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Google home listening and Google home voice are smart features, which can not only smartly control your home but also answer your questions. These tools are programmed to react on a specific “wake word”, post which they put the speaker on. For Google home listening devices which are working on Google Assistant, the “Wake Word” usually is “Hey Google” or “Okay Google”. Well, to deliver better results and give you perfect solutions, Google Assistant stores sample audio files of your questions and instructions....

This message appears on the screen of your iPhone due to a security feature in iOS designed to protect your iPhone from unauthorized access via the USB port. When this message appears, your iPhone won’t permit any data to communicate with the USB device, until you approve the USB device by unlocking your iPhone. While devices connected to the lightning port can charge your iPhone, they won’t be able to establish a data connection without the iPhone being unlocked....

Disable Internal Speakers in Windows 10 Certain computers like Dell OptiPlex and others are equipped with in-built internal speakers, which saves desk space by eliminates the need to connect external speakers. However, some users find it annoying that the computer switches back to internal speakers with the same volume, whenever the external speaker is disconnected. This can be quite a nuisance and cause embarrassment, if the computer is left on an open browser and it suddenly starts playing an Advertisement or Video loudly....

Disable iPhone Calls on MacBook You can disable calls from iPhone ringing on MacBook from both your iPhone and Mac. Shouldn’t take more than a few moments either. Let’s begin with iPhone and see how to stop iPhone calls from forwarding to Mac. Disable Call Forwarding From iPhone Open Settings on your iPhone and then go to Phone. Tap on Calls on Other Devices and your MacBook’s name should be listed here along with other connected Apple devices....

Automatically Empty Trash Can on Mac When you delete a file on your Mac, it does not go away from your machine. The deleted file is only moved to the Trash Can on your Mac and it stays there, taking up space and also using resources during startup. The mechanism to keep deleted files in the Trash Can is designed to allow recovery of files, in case a file/files are accidentally deleted by the User....

Enable & Use iCloud Drive on iPhone and iPad By default, iPhone comes with 5 GB free iCloud storage space and provides access to all iCloud features like iCloud Photos, iCloud Backups, Find iPhone and iCloud Drive using your Apple ID. All that is required to access any iCloud feature on iPhone is to simply enable or toggle ON the feature by going to iCloud Settings on your device. Once iCloud Drive is enabled on iPhone, it simply works out of the box and no further configuration is required....

Enable Hey Siri on Mac Apple’s digital assistant Siri is available on all Apple devices including the MacBook. However, Siri as available on Mac requires you to press the Keyboard shortcut or click on the Mic icon, every time you want to interact with it. The resulting user experience is not the same as interacting with Siri on an iPhone or iPad, where you can voice activate Siri by saying “Siri” or “Hey Siri” and continue interacting with Siri, without having to press any keys....

(Image CC BY 2.0: Johan Larsson) Enable Night Shift Mode on iPhone and iPad It is widely believed that exposure to artificial blue light emitted by phones, tablets, computers and TV screens is interfering with our sleep cycles and even leading to health problems. This belief is based on the reasoning that blue light emitted by Phone, Tablet, TV screens is similar to sunlight, which tricks our bodies into thinking that it is still daylight outside....

Enable On-Screen Keyboard in Windows 10 The On-Screen Keyboard as available in Windows 10 is a full featured visual keyboard that appears on the screen of your computer. Windows On-Screen keyboard has all the standard keys as found on the physical keyboard and it can be operated using a Mouse or Trackpad to click on the virtual keys. The On-Screen Keyboard is not the same as Touch Screen Keyboard, which is only meant for Touch-Screen computers and cannot be operated by a Mouse or Trackpad....

Android Device Manager is an Android-integrated feature that allows you to connect your smartphone to the computer so that if the device is damaged, misplaced, or stolen, you can use this feature to find the device or even erase its data if required. You can also lock any Android smartphone using this tool. The Android Device Manager works with the help of a technology called the Android Debugging Bridge (ADB)....

DNS PROBE FINISHED NXDOMAIN Error in Chrome When you try to access a website by typing its Name, the web browser on your computer takes the help of DNS Server to find IP Address of the website that you are trying to access. For example, if you type YouTube in Chrome browser, the DNS server automatically supplies Chrome with the IP Address (216.58.218.110) of this website. However, sometimes the DNS Server fails to provide Chrome with this information, which results in DNS Failure error messages....

Millions of people across the globe love to play StarCraft 2. StarCraft 2 is an exceptional real-time strategy game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Since it is a globally acknowledged game, facing issues like screen tearing, crashing, freezing, or lagging while trying to play the game on Windows PC can be a big disappointment. These issues are literally frustrating as they make the StarCraft 2 unresponsive....

Unreal Engine is the best game engine platform and is quite popular among all game developers. The platform has some great integrated tools. It is one of the best modern game engines that possesses unique tools to design and create games. Irrespective of being a great game engine, it has issues too which sometimes end up with problems like game crashing. And, many gamers have reported that Unreal Engine 4 crashes on their PC....

Hide One Friend from Another on Facebook In general, once you become a friend with someone on Facebook, the other person will be able to see all your friends. However, you may come across a situation where you may want to be friends with two people on Facebook without them being able to see each other in your list of Facebook friends. Such situation can arise, if these two individuals have just separated or developed serious differences between them....

How to Disable Notifications on Android You can disable notifications from the notification panel itself or from the Android settings. First, if you find any notification that you want to disable in the notification panel, long press on that notification and tap on the Turn off notifications option. Here you can disable the checkbox beside the All notifications option and then tap on Apply option to save the setting. That’s it you will not get notifications from that app anymore....

Install APK Files On Android Phone or Tablet Most Android Phones are only allowed to download Apps from Google Play Store and installation of Apps and APK files from other sources is blocked. This precautionary default setting on Android Phones and Tablets is designed to prevent users from accidentally installing unknown Apps, which might turn out to be harmful. However, if an App or APK File is not available on Google Play Store, you can install it from another reputable source by enabling the option to Install Apps from Unknown Sources on your device....

Lock Apps On iPhone with Passcode As you will agree, there is always a possibility of someone asking for your iPhone to take a photo or just to take a look at your New iPhone. However, some people have the annoying habit of lingering onto other people’s phone longer than required and some may even start looking at your Photos and open Social Media Apps on your iPhone. To avoid such possibility, you can either Lock Apps on iPhone using Touch ID or Lock Social Media and Photos App with a Passcode....

Logout from YouTube on iPhone When you start using YouTube on iPhone, it prompts you to Sign-in, which provides you with certain benefits. For example, Signing into YouTube on iPhone allows you to Upload Videos, comment on YouTube Videos that you watch and start your own YouTube Channel. Once you Login to YouTube on iPhone, the YouTube App keeps you always signed-in, until you decide to Sign-out or Logout from YouTube....

What Are MSG Files Simply drag and drop an email from Outlook desktop client to your desktop and it will be saved as email-name.msg file. MSG is a file format used to save single Outlook emails. The file contains text from the email and the associated metadata. The email metadata stores information like the sender and receiver of the email, date and time of the email, and other such details. It is easy to open MSG files even if you don’t have Outlook installed though having Outlook makes it far easier....

Password Protect Folders on Mac In case you are storing Credit Card Numbers, Login Details for websites and other such confidential and sensitive information on your Mac, it is better to store such information in password protected folders. Keeping confidential data on Mac without using any protective measures is like keeping valuable items on your coffee table, where they can be easily seen and stolen by anyone who is driven by ulterior motives....