If you find yourself bothered by the red notification badges—usually indicating that you have unread messages or emails—on app icons on your Mac, you can easily turn them off. We’ll show you how to quickly hide red notification badges on Mac. macOS usually has two types of notification badges. There’s the simple red dot, and there’s another one that has a number inside. It’s useful to know that you have a couple of unread texts, but no one needs a daily reminder about 50,000 unread emails....

RELATED: How to Use the PlayStation 4’s DualShock 4 Controller for PC Gaming Pair Your Primary DualShock 4 Controller With Your PS4 To pair the first controller with your console, you’ll use your controller’s USB cable to connect it to the PS4. To start the process, plug one end of your controller’s USB cable into the USB port at the front of your PS4. Plug the other end of the USB cable into your controller’s USB port....

To keep physical copies of your emails, you can print them (and any attachments) directly from Microsoft Outlook. You can do this using Outlook on your desktop, in your web browser, or via the mobile app. We’ll show you how. Before printing, ensure you’ve installed and configured a printer on your device. How to Print an Email From Outlook’s Desktop App In Outlook on your desktop, printing an email is as easy as choosing the email and selecting the print option....

Note that when you reset your Fire TV Stick, you lose all your account information, downloaded apps, and any other items stored on the Stick. You then have to set up your device from scratch. One way to reset a Fire TV Stick is to use the device’s Settings menu. There’s an option in this menu that lets you bring your Stick to the default factory settings. The other method is to use your Stick’s remote to reset the device....

Reset the Basic Edition Fire TV Stick Remote If you have the Basic Edition remote, which looks like the below, you will reset it as follows. Press and hold down the Home button and then press the Menu button (three horizontal lines) three times. Let go of the Home button, then press the Menu button nine times. Pull the batteries out of your remote. Unplug your Fire TV Stick and wait for a minute....

Sometimes, you may want to save a picture (often a document image) as a PDF on your device. Luckily, Windows, Mac, Android, iPhone, and iPad offer the feature of downloading images from the internet as PDFs. We’ll show you how to use those options. On Windows, Mac, and Android, use your device’s built-in PDF printer to save photos as PDFs. On an iPhone and iPad, create a shortcut with the free Shortcuts app to turn your photos into PDFs....

You may be used to tapping the arrow keys to quickly scroll through images in Windows’ Photos app, but an even faster method is using the mouse wheel. We’ll show you how to make the mouse wheel scroll instead of zoom. By default, when an image is open in Photos and you use your mouse wheel, your photo either zooms in or zooms out. By adjusting Photos’ settings, you can change this behavior so the mouse wheel opens the next or previous photo in your folder....

Reddit users have been clamoring for the ability to search comments for years, and now the social media website has rolled out the feature site-wide. Filtering searches by comment means less time scrolling results and more efficient searches. Using Reddit Comment Search In the early stages of the rollout, comment search is limited to the desktop website and is unavailable via mobile apps on iPhone and Android. The feature has been rolled into the standard Reddit search engine, which you can access at the top of the page at Reddit....

If you want to look up more information about a photo you took, like when exactly it was taken and on what camera, there’s a quick way to look up the EXIF data in both Windows and macOS. What Is EXIF Data? When you take a photo with your camera, the image itself isn’t the only thing that’s recorded. Other information like the date, time, camera model, and a host of other camera settings are also captured and stored within the image file....

Share Files with AirDrop If you’re right next to the person you want to share photos or videos with, and they have an iPhone or iPad, the simplest method is AirDrop. If you’ve never used it before, AirDrop is Apple’s secure peer-to-peer wireless transfer method for sharing photos and data. It doesn’t require an extra app, nor do you need an active internet connection. RELATED: AirDrop Not Working? Here’s How to Fix It...

RELATED: What Is Xbox Game Pass, and Is It Worth It? Sharing Your Game Pass Subscription Let’s get one thing out of the way before you start: there’s nothing wrong with doing this and you won’t be banned by Microsoft for sharing your subscription between two consoles. Microsoft created the “game sharing” system which allows for subscriptions and games to be shared with other consoles. This method only works across two consoles....

How VPNs Know Who You Are Most VPNs (We’ll talk about the exceptions later.) require that you submit your email address to create an account. You probably signed up to your email provider with your real name and are using it in correspondence, giving the VPN at least one data point to connect with your account activity. There’s also a chance that you used your email publicly somewhere, meaning that all anybody would need to do to find out more about you is to plug your email address into a Google search bar and watch the results roll in....

The free version of Google Meet lets you add up to 100 participants, and a meeting is limited to 60 minutes (much better than Zoom’s 40-minute limit). Google Meet calls are end-to-end encrypted (a straight dig at Zoom), but you need a Google or Gmail account to create or join a Google Meet call. You can use Google Meet on your computer in a web browser or in a mobile app for iPhone and Android....

Something as open-ended as turning on lights at a specific time has a lot of different solutions. There are some super complex methods and some very simple methods. We’ll highlight a few to try and maybe get your creative juices flowing to make something of your own. RELATED: How to Hear a Weather Forecast With Your Alarm on Android Use Your Phone Screen (on Android) Let’s start with something you may already have—an Android phone....

There’s a browser war raging right now, and Microsoft has a clear advantage over the competition that it’s not afraid to exploit. This leaves tools like MSEdgeRedirect to try to fight Microsoft’s questionable tactics, but in the case of this tool, we don’t recommend using it. Microsoft has decided to make certain links in Windows always open in Edge, which makes it hard for us to recommend the browser. Specifically, links in News, Search, Widgets, Weather, and a few other places won’t open in your default browser....

All OLED Screens Can Suffer Burn-In OLED stands for “organic light-emitting diode” and it describes a type of display technology that’s making its way into more and more consumer displays. Televisions, monitors, smartphones, and wearables like the Apple Watch have all featured OLED displays in the past, but this is a first for a Nintendo console. The problem with OLED displays comes down to the “organic” nature of the components. OLED displays do not require a backlight, which means each pixel generates its own light....

RELATED: The Best Halloween Movies on Netflix in 2022 The Birds Play Video After watching Alfred Hitchcock’s classic The Birds, you’ll never look at nature the same way again. The terror in this movie comes from the inexplicable, as seemingly placid, benevolent birds suddenly turn violent, attacking humans at random. The quiet seaside community of Bodega Bay, California, is beset by these birds, while lawyer Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) attempts to woo socialite Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren)....

The iPhone and iPad are great for consuming news, whether that’s current affairs or the latest on your favorite sports team. The iPad, in particular, is ideally suited to kicking back and reading, and we’re going to tell you how to make the most of it. With the App Store filled to the brim with new apps for your iPhone or iPad, it can be difficult to know which to download and in some cases, buy....

Good Morning, Good Night GM and GN stand for “good morning” and “good night,” respectively. People use these in instant messages and group chats to “enter” a conversation in the morning and “exit” at night. GM usually implies waking up, while GN means going to sleep. They’re commonly written in the lowercase “gm” and “gn,” as their uppercase variants may have a different definition in some communities. These acronyms are comparable to other shortened greetings....

What It Means HMU is the abbreviation for “hit me up.” It’s a quick way to tell someone to contact you or make plans in the future. For example, you might say to a friend, “HMU when you want to play Mario Kart,” or, “HMU when you get back in town.” In most cases, HMU is used in social or informal business circles. Some people also use HMU to convey that someone asked them for something, such as, “He HMU asking for money,” or, “She HMU for a date....