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Best android keyboards for emojis, GIFs, and more

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There are quite a lot of alternative keyboard applications available in the Google Playstore. We have Swype, Swiftmoji, Google keyboard, and many more to choose from. But there is more to keyboards than just texting.

So here in this piece of article, I am going to introduce you to some of the most useful and cool keyboards for emojis, GIFs, and all.

Swiftmoji:

What’s more difficult while texting is finding the right emoji for the conversation. But this swiftmoji application makes it easier by helping in searching the right emojis for you as you type. It is a very smart application that suggests emojis based on the text that you just typed. It is like a search engine for emojis.

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Tenor GIF keyboard:

Sometimes when you feel like sending GIFs, it takes a lot of time to actually search for them online and then copy and paste in the application where you are chatting with someone, but this application Tenor makes it very easy for you to search for the GIFs, that you can search for them and send them without even leaving the application.

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CopyPasta:

Before these emojis and GIFs, internet users used to use simple text-based emoticons. CopyPasta mobile application helps you to add quick emoticons wherever you need them and it also has a bunch of cool internet copypastas.

Hub Keyboard:

It is one of the best applications from Microsoft’s collection of android applications. It can help you do quite a lot of things which include translating the text from one language to the other, look up synonyms, insert contact info from the phone book without leaving the app, and you can also insert recent Word, PowerPoint, Excel files if you use Microsoft office for android.

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So give these keyboards a try and bring more spice, fun to your conversations.

How to Use Microsoft Edge browser’s Continue On PC feature on Android

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We have known about continue to pc option on the Microsoft Edge browser. The Edge browser has been made available for Android and iOS platforms and you can actually resume your browsing on your browser with the same browser and here is how you can do that.

As a first step, you need to link your mobile to the PC

  • Go to Settings on your Windows PC and then click on Phone
  • Then click on the Add Phone option which will open a dialogue box that will ask you to enter your mobile number, then it will share a link that will enable web sharing from any browser
  • It will further ask you to enter your country’s area code and enter the phone number of the device you want the link to be sent to, once entered, click on send
  • You will get a message displayed on the screen that says text sent check your phone
  • Then just close the window to see your phone name appear in the phone menu on your Windows PC
  • Then head to your Android phone, click on the link from the text message you received and install the Microsoft Apps application from the Play store
  • It will enable you to share the web page open in any other browser, just choose the option Continue on PC from the sharing menu
  • You will notice an icon at the bottom that is a smartphone with an outward arrow, click on it
  • You will then see a window pop up, select the device you wish to share the link with, and open it immediately.
  • Or you can also choose to share Continue later and the link will be sent to the action center on your PC.

Hope you learned this new feature on the Microsoft edge browser with our easy step-by-step guide.

A note taking app from Zoho that is definitely worth trying

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Note taking is the major concern for many of the smart phone users. There are many note taking apps until now both for the ios and android platform users. But here comes the one more useful and interesting app from Zoho, a Chennai based company. Its Zoho Notebook, a free note taking application for android and ios users.

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The android app may not look as good as the ios app, but it is an efficient working app.

This application makes it easy to create notes, categorize the notes and also editing the notes as well. You can create various notes, check lists, audio notes. It helps you get the work done quickly.

You can even sync your various notes across the device by simply logging into the Zoho account or creating a new one.

The app allows to group the various notes with pinch gesture very easily.

This app from Zoho network works very well as a journal app, and it will be very much useful to those who like to keep a diary of notes. It also serves your various other needs like saving shopping lists, saving audio recordings.

There is no desktop and web application of Zoho notebook as of now.

Don’t miss try this wonderful note taking app in your android or ios devices.

Learn How To Create A Shared Photo Album On Android

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The first thing you need to do for this is downloading the Google photos android application. Most of the devices these days have this app inbuilt if you don’t just download it from the Google’s Play store. A shared photo album is an album that you can create with your photos on your device and share it with your contacts using their names, email addresses, or phone numbers.

Creating A Shared Photo Album In Google Photos

You have to open the Google Photos application and then go to the albums tab, then tap on the shared, now tap on the plus icon and you have to select at least one photo to create an album. Select as many photos as you can and then click on next, then you will have to give your album a name. And after that, you can click on the share and invite your contacts to share the album with them.

You can share this album with the Gmail users and non-Gmail users as well, but the non-Gmail users have to create an account using a non-Gmail account.

You can add more photos by going to photos and then click on the add photo album, you can also more users by tapping the share button and then entering their contact information.

You can even remove a contact from viewing the shared photo album if you don’t want to share it with them. You can do this by going to the album and then click on the three-dot icon and then tap on the sharing options. Then you will find the list of people where you can block them by clicking on the three dot icon and then selecting the block person option.

And if you want to stop sharing that album with everyone, you can just toggle off the share option available at the top of the screen.

Thus by using these simple steps, you can share your album from Google photos on your android device.

Learn How To Listen To YouTube Videos In The Background

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YouTube is an online treasure which has full content in it. It has a number of videos which many feel as a treasure for their entertainment. YouTube is one of the many video sharing applications and it is the most popular app as well. But the android application of the YouTube has a huge drawback.  It doesn’t allow the users to continue listening to the audio of the YouTube videos if they turn off the screen.

Playing YouTube Videos In The Background

Many of us would sometimes wish to listen to just the audio while engaging ourselves in some other work but what have you ever thought of making YouTube videos play the audio alone. It is possible and simple to do as well.

Many people think that rooting the android device is the only solution for it, but there is another very lesser known solution which you can make use of if you don’t wish to root your device.

And for that, you should make use of the Firefox browser app on your device. Even though Google Chrome is the most popularly used browser, Firefox browser also holds some excellent features. And especially it can be the best solution for you if you want to play YouTube videos when your screen is off without having to buy any paid app.

It is just very much simpler to do this, just open the browser and search for the YouTube website, then for the video you would like to hear the audio for, then just switch your device’s screen off and you will see the video playing it’s audio in the background, you can listen to them like a podcast.

This is how you can trick this and listen just the audio of the videos on YouTube, but remember this will cost you the same amount of data it costs for playing videos, so use this only when you have sufficient data.