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Microsoft Family Groups allows you to put everyone in your family who has a free Microsoft account under one digital umbrella. On the Microsoft Family Groups website, you can access a number of easy-to-use settings and limit screen time for yourself or your children. To get started, you can make a family group either directly on Windows 10 or the website. After you invite everyone to your family group, find the member whose screen time you want to limit on the main page of your Microsoft Family account....

Netflix finally lets you protect profiles with a PIN. This is especially useful if you have children that use your account. You can lock your adult profile with a PIN, ensuring children can only use their own profiles. To find these options, head to the Netflix website, mouse over your profile icon at the top-right corner of the screen, and click “Account” to find your account settings. Under Profile & Parental Controls, click the arrow to the right of the profile you want to restrict....

Ever wished you didn’t have to type in your password every time Windows starts up, but you don’t want to lose the additional security that comes with having a password? If that’s the case then today’s your lucky day. Lets take a look. Note: We’re showing Windows 8 in this example, but this should work in Windows 10, Windows 7, or Windows Vista as well. Setting Windows to Logon Automatically Press the Windows + R keyboard combination to bring up a run box, when it appears type netplwiz and hit enter....

There’s a good chance that you use your smartphone to order food from restaurants. There are tons of apps that make it easy to do. However, Google Assistant on Android makes it even easier. We’ll show you how. This feature is thanks to the same “Duplex” technology that enables Google Assistant to buy movie tickets on your behalf. Simply start the process and Google will streamline much of the experience and do a lot of the work for you....

Google Home’s speaker sounds pretty good, but the Home Mini is a little lacking. Now, you can pair any Home or Home Mini with a Bluetooth speaker for a better audio experience. Adding a Bluetooth speaker to your Google Home is simple. Fire up the Google Home app, and then tap the devices button in the top right corner. On the Devices page, tap the menu button (the three-dots) in the top right corner, and then choose the “Settings” command....

Twitter is a text-focused social network, but that hasn’t stopped the tech company from including photos and videos. Now, the social media site has added a voice tweet feature that allows you to send personalized audio messages to your followers. At the time of writing, Twitter is still slowly rolling out the voice tweet feature to its iPhone and iPad apps. There’s no word on when it will make its way to Android....

Mac users who are running macOS 11 Big Sur or newer have access to the unified Notification Center. Rather than being split into two tabs, the Notification Center is now split into two halves. The top half shows your unread notifications (if you have any), and the bottom half shows your widgets. To access the Notification Center, click the Time and Date button from the menu bar (next to the Control Center button)....

Windows 10 has a built-in FPS counter hidden in its little-known Xbox Game Bar. Despite its name, the Xbox Game Bar is a powerful full-screen overlay you can use in PC games. Here’s how to show your frames per second (FPS) in games. This feature is part of the Game Bar. To open it, press Windows+G. (If the Game Bar doesn’t appear, head to Settings > Gaming > Xbox Game Bar and ensure that it’s toggled to “On....

If your Windows PC feels mysteriously sluggish or refuses to load more programs, it may have run out of working memory. When that happens, PCs often fall back to using virtual memory, which can be much slower. Here’s how to see which programs are eating up all your memory. It’s worth clarifying that we’re only talking about memory as in RAM, which is temporary working room for your programs, not disk storage space....

If you bought a new Mac, or if you’re wanting to switch to Firefox from a different browser like Safari or Chrome, you can easily set it as the default. Here’s how to set Mozilla Firefox as the default browser on Mac. Before you get started, make sure you’ve downloaded and installed Firefox for Mac. If the browser isn’t installed on your device, you will not be able to set it as the default browser....

This is a handy feature built into Google’s Messages app—the default SMS/MMS application on Pixel phones and some other Android devices. If you’re not using one of those phones (for example, if you’re using a Samsung Galaxy phone), you can simply download it from the Google Play Store and make it your default texting app. Facebook Messenger has a similar location-sharing feature RELATED: How to Set Your Default Texting App on Android...

How YouTube’s Playback Speed Controls Work YouTube includes a feature called “Playback speed” that allows you to select a speed anywhere between 0.25 times and 2 times the normal speed. With “1” being normal speed, “0.25” is equal to a quarter of the original speed (slowing playback down), and “2” is twice as fast as normal. If something seems like it’s taking forever—perhaps a long presentation, interview, or podcast where everyone is speaking slowly—you can actually speed it up....

Originally, Windows 10 would ask if you wanted to switch to Tablet Mode if you disconnected your keyboard or folded your convertible PC. Starting with the October 2020 Update, Windows 10 now automatically switches your machine to tablet mode without asking. If you prefer, it’s easy to turn this off in Settings. Here’s how. First, open Windows “Settings.” The easiest way is to open the Start menu and click the small gear icon in the tiny sidebar on the left....

City So Real Play Video Renowned documentary filmmaker Steve James (Hoop Dreams) takes a deep look at his hometown of Chicago in this five-part series, which first aired on Nat Geo. The show documents the 2019 Chicago mayoral race as well as the city’s response to the 2020 pandemic and the resulting social unrest with James’ typical clear-eyed vision and compassion for his subjects. City So Real is streaming on Hulu ($5....

This is possible with an app called “Tap, Tap.” Once enabled, it can perform functions when you tap the back of your device. The app is not available to download from the Google Play Store, but it can be easily sideloaded on any Android 7.0+ device. Before we proceed, follow our guide to get Tap, Tap installed and ready to go. RELATED: How to Perform Actions by Tapping the Back of Your Android Phone...

If you use Microsoft Teams to communicate and collaborate with your coworkers, there’s a good chance your team also uses Planner to manage work. Here’s how to use Planner in Teams and view your tasks next to your team chat. Microsoft sees Teams as a “single pane of glass” through which you can see all your work in one place. The company has added integrations with other Office 365 (O365) apps, such as Word, Excel, Forms, Sway, and others, as well as a whole host of third-party apps....

Microsoft Teams has been able to blur your background during video calls for nearly 2 years, but now you can choose a virtual background or upload your own custom backdrop. Here’s how to do it. Use a Built-In Background in Microsoft Teams To change your background to one of the built-in images, click the three-dot menu icon while on a Microsoft Teams video call and choose “Show Background Effects” to open the “Background Settings” panel....

If you need to check, update, or delete your credit card numbers saved by Google Chrome’s autofill feature, it’s easy to do so using the browser’s payment method settings. Here’s how. First, open Google Chrome on your Mac, PC, or Linux computer. In any Chrome window, click the three vertical dots button in the top right corner. In the menu that appears, click “Settings.” The “Settings” tab will open. Click “Autofill” in the sidebar, then select “Payment Methods....

Optimize Photoshop’s Performance Out of the box, Photoshop does a pretty great job of optimizing itself to the computer on which you’re working. It was first released in 1990, so the developers have some experience with getting it to run on low-spec machines. Even the latest version of Photoshop CC runs fine on a mid-2012 MacBook Air. Still, there are some tweaks you can make. On a PC, go to Edit > Preferences > Performance; on a Mac, go to Photoshop > Preferences > Performance....

What Is iPhone Error 4013? Error 4013 may affect the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, rearing its head as a pop-up error whenever you try to restore your device using a Mac or Windows PC. You’ll see a message like: This particular error code refers to a generic hardware fault, but others like 9, 4005, and 4014 may present in the same way. Though the issue may be related to a hardware problem, there are a few simple things you can try before getting your hands dirty or paying for a repair....