What You Need to Know Only those users having root on their device can remove bloatware. If you are not rooted, please root your device first and then follow this guide. Make sure to not remove all the system apps as some of them are used by your device’s OS. Getting Started with Removing Bloatware: You are going to install an app from the Google Play that will help you remove bloatware from your device....

But you may still want to remove the emoji button. Some of the reasons you may want to remove the emoji button include if you find yourself hitting the emoji button accidentally or if it irritates you. Maybe you never even use it. Disabling it from your keyboard may be a relief if you don’t want to use it anymore. What Happens When You Remove the Emoji Button? Whatever your reason is for wanting to get rid of the emoji button, there’s a consequence for this....

This is easy. The following trick should work: Note: This will also work in Ms Excel, OpenOffice and many other spreadsheet applications too. Insert a new column at the extreme left (or right). At the very first row, enter “1” (without the quote). Using your mouse, drag the first cell (the one that you just inserted “1”) and pull it down all the way to the end of the document....

As long as you have the app installed on your device, you can set it as the default. Probably one of the first apps you’ll want to change is your browser. The process only takes a few taps. In some cases, you can even customize the default app beyond just choosing another app. A Familiar Process The good news is the process to set default apps in Android 10 hasn’t changed much at all....

How to Set Individual App Language In order for this to work, you’ll need to have at least another language installed in Windows 8 in addition to the default language your PC came with. Use the “Windows Key + X” shortcut to open the Win + X Menu and click “Control Panel.” Click “Category” next to “View by” at the top right of the Control Panel. Then, click “Small icons” to change the layout view to find the “Language” settings more easily....

In this post, we show you how to set up a generic USB keyboard with your MacBook. We also look at some resolutions if you can’t get things up and running. How to Set Up a Generic USB Keyboard with Your MacBook In most cases, keyboards will “plug and play.” In other words, they should just work right out of the box. Note that most modern MacBooks – certainly those released in the last couple of years – will only have USB-C ports....

Benefits of Linking Echo and Fire TV Echo devices that can be connected: Echo Dot (3rd Generation) Echo (2nd Generation) Echo (3rd Generation) Echo Plus (2nd Generation) Echo Plus (1st Generation) Echo Dot with clock Echo Studio You also need a recent Fire Stick, such as the Fire TV Stick 4K (about $25) or Fire TV Cube 2nd Gen. Fire TV devices that can be connected: Fire TV Stick 4K Fire TV (3rd Generation) Fire TV Cube (1st Generation) – available in the US only Fire TV Cube (2nd Generation)...

How to Set Parental Controls in Kodi One of the benefits of an open source software like Kodi is the flexibility with the program’s settings. Kodi’s parental controls are one of these features. Although the Kodi parental controls menu is a bit difficult to find, you can do several things once you set it up. Turning on a Master Lock If you want to keep your children away from unsuitable media anywhere within Kodi, you can set up a master lock, which requires users to enter a password or PIN....

Until Apple rolls out a way to share reminders using an iPhone or iPad, let’s focus on the way to do it on a Mac. Open the Reminders application on your Mac; use spotlight to locate it if it’s not found on your dock. You should see any current reminders scheduled (as well as completed), separated in categories along the left sidebar. You’ll need to be logged into iCloud on your Mac as well as your iPhone or iPad to sync reminders between your devices....

Whenever you compose (or edit) a post in WordPress, you will notice that there is a section called “Custom Field” where you can add custom variable (also known as meta-data) and value to your post. This is a very useful feature that allows you to customize each post with a custom value. However, there exists a small problem that can hinder your usage of the custom field effectively. By default, WordPress only display a total of 30 custom fields in the dropdown list....

How to sync your calendar with Alexa Regardless of whether you want to add the Google, Microsoft or Apple calendar to your Alexa-enabled device, the initial steps are always the same: 2. In the upper-left corner, tap the “Menu” icon. 3. Tap “Settings -> Calendar & Email.” 4. Tap “Add Account.” You can now choose which calendar application you want to add to your Alexa account: If you’re a user of Google Calendar, follow these instructions:...

There are a couple of ways to get that illusive screenshot, though. One is much easier than the other, but it doesn’t allow you to capture your customized screen. The second option is more involved, but it can grab a shot of just about any login screen. Whichever way you choose, it’s entirely possible to take full resolution images of your Linux login screen. Virtual Machines Before you get into this process, it’s much easier to just take a screenshot of a virtual machine....

Capture Selected Region Press Shift + Command + 4. The cursor becomes a crosshair that can be used to select a portion of the screen by holding down the left mouse button then dragging over the part of your screen you want to save. Release the button to take the screenshot. Alternatively, after hitting Shift + Command + 4, you can do any of the following: Window Screenshot: Press the Space bar....

Getting the LibreOffice Packages Rather than using the outdated Ubuntu build, go straight to the source and grab the latest LibreOffice from its pre-release downloads page. Currently the newest version is 4.0 RC1 (curiously already tagged with a 4.0.0.1 version number, however). Next, extract the new LibreOffice to a new folder. You’ll be running it right from there, so select a folder you generally use to hold scripts and other programs (I use ~/bin for this purpose)....

Here we show you how to transcribe audio in Microsoft Word 365. Transcribe Audio in Microsoft Word First, make sure you are a premium subscriber of Microsoft 365. Open your browser and log in to Microsoft Word on Microsoft 365. Open the “Home” tab. Click the arrow next to “Dictate” and select “Transcribe” from the menu that appears. The “Transcribe” pane will open in the right side of the window....

Turn On Live Captions Go to the Settings page on your Android phone. Scroll down the list of options until you get to the Accessibility section and tap on it. In some phones, the Accessibility section is found on the main Settings page, while in others it is located within the System option. The Accessibility section is the part of the phone’s settings that controls the options designed to make the phone easier to use for people suffering some sort of a handicap, such as being unable to hear, see or use their hands properly....

Here’s how to access Reader Mode in some of the world’s most popular desktop browsers. The directions in this article refer to desktop versions of these browsers. However, many of them do have a reader mode in their mobile version as well. Google Chrome Although Chrome has been experimenting with its Reader Mode for several years, it is still not publicly available on the browser. Instead, it is in the flags, where you can find and utilize settings and extensions not released with the browser....

What Is the Android Safe Folder? An Android Safe folder is a hidden and allows you to securely store your private files and folders using a PIN, pattern, or password, as if it were a digital vault. Only certain Android phone models have a Safe folder. Phones with a “file safe” feature include: Huawei phones have a Safe option that can be accessed from “Files -> Categories -> Safe -> Enable....

Whatever you do on Kodi, a VPN is strongly advised to work around geographic restrictions and keep your streaming private. You can just switch on a standalone VPN outside Kodi, or you can go one better and use Kodi OpenVPN Manager to automatically switch on your VPN when logging into Kodi. The following will show you how it’s done. For a limited time only, get an extra 3 months when you sign up with ExpressVPN for only $6....

Both Nvidia and AMD have densely packed product stacks, with GPUs separated by as little as $30 increments. Let’s just say that Nvidia didn’t rack up a revenue of $12 billion in 2018 by letting overclockers undercut its bottom line. There’s a method to Nvidia’s apparent madness. Leveraging GPU Boost with Liquid Cooling Enter Nvidia GPU Boost. On the surface it delivers the benefits of automatic overclocking to the masses....