Up to 96 Hours, as Far as We Know The CDC says it may be possible to get COVID-19 if you touch a surface that has the SARS-CoV-2 virus on it and then touch your mouth, nose, or perhaps even your eyes. The organization recommends cleaning and disinfecting “high-touch surfaces” daily. According to the World Health Organization, the original SARS-CoV virus from 2003 was stable on glass surfaces for up to 96 hours (four days)....
Ideally, Apple Watch should have a built-in setting for changing watch faces at a specific time. Say, a Modular watch face from 10 AM to 6 PM, and a Photos watch face from 6 PM to 10 AM. While this is still a pipe dream, starting with watchOS 7, you can change your watch face at a specific time using the built-in Shortcuts Automation app on your iPhone. The entire setup process works using the Automations feature in the Shortcuts app....
Starting with the October 2020 update, Windows 10 now defaults to a light theme that takes away accent colors from your taskbar and Start menu. If you’d like to select a custom color for your Start menu, there’s an easy way to pick it in Settings. Here’s how. First, launch “Settings” by opening the “Start” menu and clicking the gear icon on the left. (You can also press Windows+i on your keyboard....
Every watch face has a different set of customization parameters. Most allow you to change the color of the dial, complications, or background. Some, like California and Typography, even allow you to change the symbols and style of the watch face, and transform it into something downright gorgeous. If you’re in the mood for something fun, you can try out the animated Memoji watch face. You can customize the look of the watch face from your Watch or iPhone....
For some reason, we as humans have this twice-a-year ritual where we change all of the clocks around us. Fortunately, with most of our clocks connected to the Internet, the hassle of having to change the time manually is a thing of the past. Still, it never hurts to make sure your gadget will change the time. Your internal clock will still need a week or so to adjust, but your phone or computer’s clock has probably started to replace the wall clock you’ve had in your home or office....
React is often used to make dynamic web apps that respond to user input, but it’s also quite useful for static sites. React sites can even be pregenerated during the build process to save on precious milliseconds during page load. What Is a Static Site? Static sites are HTML that is delivered to the user directly, rather than generating the page for each request. For example, this article you’re reading was instead dynamically generated by WordPress talking to a database, which caused the PHP code to render out paragraphs of HTML....
Want to turn any old computer into a Chromebook? Google doesn’t provide official builds of Chrome OS for anything but official Chromebooks, but there are ways you can install the open-source Chromium OS software or a similar operating system. These are all easy to play with, so you can run them entirely from a USB drive to try them out. Installing them on your computer is optional. Should You Really Do This?...
Pick the Right Tip Size (and Test It) The AirPods Pro and third-generation AirPods come with interchangeable ear tips in three sizes. These snap onto your AirPods with a bit of force, since making a firm seal with your ear canal is important for sound isolation purposes. You should be able to tell whether your current AirPods tips are the right size for you. If they’re frequently falling out even when you’re stationary, consider moving up in size....
Do you have an Excel sheet where you want the columns and rows at fixed sizes? You can lock the column width and row height for your entire spreadsheet in a few steps to prevent accidental resizing. Maybe you have data that you want to display in a specific way. For instance, you might expand a cell to accommodate a large font or an image. Because it’s so easy to resize columns and rows by dragging them, you or a collaborator might do it unintentionally....
When you post on Facebook, you can choose who will see that post, as well as all future posts. However, what if you want to limit who can see all the posts you’ve made in the past? Facebook has a setting to do just that. RELATED: How to Show or Hide Facebook Posts for Certain People You can limit the audience for any of the posts on your timeline by clicking the down arrow in the upper-right corner of a post, selecting “Edit Post” from the dropdown menu, and choosing your audience from the popup menu next to the Save button....
If you want to create a budget and share it with your housemates, Google Sheets is a great option. Use a template or make a budget from scratch and then share it so you can all work on it together. Use a Google Sheets Budget Template Google Sheets makes it easy to set up a monthly or yearly budget with its templates. On the main page, select the Template Gallery at the top....
In the old days, when you opened a new Mozilla Firefox tab, it always opened at the very end (right side) of the tab bar. If you want to get that behavior back, you can make a quick change in Firefox’s advanced preferences config page on Windows, Linux, and Mac. Here’s how. First, open Firefox. In the address bar of any window, type about:config and hit Enter. You’ll see a “Proceed with Caution” message....
Watch Educational Content on YouTube If you like to learn new things, you don’t have to look any further than YouTube. Yes, the site is also jam-packed with music and funny videos, and entertaining shows. However, it’s also a veritable goldmine of interesting educational content. No matter what your interests are (geography, psychology, history, filmmaking, writing, etc.) you can find a YouTube channel about it that will teach you something new or interesting....
Sometimes you might need to rotate your iPhone or iPad’s display without physically tilting the device. Maybe your rotation sensor is broken or it’s physically impossible. If so, there’s a way around it. Here’s how. An accessibility feature built into iPhone and iPad called AssistiveTouch provides a shortcut menu that allows you to simulate physical movements, gestures, and button presses from a centralized interface. One of its features includes changing the screen orientation without you having to physically move your iPhone or iPad....
Want to protect your ZIP archives with a password? While Windows doesn’t have a built-in option to do that, you can use free apps like 7-Zip and WinRAR to add password protection. We’ll show you how to use those apps. Make sure to note your password somewhere safe, like in a password manager, as you’ll need it each time you want to extract files from your password-protected ZIP. RELATED: How to Password Protect Files and Folders With Encryption...
Adding borders around your images keeps photos with white backgrounds from spilling over into your document. It’s also an easy way to give them a little extra flair. Here’s how to put borders around images in Microsoft Word. To add a border around your image, open Word on your Windows 10 PC or Mac and click the image that you want to add a border to. If you don’t already have the image in your document, you can insert one by going to Insert > Pictures....
This is particularly convenient when you want to shift between devices—for example, if you read an important message on your phone and want to take action when you get to a computer. It’s also useful when you want to set aside a message for now and revisit it in the future. Use Slack’s Reminders When you want to get reminded about a message later, set a reminder. To do this, hover over a message in Slack with your mouse, click the “More Actions” button that looks like three dots, point to “Remind me about this,” and select a time....
First, open your “Applications” folder. One way to do it quickly is to open “Finder” and choose Go > Applications from the menu bar at the top of the screen. You can also open a Finder window and click “Applications” in the sidebar. In the “Applications” folder, locate the universal binary app you’d like to run through Rosetta. Right-click (or Ctrl-click) the app’s icon and select “Get Info.” In the “Get Info” window that appears, look toward the bottom of the “General” section....
Some people love to keep dozens of tabs open at a time, but those hog up precious system memory. Tell them to close a few and you’ll get a nasty look. If that sounds like you, Microsoft Edge’s “Sleeping Tabs” lets you save RAM and your tabs. Instead of actually closing tabs, the built-in feature puts them to “sleep” by suspending them after they’ve been inactive for a while. Suspending a tab reduces how much memory and CPU it can use in the background....
No matter where you work, meetings all have one thing in common: PowerPoint presentations. If you use Zoom, you can easily present your slideshow to the participants by sharing your screen. Here’s how it’s done. Grant Access to Share Screens in Zoom If you’re the host of the Zoom meeting, you’ll be able to share your screen without issue. However, if you’re joining a meeting that you aren’t the host of, you may need to request permission from the host to be able to share your screen....
