Add Thumbnails to YouTube Videos YouTube automatically prepares 3 small video clips for every video that you upload to YouTube and allows you to choose anyone of these 3 video clips as an animated thumbnail for your YouTube Video. In case you want to be more creative, you can get your YouTube Account verified by Google, which provides you with the privilege to assign Custom Thumbnail Images for your YouTube Videos....

What Happens When You Archive WhatsApp Chats The Archive Chat feature in WhatsApp can be used to hide unwanted, unimportant, inactive and less frequent Chats from the Chats screen, without actually deleting those Chats from WhatsApp. When you archive a Chat in WhatsApp, the entire conversation is moved from the Chats Screen to Archive screen in WhatsApp, from where it can be easily accessed at any time. Archiving Chats in WhatsApp does not disturb the Chats in any way, Archived Chats gets automatically unarchived and become available on My Chats screen, as soon as you receive a new message from any Archived Chat....

Backup WhatsApp to Google Drive Google provides 15 GB of Free Cloud storage to all Gmail Users and you can use this to Backup all your WhatsApp Messages and Photos to Google Drive. Depending on your choice, you can either Setup automated WhatsApp Backups to Google Drive on your Android Device or manually Backup WhatsApp to Google Drive. While you can manually Backup WhatsApp at any time, automated WhatsApp Backups can be set to take place Daily, Weekly or Monthly frequencies....

Scroll Direction on Mac By default, the scroll direction on a Mac is Natural, designed to use your mouse and trackpad the same way as you would use a touchscreen device. In simple terms this means that you will have to move your finger down on the trackpad/mouse of your Mac in order to scroll-up and move your finger up on the track pad/mouse, in order to scroll down the screen of your Mac....

Check iPhone Battery Health iPhone comes with a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, which starts to lose its capacity to hold charge over a period of time, depending on its usage. According to Apple, iPhone batteries gradually start to decline in performance and usually work at about 80% capacity after 500 complete charge cycles. In other words, the Battery on an iPhone with 500 complete charge cycles is likely to last for 8 hours, if it previously provided an average battery life of about 10 hours (Hope this makes sense?...

Check RAM Size, Speed & Type in Windows 11/10 RAM (Random Access Memory) can be defined as short-term memory that your computer uses to store information required to quickly open Programs, Apps and Files. The amount of RAM available on a computer determines its speed and capacity to handle programs and files. If a computer is lacking in RAM capacity, the information required to run programs cannot be stored in its Random Access Memory....

Clear Browsing History, Cookies and Cache on Kindle Fire Just like any other web browser, the Silk browser also stores cookies and records history of your browsing activity while using the Kindle Fire Tablet. At any time, you can clear browsing history, cookies and cache from the Silk browser on your Kindle Fire Tablet, for privacy or to improve the performance of Silk browser. Clear Browsing History, Cookies and Cache on Silk Browser If you are already in Silk browser, you can follow the steps below to clear your browsing history, cookies and cached images/files stored on your device....

Clear Chrome Browser Cache on Android Phone Chrome browser stores Icons, Images and reusable sections of websites that you visit on your Android Phone in a temporary storage location known as the Cache. When you revisit the same websites, Chrome browser makes use of this pre-stored data in its Cache, instead of re-downloading images, icons and other elements from the web server. This results in faster rendering of webpages, saves mobile data and leads to a better user experience....

Clear Browsing History from iPhone All major web browsers, including the default iPhone Safari browser keep an accurate record of websites that you visit and this information can be easily accessed by anyone that has access to your device. Hence, a good reason for clearing browsing history from your device would be to prevent the possibility of anyone being able to view your browsing history. Apart from this, an important reason for clearing browsing history and cached data is to clear out stale or expired cached data, which can often slow down and impact the performance of your device....

Close All Safari Tabs at Once on iPhone When you open websites on iPhone Safari browser, the webpages open in their own hidden browsing tabs, instead of opening in separate visible browsing windows. While this “Tabbed browsing” feature in Safari prevents the browser from being cluttered with numerous browsing windows, it creates multiple browsing tabs, which remain hidden in the background. Having too many browser tabs active in the background ultimately leads to excessive resource usage, which in-turn leads to slowing down of iPhone....

Delete Desktop Background Images in Windows 10 As you must have noticed, right-click does not work when you try to delete system desktop background images that already exist on your computer. Similarly, you will not be able to right-click and delete external images that you may have uploaded and used previously as desktop background images on your computer. Hence, we are providing below the steps to delete both System and Uploaded Desktop Background images in Windows 10....

Delete iPhone Backups From Mac Downloading a complete backup of iPhone on Mac allows you to restore iPhone, in case something goes wrong with your iPhone. However, the practice of downloading up-to-date backup copies of iPhone on a regular basis leads to accumulation of old iPhone backup Files on your device. If you do not see any value or purpose in keeping old iPhone backup files, you can delete them and regain storage space on your device....

Disable Control Center Access from iPhone Lock Screen The Control Center on iPhone provides easy access to Settings for WiFi, Bluetooth, Airplane Mode, Silent Mode, Do Not Disturb Mode and other features on your device. By default, the Control Center can be accessed right from the Lock Screen of your device, without the need to use Finger Print, FaceID or Lock Screen Passcode. This practically means that leaving your device unattended or away from sight exposes it to the potential risk of its Settings being changed or modified, without your knowledge....

Disable Raise to Wake on iPhone The “Raise to Wake” feature basically allows iPhone to sense that it is being picked up, which makes it to automatically switch-on its Lock Screen and provide access to Notifications and Control Center. In addition to this, you can take Photos by swiping to the left and access Widgets by swiping to the right on the Lock Screen. However, there are users who want to disable “Raise to wake” on their devices to prevent the possibility of Notifications on the Lock Screen being viewed by others around them....

Disable Remote Assistance in Windows 10 & 11 As mentioned above, the Remote Assistance feature in Windows 10 & 11 allows you or anyone else that you can trust to gain access to your computer from a remote location. The main purpose of this feature is to allow someone in your family or a trusted technical support person to diagnose and fix problems on your computer, even if they are located far away from your device....

Download Windows 10 ISO File (Disc Image) When you visit Microsoft’s official download website from a Windows computer, you will not see the option to download Windows 10 ISO File. Instead, you will see the option to Download Windows Media Creation tool, which can be used to create Windows 10 ISO File or Disk Image on a USB Drive. However, when you visit Microsoft’s download page using a MacBook or Chromebook, you will see the option to Download Windows 10 ISO File directly to the USB Drive....

What is FileVault? FileVault can be best described as an in-built disk encryption feature available on your Mac. FileVault full-disk encryption (FileVault 2) uses XTS-AES-128 encryption with a 256 bit key to protect all your files and data on Mac. Once you enable FileVault feature on Mac, it starts encrypting the current files and folders on your Mac. This can take anywhere from 15 minutes to 3 hours depending on the amount of data on your Mac and the speed of your Mac....

Enable Low Data Mode on iPhone Unknown to you, there might be many Apps on your device unnecessarily using up Cellular or Mobile Data, even if you are not actively using them. This happens due to the default tendency of social media and other Apps to remain connected with their parent servers to carry out background activities, even while they are not actively being used. You can fix this issue by Enabling Low Data Mode for Cellular/Mobile Network on your iPhone or by Enabling Low Data Mode for specific data hungry Apps on your device....

Enable JavaScript in Internet Explorer Sometimes JavaScript can accidentally get disabled in Internet Explorer and you may find website menus not functioning or websites not allowing you to login. In such cases, you can enable JavaScript in Internet Explorer by following the steps below. Open Internet Explorer on your computer Click on the Gear icon and click on Internet Options in the drop-down menu. 3. Click on Security tab and then click on Custom Level… button....

DNS Server Not Responding Error in Windows As you must be aware, the primary function of a DNS (Domain Name System) server is to translate the website name into the IP address at which the website that you want to connect to is located. For example, when you try to access “google.com” on your computer, the DNS server translates it to 216.58.218.196, allowing the web browser to connect to the IP address at which Google’s website is located....