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Before dealing with troubles related to DNS Cache, one needs to understand how DNS Cache works. DNS Cache is simply a database, maintained by a computer’s operating system. The database includes the hostname and IP Addresses of the website that you have visited. So, the role of DNS caching involves your operating system or web browser capturing recently visited IP Address and saving them in a database. Since it caches the webpage, the DNS cache ensures faster webpage loading speed....

On Techviral, we have already shared a detailed guide on setting up and using the Your Phone app on Windows 10. Today, we will discuss a new feature of Windows 10’s Your Phone app that will allow you to control the media playing on your smartphone. So, if you are interested in controlling your Phone’s music from Windows 10, you are reading the right article. In this article, we will share a detailed guide on how to use Your Phone app to control media playback on Android....

Before Android 12, the only way to disable the camera and microphone on Android is by disabling all the sensors. And, disabling sensors on Android requires root access which sometimes invites lots of security problems. However, things have changed with Android 12. On Android 12, you get a dedicated camera and mic toggles in the Notification shutter to block/unblock the sensors. Hence, if you want to disable the camera and Mic access on your Android device, you have landed on the right webpage....

If you are using Windows 11, you might have encountered many BSOD errors, Black screen errors, driver errors, compatibility issues, and what’s not. Whenever Windows 11 encounters a Blue or Black Screen error, it creates a crash dump file and saves it on your hard drive. The crash dump files in Windows 11 are created to help developers find & troubleshoot the actual cause of the errors. However, it’s best to delete those files if you are not a developer and never share your crash dump report with any developers or tech experts....

While TikTok has made it easy to download and share the videos with others, Instagram doesn’t allow you to save any video shared on the platform. So, to download the Instagram reels videos, one needs to use a third-party app. Download Instagram Reels & IGTV Videos on Android Fortunately, there are quite a few Android apps available on the Play Store that lets you save Instagram Reels directly on Android....

Android users get access to the Google Play Store, which houses tons of apps & games. While some of the great apps were available for free, some required you to pay. For example, the Hitman mobile edition asks you to pay to download & install the game. Yes, you get the option to link your credit/debit card to make the purchase; what if you don’t have money or don’t wish to pay for apps & games?...

How to Easily Download Facebook Videos on Android Here you will be using a cool android app that will let you to download any of your favorite videos by just exploring them within your Facebook account and that too with a single tap. So follow some simple steps below to proceed. Features Of the Facebook Video Downloader App: – Find and download a video by browsing directly the Facebook website – The only app on the Store that can play and download HD videos!...

What is Reading List? While the feature looks similar to the bookmarks that we have used in web browsers for years, it’s slightly different and does some extra things. When you save an article on the reading list, the web pages sync to your Google Account, allowing you to access them from your smartphone. Unlike Bookmarking, the Reading List feature doesn’t require saving an article or story to a folder. You add the webpages to the reading list, and it gets saved there until you manually remove them....

When this happens, most of us don’t care what our children can see, which sites they would visit, or what apps they would use. However, since smartphones are mainly used to browse the web, it becomes essential to monitor what our kids do on the internet. Unfortunately, Android doesn’t include any parental control features to restrict apps or websites. For this purpose, users generally have to rely on third-party Parental control apps until they have a Samsung device....

Chrome does not come with this feature, but you can get it by installing an extension. It looks like Google Chrome has added a side panel feature that adds bookmarks and a search box to Chrome’s new Read later tab. The feature is available on the stable build of Google Chrome, but it’s hidden behind a flag. So, if you want to add the Side panel on your Google Chrome browser, you are reading the right guide....

With the November 2018 update, Windows 10 introduced a new feature known as ‘Find My Device’. It’s a feature that helps users to locate Windows device if it goes missing. The best thing about Windows 10 Find My Device is that it’s entirely safe for use and automatically included with Windows 10. The feature is already there in Windows 10 operating system, but it’s kept hidden under the settings. As a result, regular Windows 10 users can’t locate the settings easily....

There are plenty of Antivirus software available for Windows. Some of them are free and others were premium. If we talk about the free Antivirus, Avast is definitely the best one. The free antivirus software of avast provides robust security options without slowing down the PC. How To Fix UI Failed To Load Error On Avast Antivirus However, the free version of Avast security has some bugs and errors. One such error is ‘UI Failed to Load’....

Like every new release of Android, Android 12 also brings many changes and new features to smartphones. Some of the key features of Android 12 include a new notification panel, double-tap back gestures, a privacy dashboard, and more. If we talk about the customization, Android 12 also brings some new wallpapers and icon packs. Apart from that, it also introduced few cool clock widgets. In this article, we will share the two best methods to get Android 12 Clock widgets on any Android device....

In this article you are going to discover how to get instagram followers in a 100% ethical and non-spammy wayand also about how to track instagram followers and also how and where to buy instagram followers. A lots of people searching about to get free instagram followers. How to Get Free Instagram Followers Here we are discuss about best strategies to get free instagram followers fast. Follow these steps to get more instagram followers and then you don’t need to spend bucks to buy instagram followers....

Recently, Google introduced a new feature to its Phone app known as ‘Caller ID Announcement’. The feature is a part of Google’s official Phone app that comes pre-installed on Pixel smartphones. If you don’t have a Pixel smartphone, you can get the Google Phone standalone app from the Google Play Store. Google’s official Phone app is fully compatible with every Android smartphone. What is the Caller ID Announcement Feature? Caller ID Announcement is a new feature of Google’s official Phone app that was seen on Pixel devices....

How to Hide ZIP Archive in an Image File on a MAC The method is quite simple and easy and you just need to use some commands of terminal that will help you to hide zip files, So follow up the steps below to proceed. Steps to Hide ZIP Archive in an Image File on a MAC: First of all you will have to put all your files in a ZIP Archive that we will be using again in the other step to hide your files....

So, if we leave the call rejection option, muting or silencing the call could be the next best to do. Modern Android devices allow users to mute calls just by pressing the volume button; however, if you use the Google Phone app, you have an option to silence calls without pressing any physical button. Google Phone app for Android has a feature called ‘Flip to Silence’ that’s exclusively designed for Pixel smartphones at first....

As of today, there are more than a billion people who are using an Android device and many of them love to play games on their android device. Have you ever thought about playing PSP games on your android? Yes, it is possible as you can play Play Station Portable on your android device. This is possible with some emulators that are specially designed for the android device to play a PSP game on it....

However, only the console is announced until now, the company Sony has not revealed the release date and the price of PlayStation 5. But it is said that PS5 will be releasing somewhere between October to December 2020. How to Pre-order PlayStation 5? Even the Pre-orders of PS 5 is not live. The senior vice president of Sony has clearly told that everyone will be notified before pre-orders will go live....

Windows Group Policy is indeed a powerful tool to configure so many aspects of Windows. We have already shared quite a few articles on Local Group Policy Editor, like blocking program installation, hiding specific drives, etc. Today, we will share another best Local Group Policy trick that allows users to prevent specific apps from running. Group Policy will enable you to create a list of apps to prevent them from running....