When someone tries to unlock a device, Android presents a grid of nine nodes and asks the person to swipe over these nodes to enter a preset pattern. If the person enters the pattern correctly, the device gets unlocked. A lot of mobile phone owners prefer pattern based locking because it is easier to enter a pattern. You can enter a pattern in one swipe, whereas in case of number based password, you need to tap several times....
Meaning of POP in Email POP is a protocol used for retrieving emails. It is an abbreviation for Post Office Protocol. POP was first developed in 1984 for fetching emails from a remote server. The current version of POP is POP3. POP downloads emails from server to the local machine and then deletes the original copies from the server. As a result, you can later read emails in your computer without an Internet connection....
The new Media Player is said to be a major improvement in playing digital media, which supports both audio and video. Moreover, it is going to be replacing the Groove Music app, importing any existing media libraries automatically. Not only that, but the application also includes updates to the layout to look more appealing and makes it user-friendly. We personally find it more in tone with Windows 11 than the legacy Windows Media Player, whose update was long overdue....
More often than not we all get MS-Word files in which a lot of lines either begin with unnecessary spaces or they have lots of trailing spaces –and if it is a really bad case –lines will have both leading and trailing spaces. Not-so-tech-savvy people use leading spaces to align lines (this is why you should subscriber my blog and keep on learning useful MS Word tips) MS-Word does not provide any straightforward method to remove such unwanted spaces....
Gmail users now can send a chat message to any mobile number in India. Receiver will get the message on their mobile devices. Then the receiver can send reply via SMS (for which he will be charged as per the standard rate of his mobile operator). Reply will appear in the chat box of the Gmail user. Like regular chat messages, SMS chat will also be saved in chat history....
How does Autocorrect Work? If you are not keen to leave your kids with the Ghost to wait for Satan, then let us understand how autocorrect works. Look at the words used in the above phrase – Host and Santa. As soon as one types Hos, or San autocorrect immediately suggests Ghost or Satan. If you continue to type, autocorrect inserts Ghost or Satan automatically. To select the correct word, you need to go back and select the correct word from the options provided....
As the saying goes, a picture says a thousand words. Therefore, since long, emoticons have been an essential part of any good chat application. WhatsApp and other emoji apps provide a large set of emoticons to convey feelings and several other thoughts which would otherwise need several words to express. But many of these WhatsApp symbols are confusing. Most people don’t know the meaning of many WhatsApp icons or symbols....
Before we talk about the Adblock’s warning removal list let’s understand what is Adblock and how does it work. What is Adblock Plus? Adblock Plus is one of the most popular content filtering and ad blocker extension for popular browsers including Firefox and Chrome. It filters the content that appears in the form of ads. This is very useful as we are able to block any inappropriate ads from appearing on our screens when we access any website....
If you are new to this, then this article is for you. Before you can remotely access another computer, the telnet feature needs to be enabled on all Windows versions. In this article, we discuss in detail what telnet is, and how to enable it. Note: The methods discussed in this post explain how to enable Telnet Client, which is enabled on the source computer. Telnet Server will need to be enabled on the remote (target) computer to which you want to connect....
This update does not introduce any significant new features, but only several fixes and improvements, including some new dynamic widgets for your taskbar widgets board. Let us take a look at the new improvements. New in Windows 11 Build 22000.1041 The following list of improvements have been introduced with this build: New in Windows 11 Build 22000.1041 How to Install Windows 11 Build 22000.1041 Rollback/Remove Windows 11 Insider Preview Update Cleanup After Installing Windows Updates...
KB5010414 was earlier released to the Beta and Release Preview channels for the Insiders. The same update has now been flighted for the stable channel. However, installing this update on the stable channel will upgrade the operating system’s build to 22000.527. Type C releases are usually made in the third week of the month as an effort to further test out the new features and improvements and include mostly non-security updates....
All Apple users are familiar with iTunes, as it is one of the most used applications across any platform. However, when Apple moved away from the local file storage in favor of cloud-based services, the users were disappointed. Those interested only in iTunes’ media management features felt abandoned. And they started to look for iTunes alternatives, to catalog and organize their libraries. Many iTunes alternatives work fine as music players, but few are built for long-term file management....
Well, TechWelkin is now about two years old. But the journey of my tech blog began way back in 2008. From 2008 to 2011, I did not take this blog seriously and it was just a sort of notepad for me typing my new learning in programming and database fields. I used to run the parent blog of TechWelkin as a free blog on WordPress.com and its name was CTBits (short for Computer Technology Bits)… indeed it was just a collection of bits and pieces which perhaps, only I could make sense of!...
Windows 10 does not come with Telnet pre-installed. Even DOS Command Prompt has also become secondary with PowerShell taking the center stage. Install Telnet in Windows 10 Check whether the port is open or not using Command Prompt Check open port using PowerShell Portqry used to be the command of choice for checking remote ports being alive and listening but it was only available up till Windows XP and Windows Server 2003....
This very mechanism of filling web pages with information makes a web page static or dynamic. Let’s go deeper into it and understand the concept as well as the difference between static and dynamic website (oh well, a website is just a collection of web pages!). Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) was the first tool with which people had begun to create web pages in olden times. HTML is a language that stylize text, create paragraphs and line breaks etc....
This is the stable version of the tool, which means that it is safe for you to install it in your production environment as well. Moreover, The .NET SDK has been updated to version 6.0.8. This release includes some fixes and improvements for PowerShell that you can try out today by installing it using the given download links and guidelines below. Before you do, let us have a look at the new improvements....
This update does not include any new features visible to the naked eye, and nor has Google mentioned any in the release notes. However, it does include some new features for the developers and APIs, which will eventually impact the user experience. This Chrome update addresses a total of 24 security vulnerabilities, out of which 1 is deemed critical and 8 are of high importance. Let us now discuss the significant changes included in this update, and then see how you can install this latest build for the Chrome browser....
In this article we are going to discuss different types of releases Intel has made, and what they offer. You can also use the standalone download links provided below to install the latest drivers right now. Intel Wireless driver types We will highlight the four types of drivers that have been updated from Intel. Two are for wireless Bluetooth devices, and two are for Wi-Fi devices. Intel Wireless driver types Differences in driver types Intel Wireless Bluetooth driver version 22....
Additionally, you can also download the latest Security Baseline for Microsoft Edge. Microsoft is still to announce the Security Baseline for Edge v112. This article will be updated once it’s made available. In this article, we jot down the significant improvements in Microsoft Edge with each release. You can also download it from the links provided below. Additionally, the Security Baseline for Edge and its details are also provided....
A Security Baseline is an additional set of security enhancements that can be added to the original security protocols already in place in Windows. This is especially useful for the companies and organizations that prefer to take more control of their virtual security. This Baseline adds ransomware protection for your operating system and other new policies discussed below. New in Windows 10 Version 21H2 Security Baseline Removed Microsoft Edge Legacy Policies Since Microsoft Edge Legacy had reached the end of support earlier this year, Windows 10 v21H2 came with only Edge Chromium....
