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Learn How To Get Google Web Fonts On Your PC

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Google fonts is an extremely beautiful and awesome collection of web fonts that can be used in your HTML web pages without any kind of restrictions. As the fonts are specially designed for web pages, these fonts may look more attractive than the regular fonts like Arial, Times New Roman. They will also be in the comfortably readable format. All the Google Web fonts are made available under open font license since they can be used anywhere without the fear of any license issues. You can even use Google web fonts on your PC.

Not only in the web pages, you can even make use of these beautiful and easily legible fonts on your PC. You can use them on your office documents, notepad articles, or any other such programs on your computer.

The process is also pretty simple as it is a legal thing and you don’t have to use any tricks here. You simply just download and install the fonts on your computer. Here is how you can get them on your computer

Get Google Web Fonts With Google Fonts Director

  • Open the Google Fonts Director
  • Pick your favorite fonts from there and add them to your collection
  • You can see a minimized window with families selected written on it. Just click on it and you will see a download icon there and tap on it
  • You will get fonts in the .ttf format in a zipped file downloaded on your PC
  • Now finally just unzip the file and then install the fonts individually by double-clicking them. Then click on the install option

This is the simple step by step procedure that needs to be followed for getting the Google fonts on your Windows PC. We hope and wish you to follow this process and get it done easily.

Boost Your Typing Speed Using These Simple Typing Tools

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We all may not be typing specialists, but speed typing definitely helps us improve our speed and complete the task quickly. The pauses that are created for the hunt of a symbol on the keyboard will be very much interrupting. For coders, programmers, their typing need to be real quick and accurate, even the general users also would like to type speed at a time. The following are the simple typing tools. They will take you through various typing drills and thus help you improve your typing speed.

Typing Tools For Programmers

Typing.io:

It will give you various typing lessons that help you to get accuracy and speed while typing. You can choose among the various lessons that include keys for the popular programming languages. There are about 16 languages available. The typing lessons have a variety of open source codes from your very own code which you can upload and do practice with.

SpeedCoder:

This is one among the many simple tools and it is available for free. It covers about 10 programming languages. There are various lessons available for practice and the flexibility to upload your own code and practice is also available.

Using these simple tools will be very much helpful to coding and programming students for being accurate and fast at the same time. Use these typing tools to improve your typing speed.

If you are just a regular user and is not into coding and programming, then here are the list of tools for you.

GS Typing Tutor:

This is one of the wonderful typing tools for beginners and advanced users as well. It helps you to learn from the scratch. You can start to learn to type with two fingers and then dig into professional typing step by step one after the other. The program has got so many lessons and games for you to speed your typing.

RapidTyping:

This tool helps you in training you with a specific group of letters on the keyboard as it will let you understand the keyboard better. The program will allow you to use custom texts for advanced typing training. It keeps a track of your performance to let you know your improvement day by day.

Do try these typing tools and find your typing speed improved.

How To Check Your Android Battery’s Health For Free

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Saving the battery life of our devices is one such a really important concern for many of the Android users. We are not just talking about the day to day battery saving, but in fact about the improvement of the overall battery performance. We have recently also seen the different useful tips for improving the battery performance. Now, here in this article, let us go through the process of checking the Android battery’s health.

How To Check Your Android Battery’s Health

It is a simple method and all you need is a simple application to be downloaded from the Google play store. It is the app called Accubattery.

Just get this application downloaded and installed on your device. Then it will take you through a brief introduction to what it does. The application even has done some kind of research on the battery percentage. It stated that charging the battery up to 80 % can help the phone battery in performing better. You can set the timer to ring and alert you to stop charging your device after 80%. The app recommends you to set the battery alarm at 80% but you can also set it at whichever percentage you want. Then it will perform a quick calibration and you are all set to go.

Then when you start using your device, it will collect information about your phone battery and display statistics in the application.

The application will also show you information regarding how long the battery will last. It will also have details regarding the average battery performance, battery usage per application etc. Accubattery can thus help you in reviewing the performance and the overall android battery’s health.

We hope you find this process and the app simple to use and useful. Try checking the performance of your phone battery using this simple process.

How to set reminder in Google Now using Chrome browser

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Sometimes our phone might be just out of reach and we have just remembered something that we need to set up reminder on our phone. Then the lazy ones don’t have the mood to get up and reach their phone, don’t worry here is a solution for you. If your phone is away from you and you are working on your laptop or PC and just got to set reminder on your phone. All you need to do this is your laptop/PC and an active internet connection.

Steps to set reminder

First of all, open Chrome browser and then open the Google search. One thing that you should remember here is that you should be logged in through the same gmail account that you used for your android phone. To set reminder, just type on the Google search something like “remind me for my meeting” and it will present you the reminder settings which you can custom set the date and time and then click on remind me on Google Now.

Set reminder

That is it you are done with setting up the reminder and you will be reminded on your phone on whichever device and whatever device that you use the same Google account in.

Set reminder using these simple steps on Chrome browser and you will be remembered of the task.  But your device should be synchronized before once. That is after setting up the reminder, your device in which you need to be reminded of the task needs to be connected to the internet.  

Use Google Now and set reminder and you will get reminder on your various other devices where your same Google account is logged in.

Make use of this reminder feature and let Google remind you of the important tasks on time and let the work be done on time without any delay.

Choosing The Image Format Of Screenshots On Your PC

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Screenshots can be captured with the help of the old print screen key, or with the help of any professional screen capturing tool. The main important thing to be remembered is the image should need to be sharp and the file size should be a reasonable limit. There are three most commonly used image format styles for sharing the captured screen images on the web, and they are PNG, JPEG, and GIF. If you use the windows snipping tool which is the default program for capturing screenshots in windows, you can simply select the format of the image that you save from the drop-down menu.

Taking screenshots on our PCs and laptops have been a very regular and common task that we have been very much used to do in our daily lives without any kind of a second thought. This is one among the many such other tasks that we do subconsciously. Here is how you can select or choose the particular image format for the screenshot that you take.

Choosing Your Screenshots Image Format

Now, here are a few tips for choosing the formats

  • If you capture a web page that is full of text and web page results, then choose GIF or PNG as JPEG adds noise to the image.
  • Choose the JPEG format if you want to save the image with a really low size.
  • Use PNG format if you wish to capture the program window or the window on your PC.
  • Go for JPEG image format if you want to capture a frame from your video game, YouTube video, or a movie from DVD.

In simple words use PNG for saving images with web pages full of text, JPEG for photographs and places with small file size and GIFs for capturing solid images with colors and animation.