Adding a watermark to your document can be a good way to personalize or label it as your own. Unfortunately, Google Docs doesn’t offer a built-in way to do this, but there is a workaround you can try instead. If you want a built-in way to add watermarks to your documents, you can use Microsoft Word and add watermarks to Word documents instead. RELATED: How to Use Watermarks in a Microsoft Word Document...
If you use an unactivated copy of Windows 10, you know that you can’t change your desktop wallpaper using the Settings app. But there’s a workaround to change the desktop background on an unactivated copy of Windows 10. What Happens When You Don’t Activate Windows 10 Microsoft lets you download and use Windows 10 without activating it, but this comes with some restrictions. The entire Personalization menu in Settings is disabled, which means that you can’t change various appearance options for your PC....
In Windows 10, your monitor’s refresh rate determines how often your display image updates every second. Higher is usually better. If you need to change the refresh rate of your monitor, Windows 10 makes it easy. Here’s how. What Is a Monitor Refresh Rate? A monitor’s refresh rate is the frequency at which the image updates on your display. For example, a 60 Hz refresh rate means that the image on your monitor refreshes itself 60 times every second....
Handwritten notes on the iPad are not a new thing. But starting in iPadOS 14, your iPad finally got smart enough to convert the handwritten notes into typed text. Not only can your iPad do this on the fly (you can write in any text field using the Apple Pencil), you can select and convert any handwritten notes from the Notes app (even ones you took before the iPadOS 14 update)....
Before You Delete Your Account There are many reasons that you might want to delete your account, but if you’re doing it to re-register your username, be aware that ProtonMail does not allow this. ProtonMail’s support explains: The only way to switch ProtonMail domains (e.g. from @protonmail.ch to @protonmail.com) is to purchase a premium plan and add the corresponding address as an alias. You can merge ProtonMail accounts, but you will lose all data associated with secondary accounts when completing the process....
Gmail’s folders (also known as labels) let you put relevant emails together. If you don’t need one or more of these folders, it’s easy to delete them from Gmail’s web, iPhone, and iPad versions. We’ll show you how to do just that. RELATED: How to Delete All Emails Under a Label in Gmail What to Know Before Deleting Gmail Folders When you delete a folder, Gmail removes that folder but all your emails that were in that folder are retained....
When you start typing a query in your web browser’s address bar, the browser displays your past searches as suggestions. You may not want certain suggestions to appear for privacy reasons. In that case, here’s how to selectively remove those suggestions from your browser. RELATED: How to Disable Address Bar Search Suggestions in Google Chrome Delete the Google Search Bar History in Chrome In Google Chrome’s both desktop and mobile versions, you can remove the past searches that appear as suggestions....
Want to leave Twitter behind? You can permanently delete your account, erasing all your tweets, followers, favorites, and other data. It will vanish from Twitter almost immediately, and will be fully wiped from Twitter’s servers in 30 days. How Deactivation and Deletion Works Use the Twitter website or app to sign into your account. Select your account picture (or “More” on the web) and select “Settings and Privacy. ” Select “Your Account,” then “Deactivate Account....
The Windows 10 upgrade process drags old files, settings, and programs from your previous Windows system to your new one. Microsoft allows you to get an entirely fresh system by performing a clean install. This is particularly useful if you’ve purchased a new Windows 10 PC and it includes manufacturer-installed bloatware you don’t want. Or, you may need to perform a clean install on a computer without an existing Windows system after installing a new hard drive....
Note that you may want to back up your virtual hard disk file before performing these operations — there’s always a chance something can go wrong, so it’s always good to have backups. However, the process worked fine for us. Update: Use the Virtual Media Manager in VirtualBox VirtualBox 6 added a graphical option for enlarging and resizing virtual disks. To access it, click File > Virtual Media Manager in the main VirtualBox window....
If you’ve ever taken a Live Photo on your iPhone, you’ve basically created a short video clip attached to an image. If you don’t like the resulting photo (or want to grab a different one), it’s possible to extract a different photo from the video clip that you can save or share. Here’s how. First, open the Photos app. Browse your photos until you find the live photo you’d like to work on....
Use ShellExView to View Third-Party Extensions We’re going to do this the easy way. Yes, you can directly remove context menu entries from the Windows registry. But that’s a slow process, and we’re going to quickly pin down the problem. With that in mind, we recommend ShellExView, one of the excellent free utilities from NirSoft. It runs on Windows 10 and older versions of Windows, too. Download and launch ShellExView to get started....
Macs automatically remember all the Wi-Fi networks you’ve ever connect to along with their passphrases. If you’re having trouble connecting to Wi-Fi, you can remove the list of networks to troubleshoot your problem. If there’s a network you previously connected to that’s no longer working, deleting it and connecting again is a good place to start your troubleshooting. Whether you want to remove one wonky network or you want to every Wi-Fi network macOS has saved over the years, you can do it from the same place on your Mac’s Network preferences screen....
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Change How “Last Seen Online” Displays Telegram is available for iPhone and iPad, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux. Because developers took a similar approach with each app, the instructions for changing this setting are the same. To find this option, tap or click on the Settings cog at the bottom of the screen or window. In the menu that appears, select “Privacy and Security.” Tap “Last Seen & Online” under the Privacy header....
Someone send you a Word document, but you don’t have Word? Giving up on Word and making the change to Google Docs? No problem; Google Docs lets you easily import Word documents. And while it might not support some of the more advanced features and formatting of some Word documents, it works pretty well. How to Import a Word Document into Google Docs To view a Word document on Google Docs, you must first upload the file to your Google Drive....
The iPad’s App Switcher is an essential multitasking feature that lets you view, switch to, and manage your open apps as a grid of thumbnails. It’s like Alt+Tab or Command+Tab for an iPad. Here’s how to use it. How to Open the App Switcher on iPad To launch the App Switcher on iPads running iOS 12 or later, slowly swipe upward from the bottom edge of the screen, then pause near the middle of the screen and lift your finger....
If you accidentally committed something you shouldn’t have, and pushed it to Github, there are still ways to delete or modify it. Usually, you don’t want to mess with Git’s history, but in some cases it can be safe when done properly. Don’t Do This If You Can Avoid It Removing commits from Git’s history is generally a bad idea. Git is meant to track every version of your files, and there’s always alternatives to deletion, like git revert, that will keep the history intact....
If you copy text from the web and paste it into Word, it can be annoying when the hyperlinks transfer with it. Here’s how to easily paste text without the hyperlinks, or remove hyperlinks from text that’s already in Word. As an example of pasting text into Word without the hyperlinks, we copied part of an article from How-To Geek and pasted it into Word. As you can see, the hyperlinks were copied into the document as well....
RELATED: How to Remove Third-Party Facebook Apps From Your Account On a laptop or desktop computer, head to Spotify’s website. If you’re not logged in already, go ahead and click “Log In” in the upper right-hand corner, and then enter your credentials. It doesn’t matter if you’re using a standard email account or a Facebook connection to log in. After you’ve logged in, you’ll see your main account information page....
