YouTube is one of the world’s best multimedia services provider. Owned by Google, YouTube has evolved through a vast set of changes. The Android and iOS version of the service is no less. Through updates pushed out continuously, the app has been stabled to a very good extent. However, some issues still wander around. One of these is the error 410 . This error is usually caused on Android and iOS devices when using the YouTube app and the reason for this error is often a network problem with your device but it can be caused in some other scenarios as well....

The periods that appear on Google Docs are usually very small in comparison to the rest of the text. And many people are not comfortable with the fact that these periods are not as visibly clear as the text in the document is. Google Docs has no such feature where the periods can be increased in size or weight, however, there are two ways in which you can try to change the size of these periods manually....

YouTube Music playlists are public by default. Users can change this setting to unlisted or private, with the private option restricting access to only the creator. To make a playlist private on YouTube Music, users can edit the playlist’s settings on both desktop and mobile platforms, selecting the private option under privacy settings. When creating a new playlist on YouTube Music, users have the option to set the privacy to private during the creation process, both on desktop and mobile devices....

Universal Disk Format (UDF) refers to the ISO 13346 and ECMA-167 vendor-neutral specification for computer data storage. While in practice it’s used to author DVDs, there’s nothing stopping someone from actually formatting a fixed disk as UDF. More practically, it’s used for optical media like CD-RW and DVD-RW/DVD+R to allow users to add and remove files from them. Some professional high-end digital camcorders also use the less common DVD-RAM format, which also uses this....

The Local Group Policy Editor is a tool in Windows that helps manage and set up various settings for your computer and its users. Here’s a simpler explanation of what it does and how it works: How to Open Local Group Policy Editor on Windows What is Local Group Policy Editor? Local Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) is like a control panel for admins. It lets them set rules and policies for how the computer and the user accounts work....

If you are unable to update your Xbox, encountering the green screen of death, or dealing with network connection issues that prevent updates, you can use the Xbox Offline Update to update your console. Xbox Offline Update You can download the Xbox OSU (Offline System Update) and place it on a USB drive. Then that drive can be used to install the OSU onto your Xbox. Prerequisites of Performing an Xbox Offline Update To perform Xbox offline update, make sure the following conditions are met:...

Halo Infinite, released nearly three years ago, includes multiplayer mode and supports split-screen multiplayer on Xbox consoles. Split-screen multiplayer allows up to 4 players on the same device, but this feature is limited to Xbox Series X/S for 4 players and Xbox One/One X for 2 players. To play split-screen multiplayer on Halo Infinite, players need at least two controllers, two Xbox accounts, and follow a few steps to connect and start a game....

The Taskbar is an element of Windows 10 that is located at the bottom of the screen and toolbars are one of the many features that the Taskbar provides. There are several built-in toolbars that the users can set or create a new toolbar. The Taskbar toolbars can help in quickly accessing addresses, links, and specific files. This can be easily set by right-clicking on the Taskbar and choosing options. However, if your PC is used by multiple users, then they can also use this feature for enabling and disabling toolbars....

Android phones don’t typically have a built-in method for recording internal dialogue out of the box. Samsung devices introduced internal recording on Android 7 and newer phones, and most recently, Xiaomi allows for screen recording with internal audio on MIUI 10 (Android 8). It’s a tiny list of devices that allow internal audio capture though. With the release of Android 10. Google has introduced an API called AudioPlaybackCapture to do this which was restricted in the earlier versions of Android....

In Windows 10, the newly installed applications will be listed as a Recently added section in the Start Menu. It shows up at the top left of the Start Menu. This feature displays the most recent three installed applications, but users can view more by clicking on the Expand button under it. This is a great feature that allows you to quickly launch the recently installed programs. However, if you don’t want other users to see the recently installed applications, you can remove this section....

A Chromebook is a laptop or tablet running the Chrome OS as its operating system. Chrome OS is designed by Google and based on the Linux kernel operating system. It is based on the free software Chromium OS and uses the Google Chrome web browser as its main user interface. As a result, Chrome OS supports web applications with data mostly residing in the cloud rather than on the system itself....

The Epson WF-3540 is an all-in-one solution to all of your printing, scanning and copying needs. The Epson WF-3540 is a wireless all-in-one printer that can not only print and scan documents but can also copy them – all while being connected to computers wirelessly. The Epson WF-3540 is capable of scanning documents and then directly e-mailing them to a valid email address, but most people have trouble with this specific feature as it needs to be configured....

Sometimes users will be using multiple languages in their writing on Windows 10. The text can be totally in a different language or just some special characters from other languages. This is why users need to use different keyboard layouts to use those characters for their text. Now we all know that Windows provides multiple keyboard layouts for users to add. However, changing them without any shortcuts will be time-consuming and pretty annoying....

Screen Mirroring (also referred to as screencasting ) allows you to wirelessly transmit pictures, videos, movies, presentations, and games from a laptop or desktop screen to a large screen. The term “large screen” usually refers to an HDTV or 4KTV, but you can also cast the content to a media projector if it has HDMI or wireless support. In this guide, I will walk you through the best methods for achieving screen mirroring on a PC....

By default, when you receive a Skype call or are on one, the volume of any other sounds being played by your computer is reduced by up to 80% (exact value depends on your preferences). This isn’t even Skype’s doing – in the interest of transparency, this is actually something that Windows does, not something that Skype does. Windows counts Skype calls as “communications activity”, and Windows is configured to reduce the volume of all other sounds by a specific percentage whenever it detects communications activity on the system....

There was a time when network administrators used to calculate subnets and IP address ranges manually — piece by piece. In this modern era, there are tons of software that you can utilize to calculate subnets and IP address ranges. For the sake of this article, we will be using a free tool provided by SolarWinds called Advanced Subnet Calculator . SolarWinds is a company that develops tools for network and system administrators for their businesses....

Wi-Fi drivers can sometimes be difficult to configure in Linux, even if they otherwise work when you start your computer up into a version of Microsoft Windows or another operating system. You may find that a wireless network adapter fails to automatically connect or you might even find that you have to click the connection icon more than once in a graphical environment to get it to work. Generally, what’s happening is that the system isn’t polling the driver long enough....

When unlocking a Huawei modem or Pocket WiFi, users may face issues like the device not recognizing a different carrier’s SIM card. This usually prompts a request for an unlock code, necessary to bypass carrier restrictions. Unlock codes are generated from the device’s IMEI, but entering an incorrect code multiple times or having incompatible firmware can lead to errors. Common issues include using firmware versions unsupported by the unlock tool or devices locked with newer algorithms....

Xiaomi’s flagship Mi5 is one of the most incredible smartphones available on the market, offering hardware specs and performance comparable to the Samsung S7, at a fraction of Samsung’s cost. Unlocking the Xiaomi boot loader and rooting the device is a bit of an adventure, however. This guide will walk you step-by-step through the process. How to Unlock the Xiaomi Mi5 Boot loader and Root – Official Request While locked boot loaders are often a point of contention for Android enthusiasts, Xiaomi offers an official method to unlock your Xiaomi Mi5 boot loader....

If you’re using the modern bash shell, then you can use Ctrl+R as a keyboard shortcut to search through your command history. You can bring up commands that you used previously and issue them over again. This might work in other shells as well, such as if you’re using ksh in emacs mode. You can actually speed up your command line workload a great deal using this little trick. You’ll have to be working from a terminal for this to work....