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This is a short post to discuss how to group or un-group programs in Windows Start screen. But before we get there, if you have a new Windows 10 computer, then you might have observed that there are lots of stock programs preinstalled and occupying space on the Windows 10 Start screen. Let's first see how to remove some of those program icons and keep only what we need. And then, we shall see how to group icons and un-group icons. Read more »

D o you know we can add another email to Gmail and send emails as the new email added? This is especially convenient for website who have email address with website domain and also a Gmail address. In this post, we shall see how to add another email to Gmail and send email from the new email from Gmail. Read more »

WordPress is a pretty easy to use Content Management System (CMS) for blogging and for development of various kinds of websites. WordPress after installation can be used as is pretty easily but there are lots of things in the WordPress admin area that some users don’t need to see or use. Requirement to customize the admin pages might arise to hide certain things that are not required to be displayed to other users granted access to manage the website- such as Authors, Editors and Contributors etc. For example WordPress by default shows some default widgets such as WordPress news in the Dashboard area. This may not be required by some to be shown to Authors/Editors. Similarly, admins may like to hide some post meta-data as too many data can be overwhelming to some. Admins can decide what is appropriate for their users to see or not. For all such requirements, there are plugins available for customization of Admin User Interface. Some useful WordPress Plugins for Admin User Interface Cus...

Q uite often we end up in need of backing up our smartphone data to our local computer. That is when PC Suite or desktop phone manager comes in handy. Nowadays, we also have cloud storage to backup some of our data but then, cloud storage comes with limited storage if free and of course, it required data connection to upload (better do it on WiFi). And generally, not all photos and videos we took from our phones are not worth uploading all to cloud storage. That would be a waste of our precious space. So the ultimate choice is to store it on our computer or on external hard disks. That's when PC suite and phone manager comes in handy. We can also copy or transfer files from phone to computer and vice-versa just by using USB cable but having a PC Suite helps us in doing more with our phone than just transfer files.  In this post, we shall see top five FREE PC Suite or phone manager software for Android smartphones. Some phone manufacturers provide their own PC suite. We may fondly...

When I browse a website I see "Your connection is not secure". What to do? If you are trying to access a website served on HTTP then most probably you would see "Your connection is not secure" or "Your connection is not private". In some cases, the reason for the error could be due to the following reasons. Browsers today indicate whether a website is secure or not by the following icons on the left of the address bar:  Secure  Info or Not secure  Not secure or Dangerous Reasons for "Your connection is not private " error could be due to:     Wrong date and time (User's end)     Antivirus block SSL Connection (User's end)     Invalid Browser Cache and Cookies files (User's end)     SSL not implemented (Website owner's end)     Expired SSL certificate (Website Owner's end)     Invalid SSL Certificate Setup (Website Owner's end) Solutions for "Your connection is not secure" or "Your...