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RELATED: Listen, You Don’t Need That Many Browser Tabs Open Close All Safari Tabs at Once It’s easy to close all tabs at once in Safari on an iPhone or iPad. Launch the browser then tap and hold the “View Tabs” button in the bottom-right corner of the screen. You can then choose the “Close All Tabs” option to nuke your browsing session entirely. This works for the current session, so if you’re in a “Private” browsing session then this will close all open private tabs....

This matters. For example, Comcast normally charges $10 for each extra 50 GB of data their customers use above the 1 TB data cap. With companies asking their employees to work from home, schools canceling classes, large events being banned, and more people being asked to quarantine themselves at home, home internet usage will likely go up. That shouldn’t be an excuse to tack on extra fees and increase profit margins....

Better Than Flat Monitors? Curved monitors are on the rise, and one reason is that they provide a much more immersive experience compared to flat monitors. This is thanks to the inward curve, as it gives you a wider field of view. The curve slightly wraps around your peripheral vision, which creates a natural, realistic, and captivating viewing experience. Curved monitors benefit gamers in particular or those who need to see with their peripherals often....

Creating hyper-focused channels in Slack makes it easy to stay on topic but hard to see all of the important messages. Use Slack’s Reacji Channeler to automatically copy important messages to specific channels using emoji reactions. One of Slack’s biggest benefits is that it keeps your chat in one place, but this also causes one of its biggest drawbacks: it’s almost impossible to keep up with everything. The more people contribute to your Slack, the truer this becomes....

CES looked a bit different this year after going all-digital, but that didn’t stop companies from unveiling new products. After careful deliberation, the How-To Geek and Review Geek teams have awarded the following 11 products with How-To Geek’s Best of CES 2021 awards. Before jumping into the awards, Review Geek has been hard at work covering all of the CES 2021 announcements that you need to know about. Head on over there if you’ve missed anything from the internationally renowned trade show....

Your iPhone has secret codes you can plug into the dialer to access hidden options. These codes “interrogate” the phone to find and change various settings. For example, you can view a more precise display of your cellular signal strength and set up call barring to block outgoing phone calls. Many interrogation codes do things you can now do from your iPhone’s normal Settings screen. All interrogation codes are used by opening the Phone app, typing a code into its keypad, and tapping the call button....

Alt Text, or Alternative Text, is an important way to make the web more accessible to people with visual impairments. With Twitter, you can ensure that a wider audience can understand your tweets by adding alt-tags to your images when you upload them. Here’s how to do it. How to Add Alt Text Using the Mobile Twitter App If you’re running the Twitter app on your iPhone, iPad, or Android device, adding alt text is easy....

Many writers need to keep track of word count, and Google Docs now makes it easy. In the fall of 2019, Google introduced a heavily requested feature in Docs that counts words on-screen as you type, similar to Microsoft Word. Here’s how to use it. Click “Tools” on the menu bar while editing a document and select “Word count”. A menu will pop up on the screen that displays word count statistics....

Why Back Up Your Save Data? Let’s say you’re playing a game with a known issue that hasn’t yet been patched. This particular issue causes crashes that some people have said might corrupt save data. You’ve read the horror stories on Reddit and Twitter and want to take steps to safeguard your save data. By manually backing up your save file, you can take a snapshot of your progress at a certain time....

How to Customize or Blur Your Background During a Skype Call First, make sure that you have the latest version of the Skype desktop client downloaded and installed on your Windows PC or Mac. Don’t use the Windows 10 Store version, which doesn’t have this feature for some reason. Some older versions of Skype support background blurring, but not custom backgrounds. To blur your background during a Skype video session, hover your mouse over the “Turn Video Off Button....

Google Pay is the company’s one-stop-shop for all things related to your finances. It’s a very powerful service if you use all of its features. One handy feature is the ability to add your bank or credit card to track spending. The financial feature is similar in concept to services such as Mint and Simplifi. You connect Google Pay to your bank account or a credit card and the service will keep track of your spending and provide insights....

Launch the Instagram app on your Android device or iPhone. Tap your display picture icon in the bottom-right corner to head into your profile page. Tap the “+” button from the top-right corner. From the list of options, go to Guide > Places. Here, you can search and choose the locations you’d like to feature in your guide. The “Search” tab lets you look up any place from around the world....

The latest Microsoft Edge browser is based on Google Chrome’s Chromium software. Both browsers share many features, including the ability to customize the New Tab page that displays when you first launch the browser. Here’s how to customize the page. By default, the New Tab page will show a Bing search bar, quick links to most visited sites, and a spotlight of the top news stories. However, there are a few things you can do to customize this page to have a better Edge experience....

How to Disable Siri Suggestions in Spotlight Search When you swipe down on the iPhone or iPad’s Home Screen, you’ll see suggested apps and actions below the Search bar. This is the handiwork of the Siri Suggestions feature. Apple uses Siri’s intelligence to figure out which apps you’re most likely to open at the given time, and occasionally suggests some actions that you frequently do around the same time every day....

Android 11 introduced a feature for Google Pixel phones called “App Suggestions.” The launcher will suggest different apps you might want throughout the day. If you’re not interested in this, it’s easy to disable. Prior to Android 11, App Suggestions were only present in the app drawer, but now they appear on the home screen as well. The App Suggestions feature fills in any empty spots you have in the bottom row of the home screen, and are indicated by an outline....

Keep in mind that this feature works best with Ring Chimes. If you don’t have one of those, you can manually adjust your phone’s notification settings to holiday sounds, but that’s definitely not as fun. First, open the Ring app on your iPhone, iPad, or Android device and select the “Chimes” option in the top toolbar. If you don’t see the “Chimes” option, select the hamburger menu button in the top-left corner....

A blurry or fuzzy screen can make using the Windows 11 desktop and your applications a miserable experience. Fortunately, there are a few things you can try to fix the problem, from changing settings to updating your drivers. Change Resolution and Scaling Settings There’s a difference between scaling and resolution settings in Windows. Setting both correctly can fix usability and render quality problems, like a blurred screen. A low-resolution display could be described as “blurry” since lower resolutions result in larger visible pixels....

Try Windows 10’s Built-in Calculator Windows 10’s built-in calculator has an always-on-top mode, too. It can stay always on top of whatever desktop apps you’re using. We’re covering another cool trick in this article: Using the Xbox Game Bar’s little-known widgets to get a calculator that can stay always on top anywhere in Windows, including inside PC games. RELATED: How to Keep the Calculator Always-on-Top on Windows 10 How to Get an Xbox Game Bar Calculator Widget Widgets are one of the Xbox Game Bar‘s many handy features....

Prior to the May 2019 Update, Windows 10 utilized a dark Start menu, toolbar, context menus, and action center with light-colored apps. Now it defaults to a light theme by default—and if you enable dark mode, all your apps turn dark. Here’s how to get a dark OS interface with light apps again. First, run Windows Settings by opening the “Start” menu and clicking the gear icon. Or you can press Windows+I on your keyboard....

First: Here’s What You Need To have Siri announce messages through your AirPods or headphones, you’ll need to be running iOS 13.2 or higher (on iPhone) or iPadOS 13.2 or higher (on iPad). You’ll also need one of the following earbud or headphone devices: AirPods (2nd Generation) AirPods Pro AirPods Max Powerbeats Powerbeats Pro Beats Solo Pro It’s likely that Apple’s yet-to-be-released future headphone and wireless devices will continue to support this feature....