How to Create Task from an Email in Gmail and Google Tasks App?

With most email clients you can easily create tasks from an email or at least mark a reminder against an email to follow up later.  Google also has a separate product called "Google Tasks" to manage tasks. Gmail has also introduced "Add to Tasks" feature in Gmail so that we can easily create task from an email in Gmail. Of course, we can also create our own tasks from the Google Tasks also. Let's see more in detail.

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Unable to Copy or Transfer Files Using ES FILE EXPLORER ? - See this Demo on Mi Redmi 5 Phone on the latest MIUI 9.6 Stable version.

File Copy Transfers Using ES FILE EXPLORER - Demo on Mi Redmi 5 Phone on the latest MIUI 9.6 Stable version.

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How to check transaction history of Airtel Payments Bank Saving Account on Airtel Android App?

After Digital India initiatives by the Government and especially after demonetization, usage of digital payments have increased. Nowadays, many citizens are using various modes of digital payment be it usage of debit cars, ewallets, Unified Payment Interface (UPI) etc. Airtel also introduced Airtel Payments Bank which is beneficial for Airtel subscribers to pay utility bills and also to do online shopping on select eMarchet websites where the payment method is supported. As on 15 Feb 2018, Airtel Payments Bank offers an interest of 7.25% which is higher than regular saving account in any Bank. For all those using Airtel Payment Bank, we shall see how to check transaction history of Airtel Payments Bank Saving Account.

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Solution to contacts getting merged randomly with each other on Android Phones | Contacts Corrector

There is a strange issue observed on Mi Redmi phones where contact numbers are getting merged with other contacts, randomly. This is creating a lot of confusion lately when dialing people or when receiving calls, since the phone shows another person's name instead of the caller.

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Best Android app to compress videos on Android Mobile Phone (Video Compress Demo)

When we buy Android smartphones, we want the best -  with good features and with good camera resolutions. Nowadays, most smartphones have at least 8 MP resolution camera. And more resolution means, more video file size. Eventually, the phone's memory is going to be filled as memory is not unlimited! So there may come a time when you might need to compress the videos to keep them on the phone though backing them up on a computer is more practical to preserve the original resolution and quality. And most users use mobile data connection which is costlier than our home Wi-Fi. And some users share video shot off their mobile phone camera as it is. For viewing a video on mobile devices, a very high resolution is not necessary. Thus, it seems more practical to compress such videos before sharing to others so that the sharer does not waste a lot of data and even so that the receiver also do not need to spend a lot of data to download the video. While we can also use desktop video editing / compression software to compress videos and put them back to the phone, it may be a tedious task. And why do that when there are Android apps for it, hmm?

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Facebook Tips: Removing Facebook account from Android device properly

In this post, we shall see how to remove a Facebook account from an Android device properly. One way is to simply uninstall the Facebook app from the Android device. But let's suppose we do not want to uninstall the Facebook app, we just want the Facebook account removed from the Android device, then we can do the following to remove the account properly. 

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Unable to use selfie stick with Android phone? Settings to check.

Trying your new selfie stick with your Android Phone but it doesn't work with your phone? Just in case, if you are not able to use selfie stick with Android phone, here are a few settings you should check on your phone's camera app. I am blogging this post because someone posted on my previous blog post that he is not able to use selfie stick on his Android Redmi Phone. So, here are the settings to check and if it still does not work, an alternative app to try.

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