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Did You Know That Android Can Be Tested for Water Resistance? Dropping, repairing or simply opening your smartphone can affect its performance. Including water resistance. Water Resistance Tester is a Google Play app that helps you test your phone for water resistance using the built-in barometer. To do this, you need to take off the case and put the phone on any surface, then press the fingerprint button, and the test will be done.

How to automate the process of managing your Android? You can greatly simplify your life by setting up automation in your smartphone. The MacroDroid app can help you do this. It offers a lot of templates and scripts for faster management. For example, you can easily set up the automatic activation of Wi-Fi when you start certain applications, or teach the phone to send coordinates when you receive an SMS with a certain command. And, if you wish to add something of your own, you need to click on "New Macro", select the values and create your script. Use it!

Apps to save you if you lose your smartphone No one is immune to the fact that his phone can fall into the hands of intruders. So better to worry about the safety of your data in advance by installing special applications. 1️⃣ Wasted application - locks and erases the phone in an emergency situation (for example, if it has not been turned on for a certain number of days). 2️⃣ Lockwatch app - takes a picture from the Android front camera every time someone enters the wrong password, and then sends it to your email.

Boosting Windows Internet speed by 20%. In case you didn't know, the OS limits Internet bandwidth to 20% by default. Let's fix that situation. To speed up the Internet, you need: 1️⃣ Press the "Win + R" combination, enter the command "gpedit.msc" in the window that appears and click "OK". 2️⃣ Follow the path: "Computer Configuration" > "Administrative Templates" > "Network" > "QoS Packet Scheduler". 3️⃣ Open the "Limit reserved bandwidth" section, turn on the slider and set the limit to "0". Save the changes and enjoy a faster Internet!

Alarm clock you don't want to break Every man wakes up in the morning with difficulty, and if you have a standard alarm clock, you want to crawl under the earth. Few people realize that awakening can be a pleasure. Sleept is an Android app that helps you get up "on the right foot". The best part is the melodies that gradually increase in volume. You can choose one of three, but that's good enough. There is also an option "Random" - the ringtones will not get into the subcortex and will not trigger a nervous breakdown.

​​A useful tool that will gather all the most important things from PDF documents. It will extract all important information from PDF documents, including charts, tables, and layouts, which are usually impossible to simply copy. No more need to waste time on manual retyping or look for workarounds — the technology will do it for you. Your task is to simply upload the file, and in a second you will get the finished result. No distortions, data loss, or the need to manually refine anything — everything remains in its original form, but now in a convenient for work format. The output is clean and structured information without watermarks and unnecessary elements. All data is extracted with maximum accuracy, preserving the original design, which is especially important for documents with important visual details. And the main thing is that it is absolutely free. Use it via the ➡️link.

How to hide an Android app from prying eyes? Sometimes there are cases when you need to give your phone to someone, but you do not want to have some applications seen. With the help of special software you can solve this situation. App Hider will help to avoid trouble and hide applications from the main menu in the secure storage. It works in the following way: the application is masked by some calculator. Among other things, it is possible to hide individual photos and videos from your gallery.

Deleting screenshots after a while You take screenshots all the time, and litter the gallery with them, as we often don't need them after a few minutes. To get rid of that, use the Mark app. The program will allow you to save only those screenshots that you will need in the future. The rest can be marked with just one click so that they are deleted after a specified time. Now you don't have to go through your screenshot directory again and delete useless snapshots.

Signing out of multiple accounts at once If you temporarily decide to let other people use your computer, you should take care that they cannot log into your accounts. The most logical thing to do would be to manually log into each platform and disable it, but that would take a lot of time. You can simplify the task by using Logify. It allows you to log out of all services and some of them. 1. Click on "Custom Logout." 2. Select the platforms of interest and click the "Logout" button.

How to find a person in all social networks? Ever wondered how to find a person in all social networks, messengers and popular services at once? Well, then the best option would be to use Namechk. Enter the nickname of the wanted person and click on the magnifying glass icon. You will see a few dozen logos of sites, all with different colors. If the color is green, the user with this nickname does not exist. Red - the user could not be found. Yellow - invalid. Gray - the account was found. By clicking a direct link to it.

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How to find anything in Google Drive? Google Drive stores a lot of public files. But there is one "but": it lacks a built-in search for all public folders. Such great potential simply cannot be lost, so the De Digger platform was created. It searches for public files on all foreign drives: just enter the name of the desired content into the search. You can use this in different situations, for example, to find pirated software if there is no torrent at hand. It also has format filters such as .jpg, .mp4, .pdf - all to make your search easier.

App for ideas and insights Everyone probably has brilliant thoughts from time to time, but you forget to write them down as you're too busy. To prevent this from happening, use the Weavit app, which literally "catches” thoughts on the fly. It works pretty simply: you type or dictate your thoughts to enter them into a database. The app, in turn, uses NLP technology to connect people, topics and events you know with your thoughts and tasks. The output is a digital map of your mind. Perfect.

How to download files from the Internet faster? Multithreaded file downloading on Android can solve the problem with the speed of downloading files by increasing it. Such a method is available in the ADM app. 1. Install ADM. 2. Open the panel on the left. 3. In the "Upload" section, set the desired number of threads to upload. 4. In the same section, turn on "Smart Download" and "Auto Resume". Done. Now you need to click on the "+" at the bottom right and insert a direct link to the file.

How to read fast? Our brains don't need to see the entire letter sequence to figure out what word we're seeing: it reads a couple of characters, the shape of the word, and completes the rest in a fraction of a second. Jiffy Reader lets you use this trick to increase your reading speed. In the extension's settings, you can enable or disable fast reading mode, adjust the accent interval, and set the number of characters to be highlighted in each word: from 1 to 3. The extension is available for the Google Chrome browser. The source code is available on GitHub. The project is completely free, there are no ads. The developers also plan to release versions for other browsers.

How to visually change the e-mail address in Gmail, but keep getting e-mails to it? It can happen often that if you have one account on some site, but need to create another one. You can't register a new account with the same email address, so you have to start another mailbox. However, Gmail boasts a "trick" that will free you from this. Google's mail service allows you to replace and shorten addresses according to three simple rules. What are those rules? 1. You can use two domains for any mailbox - gmail and googlemail. 2. Prior to the @ you can add a dot to the address. 3. Any words with a "+" sign can be added to the address before the @.

How to protect your device in case of loss or theft. It is better to protect yourself from unforeseen circumstances and install Prey Anti Theft, a tool to control your missing device remotely. With it, you can remotely delete all data, retrieve or encrypt it, and get screenshots or photos taken of your device. But perhaps the most useful feature is calculating the exact location of your smartphone or laptop. A GPS receiver is not even necessary - the program will scan the nearest Wi-Fi points and thus identify the location.

How to prepare for a job interview using AI? Once again, a great neuron from Google - the company recently launched the Interview Warmup trainer. It's a site that can help you practice answering interview questions to become more confident at a job interview. Through the use of various algorithms and scenarios, it literally recreates a real-life conversation with an interviewer. By the way, after you answer the questions, the tool will analyze your answers and offer suggestions for improvement.

What do people eat in various countries around the world? Lovers of intriguing dishes, exotics and recipes, have found the perfect website for you - TasteAtals. Basically, it's a world atlas of traditional dishes with authentic recipes (there are about 14,000 of them) and reviews by food critics. And it's all with an interactive global map where you can poke around and find out that France isn't just about croissants and onion soup. And there's also a ranking of dishes among users and a full overview of what ingredients are needed and how to make it all.

Create a unique fake persona. If you need to design a fake social media account, taking a photo of an existing person is not a good idea. At the very least, it can easily be recognized (and some photos have copyrights). Better to use the service 100,000 Faces - a project based on artificial intelligence that creates faces in photos from scratch. The settings allow you to choose different parameters (down to the emotion expressed and ethnic traits). The generated image can be used for any purpose without worrying about copyrights.