If you plug in a USB drive, camera, or other storage device to your Windows 8.1 PC, your drive icons are rearranged and show mixed with local storage in File Explorer. If you find it is annoying, you can easily separate removable drives from local storages. Here is how it is. Important: It is very easy to separate removable drives and local drives in Windows explorer in Windows 8.1, but it won’t work if the removable drive formatted in NTFS file system....

Smart Launcher is a very simple, but feature rich launcher replacement for Android phone (Android 2.2 and above) which is characterized by a minimalist design, low memory usage and a user-friendly UI. An outstanding feature of this innovative launcher is that it automatically catalogues installed apps. You can easily locate your apps by just swiping from your home screen. Though Smart Launcher has a minimalist design, you can configure it as per your needs....

Currently, Sony’s Xperia Marshmallow Beta program is available in Spain, Italy and Netherlands only. Owners of Xperia Z2 (D6503), Z3 (D6603) and Z3 Compact (D5803) in these countries, who wish to try out the pre-release beta version of the Android 6.0 Marshmallow, install the app ‘Xperia Beta Program’ from Play store and sign up. The Xperia Beta Program is intended to test out the final firmware before the official release to the public....

The trick is simple. You just tell the Google Now not to search things that you need very less on your Android device. Procedure: – Open Google Now – Go to settings (click three vertical dots shown at the button right corner of the screen) and then tap “Settings.” – Tap “Phone Search” option. – Now, uncheck items that you do not want Google Now to index or search for results before it searches the web....

Why Do Not Track (DNT) privacy feature in an email client? Tracking happens in a variety of ways, not just via tracking cookies, but can also through email messages, Mozilla says. “Sometimes email messages you receive contain external images — images that need to be loaded from the web to display the entire content of the message. This includes pixel tags and clear gifs. When your mail client renders the message, it has to go fetch the images from the web using the same technologies as a web browser” Email marketing agencies can make use of this technique to track which messages you read, which links in messages you click, so that they can provide more customized messages in the future....

Among many changes, use of vold decrypt for the HTC devices is one of the main changes. TWRP 3.1 now uses the system partition’s vold and vdc binaries and libraries to decrypt the data partition. Most changes are coding level, so if you enjoy using the TWRP 3.1 custom recovery then check out the full changelog. Below are the major changelog and new features of TWRP 3.1 TWRP 3.1 custom recovery download is now available for all supported devices....

For your information, Chromecast is a small, cheap dongle that connects to your TV and cast media to the big screen via Android phone and now via your Windows Phone too, though for YouTube video only. How to use Chromecast on Windows Phone Installing and configuring Tube Cast is simple. Turn on Wi-Fi, download the app on your Windows Phone, and launch it. The app should find you Chromecast device right away....

Browse any site in desktop mode on Android Stock browser Smartphone or tablet with Android Gingerbread Open the Android stock browser (Internet) and type about:useragent in the address bar and hit enter. A popup window will appear. It’ll display some useragents such as iPhone, desktop, nexus one, custom, etc. Select “Desktop” from the list and save the settings. Note: You can also add custom useragent. For that, select “custom” from the list and enter the usergent you want (for example: Mozilla/5....

The 7.1.2 Nougat update (TOS163B-N2G47H) comes with various bug fixes, optimizations and stability improvements. The update also includes very latest Android security patches (June 2017). In addition to the native features of Android 7.1.2 Nougat, Swift 2 series users can enjoy an enhanced experience from an extensively customized feature set. Wileyfox Swift 2, Swift 2X and Swift 2 Plus was launched with Cyanogen OS (based on Marshmallow). After Cyanogen team stopped up its service last year, Wileyfox promised continued OS update and in April 2017, the company rolled out Android 7....

Asus has already begun Android Pie open beta for ZenFone Max Pro M2 in India. ZenFone Max Pro M1 is the most awaited device for the update, which is now available for the device. If you own a ZenFone Max Pro M1 ZB602KL or ZB601KL and meets the below requirements, then you can join the beta program now. . Asus will start full deployments of the stable Android 9 Pie update once the beta testing completes....

If you have not received the OnePlus 6 OxygenOS 9.0.1 OTA update notification yet, check it manually by opening the Settings app and then go to System updates. Alternatively, you can download and install the full OTA update (link below) via Local upgrade method. As said above, the new OxygenOS 9.0.1 update for OnePlus 6 does not include any major changes. The update log is same as OxygenOS 9.0, which was released a month ago....

Getting ColorOS 5.0 public beta (Android 8.1 Oreo) on Oppo R11S/R11S Plus is a very easy process. Users first need to update their device to latest available software version (180106) and then install the Beta upgrade app on the device to join for the ColorOS beta program. Once enrolled for the ColorOS beta program, users can check for the ColorOS 5.0 update by going to Settings > Software Update. Note that the ColorOS beta program currently does not support Oppo R11T variants, but according to an XDA member, the beta works on older Oppo R11 and R11 Plus....

Google Messages RCS-based Chat Features is now available widely. But many users are facing RCS not connecting issues on their Android phone. Many users report that they are getting the error message “Trying to verify your number…” when turning on the chat features on their Android phone. Here are four methods to fix chat features not connecting issue on Android phone. If your service provider supports RCS, here are a few reasons for not connecting to the chat features in Google Messages....

For your information, Google introduced Adaptive Icons feature with Android 8.0 Oreo. This feature allows app developers to create icons that will have different shapes for different devices, so ensure a consistent look. For example, Facebook app icon can be square shape on one device and round shape on another device. Note: If you want to learn more about Android Oreo’s Adaptive Icons feature, check this article. Comes to Action Launcher’s Adaptive Icons feature, you can change icon style in Quickedit (find it under Action Launcher settings menu)....

Captured by an XDA contributor arpanbag1996, this official Android 6.0 Marshmallow OTA update (build MRA58M) is meant for Micromax Canvas A1 and can be installed via stock recovery. However, users should update their Canvas A1 to build LMY48M (Android 5.1) to apply the update. Micromax Canvas A1 users who updated their phone to LMY48M (Android 5.1) check for Android 6 OTA update by going to Settings -> About Phone -> System update....

You can download Angry Birds Rio at Android market for free.

After installing the Start G+ extension, a new Facebook and Twitter toggle buttons appear near to the native circles tabs below status space. To log into facebook, select the “Login with Facebook” menu items in the StartGoogle+ Toolbar menu. You do not need to explicitly login with Twitter. Now while updating Google Plus profile you can select to send the same message to other social platforms by toggling the facebook and twitter icons that appear above the Share button The extension also adds a Gmail inbox notifier to the top bar....

If you are an Android smartphone owner, VirusTotal offers a tool to scan all installed apps by more than 40 antivirus engines and flags any undesired content, if detected. [VirusTotal is a popular web service where you can upload suspicious files and scan it with multiple antivirus engines] With VirusTotal client for Android, you can upload any unknown apk file to VirusTotal to check it for malware (virus, trojans, and worms) with a multitude of antivirus engine making it easy to identify Android malware and helps you to protect yourself and your data from falling victim to malware....

You can make your choice permanent or temporary by clicking the plugin icon on the tab bar. Note that even if you uninstall the add-on your preference settings will not change. Click to Play Switch: Another add-on that adds a button to Firefox’s address bar to toggle the Click-to-Play on and off. You can toggle the setting on or off by clicking this button. It’ll reload the page automatically to make the changes....

Here is how to link your Google Drive with Quickoffice to get 10GB extra storage space. Since the Google Drive is linked to all Google products, you can use this extra space on Gmail and other Google services as well. Note that users without a Google Account can also use Quickoffice in their Google Chrome browser. How to connect Quickoffice with Google Drive on Android: – Install Quickoffice from Play Store and select Get started option....