Posts About Android

Closed captions are an important accessibility option for those that are hard of hearing. YouTube includes support for them on all videos. Unfortunately, while captions can be added to any video, the process of synchronising the captions with the video is time-consuming, even if there’s a script to import. This issue is even worse for less prepared videos where no script is … [Read more...] about How to Enable Closed Captions in YouTube for Android

Is your Android device using more RAM than it used to? The culprit could be that app you just installed. Since no app is perfect, the app you added could be making your Android device work harder than usual. The problem with apps that consume too much RAM is that it can cause your device to perform at a slower rate. If you the app is not slowing down your device too much you … [Read more...] about Android 10: How to Check How Much Memory Apps Are Using

Your watch history on YouTube stores a list of all videos that you’ve watched. Your watch history is used to keep track of which videos you have watched, giving you a helpful indicator as to if you’ve previously watched a video. This data is also used to help inform the videos that YouTube suggests to you. The YouTube service uses the videos you watch to identify a list of … [Read more...] about How to Pause Watch History in YouTube for Android

Notifications are a common and important part of mobile phones. Notifications help to keep you up to date with many different things, some of these can be useful. In a lot of situations though, these notifications can be useless and lead to an overload of notifications if there are too many. For example, with YouTube you may want to be notified when one or two channels, that … [Read more...] about How to Configure Notification Settings in YouTube for Android

Amazon's Blink Camera system is a relatively decent choice for a security solution. Apart from the sleek design of its outdoor and indoor cameras, Blink also offers a bunch of features including zero monthly fees, wireless connection, Alexa integration, and free—albeit quite limited—data storage. … [Read more...] about Troubleshooting Blink Motion Alerts on Android

Google Autofill is a framework introduced by Google, which assists users in filling out the required information for online forms. The service also works similarly to password managers, which means Google will remember your usernames and passwords for you and fill in your credentials when needed. The Google Autofill service for Android OS is still very new, and there aren't … [Read more...] about Changing Google Autofill Account on Android

The homepage is a feature that’s been present in every basically every browser. A homepage is a web page that has been programmed into the browser, it’s typically opened by default when the browser opens. Most browsers provide a default homepage, that is generally used to inform new users about some browser features. Users can override this if they have another page they prefer … [Read more...] about Vivaldi for Android: Change Default Homepage

There are a huge number of browser apps available on Android. Almost all of them include a default search engine that is used when you type something other than a URL in the search bar. This feature is a nice time saver, it means that you don’t have to first browse to Google to search for something. Still, not everyone wants to use Google. For many users, this will be … [Read more...] about Vivaldi for Android: Change Default Search Engine