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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.

Learn How To Edit Android’s Share Menu Without Root

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Sharing in Android is one of the best features and easiest ways to transfer files, apps, media from one device to the other. It is the consistent control for sharing content across most apps. Whether searching the web, watching a YouTube video, browsing apps in the Play store, we can find that very familiar share icon. Tapping on that link will take us to the list of the apps where we can share the link with. But one thing we all may have noticed here and still find nothing to do is the messy share menu. There will be a hell lot of options available in the share menu. Now I will help you to edit the messy share menu and make it as you like it to be.

Editing The Android Share Menu

For this purpose, there are very few apps available and let us make use of the very classic app called Andmade.

This Android app is available for free. So, after you download the application, you will be getting a pop up when you click a share option inside any app, select Andmade share and click always to make it your default sharing option.

The first thing that you will notice is that they will be arranged in an alphabetical order and you can even do more customizations. You just have to long press the share option that you would like to move.

Another most interesting feature is the hidden apps feature which allows you to remove any unwanted apps from the sharing menu. And one more feature is the default email where you can select a default mail that you use for sharing regularly. Thus Andmade app helps us in customizing the sharing options on our Android devices.

Customize your Android’s share menu using this application as per your choice.

How To Share A Purchased App With Your Family Or Friends

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Purchasing apps from the Google Playstore is the one such thing that we Indians hesitate doing. Many of us don’t like to invest money on apps that are confined to just mobile phones. Even if we buy also, we would like to get the most out of the app and a very lesser known thing about the purchased app is that the one who purchased can actually share the app with his/her family and friends so that they don’t have to pay for it if they would like to use it. And all this can be done officially using the Playstore. Now let us check the steps involved in it.

• Click on this link either on your Android smartphone or computer
• Then click on Sign up for family library and then you will be taken to the sign-up process where you create a library    for sharing your purchased app so that your family, friends can access them whenever needed
• First, you need to tap on the Accept option to accept the terms
• Under Shared, you can add multiple email addresses of the people with whom you would like to share the apps with
• Then a shared cloud will be created where you can share your purchases with whom you want
• You just need to enable the application while purchasing the apps to make them available for your family

That is it, you are done, you can thus share any media, apps of Google Playstore that you have purchased with your family and friends who use Android devices. Using these simple steps you can thus share the apps you have purchased in Google playstore with your friends and family and thus save lots of money on the useful applications.

Never left behind in using the latest apps with tonnes of features just because they need to be purchased, use this trick and let it spread.

A Simple Guide On How To Use Microsoft OneNote

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Microsoft OneNote is one of the most underrated note taking app. Many have just known it as an application to save to do lists and write down notes, but you can also actually write notes, to do lists, shopping lists with a stylus, and you can also convert your handwritten notes into text and can also organize your recipes collection.

Creating Notes:

The structure of OneNote involves three layers which include Notebooks, Sections, and pages. Once you are done with creating Notebook and sections, you can rename the page by typing in the top left corner of the page. You can then start writing or typing your notes. When you right click on the particular page name you have on the left-hand side of the OneNote, you will get the various options that you can do with the page. You can either choose to have a plain page, or lined page or a page with grid lines.

If your monitor supports using a stylus, I mean if your monitor is a touch screen then you will be provided with the Radial menu which will allow you to choose among the four different pen styles and various colours of pens and sizes of the pen lines.

In case your screen is not a touchscreen, then you will find the paper icon which will have different options which are also OneNote’s more complex.

Camera option which allows you to click pictures and insert them directly into the OneNote page, draw option allows you to draw with your mouse, table option to create your own customized tables. This radial menu is one of the best things in OneNote which gives you easy access to the settings.

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Customization:

There is a big room for customization in Microsoft OneNote which makes it the best application. You can get a lot of customizing options once you right click on the particular section or a page you will get the various options to customize. Under the customization options for the section, you will get colour changing option, there will be about 16 colours to choose from which will change the appearance of the entire application once you select a colour, but the right panel and bottom panel colours will be default and will never change and will be purple always.

You can pin a particular page or section to the start screen which will give quick access to that page or section.

Microsoft OneNote automatically saves the content to SkyDrive which will not give a chance to lose your content. And this also allows you to share the links to your pages with your friends and all.

So this is how you can easily use your OneNote application, hope you like this and start using OneNote and make it your default note-taking app.

 

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 platform 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 in 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 to 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 Microsoft edge browser with our easy step by step guide.