Choose Breathe or Reflect Apple no longer includes the Breathe app on the Apple Watch with the release of watchOS 8. Fortunately, the Breathe watch faces are still intact with their rhythmic animations that you can use to help focus your breathing. Breathe is now Mindfulness, but it works in an almost identical manner. One big difference is that there are now two session types: Breathe (as per watchOS 7 and earlier) and Reflect....
What Is Account Hijacking? Outright smartphone theft is getting harder to pull off and less lucrative. We’re more careful with our phones than we used to be and—starting with the iPhone—more smartphones offer encryption and lost phone tools out of the box. So, some criminals have adopted a new tactic. Instead of messing with stolen phones and worrying about activation problems, they pose as you and order new phones on your account....
Google Sheets lets you add rows or columns to an existing spreadsheet on the fly to help you organize even better. Whether you want one or ten, above or to the right, here’s how to insert rows and columns into Sheets. How to Add Rows or Columns Fire up your browser and head to the Google Sheets home page. Open a spreadsheet in which you want to insert a few rows or columns....
As long as your caller ID is hidden, your call recipient sees “Private,” “Anonymous,” or a similar term in place of your phone number. Later, you can toggle off the option to start showing your number. RELATED: How to Change Your FaceTime Caller ID on iPhone and iPad Hide the Caller ID on Your iPhone To begin hiding your phone number, launch the Settings app on your iPhone. In Settings, scroll down and select “Phone....
The ability to customize emoji reactions is part of Facebook’s cross-platform messaging feature in Instagram. This update lets you message your Facebook friends from Instagram and brings some Messenger features to Instagram. RELATED: How to Message a Facebook Friend From Instagram Update Instagram Messaging If you haven’t updated already, you can do so from Instagram’s Settings menu. From your Instagram profile, tap the hamburger menu button in the top-right corner, and choose the “Settings” option....
In Windows 11, it’s easy to quickly check the battery life of some Bluetooth devices like mice or keyboards in Settings. It doesn’t work with every peripheral, but when it works, it’s handy. Here’s how to check. First, open Windows Settings by pressing Windows+i on your keyboard. Or you can right-click Start and select “Settings” from the menu that pops up. In Settings, click “Bluetooth & Devices” in the sidebar....
Instagram doesn’t notify you when someone blocks you. If you have a nagging suspicion about someone who you haven’t heard from in a while, here’s how you can check if they have blocked you on Instagram. You might find some third-party tools that advertise that they’ll notify you when someone blocks you, but those almost never work. So, what does? Some good old-fashioned detective work. Follow the next steps to deduce if you’ve been blocked on Instagram....
If you want an easy way to view the schedule for your loan, you can create an amortization table in Microsoft Excel. We’ll show you several templates that make creating this schedule easy so that you can track your loan. What Is an Amortization Schedule? An amortization schedule, sometimes called an amortization table, displays the amounts of principal and interest paid for each of your loan payments. You can also see how much you still owe on the loan at any given time with the outstanding balance after a payment is made....
An important part of creating a website is making it appealing to your audience, and the appearance is an important element of that appeal. While Google Sites offers a nice set of themes, you can create your very own. In the fall of 2021, Google upped its offerings for Google Sites allowing you to create custom themes. From colors and fonts to navigation and components, we’ll help you design a theme to fit your site’s purpose....
Not everyone appreciates the changes when new Android versions hit devices. If you want to switch back, it’s sometimes possible to downgrade your Android device to a previous version. Here’s how you do it. Before we begin, it’s important to mention the risks. Downgrading your Android phone isn’t generally supported, it isn’t an easy process, and it will almost certainly result in you losing data on your device. Make sure you back up your phone before you begin....
Google Photos is a great place to back up and store your precious photos and videos. You don’t have to keep everything in online forever, though. We’ll show you how to download your Google Photos albums. It’s only possible to download Google Photos albums from the desktop or mobile site. Unfortunately, it can’t be done from the iPhone or Android application. Regardless, it’s very simple to do, and the process is the same on desktop and mobile....
Why Use WoL and How It Works First, let’s discuss why you might want to use this feature, and really there’s only one: convenience. Let’s say you’re making coffee in the kitchen, and you want the PC on by the time you get to your home office. Just fire up an app from your phone, tap a button, and your PC will be ready and waiting by the time you get there....
In the networking world, a default gateway is an IP address that traffic gets sent to when it’s bound for a destination outside the current network. On most home and small business networks—where you have a single router and several connected devices—the router’s private IP address is the default gateway. All devices on your network send traffic to that IP address by default. Windows devices call this the “default gateway” in the interface....
Can You Hide All Reels on Facebook? As of October 2022, you can’t permanently hide or remove all Reels from your Facebook feed. Instead, if you want to stop seeing the short videos, you’ll need to ask Facebook to show you fewer Reels or block specific people or pages to stop seeing their content. How to Remove Reels on Facebook To see Reels less often in your feed, launch Facebook on desktop or mobile....
Chrome makes it very easy to switch profiles while in the browser. If other people use your computer and you want to prevent them from accessing your Chrome profile—which contains your bookmarks, history, and possibly even saved passwords—you can lock it with your Google account password. To lock your Chrome profile with your Google account password, you must add a new person to Chrome as a supervised user. We’ll show you how to do that and then how to lock your own profile....
Microsoft Word allows you to create neat tables within documents. Once a table is created, there are several easy ways to add more rows or columns, and we’re going to show you how to do just that. Press Tab to Add Rows The simplest way to add rows to your table is by placing the cursor in the cell at the bottom-right corner of your table and then pressing Tab on your keyboard....
While using Google Meet for a team meeting, you might want to raise your hand virtually to let people know that you want to speak. We’ll show you how to raise your hand in Google Meet. Often, multiple people speak at once, interrupt each other, and disrupt the conversation’s flow during a Google Meet video call. So, you can mute your microphone and use the virtual hand-raising feature to inform the moderators and others that you want to ask or say something....
Sending emails in Windows 10 is easy with the right email client, but what if you click an email link and the wrong app opens? Luckily, it’s easy to select a default email app in Windows 10’s Settings app. Here’s how to do it. First, open Settings by pressing Windows+i on your keyboard. Or open the Start menu and click the gear icon on the left. In Settings, click “Apps....
When reviewing or analyzing a spreadsheet, one thing that you might need to do is sort your data. Fortunately, you can easily sort an entire sheet or a range of cells alphabetically, numerically, or by color in Google Sheets. Sort an Entire Sheet by a Column One of the most common ways to sort a spreadsheet is by using a specific column. For example, you might want to sort a column by the lowest value, but also make sure that all data in the sheet remains intact....
We’ve all had that moment where you’re scrolling through text messages trying to find something important that was said. Google’s Messages app for Android lets you “star” those messages to easily find them later on. The feature is simple but quite useful. Similar to Gmail, you can “star” any text message and it gets saved to the “Starred” category. Next time you need to reference something important that was sent to you, just go to the category....
