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Facebook Avatar – How To Create Your Own Avatar Using Simple Steps

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It is very well known that Facebook has introduced lots of features like stickers, GIFs, video status, etc over the past few years. now, it has come up with another really attractive feature. Facebook has come up with a cartoon-like creation that would represent a look like a user himself. The feature is known as ‘Facebook Avatars’.

We all might be very much familiar with bitmoji stickers that we use in Snapchat. The ultimate role of avatar is to give a personal touch to the users’ own character. Now, here are the few simple steps, that you need to follow to get your own Facebook avatar done.

Creating Your Very Own Facebook Avatar

  • First of all, make sure you have the latest updated version of the Facebook app.
  • If you have the latest update downloaded, then you can open the app and tap on the ‘Menu’ button.
  • Then scroll down and tap on the ‘See More’ option found there.
  • Now here you need to tap on the ‘Avatars’
  • Now, you will be taken to the Avatar Panel where you can create your own avatar. You need to select the Skin tone in the very first step.
  • Now, select the ‘Hair Style’
  • Then, select the ‘Hair colour’
  • As a next step, you need to select the ‘Face Shape’
  • It even allows you to set the Skin complexion.
  • Next, you can select the Skin lines, ‘Eye Shape’
  • It has a lot of avatar customization options available. Just go through the options. You will even be asked to select the outfit in the final steps.
  • If you are done with all the above steps, just tap on the ‘Done’ button.
  • In the next page, tap on the ‘Next’ button.
  • Under the ‘Use your avatar in comments’ box, tap on the ‘Next’ button.
  • Now open any Facebook chat, and under the ‘Stickers’ you will find your avatar.

That is it, you are done with the setup, you can now use the Facebook Avatar.

Here Are The Steps To Activate Hidden Mode On WhatsApp

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Do you have the feeling of being stalked by someone else online? Do you wish to protect your privacy? There are a number of ways to protect your privacy in this chat application. You can either choose to stay offline, remove your WhatsApp ‘Last Seen’, or even avoid the blue ticks by not letting your contacts know that you have read their messages.  There is actually no such hidden mode available on WhatsApp official application at least as of now. But here are a few things that you can consider to opt and set up if you are very much protective and concerned about your privacy.

Make Sure Your Last Seen Has Been Set To Nobody

  • First of all, in the WhatsApp application, you can go into your WhatsApp’s Settings, and then click on Privacy.
  • Here, you can find the option Last seen which you can change to Nobody for a start.
  • Then you can choose to turn off the Read Receipts as well – although this will mean you can’t see the Read Receipts for other people.
  • The only true way to stop appearing “online” or “typing” is to activate Airplane Mode.

That means your phone won’t be connected to the internet, and so WhatsApp can’t tell the other person what you’re doing.

Of course, if you read a text, they’ll know as soon as you reconnect to the internet.

So, do try these simple things if you don’t want others to peep into life and get into the game of guessing what you are doing.

Here Is A Quick Guide For You To Remove Shortcut Virus

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The most common problem that many of us get to experience in common all the time is the shortcut virus. When we find our files, folders turned into shortcut virus we may obviously be annoyed that we can’t think of any solution immediately to get rid of that situation. Using an anti-virus is obviously not the solution for this as it can be found in anti-virus protected devices as well. So here we provide you an easy and simple procedure using command prompt, just follow these steps

  • As a first step, you obviously need to open the command prompt and to do that you can just click on the start button and then choose command prompt or just click Windows + R and then type cmd and press enter
  • Now you need to go to the location of your pen drive, so enter the drive it may be e, g or f. so enter the letter in your case and then press enter
  • Then type the command ‘del *.Ink’ and then press enter to remove all the link files in the directory
  • Now enter the command ‘attrib -h -r -s /s /d drive letter:*.*’, and then press enter ( replace the words drive letter with the letter of your drive
  • This shortcut allows you to get rid of the virus and when you open the drive and find your files, all you have to do is just copy and paste them somewhere else and do the formatting of your drive once, after the completion of formatting, you can get the files copied back to your pen drive.

Or you can also choose to use other third-party applications like USBFIX to remove the shortcut virus. But getting rid of that virus using any process is needed, so choose this simple process without any other downloads and all.

How To Create An Invisible Folder To Store Your Confidential Files

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Many of the computer users may have known the process of creating and storing important data in hidden secret files in windows run computer. But today I am going to take you through the process of creating an invisible folder so that it can help you to store your confidential files in it and make them private and save them from the threat of others.

Here are the steps for creating an invisible folder

  • Create a new folder, this can be done usually by right-clicking and then by clicking on the option “New Folder” from the pop-up menu.
  • Now after the folder is created, just select it and press F2 button. This option just allows you to edit the name of the folder. You can also do this by right-clicking the selected folder and then clicking on the “Rename” option available in the pop-up menu.
  • Delete the text in it and now comes the trickiest part. You just press and hold both the ALT, Fn keys and then type 255 using the Numpad in your keyboard, now release the ALT, Fn keys. Finally press Enter.
  • Now you have a nameless folder. To make it invisible go to its properties by right-clicking on the file after it is selected. Then click on Customize tab and then on the “Change Icon” option. There you can find number icons and you also get to see some blank spaces in between. Those are the invisible icons. Select the blank space and apply it by clicking on Apply and then on Ok.
  • That is it the process of creating your invisible folder is done.
  • And you can store all your confidential files, secret files there and save them from the eyes of others.

If you want to make the folder visible gain, then just go the properties and change the icon. I hope you follow these simple steps and get to know the process of creating an invisible file for storing your confidential files.

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.