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A Simple Guide On How To Use Microsoft OneNote

May 8, 2018 by Satyapriya

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.

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.

Whatsapp SMS Authentication now became easy

June 25, 2016 by computerera

Whatsapp SMS Authentication now became easy with the latest change. Whatsapp tweaked its SMS authentication system while setting up the account on the new phone. This tweak helps us in the following scenario.

Imagine that you two phones. One is 1234 and the second one is 5678. Consider that your primary number is 1234, but you are willing to use Whatsapp on 5678 number phone.

So in this case, if you are setting up Whatsup on 5678 phone with 1234 as the primary number, when you entered 1234 as your Whatsapp account number the account verification SMS will be delivered to the first phone and the 5678 phone right now you are using fails to auto verify the code. Alternatively, you have to wait for 3 Mins time to verify through a phone call.

The latest Whatsapp verification tweak stripes away the whole problem. Irrelevant of what number you are using right now on your phone, Whatsapp provides “verification code box” immediately along with auto verify mechanism. So just you need to enter the verification you got on your primary phone instead of waiting for Phone call verification.

This tweak will be more helpful for those who are using dual-SIM phones and maintaining two separate phones.

Mobile hotspot name caused Flight Delay

May 4, 2016 by computerera

While naming the mobile hotspots people think creatively. It’s our choice to tag any name to the mobile hotspot that we create, but we have to consider other factors also. In Melbourne, Australia suspicious WiFi hotspot name caused a Qantas flight to delay.

One of the passengers found a hot spot with the name”Mobile Detonation Device”, and immediately he reported to the flight crew. Security and the captain announced to the passengers that the flight would be delayed for reasons of safety.

Finally, when they started investigating they ended up with the mobile hotspot which caused panic environment among the passengers.

Such type of practice is not new for us, and I think you already came across phone Bluetooth module names with “Virus,”malware”danger” etc. people feel crazy while naming their devices, but it sometimes leads to trouble. This is the best example of that.

Is it Indians Failure or Apple’s Failure?

April 28, 2016 by computerera

I hope you already read the comments of Apple CEO Tim Cook two days back about the Indian mobile market. He compared India with China and expressed that, India is 7-10 years behind than China concerning mobile infrastructure and other factors.

Nobody asked his opinions about India. However, he analyzed latest Apple’s downtrends in revenue. You can see the Apple’s growth rate from 2010 to till date. In 2011, Apple’s quarterly results crossed 80%, but from 2013 to 2015 first quarter the results are dramatically decreased. The main reason for this is, iPhone followed 4-inch small screen form factor even most of the world moved to larger screens.

Once iPhone 6 plus with large screen introduced in 2014 Q3, you can clearly observe the reflection of growth in the above graph.

Now coming to India, Apple performance is no way related to India’s poor network infrastructure. India has average network speed of 2 Mbps. In few cities in India like Hyderabad, we have super speed connectivity up to 250 Mbps.

Apple should learn from Facebook and Google

Tech companies need to follow strategies to expand their market. If they neglect this, starts to blame certain markets, and people in those markets, it does more harm. Time to time Facebook, Google tweak their apps and platforms to work effectively in low bandwidth markets like South Africa, India. Apple also needs to follow this.

Reasons behind Apple’s failure in India

There are many potentialities in India. That is why India is becoming the hub for Mobile phone manufacturing. The entire globe is watching latest developments in the Indian Mobile market. If Apple fails to grab market share in India, it is Apple’s mistake not India or Indian’s mistake. Here are the few reasons for Apple’s failure in India.

1. Overpricing: Apple tries to exploit their goodwill by fixing premium prices for iDevices. Few days back Apple released their latest model iPhone SE. There are no new attractive features in it.

Apple publicized iPhone SE as the budget phone. However, contrary, Apple sells it for Rs. 39,000 in India. How can anybody purchase such outdated form factor with no additional benefits for such huge price tag? Apple is following the same strategy from the beginning. It makes phones for the US market and try to market them in India and other countries.

On an average, 50% of the Indian citizens purchase new phones once in a year. That itself revealing the real potentiality of the Indian consumer market.

2. App non availability: Indians have a tendency to use any product to its full extent. Once they purchased the phone, they try to explore various apps to get things done. Because of these only tech authors like me, focus on innovative apps.

The Apple App Store has a strong approval policy for app developers. Getting approved in the App Store is not at all an easy task. Sometimes app developers withdraw their intention to publish Apps on Apple App Store.

In this context, there is a very limited set of Apps available for Indian needs in the App Store. Most of the apps available there mainly targeted to US citizens only. We cannot get popular Indian apps also at the App Store. So non-availability of local apps is also an indirect reason for Apple’s failure in India.