Most people know Spotify as a music service, but if you’re a first-time user, you may think it’s all about podcasts. Spotify made a huge investment in podcasts and it’s ruining the experience. Spotify Is Investing Heavily in Podcasts Podcasts first appeared on Spotify in 2018. In the beginning, it was like many podcast platforms. Creators provided an RSS feed for their podcasts, and then people could listen to episodes on Spotify....

Google introduced a brand new way to theme your phone with Android 12. It changes the theme based on your wallpaper colors. If you have a Samsung Galaxy device on One UI 4, you can use this feature too. Samsung’s implementation of “Material You” is very different than Google’s. It’s separate from the themes that can be applied from the Galaxy Store. You’ll need to be on the default device theme to use the wallpaper-based color palettes....

Uninstalling an app on a Mac is so easy, you might not even realize how to do it: just drag the app’s icon from the Applications folder into the trash. But what about applications that don’t have shortcuts, built-in system apps, and other corner cases? This will cover most situations, but not all of them. This method leaves some junk behind, for example, but it’s mostly okay to leave it there....

On your iPhone or iPad, you can easily customize the Safari Start Page in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 (or higher). You can make the page blank (mostly), add a background image, or pick and choose what you want to see. Here’s how. First, open Safari on your iPhone or iPad and open a new tab by tapping the tabs button (two overlapping rectangles), then tapping the plus (“+”) button....

Fortnite is the biggest game of 2018, so if you know someone who games regularly, there’s a good chance they’re playing it. The game itself is free, but players need to use in-game V-Bucks to buy customizations. While you can’t directly gift V-Bucks to another player, you have a couple of options to help them get their Fortnite fix: buy them a gift card for their platform of choice, or buy a bundle with specific content....

If you’d like to prevent a specific slide from appearing while you’re presenting or printing your presentation, rather than delete it you can hide that slide on Google Slides. We’ll show you how to do just that. When you hide a slide, the slide continues to be part of your presentation. Google Slides just won’t display it when you’re presenting your presentation. You can also choose to skip your hidden slides when you’re printing your presentation....

No matter how careful you are entering or importing data, duplicates can happen. While you could find and remove duplicates, you may want to review them, not necessarily remove them. We’ll show you how to highlight duplicates in Google Sheets. You may have a list of customer email addresses and phone numbers, product identifiers and order numbers, or similar data where duplicates shouldn’t exist. By locating and highlighting duplicates in your spreadsheet, you can then review and fix the incorrect data....

Tables are flexible yet clean tools for displaying data. So if you need a bit of structure to show numbers, figures, or text in your Microsoft PowerPoint slideshow, consider using a table. If you already have the data you need, you can certainly embed an Excel sheet in a PowerPoint slide. But if you don’t have a spreadsheet of data or simply want to structure new items just for the presentation, you can easily insert and then format your table with an array of features....

How to Make Signal Messages Disappear by Default Signal has made it relatively easy to enable disappearing messages by default. You simply need to open the app’s settings by tapping your initials in the top corner. From there, touch “Privacy,” then “Default Timer for New Chats” under the Disappearing Messages section. Once in the Disappearing Messages setting, you can choose one of the pre-listed times, or you can tap “Custom Time” and set your messages to delete after as little as one second (though we’re not sure how that would be useful) to as long as six weeks....

When you use Google Sheets to track financials, you’ll likely run into numbers below zero. To make those negative numbers stand out, you can have them automatically appear in red, which is much clearer than a minus sign or parentheses. You can accomplish this using one of two methods. There are some custom format options you can apply quickly. If you want more control, though, consider using setting up a conditional formatting rule....

To set a timer on your iPhone or iPad, you might usually use the Clock app. But there are two quicker ways to set a timer on your Apple device, and we’ll show you how to do it. How to Quickly Set a Timer Using Control Center Control Center on the iPhone or iPad gives you quick access to many toggles and features. You can find a Timer icon in Control Center on the iPhone (but not on the iPad) by default....

The multi-user feature in macOS lets you share one computer with multiple people, but switching users can be a slow process. Here’s how to speed it up by adding Fast User Switching to the menu bar and Control Center. How to Enable Fast User Switching in the Menu Bar and Control Center In macOS Big Sur, you can add a multi-user switching control to the Control Center or directly to the menu bar....

The iPad has been toted as the ultimate comic book reader, but that doesn’t mean you can’t give it a run for its money with your Kindle. Here’s how to optimize and transfer your comic books and manga to your Kindle. Sure, tablets may have big colorful screens, which are undoubtedly better for most comic books. But the Kindle’s e-ink screen has its place. You can read it at night without straining your eyes, you can read it outdoors in direct sunlight, and its battery is absolutely killer....

We’ve all had moments where we’ve immediately regretted sending an email. If you’re in that position and you’re using Gmail, you have a small window in which to undo your mistake, but you only have a few seconds to do it. Here’s how. While these instructions are for Gmail users, you can also undo sent emails on Outlook, too. Outlook gives you a 30-second window to recall a sent email, so you’ll have to be quick....

Nearly everyone has accidentally deleted a file before. Whether it’s family pictures or important documents, all files are just data on your hard drive, and that data doesn’t exactly go away after you delete it. There are plenty of ways to recover them after being sent to the trash. Today we’re going to show you a couple of ways to get those files back, because even when things are deleted, they aren’t always completely gone....

Windows can rotate your screen without any extra software. This is especially useful if you have a desktop monitor that rotates. Many PCs have hotkeys that can rotate your screen, too, and these are easy to press accidentally. How to Rotate Your Screen on Windows 10 or 7 To rotate your screen on Windows 10, right-click your desktop, and then select the “Display Settings” command. In Windows 7, right-click the “Screen Resolution” command instead....

If a Windows 11 update is available but you’re not ready for a system restart yet, you can schedule a more convenient time for the update to install within 7 days of the present date. Here’s how to set it up. When there’s an update available in Windows 11 (and Windows wants to restart your system to install it), you’ll see a small Windows Update restart icon in your taskbar near the clock....

When you bring up a price history page, you’ll see a chart tracking the price across time. Use the chart settings to adjust the duration shown, add and compare third-party prices, or remove the most extreme price changes. To help you shop, camelcamelcamel designates “Good Deal” and “Best Price” conditions for each listing based on its price history. If the price currently meets one of those conditions, you’ll see it noted at the top of the price history page....

After installing Dropbox on your Windows PC and inserting a memory card or USB stick, Windows might ask you if you want to import photos and videos to Dropbox. If this gets on your nerves, you can disable it in Settings. Here’s how. The Windows 10 and Windows 11 feature that allows Dropbox to bother you when you insert a storage device is called AutoPlay. To keep Dropbox from using AutoPlay, we need to configure AutoPlay in Windows Settings....

To help troubleshoot or save battery life, sometimes you need to completely restart or shut down your iPhone 13. We’ll show you how to do it—with instructions that also apply to the iPhone 13 Mini, iPhone 13 Pro, and iPhone 13 Pro Max. Turn Off an iPhone 13 with Hardware Buttons You can easily shut down an iPhone 13 completely by using two buttons on either side of the device....