Computer Era

features

Some new Google calendar features that you must know about

by


With the recently released update, Google Calendar has got just better as it got some awesome features in it for the users. The first and majorly noticeable change is that it has got rid of its age-old design and the interface of the application has been upgraded.

You may see the new interface of the application loaded automatically or the old interface may load and you need to just click on the Use new calendar option on the top right corner of the screen. And then you will see am upgrade now option which you can select to go for the upgrade.

Apart from the cool and new upgraded design, you also need to know the features that have been introduced in the recent update.

  • Users can now enjoy the rich formatting that helps the invites in Google more appealing to others. The links added in the description will now open in an event detail window
  • Users can now experience multiple calendars by categorizing their personal and professional tasks, with the new design you can view the multiple calendars in side by side windows
  • As a part of the newly upgraded features, the calendar application will now allow the users to see the contact information of the users within the events. Users can get the information about the user by simply hovering the cursor over the person’s name
  • The new calendar application comes with a bin that the users can get back their accidentally deleted events back. Users can find the bin by clicking on the gear option
  • The responsive screen is yet another feature which makes the company make the most use of the screen and the users can find this feature enabled by default

So, do upgrade to the new version of the Google Calendar and enjoy the awesome features.

Unknown Features Of Windows File Explorer That You Must Know

by

Windows File Explorer is capable of many other actions that you just don’t know. There are quite a few hidden settings in the File Explorer that you haven’t discovered yet. But this article is here for you to help discover those hidden things.

But first get to know these shortcuts for Windows File explorer that will fasten your work flow.

  • Open the windows Explorer Window using the short cut keys – Windows key + E
  • For switching to the parent folder in that hierarchy the keyboard shortcut is – Alt + Up arrow key
  • For toggling the preview pane – Alt + P
  • For opening the properties of the selected subject – Alt + Enter
  • For renaming the selected file – F2
  • For deleting the selection completely and directly without moving it to the Recycle Bin – Shift + Delete key

Open an ISO file:

In the previous versions of Windows, one needs to use third party applications for accessing the ISO formatted files, but with Windows 8 and the higher versions of Windows, the Windows explorer itself has got the ability to open the ISO files. All you have to do is when you have an ISO file in your PC, just right click it in the Windows Explorer and then click on Mount.

Moving Files:

Unlike just moving files from location to location that you know, this is something new, that you can actually move files via the address bar. That is you can move files from the child folder to the parent folder just by dragging the selected files to the parent folder name in the address bar. That’s it just try this next time instead of the regular cut, copy and paste.

Send files to secret locations:

While pressing on the Shift key select the file or folder that you wish to send and on its context menu, navigate to the send to option where it will show the extra options to send the file or the folder where you don’t find them while you press send without selecting the file using Shift button.

These are a few unknown features of the Windows File Explorer that will help you to become a Windows Explorer power user.

Amazing Google Photos Features That You Should Know

by

Google photos is a wonderful application and is also a very popular one among the android users. It has a lot of features for the users which include from the automatic backup of your photos to sharing the pictures to everywhere you want. Whereas there are some more very lesser known interesting and most useful features of this amazing android app that you should know. So, here we go

Amazing Google Photos Features

  • Selecting the assistant button and then the animation button will let you create a neat GIF with a collection of selected photos of your choice. You can choose from 2-50 photos.
  • Google photos application even allows you to make photo collages without the need of any third party application. You can create collages of 2 photos to up to 9 photos. Just click on the assistant tab and then click on collage and select the photos.
  • This app from Google even allows you to do little adjustments to your photos. It can be done by just selecting a photo and then clicking on the edit button with a pencil icon. You can crop the pictures, set the adjustments manually or even select from the preset aspect ratios.
  • Just sit and watch the slideshow of the pictures on your device by simply selecting a photo and then clicking on the three dot icon and then selecting the slideshow.
  • You can back up any device folders to your account. Slide the left sidebar on the screen, click on settings, then select Backup and sync, now tap on backup device folders. It then shows you all the device folders that contain images.
  • You can share the photo from this android app to anywhere you want and to anyone you want. Just click on the photo and then select the share icon shown on the top and it will show you the sharing options. You can easily share to Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, WhatsApp, Mail, Messaging and in various apps that you have on your android device.

So, don’t miss to try these things and use the Google Photos app more smartly.

Things you need to know about WhatsApp business

by

As soon as the social network giant owned WhatsApp, there have been a lot of changes and regular upgrades taking place in the app which has made it so much popular. It even replaced the text messages. There have been rumours about WhatsApp business, and Facebook has made those rumours become true by announcing the launch of WhatsApp business app.

Many of us have some doubts regarding the new application aimed at business people. How different is it from the regular WhatsApp and what are the features that it has for its users. So, let’s take a look some of its cool features

  • Businesses can sign up to this service and join the platform, it helps them to send updates about time, and other information to their customers
  • Users can use both WhatsApp messenger and WhatsApp for business on the same device at a time using two different numbers
  • Users can use landline numbers for creating their WhatsApp business profiles
  • This helps the users in separating business accounts and personal accounts
  • It even comes with some business-oriented features like auto responses and analytics
  • The users get information regarding the number of messages sent, received and read
  • Users can be able to customize their ‘away messages’, that can be sent to the clients during no office hours
  • This one is also end to end encrypted
  • The account details of the users in this WhatsApp for business app includes image, email address, category of the business, location and website address as well

This application has not been made available for the users yet and it is still in the developmental stage. Lets hope to see it very soon.

Few interesting Google Now on tap features

by

Google Now on tap is an interesting and useful search tool from Google that has been launched with the Android Marshmallow. Even after the launch of Google assistant in the latest android version from Google android Nougat, many people are still stuck with using Google Now. There might be many reasons for that. Their phone may not support the Nougat upgrade or just they don’t want to, but there are a lot of things that one can do using the Google Now on tap. Let me present you some of its little-known features for you

  • For finding the meaning of a word in your smartphone stop doing the process of copying and pasting the word in Google search, but there is actually a simple thing that you can use to find the meaning of a word while you surf the web or read something. Just select the word for which you need to know the meaning for and then long press the home button, it will show the meaning automatically.
  • Taking a screenshot may require you to hold a combination of keys if you use the same old mode to do that, but Google allows you to do that thing without the use of any keys, all you have to do is just keep hold the home button and then hit the share button which will be shown on the bottom of your screen and it will give you various options where you can share with your friends.
  • There are actually quick shortcuts available on android for various tasks like setting an alarm, reminder, calendar entry and all. You can find these shortcuts by pressing and holding the home button for a while.
  • Your smartphone actually has the ability to identify things and objects, all you have to do is just open the camera and face the camera towards the object or anything that you may want to know about and then hold and press the home button.

These are the simple interesting features that you can try if you don’t have Google assistant.