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What to Know Before Deleting Your Cash App Account Before you hurry off to delete your Cash App account, there are a few things you should take note of first. To start, when you delete your account, it’s permanent. There’s no temporary deactivate option like you would find with many social media platforms out there. RELATED: How to Delete a Venmo Account When you delete your account, your #Cashtag, account history, and all accompanying account data are permanently deleted....

Drop-down lists in Excel make for a simplified way to enter data, but sometimes you may need to edit that list. You can add or delete items from your drop-down list regardless of how you created it. You may have used a table, named cell range, or manual setup for your drop-down list. We’ll show you how to edit your list accordingly. Edit a Drop-Down List From a Table The nice thing about using a table in Excel for your drop-down list is that the list updates automatically when you make changes to your table....

If you need to force a frozen or buggy application to close in Windows 10, you can end a task easily using Windows’ built-in Task Manager utility. Here’s how to do it. First, open Task Manager. To do so, right-click the taskbar and select “Task Manager” from the pop-up menu. Alternately, you can press Ctrl+Shift+Escape to open it, or press Ctrl+Alt+Delete and select “Task Manager” from the screen that appears....

Symbolic Links 101 Symbolic links, also called “soft links” and “symlinks,” are a form of shortcuts that can point to files and directories. A symlink looks just like a regular file or directory in a file manager window. It also shows up as an entry in a file listing in a terminal window. The file or directory to which the symlink points can be anywhere in the file system tree....

We previously described how to set up text forwarding from your iPhone to iPad or Mac. It’s a great feature, though we later realized it might not work as expected. Luckily, there’s a quick fix you can employ to get it up and running properly. Normally, when you set up text forwarding from your iPhone to your Mac or your iPad, you’ll enable it on your iPhone for the device or devices you want to receive texts on in the Messages client....

One of the best things about Google Chrome is the ability to extend its capabilities by adding a myriad of extensions to help improve functionality, usability, privacy, and productivity. Here’s how to install and manage your Google Chrome extensions. How to Install Chrome Extensions Download official Chrome extensions from the Chrome Web Store from sources you know or trust. You should make sure it’s safe before installing it by doing a little due diligence and checking the developer’s website—if they have one—ratings, and even skimming through the source code if you’re so inclined....

You can create a Discord server for a business, a community, or a small group of friends. Send out invites to get friends and fans into your Discord server, or create a custom invite link that will last indefinitely. How to Invite Someone to a Discord Server If the server has been set to public, you can invite anyone to the server by right-clicking on the server icon on the left....

If you’d like to log out of your Facebook account from all your logged-in devices, you don’t have to log out individually on each device. Facebook offers a single option to sign out from all devices at once, and we’ll show you how to use it. Log Out of Facebook on All Devices from the Website If you’re on a Windows, Mac, Linux, or Chromebook computer, use the Facebook site to sign yourself out from all your Facebook logged-in devices....

If you have shows or movies in mind that you want to watch at a later date, you might want to add them to your Watchlist. This is a page in your Disney+ account that allows you to keep all the content you plan to enjoy in one place. If you’ve already watched a show on your list, you can remove it if you don’t intend to watch it again....

Start by swiping over to the right-most home screen on your iPhone to open the App Library. Here, locate an app that isn’t already on your home screen. Long-press on the app’s icon until a menu pops up. Tap the “Add to Home Screen” button from the context menu. The application will be moved and placed on your home screen automatically. Heading back into the App Library, if an app is already on one of your home screens (visible or hidden), the “Add to Home Screen” option won’t appear in the context menu....

MacStories has compiled a list of more than 120 hidden URLs that correspond to a particular page in the Settings app. You can use the Shortcuts app’s Open URLs action to quickly open a Settings page. Once you create a shortcut, add it to your home screen and then tap it to open the Settings page. This way, for example, you can directly open the Screen Time section without fussing around in the Settings app....

You’ve protected a PDF file containing sensitive information with a long, secure password so only the intended party can open it. However, you don’t want to enter that password every time you access the document, so you want to remove the password from your copy. We will show you four ways in Linux to remove a password from a PDF file when you know the password. NOTE: When we say to type something in this article and there are quotes around the text, DO NOT type the quotes, unless we specify otherwise....

Having a few Google Home and Nest smart speakers and displays around your house can be great for home automation. With “Family Bell,” you can have the Google Assistant play scheduled announcements at designated times. We’ll show you how to set it up. The Family Bell feature is great for keeping your household on schedule. You could use it to remind your kids its bedtime every night at 9 p....

Slack is a great communication app, but it can do much more than just hold a back-and-forth conversation between you and your colleagues. Here’s how to keep up with your favorite websites by adding RSS feeds to Slack. Despite social media feeds and mobile apps, RSS feeds are still one of the easiest and simplest ways to consume the output of a website. Like SMS and email, RSS feeds are robust, simple, and supported just about everywhere, which is why—like SMS and email—they’re likely to be around for a very long time....

If you’d like to share a portion of a YouTube video with someone, you don’t have to share the full video. We’ll show you how to make clips of full YouTube videos on your Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iPhone, and iPad devices. What Is YouTube’s “Clips” Feature? With YouTube’s Clips feature, you can make a short clip out of a full YouTube video by choosing what portion of the video you want to include in your clip....

Using the Shortcuts app (included on every iPhone running iOS 13 or higher) you can trigger an action at sunrise or sunset. This can come in handy for setting alarms, playing music, and other tasks. Here’s how to set it up. First, open the Shortcuts app. If you can’t find the icon, swipe downward with one finger from the middle of the screen. Type “Shortcuts” in the search bar, and then tap “Shortcuts” when it appears....

The Quick Settings panel is something that often looks drastically different depending on your Android device, but the functionality is basically the same. We’ll show you how it looks on a Google Pixel phone and Samsung Galaxy phone. RELATED: How to Disable the Mic and Camera from Android’s Quick Settings How to Organize Quick Settings on a Google Pixel On a Google Pixel phone, one swipe down from the top of the screen reveals four Quick Settings tiles, and a second swipe shows eight....

LastPass is more than just a password manager. It’s an encrypted vault where you can store secure notes, secret bookmarks, and even entire files. It can also save your address and credit card numbers and fill those into online forms. Store Secure Notes You can store Secure Notes in LastPass as well as passwords. To do this in LastPass on a desktop, click the LastPass icon on your browser’s toolbar, select “Secure Notes,” and click “Add Note....

Once you have set up your Memoji character from the Messages app, you can use them directly in FaceTime. RELATED: How to Create and Use Memoji and Animoji on an iPhone You can start a FaceTime call directly from the FaceTime app, Phone app, or the Contacts app. The fastest method is to use the Phone app. Here, go to the “Contacts” tab and then tap the “Search” bar. Search for the contact you want to FaceTime and select their name to open the contact page....

A Command You Rarely Think About You blink all day, every day, but, most of the time, you’re unaware of it. Unless something gets in your eye, you rarely think about that little, regular movement. Some Linux commands are like that. They hover on the periphery of your consciousness. Even though you use them daily, they don’t catch your attention because they’re so small and simple. Within the first hour of using a Linux computer, you learn how to use the cd command included with Bash and other shells....