You’ll see a familiar tool if you own an iPhone or iPad. That’s right, the Control Center on Mac has a similar appearance to the Control Center on your iOS device. It gives you nice rounded corners on the controls and quick ways to adjust your screen brightness, check your Wi-Fi, and play or pause your music. Here, we’ll show you options to customize the Control Center on Mac and how it works....
You’re not limited to a single account, either. If you want to post anonymously, you can create a throwaway Reddit account to post under the radar. You may want to delete your Reddit account at some stage, however, especially if it’s only temporary—here’s how. What Happens When You Delete a Reddit Account Before you rush to delete your Reddit account, you should probably be aware of the consequences. Deleting your account does not mean that any submitted posts, comments, or other Reddit content you’ve shared will be erased....
Deleting these old iPhone back-ups .ipsw files is a breeze in Windows and OS X. First I’ll show ya how to do it for Windows then I’ll review the steps for Mac OS X. Windows Users The conventional way to do this is through iTunes. Click Edit > Preferences… and Click the Devices tab. There, you’ll see a list of your backups which can be deleted with the click of a button....
Open Google Chrome and type about:plugins in the address bar. It will show you all installed plugins in Google Chrome. Locate Chrome PDF Viewer and click on Disable. If you want to know more details about the PDF Viewer or any other installed plugin, click on Details button in top right corner. It will show you the plugin’s location, type and other information about it. The PDF Viewer is now disabled....
Photo: Yen-Chih Lin Info About the Paging File Here’s what you need to know before deciding what you want to do with your paging file: The paging file has a negligible effect on performance, it uses very little CPU.Multi-tasking will benefit from a paging file.System-intensive apps, such as gaming may see a benefit without a paging file.Disabling the paging file = less I/O constraints. A slow HDD may benefit from that....
If the Game Bar is making an unwelcome appearance, or if you’re worried about your system performance with it installed, you can disable it. There are a few ways to do this, from disabling gameplay capture to disabling or removing the Game Bar entirely. If you want to disable the Game Bar in Windows 10, here’s what you’ll need to do. Disabling Game DVR in Windows 10 The Game DVR is one of the most memory-intensive components of the Game Bar....
Windows 8 SmartScreen Here’s an example of what you’ll see from the SmartScreen when trying to install an unrecognized app. I got this when installing the Open Source Start menu replacement for Windows 8 – Classic Shell. Since it’s a safe program, click Run Anyway. Then you’ll be able to work your way through the install wizard like normal. What I find funny about this example is Classic Shell, among other Windows 8 settings, allows you to disable SmartScreen....
Download Your Data from Apple First, head to privacy.apple.com and log in with your Apple ID and password. Then enter your two-factor authentication code if you have that enabled. You do have 2FA enabled with Apple and all other sites, right? If not, read our two-factor authentication guide for securing your online life. On the next page, click Get started under the Get a Copy of Your Data section at the top of the list....
People really do panic when a Google service goes down for even a second, while we find it rather funny when people are having panic attacks, they should be ready to deal with these interruptions, have their data backed up, or set to use offline. Now, two-factor authentication, which we’ve discussed here and highly recommend, and all of the security measures you take do make your Google account safer, nothing is better than a copy of your data....
Turn on Dark Mode in Outlook.com To have access to the Dark mode you need to be using the Beta version of Outlook.com. You can toggle that on in the upper-right corner of the screen if you haven’t already. Although, starting this week, the company is moving Outlook.com out of beta so this toggle should disappear in the coming days ahead. Head to Outlook.com in your browser of choice and sign in to your account....
How to Enable 2FA on Your Dropbox Account To get started, launch a browser on your computer and log into your Dropbox account if you aren’t already. Once you’re logged in, click your profile icon at the upper-left corner of the screen. From the menu click on Settings. Now from the Settings page, click on the Security tab at the top. Then flip on the “Two-step verification” switch from the menu....
Enabling the Out of Office Auto Response feature in Outlook (also called Vacation Mode by some) is a handy way of letting co-workers or customers know you’re away from the Office (vacation/holiday etc..) and not checking email regularly. Turning on the feature is very simple both from the Outlook desktop client (outlook 2000/2003/2007) and remotely using the Outlook Web Access client. Out of Office Assistant Auto Reply Outlook 2007 How to Screencast: How to Enable the Microsoft Outlook Out of Office Assistant (Auto Response) Note: This is for Outlook 2007....
However, there might be times when need to manually move them over to a different computer. Or, you might want to export a copy and save it for use at another time. Whatever the reason, here is how to manually import and export your bookmarks on Microsoft Edge. Export Favorites (Bookmarks) in Microsoft Edge To get started, click on the Settings and more button (three dots) on the upper-right corner of the screen....
We all install dozens of apps on our smartphones. In turn, these apps send dozens of notifications (which you can even get on a Windows 10 device). You can ignore, or swipe away, most of these. However, there will be the occasional one that you wish you could come back to. Maybe it’s a deal you wanted to take advantage of, or a competition you wanted to enter. Luckily, getting to your notification history in Android is a breeze....
Twitter Music Site Head to the music.twitter.com page to start listening. It shows some top tracks on the page. Then there’s categories of music that are popular and trending, popular, emerging, and suggested. The service apparently has no idea what I like yet, because nothing it recommended I would listen to. But then I am a metal / rock / indie guy with no love at all for “popular top 40 stuff....
First, highlight all the ones you know you won’t use. Then right-click on one of the highlighted updates. Select Hide Updates. All of the updates you highlighted will gray out. Now the next time you launch Windows Update, you’ll only see the important ones you need. If you want to restore updates that you’ve hidden, launch Windows Update. Start » All Programs » Windows Update. Now click on Restore Hidden Updates....
Footnotes appear at the bottom of each page in your document, while endnotes appear at the end of your document. Here’s how to insert them in Microsoft Word. Inserting Footnotes in Microsoft Word Word has offered the ability to add footnotes and endnotes to Word documents for many years, so these instructions should work in all modern software versions. To add a footnote in Word, open your document and place your blinking cursor at a point within your document....
Step 1 – Downloading the Dream Scene Activator Dream Scene Activator is a great application by door2windows, which you can easily grab for free from here. The application is great and requires no more than a few clicks to set up. Step 2 – Configuring the Dream Scene Activator Once you download the program, its icon should look like this: Right-Click on it and select Run as Administrator… …and then just slide the OFF button to ON...
LastPass Extension for Windows 10 While this isn’t the final version of Windows 10 quite yet, it’s just around the corner. So, if you’re a user of the popular password manager, and have been waiting forever to get it in Edge when the Anniversary Update is released, you can have peace of mind knowing it will be ready out of the box. Here we’ll take a look at how to install it on the preview version of the Anniversary Update; the process should be virtually identical when the final version is released to everyone this summer....
There are shortcuts you can take, such as adding moderators or setting up a bot to help filter messages. If users start to cause trouble, however, you’ll need to take drastic action to assert your authority. You can do this by kicking them, which allows them to rejoin later, or by banning them from your server for good. If you want to know how to kick or ban a user on Discord, here’s what you’ll need to do....
