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How to get pie style navigation buttons on your Android device

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Aren’t you bored of the same old styled navigation buttons on your smart screen? Would you like to try something new and different? How about having a pie style navigation button, looks great right. Just give it a try, here are the few ways using which you can get those on your phone or device’s screen.

Pie control:

It is an application available to download for free in the Google Playstore. Just download and install it by approving the permissions it would ask for. Now open the application and then set up the buttons. You can add many buttons and control their respective actions. You can place the navigation bar wherever you like it to be on the screen either on the side or on the corner and you can select a number of apps, files, documents and place them on the bar for easy access within seconds as there are layers available. After settings up you can just simply navigate with the help of the pie style buttons on your screen.

Handy soft keys:

This is another alternative for having the pie styled navigation buttons on your device’s screen. It is available to download for free in the Android playstore. This application provides the handy soft keys which help in simulating the navigation buttons. It has an easy to use user interface and will not ask for many permissions. It automatically starts on the device boot up and will run in the background. This app has a trigger spot which shows up pie controls when pressed.

These simple steps using the application from the play store, you can easily change the look of your mobile device and thus give it a look that you may want. Make the navigation keys appear in a pie style in your device.

How To Fix The Gmail Annoyances That You Hate

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Gmail is undoubtedly the most popular email service in the world. However, it is quite common for an app with about a billion monthly active users to have a few glitches. But whatever the glitches might be, they will be quite annoying for the users as they will hit them bad enough and decrease their productivity. So now, here in this article, let us look at some of the worst Gmail annoyances that we face with Gmail and also proper solutions to them.

Dealing With Gmail Annoyances

Sorting emails:

If you happen to open your mail inbox after a long vacation or something like that, then who doesn’t wish to see a sorted inbox rather than looking at the inbox with a huge number of unread emails which may include spam, junk mails as well. If you wish to have a properly sorted mail inbox, then you can actually work around with this trick.

  • You can simply type from:[sender’s name] in your mail search box to find emails from a particular person.
  • You can also use another search using size:[size in bytes] and add M at the end of the number to find emails above that particular size you have searched

So, these simple search tricks make sorting mails simple in Google mail.

Email signature:

Google has actually hidden the shiny signature templates and restricted the world from using them. Google has hidden them under the three dots at the bottom of your email window.

You click on the gear icon on your email window and then click settings, then head to the general and scroll down to the signature section of the page, there you will find an option “insert this signature before the quoted text in replies and remove the “-” line that precedes it”, just check that box. You can find this option below the email signature window.

Best Clipboard Manager Apps For Windows That You Must Check

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We don’t actually acknowledge the power of the clipboard, but we use it quite often. We have been very much used to it that we don’t actually realize we are using it. However, the default clipboard manager in Windows doesn’t have many features, so here are some of the best clipboard applications that have some wonderful features and allow you to excel in copy and paste.

Best Clipboard Manager Apps

ClipClip:  

It is the best clipboard manager application for Windows. Whatever you may copy whether a text, image or a web link, this will have them stored in the form of clips. You can view the saved clips by clicking the icon in the system tray. You can organize your clips in folders. Just dragging and dropping the links from the ClipClip window will paste the link wherever you want.

Ditto: 

This is one of the oldest and the best clipboard managers for Windows. You can find this one as well in the system tray like the ClipClip. The aesthetics and interface of the application look quite old and will take you some time to understand the app. It is a really powerful clipboard application, but the users need to try hard to understand it’s usage.

1Clipboard:  

This app has the best interface and looks very good. You can find this app also on your system tray after you install it on your PC/Laptop. Using start you can mark important on links that you feel are important. Drag and drop to paste is not available in this application.

CopySpace:

This is a pretty much different application from the other ones. It has a different design. IT opens a window and will not be available from the system tray. This is available in the Windows Store. But its functionality is yet to improve and it has some bugs also.

Don’t just copy and paste in an old regular routine way, use these applications and enjoy these features.

How To Save Whatsapp Status Without Taking Screenshot

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WhatsApp status feature even though it faced a quite a lot of difficulties from the people in the beginning, it is now becoming popular among the people as they started liking it and everyone is choosing to update their status on WhatsApp over updating their FB status as it more secure and private. So if you have found something interesting and would like to have it saved on your device, you can’t do it, unfortunately, WhatsApp doesn’t have any such feature available as of now. But you can get it done with the help of a simple application available in the Google play store and the other process even allows you to do it from your file manager.

Saving WhatsApp status

Method 1

  • First, to start with the process, you must be having Status saver for WhatsApp Android application installed on your device, you can get this application for free from the Google’s Android play store
  • Then you need to open WhatsApp and load the image or video that you wish to save
  • Then open the Status saver for WhatsApp application and you will find two options on the open screen images and videos, tap according to your choice
  • And it will show you the status that you have just seen and you will get the download option on your screen, click on it to get it downloaded

Method 2

  • You must be having a file manager of your choice for saving the status using this method
  • Navigate to WhatsApp/Media, then tap on the three dot icon on the top right corner of the file manager screen and then tap on ‘folder options’ option
  • Then on the next pop-up window, just check the checkbox show hidden files
  • Then you will find a folder with the name .statuses
  • Tap on it to open it and find the status that you wish to save
  • Copy and paste the WhatsApp status that you wish to save to the some other location

Hope these simple and easy steps may help you preserve some memories.

Learn How To Know The Email Status Of A Mail That You Sent

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It is the century of emails and messages and a lot of conversations are taking place over emails these days. Have you ever thought about the feature of knowing the status of our messages that we send, it is the most useful and convenient feature available these days. WhatsApp, the most popular messaging application has this feature. Think of this feature in email services, it is the most required thing, right? Yes, you can track the email status of the mail that you have sent. The process of tracking the status of the sent mail is pretty simple.

Checking Email Status:

For knowing the email status whether it is opened and read by the user, here is a simple trick. If the mail you sent includes one or more hyperlinks then use this simple process for tracking that mail.

  • Then copy and paste the shortened URL in the mail that you would like to send
  • Now if the user on the other end opens the mail and click on the link then it will be captured which you can view
  • To view that just add a + sign at the end of the URL for example if your URL is https://goo.gl/61SzOY, then top know whether it is read or not, just go to https://goo.gl/61SzOY+
  • There you can see the number of clicks and you can even know the time at which the person clicked the link.
But what if your mail doesn’t have any kind of URLs and still you need this features, don’t worry there is another way if you are a Gmail user.
  • This works only for the Gmail users
  • When you are sending a mail through Gmail, then just check the request read receipt option while composing the mail.
  • You can find this option on the down right corner of your compose window under the more options icon.
  • You are done with your setup.

Note: As it is related to the privacy of the user, the other user on that end should allow their settings in a way that you can know that they read the mail.

  • If they agree to send the read receipt, then the sender’s message box is updated with the date and time that the user read the mail.

Using this simple process you can track the status of your sent mail.