Google continues to add collaboration tools to its Chat app that make it more appealing to companies and teams. One such feature is the ability to create and assign tasks. By using Google Chat in a browser, on your mobile device, or through Gmail, you can easily add a task in your chat Room. You can assign these tasks to team members there as well, making it easy as pie to split up duties....
If your iPhone or iPad storage is full—or you just want to tidy up—it’s easy to delete screenshots that you might not need on your device using the built-in Photos app. Here’s how to do it. First, open the Photos app on your iPhone or iPad. If you can’t find it, swipe downward with one finger from the middle of the home screen to open Spotlight search. Type “photos,” and then tap the Photos app icon....
The Find and Replace tool is a powerful yet often forgotten feature of Excel. Let’s see how it can be used to find and replace text and numbers in a spreadsheet and also some of its advanced features. Find and Replace Text and Numbers in Excel When working with large spreadsheets, it is a common task to need to find a specific value. Fortunately, Find and Replace make this a simple task....
Hide Facebook Friends List From Everyone or Specific People On Facebook, you can hide your friends list from everyone, specific people, or custom people lists that you have created. This gives you great control over who can see your friends. Keep in mind, though, that people can still see your mutual friends, even if you’ve hidden the friends list from everyone. RELATED: How to Share Facebook Posts with Only Certain Friends...
If you’d like to jump straight into the command line via PowerShell, the Command Prompt, or even a Linux shell, you can easily make Windows Terminal launch at startup on Windows 11 (and Windows 10). Here’s how to do it. First, if you’re running Windows 10 and you don’t already have Windows Terminal installed, it’s available for free in the Microsoft Store. Just click “Get,” then “Install” on the Windows Terminal store page, and it will install in a few moments....
To make moving to a particular slide in your Google Slides presentation easy, you can use a hyperlink. Link text, an image, or another object to a slide and then navigate to it with a click during the slideshow. Add the Link in Google Slides Head to Google Slides, sign in, and open your presentation. Go to the slide and select the item you want to link. It can be text, like a word or an entire sentence....
Cleaning a laptop is arguably more tedious than cleaning a desktop. You have to clean the keyboard, the internals, the screen, and the case itself. Still, you can easily give your laptop a makeover in under one hour, provided you have canned air, some 90%-100% isopropyl alcohol, cotton swabs, and a microfiber cloth. Start on the Inside Most of the dirt and grime you see on your laptop is purely a cosmetic issue....
When you create cell styles in Microsoft Excel, those styles are available in all sheets for your current workbook. But there is a way to share those styles you spend time creating and editing with other Excel workbooks. if you create a style for a custom border or number format that you want to reuse, you can merge styles and use them over and over. And if you make modifications to one of the premade cell styles, you can share those changes across workbooks as well....
The bad news is sideloading apps on Windows 11 is not as straightforward as it is on Android devices. We’ll need to dip our toes into ADB (Android Debug Bridge) and run some commands in Windows Terminal. What You’ll Need Most importantly, you need to be on the Windows Insider Beta channel, build 22000.282 or higher. Here’s how you can switch between channels—but beware, the beta channel isn’t completely stable and we don’t recommend using it on your primary PC....
Starting with Mozilla Firefox version 93, the browser includes a new addition to the Firefox Suggest feature that occasionally shows sponsored suggestions. Luckily, if you don’t want to see ads in your browser address bar, you can disable them in Settings. Here’s how. First, open Firefox. In the upper-right corner of any Firefox window, click the hamburger button (three lines), then select “Settings” in the menu that appears. When the Settings tab opens, click “Privacy & Security” in the sidebar....
If your Windows 11 device is running low on battery life—or you want to get the most out of every minute of power—you can turn on Battery Saver mode. Here’s how to do it. What Is Battery Saver? Battery Saver is a special Windows power-saving mode that squeezes more life out of your battery by dimming your screen brightness, reducing background activity, and limiting some notifications. It’s a lot like “Low Power Mode” on the iPhone and “Battery Saver” mode on Android....
Note that if your blocked number has tried to reach out to you in the past, you won’t see their missed calls in your call log even if you unblock them. This is because Android doesn’t keep a history of calls from blocked phone numbers. Later, if you change your mind, it’s easy to block a number on your phone. RELATED: How to Block Calls on Android Remove a Phone Number From the Block List on Your Android Phone On the phones running Android 6....
YouTube “Shorts” are the video service’s answer to the massive popularity of TikTok. These aptly named short-form videos are easy to record and meant to be viewed on mobile. Here’s how to upload shorts on YouTube. You can create and upload shorts directly in the YouTube app. They’re limited to 60-seconds and required to be in portrait orientation, just like TikTok. It’s a very different way to think about a “YouTube video....
The Nest Hub Max uses its front-facing camera for these gestures, while the second-generation Nest Hub uses its Soli radar chip. In both cases, you’ll need to have “Motion Sense” enabled to use these “Quick Gestures.” We’ll do that first. Swipe up from the bottom of the smart display and tap the gear icon in the toolbar. Select “Motion Sense” from the Settings. Make sure that the “Motion Sense” is toggled on....
Microsoft is beta testing a new feature for the Xbox app on PC that seems so obvious that it’s incredible it hasn’t come to every PC gaming storefront. The app’s beta will now tell you right away if a game will run well on your PC, making it infinitely easier to make purchasing decisions. When you go to a supported game, as reported by The Verge, you’ll see a simple area near the top of the screen that says, “Should play great on this PC....
When the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro were first announced, everyone was extremely excited. The reviews backed up the excitement. Now that the dust has settled, there’s an issue with the Pixel 6 Pro’s screen flickering, and it looks like Google is going to take a while to fix it. Unfortunately, several Pixel 6 Pro owners are complaining that their devices are suffering from screen flickering, which is unacceptable on an expensive flagship phone (or any phone, for that matter)....
Last week ended with a scary bug that prevented users from calling 911 on their Android phone under certain circumstances if they have Microsoft Teams installed. Thankfully, Microsoft released an update for Teams that fixes this serious 911 bug. The bug was first discovered by a Reddit user who was attempting to call emergency services for their grandmother. Google responded to the issue, saying, “Based on our investigation we have been able to reproduce the issue under a limited set of circumstances....
Myth: VPNs Are a Bulletproof Way to Protect Your Privacy Let’s get the biggest issue out of the way first: No matter what any VPN provider tells you on their homepage, no VPN can guarantee you complete online anonymity. Thing is, VPNs in essence do one thing, and one thing only: Spoof your IP address and make it appear you’re somewhere you’re not. You can read all about how they do this in our article on how VPNs work, but in short, a VPN reroutes your internet traffic through one of the VPN company’s own servers and encrypts that new connection....
One True Pairing OTP is an initialism that stands for “one true pair” or “one true pairing.” It refers to a specific coupling between two fictional characters that a person or group is deeply fond of. If someone enjoys the relationship between Princess Leia and Han Solo from Star Wars, they might say, “Han Solo and Princess Leia are my OTP.” This signals to other fans of the pairing that they support this relationship....
I Know IK means “I know.” It’s used in text messages and social media to convey that you already know about something. For example, someone might say to you, “The weather’s going to be rainy tomorrow. Bring an umbrella.” If you already read the weather report, you might reply with “IK.” You can also use it to respond to someone asking if you knew about a particular fact. For instance, someone messages you, “dId you know that our favorite coming band is playing a show here next month?...
