Requirements The requirements for unlocking your Mac with your Apple Watch carry over to approving tasks. You must be using a Mac (mid-2013 or later) with macOS 10.13 or later. Make sure your Apple Watch is using the latest version of watchOS. Your Apple Watch must have watchOS 6 or later installed. Additionally, your Apple Watch and Mac must be using the same Apple ID. You also need to use two-factor authentication with Apple ID....
Calibrate Apple TV Requirements To use the new Color Balance feature, you’ll need an iPhone that supports Face ID that’s also running iOS 14.5 or later. You must be using any version of Apple TV — 4K or Apple TV HD with tvOS 14.5 installed. Additionally, be sure your TV’s picture mode isn’t set too bright or has highly saturated colors. (Using your TV’s standard picture mode is probably best.) Your iPhone must also be locked to perform this test....
Change Font of an Entire Microsoft Word Doc First, select all of the text in the document. To do that, just use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + A on your keyboard. Or, if you don’t like using keyboard shortcuts, select the Home tab on the Ribbon and from the “Editing” section, click Select > Select All. All of the text in your document should now be selected and highlighted. With this done, you can edit the entire document at once....
Depending on which platform you’re using, Word not only gives you a selection of fixed margin settings but a custom option as well. Since these options differ slightly per your Word version, we’ll show you how to change the margins and where they vary in Word on Windows, Mac, the web, and in the mobile app. Change the Margins in Word on Your Desktop or the Web How you adjust the margins in Word is the same in the application on Windows, Mac, and the web....
Change Windows 10 Mail Signature Open the Mail app and click or tap Settings (gear icon) > Signature. Now in the Signature panel, you’ll see the default signature, and here you have a few options. First, use the drop-down to select the account you want to change the signature for. Then, you can not use a signature by flipping the Use an email signature switch to Off. Or, replace the default signature and put in something more to your liking....
Previous versions of the Apple TV remote were powered by one round lithium 3V coin battery that could go years without replacing. This was due to its limited functionality compared to the new one. The new remote has a new touchpad with more sensors that allow more control of the tvOS interface. It also has a microphone for Siri voice search and control. These additional features come in handy while enjoying your entertainment, but it also means you need to charge it up from time to time....
When you are browsing the web using Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Beta sometimes frequently you will run into errors. Usually, clearing out the browsing cache and cookies will remedy the situation, but when you do that it logs you out of ALL of your browser-based services and it’s just plain overkill when you are only having problem with one or two sites to begin with. To solve this Microsoft included a feature that lets you clear out your cookies and cache, one site at a time....
Set the New Apple TV to Sleep Depending on your use, you can set Apple TV to go to sleep after a period of inactivity. To do that, go to Settings > General > Sleep After. Then select when it sleeps after being inactive from 15 minutes up to 10 hours. Or, if you always want it to stay on choose Never. Manually Put Apple TV to Sleep If you’re done with the Apple TV for the evening, you can put it to sleep manually....
One method used to infect Windows PCs is through malformed/malicious HTML content stored inside emails (and in most cases hidden.) Because of this, one of the first things I do after installing Microsoft Outlook is set the client to convert all received email to Plain Text. The setting in Outlook 2007 is “Read all standard mail in plain text.” Enabling this feature not only helps secure your desktop against malformed or malicious HTML (who wants to get hacked right?...
Converting .MOV files to a more universal format like .MP4, .M4V or .MKV can be very handy because .mov is the default format for most Apple products like the iPad, iPhone, and Canon Cameras. Today I’ll show you how to convert .mov to .mp4 easily. using a free tool called Handbrake. To start, download Handbrake and install it using the defaults. After installing, launch it and set the default output path when prompted....
If you’re making the jump from Windows XP to Windows 7, then you’re probably not too familiar with creating new user accounts. In Windows 7, there are updates both to the user account interface and account functionality. When living in a household with fewer computers than people, adding multiple user accounts can be handy to keep everyone’s “stuff” organized or private. However, even if you are living the good life and have a computer all to yourself, having your user accounts set up right can add a good level of security....
I’ve been a longtime fan of VirtualBox, but recently I decided to give VMware a shot. As it turns out, I really like it. The downside is that at the retail price of $249 — the program is pretty darn expensive. That aside, I spent the last couple days setting up virtual environments with VMware Workstation 9. VMware has really streamlined the process of creating new Virtual Machines (VMs) and below I’ve written out a quick walkthrough that details the experience....
Create a Pivot Table in Excel What is a Pivot Table? A pivot table is a fancy name for sorting information. It’s ideal for calculating and summarizing information that you can use to break down large tables into just the right amount of information you need. You can use Excel to create a Recommended Pivot Table or create one manually. We look at both. Recommended Pivot Table Introduced in Excel 2013, a Recommended Pivot Table is a predesigned summary of your data that Excel recommends for you....
Previously, we showed you how to set up and configure a Self-Signed Digital Certificate in Office 2010. Since then, some things have changed in the Office 2016 release. In this article, I’m going to review Creating Self-Signed certs using the latest version of Office. Setup Self-Signed Digital Certificate in Office 2016 Applications The Digital Certificate for VBA Projects can now be found within Program Files > Microsoft Office > root > Office16....
What’s nice about the filters in Google Sheets is that you can create Filter Views and reuse them. Then anytime you want to make that certain data jump out at you, just select the Filter View. Here, we’ll show you how to use Filter Views in Google Sheets to help you work with your spreadsheets easier. Create a Filter You can create a temporary filter for your data in Google Sheets....
Guest post: Isaac Philbrook, a long-time groovyReader turned contributor who loves to find solutions for annoying problems! groovyPost has always had a big fat hole in our archives when it comes to groovyPosts for the MAC so I hope we will see more from Isaac in the future! Recently, I ran into trouble when I realized that my HP all-in-one printer/scanner/fax would not cooperate and make multi-paged .PDFs. This was a tragedy....
Defer, Delay, or Block Window 10 Fall Creators Update First off, let’s look at how to defer the update for up to a full year which you can do if you are running Windows 10 Pro. This will provide you enough time to evaluate your situation as well as learn if there are any issues popping up from other users. This also will allow you to get the security patches installed automatically via Windows Update....
First of all, login to your YouTube account. Click on your username in top right corner and click on Video Manager. Now, select Search History from left sidebar. It displays all the keywords you searched for on YouTube. Just click on Clear All Search History button to erase all the keywords. It will ask you for confirmation; just click Clear All Search History. And you are done. If you want to make sure that YouTube does not keep a record of your searches, click on Pause Search History button....
By using the Microsoft Configuration tool (msconfig.exe), we can quickly and easily audit what’s running at startup and disable the things we would prefer just to start manually after boot. Editor’s Note: See Disabling Startup Programs for Windows 10 and Windows 8.1. Those articles contain more detailed information for the latest Microsoft operating systems. “What is the MSConfig Utility?” MsConfig.exe has been around for a while. It’s a Microsoft-built utility so you can trust it as well....
Deactivate Pinterest Account First log in to your account, click your name and then Settings. Now scroll to the bottom of the page and click Deactivate Account. Then confirm you want to deactivate it. That’s it. Your account is now disabled. You’ll get a confirmation email which gives you an opportunity to reactive if you want. You’ll also get email if someone else tries to login with your username and password and tries to reactivate the account....
