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What Is “Only You” in Spotify? There’s actually quite a lot going on with Spotify’s “Only You” feature. It’s essentially a collection of personalized playlists and information about your listening habits. The main feature is a Wrapped-esque recap, plus tons of mixes and a new “Blend” playlist feature you can make with friends. How to Find “Only You” on Spotify You’ll probably see a big banner announcement when “Only You” rolls out to your Spotify app, but in case you don’t, it can be found on the Search tab....

Fitbit Premium’s Cool New Feature Google announced a new Fitbit feature called “Daily Readiness.” It provides you with a score based on how ready your body is for a workout. The feature uses Fitbit’s data, including your activity, heart rate variability, and recent sleep, to determine how ready your body is for exercise. It can be tough to know whether you’re better off prioritizing recovery or working out, and this new feature will make it easier to decide....

The Touchpad Was Disabled With the Function Key Most, if not all, Windows laptops dedicate one of the function keys to disabling and enabling the laptop touchpad. The icon on the key often depicts an older-style touchpad with a line through it. Press and hold the Function key (usually labeled as “fn”) and press the touchpad disable/enable key in the row of function keys. Its location and appearance will differ depending on your laptop’s make and model, but the key will likely look like a touchpad with a line going through it....

Google Search’s Changes Outside of Google Assistant, Google is making some cool interactive changes to Search that are very useful. For example, the company rolled out an interactive periodic table that you can access through Google’s experiments. With it, you can actually dig into the elements and learn about them in a way that’s both fun and useful. Google Search on mobile is also getting a live translation feature that’ll make it easier to remember a specific word or phrase....

Google Search’s New Local Shopping Feature When you head to the store, it’s nice to know that the item you want is there. Google announced that it is trying to make this happen in more stores by adding the ability to search in-store inventory from home. This doesn’t just apply to big stores like Walmart and Best Buy, as small businesses can also participate. When you search for a product on Google, you can use the new “in stock” feature to see only nearby stores that have the product available....

What’s Happening With This New Exploit? According to Brian Krebs, the issue pops up with the MSHTML part of Internet Explorer. Unfortunately, it also affects Microsoft Office, as it uses the same component to render web-based content within Office documents. Microsoft has the exploit listed as CVE-2021-40444, and the company hasn’t released a patch for it yet. Instead, the company suggests disabling the installation of all ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer to mitigate the risk of attack....

What PC Hardware Does Stable Diffusion Require? The single most critical component for Stable Diffusion is your graphics card (GPU). Stable Diffusion — at least the primary version — runs almost exclusively on your GPU. That means that other system components, like your CPU, RAM, and storage drives, don’t matter nearly as much. Generally speaking, here are the minimums specs we’d recommend if you’re building a new PC with Stable Diffusion in mind:...

Snapchat, with it’s disappearing photos, is an easy app for people to abuse. A one-second Snap can be pretty traumatic and impossible to prove happened; unless you’re quick enough to screenshot it, it’s gone as soon as you look at it. If someone is harassing you on Snapchat, here’s how to block them. RELATED: How to Use Snapchat: The Basics of Sending Snaps and Messages What Does a Snapchat Block Do?...

Much like configuring the BIOS, installing a new copy of Windows used to be a bit of a chore, but these days it’s been streamlined amazingly well. For most of it, you’ll simply follow the on-screen instructions, but feel free to keep this page open if you get stuck. Before we start: make sure to plug in an Ethernet cord to your motherboard, if you don’t have a Wi-Fi adapter....

Calculating percentage is one of those things that make many people cringe. But if showing a percent in your spreadsheet is beneficial, we’ll show you a few easy ways to calculate a percentage and format it in Google Sheets. Method One: Divide Part of a Total You can calculate the percentage for part of a total with a simple formula in Google Sheets. The syntax for the formula is =(part/total) or part divided by total....

Visiting the latest and hippest restaurant in town? Checking in to a place on your Facebook profile allows your friends and followers to see where you’ve been. We’ll show you how to do just this in your profile. When you check in to a place on Facebook, you tag that place in your post. This way, your friends and followers can see what restaurants, airports, cities, and any other places you’re visiting....

If you don’t have a projector, you can also connect Android to a TV. Projectors are the better option, though, as they normally project a much bigger screen size than a TV, making them ideal for media playback or data presentations. RELATED: How to Connect Your Android Phone to Your TV Connect Wirelessly via Chromecast The easiest method to connect an Android device to a projector is to use Google Chromecast....

Convert a Document to PDF Using Word If you have the desktop version of Microsoft Word installed on your Windows PC or Mac, the easiest way to convert your document to PDF is right in Word itself. Open the document you want to convert and then click the “File” tab. On the backstage screen, select “Save As” from the list on the left. Next, from the Save As screen, select where you would like the PDF to be saved (OneDrive, This PC, a particular folder, or wherever)....

By default, if you set a Focus mode on your iPhone, it will synchronize on your Mac (running Monterey or later) and other Apple devices if they are all linked to the same Apple account. If you find this annoying, it’s easy to turn off in one of two ways. Here’s how. How “Share Across Devices” Works As of November 2021, the way Apple handles syncing Focus mode across devices is slightly confusing....

Microsoft Office includes black and dark gray themes. The system-wide dark mode on Windows 10, Windows 11, and Mac will now affect Office apps, but you can also separately choose a dark theme for Office apps like Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint on Windows. How to Enable Microsoft Office’s Dark Mode on Windows According to Microsoft, Office’s dark mode is only available if you have a Microsoft 365 (previously known as Office 365) subscription on Windows 10 and Windows 11 PCs....

What Is Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling? Usually, your computer’s processor offloads some visual and graphics-intensive data to the GPU to render so that games, multimedia, and other apps run smoothly. The CPU gathers the frame data, assigns commands, and prioritizes them one by one so that the GPU can render the frame. With the Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling feature, the GPU’s scheduling processor and memory (VRAM) takes over the same work and runs it in batches to render the frames....

Using a Windows 11 feature called Dynamic Lock, you can make your PC automatically lock and secure itself when you physically step away out of Bluetooth range. All it takes is a linked Android smartphone and a few changes in Settings. Here’s how to set it up. First, Connect Your Smartphone to Your PC To make Dynamic Lock work, you’ll need to link your Android smartphone to your Windows 11 PC as a Bluetooth device....

Need to rearrange data in your spreadsheet? You can move cells in Microsoft Excel to different spots in the same sheet or to another spreadsheet or workbook. Use one of these methods to take your cell contents wherever you like. About Moving Cells in Excel When you move a cell or cell range in Excel, you are moving all of the cell’s contents as-is. So whether the cell contains a word, value, formula, or function, it will be moved....

Whether you are an avid Mac programmer using a Windows PC, or you just found a DMG file on your Windows machine, it can be useful to know what it is and how to open it. Luckily it’s easy to open on Windows if you know how. What Are DMG Files? DMG files are macOS disk image files. They are much like ISO files—their Windows-based counterpart. These disk images normally contain program installation files for macOS apps, but they can also be used to hold compressed files....

How to Restart an Android Phone Without the Power Button Android devices have a few different methods for restarting a phone without a functional physical power button. We’ll start from the easiest and work our way down. Quick Settings By far the easiest way to restart an Android device without a power button is the Quick Settings panel. This menu has the toggles for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Airplane Mode, and many other customizable tiles....