Thursday, January 24, 2019

Apple Watch 3 vs. Fitbit Versa!

The worthy alternative to Apple Watch is a Fitbit Versa.
Versa turns out to be the Fitbit Ionic’s more attractive younger sibling. It has a slimmer body, swappable straps and lower price as well.
Most people get confused when it comes to choosing between the Fitbit Versa and Apple Watch 3. Both of them are closer in the price range and a bit similar in overall features, so it’s fairer in playing field of comparison.
Durability and Design-
Both the watches share a similar design, interchangeable straps, and a variety of watch faces to modify the looks. Also, both of them are water resistant for 50 meters.
Fitbit Versa:
It’s comfortable to wear because it offers a lighter grip on your wrist and is very light due to its thinness.
As there are three different buttons on the Versa, so it gets confusing that which button does what sort of work.
However, changing the band is incredibly fiddly.
Apple Watch
It has smaller footprints on the wrist as the screen has slimmer bezels than the Versa.
It is not just that the bottom bulges out and that the LTE version is thicker, but it may also dig into your skin when the strap is pulled tight.
Swapping the straps out is a breeze.
Smartwatch Features
Although both devices mirror notifications from the phone, but only the Apple Watch gives you unlimited responses. Note that only Android users can program quick replies on the Versa and its lack of microphone means you can’t dictate or write a response like the way you can with the Apple Watch.
Fitbit Versa
It’s compatible with both Android and iOS.
It may lead to miss out on notifications as vibrations are a bit weak even at max vibrate.
Only a few limited numbers of apps available in the store at the time of writing.
Apple Watch
As you’re tied into the Apple ecosystem so you can only use it with an iPhone and with Android devices.
It has lots of smartwatch features than that compared to Versa, for instance like being able to ring your phone or unlock a Mac.
From your digital wallet to the Watch transferring cards for Apple Pay is quite simple.
If by chance you have on you’re an arrangement for phone multiple languages then voice dictation doesn’t always select the right language.
Battery Life
‘Battery life’ is most what that attracts the youth at the current time.
Fitbit Versa
It’s popular among youth mostly because where the Fitbit shines is its battery life. Even after continuously wearing the Versa throughout the whole day during the workout but not listening to music it will still have 10 per cent battery left.
Apple Watch
By comparison, the Apple Watch struggles with its battery life especially if it is using some intensive battery features like LTE and GPS.
Conclusion
So we can comprehensively say that both of them are good in their own ways. For example, most of the people prefer Fitbit generally because of its longer battery life whereas there are also some people who feel that Apple smartwatch is a smarter companion that can free us from our phone once in a while making it a better fit.
From the editors at CNET, the Fitbit Versa and Apple Watch Series 3 received the same overall rating, 8 out of 10 respectively.

Jack Tucker is a Microsoft Office expert and has been working in the technical industry from last 10 year. As a technical expert, he has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites such as office.com/setup.

Source : Apple Watch 3 vs. Fitbit Versa!

Monday, January 21, 2019

Google Chrome Steps into the Dark Mode

A new tradition is establishing itself at this very time. It is the starting era of various user-oriented themes. Not everyone but a diaspora of fans and users like dark themes. It not only attracts developers but also compels them to launch the ongoing trend with their services. After YouTube and Android message, it is Chrome that expresses its intention to forward this legacy. The first step of Chrome into the dark mode might be for MacOS.  Chrome is all set to reduce the eye strain for its user in the very near future.
Before moving to the installation and enabling of dark mode feature into your system, we should know about the basic information about Dark mode. Actually, Dark mode is the universal dark theme for the web. It is an Add-on for the web browser that enables its user to turns its screen into dark whenever they want especially at night.
Your browser’s toolbar works as the ON/OFF button for enabling and disabling the dark mode effect on your screen. In case you are not comfortable with the new feature or want previous on-screen effect or you want to test some other kind of modes, you can go to the optional page where you can choose at least twenty more alternatives.
Chrome is facilitating its users to remove the dark mode only for a specific location also. If you wanted to remove the dark mode effect for a proper website or page rather than to exclude it for all web domain. You have to place this domain address to the desired area according to the Chrome instructions only.
As the dark mode facility is still under development, so we have to wait for a while. If you want to still enable it into your system, go through with the following instructions.
  • First of all get Google Chrome Canary version as this feature can enable on this version only.
  • Open the Chrome by clicking its shortcut twice and open the properties.
  • Open the target tab add tuck it with “Force-dark-mode” option.
  • Select to “apply” to execute the change.
The above-given steps are the methods to enabling Dark mode by force-dark-mode option so it is a hack only. You can enable the dark mode for the various web pages with the help of Chrome setting also.
For this, you need to go to the setting and choose your theme.
You can apply the dark effect by adding an extension with the desired website also. But you cannot do it with the window screen because of Window security which limits the extension or theme to change the windows appearance.
Jack Tucker is a security expert and he writes about Cyber security, cryptography, malware, social engineering, internet and is working at norton.com/setup
Source : Google Chrome Steps into the Dark Mode

Thursday, January 17, 2019

Guide to Using Outlook 2013 and 2016 Ribbon

In the previous versions of Outlook, there was the pull-down menu. But Outlook version 2013 brought the navigation ribbon which substituted the old pull-down menus. But when you start to use the Outlook version 2013 & 2016, the functionality of ribbon is similar. The ribbon is altered and adapted on the basis of usage of Outlook. When you move from the e-Mail view to Calendar view in Outlook then content enveloped in the ribbon is also varied. It will also vary the other things in Outlook like Contacts, Tasks, and Notes etc.


Additionally, specific concealed ribbons will be displayed if you are performing particular tasks. For instances, when you are running e-mail attachments, then a ribbon of attachment will be shown. And, after downloading the attachments and switching to another e-mail, this ribbon vanishes.
Operating Home Ribbon
Once you launch Outlook version of 2013 or 2016, then it opens Home screen by default. It is that page where you can deliver and get the e-mails and where most of the things in Outlook happens. Home Ribbon is placed on top of the navigation panel. Here below, some of the basic commands are mentioned:
1. New
You can employ the “New” button to make a new message in the e-mail. By using the option of New Items, you can make appointments, tasks. You can press the option of the downward arrow in the bottom right side of the button for expanding the menu bar and create the selection as per your choice.
2. Delete
You can delete an email by pressing the big X option placed in this section. You can manage the received e-mails by using the Buttons of Ignore, Cleanup and many more.
3. Respond
Buttons placed in this section manage your response to messages like Reply, Reply All and Forward.
4. Quick Steps
When you want to “Move, Reply, and Delete” messages into a folder then you can access it easily by using this section. There are many quick commands like To Manager, Done, Create New, Move to, Team E-mail etc. You can get the additional commands by pressing the downward arrow placed at the right side of this section for expanding the menu.
5. Move
This section offers you the buttons to make Rules, to avail OneNote, to Move.
6. Tag
When you desire to point messages as Read or Unread, categorize the message, and follow-up the messages by adding a flag, then this section helps a lot in doing this.
7. Find
This section comprises the commands like finding a contact, availing the Address Book, filtering e-mails.
Moreover, there are various other tabs besides the Home tab. There are specific commands attached to the name of the tab. In Outlook version of both 2013 and 2016, there are four other tabs mentioned besides Home tab namely:
• File: In this section, you can alter the Options to Outlook, printing messages, calendars and more.
• Send or Receive: Here in this section, you can deliver the email messages and receive the same. You can find the commands here in this ribbon to organize the Downloads and email server.
• Folder: Here, you can maintain the email folders and ribbon properties. • View: Here, you can alter the layout of Outlook for To-do page and People page by using the commands placed on this ribbon.

Nick Hollins is a Microsoft Office expert and has been working in the technology industry since 2002. As a technical expert, Emma has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites such as office.com/setup.