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Nintendo lets you activate two-step verification, a form of two-factor authentication, for your Nintendo Account. Whenever you sign in to your account—from a Nintendo Switch, on the web, or via a mobile app—you’ll need to enter a code generated by an app on your smartphone as well as your password. RELATED: Nintendo Account vs. User ID vs. Network ID: All of Nintendo’s Confusing Accounts, Explained To turn on this feature, head to Nintendo’s Account Security page....

Image by cytosine Getting a Refund for a Book You Accidentally Purchased It couldn’t be easier to get your refund – just head to Your Account and go to the Manage Your Kindle section. Find the book you want to return in the list, and then see the Actions button on the right-hand side. Click the Return for Refund link. Just click the Return for Refund button, and you’ll get your money back....

There are thousands of weather apps on every platform that can quickly share your location’s upcoming forecast. If you check the weather first thing in the morning, you can use the Google Clock app to hear the forecast with your alarm. This feature is possible with the Google Clock app on Android and Google Assistant. When your alarm goes off, it will trigger a routine that announces the day’s weather forecast....

Most files on your Mac have a file extension at the end of their name that helps people and apps know what type of file it is. By default, macOS hides these extensions, but you can show or hide them on a file-by-file basis. Here’s how. First: Know About the Master Switch Before you try to show or hide individual file extensions, you should know whether Finder is configured to show or hide all file extensions on your Mac....

There are a number of ways to insert contact information into a Word document. Perhaps the easiest is just adding an Address Book button to the Quick Access Toolbar so that you can add contacts on-the-fly and at the touch of a button in any Microsoft Office application. Adding an Address Book Button to the Quick Access Toolbar To add the button, click the arrow icon in the Quick Access Toolbar....

Microsoft’s new Universal Windows Platform applications use the .Appx or .AppxBundle file format. They’re normally installed from the Windows Store, but Windows 10 allows you to sideload Appx packages from anywhere. Like other software, you should only install .Appx or .AppxBundle packages from sources you trust. What’s an .Appx or .AppxBundle? New Windows 10 “Universal apps” or “Universal Windows Platform” apps are distributed in .Appx or .AppxBundle files. These are application packages that include the name, description, and permissions of an app along with the application’s binaries....

Of course, your TV will use more power if it’s displaying images instead of powered off. That’s the point of Samsung’s Frame TV, too: Rather than showing an empty black screen or a garish home screen, you can display art or photos instead. Whether it’s a Roku, Chromecast, or Fire TV, you can approximate the Frame TV experience. Choosing Your Images Before you continue, think about what you want to show on your TV....

ProtonMail offers free and premium secure email services that are designed to keep your data and identity safe. It’s also very easy to switch to ProtonMail from Gmail thanks to some built-in tools and extra apps. Wondering what you’ll leave behind when you switch? Check out our comparison of Gmail and ProtonMail first. Import Your Gmail Inbox to ProtonMail The first thing you’ll want to do is bring the contents of your old inbox over to the new one....

Microsoft Teams helps you manage your documents by providing a Files tab in every channel. Keep your critical files visible to the team at all times by pinning them to the top of this Files tab. The Files tab in a Teams channel gives you a secure place to keep files that your team needs to access, which are all backed up automatically in SharePoint. This makes the Files tab a popular place for document storage, but this convenience comes at a cost: You can no longer find files easily once you’ve got a large number of them in the list....

If you’re doing advanced troubleshooting or configuration of a Windows 10 application and need to locate the program’s EXE file in File Explorer, there’s a quick way to do it if you have access to a shortcut. Here’s how. First, locate a shortcut that points to the application whose EXE you need to find, because you will need to open its properties window. If the shortcut is on your desktop, right-click it and select “Properties....

How Gift Card Redemption Works The first way is to add your gift card’s balance to your account, and then use that balance to buy items. With this method, if you are not ready to buy anything right away, you can keep the gift card funds in your account. A claim code usually looks something like this: Redeem on Desktop From the submenu, select “Account.” A “Your Account” page will open....

While it’s easy enough to share a Minecraft map with other local players on your network, it’s nice to be able to run a dedicated server so people can come and go without the original game host loading up Minecraft. Today we’re looking at how to run a simple local Minecraft server both with and without mods. Why Run a Minecraft Server? One of the most frustrating elements of the Minecraft local multiplayer experience (both for the PC and the PE edition) is that the original game host has to be active to access previous creations....

RAM is an important specification on your smartphone. The amount your phone has can greatly impact performance. If you’re curious how much RAM you have on your Android phone, we’ll show you how to find out. To see how much RAM is on your Android phone, you first have to enable the hidden Developer Options menu. You can do a lot with these lesser-known settings, including seeing your phone’s memory usage....

Like all other files, it’s possible to send videos via emails and you can do this with any email provider. There are two ways to do it, and your choice depends on the video’s file size. Let’s take a look. RELATED: What Is Cloud Storage, and Why Should You Use It? Ways to Send a Video via Email Most email providers cap the size of the files that you can attach to your emails....

Alexa’s Sharing Shopping List feature works best for people who are visually or physically impaired or unable to effectively keep track of or manage their shopping lists. Shopping lists can be shared with home health aides and other auxiliary help without having to put pen to paper. How Do I Create a Shopping List? From there, open the app and tap on “More” on the bottom menu bar. Tap on “List & Notes,” and then tap on “Shopping....

RELATED: The 10 Best Horror Movies to Stream for Free in 2022 Friday the 13th Play Video One of the foundational movies of the slasher subgenre, the original Friday the 13th doesn’t look like something that would spawn a decades-long franchise. It’s a grubby exploitation movie about teenage counselors getting picked off one by one at a remote summer camp, with some startling violence. Although masked killer Jason Voorhees is the franchise’s iconic figure, here it’s actually Jason’s mother who’s responsible for the murders....

While not every service has all the episodes, you can purchase them from some of the services available. Netflix runs up to season 3 while Hulu has a few of the season 4 episodes available for you to watch. You can catch up with the show with the available services below. NBC On NBC’s website, you can catch some of the newest episodes of season four if you need to play a little catch-up....

Github provides two ways to authenticate with your repository—over HTTPS with a password, and over SSH using private keys. While both work fine, if you want to switch, you’ll need to configure your local repo to use the new credentials. Moving To SSH Authentication Github defaults to HTTPS authentication, using the password for your Github account. Whenever you go to clone a repo, you’ll have to manually select “SSH” as the option for the clone URL if you prefer using that....

RELATED: The Beginner’s Guide to Using an AutoHotkey Script Keyboard Locker is a small program that handles this job well and takes up few system resources. It was originally a small AutoHotKey script written by an AutoHotKey forum-goer named Lexikos. We’ve spruced it up a bit and compiled it so that you don’t need to have AutoHotKey installed. If you do have AutoHotKey installed, we’ve included the original script in the download so that you can tweak it to your liking....

As smartphones have become more popular, data plans have become more limiting. A lot of people need to keep a close eye on data usage to avoid surprise bills. We’ll show you how to do this with Android’s built-in tools. All Android devices have a basic set of tools for monitoring data usage. Many devices also allow you to set up usage warnings and limits to help you avoid using too much data....