Internet connection data caps are becoming more widespread in the US. Internet service providers may claim their data limits are good for “millions of emails,” but emails are small and HD videos on Netflix are much, much larger. Follow our tips to deal with Internet bandwidth caps to help cut down on data usage, especially when streaming videos. Some ISPs may throttle your Internet connection speed after a certain point....

By pinning a tweet, you can display your most important tweet at the top of your Twitter profile. This tweet appears at the top no matter how many tweets you post afterward. We’ll show you how to do this. Why Pin Tweets on Twitter When you post new tweets, your older tweets fall down in the list and become less visible. To prevent this for your important tweet, you can pin that tweet to the top of your profile....

Unfortunately, criminals aren’t the only people frustrated by Activation Lock. If you buy a used iPhone and don’t realize it’s locked, for example, you might end up locked out of your new phone. Here’s how to bypass it. What Is Activation Lock? When you first activate your iPhone, Apple makes a note of the device’s unique identifier and your Apple ID. It then ties your iPhone’s unique identifier to your Apple ID....

Have you been saving photos you receive in Gmail to Google Drive and then moving them to Google Photos? Well, you can finally stop! Read on to start saving images you receive in Gmail emails directly to Google Photos. Save to Google Photos in Gmail The Save to Photos feature is available in Gmail on the web and is just as easy as saving to Google Drive. You can save the image from the email message or photo preview, as you’ll find out below....

If you have a touch-screen PC running Windows 11 and a stylus, you might enjoy using the pen menu, which provides shortcuts to essential apps. If the pen menu icon is not showing up in your taskbar, here’s how to turn it on. First, right-click the taskbar and select “Taskbar Settings.” When Settings opens to Personalization > Taskbar, open the “Taskbar Corner Icons” menu if necessary by clicking it....

Adobe Photoshop defaults to a dark theme when you first install it, but it’s easy to quickly switch to a light theme (or somewhere in between) on Windows and Mac. Here’s how to do it. How to Set a Light or Dark Theme Using Preferences There are two ways to change the Interface theme from dark mode to light mode in Photoshop. The first method is by using the Preferences menu....

How IP Tracking Links Work We recently played along with a fake job recruiter scam. We knew at the start this was a scam, but we wanted to confirm the scammer’s location. They said they were in the US—but were they? We checked by tracking their IP with a link. There’s nothing special about this—when someone accesses a resource online, the server sees their unique IP address. And IP addresses are tied to rough geographic areas....

In iPadOS 15, Apple left the new Safari tab bar design turned off by default, but it’s already installed when you upgrade to iPadOS 15 or later. If you’d like to experiment with the new “compact” tab bar design, it’s easy to enable in Settings. Here’s how. First, open Settings by tapping the grey gear icon. In Settings, tap “Safari” in the sidebar. In Safari settings, navigate to the “Tabs” section, then select “Compact Tab Bar” until it has a check mark below it....

Free public Wi-Fi is a great option most of the time, but it’s not available everywhere and comes with its own problems. Sometimes, the best connection you have is in your pocket. If you’re out and about without Wi-Fi or it goes down in your home, your phone can be the savior. RELATED: Why Using a Public Wi-Fi Network Can Be Dangerous, Even When Accessing Encrypted Websites Configure Your Phone’s Mobile Wi-Fi Hotspot The first thing we’ll do is configure the Wi-Fi hotspot settings....

If you’re tired of typing with a keyboard, entering text can be as easy as using your voice in Windows 10. The OS includes built-in speech recognition and dictation features. Here’s how to set them up. How to Enable Dictation and Speech Recognition in Windows 10 Microsoft’s dictation software is a useful way to write text quickly in Windows 10 using the Windows+h keyboard shortcut. But it may not already be enabled by default on your system, so you may have to make a quick trip to settings to enable it....

Besides the media itself, the most important element of a media server software is how up to date it is–you can’t watch videos if the server doesn’t know they’re there. Plex Media Server offers three ways to keep your media collection up to date so you always know what’s available. Why Would I Want To Do This? RELATED: How to Set Up Plex (and Watch Your Movies on Any Device)...

What Does yes Do? On its own, running the yes command will print “y” forever in a Terminal window. This will cause your CPU usage to spike to 100%, and the only way to stop it is to kill the process. You can also use yes before another command using the yes | format. This will automatically answer “y” for any prompts that the command you’ve run gives you thanks to pipes....

Windows 10 has a hidden video editor that works a bit like Windows Movie Maker or Apple iMovie. You can use it to trim videos or create your own home movies and slideshows. You can even have it create videos automatically. This feature is part of the Photos app. It’s what remains of Windows 10’s “Story Remix” application, which Microsoft announced for the Fall Creators Update back in May, 2017....

What is SharePlay? Apple’s SharePlay feature allows you to watch movies and TV shows with your friends over a FaceTime call. This feature requires that every participating iPhone and iPad be updated to iOS 15.1 and iPadOS 15.1 or later, respectively. SharePlay supports Apple TV, Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max, Showtime, Paramount+, MUBI, and Pluto TV apps at the time of writing in November 2021. Keep in mind that you can’t watch the movies you’ve bought or rented from Apple TV with others....

To take advantage of KDE Connect on iPhone, you’ll need to jump through a couple of hoops. First, you’ll need to go to this TestFlight link to get set up to test the beta of the KDE Connect app. Additionally, you’ll need to be on iOS 15 for the app to run, so you’ll need to make sure your iPhone is updated. Before downloading the app, you can also check out the source repository of KDE Connect iOS to make sure everything looks good....

To say this left players of the game upset would be an understatement. After days of complaining about the situation on social media and places like the Pokémon Go subreddit, Niantic finally responded to players’ concerns. Unfortunately, the company’s blog post did almost nothing to appease the angry player base. Pokémon Go Has a Big Issue This might seem like a tiny issue in the grand scheme of things happening right now (such as Apple’s current iPhone surveillance situation)....

The cheat system for Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty: Vanguard uses multiple layers to catch cheaters, and it sounds like it’ll work quite well. A team of professionals and machine learning algorithms work in tandem with the kernel-level drivers that detect even the most complicated cheating methods. “Cheating in Call of Duty is frustrating for players, developers, and the entire community,” said Activision in a blog post....

The “I’m Feeling Lucky” button has been a staple on the Google Search home page for years. You might not know, though, that Google uses it elsewhere. The Google Photos app for iPhone and Android has it, too. A Brief History of Feeling Lucky “I’m Feeling Lucky” is one of the original features of Google Search. You could type in a query and click the button to skip straight to the first result....

To enable this, open the Settings menu. The easiest way is to swipe down from the top of the display to expose the notification panel. Tap the Gear icon next to the power button. This is the last time you’ll have to swipe down from the top edge of the Galaxy S20. Alternatively, you can swipe up from the handset’s home page to open the app drawer. Either use the Search bar at the top of the window or swipe between pages until you locate the “Settings” app....

One of the most important things you need to decide is the level of protection. While we wish every single iPad case could offer top-notch protection, the more protection a case provides, the bulkier it is. So, finding the right balance between protection and bulk is a good idea. There is also a case to be made for picking up multiple cases to suit different usage conditions. For example, you can have a thin and lightweight case for the home or office and a rugged case for outdoor activities....