joyful life with kids tips

Joy is all around me. And you. If I slow my mind down, Sherlock style, and really pay attention—if I open my eyes and ears and slow my breathing and notice—it’s all over the place! Take a second and look around you. Really look for joy. What do you see? I wonder with a troubled heart how much joy I missed out on because all I could see was the mess, the deadline, the to-do list, the pile, the same ole monotonous routine. How many smiles did I forfeit? How much laughter passed me by? Most importantly, how many moments of connection did I miss with my loved ones because I was looking at something else? How much living have I missed out on?

Here are my 10 tips to live a joyful life. 1. Set 3 intentions to start your day. Examples— will call an old friend. I will play with my kids. I will be gentle.

2. Tidy your home early and often. It helps your headspace be tidier too.

3. Burn the best candle. Use fancy glasswear. Make a toast. Dress up even if you have nowhere to be. An ordinary day can (and should be) celebrated.



4. Make time to read, both alone and aloud to your children. Every single day.

5. Kitchens are for more than cooking and eating. They often have the best dance floors in the house. Try them out.

6. It’s really hard to hear your own voice when your head is crowded with lots of voices. Clear them out.

7. There is absolutely nothing going on in the online world that is better than what you can cultivate in your real world with a bit of creativity and connection. Spend more time making it interesting and beautiful.

8. If you start saying positive, encouraging, genuinely kind things to your kids every day, you’ll see the power struggles dissipate and your home will be a happier place. Try it and see.

9. Don’t miss out on making a wonderful memory because you don’t want to get your hair wet or smear your mascara.

10. The years with your kids are going to be short whether you slow down and live intentionally or keep up at high speed. The only difference is the amount of beautiful memories you will collect. They’re only little once. Choose joy

4 Different Methods to Transfer your Mobile Contacts

Did you just buy a new mobile phone? After considering significant factors such as budget, features, sleek design, size as well as platform, The first thing that you’ll probably is copy all the phone numbers and other contact information from the old phone to your new cell.

There are different ways to transfer contacts from one phone to another. The process may vary depending upon the phone support cloud but broadly, there are four options. I will discuss the most popular mobile platforms like BlackBerry, iPhone, HTC, Nokia, Windows Phone, Samsung and Android. You can opt any one of them listed below.

Transferring from SIM card

When your old mobile address book is comparatively smaller, and you only wish to copy the phone numbers to your new mobile phone, then simply use your SIM card.

Just copy the phone numbers from the old phone’s memory to your SIM card, insert this SIM card into your new phone and then copy the phone numbers in your new phone’s memory.

Most phones such as Nokia have the option of “copy contacts to the Sim”. You are required to put the Sim card in the new phone and choose “copy contacts from Sim to phone or similar, and you will find that contacts would be copied.

The single problem with SIM transfer is that you can move only 300 contacts at one go. Also, you might find that, contacts having bigger name might get truncated.

Transfer Contacts via your Computer

The SIM card based approach is good only for transferring basic phone numbers but if your phone’s address book includes long names, email addresses, and other details of your contacts, you need some sort of software to help you with the transfer process.

The phone contacts from one mobile can be transferred to the computer with the help of data cable or using Bluetooth. Once the computer detects the mobile, go to your mobile contacts and then on your computer save the contacts in a file after which the same can be transferred to your new mobile phone. In case, you wish to use bluetooth, then open the contact list then mark the contact, you wish to transfer then Select” Send Name Card and then choose Bluetooth” click send. The mobile would then search for the devices. Select the mobile you wish to send the contact, that’s all; your contacts would be now transferred to another mobile.

The mobile would then search for the devices. Select the mobile you wish to send the contact, that’s all; your contacts would be transferred to another mobile.

This mode is good only for transferring basic phone numbers, but if your address book consists long names, email address and other details of your contacts, then you require some software to help you with the transfer process.

In case, you have a Nokia mobile, and you have brought a Blackberry or an iPhone, and then you might use Nokia’s Ovi Suite application in order to copy your phone’s address book to Microsoft Outlook on your desktop computer.

Transfer through Memory Card

You can also transfer contacts by saving or backing up your contacts in your memory card. The memory card can be inserted in your new phone and restored. This option is available only in phones like samsung, which allow you to backup onto memory card

Transfer through PC Suite

Phone contacts can also be transferred using the your phone’s PC Suite.

Most phones come with a software which allow you to synchronise your phone book with your computer. For example, the Nokia PC Suite, Samsung Kies,Sony Ericsson PC Suite etc. You should have received a copy of this software with your phone or you can download from the phone manufacturer’s website.

Using your phone’s PC Suite, copy the contacts from your old phone and save it in your new phone.

By using any of the above techniques you can update your new phone with all the contacts.

Cyber Security : Few Steps to Clean up your Android Device

Most Smartphone and Tablet makers single out ‘Android’ as their preferred mobile operating system for its ease of user interface. It’s well known that Android is an open source software stack for a wide range of mobile devices. This fact makes it susceptible to virus and malware. In case, you have reasons to believe your Android Smartphone or Tablet has a virus or other malicious content, here are a few steps to clean up your device.

Reboot Your Smartphone

Your Smartphone needs to be on safe mode to prevent any third-party apps from running including any malware. To enable safe mode, press the power button to get power off option, and then press and hold power off button to restart in safe mode option. This will disable all third-party applications that you have installed. The clean applications will be automatically restored when you reboot.

Device Settings

Once you’ve restarted your device on safe mode, navigate to ‘Settings’ and choose Apps on the Download tab. Go through the list and check for apps installed that might seem suspicious and ideally, shouldn’t be running on your device.

Uninstall Malicious App(s)

Tap on the malicious app and click uninstall. Once you have uninstalled the app, reboot the device and it’s ready to be used and virus-free. In the event of the uninstall button being greyed out, it means the virus has taken over as the Device Administrator itself.

Device Administrator

Navigate your way through to the ‘Device Administrator’. Here, you will get the full list of apps on your device with the administrator status. You just need to uncheck the app you want to remove, and then tap ‘Deactivate’ on the next screen. The infected app is thus uninstalled.

Restart to Normal Mode

After uninstalling any malicious app, take your device off safe mode by restarting it. Now your Smartphone or Tablet is safe without any virus.

How to disable Facebook’s auto-play videos

Happy life path helps you with tips and tricks,Your social media feed is under assault by moving pictures.

In recent months, both Facebook and Twitter have enabled auto-play videos; whenever a video enters your feed or timeline, it automatically starts playing. At best, it is an annoyance that chews through your data cap.

By now you have probably noticed that many of the videos in your news feed now start playing automatically as soon as they load. And like me, you might find that a bit distracting.

Luckily, it’s very easy to disable auto-play videos on Facebook. Just follow these steps:

1 – Log in to your Facebook account.

2 – Click the Down Arrow located in the upper right-hand corner of the window.

3 – Click Settings.

4 – Click the Videos link over in the left-hand column.

5 – Toggle the “Auto-Play Videos” setting to Off.

That’s all there is to it. From now on you shouldn’t see any of the videos in your newsfeed begin to play on their own before you click on them.

Note: If you use Facebook on a mobile device and your version of the app allows you to disable auto-playing videos, you’ll find that setting somewhere in the settings menus.

On Android, you will find the auto-play settings within the Facebook app itself. Tap the menu button and then choose settings.

On an iPhone, go to Settings and scroll down until you find Facebook. Tap on it and then tap Settings. Next, tap on the Autoplay setting and choose either Wi-Fi only or Off so you don’t use a big chunk of your monthly data allotment on Facebook videos.

How To Disable mobile inbuild Android Apps

Apps in your Android phone can use a good share of resources and if too many apps are operating at the same time it can lead to some performance or battery issues. This is why, it can be important to only running apps that you actually use and others should be deleted or otherwise disabled (when removing them isn’t an option).It is quite easy to uninstall Android Market apps which you don’t plan to use, but what about apps from OEMs and mobile carriers? Did you notice that there is no Uninstall/delete button on these apps? They are just in your phone and could be feeding on resources while you can’t seem to anything about it.
There is a good chance that you don’t use most or all of the apps installed by your wireless carrier or OEM. If you can’t delete them, you can at least Disable them so they won’t be able to slow down your phone.

Some of you who Rooted your android phone user must be thinking “just root your phone and get rid of all the junk”, but there are many Android users who don’t actually want to root their phone. “Disabling” apps is perfect for those users who want to run their phones in an optimum way, by disabling unused apps (commonly referred as “Bloatware”).

Disabling Android Apps

The process is actually quite simple and you won’t be losing anything [although you need to be careful while choosing the app to be disabled (more on this later)]. When you disable an app, it will still stay in your phone but will not be launched during the initial start up, so you can easily enable it again if you need to. In the end, it’s a good way to optimize your phone without potential dire consequences associated with Rooting the phone.

Note: In this tutorial, we will be using Samsung Galaxy Core 2 running Android KitKat 4.4.2. We will Disable “Google Text-to-speech Engine” which cannot be deleted (it’s just an example, although the app is quite useful). The process should be same on almost all android device, but the names of options may vary.




To disable any app on your android phone, you will first have to go to Settings and tap onApplication manager.




Once there you will see different options at the top such as Downloaded, Running and All. You need to swipe to All so you would be able to see all the apps you have on your phone. Just swipe left until you reach All.



There you can just search for apps that you don’t want to use. Let’s say you like reading things by yourself and don’t want to use Google Text-to-speech app. You can just tap on Google Text-to-speech and open all its details. There you will see the options of Force stop, Uninstall Updates and Turn off/Disable, tap on Turn off/Disable.

When you will tap on Turn off/Disable you will see a warning/notice saying “Turning off a built-in app may cause problems with other apps. Your data will also be deleted” just tapOK. In some phones, another warning/notice will pop up saying “The application will be replaced with the factory version” tap on Uninstall on this pop up notice and the app will be uninstalled.

Precaution: Now, the warnings you see before disabling the app are not there just to scare you, they are actually real. So before disabling any app make sure it is not directly or indirectly affecting any apps that you might use. This app is a service that is potentially used by other apps as well, so there may be ripple effects.

Enabling Android Apps




Like we have mentioned before, these apps are not deleted, you can enable them anytime you like if you change your mind. To enable the app again, just go into the details of that specific app again using the process above and tap on Turn on/enable and it will be ready to use again without going through any processes.

ICT Tips & Tricks : How To Download YouTube Videos Without any Software

We can Download YouTube Videos if we have Internet Download Manager(IDM) and Some Other Softwares on Our PC.

But Without any Software like that, We can download the Videos and Convert them to mp3 format So Easily with any of the below two Ways.

Way I:

1. Go to youtube and open the video that you want to download

2. Go to the address bar and delete "ube" from youtube and click enter.

3. For Example, Normal URL = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGx3Zo7jl5M

Url after deleting "ube"= https://www.yout.com/watch?v=HGx3Zo7jl5M

4. Finally, this opens a new page that has different formats of the video that you want to download like, mp4, flv, 3gp and others. Choose your preferred format. This will automatically start downloading your video.

Way II:

1. Go to youtube and open the video that you want to download

2. Go to the address bar and add "ss" without the qoutes and spaces just in front of the "y" in youtube and click enter.

3. For Example, Normal URL = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGx3Zo7jl5M

Url with "ss"= https://www.ssyoutube.com/watch?v=HGx3Zo7jl5M

4. Finally, this opens a new page that has different formats of the video that you want to download like, mp4, flv, 3gp and others. Choose your preferred format. This will automatically start downloading your video.

Ict tips & Tricks : Solution for Google Drive The app is currently unreachable/unavailable

Some of the most common Google Drive issues include : Inability to access a Google Drive account. Problems with file or document syncing.

Trouble uploading and downloading files Common errors in Google Drive

Here you can see the errors or problems below to learn how to fix any problems you might be experiencing with Google Drive.

Temporary Error (502)

"Trying to connect."

Solution

Copy below address and paste the same in Google Chrome exception to access Google drive 

Google Chrome, Settings => Content Settings => Manage Exceptions. Add three exceptions: "docs.google.com", "drive.google.com", and "googleusercontent.com" all without the quotation marks, and with behaviour set to Allow