How to Stop Quick Notes From Popping up on Your Mac If you’re running macOS Monterey or later, Quick Notes will be tied to your bottom-right hot corner. When you move your cursor into this corner of your screen, a small white box will appear, allowing you to create a Quick Note. The only way to prevent this from happening is to disable Quick Note as a hot corner in System Preferences....
How to Get Out of Safe Mode Turning safe mode off on your Samsung phone is a fairly straightforward process. What Is Safe Mode and Why Is It Used? Like most operating systems, Android launches several apps as part of its boot process. These third-party offerings can include commonly-used features like displaying your personal calendar or unread email messages. If you’re experiencing significant slowness or other problems while starting up your phone, one or more of these apps could be the culprit....
How to Turn on a Laptop Using the Internet In modern computers, Wake-on-LAN is a fairly common feature. This technology enables you to shut off your computer and use the internet to signal to your powered-off computer that it’s time to turn on again. Depending on your setup, enabling Wake-on-LAN will take different steps, but you can turn it on whether you’ve got a Mac or a Windows PC. Once it’s set up, you’ll have your choice of third-party applications to use to send the signal to turn your computer on....
How to Unlock a Disabled iPad If you enter the wrong passcode when trying to unlock your iPad too many times in a row, your iPad may become disabled. Sometimes, the screen will show that your iPad is disabled. In other cases, it may ask you to try again in five minutes or tell you that your iPad is disabled for many days or years (that’s not true; it just means that you should wait a minute) or to connect to your computer....
Automatic Updates for Google Chrome on Mac or PC By default, Google Chrome on Mac and PC updates automatically. The web browser is continually checking for the latest version to download. Typically, you only have to restart Chrome to install the update. The More icon in the upper right corner (the three dots) will say Update and then when you press it, it turns into a colored arrow when there’s a pending update and you haven’t closed your browser window in a while....
Many of the best antivirus software packages have auto-update features, so updated files and patches are downloaded to your computer when available. Here’s a look at the auto-update features in the top antivirus programs so you can make sure your computer is continuously protected. AVG Antivirus AVG offers a free product, AVG AntiVirus Free, and a paid product with broader protection, AVG Internet Security. With both versions, automatic updates should be enabled by default, but it’s important to make sure....
Gather the Right Hardware Before you begin, gather the following tools: A new SSD A T6 Torx screwdriver Philips #00 screwdriver SATA to USB cable Spudger tool Format Your SSD Before you can do anything with your new SSD, you need to format it. Clone Your Hard Drive With Cloning Software As outlined below, after formatting your SSD, clone your Mac hard drive using Disk Utility or cloning software such as SuperDuper....
What is AVERAGEIF? The AVERAGEIF function combines the IF function and AVERAGE function in Excel; this combination allows you to find the average or arithmetic mean of those values in a selected range of data that meets specific criteria. The IF portion of the function determines what data meets the specified criteria, while the AVERAGE part calculates the average or mean. Often, AVERAGEIF uses rows of data called records, in which all of the data in each row is related....
How to Use Split View in macOS Catalina (10.15) and Later Starting in macOS Catalina, Apple made it quick and easy to tile windows using Split View, a feature that lets you quickly take advantage of your Mac’s large screen and use two apps simultaneously. Follow these steps to split your screen. How to Use Split View in macOS El Capitan (10.11) Through Mojave (10.14) The steps for using Split View in earlier versions of macOS are a little different (and less automatic), but they still use the full-screen button....
How to Use Split View on iPad in iOS 15 With iOS 15, Apple simplified the multitasking interface introduced in iOS 11 to make using split screen more intuitive. You no longer have to activate a multiple apps setting, and one of the apps you choose doesn’t have to be located on the Dock, two of the components of the original process that earned Apple some criticism. Split view in iOS 15 is activated through the three-dot multitasking icon that appears at the top of many iPad screens....
Normally the flash appears only for a short time when taking photos or when you have a notification, but with the built-in flashlight tool, you can keep the flash on until you shut it off. The iPhone flashlight is built-in and accessible through Control Center. There are also third-party apps that add other options to the iPhone flashlight, like strobing. How to Use the iPhone Flashlight in Control Center To turn on the iPhone flashlight, follow these steps:...
It’s one of many net commands like net send, net time, net user, net view, etc. Net Use Command Availability This command is available from within the Command Prompt in Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP, and in older versions of Windows and in Windows Server operating systems. Recovery Console, the offline repair utility in Windows XP, also includes the net use command, but it’s not possible to use it within the tool....
This article explains how to set Samsung Messages as your default messaging app, start a chat, send GIFs, and more. Instructions apply to the latest version of the Samsung Messages. Some features are only available for phones with Android 8.0 or later. How to Make Samsung Messages Your Default App Samsung Messages is typically the default messaging app on any Samsung device. However, if you changed the default setting at some point, here’s how to change it back....
How to Install the Yahoo Mail App for Android Installing the Yahoo Mail app on Android is easy. Just follow the steps below: How to Set up a Mail Account in Yahoo Mail When you open the Yahoo Mail app, it prompts you to sign in with your Yahoo account. If you don’t have one, tap Sign Up to create one. While you also have the option of signing in with Google, AOL, or Outlook, you still need to have a Yahoo account and sign in....
How to Customize Your WhatsApp Privacy Settings By default, WhatsApp allows anyone to see your read receipts, last seen time, about section, and profile photo. In addition, your contacts can see any status updates you make. You have full control over your WhatsApp privacy, so you can easily change any of these settings. And if anyone ever makes you feel uncomfortable, you can always block them. Every user has different requirements for their personal privacy....
How to Wipe a Computer Hard Drive This process could take several minutes to several hours depending on how big the drive is and what method you choose. You can now install Windows on the drive, create a new partition, sell or give away the hard drive or computer, recycle or dispose of it, restore your backed up files, or whatever else you need to do. We’re big fans of DBAN, our first pick on that list....
If your Chromebook is stuck zoomed in, or you lent it out to someone and got it back zoomed in, you can also use these techniques to zoom out or return the zoom level to normal. How to Zoom In on Chromebook Zooming in on a single window, like Chrome, is extremely easy on a Chromebook. You accomplish it by pressing a specific key combination. You press the same combination repeatedly to zoom in further....
Overall Findings Even though they provide the same basic service, Hulu with Live TV and Sling TV will appeal to different people based on channel availability, price, and other features. Here’s a quick look at some of the most important features of Hulu with Live TV and Sling TV: The Hulu package that comes included is ad-supported, meaning you’ll watch commercials when streaming content from the Hulu library. However, you can upgrade to Hulu with no ads....
How to Automatically Back Up Your iPad With iCloud To turn on iCloud backups for your iPad: How to Restore an iPad From an iCloud Backup Restoring an iPad from an iCloud backup begins by wiping the iPad, which puts it into the same state it was when you first took it out of the box. When the iPad is finished erasing the data, the iPad shows the same screen that displayed when you first got the iPad....
Overall Findings A thin, lightweight device dedicated to reading?A device that offers good visibility even in difficult environments, such as in the dark or in direct sun?A full-featured tablet that offers e-book reading along with web browsing, video streaming, and gaming?A device under $200? Size and Weight: iPad Leads the Pack Display: Retina Display Is Impressive Cameras: You’ll Need a Tablet for That The NOOK Tablet 7" also has two cameras: a front-facing VGA camera and a rear-facing 2-megapixel camera....
