Google’s Pixel 6 Won’t Have a Power Brick While we’re all talking about the Pixel 5a, which Google just announced, the company casually mentioned to CNN that this would be the last phone from the company to include a USB-C power brick in the box. That means the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, which we expect to be the next major phones from Google, won’t have one in the box....
The Silicon Valley company started rolling out the option to sign up for the Apple Card at the beginning of August 2019. As the initial rollout is only in the U.S., you might not be eligible to apply until Apple expands to your region. As the Apple Card experience primarily resides on the iPhone, Apple requires the handset to be running iOS 12.4 or newer. That version of the OS and everything that comes after it includes support for Apple Card....
How to Block Distracting Websites We will be using two methods today for blocking distracting websites: a manual system-level tweak, or dedicated third-party software. It should be relatively easy for most people to use the manual tweak on desktop operating systems like Windows, macOS, and Linux. Depending on your smartphone, an app might be required on mobile. Manually blocking a website requires you to edit your computer’s hosts file. Before DNS, the hosts file was used to link domain names and IP addresses so that when you tried to access a domain (like howtogeek....
If you can calculate percentages in Excel, it comes in handy. For example, you might need to calculate the tax on a sale, or the percentage of change in sales from last month to this month. Here’s how you do it! Calculate Percent Increase To get started, let’s calculate the increase of one value over another as a percentage. In this example, we want to find the percentage of increase in the sales of a product this month compared to last month....
Have you received a JSON file that you’d like to convert to Microsoft Excel format? Excel offers a built-in option to help you import it without third-party parsing tools. Here’s how you can do it. RELATED: How to Parse JSON Files on the Linux Command Line with jq To convert your JSON file to Excel, you will first connect Excel to your JSON data. You’ll then review the JSON data, select the columns you’d like to bring to your Excel file, and finally load the data into an Excel spreadsheet....
First, let’s define some terms. Although deleting, deactivating, and disabling your account are often used interchangeably in the context of social media accounts, there are important differences that you need to take note of. Also, keep in mind that each platform (like Facebook or Twitter) handles deactivation and deletion differently. We’re specifically talking about Clubhouse here. When you deactivate your Clubhouse account, your account is removed from the public eye, but the app still retains your user data, and you can reactivate your account within 30 days by simply logging back in....
Leaving a Google Review is a great way to let others know about your experience, but if you later feel that your review was too harsh, unfair, or inaccurate, you can always delete it. Here’s how. How to Delete a Google Review on Your Computer To delete a review using your Mac, Windows, or Linux PC, open any web browser and visit the Google Maps website. Sign in to the Google account that you left the review with....
What You Need to Know Before Deleting Your Account There are a few important things that you need to know before proceeding. Unlike social media accounts where you generally have the option to deactivate your account rather than delete it, you don’t have that option with PayPal. You can only delete your account and, once you do, the account and all of its accompanying data are gone for good. If there’s any account data that you may need in the future, you should download it....
When you send email to multiple recipients (some of whom may be unknown to each other), it’s better not to display everyone’s email address. Here’s how to get that done in Outlook. When you send email to multiple recipients, you have a few options for entering their email addresses. You can put multiple addresses in the “To” or “Cc” (Carbon Copy) fields, but then those addresses are visible to everyone receiving the email....
We know, updating your PC is a hassle–but it’s essential. New security flaws are discovered on a regular basis, and most companies are pretty good about issuing fixes for those flaws as they crop up. Plugging those holes, however, depends primarily upon you making sure things are appropriately updated. If you’re using Windows 8 or 10, Windows Update is a little more aggressive than it used to be. You no longer have the easy option of selecting which updates to download and install as you did in Windows 7....
Password managers help you by saving those complex passwords that can be pretty difficult to remember. If you’ve forgotten your Snapchat password, you can’t really recover that same password, but it’s easy enough to recover your account by resetting your password to something new. Whether you’ve forgotten your Snapchat password, or suspect someone else changed it without your permission, Snapchat offers a pretty simple way to recover your account. And what we’re talking about here is recovering your account if you’ve totally forgotten your password....
We’ll cover how to do this on your phone and in the Chrome and Firefox web browsers. In all three methods below, you’ll need the free Google app installed on your phone. How to Reverse Image Search a Saved Image If you have an image saved on your phone that you’ve either downloaded or captured with your camera, you can find more information on it or similar images using the free Google app....
Windows 10’s Task Manager now shows you the power usage of each process on your system. This feature is new in the October 2018 Update. How to See a Process’s Power Usage Details First, open the Task Manager by right-clicking your taskbar and selecting “Task Manager,” or by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc. If you don’t see the full Task Manager pane, click “More Details” at the bottom. This information appears on the Processes pane but is hidden by the small size of the window....
The Apple TV app uses the watch history of movies and shows to personalize recommendations under the “For You” or “For All of You” section. You can turn it off and stop seeing those automated suggestions on Apple TV. Here’s how. With the family sharing active, you might see some outrageous recommendations based on everyone’s watch history. Thankfully, you can turn off the “For All of You” section and clear your watch history on Apple TV....
How to Check for App Updates on Android The place to check for updates is the same one that you visit to download apps and games—the Google Play Store. Open the Play Store app on your Android phone or tablet and tap your profile icon in the top-right corner. Select “Manage Apps & Games” from the menu that appears. On the next screen, you’ll want to look for “Updates Available” or “All Apps Up to Date....
If you’ve used a computer, digital camera, or smartphone long enough, you’ve likely seen files with either JPG or JPEG extensions in them. But are they the same thing? What’s the difference? We’ll explain. They’re Two Abbreviations For the Same Image Format “JPG” and “JPEG” are two equivalent file extensions that both refer to the exact same digital image format. JPEG is an abbreviation for “Joint Photographic Experts Group,” which is a tech industry group that created the JPEG image format widely in use in digital cameras, social media, and on the web....
RELATED: How to Avoid Online Scams and Fake Health Products What Is the Global Chip Supply Shortage? In case you hadn’t realized, there’s a global shortage of computer chips currently causing problems for manufacturers. Since so many items now use semiconductors, this has affected everything from games consoles and graphics cards, to cars, toasters, and washing machines. This has been caused by a perfect storm of factors, with the COVID-19 global pandemic taking much of the blame....
The iPhone 7 is available in two sizes: the regular 4.7” screen iPhone 7, and the 5.5” screen iPhone 7 Plus. Both phones are available with 32GB, 128GB or 256GB of storage in Jet Black, Black, Gold, Silver, Rose Gold, and Red. Let’s take a look at how each phone differs and consider which one is the right fit for you. iPhone 7 vs iPhone 7 Plus Physical size is the most obvious difference between the two phones....
Initially, TikTok limited the length of videos to 15 seconds, but now that the social video service allows videos up to three minutes, it makes a little more sense to have it on a TV. Of course, the TikTok videos tend to be filmed vertically, which isn’t necessarily ideal for watching on a 16:9 TV. The app seems well-made. It has support for the following, for you, and discover page....
Some other names for “favicon” include “shortcut icon,” “website icon,” “tab icon,” “URL icon,” or “bookmark icon.” However, the original term was “favicon” and that’s the one most people still use today. Let’s take a closer look at these little icons. Favorite + Icon The term “favicon” is a blend of two words—“favorite” and “icon.” The name is derived from how these icons were originally used. Favicons first appeared in Internet Explorer 5 in 1999 and they were shown in the “Favorites”—a....
