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Monday 30 November 2020
If you’re constantly watching it on standard definition, there are a few changes you can make.
*Or any other location that you plan to travel to.
Especially if you know you’ll ring the person back later that day.
There are a few third-party keyboards which allow you to keep one hand free.
The quick search feature Now on Tap is incredibly useful, if you remember it’s there.
That click noise every time you hit a key can get on your nerves.
Those keyboard shortcuts can really come in useful.
It really depends on the type of display your phone has.
It’s handy to know whether it’s work or your best friend that’s trying to contact you.
Apps that you can’t delete can take up space unnecessarily but there are workarounds.
There’s a lot of power in those right-clicks.
You don’t need to have games running in the background and draining your battery life.
Should you need a different way to keep yourself alerted to new updates.
Should you need to prioritise longevity over functionality.
They can do more than just change the volume or pause a song.
It appears underneath your profile, but does it mean anything important?
So none of your friends (or strangers) know you’re online.
And it’s easy to disable so it doesn’t bother you again.
Handy for when you need to revisit a page but don’t want to forget about it.
Sometimes you might want to open up a different app the next time you choose a link.
Should you have trouble figuring out the cause of slowdown.
You don’t have to constantly click or tap the back button to get to where you want.
You might rely on services like WhatsApp more but SMS still holds strong.
Handy if you need to stop at different places for the one journey.
If you don’t want your number to show when you’re ringing someone, there are ways of getting around that.
It’s handy if you find or someone else finds it difficult to hit combination keys like Ctrl + Shift + Esc.
It’s always handy to have more than just Ctrl + Alt + Delete at your disposal.
If you regularly watch videos on desktop, then you can speed things up a little.
If you don’t have the latest version yet, don’t despair. There is still a way to save them.
It has a purpose, honest.
Anytime you activate Google Now, it saves the audio and transcript of each search to your history, but you can control it.
There will always be at least one app that will act up sooner or later.
Do you really need your Mam’s number down three times already?
Because going through your photo albums the normal way is just painful.
High-quality footage is great, but it will fill up space on your phone pretty quickly.
Taking a good photo is one thing, but it’s just as important to know what features you can use and when.
An upbeat song is much better than just the sound of a bell.
So long as you have Lollipop 5.0 or above.
So you don’t end up damaging your hearing.
Should you be more comfortable using the likes of Chrome or Opera instead.
IT’S THE LAST day of November, so it’s safe to say the Christmas countdown has well and truly begun.
With everything that has happened in 2020 so far, many people have chosen to bring a bit Christmas cheer into their lives earlier than usual this year, and decorations have been going up in households around the country for a number of weeks now.
But others are still sticking to their usual traditions and waiting until December to put the tree up.
So, today we want to know: When are you putting up your Christmas tree?
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