You can add the Chipolo CARD Spot to the Items tab in the Find My app from your iPhone or iPad to keep track of it. Tile has a similar device designed to fit in your wallet, but what makes this more exciting is its support for Apple’s network. Because there are so many Apple devices communicating with each other to track missing items, you’ll get highly accurate tracking of your wallet....
The Case of the Hidden Wallpapers Here’s the problem: in new installations of Windows, the wallpaper selection in Settings > Personalization > Background points to the default wallpaper files. At that point, you can easily change between them by using the Browse feature. But, if you decide to use a series of your own wallpapers stored in a custom location and you come back later to change the wallpaper, the defaults will have been pushed out of the five most recent images shown as thumbnails in Settings....
Internet connection speeds are usually measured in megabits per second, often written as Mbps. It takes eight megabits to form one megabyte, so if you have a 1000 Mbps connection (gigabit), it will take 8 seconds to download a 1 GB file. RELATED: How to Test Your Internet Connection Speed or Cellular Data Speed Speed vs. Data Caps It’s important to clarify the difference here. Internet speed is the measure of how much data you can download at once, and a data cap is a measure of how much you can download in a given month....
If you find yourself forwarding messages to your other email account on a regular basis, why not automate this task? Using the handy filter feature in Gmail, you can automatically forward certain emails when they hit your inbox. Different than forwarding an individual email in Gmail, creating a filter rule to do so requires you to connect that forwarding email address. If you already have one set up, then you’re good to go with the steps below....
Your Gmail emails don’t have to live on Google’s servers forever. Here’s how to download everything in your Gmail account as a file and turn it into a browsable, searchable offline archive on your computer—the easy way. Download Your Emails With Google Takeout First, download an archive of everything in your Gmail account through Google Takeout. Head to the Google Takeout website and sign in with your Google account....
By default, when you create a new folder in Windows 10, the folder is given the name “New folder.” If you don’t like this name and you’d rather use another name, you can change the default name for new folders in Windows 10. Here’s how you do this. How to Change the Default New Folder Name in the Registry To change the default new folder name in Windows 10, you need to edit a value in the Windows Registry....
Gmail lets you change the subject of a reply or forwarded email, but the option is a little hidden. This is particularly useful whenever you must reply with “UNSUBSCRIBE” in the subject line to be taken off a mailing list. To do this in the web version of Gmail, click the “Reply,” “Reply All,” or “Forward” option to start composing your reply or forwarded email. Click the button to the left of the “To” field and then click “Edit Subject....
If someone sent you a presentation on Google Slides, but you’d rather work on it in Microsoft PowerPoint, you can easily convert it to a .pptx file in just a few simple steps. Here’s how it’s done. First, you’ll need to access your Google Slides presentation in Google Drive. To do this, head on over to the Drive website in your browser of choice. Next, open the Google Slides file that you’d like to convert to PowerPoint....
When you open the “Health” app, you’ll see two tabs: Summary and Browse. The Summary tab (which replaces the old Today view) is a feed that’s broken down in a couple of sections like Favorites, Highlights, Health Recommendations, Apps, and more. If you want to view all data, you can go to the Browse tab. Here, select a category to view all activity for the day. While the Summary tab is dynamic (it updates with new information using the connected devices and time of the day), one thing that you have some control over is the Favorites section....
Starting with iOS 16, the iPhone home screen includes a small “Search” button located just above the dock. If you find the addition annoying, Apple makes it easy to remove the search button in Settings. Here’s how. Apple likely added the new search button in iOS 16 because launching Spotlight Search on an iPhone had previously been a mysterious process (you swipe downward with one finger in the middle of the home screen....
There are many ways to keep track of your tasks from online, PC, and mobile tools to old-fashioned methods such as post-it notes and scraps of paper. However, if you work in Word often, you can keep track of your tasks directly in Word. There is a free app, called TaskIt, available for Word that allows you to create and track tasks by creating a list directly in Word that is automatically saved....
Command-line environments like the Windows Command Prompt and PowerShell use spaces to separate commands and arguments—but file and folder names can also contain spaces. To specify a file path with a space inside it, you’ll need to “escape” it. Command Line 101: Why You Have to Escape Spaces “Escaping” a character changes its meaning. For example, escaping a space will cause the shell to treat it like a standard space character rather than a special character that separates command-line arguments....
Do you want to have a quick look at all your unread emails? If so, Gmail offers a couple of ways to do just that. You can perform a quick search that retrieves unread emails or make Gmail show all your unread emails first. RELATED: How to Search Gmail by Date Find All Unread Emails with a Quick Search In Gmail on both your desktop and your mobile, you can run a quick search to retrieve all your unread emails....
Today, we’re proud to announce that How-To Geek is now an approved content source on Google News. In addition to browsing all our latest content, you can also keep up with our coverage in categories like Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, Android, and more. Adding us to your list is really easy. You can either head directly to our page on Google News or search for us in the Google News app....
Linux power users and administrators have long used the tail utility to monitor log files, but did you know that you can do the same on Windows? Traditionally tail has been used to view the bottom X number of lines from a log file. While Windows doesn’t have a standalone utility to do what tail does, we do have the Get-Content PowerShell cmdlet which happens to have a tail parameter....
Almost all iOS apps show a temporary banner when you receive a notification. It appears at the top of the screen, and then after a few seconds disappears—although you can still see it in the Notification Center. While this works pretty well for almost everything, you will occasionally miss a notification because you look away while your phone is unlocked, or are too busy doing something with it. If you want to make it much harder to miss a notification, you can make that banner stick around until you dismiss it (on an app by app basis)....
We’ve all been there—you’re in the middle of a complex task in Google Chrome, but you need to restart or log out. Luckily, with one quick settings change, Chrome can remember all of your tabs and reload them automatically the next time you start your browser. Here’s how to set it up. First, open Chrome. In any window, click the three vertical dots button in the upper-right corner and select “Settings” from the menu....
You can beam all kinds of music and video to your TV with an Apple TV, but did you know you can also mirror the screen of your iPhone, iPad, or Mac on the big screen? Here’s how. First: Make Sure Your AirPlay Is Enabled on Your Apple TV To mirror your Mac or iOS display, you’ll be using AirPlay, which is built in to Apple TV. The first thing you should probably do is verify that AirPlay is actually on—it’s available on second generation Apple TVs and beyond....
Your Mac’s fans probably aren’t something you think about very often—until something goes wrong. Maybe you hear the fan too often, and it’s driving you nuts. Maybe you’ve stopped hearing your fan altogether, even when you Mac feels hot. Either way, you should probably look into that. For that, we recommend an app called Macs Fan Control. This free program lets you see the temperature of all your Mac’s components, and the speed of your fans in RPM (rotations per minute....
While Google says that the new measure is designed to respect user privacy, others claim that FLoC creates more problems than it’s trying to solve. Entities like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) argue that it’s still possible for bad actors to link Google’s anonymized cohort IDs with individual people. How Does FLoC Work? Google claims that this grouping together of anonymized browsing activity will effectively hide people’s individual identities. Despite that, other big tech companies like Apple and Microsoft aren’t getting on the bandwagon....
