How to Send WhatsApp Voice Messages Sending a voice message on WhatsApp is as quick to do as typing a message. By using the feature, you can effectively leave voicemail for your friend or family member, saving them the need to read a text message. Here’s how to send WhatsApp voice messages. How to Preview WhatsApp Voice Messages Before Sending Them Thanks to an update WhatsApp allows you to preview voice messages....
How to Set up Nintendo Switch OLED Follow these steps to set up the Nintendo Switch OLED. The setup process can be completed using the Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons or the touchscreen. These instructions assume the use of the touchscreen, but the Switch will always show the Joy-Con button you should press to select an option. Finishing Switch OLED Setup Several steps in this guide, such as setting up a TV or adding parental controls, are optional....
Enable Windows 10 Parental Controls To use the most recent Windows Parental Controls and Microsoft Family Safety features, both you and your child need a Microsoft Account (not a local one). Although you can get a Microsoft account for your child before you configure available parental controls in Windows 10, it’s simpler and more straightforward get the account during the configuration process. Whatever you decide, follow these steps to get started....
How Do I Share Service-Based Digital Business Cards? Many services allow you to create attractive, interactive digital business cards, such as the following: Switchit lets you create digital business cards with custom layouts with optional video. The HiHello apps for iOS and Android make collecting and organizing the members of your network easy. Hardware-based cards like Mobilo Card or Tap Tag let you load your info onto a card that transfers it to other users’ devices....
How to Sort Playlists in Apple Music Here’s how to sort a playlist in Apple Music by using the sort function. How to Sort Individual Songs in Apple Music Playlists If you just want to change the order of specific songs in a playlist in Apple Music instead of the entire list, you can do so manually. Keep in mind though moving an individual song will change their saved order in the playlist, not just the way they’re viewed during the current session....
Is Alexa Always Listening? Echo devices constantly monitor input from the microphone for the wake word. That means Alexa is effectively always listening to everything within range of the Echo microphone array. While that raises some issues regarding Alexa data privacy, it’s necessary to fix these devices’ core functionality. If it weren’t always listening, it wouldn’t be able to hear its wake word and respond to your commands. If you don’t want Alexa to listen in all the time, you can switch off the microphone on your Echo device....
Add Photos to iPhone Using iCloud When you use a Mac, the web-based iCloud Photo Library can be used to store and add photos to your iPhone. Start by making sure iCloud Photo Library is enabled on your iPhone by following these steps: Then, add the photos you want to sync to iCloud by following these steps: Sync Photos Using iCloud With Windows 10 Setting up an iCloud for Windows account puts access to your photos, along with videos, mail, calendar, files, and other information on your Windows PC and your iPhone....
How to Edit Google Docs With Editing Mode Editing Mode allows you and anyone with permission to edit the document directly. However, this means changes are made automatically and potentially become difficult to review. To avoid important data being lost or changed, the ability to lock down your entire document comes in very handy. How to Edit Google Docs With Suggestion Mode When you’re working with other people on the same document, it’s useful to make a suggestion without altering the text itself....
How to Turn off Facebook Messenger You can make Messenger accessible to only specific Facebook friends while appearing offline to everyone else, or you can hide from all your Facebook friends and contacts. When you turn off Active Status, you can receive messages, but you won’t be notified about messages. Anything you receive while Messenger is off shows up in your inbox when you turn on Active Status. Follow these steps for either outcome:...
How Do I Turn off My Activity Status on Instagram? A few clicks or taps through your account settings will reveal the Show Activity Status toggle you can switch off to stop broadcasting your online status. Turn off Active Status on Website Here’s how to do it from the desktop website: Turn off Active Status on Mobile The Instagram app uses the same term to describe this setting—Show Activity Status—but getting to it is slightly different from how it works on the website....
How to Disable Incognito Mode in Chrome on the PC You can disable Chrome’s Incognito Mode completely on a Windows PC using a Registry addition. It sounds complicated, but it’s fairly easy: How to Disable Incognito Mode in Chrome on the Mac On a Mac, the actions for disabling Incognito Mode in Chrome are slightly different, but the end result is the same. The biggest difference is in how Macs handle registry editing....
Can I Turn on My TV With Google Home? You can turn on your TV with Google Home by using Google Chromecast. You will need two things to do this, a TV with CEC support and a Google Chromecast dongle. The CEC or Consumer Electronics Control, in short, allows your TV to be powered on through HDMI devices such as a streaming player. Can Google Home Mini Control My TV? You’ll want to do a test run and say either “OK, Google, turn on my TV" or, “OK, Google, power on the TV....
Undelete a Message Quickly in Outlook If you accidentally delete a message in Outlook Email and immediately realize you need that email, it isn’t too late. It’s easy to recover an Outlook message you just deleted. It works the same as undoing an action in Word and other programs. Undelete Older Deleted Messages Deleted Outlook emails are located in the Deleted Items folder in Outlook and Outlook Online. If you mistakenly trash a message and don’t recover it right away, you can still move it from the Deleted Items folder to any other folder to restore it....
How to Unlock an iPhone Without the Password There’s good news and bad news. The good news is you can unlock an iPhone even without its passcode. The bad news is you have to erase the iPhone and set it up from scratch. If you’ve got a recent backup of your iPhone, you can restore it and essentially have it return to normal. If not, though, you may lose some data....
macOS Ventura Compatibility Recent versions of macOS like Catalina and Monterey maintained compatibility with Macs built within the last decade or so prior to their respective release dates, but Ventura is compatible with a narrower range of hardware. If your Mac was built within the last few years, it will work with Ventura. If you have an older Mac, then make sure to check the compatibility list, because there’s a good chance you’ll have to stick with Monterey for the time being....
How to Set Up a VPN on an iPhone Follow the instructions below to install and use a VPN on an iPhone. These steps also apply to iPad. The VPN app will immediately set up a VPN configuration on your iPhone and activate it. The VPN will remain active until you disable it or uninstall the VPN app. How Can I Use a VPN on iPhone if It’s Already Installed? Once installed, you can turn a VPN on or off using a slider that will be located near the top of the iPhone’s Settings app....
How to Free up Space With the Storage Manager When you free up space on your Android device, the phone has more space for new apps, photos, videos, and music, and often, faster performance. When a phone is close to full, it tends to get sluggish. Android refers to this feature as storage, but file management is what it does. Alternative Ways to Free up Space on Your Android Another way to make space on an Android smartphone is to back up your pictures to Google Photos, which offers unlimited cloud storage and access to your images on any device....
How the HLOOKUP Function Works The HLOOKUP function is a type of search function. This function searches for specific information in a worksheet by first finding the specified value in the column labels and searching that column for the corresponding value. The HLOOKUP function is best suited for worksheets with large amounts of data. This example uses a simple worksheet to show how the HLOOKUP function works. In this worksheet, a retailer tracks sales by product and by the channel where each product is sold....
The Purpose of the Google If ( ) Function The If( ) function tests whether a certain condition in a cell is true or false. If the condition is true, the function will carry out one operation.If the condition is false, the function will carry out a different operation. The initial true or false test, as well as the follow up operations, are set with the function’s arguments. The If( ) Function’s Syntax and Arguments A function’s syntax refers to the format in which the function must be stated....
How to Use Joy-Cons on a Windows PC First of all, your PC needs to have Bluetooth connectivity. The Joy-Cons use Bluetooth to connect, so they won’t have any way to hook up if your PC doesn’t have that functionality. If it doesn’t, and you really want to use your Switch Joy-Cons on your PC, then you’ll need to add a Bluetooth adapter first. If you have Bluetooth, then you have two options:...
