If you want to get serious about backing up your Android phone, including everything from system app data to saved Wi-Fi nodes, Titanium Backup can help. Read on to learn how to backup your Android phone from A to Z. Why Bother With a Third Party Backup Application? Android phones already come with some handy backup features; anyone who has purchased a new Android phone and plugged in the Google Account login they were using on their previous Android phone has surely been impressed with the ease in which their old contacts appeared....

RELATED: How to Stop Annoying Website Notifications in Chrome on Android Block Websites on Android With a Third-Party App An easy way to block a website on your Android phone is by using a free site-blocking app. One such app is BlockSite (free but ad-supported), which lets you restrict access to your specified websites at the specified schedule in your web browsers. Once you’ve blocked a site with this app, that site isn’t accessible in any of your web browsers....

If you don’t care for the way the System Preferences appear in macOS, you can change them by hiding certain preference panels or by rearranging them alphabetically. Usually, when you open the System Preferences, this is more or less how they appear (your own Mac’s System Preferences may look ever so slightly different). Do you ever use the Parental Controls? Do you even have a printer or scanner? If not, then you probably don’t even open those preference panels....

Wikis are a great way to communicate and work on a project with other people, but hosting your own wiki can be complicated to work with. Today we’ll show you how to setup your own Wiki page with Google Sites. Note: naturally this post is meant for beginners, so the more advanced users should probably skip this one. Create Your Wiki We need to sign up for an account in Google before we can create a Wiki with Google Sites....

Cropping photos is one of the most basic, but important, photo editing skills. A crooked horizon or something distracting on the edge can ruin a great image. I’m going to show you the basics of how to do it in Photoshop, however, the tools are very similar in any other good image editing app. This is the image I’m using. I love it, but there are two problems. First, there is too much of the land in the bottom right corner; I want the image to be cropped tighter to the lighthouse....

Caddy is a popular modern web server engineered for high performance and memory safety. It’s written in Go, runs with no dependencies, features built-in support for static site rendering with Markdown, and offers automatic HTTPS. Caddy’s focused on providing a simple server management experience that gives you useful functionality by default. It can be easier to configure and maintain than rival systems such as Apache and NGINX. In this article, we’ll show how to get your own server running with minimal set up by using Docker with the official Caddy image....

Google often thinks you want to know what traffic is like nearby, so it sends you a notification. While sometimes helpful, this can also be annoying—especially if you’re not going anywhere. Here’s how to completely disable traffic notifications on Android. It’s actually unclear a lot of times where these notifications are coming from: is it Google Now? Google Maps? Something else? The short answer is: it’s a mixture. Disabling Traffic Notifications in Google Maps The first place you’ll want to start is in Google Maps—this is where the bulk of the notifications are coming from, especially when you’re already driving (regardless of whether or not you’re using GPS navigation)....

Confused as to why your Mac scrolls up when you drag your fingers down on the trackpad? Apple calls this “Natural Scrolling,” and the idea is to make scrolling work like it does on touch screens. On the iPhone, you drag content up and down with your fingers. This is intuitive on a touchscreen, and Apple wanted Macs to be consistent with those same gestures. It’s easy to get used to, especially on the trackpad, but can be very confusing for anyone who switches between macOS and Windows regularly....

What Is “TruMotion” Anyway? TruMotion is LG’s implementation of motion smoothing. Motion smoothing works by increasing the framerate (the speed at which your TV shows a new picture) of the video by inserting extra “fake” frames between each real frame. Most movies and TV shows are shot at 24 frames-per-second (FPS), and by guessing what the in-between frames would look like, your TV can bump the framerate up to 48 or 60 FPS....

It’s no secret that Google likes to keep developer options hidden away in most of its products—there’s no reason to have casual users tinkering around there, after all. But if you like to tinker (or are, of course, a developer), then this hidden menu can be a lot of fun. RELATED: How to Access Developer Options and Enable USB Debugging on Android Developer Settings is where you can find experimental features, tweaks, and things that aren’t necessarily meant for consumer access....

Most people use a graphical file manager to find files in Linux, such as Nautilus in Gnome, Dolphin in KDE, and Thunar in Xfce. However, there are several ways to use the command line to find files in Linux, no matter what desktop manager you use. Using the Find Command The “find” command allows you to search for files for which you know the approximate filenames. The simplest form of the command searches for files in the current directory and recursively through its subdirectories that match the supplied search criteria....

Before you begin the process, keep your birth date, time of birth, and place of birth ready, as you will need these details to finish creating the profile. Make an Astrological Profile on Snapchat To start the profile creation process, open the Snapchat app on your iPhone or Android phone. In the app’s top-left corner, tap your profile icon. On your profile page, beneath your name, tap the zodiac sign....

Windows 10 adds a bit more to the taskbar: now, you can search (or use Cortana) without pressing the Start button, and you can click a “Task View” button to see all your windows. Don’t want these taking up space? Here’s how to hide them. Cortana is a digital assistant that goes beyond the Windows Search feature and helps you find more than what’s on your computer. It can help you find facts, places, and info....

If your iPhone or iPad has a broken sleep/wake button—a top button or side button depending on the device—you can still lock your screen (or even restart) by using an accessibility feature called AssistiveTouch. Here’s how. AssistiveTouch makes it possible for you to simulate physical movements, gestures, and button presses with simple menu options on your iPhone or iPad touchscreen. That includes locking your screen and restarting your device. To enable it, first, open Settings on your iPhone or iPad....

As of October 2021, the taskbar size in Windows 11 can’t be adjusted with the Settings app. Luckily, we’ve discovered a registry hack that can make the taskbar larger or smaller. Here’s how to do it. Edit the Registry Yourself To change the size of your Windows 11 taskbar, you can either edit your Windows Registry yourself or download our one-click hack ZIP file in the section below. By using our files, you can change between the three taskbar sizes by just clicking a file and restarting your PC....

By default, iMessage sends a read receipt back to the sender, so they can see when you’ve read their message. You can turn this feature off completely, but what if you want to send read receipts to some people but not others? RELATED: How to Prevent People from Knowing You’ve Read Their iMessage In iOS 10, you can now turn off read receipts within each conversation separately. Say you don’t want your mother-in-law to know when you’ve read her messages....

Notifications are one of the worst things about smartphones. It’s one thing to get notifications for things you want, like text messages, but it’s a completely different story if your phone is beeping because someone has invited you to play a game on Facebook. It’s great then, that on Facebook for iOS and Android, there’s a really quick and handy way to manage notifications you don’t want to see. There’s also a web option, though it isn’t quite as good....

Most characters you can type don’t appear on your keyboard, whether you’re using a physical keyboard or a touch one. Here’s how you can type them on your computer or mobile device. You could always perform a search online to find the symbol and copy-paste it into the program you’re using, too. This is inefficient, but works for quickly inserting the occasional obscure symbol Windows You can quickly insert special characters on Windows using Alt key codes....

Just because your old Wi-Fi router has been replaced by a newer model doesn’t mean it needs to gather dust in the closet. Read on as we show you how to take an old and underpowered Wi-Fi router and turn it into a respectable network switch (saving your $20 in the process). Image by mmgallan. Why Do I Want To Do This? Wi-Fi technology has changed significantly in the last ten years, but Ethernet-based networking has changed very little....

Your Facebook Information First, you might be curious to see just how much data Facebook has on you. There’s the obvious stuff like your name, date of birth, relatives, and so on, but what else does it know? To see, log in to Facebook on a web browser, like Google Chrome, on a computer. Click the arrow at the top right, and then select “Settings & Privacy.” Next, click “Settings.”...