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Learn How To Create A Shared Photo Album On Android

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The first thing you need to do for this is downloading the Google photos android application. Most of the devices these days have this app inbuilt if you don’t just download it from the Google’s Play store. A shared photo album is an album that you can create with your photos on your device and share it with your contacts using their names, email addresses, or phone numbers.

Creating A Shared Photo Album In Google Photos

You have to open the Google Photos application and then go to the albums tab, then tap on the shared, now tap on the plus icon and you have to select at least one photo to create an album. Select as many photos as you can and then click on next, then you will have to give your album a name. And after that, you can click on the share and invite your contacts to share the album with them.

You can share this album with the Gmail users and non-Gmail users as well, but the non-Gmail users have to create an account using a non-Gmail account.

You can add more photos by going to photos and then click on the add photo album, you can also more users by tapping the share button and then entering their contact information.

You can even remove a contact from viewing the shared photo album if you don’t want to share it with them. You can do this by going to the album and then click on the three-dot icon and then tap on the sharing options. Then you will find the list of people where you can block them by clicking on the three dot icon and then selecting the block person option.

And if you want to stop sharing that album with everyone, you can just toggle off the share option available at the top of the screen.

Thus by using these simple steps, you can share your album from Google photos on your android device.

How To Download Hike Messenger On Your Windows PC

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The hike is one of the very popular chat messaging applications on your Windows PC. We all know and especially the young people these days are using the hike messenger a lot. Even though we use the application through our smartphones and other Android devices, we feel like using it on our Windows PCs and laptops. Here is how you can get the application downloaded and installed on your Windows device.

Getting Hike Messenger Installed On Your Device

Getting Hike messenger installed on your PC allows you to keep the chat going all the time.

You need to open the Chrome browser and then you need to ARC Welder application installed on your device. It is available in the form of Chrome extension in the Chrome web store. So get it downloaded and installed on your device.

Once the application is installed, just launch the application. It is available is in the chrome extensions icon area.

Then to move forward you will need the apk file of the hike messenger application. Add it to the ARC Welder application by clicking on the plus icon inside the application. Then after adding it to the application and setting up some app aspect settings, finally click on run for the test.

This action will open the hike application on your Windows run desktop PCs or laptops.

So, try these simple steps and get the application downloaded and installed on your device.

Hike has been around in the Indian messaging app space since the early days of the smartphone revolution. After adding a host of features to its sticker-centric messaging app it then turned to turn itself into a ‘super app‘ built for more than just chatting. In a recent move.

  • Redesigned Hike Sticker Chat app has been released on Google Play Store and Apple App Store
  • App uses machine learning and AI to intuitively suggest relevant stickers
  • Hike founder Kavin Mittal said that Hike Sticker Chat is getting 50K downloads per day in beta phase

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.

An Android Messaging App That Makes Messaging From Your PC Easy

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While we are working on our computers, laptops, it becomes quite difficult to keep an on our phones, in fact, it cannot be possible to do that with two hands on the keyboard. It’s quite a tough thing to pick up the phone and then go through the various messages, emails that we get. The work gets disturbed. But don’t worry there is an android messaging app that will help to view, respond to the messages from various applications.  And that is the Pushbullet application which will be available for free on Google Playstore. Using this you can message from PC, without having to touch your mobile phone.

Steps to send text messages from your PC Using Pushbullet Messaging App

All you have to do is just install the Pushbullet app from the Playstore on your android phone, tablet or anything. Pick the one Gmail account that you would prefer to use.

Now on your system’s Chrome browser go to Pushbullet.com and log in there with the same Google account that you used for signing in the messaging app on your mobile phone.

You can set up Pushbullet with the same account on as many Android devices as you need, but it is a must to note that you need to select the particular device while you push/send something from your PC/laptop.

After the setup is done, you can easily send texts, addresses, lists, links and files between to android device and PC. Just pick which device you to send and then select the particular file, text, document, folder, link etc.

You can even send files to your friends’ Android devices, using the email addresses of your friends that they have used to sign up this app.

This messaging app thus not only allows you to message from PC but also makes transfer between the devices very easy and quick.

Find The Messages With Attachments in Your Gmail Quickly

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Gmail has become a part of work lives that we just cannot begin or end our day without opening Gmail. It has been quite a popular service among the many email services available. If you are also the one who uses Gmail a lot and struggles in managing your stuff within the mail. Finding the attachments from the emails that we have received long back can be a really tough task as we need to surf through the inbox. Check them all to get found one mail that has the attachment that we are searching for. So worry not here we present you the simple steps to get this thing done.

Finding Mails With Attachments In Gmail

Gmail is built with powerful search features that itself allows you to get what you need found easily. And the thing is that you don’t actually have to remember the sender name, file name or the date on which you received that mail for doing this search.

You can use the keywords ‘has.attachement’ in the search of the Gmail window to get all the emails with the attachments listed below. If you are sure that you are searching for a particular file format, then you can also try searching ‘has.attachment doc’ and this bring you the list of the documents attached emails.

You can stay carefree until your storage in the Gmail inbox reaches 15GB. So, stay carefree and store countless amounts of data that you may need in the future. Get rid of all the stuff that you don’t actually want ever and this can actually help you in getting your stuff found really easy. And for finding really big file attachments, there are also some tools that you can make use of. But to find the regular attachments with small stuff and small-sized files, these tips can work for you.