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Chromebooks don’t officially support Windows. You normally can’t even install Windows—Chromebooks ship with a special type of BIOS designed for Chrome OS. But there are ways to install Windows on many Chromebook models, if you’re willing to get your hands dirty. What You Need to Know About This Process We’ll say it again: this isn’t officially supported. To do this, you’ll have to install a replacement BIOS for your Chromebook (technically it’s a UEFI firmware, which is the modern replacement to the traditional BIOS)....

By default, Windows 11 checks for and installs updates automatically. If those automatic updates aren’t convenient for you, Windows lets you pause automatic updates for one week. Here’s how to do it. First, open Windows Settings by pressing Windows+i on your keyboard. Or, you can right-click the Start button in your taskbar and select “Settings” in the menu that appears. When Settings opens, click “Windows Update” in the sidebar....

This feature encourages you to try games you’re not sure about. If you don’t like a game, you can always refund it and get your money back. It’s particularly useful now that so few games offer free demos. When You Can Refund a Game There are two basic requirements for when you can get a refund: You must have purchased the game in the last 14 days, and you must have played the game for less than two hours....

You might never need to access your SIM card if you bought your iPhone with one pre-installed from the carrier. However, if you buy a phone unlocked and SIM-free, or are buying used, you’re going to need to be familiar with what a SIM card is, and how to swap one out. Thankfully, accessing an iPhone’s SIM card tray is not complicated, but you will need three things before you get started....

How to Resize a Photo Using Shortcuts If you need to reduce a photo’s resolution or file size, look no further than the Shortcuts app. Shortcuts is Apple’s built-in automation tool that helps you create your own tools and simplify multi-step processes that you perform frequently. Using Shortcuts, you can create simple automations that follow predefined steps. In this guide, we’ll create a shortcut that can take single or multiple photos, resize them based on your input, and save the resulting output back to the Photos app....

Facebook allows you to see the list of people who follow you on this platform. These people aren’t necessarily your friends but they’ve chosen to follow your posts in their news feed. We’ll show you how to check this list on both your desktop and your mobile phone. Remember that if you don’t allow people to follow you in your Facebook privacy settings, you won’t see the option to view your followers....

Apple lets you invite others to a FaceTime call through link sharing, and that link can be used on other devices beyond iPhones and iPads. Here’s how you can generate and share one with all your friends. RELATED: How to Make a Facetime Audio Call What Are FaceTime Links? Beginning in iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey, Apple is allowing users to generate links that can be sent out to colleagues to invite them to a FaceTime call....

Home file sharing used to be a nightmare, even between different versions of Windows — never mind Mac and Linux! These operating systems can now talk to each other and share files without any special software. We’ll be using the SMB protocol for this. Windows uses SMB for file sharing, while both Macs and popular Linux distributions have built-in support for SMB. Microsoft even submitted patches to the open-source Samba project to improve it!...

Roku players and TCL Roku TVs have an “Audio Guide” feature. If you press the * button on your remote four times quickly, the narrator speaks menu option names out loud. Here’s how to turn it on and off. Press the * Button Four Times to Turn the Audio Guide On and Off To have your Roku or TCL smart TV speak menu options aloud, just look down at your remote and quickly press the * button four times....

Adding numbers in Google Sheets is one of the most basic calculations. Just like Excel, you can use the SUM function. But what about subtracting numbers? With Google Sheets, you have a few different ways to subtract values. Use the MINUS Function Unlike Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets has a function for subtraction. The function is MINUS and it works with both numbers and cell references. The syntax for the formula is MINUS(value1, value2) where both arguments are required....

How to Find Google Guitar Tuner To access the Google tuner, start by opening your browser. We tested using both Safari and Chrome. Navigate to the Google search page, type google guitar tuner into the search bar, and click or tap the search button. This applet should appear at the top of the search results. In our testing, simply typing “guitar tuner” did not invoke the applet. This is different from other applets, such as the Google Calculator, which will appear at the top of search results even if you only search for “calculator....

When your active status is enabled on Facebook, your contacts can see that you are currently or recently have been online. If you do not want them to know your online presence, turn off your active status on Facebook. We’ll show you how. Later, if you change your mind, you can re-enable active status and let people know that you are online. How to Appear Offline on Facebook for Desktop On a Windows, Mac, Linux, or Chromebook computer, use the Facebook website to disable your active status....

Most anything you can AirPlay from one Apple device to another is available for your Roku TV as well. You can do things like browse family photos from your iPhone, listen to music from your iPad, or check out a TV show from your Mac. Enable AirPlay on Roku The first step is to enable or make sure you’ve enabled AirPlay on your Roku device. From the Roku Home screen, select “Settings....

Google Meet’s filters and masks are available for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. They’re essentially the same effects that are available in Google Duo. Let’s get started. First, you’ll need to be in a video call with Google Meet on your iPhone, iPad, or Android device. You can start the call yourself or join one. RELATED: How to Start a Google Meet Video Conference Once you’re in the call, tap the effects icon from your video preview....

“Digital wellbeing” tools are a big part of modern smartphones. These utilities aim to create healthier usage habits. Focus Mode is one of these tools, and it’s available on all Android devices. Here’s how it works. If Focus Mode sounds familiar, the iPhone and iPad have a feature with the same name. On both platforms, Focus Mode is a sort of a spin-off of Do Not Disturb. It works slightly differently depending on the Android device you have....

Introduced with iPadOS 15, Quick Note provides iPad users with a convenient way to capture notes from any screen or open app. Jot your note, add the links you visit, and access your iPad Quick Notes on iPhone and Mac. Create a Quick Note on iPad Apple gives you a few simple ways to create a Quick Note on iPad. Use your finger or Apple Pencil to swipe up and in from the bottom-right corner of the screen....

If you want to multitask, the iPad just might be your tablet of choice. Beginning in iPadOS 15, scheduled for release in fall 2021, Apple takes its multitasking features up a level with a Multitasking Menu, a Shelf for open windows, a center app view, and more. Use the Multitasking Menu If you weren’t fond of the way that you entered split view or slide over before iPadOS 15, you’ll be happy with the improved method....

Of course, it’s all in the spirit of the season. Die Hard fans don’t necessarily need the excuse of the holidays to watch what is widely regarded as one of the best action movies of all time. The 1988 thriller about a lone cop taking down terrorists who’ve seized a high-rise building, made Bruce Willis a huge movie star. It also established a long-running franchise with four sequels, to date....

Microsoft is putting out a new preview version of OneDrive Sync that’ll vastly speed up the cloud storage solution on M1 Macs and Windows on ARM PCs. The native app should give you some significant performance gains if you’ve been running the software through emulation. “We’re excited to announce that OneDrive sync for Windows on ARM and for Apple silicon is now available as a public preview,” said Ankita Kirti in a post....

For some players (myself included), the desire to play Pokémon Go was completely gone with the change. We all became so used to the longer range and benefits it offered that the game started to feel unplayable with the shorter 40-meter range. Thankfully, Niantic made a statement in a tweet addressing the situation where it said it was reverting the change, bringing the range back to 80 meters. Not only did the company revert the change, but it sounds like Niantic has some other exciting news to announce for Pokémon Go players on September 1....