By enabling Spotify’s private session, you can hide your listening activity from your followers. We’ll show you how to turn on this feature in Spotify on desktop and mobile. What Is a Private Session on Spotify? By default, Spotify shows your listening activity to your followers. If you’d rather keep your activity private, you can use a private session. When you are in a private session, Spotify doesn’t record your listening activity....

Windows 10 takes copy and paste to another level with a feature called Clipboard history, which lets you see a list of items you have copied to the clipboard recently. Just press Windows+V. Here’s how to turn it on and view your clipboard history. What Gets Stored in Clipboard History? Clipboard history first appeared in Windows 10’s October 2018 Update (Version 1809). Currently, Clipboard history supports text, HTML, and images less than 4 MB in size....

What Is a MAC Address? A MAC (Media Access Control) address is a unique identifier for a hardware component on your device. Each manufacturer assigns a unique MAC address to their devices. This address is used to detect and recognize your device in the pool of many other devices. A MAC address is basically a 12-digit code that’s usually separated every two digits by a colon. On your iPhone, you have a MAC address for your Wi-Fi card so that your wireless network knows when you connect your phone....

No matter what type of document you’re writing, there are certain things you should try to avoid. This includes dangling lines at the beginning or end of the page. In Google Docs, you can easily keep lines of text together. Those stragglers that end up away from the rest of the text are referred to as widow and orphan lines. This includes the end of a paragraph that drops to the next page and the beginning of a paragraph left at the bottom of a page....

What Are FragAttacks? Disclosed on May 12, 2021, FragAttacks stands for “fragmentation and aggregation attacks.” These are a collection of security vulnerabilities announced together. Three of them are design flaws with Wi-Fi itself and affect most devices that use Wi-Fi. Additionally, the researchers found programming mistakes in many Wi-Fi products. These are even easier for attackers to abuse than the design flaws in Wi-Fi itself. The collection of vulnerabilities called FragAttacks were discovered by Mathy Vanhoef, the same security researcher who previously discovered KRACK, an attack on the WPA2 encryption protocol used to secure Wi-Fi networks....

Animations can take an ordinary presentation and turn it into a dynamic one. So, as you add more animations to a slide, it’s important to sequence them correctly. Here’s how to reorder animations in Microsoft PowerPoint. By default, PowerPoint arranges animations in the order you add them. This means if you decide to animate an image in the middle of a slide, after the surrounding animations have been set up, that animation will appear last....

Playing around with new application launchers on Android is pretty fun, but it isn’t exactly clear how to switch back to the default Google launcher. Read on as we show you. RELATED: How to Set Default Apps on Android Switching default applications can be a bit confusing. In fact, switching the default launcher was confusing enough that starting in Android 4.4, Google added a much more obvious way to go about doing it....

The phone in your pocket has a unique “Advertising ID” that lets advertising companies track your app activity. While you can’t remove this ID, you can reset it to erase all your activity. Advertising IDs are present on iPhones, iPads, Windows PCs, and Android devices. They work similarly to “cookies” in web browsers. Your activity is tracked, shared—and sometimes sold—and then used to deliver up ads that you’re more likely to click....

Taking a screenshot on an iPhone 14 is simple. There are three different methods you can choose from, including pressing a couple of buttons, tapping your iPhone’s back, or using an on-screen option. We’ll show you all the methods below. When you’ve captured a screenshot using any method, you’ll find that image in the Album > Screenshots folder in the Photos app. RELATED: How to Restart an iPhone 14...

RELATED: How to Quickly Add Links, Photos, and Media to Apple Notes on iPhone and iPad Undo in Apple Notes on iPhone If you use Notes on your iPhone, you can either shake your phone or use an on-screen option to undo and redo your changes. Depending on your situation, use the method that’s appropriate for you. Shake Your Phone to Undo and Redo To use this method, make sure the note in which you want to undo or redo changes is open on your iPhone....

Unhiding all the rows in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is as easy as pressing a keyboard shortcut or using a button on the ribbon. We’ll show you how. How to Unhide All Rows in Excel With a Shortcut To show hidden rows in your spreadsheet, launch your spreadsheet with Microsoft Excel. Then, access the worksheet in which you have the hidden content. Select your entire worksheet by pressing Ctrl+A (Windows) or Command+A (Mac)....

Why Do You Need a Light Meter? If the film camera you picked up was well-maintained, its internal light meter might be working fine. But many of them degrade over time and give you an exposure reading that’s at least a little off. If you have the cash, you could spring for a dedicated light meter. Or you could just use your smartphone. Here we’ll cover how to use a couple of popular light meter apps with your 35mm film camera (or 120mm film if you’re fancy)....

Anyone with an iPhone or iPad is familiar with notifications and how overwhelming they can become. Luckily, Apple provides a single location where you can view and manage them called Notification Center. Here’s how to view it. On iPhone and iPad, Notification Center is a centralized interface for reviewing notifications on your device that have been received from apps or the operating system itself. To view Notification Center while your iPhone or iPad is unlocked, swipe downward from the center of the upper edge of the screen....

With more people working remotely than ever before, many depend on Slack to stay in touch with their colleagues. So what do you do when Slack isn’t working? Here are several actions you can take to remedy the situation. RELATED: What Is Slack, and Why Do People Love It? Check the Slack System Status Page The first thing to determine is whether or not the problem is on your end or not....

RELATED: The 3 Best Credit Cards for Traveling Internationally Magnetic stripes rose to prominence in the 1960s, so they had a long run as the primary method of processing debit and credit cards. They’re certainly better than the old imprinting credit card processing method, but they’re not as secure as chips. Mastercard announced that the transition would start in 2024. At this time, the stripe will no longer be required on new cards in select regions like Europe, where chip and contactless cards are already widely accepted....

30 years ago, Microsoft introduced the first version of Windows Media Player—then just called “Media Player”—as part of “Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions.” Since then, it’s morphed and changed dramatically over time. Here’s a look at its history. Bringing Audio and Video to Windows Early versions of Windows didn’t support audio and video playback. Computers at the time typically weren’t powerful enough: Audio and video data took up a lot of storage space, relatively speaking, and advanced codecs that compressed high-quality audio and video had not been invented yet....

For example, are you backing up a Mac or Windows computer? Or are you looking to back up a Linux or mobile device, which limits your options? Furthermore, do you want to back up your mobile device and online accounts like your email or OneDrive? Could you get away with backing up just one device? That’s great, because many services only offer a subscription for one device, no matter what the plan or price is....

Sony recently unlocked the ability to install select third-party SSDs into a PS5. Unfortunately, it’s a little confusing because you have to choose specific drives that meet Sony’s minimum specs. Of course, you need to know how to install an NVMe SSD into your PS5 console, but the process isn’t too hard. RELATED: The Best PS5 SSDs of 2022

Get the F*** Out GTFO means “get the f*** out.” It’s an insult directed at someone you consider annoying, stupid, or actively trolling. Alternatively, you can use it to describe something or someone that’s entirely unwelcome in a space, such as spam or graphic content. As with other acronyms, GTFO is acceptable in both uppercase and lowercase. However, depending on the context, “gtfo” tends to be more relaxed, whereas “GTFO” can seem more agitated....

“Not Much” NM means “not much.” It’s often used to respond to “what’s up?” or “what are you up to?” It’s a very common initialism in texts and social media platforms. It’s considered a noncommittal answer that needs to be followed up to lead into an engaged conversation. Like other internet acronyms, it’s mostly used in lowercase, rather than uppercase letters. It can also act as a complete sentence when used to answer a question....