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Technology has made our lives easier. Everything we do requires the help of technology both at home and at the workplace. It is not costly to advance in what we can do with the tech tools around us. These tech hacks below are guaranteed to further simplify things, increase efficiency and save money and time.


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Hack1: Solving mathematics as a student or parent can be infuriating especially if there’s no experienced person to guide you. You can download the Photomath on the Android or iOS app store. Scan the maths problem with your phone, click on solve it. After the app solves it, click on get answer, and voila! it is done.

Hack2: If you are working somewhere and need a smartphone stand for better reception, whether internet or sound, you can use a cassette case. It will save you a lot of hassle. Other items you can use include a wallet or an old hairclip.

Hack3: Sometimes separating your charging cords can be simply demanding especially when you want to clean the room. If you have several devices you are constantly charging and arranging the cords is always difficult, then this trick will be useful for you. Make a wooden drawer and use a screw to open small holes. small enough to have the tip of your cords penetrate through, then plug in your power cords for phones, gaming systems, tablets, cameras, or any other digital device. Otherwise, you can simply make a wooden drawer and place an extension in there with all the cords systematically separated with a sellotape. This ensures that things are coordinated around there and also saves you the stress to untangle wires when, dusting, sweeping, or mopping the room.

Hack4: Do you know your headphones can double as a microphone. If you need a microphone but don’t want to spend money on one. You can grab any pair of headphones lying around, then plug them into the microphone jack, and start talking. This is not even new knowledge but some find it very useful. The quality may not be amazing, but you can make do with it.

Hack5: When writing Online, and you need spelling, grammar, and definition help then I would highly recommend Grammarly. This tool gives you tips and suggestions for grammar, spelling, and general sentence construction whatever you’re doing on the web. You can even double-click a word to highlight it and get other words suggestions to use instead. There’s a Google Chrome plugin to ensure you can easily edit text on whatever website you’re on. It is highly effective And it is free.

Hack6: The rate of cyberbullying on the internet makes this a very good hack to use. You can hide people on Twitter without blocking them. Twitter’s mute button is a little-known trick that is severely understated. It allows you to keep following an account but hides its tweets and retweets from your timeline. It’s a simple way to get rid of a person from your Twitter without unfollowing them and thus offending them. They’ll never know when you mute them! Just click on the settings menu to the right of someone’s profile, and then select Mute.


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Hack7: You can Quickly dial back your last caller without going through your contacts or call lists. The quickest way is to hit the call button on your phone. It will dial back their number.

Hack8: When you are typing and you mistakenly hit the space bar instead of the full stop key. All you have to do is hit the space bar twice for a full stop, and the next letter will be automatically capitalized too. If you’re using a customized keyboard like Swiftkey, then you can program it to do other clever things like predicting your sentence too. 

Hack9: Do you know you can Search YouTube without going to YouTube. With this trick, searching YouTube is easy and fast. when using the Google Chrome browser, you can type YouTube.com into your address bar, then hit tab, and search YouTube directly from your address bar.

Hack10: You can find your password if you have asked Google Chrome to save your passwords at any point. You can access that password via the browser’s settings. The easiest way to get to the setting is by typing this into your browser’s address bar – chrome://settings/passwords. Then you can reveal the password for any site to use elsewhere. 

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This article was first published on 19th March 2022

eyimegwu-ekene

I am an accomplished content creator and recently delved into technical writing. I enjoy using my skills to contribute to the exciting technological advances and create awareness of evolving technological trends in Nigeria.


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