Unfortunately, the deal is limited to the blue watch, so if you’re looking to pick one up in a different color, you’ll need to pay full price. If you have a smaller wrist, you can snag the 41mm in green for $349. It normally sells for $399, so it’s also a great deal. Whether you choose to go with the bigger model in blue or the smaller model in green, you can get a great deal on the Apple Watch Series 7 right now....
You probably use a lot of apps, but sometimes one instance of an app isn’t enough. If you have an Android phone, you can “clone”—or duplicate—apps. There are a few reasons why you might want to do this. Why “Clone” an App? The most common reason for cloning or duplicating Android apps is using multiple accounts. These days, more apps support signing in with multiple accounts, but there are still plenty of holdouts....
Windows 11 makes it easy to position windows into pre-set layouts thanks to a feature called Snap. Even better, the new feature is easily accessible from a pop-up menu hidden in the maximize button. Here’s how it works. How to Access and Use the Snap Menu The Snap feature originated way back in Windows 7 (as “Aero Snap“) and continued in Windows 10. Windows 11 expands on the feature considerably, with more complex layouts akin to PowerToys FancyZones....
If you have Family Sharing enabled on your Apple ID, you might want to share apps purchased in the Mac App Store among family members. But it’s not immediately obvious how to download another family member’s Mac app purchases. Here’s how to do it. Family Downloads Are Hidden on a Special Screen If someone is in your Apple Family Sharing group, you’d think that their purchased apps would automatically be available to download in the Mac App Store whenever you searched for the app....
On Windows 10, changing your default browser is easy: Just a few clicks. On Windows 11, you have to make a few more changes in Settings. Here’s how to do it. Microsoft hasn’t been shy about promoting the use of its Edge browser in Windows 11. By default, Edge will open whenever you click a web link or open an HTML file. Luckily, you can change that in Settings—even though Microsoft makes the process non-obvious and more difficult than you might expect....
Microsoft OneNote supports optical character recognition (OCR). This technology allows OneNote to recognize text within images and file printouts, letting you copy them over to your notes and edit the content. Here’s how it’s done. Copy Text From a Single Image Instead of rewriting the text in an image, you can just copy and paste it. First, open the OneNote Notebook that contains the image you’d like to copy the text form....
Sometimes an email comes in that is best dealt with by having a meeting. Here’s how to create a meeting directly from an email in either the Microsoft Outlook desktop client or the Outlook web app. No one likes cutting and pasting the contents of an email into a meeting request, nor manually typing in the names of the people who need to attend. Creating a meeting—either a physical meeting or in Microsoft Teams—straight from an email avoids that tiresome work....
RELATED: How to Use Your iPhone While on a Phone Call Call an Extension on an iPhone If you’re on an iPhone and you want to reach an extension number, then first, launch the Phone app. In the Phone app, enter the main phone number. This is the number before the extension. You’ll now add a pause after the main phone number. To do that, press and hold down the * (asterisk) button on the keypad....
Sometimes, a website does not behave as expected or seems stuck showing outdated information. To fix this, it’s easy to force your browser to completely reload its local copy of the page (cache) using a simple keyboard shortcut. Here’s how to do it. What Is a Browser Cache? To speed up browsing, web browsers save copies of website data to your computer as a set of files called a cache....
Do you find it too tedious to close each open app individually on your Mac? With Automator on Mac, you can make an app that closes all your running apps with a single click. Here’s how. How This Works The Automator app on Mac helps automate many of your routine tasks, including closing apps. You can create an app that quits all running apps and then pin it to the Dock....
When you have dozens of tabs open in a Safari window, it becomes difficult to find a specific tab in the tab bar. Here’s how to quickly search open tabs within the current window in Safari on Mac. Searching Tabs Using “Tab Overview” Safari’s Tab Overview screen (similar to the tab switcher on iPhone and iPad) includes a built-in feature that lets you search through all the open tabs in the current window....
In Windows 11, you can set a different desktop wallpaper for each virtual desktop, helping you keep visual track of which is which—a feature sorely missing in Windows 10. Here’s how to do it. To get started, you’ll first need to switch to the virtual desktop that you’d like to customize. In Windows 11, click the Task View button in the taskbar (It looks like two overlapping squares.). When Task View opens, select the virtual desktop whose background you’d like to change....
Before creating or editing a spreadsheet in Google Sheets, it’s good to make sure that the default currency for the document matches your expectations. Here’s how to change the default currency and how to check it in existing spreadsheets. How to Set the Default Currency for All Sheets To set the default currency for all new Google Sheets, visit your profile language settings at https://myaccount.google.com/language. Once you’ve selected your language in the “Preferred Language” section, Sheets will assume that you want to use the currency of your language region as the default in all the new Sheets that you’ll create going forward....
Windows 11 is now available. If you’ve decided you want to upgrade from Windows 10, here’s how you can get the free upgrade—even if Windows Update doesn’t offer it. This works if Windows 11 doesn’t officially support your PC, too. How to Check if Windows 11 Supports Your PC To check if Windows 11 officially supports your PC hardware, download and run Microsoft’s PC Health Check app. Click the “Check Now” button and the tool will tell you whether Windows 11 officially supports your PC....
When you’re creating a document that could benefit from both portrait and landscape page orientations, consider Google Docs. You can mix both views throughout your document for the perfect format. Elements like tables, charts, graphs, and even images can often look better in landscape view. But that doesn’t mean that the words surrounding those items do. Luckily, a feature to switch page orientations in a single document was added to Google Docs....
However, there’s no mechanism for using it is a speakerphone, and if you make or receive calls with your smartphone while paired with the Echo, the calls will not be transferred over to the speaker. Likewise, text messages can’t be read to the Echo, nor will on-device notifications be passed to the Echo’s speaker. RELATED: The Best Bluetooth Speakers of 2022 How to Pair Your Device With a Voice Command To start the pairing process make sure Bluetooth is enabled on your mobile device and then issue the following command:...
Apple recently announced that it wouldn’t have SharePlay ready for iOS 15, and now the company has decided to shift iCloud Private Relay to a beta rather than having it ready for the launch of the upcoming mobile operating system. iCloud Private Relay Is Delayed With Apple choosing to shift iCloud Private Relay back to beta, you definitely want to consider signing up for a VPN, as that’s very similar to what iCloud Private Relay does....
We’re rapidly approaching the release of Windows 11, and Microsoft is making its final tweaks and adjustments to the OS in the latest Beta and Dev builds for Windows Insiders. While there aren’t many new features, some nice polish makes Windows 11 look great. This is definitely not a game-changing Windows 11 update for the Dev channel, but it does give several portions of the OS a nice visual upgrade....
“Xbox Cloud Gaming has partnered with Microsoft Edge to create an improved experience with optimizations now available exclusively in the Microsoft Edge browser, providing the optimal look and feel while playing Xbox games from the cloud,” Milena Gonzalez, Program Manager at Xbox, wrote in a blog post. Microsoft says that Clarity Boost “uses a set of client-side scaling improvements to improve the visual quality of the video stream.” Essentially, games will look better with the feature, but you’ll need to be using Edge as your browser to receive the benefits....
If you’re waiting for Windows Update to let you know that Windows 11 is ready for your PC, you might be in luck, as Microsoft has started rolling the latest version of Windows out to more people. As far as what computers will get Windows 11 with this update, there are no set rules. Microsoft is using machine learning to determine which computers should receive the Windows 11 update. That means there aren’t any set manufacturers or ages of devices that’ll get it....
