Download it and enable it
• Now when you open the video in the website you will see a bookmark option below the video, just click on it and you will see a window open to the right of the video, just set the timings there and give it a name and click on save and if you want to share a specific part of the video, then follow these steps
• First, you need to copy the string of numbers and letters you find after ‘watch?v=’ in the URL of the video you would like to share
Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-UMX5sVDKQ, just copy the highlighted part
• Now you need to incorporate that thing in this new embed URL
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_-UMX5sVDKQ%3Fstart%3D60%26end%3D70

• Every sharing URL consists this common part https://www.youtube.com/embed/
• After that comes the copied part of the video you would like to share
• Then comes a ‘?’ followed by ‘start=specific time&end-specific time’

After you are done with creating the URL just share it with the ones you want, you may find this process a little critical, but you can give it a try if you think the certain part of the video is worth sharing. You will get used to it with time.

Learn The Process Of Transcribing Audio Files To Text

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Don’t think that this work of transcribing is useful for journalists, and authors only, even normal people and students may need this tool for making their daily tasks simple and hassle-free. Like students can get their teacher’s lecture converted into an audio file. You can get the lyrics of the song from the audio file to a text file.

Transcribing Audio Files To Text

So, here we are going to let you know the simple and pretty easy process of transcribing. So, here we go

  • While there are many tools that help us in the process available in the online market, oTranscribe is one of the really helpful and simple to use web tools that you can make use of for this purpose and make your task simple
  • So, basically, first, you need to head towards the home page of the free and open source app oTranscribe
  • And in the home page of the application, you will find an option Start Transcribing in blue color, just click on it
  • Then click on the Choose audio or video file option to upload the file that you wish to use in this transcribing process and convert into a text file
  • And the nice thing is the web app even supports transcription of YouTube videos
  • Then you will find the file displayed as a play head with rewind, play, and forward options. They even have keyboard shortcuts
  • And below that, you will find the word processor box that lets you enter the text and you will also be allowed to do text formattings
  • You can type as you adjust the speed of the player according to your choice

Transcribe when you need using this wonderful web tool and make your life better with this easy and simple process. It is now time to bookmark this awesome open source web tool.