Alexandra Arici, Author at Make Tech Easier https://www.maketecheasier.com/author/arici-alexandra/ Uncomplicating the complicated, making life easier Tue, 12 Jul 2022 21:25:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.1 https://www.maketecheasier.com/assets/themes/MTE-twelve/images/mtelogo.svghttps://www.maketecheasier.com/assets/themes/MTE-twelve/images/mtelogo.svg337ab7 How to Hide Your Facebook Friends List from Others https://www.maketecheasier.com/manage-hide-facebook-friends/ https://www.maketecheasier.com/manage-hide-facebook-friends/#respond Tue, 12 Jul 2022 21:25:00 +0000 https://www.maketecheasier.com/?post_type=post-ideas&p=371593

Despite your Facebook allowing access to your entire list of friends by default, you can easily hide your Facebook Friends list from. This is great for helping people find mutual acquaintances, especially if they’ve just signed up to Facebook. However, you may prefer to keep your Friends list private. This tutorial shows you how to be sneakier about your online friendships. You’ll learn how to hide your Facebook Friends list from your online buddies, including how to hide your Friends list from specific users. You’ll also learn how to make your entire Friends list private, which is perfect if you’re worried about online privacy.

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Facebook has become ubiquitous in today’s world. It’s something you expect to always be there working, ready to service your need to snoop on people from your distant past and get involved in whatever strange Facebook groups you’re part of. If pictures are not loading on Facebook, then that defeats a big point of the social site’s appeal. For this reason, we’ve put together a list of reasons your Facebook pictures might not be loading and what you can do about it.

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Telegram is one of the better WhatsApp alternatives out there, but that doesn’t mean it always runs as it should. For instance, sometimes the media files you receive through Telegram while chatting won’t automatically be saved to your phone’s gallery app as they normally should. If you’re also affected by this issue, which seems to be quite widespread, follow us in this article as we detail some methods that could potentially correct the problem.

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If you erased all your text messages by accident or clearing out your inbox for some space and want your SMS messages back, you might not be able to do that on Android if you didn’t back them up first. At the same time, if you’ve just switched to a new device, you may want to bring your text messages to the new Android.

Backing up is the only viable way to retrieve your SMS messages from an Android device. We show you in this tutorial how to back up your text messages on your Android using various methods, so that when you eventually need them, you can safely restore them without issue.

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Curious to see who’s been checking you out on TikTok? The video creation app has recently introduced a feature which allows you to see who has viewed your profile. However, this option is not on by default, and so you’ll need to enable it manually in the TikTok app before you can start seeing who viewed your profile. This tutorial shows you how to take advantage of the option as well as control who gets to see your profile.

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How TikTok Profile Views Work

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Snapchat users have been able to create cute customizable 3D avatars since 2016. What you may not know is that Instagram has a similar feature. It’s a bit hidden, so you might not have been aware of this option. This tutorial shows how you can create your own personalized avatar in Instagram and start using it immediately.

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What Are Instagram Avatars?

Meta introduced avatars on Facebook Messenger back in 2019, and now they’ve made it Instagram as well. An avatar is your customizable persona that you can... Read more]]> https://www.maketecheasier.com/create-use-instagram-avatar/feed/ 0 11 Omegle Alternatives to Chat with Strangers https://www.maketecheasier.com/best-omegle-alternatives/ https://www.maketecheasier.com/best-omegle-alternatives/#respond Sun, 12 Jun 2022 19:25:00 +0000 https://admin.maketecheasier.com/?p=453358

Omegle made a huge splash when it was created back in 2009 with the out-of-the-box idea of pairing strangers from all over the world via chat. A month later, a video conferencing feature was added, making the experience that much more enjoyable. But with the site quickly becoming oversaturated in recent years, many people find themselves looking for other platforms to handle their chatting needs. For that very reason, we’ve put together a list of the top Omegle alternatives.

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1. ChatHub

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Social media scams have become quite common nowadays. Hence, it’s now critical for users to start educating themselves about the risks, while learning how to protect themselves against these ever-growing threats. This article offers a series of tips on how to minimize cyber crime-related dangers on social media.

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Why Protecting Your Social Media Accounts Is a Must

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When you sign up with a Google account, you automatically receive 15GB of cloud storage for free. Here you can store your photos, documents, messages and more. While this may seem like a lot, you can actually run out of space pretty fast. In this article, we show you how to check how much Google storage you have left so that you’re never caught off guard. We also share some tips that show how to free up some space and avoid exceeding the limit.

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What Counts Toward Your Google Storage Limit?

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If you accidentally deleted an important text message from your Android phone, you’re probably wondering how you can get it back. In all honesty, your chances of recovering it are not stellar, especially if you deleted the text a long time ago. Yet, there is some hope on the horizon for those who constantly back up their data. This tutorial shows you how to recover deleted text messages on Android.

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What Does It Mean to Delete Text Messages from Your Android Phone?

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If you’re on the hunt for quality headphones, you’ll be surprised at the many different brands and styles available on the market today. This may make it harder for you to choose the right ones. Headphones specs are complex and very technical and can easily get you confused if you’re looking just at them. In this post we cut through the jargon to shed more light on one of the common headphone components, the headphones driver, and how it affects audio quality.

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Just like on Facebook, it’s possible to view when someone was last active on Instagram. The feature was introduced back in 2018 and proved quite popular with users on the network. However, as you might have noticed yourself, sometimes a user’s “Activity Status” can be hidden or unavailable. This post examine all the reasons you can’t see when someone was last active on Instagram and offers a few tips to fix it.

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GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is an open-source photo editor which is available on Windows, Mac or Linux, that boasts a huge number of features and functions that rival Photoshop. Unlike Adobe’s offering, however, GIMP is totally free to install and use, which certainly helps boost its appeal. Like you’d expect, GIMP has a large number of default keyboard shortcuts that can speed up your workflow considerably. We’ve aggregated them into a single post, so you can quickly view them at a glance.

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Being human means that we’re prone to forgetting. Fortunately, with the help of technology, it’s easy to stay on top of our to-do lists with minimal effort. One of the most convenient ways to remember everything on your list of chores is to set location-based reminders. Need to be reminded to call your great aunt on her birthday? You can instruct your phone to send an alert once you’ve made it to your favorite cafe for your lunch break. Creating location-based reminders like these is simple if you have an Android device, and this article looks at all the options for doing that.

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Previously popularized by apps such as Instagram and Snapchat, Stories has now made it to TikTok. A new update now allows users of the video-focused social networking service to post images and videos that will stay on the app for 24 hours before being deleted. This article shows how you can get started with your first Story on TikTok.

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How Are TikTok Stories Different?

Generally speaking, TikTok Stories work in pretty much the same way as stories on other social media apps. However, there are a few differences worth mentioning.

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Stumbled upon an interesting video but you don’t have time to watch it now? You should know that it’s possible to download it for later/offline viewing, even if you found it on streaming platforms, which don’t natively allow you to do that unless you pay for a subscription. This article shows you how you can grab videos from any online platform using your device.

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Smartphones, for the most part, have opened up technology to seniors and the older generation — their intuitive and large touch-screens proving much friendlier to use than old mobile phones with buttons (or circle-dial phones).

When looking at the best smartphone for seniors, we took various criteria into account like screen brightness and size, special accessibility features, and modernity. Do your grandma and grandpa think an Android is the metal trashcan from “Lost In Space”? It’s time to take them under the arm and guide them into the modern age. The phones listed below should be enough to convince them that smartphone technology isn’t all that scary.

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If you’ve been on Discord for a long time, you might feel that a username change is in order. If that’s the case, you should know that on Discord, unlike other social apps like Reddit, it’s easy to change your username whenever you want to. This tutorial shows how to change your username and nickname on Discord.

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How to Change Your Discord Username

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By default, WhatsApp saves received images and videos to your phone. This option can be extremely convenient, allowing you to easily save all the cool memes and group photos for later use. The downside is that your phone’s storage can quickly fill up, especially if you’re quite active on the app. In this article we show you how to disable WhatsApp from automatically saving photos to your phone’s gallery. Whether you own an Android or iOS device, you’ll have a firmer control over your device’s storage with this option turned off.

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