Ashish Mundhra

The limitations of just 140 characters in text messaging and Twitter has taken the world of internet to use abbreviations for almost all commonly used phrases. Common ones like ASAP and LOL are fine, but at times, I had to search Urban Dictionary to

The reason I like Facebook Chat Heads is that it works on top of all the other apps. So suppose you are playing a game or reading an interesting article on Guiding Tech, you don’t have to leave the app to reply to your friend’s message on Faceboo

At times, while browsing Facebook or let’s say Vimeo, you might have an urge to download the videos to watch it offline anytime, anywhere. But when it comes to downloading videos from websites, things are not as straightforward on Android as t

Believe it or not, I don’t use Evernote, OneNote or any other note-taking application. Whenever I have to remember something, I open up the Google App on my phone and search for it. For example, at a bookstore, I search for names of the books that

Whenever we have talked anything related to accessing Android using the computer through ADB, we have always asked you to enable Developer Options to enable USB Debugging so that the computer can read your Android device through the ADB bridge. But t

At times, while encoding your videos from the RAW format, there might be a few instances where the audio goes out of sync with the video. If you are the one who rendered the video, it’s easy to fix the mistake. Just use different settings in the en

In one of the motivational talk shows I saw on TED, I learned that freedom to make mistakes helps you to free yourself from all constraints of being perfect and helps you to open yourself to all kind of opportunities and possibilities.

When it comes to online privacy and security, one of the topics that we always emphasize on is using a VPN service. Using a VPN, you can make sure that your online privacy is secured as you can browse the web anonymously. In case  you are lookin

With Android Marshmallow, developers at Google launched a feature called Doze which focused on extending the battery life of the device by stopping the background processes while the phone is lying idle. However, the Doze mode will only work if the d

Ever since I started using Windows 10, every time I opened the Task Manager in detailed view, the disk usage activity always touched the mark of 100%. If not a century, it was always above 90% which was quite odd. For the first few days, I thought th

This week on our How to Mondays segment on YouTube, I talked about an app using which you can set dynamic PIN lock on your Android device which changes automatically and thus makes it tough for intruders to get past the security. In case you are wond

It was the Google I/O Conference yesterday and as always, there is so much to talk about it in the tech world. So many new things – apps and services were launched like Allo, Duo, Google Home, etc. But out of all these, the one thing that caught my

According to a study, 1 in 4 online accounts gets hacked which in broader terms means that around a quarter of all the online accounts get hacked. If that account is your default email or your social media account, it will give the hacker a lot of in

Until the last week, for almost 2 years or so, I have used Chrome as my default browser. Unfortunately, last week some adware infected my chrome installation which was affecting my browsing experience. All the adware, spyware and rootkit removers fai

A person who is a die-hard fan of Game of Thrones hears that the first episode of the season is out and it might be a few hours before he can watch it. So, probably he would lock himself in a room, throw away the key and cut every communication

I have always loved the idea of interacting with any device based on gestures. I mean, who would want to use the back button when you can just swipe back from the left edge of the screen to go back in the app. But such an option is only available on

I still remember the day I shifted from a Symbian device to my first Android i.e. Samsung Galaxy S. I was amazed at so many new things like the interface, apps, and a camera that made Android so much better than the former device I had.

We have seen a lot of innovation when it comes to smartphone hardware specifications. Compared to last year’s dual core or quad core processor, we have deca-core processors with as much as 6 GB of RAM which is a

One of the most impressive features of the all new Samsung Galaxy S7 is its always-on display. The feature uses the AMOLED display to give an active clock, calendar and other useful info on the black background of the Galaxy S7 lock screen which alwa

A few weeks back we discussed an app for Android using which you can select and copy un-selectable text to the clipboard. We need such features on our smartphones, but if you think about it, we need a similar feature on our Windows computer. Let’s