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It happens to even the most cautious explorer: you’re far from home, you die, and all your precious loot is left sitting in a pile far, far away. Tired of losing your loot? No problem. Read on as we show you how to make your Minecraft inventory persist after death (along with some other handy game-changing tricks). Note: This tutorial is focused on the PC edition of Minecraft as, presently, neither Minecraft Pocket Edition or Minecraft Console Edition support the editing of the in-game variables required for enabling persistent inventory or the like....

To remove multiple pictures from your Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, you don’t have to select each picture individually and remove it. Excel has an option to remove all images from your worksheets at once, and we’ll show you how to use it. RELATED: How to Insert a Picture or Other Object in Microsoft Office Remove Multiple Pictures at Once in Excel In Excel, you can use the Go To Special feature to select all objects (including pictures) in your worksheet....

While using apps on your iPhone, the apps are often busy behind the scenes, using sensors and contacting internet domains without your knowledge. With iOS 15.2 or later, you can see a detailed report of these activities with “App Privacy Report” in Settings. Here’s how. First, open Settings by tapping the grey gear icon. In Settings, tap “Privacy.” In Privacy settings, scroll down to the very bottom and tap “App Privacy Report....

There are a number of different default app categories. You can set a default web browser, search engine, phone app, messaging app, home screen launcher, and more. When something happens that requires one of these apps, the one you chose as the “default” will be used. RELATED: How to Change Browsers on Android The good news is this process is essentially the same on every Android device. First, swipe down once or twice from the top of the screen—depending on your phone—to open the notification shade and tap the gear icon....

Load Balancing is the concept of splitting application or network load between two or more servers, allowing for better performance and longer uptime. AWS’s Load Balancers cost money to run, but you can achieve the same effect for free using Route 53. How Does DNS Load Balancing Work? With a normal load balancer, like AWS’s Application Load Balancer, you direct all traffic towards the load balancer, and it handles the job of routing traffic to your instances....

What Is FreeTime? RELATED: How to Lock Down Your iPad or iPhone For Kids Unlike other parental controls, such as those available on the iPad, FreeTime isn’t just about locking a kid into one app, locking them out of other apps, or keeping them from accessing the device’s control panel. FreeTime outright reskins the device and turns it into a completely self-contained and kid-friendly tablet with an easy-to-use interface, a totally separate app list just for the child, and individual profiles so each child in your household can have their own age-appropriate dashboard: the toddler can have toddler friendly games and read-aloud apps and the middle-schooler can have more advanced games and their own media library, for example....

What Is Hardware Acceleration in Chrome? Hardware acceleration refers to when a program uses a computer’s hardware in support to perform some functions more efficiently than capable in the software. The hardware was designed to perform some functions faster than software running on the CPU alone. In Chrome, hardware acceleration utilizes your computer’s graphics processing unit (GPU) to tackle graphics-intensive tasks, like playing videos, games, or anything that requires faster mathematical calculations....

RELATED: How To Boot Your Android Phone or Tablet Into Safe Mode How to Exit Safe Mode on Android To turn off Safe Mode on Android, all you need to do is restart your phone. You can do that using your phone’s Power button or the notification panel. We’ll show you both methods. Use the Power Button to Exit Safe Mode on Android One way to turn off Safe Mode on Android is to use your phone’s physical Power button....

The Microsoft Edge browser on Xbox One consoles has a private browsing mode named “InPrivate Browsing.” Use InPrivate Browsing mode to browse the web without saving any history data to your console. To find this feature, press the “A” button on your controller to select the menu at the top right corner of the Edge browser. Select the “Start InPrivate Browsing” option at the top of the menu, and then press “A” again....

Here’s how to use perhaps the most important feature on your Watch. Make an Emergency SOS Call on the Apple Watch Making an emergency call on your Apple Watch is the same as dialing 911 in the US, 999 in the UK, or 000 in Australia. It will connect you to the emergency services where you will speak to an operator to confirm whether you need police, fire, ambulance, or another emergency service in your region....

What’s New With Skype? Microsoft describes the latest of many Skype redesigns as an “improved, faster, reliable, and super modern-looking Skype.” This will be a gradual upgrade, as Microsoft says it’ll roll out over the next few months. The most intense redesign is coming to the section you see during a call, which Microsoft calls the call stage. The section you see during calls will soon include all attendees, whether they have video enabled or not....

Windows has a secret keyboard shortcut that restarts your video drivers. If your PC ever freezes, try this shortcut before restarting your PC—it could fix freezes that would otherwise require forcibly restarting your computer. This key combination restarts the graphics subsystem on Windows 10 and Windows 8. There’s no keyboard shortcut for restarting your graphics drivers on Windows 7. How to Restart Your PC’s Graphics Drivers To restart your graphics drivers, press Win+Ctrl+Shift+B on your keyboard....

Big F***ing Deal BFD stands for “big fucking deal.” It’s an initialism that people on the internet use to describe something that’s very important or a “big deal.” You can find this acronym online in direct messages between friends, social media posts, or memes. It can also stand for “big freakin’ deal,” which is a polite version. However, most of the time, this acronym is deployed sarcastically. So when you say something is a “BFD,” you may be downplaying its importance or saying it’s not a “big deal....

The “wsappx” process is part of Windows 10, and you may see it running in the background or even using a significant amount of CPU and disk resources. It’s related to the Windows Store and Microsoft’s new “Universal” app platform. RELATED: What Is This Process and Why Is It Running on My PC? This article is part of our ongoing series explaining various processes found in Task Manager, like Runtime Broker, svchost....

A Brief History of Podcasts The concept for podcasts was hatched in 2000 by Tristan Louis and Dave Winer. The idea was to enable people to attach sound and video files to RSS feeds. Winer was also the author of the RSS format, and podcasts were included in RSS version 0.92. The first podcast is considered to be IT Conversations by Dough Kaye. It started in 2003 and ran all the way until 2012....

Every Adobe Program, Under One Service If you work in design, media, marketing, or photography, you’ve likely already used one or more of the programs in the Adobe Creative software suite. Apps like Photoshop, Premiere, and Lightroom are the industry standard for creatives. However, Adobe’s individual software licenses used to be prohibitively expensive—especially if you’re a freelancer or independent professional. Creative Cloud (CC) is Adobe’s way of making a wide array of its programs available as a service....

In late 2021, Google introduced some air quality features for Google Assistant smart displays. The AQI is shown with the weather on the ambient screen, plus you can ask for the current conditions and get alerts when it reaches unhealthy levels. RELATED: How to Check the Air Quality Near You (or Anywhere) What Is AQI? “AQI” stands for “Air Quality Index.” It’s simply a unit of measurement for the quality of the air....

There’s more than one Xbox One. Microsoft has already released the Xbox One S, a redesigned Xbox One with a few upgrades. Microsoft also released a major upgrade named the Xbox One X, which was released on November 7, 2017 and was codenamed “Project Scorpio”. All Xbox One models will play the same Xbox One games (and even Xbox 360 games!). However, newer models may play those same games with more detailed graphics and smoother framerates....

Run out of space and your iPhone will inform you your storage is almost full. You won’t be able to install new apps, take photos, sync media files, install operating system updates, or do anything else that requires space until you make some. Remove apps, media files, and other data you don’t use to free up space. Photos can also use a lot of space, so getting them off your iPhone and storing them elsewhere will help....

Tabs are a huge part of the web browsing experience. Recently, a new feature called “Tab Groups” has been adopted by nearly every major browser. If you’re not using Tab Groups, you should be. The concept behind Tab Groups is pretty simple. It allows you to combine multiple tabs into groups that can be labeled and moved around together. Tab Groups are available in Google Chrome across desktop and Android, and also in Microsoft Edge, Safari, and Firefox....