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Unlock Your Phone With A Simple Ok Google Command

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Unlocking your android device can be done in various ways. Like I have mentioned in my earlier articles, you can easily unlock your device without having to enter any PIN, password or pattern as they will be irritating at times. I have described to you the process of unlocking a phone using the face detection feature in my earlier article. If you haven’t checked it yet Click here. I used it for a long time. I want to try new every time and the unlocking process has a lot of options that we can try. So, today let us go through the simple process of unlocking an android device with a simple Ok Google voice command.

Unlocking Your Device Using Ok Google

  • Go to settings in your android device
  • Then click on security
  • As this is one of the smart unlock features we are going to use, first your device must be locked using any of the other secured locking features like a pattern, pin, or password.
  • Then you will see an option smart lock, click on it
  • Now confirm the password that you have set
  • It will take you to a screen which says about the smart lock, just read it and click on understood
  • Then click on Trusted voice
  • Here turn on ‘From any screen’ and ‘Trusted voice’ options using the toggle button
  • It will take you to another screen, click on Get started
  • In the next page, just say Ok Google command three times after which it detects your voice and directs to the next page with some information, click Yes I’m in
  • Confirm your password for the last time
  • Finally, click on finish

Use this simple set up process and unlock your device using the Ok Google voice command within no time and without any kind of hassles.

Create A Self Destructive Email Address To Avoid Spam

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The internet is full of information and it is up to us how we utilize it. Many websites online require the users to sign up before accessing the information they need. Many times we may be facing the issue where we will want to try a product or a service and the website asks for sign up before everything. After you are done with the sign-up procedure, the concerned website or service sends you the confirmation link just to confirm your mail id. You just have to click on the link to activate your account. Complete your sign up the process for accessing information. Self destructive email is the perfect solution for you if you are also one among those people who don’t wish to reveal your email id everywhere you go.

We may feel hesitated at times for providing with our email addresses and details on every website. In such cases, the need for self destructive email ids arise. These are the mail ids that can be created which will be destructed after a certain time. There are many services online that provide the self destructive email services. 10-minute mail is a very easy to use and efficient service that you can use.

Creating Self Destructive Email Id

  • Just click 10-minute mail
  • You will be headed to the website where you can find a mail id created for you. The countdown for the lifetime of the mail id starts
  • You can just copy the mail id and paste wherever you want for signing up on a website
  • And you can even find the confirmation mail there on the website and you can just confirm by clicking the link

That is it and your email address will be deleted within 10 minutes. This comes really handy at times, so make use of it and stay spam free.

How To Instantly Translate Text In Android Phones

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In this new era of Android phones, we all may be well very much aware of the Google translate application which is an application from the search engine giant Google to translate text from one language to the other making it easy to communicate in various languages. We all know how to translate text using the Google translate application; we just copy the text that we would like to translate and then paste it in the app which lets us translate to the required language.

How To Translate Text Instantly

This process is very well known and used by everyone. I guess. But it will be quiet difficult to communicate or chat with persons in other languages using this process. Google Translate has come up with a solution to this. It has introduced an update to the app which allows the users to translate text without having to exit the app that they are currently using.

With this recent update, the app is now available as a chat head once you copy something to your clipboard and you can click on that chat head and then paste there to translate the text and copy it again to paste it in the chat box where you are texting. All this can be done without leaving the app that you are currently using.

First of all, you have to make sure that your app is updated with the latest version, and then open the app and go to Settings>Tap to Translate>Enable Tap to translate, This should be on. That is it you are done with setting up.

Now every time you feel like translating text in your Android device, you don’t actually have to head out of the app or program that you are currently using as this simple setup and process will make the translation easy for you.

How To Download YouTube Videos Without Any Extensions Or Tools

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YouTube needs no introduction among the internet users. It is the most popular website for video content. Downloading the audio and video files from the website is the most common chore for the netizens these days. But what many people usually do is they use various other extensions and tools for downloading content from the internet, but here in this article today I am going to show you the simple process of downloading audio and video files, YouTube videos from the internet without the use of any other third party extensions, tools or any other software. So here we go….

Requirements:

  • You should be having a web browser with the network developer tool like Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox
  • Internet connection

Downloading audio from YouTube videos:

http://www.theyoump3.com/

The above is the link to the website that can be used to download the MP3 of the video file that you want.

All you have to do is pretty simple, just go to the video page in the YouTube that you would like to download.

Copy the URL of the web page and then just paste it in the box that will available in the website link above.

It will then convert the video instantly showing you the download link. Click on the download link to save it on your PC.

Downloading video from YouTube:

http://en.savefrom.net/

This is the link for downloading videos from YouTube.

All you have to do is just copy the URL link of the webpage of the YouTube video and then paste it into the search box in the above link.

Then you can select the format of the video in which you would like to download it.

Click on the download button to finally download it to your PC.

Using these simple websites, you can download YouTube videos without the hassles of any softwares or any other tools.

Some More Interesting And Cool Command Prompt Tricks

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With the increased softwares and all, command prompt may have lost its admirers, but there some of the cool and interesting tricks that everyone can try. Some of us may have an idea of some of the popular DOS commands, but what about the very little known tricks and interesting command prompt tricks that one needs to know, here I am going tell you some. Come let us take a look.

Interesting Command Prompt Tricks

  • Changing the directory using the cd command in the CMD window might have been just boring and may take time also. There is another easy way to change the directory actually you can directly open the command window in that particular directory you want.
  • Just go into the particular file or folder you want to open in the command prompt using the windows file explorer. Now just type cmd in the address bar of the window and press enter, That is it the command prompt will be opened with the particular file/folder as its path.
  • Pressing tab autocompletes the commands that you would like to enter.
  • Arrow keys will help you to navigate through the various commands that you have entered recently in the current session.
  • F7 key brings you the list of DOS commands that you have used in that session.
  • Copying the contents or output of the DOS commands in the command prompt window is not actually the way we are doing, Right clicking and copying may work, but there is another way to do that.
  • Enter the command to which output you would like to copy followed by the text “ | clip” and press enter. You will not see anything happen but the contents are copied to the clipboard and you can paste them wherever you want.

These are thus some of the interesting command prompt tricks that one can use while they use the CMD prompt to make it interesting. So, I hope you like them and these might be useful to you.