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Enable YouTube Restricted Mode While YouTube has tons of Videos for Kids of all ages, it also has content that is not suitable for them. What is even more disturbing is the presence of numerous Videos on YouTube that look like versions of popular cartoons, but contain disturbing and inappropriate content which is clearly not suitable for children. YouTube suggests that you make use of its Restricted Mode Filtering to protect kids from being exposed to inappropriate content....

It’s a good habit to create a backup of your smartphone’s storage, apps, and other data. This allows you to face adversity boldly when any damage or threat is posed to your personal data in any way. However, just creating a backup of the data from the iPhone is not sufficient, you also need to know where the backup is being stored. But if you don’t know the iPhone/iTunes backup location, this article can help you with the same....

God of War is the most played action-adventure game franchise. However, the game seems to be pretty well optimized for Windows PCs, but still, many players are complaining about the constant crashes or lags during the gameplay. This is absolutely very annoying. But, the good news is, you can easily deal with such crashing, freezing, or lagging issues by using the following solutions discussed in the next section of this troubleshooting guide....

Images Not Showing in Email Messages Since it is possible to include images fetched from remote servers in email messages, spammers make use of this feature to get a feedback on whether or not someone has opened the email. This feedback helps spammers to identify which email addresses are real and which ones are not, allowing them to target real email addresses with spam messages. Hence, most email programs try to counter this problem by preventing images from automatically being downloaded in email messages, especially if the images are being fetched from remote servers....

Hide and Unhide Photos on Mac While the Photos App on Mac allows you to transfer, store, manage, edit and view photos, it also provides the option to Hide Photos that you do not want to be viewed by others. When you hide Photos on Mac, the Photos are moved to a separate “Hidden” folder, which prevents those Photos from from appearing in any visible Photo Album in the Photos App....

Lock Cells in Excel The simplest way to Lock Cells in Excel is to protect the entire worksheet and this will prevent others from deleting or editing the content in any of its Cells. However, locking all Cells in Excel by protecting the entire worksheet prevents others from working on it. Hence, this method is not suitable if you are sharing the worksheet with others or you want others to be able to work on the worksheet....

Make Chrome Browser Warn Before Closing on Mac While Safari is the default browser on Mac, you can also download and install Chrome browser on your Mac as a backup. This allows you to switch to Chrome, whenever you find Safari browser running slow or stuck on your Mac. Also, having Chrome browser on Mac allows you to project Netflix and YouTube videos from Mac to TV using Google’s popular Chromecast device....

Make iPhone Dock Transparent As mentioned above, the default Apple Wallpapers are designed to make the Dock on iPhone standout and appear distinct from the rest of the screen. However, you can make the screen of your iPhone look totally different from others iPhones by making the iPhone Dock Transparent and blending in with rest of the screen. This can be done by replacing the default Wallpaper on your iPhone with a Wallpaper that is specifically designed to make the iPhone Dock look Transparent....

But Thankfully there’s an option to overcome the possibility of such situations. In the article below you will learn how to mute a tab on Chrome on iPhone or Mac. How to Mute Tabs on Chrome To mute tabs in Chrome apply the following steps Step 1: Locate the Chrome icon on your desktop screen and double-click on it to Launch the browser. Step 2: In the address bar enter the name of the website and open the webpage you want to mute....

Go to Facebook Desktop Version on Mobile Phone By default, all mobile devices always open the mobile version of Facebook. This happens, both when you launch the Facebook App on your Mobile device and also if you try to open Facebook using the web browser installed on your Mobile Phone. When you try to open Facebook by typing www.facebook.com in Google Chrome or Safari browser, Facebook will automatically detect that you are using a Mobile device (Phone or Tablet) and it will redirect you to the Mobile version of Facebook....

Print to PDF in Windows PDF is currently the most popular and widely used document and file sharing format. PDF files can be opened on any device or platform and they never lose their original content and formatting. Windows 10 features native or in-built support for PDF, including the ability to Save or Print Files to PDF. When you Print to PDF in Windows 10, the resulting PDF document will be stripped of all its Metadata (Links, bookmarks, etc....

Resize Photos on Mac As mentioned above, you don’t really need a Photo Editing App to resize Photos, you can make use of the default Preview app on your Mac to resize photos. This method works for Photos located on the desktop and also for Photos located in a Folder, just about anywhere on your Mac. The only place where this method does not work is within the Photos App on your Mac....

Rotate Photos on Mac Using Preview App Follow the steps below to Rotate Photos on Mac using the Preview App. Double click on the Photo that you want to Rotate. If you have changed the default Photo viewer on Mac to something other than the Preview App, Right-click on the Photo that you want to rotate and click on Open with > Preview in the contextual menu. Once the Photo is open in the Preview App, click on Tools from the top menu bar and then click on the Rotate or Flip Option....

Send Contact Details Using AirDrop on iPhone In case you have not tried it yet, the AirDrop feature on iPhone allows you to instantly transfer Photos, Files and Contact details from your iPhone to any Apple device placed near your iPhone. The AirDrop feature on iPhone makes use of Bluetooth to locate nearby Apple Devices and uses WiFi Network to wirelessly transfer data from one Apple device to another. This makes AirDrop the most convenient way to share contacts, when someone asks for your Contact Details or that of someone in your Contact List at a party or in a meeting....

Set Parental Controls on Kindle Fire Tablet When Parental Control feature is switched ON, you will see a small Lock icon appearing at the top of the screen of your Kindle Fire Tablet. To confirm, swipe your finger down from top of the screen and you will see a message reading “Parental Controls – On.” Steps to Set Parental Controls on Kindle Fire Tablet Follow the steps below to set Parental Controls on Kindle Fire Tablet....

Set Time Limit for Apps on iPhone or iPad If you are concerned about the amount of time that you are spending on Social Media or Entertainment Apps, you can setup a reasonable time limit for Social Media and Entertainment Apps on your iPhone. This can be done using the App Limits feature in iOS, which makes it really easy to set time limit for Social Media, Entertainment and other Apps on your iPhone....

The error usually appears due to a problem with your DNS or misconfiguration. DNS is an abbreviation for Domain Name System. It helps direct traffic on the internet by linking domain names with authentic web servers. When a user copies and pastes a URL in their browser, DNS gets to function to connect the entered URL to the actual server’s IP address. But, sometimes, DNS fails to recognize the IP address or domain name, in that case, you might get an error message reading DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN in Windows 10, 11, or older versions....

Uninstall Adobe Flash Player From Mac While the general trend is to get away from Flash due to security issues related with Adobe’s Flash Player, there are still some websites that feature Flash based Videos. By default, Flash Player is not installed on Mac, but the Safari browser on Mac still supports Flash and allows you to install Adobe Flash Player. In case you are using Google’s Chrome Browser on Mac, it comes with in-built support for Flash Player and allows you to watch Flash Videos without downloading Flash Player from Adobe....

Completely Uninstall Microsoft Teams Users who do not want to use MS Teams, uninstall this App the usual way by going to Settings > Apps > Microsoft Teams > Uninstall. However, deleting Microsoft Teams the usual way does not work, as MS Teams tends to reinstall itself back, as soon as you sign-in to your computer. This happens due to presence of Teams Machine Wide Installer on your computer, which gets installed on your computer along with Microsoft Teams, when you subscribe to Microsoft Office Program....

Upload Files to Google Drive Google Drive is a Cloud-based storage service from Google that provides 15 GB of Free storage to anyone with a Gmail Account and additional storage space (if required) at a very reasonable price. You can upload just about any type of file to Google Drive, including Photos, Videos, Text Files, PDF Files, Microsoft office files like Word, Excel and Power Point. Files and Photos stored in your Google Drive Account can be accessed across multiple devices, regardless of your location, as long as an Internet connection is available....