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How To Set Google Alerts For Particular Topics On Your Mobile Device

January 12, 2020 by Satyapriya

If you are interested in following the news from everywhere and stay connected while you stay updated all the time, then you will also be having a worry of missing the news out. But you will be surprised to know that there is actually a way to keep a tab on your favorite topics. Google alerts is a feature that comes in with Google. It serves as a notification service for web contents, specific piece of news, topics, places, etc. It allows you to select your favorite topics and will be alerting you whenever it finds any matching search results on the web. This is interesting right! Now, we are going to teach you how to set up Google alerts on your mobile device.

How to set up Google Alerts

As a first step, you need to open the Google Alerts home page on your browser. Now in the search bar there, just enter a topic of your own
Then to refine the alert, just click on ‘Show Options’, here you just go through all the options and customize the alert filter
Choose the filters according to your need and wish. Under how often, just select at most once a day
Then finally click on ‘create alert’ option
Now you are all set to receive alerts on your mobile device.

If you wish, you can also the Google alerts to be delivered to you at a specific time. Now click on the gear icon and choose the delivery time.

This is our simple and easy to understand take on the way to set up the Google alerts feature on your mobile device. You can take control of the content and delivery time with the help of the filter option available. Just give it a try.

This is quite a useful feature which you can make use of it to streamline the information.

Unlock Your Phone With A Simple Ok Google Command

January 11, 2020 by Satyapriya

Unlocking your android device can be done in various ways. Like I have mentioned in my earlier articles, you can easily unlock your device without having to enter any PIN, password or pattern as they will be irritating at times. I have described to you the process of unlocking a phone using the face detection feature in my earlier article. If you haven’t checked it yet Click here. I used it for a long time. I want to try new every time and the unlocking process has a lot of options that we can try. So, today let us go through the simple process of unlocking an Android device with a simple Ok Google voice command.

Unlocking Your Device Using Ok Google

Go to settings in your android device
Then click on security
As this is one of the smart unlock features we are going to use, first your device must be locked using any of the other secured locking features like a pattern, pin, or password.
Then you will see an option smart lock, click on it
Now confirm the password that you have set
It will take you to a screen which says about the smart lock, just read it and click on understood
Then click on Trusted voice
Here turn on ‘From any screen’ and ‘Trusted voice’ options using the toggle button
It will take you to another screen, click on Get started
In the next page, just say Ok Google command three times after which it detects your voice and directs to the next page with some information, click Yes I’m in
Confirm your password for the last time
Finally, click on finish

Use this simple set up process and unlock your device using the Ok Google voice command within no time and without any kind of hassles.

How To Transfer Photos From Facebook To The Google Photos App

January 9, 2020 by Satyapriya

Google Photos has always been the ultimate choice for saving photos on our android devices. This Google-powered service creates an automatic backup of all your photos in its server. So, now that we all share photos on Facebook, have you ever thought about moving your Facebook pictures to Google Photos? If you have that thought but don’t know what to do, then you are in the right place. Follow these below steps to set up and transfer photos from Facebook to your Google Photos application.

Steps To Transfer Photos From Facebook To Google Photos

First, you need to open the Facebook app on your android phone.
Then tap the three lines on the top navigation bar.
Next, scroll down and tap on Settings & Privacy.
Tap Settings.
Scroll down and tap Download Your Information.
Tap Deselect All.
Tap Photos and Videos so that it’s the only option with a checkmark next to it.
Scroll to the bottom of the page.
Tap Medium under the Media Quality option.
Tap High to get the highest-quality download of your files.
Tap create file

After setting this up, now you have to wait for Facebook to process your download request. It won’t take too long, and once your file is ready, you’ll get be notified through an email.

Once your file is ready to be downloaded, here’s what you need to do:

Tap Download next to your file.
Enter your Facebook password and tap on Continue.

Now, it’s time to sit back and wait for your photos to download.

Open the Files app on your phone.
Tap the Facebook file (in this case, it’s the one titled “facebook-joemaring”).
Tap photos_and_videos.
Tap on the three dots on the top right of the screen.
Then click on Extract to…
Now click Extract.

Once the extracting is done,

Open Google Photos on your phone.
Tap the three lines at the top-left of the screen.
Tap one of the new albums from Facebook.
Tap the Backup & sync toggle.

That is it. The steps and the process may look lengthy but it is actually the easiest way to get the Facebook photos to Google Photos app.

How To Exclude Certain Domains In Google Search Results

January 8, 2020 by Satyapriya

The power of Google search operators doesn’t need any kind of explanation and descriptions. No one denies accepting the fact regarding the power of the Google search engine. With just a little added effort, you can simply make sure that you get and find the domains and the exact content that you wish to have or looking for. One thing that you need to do that is just simply excluding certain websites the results that you don’t wish to have in the results and if you think that those are the websites that you don’t care much about. So, here is how you can manage your Google search results.

Exclude Certain Websites In Google Search Results

It is pretty simple to exclude certain keywords from your result, all you need to do is just place a simple hyphen in front of the word without space.

So, let us take an example to let you understand it better. If you are searching for microlenses but you don’t want any results with canon, so all you have to do is just use the keyword ‘ microlenses –canon’ in the Google search and then simply press enter.

In the same way, if you are looking to exclude certain domains from your search results, then if you are searching for something and don’t wish to get the certain domain result in the Google search results, then you should be searching with the keyword followed by a hyphen followed by the domain name ( there should be space between the keyword and the hyphen but not between the hyphen and the domain name). Just like the above-mentioned example, you need to replace the keyword with the domain name.

For example, if you are searching for raspberry pi but don’t wish to have the Wikipedia page of the raspberry pi in the search results, then you should be searching ‘raspberry pi -Wikipedia’

So, we hope this simple trick will help you in organizing your search results better.

How To Add Device Frames To Screenshots Taken On Your Android Device

January 6, 2020 by Satyapriya

There is no doubt that everyone who must be having a smartphone would have taken at least a couple of screenshots. If we talk about Android devices, there are plenty of Android applications available on the Google Play store that allows users to capture scrollable and full-page screenshots. Not just that, Google also offers a built-in screenshot utility tool for capturing the screen. To add device frames to the screenshots, we are going to use Snapmod. It’s one of the best screenshot mockup generator app available on the Google Play Store. Follow some of the simple steps given below to add device frames to your screenshots by using Snapmod.

Steps To Add Device Frames To Screenshots

First of all, download and install Snapmod on your Android smartphone from the Google Play Store.
Once done, open the app, and you will see a screen like below. You will get the general instructions on how to use the app. You can either read the instructions or skip to the main page.
Now you will see a screen like below. Here you need to tap on ‘Model’.
In the next step, you will be asked to select the device frame. Select as per your wish.
Once done, tap on the middle of the screen and add the screenshot.
The final result will look like this. Tap on the Save icon to save the screenshot.

That is it, you are done. Using these simple steps you can now successfully add screenshots into device frames.