Having quick access to frequently-used or hard to remember websites can save you time and frustration. Whether you use Chrome, Firefox, or Edge, you can add a shortcut to any site right to your Windows 10 taskbar or Start menu. Google Chrome Navigate to the website you want to pin. Click the three vertical dots in the top right of Chrome, hover your mouse over “More Tools,” and click “Create Shortcut....
There’s a new way to quickly swipe through your various iPhone or iPad Home screen pages in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14—almost as if you’re scrubbing through a video. Here’s how to do it. On your Home screen, pay attention to the dots at the bottom, just above the Dock. (The number of these dots corresponds to the number of Home screen pages you have.) With one finger, tap and hold the dots, and an outline will appear around them....
This tutorial is kind of split in two. First, we’ll cover the actual mechanics of the tool, and then we’ll look at some of the problems you might encounter when trying to create believable images. Sky-swapping is nothing new for photographers, but the automated Photoshop tool makes it a lot more accessible for beginners and faster for experts. Let’s dig in! How to Use Photoshop’s Sky Replacement Tool To get started, open the photo you want to edit in Photoshop....
Why You Should “Eject” Before Unplugging Before we talk about how to safely remove a USB drive from a Chromebook, you might want to know why it’s important. RELATED: How to Safely Remove a Drive on Windows 10 The main thing you risk when yanking out a USB drive is data loss. If data is being written to the drive, you could interrupt that process by removing it. Telling the operating system to “eject” the drive before you physically remove it ensures that all the processes are ended....
What Is Gmail’s Confidential Mode? When you use Confidential mode while sending a message in Gmail, the intended recipient will need to enter a code to read your email. After you send your message, the recipient will receive an email telling them that a confidential message is waiting for them. To read it, they’ll need to verify their identity using a code sent either via email (to the same account) or via SMS (to a number of your choosing) before they can read it....
Microsoft Teams is great for messaging your coworkers, but what if you want to share an email with them? Don’t forward it or cut and paste the contents into Teams, send it straight to a specific channel. Internal chat apps can cut down on email bloat considerably, but one of the pain points are emails that come from people outside your team that you need to share with people inside your team....
Oculus App Sharing Makes it Possible Thanks to a feature introduced to the Quest via an update, you can now have multiple accounts on a Quest and share games bought by one user with another. However, there are some limitations to this to keep in mind. First of all, only the primary account on a given Oculus Quest headset can share games. Each sub-account still has its own online account and they can all buy their own games....
How to Share iCloud Drive Folders on iPhone and iPad You can access your iCloud Drive folders from the Files app on your iPhone or iPad. Sharing options are now available in the Files app, too. Open the Files app and tap the “Browse” button at the bottom of the screen to view your files. Select the “iCloud Drive” option from the Locations list. Now, navigate and find the folder that you want to share....
In your large Google Sheets spreadsheets, it’s difficult to find the rows and columns that are hidden. Luckily, you can use a built-in Sheets feature to unhide all your hidden rows and columns at once. We’ll show you how to use this option. This option basically makes you select all your rows or columns, and then you choose the unhide option to unhide all your rows or columns in your selection....
What Is Secret Chat in Telegram? When it comes to security and privacy, Telegram is much better than popular messaging apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Telegram is open-source, and all of its code is available online for verification by security experts. But by default, Telegram only offers server-side encryption. Telegram syncs your data (messages, media, and groups) between all your devices and uploads it to its servers by default. All the data in Telegram’s server is encrypted....
How to Watch the Fight Live in the United States UFC 249 is exclusive to ESPN+, ESPN’s streaming service, in the United States, so the only way to watch the fight live is online. For that, you’ll have to sign up for ESPN+ and then purchase the fight as a pay-per-view event. Coverage of the main fight card begins at 10:00 PM Eastern Time (US). Prelims begin at 8:00 PM Eastern, and early prelims start at 6:15 PM Eastern....
If you’re a YouTube fan, you might appreciate new channel recommendations or the odd notification when your favorite YouTuber posts a new video. If you’d prefer to disable these notifications, though, you can do so on iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. How to Disable YouTube Notifications on iPhone and iPad While it’s possible to disable notifications on an iPhone or iPad, YouTube allows you to be much more selective. In the YouTube app, you can enable the notifications you want to see and disable those you don’t....
What Does Predictive Text Do? As the name implies, iPhone’s predictive text feature predicts the words that you’re likely going to type next. You can then tap those predicted words to add them to what you’re already typing, which speeds up typing. For example, if you start typing “How are,” the feature automatically suggests “you,” so your resulting sentence is “How are you?” The feature predicts words based on the data it has gathered from your past conversations, writing style, and the sites you’ve visited in Safari....
You can’t really hide apps on iPhone, but you can make them hard to find. If you can’t find an app on your iPhone’s home screen, it might still be available in your App Library. Also, some hidden app purchases can be revealed. Here’s how to do both. Reveal Apps “Hiding” in Your App Library Starting with iOS 14, Apple introduced an App Library page to your iPhone that shows an organized list of all the apps installed on your device....
Despite a long testing process, we’ve seen reports of bugs in Windows 10’s May 2020 Update. If you’ve installed the latest version of Windows 10 and run into problems, you can uninstall it. Here’s how to uninstall the May 2020 Update or any other major Windows 10 update. Warning: You Only Have 10 Days Microsoft lets you uninstall a major update and “roll back” to your old version of Windows 10—probably the November 2019 Update—but you only have ten days after installing the update to do so....
Windows 10’s Anniversary Update improves on Windows 10’s stylus support with a new “Windows Ink Workspace” feature. It’s designed to make using a digital pen faster and easier with a Windows 10 tablet or convertible device. Aside from being a dedicated launcher for pen-enabled apps, the Windows Ink Workspace includes new Sticky Notes, Sketchpad, and Screen Sketch applications. You’ll also find more options for controlling how your pen functions in the Settings app....
If you’re having trouble with sluggish system performance while browsing the web with Mozilla Firefox, you can use Firefox’s built-in Task Manager tool to quickly identify system resource usage and manage long lists of tabs. Here’s how to use it. First, if you already have Firefox open, leave your tabs as they are. Otherwise, open Firefox and load some commonly visited websites in multiple tabs that you can use as examples to check out in Task Manager....
macOS: UNIX or Not? This subject raises a bunch of different questions. What is the lineage of macOS? How much of that hereditary material is still present in today’s macOS, and does it matter? Before we can begin to answer whether something is UNIX, Unix, or Unix-like, we need to be comfortable with what those terms mean. Who gets to decide if something is Unix or UNIX, and what criteria do they use?...
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Introduced in 1996, Internet Explorer’s ActiveX controls were a bad idea for the web. They caused serious security problems and helped cement the dominance of Internet Explorer on Windows, which led to the pre-Firefox stagnation of the web. What Were ActiveX Controls? ActiveX controls are a type of program that can be embedded in other applications. Microsoft used them for a variety of purposes—for example, you could embed ActiveX controls in Microsoft Office documents....
