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How To Send Self Destructive Emails Using Snapmail

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Have you ever thought why Snapchat has become the most popular application all over the world, among the youth or the young? I personally think that it is the self-destructive messages feature that attracted more and more users towards using that as it protects their privacy. And many applications started imitating this most hit and popular feature. While some are a hit again and some are not.

As far as self-destructive emails are concerned, there are a lot of applications, websites available for the users and we have earlier talked about a website. And today in this article, let us know about a Chrome extension, that allows the users to simply send self-destructive emails right from their Gmail steps For inbox.

There are a lot of options out there to send secure and self-destructing messages to others. But what if you really just want to send them a message using Gmail? Snapmail is a Chrome extension that allows you to send messages just like you might otherwise to recipients that will destruct in 60 seconds.

Steps For Sending Self Destructive Emails

Let us now see the process to get that extension and send emails that automatically delete after a certain time.

  • You must be using Google Chrome for this
  • Just open your Chrome browser and then go to the Chrome web store and download and install Snapmail  extension into your PC
  • And one thing you must note is that this extension only works for Gmail inboxes
  • It will add a Snapmail button next to the send button in your Gmail
  • You can click on the Snapmail button to send a self-destructive mail, you can find the button next to the send button

Thus sending encrypted emails gets easier with the help of this Chrome extension. It’s a lot more secure than just emailing important passwords.

How To Schedule Text Messages In Your Android Phone

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Scheduling messages can be very much helpful to all those forgetting heads. Life can become pretty much annoying if you ever forgot to send an important message. Then why leave the chance that we have with us which can be scheduling messages and send them at a later time. Sounds good right!! But as there are a lot of applications and other programs available for scheduling text messages, so here we suggest you some wonderful and most useful applications for you for scheduling messages to send later.

Schedule Text Messages On Android

Textra SMS:  

Here comes the first application on our list. This one is the most popular application for sending scheduled messages. The app is particularly known for a lot of customizations that it offers its users, whereas it can also perform various cool functions that we don’t have in our native messaging application. It is pretty simple to use, you can simply download and install the app for free from the Google play store. While composing a new message, you can just tap on the plus icon and then tap on the clock where you can set the date and time when you want the message to be sent. Textra SMS will show all the scheduled messages with a green clock icon and you can see the scheduled time by tapping on it.

Pulse SMS:

This is one of the very few messaging applications that is innovating the way we use regular messages. This app brings in a lot of cool and interesting features that enhance our messaging experience. It also has a feature for scheduling text messages. After you launch the app, just tap on the three-dot icon present at the top right corner of the screen to find schedule a message option from the drop-down menu, just tap on it and set date and time when you wish to send the message and also enter the message content and finally hit send. But, this app has its own way of storing the scheduled messages. The Pulse SMS stores all the scheduled messages in a separate folder and you can find them by tapping on the hamburger menu and then selecting the scheduled messages

How To Identify Fake Apps In The Google Play Store

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Android users cannot complete their day without visiting the Google playstore at least once a week. It is their go-to solution for any new apps, games etc. But do you really think it is a safe place, yes it is, of course, a safe place but it also contains some of the really dangerous stuff? There are plenty of fake apps in the playstore which may prone some serious risk to your security. So, here we bring you to some of the useful ways using which you can easily identify the fake applications and stay away from them.

How To Identify Fake Apps:

This is not anything difficult or impossible, there are some really simple and easy observations that you can make in the app. Consider the below steps.

App Name:

The first thing you need to observe is the name of the application available in the Google playstore. There are some fake apps with the same name as the original app, but with some little differences which may sometimes difficult to trace. But if you observe it keenly, you can.

For example, you may find an app with the name WhatsApp messenger but it is actually WhatsApp Messenger.

Developer Name:

The next thing that you should concentrate on observing is the name of the developer. The official applications will always have the popular developer names and you can trace the apps as fake if they have got some uncommon names as the developer.

User Reviews:

This is another interesting step that you must do while checking the app whether it is fake or real. The users who have used it earlier can be the best ones to reveal the fact about it. So, just check the user reviews of the app, and ratings to find its popularity. You can then be in a position to analyze.

Downloads:

The next important step that you must consider to do while doing the checking of the app is that you can check the number of downloads of the app through the Playstore and it can reveal you a lot of things. If it has got the highest number of downloads, then you trust it.

These are some of the steps that you can try considering if you are obliged about installing an application. Just go through these steps and stay away from fake apps.   

How To Manage Clipboard In Your Android Device

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Computers and laptops, in fact, all the windows run devices have features like drag and drop, cut, copy and paste which will be very much useful for making many of our tasks pretty simple. The features like these make Windows user-friendly. Android even has got a pretty useful copy and paste feature that the users make use of and which makes the Android system quite useful. You all must be aware of the copy and paste features and the Android clipboard features. Now, let us go through some of the copy and paste tips that let you manage clipboard better.

Copy And Paste Tips That You Need To Know

Well, first of all, you might be aware of the basic features of the copy and paste on your Android device. Most of the applications like Chrome, browsers will allow you to do this copy function by simply long pressing the text and then the text will be copied to the clipboard and you can simply long-press anywhere you wish to paste it and just select the paste option. You can also copy the URL links of the websites that you visit by simply long pressing the URL and the address bar, then you can paste it somewhere you want.

For improving the copy and paste button, you can make use of some of the solid android applications that can help you in making the best of the copy and paste feature.

Clipper, AnyCopy are a few such Android applications that can help you in making most out of the feature. These will allow you to copy multiple texts and manage them as you want them to be. The applications make the users’ task to manage clipboard better and easier. Android clipboard becomes more useful with the help of these applications.

We hope these above-mentioned things will help you like copy and paste tips and help you in making your Android experience a better one.

Learn A Few Easy Ways To Hide Folders In Windows

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It is very much important to protect your privacy and which is also a difficult task these days if you are sharing your computer or laptop whichever device you use with someone else like your colleagues or friends. There arises the need to secure your files in a safe place. So, we are here to help you know the various methods using which you can hide folders in your Windows PCs or laptops.

 Hide Folders:

  • Open File Explorer, then click on Tools>Folder Options
  • Then in the Folder options window switch to the View tab
  • Then under the option Files and Folders, select Hidden Files and Folders and then check the radio button with the option don’t show hidden files, folders or drives and click on ok
  • Then head back to the file explorer and select the particular file that you wish to hide and right-click on it and from the pop-up menu select properties
  • Then in the properties, make sure you check the hidden option in the general tab

You can access the files by temporarily making the hidden folders visible under folder options.

Make Folders Invisible:

This is yet another method that helps you in making the folder invisible rather than just hiding it.

  • As a first step you need to hide the name of the folder that you would want to make invisible, just select the folder and press F2, then while holding the ALT key type 0160 and press enter
  • In the next step, you need to make the folder invisible, right-click and select the properties of the folder and switch to the customize tab and click on the change icon. Choose a blank icon and click ok

 Hide Folders With A Tool:

There are many useful tools that will allow you to hide your various folders in Windows. My Lockbox is one such tool that you can try using to hide your folders. But unfortunately, the free version of the tool will allow you to secure only one folder at a time. You can change the folder from time to time as you wish.