The same is true of your Apple Watch. While being attached to your wrist means it’s far less likely to fall into someone else’s hands, it’s good to know that you can lock your Apple Watch with a passcode to keep it safe from prying eyes. Here’s how to lock an Apple Watch. How to Set a Passcode for Your Apple Watch In order to lock your watch, you need to set up a passcode....
1. Create Restricted Profiles for Users If you have a child and he’s playing around with your Android tablet, you might want to make sure they don’t have access to something they don’t need to see. That is why the Restricted Profiles feature can be extremely useful. You can basically decide which apps the user of the profile has access to and also if he can use the Google Play Store to add new apps....
The news was recently announced as an Apple press release yesterday. This is great news for any fan of the band who’s sold no less than 200 million albums worldwide as of 2010. iTunes now sells the band’s entire catalog – 16 studio records, four live albums and three compilations all remastered. You can see for yourself, on the iTunes store. You can buy individual tracks, albums or collections. Individual tracks are priced at $1....
If you look at your February Sprint bill via your online account that there has been a Discount Policy Change Notice. Fortunately for us, this change in policy constitutes a material change in our Sprint contracts. Who does this affect? Family PlansCorporate Share PlansNOT individual lines (only 1 person and number on the account). You can still try but it probably won’t work. How exactly is my contract changing? The plan (line 1) is going from $129....
New Echo Show 8 with 13MP Wide-Angle Camera The new Echo Show 8 model has an 8-inch HD adaptive color display. It also features a 13-megapixel camera with a built-in camera shutter. Inside the device is powered by a new octa-core processor. It also has dual stereo speakers for clear and balanced sound. The updated camera automatically pans and zooms while on a video call. This makes sure everyone is centered in the frame....
From Google Docs and Zoho to LibreOffice and Corel’s WordPerfect, Microsoft does have some token competition. However, apple’s answer to the productivity suite is iWork, which we’ve seen hyped now and then as a Microsoft Office killer. In 2013, Apple began bundling Pages, Numbers, and Keynote with new Macs to gain more market share. Now, they are taking it one step further by offering the iWork suite and the iLife suite for free to all macOS and iOS users....
Hmm…. anyone care to guess what we might be seeing today? More likely is a next gen iPod Touch. – Updated Siri for the iPad and all other Apple platforms with a Mic – New Apple TV – New iPhone with LTE – New Macbook Pro that’s as thin as the Air – iOS6 – New Apple Maps App just a guess. :) New Macbook Pro New glass stand New iOS 6 New Siri features and Facebook integration New OS X version Did I miss anything?...
iOS 13.2.3 for iPhone and iPadOS 13.2.3 for iPad Apple continues to work out the kinks in iOS 13, which was released back in September. Today’s update fixes odd issues related to the Spotlight system search feature with Mail, Files, and Note apps. Mail is also being updated to resolve a problem in getting new messages. And this update fixes a problem with apps not downloading content in the background. To download and install today’s latest update on your iPhone or iPad, head to Settings > General > Software Update....
Apple TV tvOS 12 Dolby Atmos on Apple TV 4K: If you have the latest 4K Apple TV, your audio will be upgraded to the high-quality surround sound format of Atmos. Of course, to take full advantage of the new sound technology you will need a dedicated Atmos speakers setup or an Atmos soundbar, for example. Apple also says it has the largest catalog of Atmos movie titles. And it will upgrade titles you’ve purchased if Atmos is added....
This year, there hasn’t been anything particularly earth-shattering so far. The announcements at Monday’s WWDC covered the usual—new features coming to iOS 12, WatchOS 5, and macOS. Still, that’s not to say that there aren’t some new big developments in store for Apple users. For your convenience, I’ve wrangled up a few of the highlights. What’s New from the Apple WWDC Event? Other outlets have given a blow-by-blow live account of what happened at WWDC, but here’s what stuck out to me: Those are the big things that stuck out to me....
The technology is officially called Artefact Animator and has future possibilities for much more than bringing the much-wanted Flash or Silverlight to Apples mobile devices. The title “Flash in a pinch” is the name of the web portal that the application uses to transcode Flash based web content into an iOS readable format on the fly. As mentioned it’s still in development so there isn’t a lot to talk about at this point but, here’s one of their groovy proof of concept videos below....
Get Verified on Instagram To get verified, launch Instagram on your phone and make sure you’re logged into the account you want the badge for. Then tap profile button in the lower-right corner of the screen and then the hamburger menu and Settings. Then tap the “Request Verification” option from the meu. You will need to enter in your username, full name and upload a photo of your state or government issued ID card, i....
Calibre has a simple intuitive interface and it’s fairly straight-forward to use. It takes books stored on your computer and lists them within the application’s library. Books may need to be added manually, but the program can automatically pull meta data out of the eBook file of every title and display it within its detail panel. Books can be instantly sent to your mobile device with a simple right-click....
If you like to use the keyboard shortcuts to save time and be more productive, make sure to bookmark this page to come back if you forget a shortcut or want to learn a new one. Common Outlook 2016 Commands Note: Most of these should still work on the modern versions of Outlook in the Microsoft 365 (formerly O365) suite of Office apps. Windows and Dialog Boxes Search Mail Calendar People Tasks Notes Editing and Formatting Text Flagging messages, contacts, and tasks for follow up If there are any missing, let us know in the comments....
You have to click on “Skip for now” to get rid of it which is annoying for experienced users. If you are annoyed by the screen when you log in, here’s how to disable it. Disable the “Get Even More Out of Windows” Screen To get started hit the Windows key and click Settings from the Start menu. Or, if you are a keyboard warrior you can use the keyboard combo Windows Key + I to open Settings....
Previously we covered using Readyboost with a USB flash drive, but did you know you can do the same thing with an SD card? As netbooks and portable devices have become more popular, sometimes it just isn’t ergonomic to have a giant USB sticking out of your PC. A small SD card provides a discreet solution for your ReadyBoost needs. As with using a USB stick to ReadyBoost your Windows PC, a 4GB SD card is the size you want....
Although you can always manually type in HTTPS://www.name-of-site.com into the address bar to test if a site has SSL enabled for all its pages, not only is that time consuming waste (imop), but that still leaves sinkholes for unencrypted redirects. The solution for you conspiracy Security freaks out there (like me)?? Using a Firefox plug-in from EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), you can now secure all your surfing just by sitting back and letting it handle the encryption on all your pages automatically....
This can slow you down, interrupt your workflow, or worse still, you could lose your data. If Excel keeps crashing, you’ll need to troubleshoot the cause and fix it. Update Office and Windows Excel may be crashing due to a bug. It might be time to check for a new Microsoft Office update or a Windows update that could contain a bug fix to prevent further crashes or freezes. To update Office:...
What is the iPhone App Library? Until now, there were only three ways to organize apps on the iPhone. You could move them manually, add them to user-defined folders, or let Apple manage them by resetting the Home Screen layout. The iPhone App Library doesn’t remove those options. Instead, it gives you more choices. You can find the iPhone App Library after the Home screen pages on your iPhone with iOS 14 installed....
5 Geeky Chairs You Can’t Afford Let’s take a look at some extra-geeky chairs that scream of awesomeness, but are completely unaffordable to the regular Joe. Well, except the first chair, that one’s just stupid. Crazy Rock Chair Thing This stupid chair costs more than my car. Seriously. It’s $14,000. It’s actually not a bad looking chair, and it’s definitely worth a few hundred, but $14,000 is just crazy! Not to mention the fact that trying to put it back together would be a massive headache....
