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Google Assistant is one of the most useful features of the Android operating system and the features it offers you are endless.
You can get the answer to any question and also perform simple and helpful tasks like calling or texting someone, playing a song or even have fun with it by asking it to tell you a joke.
There are actually a lot of things Google Assistant is capable of which makes many of those go unnoticed. One such cool thing which is added recently to the Google Assistant is the ability to have a conversation directly with a chat bot of eBay.
One such cool thing which is added recently to the Google Assistant is the ability to have a conversation directly with a chat bot of eBay.
Yes, you read that right. eBay, the e-commerce store is now available as a chat bot inside of Google assistant and you can access it while you are having a conversation with your assistant.
For example, if you want to know how much your old iPhone or your refrigerator may be worth of and assuming that you want to sell them at eBay, you can now use your Google assistant to get an estimate of the price of a product you specify.
All you have to do is to launch your Google assistant by long pressing your home button on your Android smartphone or by opening the Google app on your iPhone and then type or speak these words “ask eBay”.
This will trigger the eBay chat bot that is associated with the Google Assistant and you will be greeted with the text, “I’m the world’s price guide. You can ask me what something is worth”.
You can follow this response by specifying the name of a product and asking its worth.
For example, if you type or say iPhone worth, the bot will reply with a question whether it is an old or a new one and based on your reply it will give you the estimated price of the product.
This is a nifty trick which could be used whenever you want to buy some product online or just wondering how much will I get if I sell my old TV to just launch your assistant and quickly get the approximate price.
Similar to the Facebook Messenger, Google may also be expected to integrate a lot of bots into the Google assistant in the future to provide more such useful features.
Be sure to check whether you can access the eBay bot on your Google assistant as it is slowly rolling out to everyone and let us know in the comments below.
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Do you have a lengthy conversation you’d like to capture in one screenshot? A nicely designed website you’d like to see as a whole? Some OEMs like Xiaomi & Samsung who skin Android, to their credit, include this feature by default. Unfortunately, Google hasn’t made it their priority to include or build this in any of their releases or plan on including it with Android O. But there’s a simple way to accomplish this task thanks to a few apps. Here’s how to stitch multiple screenshots & web pages on Android.
There are multiple apps as usual to accomplish this task, but most polished apps on the Play Store are Stitch & Share, and Stitch It! Stitch & Share has a still edge when it comes to alignment and does a better job at eliminating duplicate elements in my experience. But the most notable feature is Automatic screen capture will almost replicate Samsung & Xiaomi’s implementation of the feature.
Step 1: Launch the app and go to the settings page from the hamburger menu. Make sure Automatically detect screenshots is checked.
Step 2: Go to the app where your conversation or item of interest is situated.
Step 3: Start taking screenshots as usual by pressing down the Volume Up & Power Button. (This combination may vary with manufacturers)
Step 4: Continue taking screenshots by scrolling 3/4th the area to ensure the app can stitch the elements correctly without artefacts.
Step 5: Once the screenshots are taken, there’s a notification to confirm the stitch operation.
Click the Stitch & Share notification
Clicking on it prompted the app to show the stitched view of the screenshots. It’s possible to play around with the images till the final result is achieved. Once finished, the image can be shared or saved to the storage. The output is stored in the folder Stitch & Share under DCIM.
The free version of the app will output the stitched screenshot with a watermark. Although this can be removed via an in-app purchase where you can pick the amount you’d like to pay which ranges between Rs. 79 to Rs. 750.
Premium to remove ads and watermark
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If you find Stitch & Share’s automatic capture only working part of the time or find it harder to use then use the browser Via to capture screenshots. It’s a lightweight browser packed with features but we’ll get into that in the upcoming weeks. One noteworthy feature of this browser is Screenshot. This feature allows users to capture an active web page partially or in its entirety.
Step 1: Launch Via and visit the target website.
Step 2: Press the bottom right icon to bring up settings and scroll horizontally till you see the Screenshot option.
Step 3: Capture the active portion of the web page that’s visible or the entire web page. The app will automatically capture and save it to storage. The output is saved to the Download folder.
Here’s a short demo
If even this method doesn’t do it for you, there’s a dedicated app called Scroll Capture for Web where the only purpose of the app is to load a web page and capture the site.
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