One of the immediate changes you will notice in Windows 10 is the way the options to adjust the screen brightness have changed. Back in earlier days, we would just click the button on the monitor, but now there are a few ways to adjust the screen brightness in Windows 10 from the operating system […]
October 2016
How to Remove an App From “Open With” Menu on Mac
When you right-click on a file on your Mac, you see quite a few options that help you open or change the file. One of these options is called Open With that shows all of the applications you can open the selected file with. For example, if you have right-clicked on an image file and […]
How to Check What Apps Are Using Internet on Mac
When your Mac is connected to the Internet, there will be some apps using your Internet connection to fulfill their requirements. For example, the Adobe Reader on your Mac might be trying to update it to the newest version, and it will be using your Internet connection to do so. Sometimes you may want to […]
How to Speed Up Mac by Removing Some Effects
The reason Macs are so beautiful is that they contain a number of animations that play – and sometimes these go without you being able to notice them. From the time you launch an app and work with it and then close it, some animations play that can be seen on your screen. For instance, […]
How to Use Instagram on Mac
If Instagram happens to be the place that sees your food pics first, and only then you show them to others, then you might want to use it on your Mac as well. Instagram is actually built for smartphones so that you can upload your pics to the web wherever you are in the world […]
How to Catch Something You Missed in iTunes with Backward and Forward Skipping
iTunes is a widely used media player on Mac machines, and you have probably been using it ever since you bought a Mac. The app has really nice features that help you collect and organize your audio files, video files, and so on in a really user-friendly interface. Most people play their music tracks in […]
How to Quickly Access Recently Used Apps and Documents on Mac
By default, your Mac just does not have a way to show you the apps and documents that you have accessed recently. It is actually a requirement of most of the users to get to the recent apps as quickly as possible because that is what they tend to use often. If you are like […]
How to Reset App Settings Using AppCleaner on Mac
When you install a new application on your Mac, you need to configure it so that it works the way you want. For instance, you can set an app to launch at the login time so that it gets opened every time you log into your Mac; it could be a requirement of the app, […]
How to Speed Up Time Machine Backups on Mac
Time Machine is a great way to backup data on a Mac as it silently and in backgrounds backs up the data on your Mac so that you can restore it when things are not well. You may not even know and Time Machine is running in the background helping you backup the data that it […]
How to Factory Reset Dock on Mac
The Dock on your Mac is a place from where you can quickly launch applications to use. When you unbox a brand new Mac and boot it for the first time, you will only see the Apple stock apps in the Dock on your Mac. These apps usually include Safari, Mail, FaceTime, Maps, Launchpad, Contacts, […]
How to Import Notes from Evernote to OneNote Using Mac
When Evernote came out for the first time, millions of people rushed towards it as they thought this was going to be one of their greatest note taking apps. And that turned out to be true. Evernote started offering a number of features that were not present in any other note-taking apps, and the product […]
How to Backup and Export Passwords in Microsoft Edge Browser in Windows 10 [Tutorial]
A modern web browser that competes with the best of today’s standard is capable of making your life much easier than just being a portal to the internet that you want to browse. One of the key features that all good web browsers have is the chance to remember your passwords for you, so you […]
How to Prevent Safari from Launching iTunes When Visiting App Store Webpages
In order to make the downloading stuff task easier for you, what the Safari browser on your Mac does is open the iTunes app when you visit an App Store web page using the browser. So what happens here is that if you are only looking through the items list and you don’t intend to download them to […]
How to Share Mac’s Internet Connection with Others
One of the Mac’s abilities is that it allows you to share your internet connection with the people around you. That becomes really helpful when you only have a single internet connection, and you want an additional device to connect to the Internet. With your Mac, you have various ways to share your connection so […]
How to Root Google Pixel on Android 7.1 Using Skipsoft Toolkit
There are two main types of operating systems that people run on technology. One is a desktop operating system, and the other is a mobile operating system. The desktop operating system that directly relates to Android is Linux since Android is based on the Linux kernel. Linux is an open source operating system that comes […]
How to Quickly Open Library Folder on Mac
Macs have tons of keyboard shortcuts that let you jump from one place on your Mac to another within milli-seconds. While the apps that you install on your Mac have their own keyboard shortcuts, the default system also has its own shortcuts to help you switch between various system panels on your Mac. One of […]
How to Turn Location-Based Suggestions Off on Mac
In order to provide you with the results that are most relevant to you, many of the apps on your Mac use your location data to serve you with the results that are closer to you regarding location. For example, if you search for Sushi Restaurants in the Maps app on your Mac and you […]
How to Reset Groove Music in Windows 10 [Tutorial]
If you’ve been using Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system for a while, you might have tried to play some music, and it has opened with Groove Music. Formerly known as Zune Music (and before that Xbox Music), Groove is Microsoft’s current answer to the direct streaming services coming from its competitors like iTunes. Groove Music […]
Some of the Ways to Take Screenshot on Mac
Taking screenshots might be your daily task if you happen to write tech tutorials like what we do here at TechChomps. There are various ways to take screenshots on each of the available operating systems, and the Apple’s Macs do have their own means of capturing the screen. In most operating systems, the screen capturing […]
How to Take Timed Screenshot on Mac
Taking screenshots is really great as that way you can show others exactly what you have got on your screen and these screenshots also help you write detailed tech tutorials that the users can easily understand. While there are various ways to take a screenshot on your Mac using keyboard shortcuts, there does not seem […]
How to Root Google Pixel XL on Android 7.1 with Skipsoft Toolkit
Linux is the third most popular operating system used on laptops and desktop computers. It is the only open source operating system that headlines the top three and that means you get it installed for free. It use to help to get laptops and computers that runs Linux cheaper than its competitors up until Microsoft […]
Root Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 SM-T715 on Android 6.0.1 with CF-Auto-Root
There are three primary operating systems that people run for a desktop computer: Windows, Mac, and Linux. All three of them give people control to the master user account that can do anything. That is the account that people are given when they first set up the computer. Those people who use the Linux operating […]
Root Samsung Galaxy Tab A SM-T355Y on Android 6.0.1 with CF-Auto-Root
Technology is all around us these days and the driving force behind much of it is an operating system. Most of us have used computers for a long time and need no introductions to operating systems like Windows and Mac OS X that are two popular desktop operating systems that have been around for decades. […]
Root Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime SM-G530P on Android 5.1.1 with CF-Auto-Root
Rooting the Android operating system is not as difficult to do as many people are lead to believe. The hardest part about rooting Android is finding a guide that works. The reason that is sometimes a challenge is that many of the how-to guides you will find online for getting root access do not last […]
Root Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime Duos SM-G530BT on Android 4.4.4 with CF-Auto-Root
When you go to root a smartphone like the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime Duos, you can often find two ways to get that done. One of the ways is by using a one-click rooting tool called the CF-Auto-Root tool. The other way is by doing whatever it takes to get a custom recovery image installed […]
Root Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime SM-G530F on Android 5.0.2 with CF-Auto-Root
The way people write about root Android makes the act of rooting the operating system get easily misunderstood. By rooting the Android operating system, you are not adding something extra to it then changes things away from what they would have already been if Android developers and phone carrier networks did not do something to […]
Root Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime SM-G530H on Android 5.0.2 with CF-Auto-Root
Android is a mobile operating system that has a great deal in common with Linux. Anyone with experience in Linux operating systems from desktop environments will know that the person who first sets up the computer is the sudoer. The sudoer is the person who can give sudo commands and when you do that it […]
Root Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime SM-G530W on Android 5.1.1 with CF-Auto-Root
One of the quickest ways to root the Android operating system is by installing a one-click rooting tool. There are many of these one-click rooting tools to choose from depending on your device. Sometimes you can find a few of them that can all root the same device while other times you might only have […]
Root Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime SM-G530R4 on Android 5.1.1 with CF-Auto-Root
Few corporations have received as much negative backlash in the media lately as Samsung for their Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone that seemingly couldn’t find a way not to catch on fire and blow up. It is a shame because it will hurt Samsung a great deal. Samsung is one of my favorite companies because […]
Root Samsung Galaxy Tab A SM-T550 on Android 6.0.1 with CF-Auto-Root
You will hear many people talk about rooting the Android operating system as being against the law, something that is naughty to do and a security risk, but those opinions are usually presented to you by people who do not have a magnificent understanding of what rooting Android really is on your device. The fact […]