Updates are necessary, but annoying. Which is why your Mac, by default, installs them automatically. System updates protect your Mac from malware and other threats, and occasionally add new features. The same goes for software updates, so it’s important to keep all your apps up to date. But popups asking users whether they want to install updates have a way of being ignored, even when the user knows that updates are important....
Open the Instagram app on your iPhone or Android device. Head into your profile tab by tapping your display picture’s thumbnail in the bottom-right corner. Pull out the side menu by tapping the hamburger button in the top-right corner and then navigate to Settings > Privacy. Enter the “Comments” menu. Here, the first “Allow Comments From” option allows you to limit which group of people can leave a comment on your photos and videos....
Unfortunately, you generally can’t do this with just an Echo and a TV—you need some sort of smart hub hooked up to your TV that the Echo can communicate with. We recommend the Logitech Harmony Hub. RELATED: How to Control Your Entire Home Theater with a Logitech Harmony Remote The Echo’s Harmony integration isn’t all-powerful, but it’s capabilities are continuously growing. It can control “activities” that you have set up on your Harmony Hub, which means it can turn any number of devices on and off....
One method used to infect Windows PCs is through malformed/malicious HTML content stored inside emails (and in most cases hidden.) Because of this, one of the first things I do after installing Microsoft Outlook is set the client to convert all received email to Plain Text. The setting in Outlook 2007 is “Read all standard mail in plain text.” Enabling this feature not only helps secure your desktop against malformed or malicious HTML (who wants to get hacked right?...
To convert a PDF’s pages to JPG on Windows 10, you can either use Adobe’s online conversion tool or take a screenshot of each page of your PDF and save that as JPG. We’ll show you both these methods. Using Adobe’s Online PDF to JPG Conversion Tool Adobe offers an online tool that you can use to convert your PDF files to JPG. Use this method if you want to turn all pages of your PDF into JPG files....
Whether you want to reduce your image’s size, or you just want your image to meet a site’s upload guidelines, it’s easy to convert PNG images to JPG on a Windows 10 or 11 PC. We’ll show you how. RELATED: How to Compress a Folder of Images Easily with a Batch File in Windows Ways to Convert PNG Files to JPEG Files On Windows 10 and 11, you have multiple ways to turn a PNG image into JPG....
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With so much of our lives spent online, we’re often bringing things from the real world into the digital space. Google Photos makes it easy to copy and paste text from a photo and it works for iPhone and Android. Google Photos is easily one of the best photo management apps out there. You don’t have to back up your photos to use Google’s great features, either. The ability to detect text in a photo is thanks to Google Lens abilities being built into the app....
You can use the COUNT function and variations to count cells that contain numbers. But what if you want to count only the distinct values in a cell range? We’ll show you two ways to count unique values in Excel. Both methods we’ll explain use a combination of functions and variations of the COUNT function. And because your cell range could include blank cells, we’re including alternative formulas to account for this....
Here’s a quick overview of why this can work out so well: While Milim has a lot of use outside of countering Landy, this is where she shines the most. Other Ways To Counter Landy Landy is a powerful Hero, but not one without any weaknesses. We’ll be going over some of the other ways you can beat Landy below. Method #1: Avoid buffs This might seems like an obvious statement, but Landy is only as strong as the number of buffs applied to your team....
We’ve previously written about a tool that allows you to create a bunch of folders at one time from a list of words or phrases. However, what if you want to create one or more folders from a bunch of selected text files? There’s a simple, free tool, called Files 2 Folder, that allows you to do that. Installing Files 2 Folder adds an option to the context menu for Windows Explorer....
If you find yourself creating the same spreadsheet outline over and over again in Google Sheets, you can save yourself massive amounts of time if you create a template. We’ll walk you through the process step-by-step. Google Sheets has a wide selection of templates you can choose from, but it’s possible none of these will meet your specific requirements. If you want to create a custom template you can use whenever you need it, there’s a work-around you can use to get started....
Creating installation media for your operating system of choice used to be simple. Just download an ISO and burn it to CD or DVD. Now we’re using USB drives, and the process is a little different for each operating system. You can’t just copy files from an ISO disc image directly onto your USB drive. The USB drive’s data partition needs to be made bootable, for one thing. This process will usually wipe your USB drive or SD card....
Desktop icons should be simple, but they’re not on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and newer releases like Ubuntu 19.10. Follow these easy steps to get desktop shortcuts for your favorite applications, just like on other operating systems and other Linux desktops. Yes, It Should Be Easier Dropping shortcuts on the desktop is one of those things that Windows users do without overthinking about it. It’s unfortunate, but a newcomer to Linux can find doing that simple task a frustrating struggle....
Creating a ringtone for your iPhone from your favorite song can be a challenge, but it doesn’t have to be. Here’s how to quickly whip up a killer new tone directly on your phone. There are numerous ringtone apps in the iOS app store. We checked out about a dozen of them, and they all have similar functionality. All of the apps we tested required that you load music to the iPhone using iTunes instead of downloading it from a cloud or streaming music service....
The Mail app for macOS has the useful feature of user-created mailboxes that function as bins into which you can sort your mail. They are easy to create and work with, and you can make as many as you’d like. How To Add Mailboxes to the Mail App Open up the Mail app from the Dock or your Applications folder and hover your mouse over the top of the sidebar....
It’s easy to customize and move all the Windows tiles around, but what if you want to create your own shortcuts for portable apps, or something really useful, like adding the missing Shutdown or Reboot shortcuts back? Here’s how to do it. Note: we’re sure that as Windows 8 is improved over time, there will be better methods to do this, but this is the method that we used. If you know of something else, let us know....
Gmail is an enormously popular email provider with an easy-to-use web interface. However, not all preferences and screen sizes work well with the default settings. Here’s how to customize the Gmail interface. Expand or Collapse the Sidebar The Gmail sidebar—the area on the left that shows you the Inbox, Sent Items, Drafts, and so on— takes up a lot of screen space on a smaller device. To change or collapse the sidebar, click the hamburger menu at the top left of the app....
Gmail’s Snooze function is handy, but the default times might not be suitable for you. Here’s how you can customize and change the snooze times. When you use Snooze in Gmail, the default options change depending on the time of day and week, but there are three default times: morning, afternoon, and evening. These are set to 08:00 (8:00 a.m.), 13:00 (1:00 p.m.), and 18:00 (6:00 p.m.), respectively. You can set this to any date and time manually, but it’s a bit frustrating, not to mention inefficient to do so for every email....
The stock Touch Bar on Apple’s MacBook feels a little bland. If you’ve ever wanted to spruce it up a bit with things like custom buttons and widgets, the BetterTouchBar app lets you do just that. BetterTouchTool is an app designed primarily for customizing trackpad gestures, but it also has a very powerful Touch Bar customizer built in. While the app isn’t free, $6.50 is not a bad price for such a powerful app....
