It becomes extremely challenging to comprehend the existence of a further file format that serves the identical function as installing an app on your phone by the time you understand what an APK file is. An XAPK file is best understood as an archived file including an original APK file and a subdirectory holding additional programme data. Smaller apps may fit all their data into a single APK file, but bigger apps and games need bigger APK files and directories to accommodate their data....

Guide: How to Know the Right Topic for writing a Blog It doesn’t take a super sleuth to figure out that writing isn’t that hard when it’s cracked up to be. However, thinking about what to write is a whole different story. Two factors come into play when choosing the type of writing you will do regularly: what you can do and what do you want to achieve? Are you good at writing compelling stories about fictional characters, or are you the kind of person who finds writing nonfiction almost second nature?...

Although you won’t need it often, you can adjust the system environment variables. For instance, you might want to make your Bash shell command history cache larger. To change the maximum number of remembered commands, change the value of the $HISTSIZE environment variable in your “.bashrc” file. Although it’s convenient and neat, you won’t be doing that frequently. Environment variables are frequently ignored after being updated or are left at their default values....

With them, typing an acronym will cause a full article, URL, or something similar to appear in the type bar. As said earlier, there are several keyboard apps. Although most of them may have text shortcuts, the procedures vary depending on the application chosen as the default. As a result, each of the following subsections will cover a different application. We’ve chosen the three most used ones, which are probably the ones you already use....

Enabling dark mode in your web browser will dim the lighting. How you enable such a function is determined upon the browser you use and the operating system of your device. The colour of the pages you view is determined by the site’s creator, but dark mode makes the toolbar and settings pages of the browser much easier to see, especially if you’re sitting in a dark room. Apple added the ability to enable a dark mode appearance to a selected live wallpaper available under Collections in the iOS 16 upgrade....

Guide: How to Manage Con­nect­ed Devices to Insta­gram Account With the increasing number of social media account takeovers and hacks, it is essential to take the security of your social media account more seriously. That also applies to Instagram. However, it is not enough to protect your accounts with a strong password, because online security is more than just passwords. One of the best ways to keep your Instagram account safe is to make sure that you are the only one with authorized access to the device (s) you are using it from....

How to manage the battery of your Android mobile – Guide Let’s not say it’s decisive, but the truth is that when we buy a new one mobile we care a lot about how much autonomy we take home. Whether it’s going to be a lot or a little and whether it’s possible that it won’t last a whole day. Therefore, keeping energy consumption under control becomes an important element. Also, within the Android landscape there is huge fragmentation, so there is no single magic formula with which to make all existing device batteries stretch like gum beyond what they can handle, so we can only resort to generic advice....

When you click on the Start menu icon, everything will also appear significantly differently. You now get a considerably more modest assortment of programme icons, the majority of which display Microsoft-related apps pinned to the home page, in place of the big square Live Tiles that previously appeared. The recognizable A-to-Z display of apps appears when you click “All apps” in the upper right corner (near the search field). No tiles, though....

How to Mute WhatsApp Chat Indefinitely – Guide The popular instant messaging app “WhatsApp” has developed a new feature which allows users to mute groups or a personal chat forever. You used to mute someone for 8 hours, a week, or a year. You can now mute everyone forever by choosing “Forever” until you change your mind. WhatsApp chats will be activated when the time limit is up. With the Always option, you don’t have to go back to mute specific chats....

Every Windows user eventually learns about the command prompt. For many years, Windows users have used the Command Prompt as their command line terminal for all types of operations, from opening applications to performing complex tasks and troubleshooting. However, there are other ways to access the command prompt. In fact, there are many of them. We track every method to access the command prompt, from the most obvious to the most obscure, because having too many options is preferable to not knowing how to get there when you need it....

In Windows 10 and previous versions, we saw separate entries in the Start Menu for Command Prompt, PowerShell, Control Panel, and so on. They expand the list on the Start Menu. With Windows 11, Microsoft consolidated them all into a single folder called Windows Tools. you’ll need to tweak Windows. Let’s look at how to open Windows Tools in Windows 11. We have mentioned steps below to Open Component Services in Windows 11...

Control Panel is hidden in Windows 11 and Windows 10 compared to previous Microsoft operating systems like Windows 7, so we had to fix that. The Windows Control Panel is a group of “applets”, or quick apps, that are used to customize various features of the Windows operating system. Although it’s been available since Windows 1.0, finding it now can be a little challenging. Since most of the Control Panel functionality has moved to the newer Settings menu, you may struggle to find it or question whether Windows 11 actually has a Control Panel....

How to open Zip files on Android – Guide Here it is how to open Zip files on Android with just a few clicks If you don’t already know how to opening Zip files on Android, so you can assume it’s not possible – after all, Zip files are mostly associated with desktops and laptops. But it turns out that Android can handle them with the right software – and in fact, that software usually comes installed on your computer....

In addition, they could use up all your computer’s resources, resulting in slow gameplay. Diablo Immortal is finally here to grace our phones (and PCs) and allows us to re-enter the world of Sanctuary to engage in combat with the powers of hell after what seems like an eternity of waiting since the controversial reveal at Blizzcon 2018. This particular game takes place just five years after the Worldstone’s destruction, placing it between Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction and Diablo 3 in terms of series chronology....

How To Post On Instagram From PC and Mac – Guide Instagram is one of the biggest social networks today, but not everyone is familiar with it. If you don’t use social media, you might be wondering what Instagram is and how it works. Instagram is a free social networking service that is all about sharing photos and videos. It was initially released for the iPhone in October 2010 and has been available for Android since April 2012....

Guide: How to Prevent Uber From Track­ing Your Location There was a huge outcry over Uber’s recent update, which allowed the app to track its users even when they weren’t using the app, causing a lot of privacy issues among the masses. The app was able to track a user’s location five minutes after getting off the ride. Mark Warner | Flickr But that’s not it; the Uber app also tracks your location when you use the foreground app, such as when looking for a taxi and booking the ride....

How to protect your phone from malware and cybercriminals – Guide Cybersecurity experts assess the ground rules for protecting your smartphone and other personal devices from malicious software In 1971, Bob Thomas, a programmer at BBN Technologies, a US-based technology company, created the world’s first computer virus. It was called the Creeper program. The Creeper virus was harmless, designed as an experimental security test to see if a self-replicating program could work....

How to purchase laptop charging lockers – Guide Laptops, tablets and phones they have become a normal part of life. Whether you work or are still at school, having a safe place to store your valuable electronics is essential and can usually be found in the form of a locker. But with fast-changing times comes the need for better storage solutions, which is where loading cabinets come in. But how to know which ones laptop Is the charging cabinet best for your environment?...

As a result of the Android OS policy that prohibits screen recording apps from recording both internal and external sound of an Android phone or tablet after Android Lollipop version, recording internal and external sound through a microphone is a workaround. However, KitKat version of Android OS has finally allowed Android Smartphone users to record the screens on their devices. To accomplish this, Google has included an API called AudioPlaybackCapture, which was restricted in earlier Android releases....

How to remove a folder in multi-folder hierarchy? – Guide Still learning MacOS (coming from Win/Linux experience). Today, I was trying to create a new folder and the next thing I know, MacOS created / inserted some folders into my files hierarchy – above the folder I was working on. So I was trying to do something like files / documents / photos / and tried to create a new folder inside the last one....