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Most people use LinkedIn to get email alerts for new job postings that match their interests but did you know that LinkedIn can also help track new hires made by a company? You can easily keep an eye on new employees joining your own company or a competitor. Also see: The Best Email Alerts Services How to Set People Search Alerts on LinkedIn Similar to job alerts, you can set up people alerts in LinkedIn and they will send you an email when new employees join the tracked company. You can track new hires by the parent company (e.g., Amazon) or limit your employee searches to a regional office of that company (e.g., Amazon India or Amazon’s Bangalore office). To get started, open the LinkedIn website, click the search box, type the name of the parent company and choose the “people search” option from the autocomplete list (see screenshot above). On the search results page, expand the Locations section and check the regions that you would like to track. You can select the country na...

Looking for good SMS app for Android? The Google Play Store lists a gazillion texting apps that can do SMS, MMS, and so much more. The most popular options include  Facebook Messenger that has texting as a side feature, TrueCaller that can identify senders and then there’s Android Messages , Google’s own SMS app that also includes audio chats, emojis and location sharing. I prefer minimal apps that do one thing and do it really well. After testing all the popular texting apps for Android, the one I absolutely love is  SMS Organizer  from Microsoft. It is a pure SMS app, simple and efficient but with no extra bells and whistles. Here’s a list of useful features that make SMS Organizer a must-have app for Android. 1. OTP Detection When you log into a website that requires 2-factor authentication, your bank for example, they send a one-time-password (OTP) to your mobile phone in a text message. You open the message, copy the digits and paste in...

The files in your Google Drive are either private (only visible to you) or they can be seen by specific people with whom you have chosen to  explicitly share the file . In the case of folders, any file contained inside a shared folder can be seen by all users who have access to the folder. Let’s consider a slightly different scenario where you have a shared folder in Drive any you don’t want other users to see a particular file inside that folder. A simple option is that you move the file outside the folder. There’s an alternate workaround as well that will help you easily hide files in Google Drive folders through ‘camouflage’ without requiring any add-ons or extensions. Hide Secret Files in Google Drive The trick is simple. Google Drive allows you to store multiple versions of a file and if you upload a new version of a file, the previous version is preserved as well. The file versions can be of different mime types  so you can upload a PDF file first and then rep...

YouTube, the second largest search engine after Google, offers extremely powerful search commands but there’s one important search functionality that YouTube is yet to include in its mobile app for both Android & iPhone. You cannot search for videos within a specific YouTube channel while using YouTube on a mobile phone or tablet. For instance, if you would like to search for Tesla videos that were uploaded on the MKBHD channel, you simply can’t do that from your mobile phone. This search-within-channel feature has been available for long on YouTube’s desktop website – see screenshot – but none of the YouTube apps have it yet. This is surprising considering the fact that more than half of video views on YouTube now come from mobile devices. That’s where our mini  YouTube search engine  can help. Sign-in with your YouTube account, enter a search query, select any YouTube channel that you are subscribed to and it will show a list of all matching videos withi...

You have lots of files in your Google Drive and it can take some effort to find that elusive file you’ve been looking for. For instance, how do you quickly find the sales presentation that James shared with you last week? Or how do you locate a specific resume among the hundreds of other PDF files in your Google Drive folders? Like Gmail and Twitter , Google Drive supports a plethora of advanced search operators that will help you quickly find the exact file you’ve been looking for. You can use search operators on the Google Drive website and the Drive mobile apps. Chrome users can type drive.google.com in the search bar, press tab and enter the search query. How Search Works in Google Drive Google Drive, by default, will return files where the search query matches the file’s title, the content or the file’s description. It can also identify objects inside photos so a search for “birthday” may retrieve images of cakes in your Drive. Drive will also perform a OCR and search for t...