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Happiness is the feeling of winning scrabble by using an extraordinary word with a margin worth boasting. A good vocabulary and the right choice of words always work for those much-needed brownie points to your assignments whether in school, college or at work. It does not only make you look smarter and creates an impression, but it is found that learning new words and languages increases brain activity too making you smarter! Well, so in those minutes of travelling or waiting in a queue or while enjoying your morning coffee, here are some of the best apps that may help you expand your vocabulary and scintillate those grey cells too. 1. Vocabulary.com Going by its name, this app has almost everything one needs for learning new words. It has a combination of learning tools and games which help you not only learn but also retain new words. As it claims, this app uses sophisticated algorithms and provides customised vocabulary quizzes and questions for each user. 2. QUI...

AI is the ultimate future and voice assistants are the star products that are dominating the tech market in recent times. You want to scroll through the daily news or check out the movie tickets or dinner reservation around you, and your handy voice assistant does it all. The introduction of Siri as the first modern age voice assistant opened the door for possibilities, and now we a range of voice assistants and their smart speaker devices. Here we have a point-to-point comparison between the three leading voice assistants, which have outshone its contemporaries:  •    Amazon Alexa •    Google Assistant •    Apple Siri 1. Amazon Alexa Developed by Amazon Lab126, it is a virtual assistant  first used in Amazon Echo and then in its pocket-friendly version, the Amazon Echo Dot smart speakers. Apart from these, when used with Amazon fire stick it can be used to take charge of all the smart home devices. With bett...

The revolutionary endeavor of Amazon Alexa is making life smooth and hassle-free. Alexa is all there to cater to you and shifts a majority of your responsibility by assisting you in many ways. The virtual assistant is operating in the real world to uplift some load from the poor human bread. It can switch on bulbs for you, play music or open and close your TV and other domestic appliances. Also its game, special Jeopardy, not only lifts your mental stress but also empowers your knowledge too. It stands by your side in every hurry and leisure, whether to support you in rush hours when you’re all fired to go out or when you want some quality time to rejuvenate yourself. With its rich set of skill, your command or voice instruction make any work happen. Now, you will able to use Alexa in absence also. It can take care of residence and home stuff when you are out. Amazon embedded Alexa guard skill feature that keeps an eye on your home. It can work as your ear and listens al...

With mobile phones becoming the second skin to a person, it's the social media apps which have become a collective voice these days. This age is all about living digital, one may like it or hate it but surely can't ignore it. These apps provide an individual with an opportunity to stay connected with family, friends and the world as well, opinions are formed, questioned and circulated here. These apps have brought the term Global Village to a reality. With new and fresh features getting added each day to the social media platforms, the competition between them is getting fierce. Here's a list of the popular social media apps Facebook : with an estimated 2.27 billion monthly active users and 1.15 billion daily users have kept Facebook on top among its peers. Facebook has retained its position of being number 1 despite all the drama that boiled down in the recent times. User-friendly interface, multiple languages option along with so many cool features has kept it o...

After some time everyone has to remove the SIM card because of different reasons. You can remove it by opening the SIM slot from your iOS device as it has an in-built battery.  You can take the SIM out by having a pin object with you. As iPhone don’t have that battery system which is removable at all, so you have to be careful before taking out the SIM with the help of pin object. Object Needed While Removing the SIM Card in an iOS Device You can remove the SIM card from your Apple device easily. As some Android devices, and when you purchase your iPhone, you will see in the box of your phone a pin object is already present in that box. This object will help you to remove your SIM card. So take out the pin from the phone box and long press that pin into the round cavity given on the side of the SIM tray You have to put that pin in the area and push it towards your Apple device. After that, a flat plate comes out of it. As Apple devices have only one SIM slo...

Everyone uses Alexa’s main feature which is alarms and timers, and they can easily set timers with the help of voice instructions. If you can set timers by your voice, then it will be very convenient. You can put several timers on your Alexa device and can give a title to those timers so that you do not get confused. You can also stop that timer whenever you don’t need it. After putting a timer, you will get to view it on the left side of your device. Once the timer stop working, then the screen indicates you that the timer is already turned off and the turning off process of the timer gets completed. Through your voice, you can disable it or press the “Dismiss” button on your device. If you want to put several timers on Alexa, then follow the different methods given below. Through Voice Command Say “Alexa”. Say the wake-up word to start your Alexa, and she will wait until your next order. You Alexa wake up word is set as your default setting, in case you chang...

PowerPoint Handout Master option appears on the view folder in PowerPoint, and this is located on the top of the blue color columns. This has six boxes in it and a large one covering all the boxes.  You can choose many different colors to make your presentation more attractive, and you can also change designs as per your wish. PowerPoint Handout Master includes the layouts, header and footer and variety of wallpaper. Guide to Making a Presentation in PowerPoint Handout Handout Master many other tabs also which are set up the page, placeholders, changing the themes, the background of multiple colors, fonts, many different effects, and you can change the background style also. Steps are listed below to make a PowerPoint handout: 1. Handout Formatting for Making a Presentation in PowerPoint Select the format of a handout for creating a presentation in a handout. Go to the View option which appears on the top of the PowerPoint bars and then press the handout tab which...

Adding and removing friends on Snapchat is a very easy method as it requires only one step to do so. Everyone wants to delete an annoying friend, the disturbing users, from their friend lists. The main thing is that you should have an account in Snapchat first, and then you can go through this method. Here’s how you can accept the friend request or delete it when you want. How to Accept Your Friends Request in Snapchat? Here are the steps are given to accept your friend’s request through username: Go through the username of your friends so that you can easily add them or you can ask your friend about their username. You also can share your username of both of you with each other. If you don’t know your friend username, then there will be no another method of doing so because the username is the central part in the Snapchat account. The two types of username are there in your Snapchat account first is profile name and a simple username. The profile name is a name which wil...

In today’s modern era we require to gather different aspects of information ranging from the latest news to current blockbuster hits. Although YouTube and Facebook turn out to be famous video sharing platforms, they don’t provide an ample platform for gathering required information. But if you are preparing to create your videos or blogs, you would require some extreme guidance to do so. Taking care of minute details while creating videos can help a video developer in creating a masterpiece and can develop much better content. You will find an endless list of sites providing the latest video content on them, but if you are opting for quality over quantity, then you should refer to the video sites mentioned below. Videomaker Videomaker is one of the best sites for new developers to learn minute aspects related to developing good quality videos. Videomaker not only facilitates its users with online guidance but it also publishes magazines for a long time.  You will...

The latest LG G watch is programmed to stay active at all times whether it be on your wrist or while you plug it for charging. LG G watch can help you in various daily tasks that you require to accomplish on a daily bases. You can use your LG G smartwatch for a variety of tasks like setting alarms, receiving messages, notifications, emails and much more. As LG G watch offers no keys or buttons at the front and the sides of the watch, so it practically runs on your voice commands or through accessing its touchscreen display, it also sometimes become confusing for the new users to undermine on/off feature for the watch as there are no such keys to do so.  If you are looking for means to turn on your newly purchased LG G smartwatch all you need to do is just connect it with a charging cable and turn on the power supply. As your LG G smartwatch is connected with a charger it will automatically boot up and accessible for your use. But it is not possible to access...

While working with the Apple device, you might encounter an error message which says; ‘Cannot Reset Apple ID Security Questions’. This message indicates that you didn’t enter the details which you provided earlier, it will ask you for the security question to verify who you are. These types of message signify that you could be an imminent imposter and Apple must have to activate this security protocol and asked you for the security questions and if in case, you have forgotten the answers, in this situation, Apple won’t allow you to reset the security questions. Moreover, if you don’t give Apple with another email which will be used by Apple as a recovery email whenever any user is looking for their Apple ID, then you will be compelled to use the security questions. However, in this type of circumstances, you always need a backup mail, if you are unable to sign in to your Apple ID or if you have forgotten your password. Nevertheless, receiving a message like this is so...

Many servers don’t have a related MIME type to support MP4 files. The MIME stands for the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. MIME refers to the video type usually set up in Internet Information Service (IIS) console. Because of it, many times, it fails to play MP4 files. To improve these MP4 files, you have to set up the MP4. It always inculcates an internet browser to utilise any default video app when running any MP4 files direct from the page of any website. Alternatively, The MIME provides a way of recognizing files available on the internet according to their format and nature. For example, whenever the “Content-type” description value like MP4 is defined in an HTTP response, then the web browser can be set up to launch the file with an exact plug-in. While using the Internet Explorer in Windows 10 operating system and you may encounter the error ‘Unsupported video type or invalid file path,’ we recommend you that try to set up the MP4 MIME type in II...

Tech freaks around the world are waiting for Apple to release 3D camera support for the back camera in the upcoming iPhone in 2k19. Speculations are floating all around the corner after a news report at Bloomberg stated that Apple might be including a new 3D back camera that would improve on the face recognition feature introduced in previous variants of iPhone.   This was revealed in the context of Sony rapidly producing high-tech camera chips that would provide next-generation 3D sensors for various renowned smartphone manufacturers. Various mobile brands like Apple, Samsung and Huawei, have also shown interest in introducing such 3D chips into their various flagship devices as such chips would enable 3D camera operations on both front and back camera.   As various manufacturers’ previously availed chips made by Sony in their devices, it is speculated that the new 3D chips are also produced in mass scale for all its buyers. It would be fascinating to...