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Essential Tools That You Might Need To Work Offline

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The Internet has become an integral part of our lives that we just cannot imagine our lives without internet. Have you ever imagined your day without internet? But you have to believe us if we say you can get many of your works done even without internet and there are some of the essential tools that can help you in going on with your work offline.

Tools To Help You To Work Offline

Read It Later Tool

Collection of information will be done from various sources on the internet, but what happens to that when we are offline. Don’t worry there are different ways for you to get information or save information offline. There are many tools that can help you with this task of saving content offline.

Pocket, Instapaper are certain apps that can help you in saving the content offline and get access to those web pages, or articles even without internet. Evernote Web Clipper is also another interesting tool that lets you save content offline. These tools let you bookmark various web pages, articles from various websites to access them at a later time when you have no access to the internet.

Email Client

Handling emails is one of the important things in everyone’s day. You can do this task of checking emails without internet as well using this email client. Gmail Offline is one such a web-based chrome extension that can help you with this task.

Note-Taking Tool

A simple snippet editor or a complex word processor, you will definitely need a text editor or a note taking tool to make things better offline. Evernote, Notepad, OneNote can be great offline tools that can help you with this note-taking task.

Office Suite

Microsoft Office is definitely the most popular office suites available in the market that rocks with its features. You can get your various jobs done with the word processor tool.    

Screen Capture Tool

This is another most required tool to make your tasks simple when you work offline. You will be getting the built-in snippet editor in Windows. If you are not ok with it, you can also go with some other available options like Monosnap, Jing.

We hope getting equipped with these tools will make your more productive even when you are offline.

Remotely Troubleshoot A Friend’s Windows PC Without Any Software

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If you ever found out that your friend or your near and dear family members are deeply in need of some technical advice, you make many attempts to help them in resolving their problem and for giving them that technical assistance you must have tried a lot of options like using a third party software, assisting them over the phone call, assisting them over a video call. But have you ever thought there is a very simple and easy way using which you can technically assist your dear family or friends in the process to troubleshoot their device and that too without having to install any kind of software and tools? Yes, you read it right. Check out the process below

Steps To Troubleshoot Windows 10 PC Without Any Software

  • Quick Assist is an application available as an inbuilt feature in Windows 10 This app helps in creating a virtual or network connection between the two devices and both the devices must be running on Windows 10 only
  • You can the Quick Assist app under Windows Accessories in the Start menu. When you find it, just launch it
  • Now in the pop up that appears, just check the option ‘give assistance’and then you will get a unique code displayed on your screen which will expire in a few minutes
  • You need to note that code and send it to your friend or family member on the other side
  • When the person on the other side provide this unique code in his/her app, then the connection between the two devices will be created

This will allow the user on one side to remotely operate the computer of the person on the other side. Thus you can Troubleshoot in Windows 10 using these really simple to follow steps.

Enjoy the fee you will be getting in assisting someone you care for even when you are away from them.

How To Set Up Full Dark Mode In Google Chrome Browser

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Many of the internet users these days prefer using Google Chrome as their primary browser. It is preferred by so many people considering its stable performance and the way it syncs with our Google account. However, there is a disadvantage in using Chrome for long hours especially during night time. The white screen of the Chrome browser will cause extensive damage to the eyes. Now, here is a good news to all the people suffering from the strain to the eyes problem. Google is looking towards bringing back the fully functional dark mode in Google Chrome. Exciting right! If you cannot just wait until Google releases this feature, then you can try using this feature right now. Here are the simple steps involved in enabling the dark mode in Google.

Setting Up Dark Mode In Google Chrome

  • Open the Dark Reader extension in your Google Chrome browser by visiting the apps section of the browser in the app store
  • Add the extension to your Chrome browser. Dark Reader extension isn’t just a theme but an extension which darkens the content of the webpage. To get complete dark mode, you can also try installing just black theme
  • Now you are all set to enjoy the dark mode in Chrome
  • The webpages look completely dark when you are using dark mode
  • If you are bored of dark mode and would like to make an exit, then you should simply click on the dark reader extension and click on ‘Remove from Chrome’
  • Then as the last step, you can simply open chrome://settings and scroll down to Theme and finally click on reset to defaults

This dark mode in Google Chrome is not only easy to set up and use even before Google officially released it, but it is also super comfortable. So, try enabling it with a few simple steps mentioned above.

How To Stop Automatic Chrome Updates in Windows

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Chrome browser gets the automatic updates and updates itself automatically in the background. And if you wish to choose out of that feature, then you can and in fact, Chrome doesn’t allow it and Windows users are fortunate enough that they can get out of the automatic chrome updates and it is pretty easy, just follow these steps.

Stop Automatic Chrome Updates

Using System Configuration

  • As a first step you need to open the run prompt window, you can do this by clicking on the Windows + R key
  • Once the window is opened, type ‘msconfig’ in the box and hit enter
  • Then go to services tab in the system configuration tab
  • Now search for the two items Google Update Service (gupdate), Google Update Service (gupdatem), uncheck both these options and click ok
  • Then it will prompt you to restart your computer for saving the changes, restart your Pc and you are done

Using Windows Service Manager

  • As a first move, you need to open the run window and you can do it either by clicking on the start menu and selecting the command prompt from it or can simply use the keys Windows + R to open the run prompt
  • Once you find the window opened, just type ‘services.msc’ in the box and then hit enter
  • Then scroll down to the Google Update Service (gupdate) and Google Update Service (gupdatem). Double each item separately, and then click on the general tab, and under the startup type, select the disable option from the drop-down menu and click on ok
  • Windows Service manager can also be accessed by opening Windows Control panel, then system and security, and then system administrative tools and finally click on services

These are simple processes to help you to stop updating your Chrome. Use any of these simple processes to stop automatic chrome updates.

Learn How To Enable And Disable Safe Mode On Android Devices

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Safe mode is a well-known word and mode among all those PC users. As many of you may know it is a mode which helps you to get out of trouble from an application or a corrupted driver that is preventing you from doing any other tasks. Many of you may have been familiar with the term in PCs, but very few people know that our Android devices like tablets and mobile phones also have this mode. Yes, they actually do have.

Safe mode can help you to track down the causes of problems you may be having with your smartphone. When you boot your phone in Safe mode, it doesn’t run any third-party apps installed on your device. If your smartphone has been overheating, suffering battery drain, or otherwise not performing properly — yet it doesn’t exhibit these issues while in Safe mode — then you know that an app you installed is the culprit. So, this mode is basically like testing your device for any problems that it might be facing.

Now in this piece of the article let us go through the simple process of enabling and disabling that mode in case your phone runs into any kind of troubles from any applications or programs.

Enabling And Disabling Safe Mode

The Safe mode can be used as a troubleshooting tool, that allows you to work with minimum software and thus helping you to figure out which is the app is causing issues on your Android device.

For Android, troubleshooting follow these simple steps

  • Press the power button on your device until it shows up a menu on your screen.
  • Now long press the Power off button
  • Now it shows the option to reboot the device in safe mode, then click on ok.
  • It will land you into the troubleshooting mode.

safe mode

Reboot the device if you are done with the android troubleshooting, which will take you out of that mode.

That is it, thus android devices can be troubleshoot easily.