Tech hacks that will make your life cooler
To get an effortlessly chic look, make a braid by separating your hair into three sections. Now keep overlapping them till you reach the end, secure it with a rubber band. Let hair fall out naturally for that uber chic look. You can also take a tail comb and pull out a few hair strands. end with Bobby pin or Upin. Or twist your low pony and make a rope like structure out of it. Now loosen the side sections till the end to make it a little messy. Wrap this tail into a bun and secure the loose ends with a pin.
Take a portion from your ponytail and wrap it around. Secure the end with a Bobby pin underneath the tail. You can also braid that small section and then wrap it around the ponytail.
Make a high puff with the centre section of the hair. Tie the rest of the hair in a pony. Now fold your scarf to the size of a hair band and place it an inch behind the hairline, secure it with a knot behind the pony.
Use mild shampoo (nonsulfate) to wash your hair twice or thrice a week. It keeps the scalp clean and safe from infections. Do not comb or tie wet hair as it makes them weak and unhygienic. One must opt for a widetoothed comb. Avoid using styling appliances in monsoon. Do not use a hair dryer or straightener as they will make hair frizzier.
To wrap your wet hair, use a cotton t-shirt or soft microfibre towel. Try homemade hair masks an hour before washing. They will strengthen your hair.
As one is learning to do all things from home, be it personal or professional, dependence on technology is only increasing, and knowing your way around it is only becoming increasingly important with time. We bring you some hacks that might help you reducing your workload, and increase productivity, while looking cool doing it all!
Samarth Goyal
Want to stand out with the new display picture you pout up on Facebook, and want more people to take notice of you? Try the 3D photo feature on Facebook, which will give your DP the ‘depth’ you require to get those extra likes you always wanted. Just open the FB app on your smartphone. On the News Feed page, click on the ‘write something here’ box, scroll down to clock on the 3D photos option. Choose a photo from your gallery and post it. But if a photo has been edited, chances are that FB will not convert it into 3D.
Since everyone has started working from home, there’s an increased influx of emails. And one may not want to delete their older mails but have to do it, as Gmail only allows 15GB of free space. However, you no longer have to worry about losing information. Open myaccount.google.com on any browser and login with your email id. Click on the data and personalisation option, scroll down till you find the ‘Download your Data’ option and click on it. The new page will take you to Google Takeout where you need to select all options (such as maps, calendars etc) and only select gmail. If you just want to save only one folder’s information, click on All Mail Data included button and select whichever folder you want to save. Click next and choose the size, frequency and file type and click on export button. Your data will be stored offline on your computer hard disk, and you can proceed to delete older emails from your inbox, without worrying about losing information!
The photo and video sharing platform recently allowed users to pin as many as three comments in the comments section for any Insta post. It’s a great way to put the nicest compliments to be seen by one’s followers at the top of the thread and ensure nasty comments aren’t reflected at the top as well. Just open Instagram on your phone, and head to the post which has a few comments. Choose any comment you want on top and click on it. Choose the pushpin icon from the freshly appeared menu options at the top. That’s it!
Keep your favourite filters at your fingertips and get the ones you don’t want, out of your sight by customising your menu of filter options. Did you know there are as many as 40 filters! When posting a photo or video, go to ‘filter’ and scroll to the end of your filters and click on ‘manage’. Press and hold three line icon next to each filter to rearrange the order of your filters, and check or uncheck circles on each filter to hide or unhide them, and click done!