Outlook Online lets you digitally sign or encrypt your emails, either individually or by default for all outbound messages. If this is something you need to do, here are the instructions to get it up and running. The reasons why you might want to digitally sign an email—applying an electronic signature that proves the message came from the sender that it says it came from—or encrypt an email is a whole topic on its own....
Gmail tries to help you navigate huge email chains by grouping replies together in a single conversation thread where replies are listed sequentially. If you want to see each reply individually, however, you’ll need to switch this off. Here’s how. Disable Conversation View in Gmail on Windows PC or Mac To disable “conversation view” (or grouped email threads) in Gmail on your Windows 10 PC or Mac, you’ll need to do so from the Gmail website....
Safari on iPhone and iPad has all kinds of neat tricks hidden up its sleeve. If you long-press your finger on a link, you’ll see a preview image of the website. If you’d rather disable the preview and see the link’s URL address instead, it’s an easy change. Here’s how. First, open Safari on your iPhone or iPad. Navigate to any website and place your finger on a link....
Comma Separated Values files (CSV) are a way of transferring data between applications. Databases like MySQL and spreadsheet software like Excel support importing and exporting through CSV, so you can use CSV files to exchange data between the two. CSV files are plaintext, so they’re naturally lightweight and easy to export from MySQL. From The Database Server If you have access to the server that MySQL is running on, you can export a selection with the INTO OUTFILE command....
Samsung’s Find My Mobile vs. Google’s Find My Device Samsung’s “Find My Mobile” service is very similar to Google’s “Find My Device.” In fact, if you have a Samsung phone, both services are pre-installed on your device and ready to go. Here’s how to use Find My Device to find your lost Android device. The reason you might want to use Samsung’s service is it works with more devices. If you own a Samsung smartwatch, Google’s service may not work with it....
This process is long, but isn’t overly complicated and can be completed by the average user. You don’t run any risk of damaging or bricking your console with normal homebrew, so it’s entirely safe. Why Homebrew? Homebrew is a great way to breath new life into an old console. There’s plenty of cool things you can do with a modded console. Emulators: Want to run Nintendo 64 games on your Wii U?...
If you have a large Excel spreadsheet you’re going to print, you may want the pages separated at particular spots. One way to do this is to set the print area. But another is to insert manual page breaks. RELATED: How to Print a Worksheet with Comments in Excel About Page Breaks in Excel It’s best to work with your page breaks in the Page Break Preview in Excel. This allows you to see the automatic and manual breaks as well as the number of pages and their layout....
You’ll find a good number of sticker pack apps on the Google Play Store for Android. The iPhone’s App Store, on the other hand, only has a couple of sticker pack stores. But you don’t need third-party apps, nor do you need to be an app developer to make your own sticker pack. All you need are some images and the rest will be taken care of by the Sticker....
If your iPhone or iPad is running iOS 14 or iPadOS 14 and higher, you can sort all your shortcuts into different folders. This is much better than scrolling endlessly to find that one shortcut. By default, the Shortcuts home screen widget will show all of your shortcuts. But it’s best to create a different folder just for home screen shortcuts. In fact, you can create multiple folders, each for a different widget instance....
The macOS dock is a versatile tool that you can customize to your liking. It can also save you a trip to the Finder. Here’s how you can pin any folder or file and access it right from your Mac’s dock. Open the Finder app and visit the location of the folder or the file that you’d like to add to your Mac’s dock. RELATED: How to Customize and Tweak Your Mac’s Dock...
How to Use Stadia on iPhone or iPad To begin, open your web browser of choice. For best results, Google recommends using Safari because it allows you to create a shortcut to the progressive web app (PWA)—more on that in the next section. But if you’re partial to Google’s web browser, you can use Chrome. Next, select the search bar, navigate to stadia.google.com, and sign in with your Google account....
By default, Windows 10 lets you project images and videos to a remote device using DLNA. If having a “Cast to Device” option on your Windows 10 right-click context menu makes you nervous, you can remove the option completely by editing the Windows registry. Here’s how. Edit the Registry Yourself To remove the “Cast to Device” option from the context menu, you have two choices: You can edit the Windows Registry yourself or download our one-click hack in the section below....
Sometimes your Windows 10 PC slows to a crawl, perhaps accompanied by a whirring fan and programs that barely respond. Often the problem is an application that is using a large share of the CPU’s power, leaving little left for other programs. Here’s how to check—and what to do about it. The best tool to diagnose a Windows program that might be using too much system resources is a built-in utility called Task Manager....
Send Disappearing Messages Using Secret Chat in Telegram Secret Chat is Telegram’s full end-to-end encrypted messaging feature (This is one major difference between Signal and Telegram.). It only works for one-on-one chats, and everything that’s sent in a Secret Chat only stays on the device. Once you delete a Secret Chat, all messages are gone. RELATED: How to Start an Encrypted Secret Chat in Telegram The Secret Chat has a timer feature that lets you send disappearing messages anywhere between one minute to one week (including text, photos, messages, and other media)....
Microsoft Teams directly competes with Slack and will replace Skype for Business, as a premier collaborative communications platform for large and small businesses. Set up an organization in Teams and invite your colleagues to start chatting, sharing, and integrating. How to Create an Organization in Microsoft Teams Direct any browser to “teams.microsoft.com” and sign in to your Microsoft account. You can create an account for free if you don’t already have one....
Just like Signal, Telegram has the tendency to annoy you with notifications every time someone from your contact list joins the messaging app. We’ll show you how to disable these pesky notifications on Telegram. How to Disable Contact Join Notifications on Telegram for iPhone If you’re using Telegram on iPhone, here’s an easy way to stop getting notified whenever any of your contacts joins the app. Open Telegram and tap “Settings,” which is located in the bottom-right corner next to Chats....
NFL The National Football League season won’t start for a while, but there are already concerns as to whether it will start on time. To comfort fans in isolation, the NFL is providing free access to its NFL Game Pass streaming service until May 31, 2020. Head to the NFL Game Pass website and sign up without a credit card. You can then stream ad-free games for every season dating back to the launch of the web service in 2008....
Animal Crossing’s Virtual Economy Since Animal Crossing: New Horizons was released in the latter half of March, it has quickly become a global phenomenon, and one of the best-selling games of the year. Along with the rise of the game, many online resources have sprung up, providing tips and databases to help players build up their islands. One particularly interesting part of the game has been the rise of the Animal Crossing trading community....
Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) is a great security tool, and we always recommend it. Most apps make it pretty easy to turn on 2FA, and Reddit is no exception. Here’s how to enable it and make yourself safer online. Most 2FA implementations allow you to get 2FA codes sent to you either by SMS or generated by an authenticator app. Reddit only uses authenticator apps (which are much more secure than using SMS), so you’ll need to have one like Google Authenticator (Android, iPhone/iPad), Microsoft Authenticator, or Authy installed on your phone before you can get 2FA set up for Reddit....
Make your chart labels in Microsoft Excel dynamic by linking them to cell values. When the data changes, the chart labels automatically update. In this article, we explore how to make both your chart title and the chart data labels dynamic. We have the sample data below with product sales and the difference in last month’s sales. We want to chart the sales values and use the change values for data labels....
