Google has just announced that it would allow “non-gaming apps” on Android to bill its users outside of the Play Store. Essentially, enabling developers to use alternate, third-party payment systems for their apps. The important thing to note here is that this only applies to users residing inside the European Economic Area (EEA). Outside of EEA countries, and for gaming apps that don’t come under Google’s definition of what a game is, developers will still be required to use the Play Store’s built-in payment system....

Windows does provide ways of renaming your files. You can rename files from your Windows/File Explorer or via MS DOS (command prompt). Windows PowerShell also offers a renaming cmdlet. The only problem with these methods is that you can only rename files one by one. There might be complex batch renaming MS DOS commands and PowerShell cmdlets that allow you to rename your files, but they don’t seem to be able to pick your file properties or are too complex to execute: you will have to create a text file list of names for the computer to use and your current files must be in a certain format....

When Spotify finds any locally stored music on your computer, it tallies the songs it finds with its own servers to see if they are also available on Spotify’s music cloud. Songs Spotify locates as local files on your computer are synced to your Spotify account, and you can then share them via social networks from there. Very few people who have copies of songs stored locally on their computers have every single song stored in one folder, much less all of them in one of the three directories Spotify usually checks for downloaded songs....

If you click on running instance, you will also what Elastic IP address is associated with it.

For this purpose, you can easily use a TFTP server on your network to backup your router configuration. Naturally, to do this, you would need to setup and configure a TFTP server in your network. When you have a TFTP server configured and ready to go, the remaining process is rather simple and can be done via a few commands only. With that said, let us get started and show you how to backup your router configuration to a TFTP server....

Bluetooth headphones are not only meant for smartphones but are also used in PCs. Here we will walk you through the steps on how you can connect the headphones to your computer without any hassle. Just make sure that your headphones are not connected to some other device and if it was connected with this PC, remember to remove it from the list of remembered Bluetooth devices. Method 1: Using Settings (for computers with inbuilt Bluetooth) We will use Windows settings to enter the Bluetooth menu and try connecting with your headphones....

Fortunately, there is a simple shortcut to creating what is called a hybrid app, as opposed to creating a native app. A hybrid app basically utilizes Android’s built in WebView to present your app, with plug-ins available that allow your hybrid app to access the camera, messaging service, and other aspects of the Android system. A hybrid app can easily be built for multiple operating systems, since they mostly use Java, HTML5, and CSS to run....

Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit) Pentium 233-megahertz (MHz) processor or faster (300 MHz is recommended) 50MB of free space on your hard drive DVD-R drive or 4GB removable USB flash drive Create a Bootable Windows 7 USB/DVD Download the Windows 7 bootable USB/DVD Download Tool by Clicking Here. Click and run the downloaded file Windows7-USB-DVD-tool.exe. You will be asked to choose the ISO file for which you need to create the USB/DVD....

One such unique feature is the Quick Resume which allows the players to quickly move between various games and can also continue where they left their gameplay even after rebooting their device. Not only this, the gamers can resume multiple games immediately even from the save state. This is really amazing feature and is liked by various users as they can carry various functions like easily continuing the game from where they paused earlier....

You’ll naturally need a command line for this, so start a terminal from the Dash or perhaps search for it on the Dash. You could also hold down Ctrl, Alt and T to start one up or look for LXTerminal on the System Tools menu in LXDE. There’s no need to use sudo or have administrator access for this one. Each command may be run as a regular user, and in fact the $PATH environment variable is tied to a specific user account....

It helps in removing the unnecessary files from your hard drives in order to boost the speed of the computer. This facility is available in almost all versions of Windows and its performance has been increased in order to provide a sharp cleanup service preventing the users to install third-party cleanup softwares. How it Works? Disk Cleanup utility work the same as any other cleanup software. It can delete unnecessary files including system files, temporary files and all those files which are just a junk inside the PC....

In case you already have Windows 10 installed on your PC but you’re keen to try the new OS from Microsoft, you don’t necessarily have to upgrade your current installation. You can just as easily install Windows 11 on a different partition or disk to achieve a dual boot setup (with Windows 11 AND Windows 10). This article will walk you through every method that will allow you to do this....

Early versions of this feature weren’t working properly, as they would consider every network as “unstable” after a period of time and switch to mobile data without switching back to that particular Wi-Fi network ever again. Although Smart Network Switch has constantly received patches aimed at fixing the bugs, some users still doubt its effectiveness. A lot of Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge users reported that their Wi-Fi connections get automatically terminated – including those with very strong signal and bandwidth....

In fact, the OnePlus forums are filled with threads of people complaining the right side “speaker” isn’t working. So the OnePlus 6T may not actually have dual speakers as consumers were led to believe, but some modders have put together a way of enabling the earpiece speaker as an output. It also turns out that the OnePlus 6T speaker is actually quite powerful with the right adjustments. The stock audio tuner just leaves a lot to be desired....

Some phones showed a no SIM card after being dropped or water damaged. In some cases, even an E-SIM also showed the no SIM card error. Before moving to the main troubleshooting methods, you should go ahead and restart your phone, and verify if the SIM is inserted correctly, if that doesn’t fix the following error then you can proceed with the methods listed below. 1. Enable and Disable Your Phone’s Airplane Mode Enabling and disabling the airplane mode re-establishes the connection with cell towers and it also refreshes your network configuration....

In this error, the user notices a blank white screen (with the title of Win32AppBackgroundContext) that starts bombarding his screen, and whenever the user closes the message, it pops back up. Usually, the pop-up is caused by the following: Uninstall Easy Mail for Gmail from Your System Many users tend to install different mail management app and one such app is Easy Mail for Gmail. This mail app, sometimes, becomes incompatible with the user system (due to a recent Windows update) and starts showing the pop-up under discussion....

If you are facing this error, you won’t be allowed to reset your Windows, making this error very tricky to resolve. Therefore, you will have to use Windows recovery environment mode to execute the following methods. 1. Restore Registry Files From RegBack The first method is to restore the registry files. The config folder is also known to be a database of the registry files, and you cannot delete it normally as the folder is under the system’s control....

This transistor count is a big jump over the outgoing -60 series graphics card, the GeForce GTX 1060, which was based on the Pascal architecture. These numbers help rocket the RTX 2060 way past the GTX 1060 in terms of performance, which is to be expected in a generational improvement. The RTX 2060 is, however, a fairly tame card in terms of power usage. Most of its variants (including the Founder’s Edition card) are dual-slot cards that ensure a wide range of compatibility with various PC cases....

The Ryzen 5 5600x features six cores, and all of these cores are centralized to a single CCX design which enables the processor to communicate with peripheral devices much faster while also improving the latency speeds. Paired with a decent motherboard, the 5600x is a beast and will not disappoint you whether you use it for gaming, streaming, 3D design, video editing, or anything else. The processor features high overclock ceilings, along with low TDP performance....

Why pay for something if you can get it for free? Several open-source word processors have followed in MS Word’s footsteps by adopting DOC/DOCX compatibility and offering similar features. These word processors can be used online; some even have downloadable offline versions. More importantly, they are free to use for any purpose, including writing and editing lengthy documents. Let’s examine which free word processors are worth considering. 1. Google Docs Google Docs is an excellent alternative to MS Word and a widely used word processor by individuals and businesses....