Getting rid of these unneeded items can improve your Android experience. If you’re unsure how to empty trash files on Android, here’s what you’ll need to do. Emptying Trash on Android Now, Android doesn’t have a recycle bin like a desktop operating system. There are, however, steps you can take to delete an app’s cache, app data files, and remove other unnecessary items. Note: Android has a unique experience between devices....
Currently, when an update is available for your apps, you will see a notification badge on the App Store icon. You tap the icon and are taken to the Update section of the App Store. There you can update apps individually or all of them in one fell swoop. But with iOS 13, the Updates tab has been removed. Here is a look at where to manually check for updates for your apps from the App Store on iOS 13....
Fix Videos in Website Not Playing in Chrome The other day I was tinkering with various settings in the Chrome browser. I didn’t have a reason to start turning things on and off other than being bored and curious. It was late at night, and I didn’t remember which settings I messed with. Well, the next day, I realized that embedded videos were not playing in Chrome. Typically, videos on a website, including ours, are embedded from a streaming service like YouTube or Vimeo....
How to Update, Modify or Rebuild the Windows 10 Search Index We have all used the Windows 10 search box at some point or another to look for that digital needle in a haystack. The latest version integrates more with the Internet and provides a more advanced and easier-to-manage interface that lets users filter their files by type or even search for files stored on cloud services such as OneDrive. When Windows 10 Search is working properly, you can open the start menu and start typing, and you’ll start to see relevant results immediately: If your files aren’t showing up like you’d expect them to, there are a couple of different things you can try....
Logic Pro is a professional DAW (digital audio workstation). It allows for users and engineers to record, arrange and mix music. What’s very cool is that much of the code in GarageBand is based on Logic. Many of the instruments and effects in GarageBand are scaled down versions of those in Logic, too. This means that you can actually import GarageBand tiles to Logic. First, tap the “Edit” button on the top-right....
Microsoft Excel offers a specific feature to insert sparklines, but Google Sheets doesn’t currently offer such a feature. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t use sparklines in Sheets, you just have to go about it a little differently. Here, we’ll show you how to insert and customize sparklines in Google Sheets. Insert a Basic Sparkline in Google Sheets We’ll first show you how to insert a basic sparkline to get you started....
If you need to use a select group of apps, maybe an in-house line of the business app (LOB) or light productivity applications such as Microsoft Office or Adobe Photoshop, you can get away with using a Virtual Machine (VM). One leading solution in this category is VMware Fusion, which was among the first vendors to bring Windows virtualization to Intel Macs nearly 10 years ago. I decided on trying out VMware Fusion, because of my great experience with the Windows version....
In Windows 7 and Windows 8, click the Start menu and select Devices and Printers. All of your devices and printers are displayed. Right click on a printer and select Printer Properties. Then click the Advanced tab. Select Available From and put in only the hours you want it to be used from. Then click OK. When a user tries to print when the printer is not available, they’ll see a message that it’s not available....
This is the week that culminates as a festive orgy of–no, not turkey, not even football–but shopping. Serious shoppers are eyeing Black Friday and counting on getting the best bargains of the year beginning one minute after midnight the day after Thanksgiving. But, warns Lindsay Sakraida, features director at dealnews.com, don’t assume that the lowest price of everything on your shopping list will be found during Black Friday. It’s true for many products, but Sakraida tells Black Friday shoppers to avoid buying these 10 items:...
There are a few ways you can use this tool—as well as open it. If you want to speed up your workflow, here are six different ways you can open Disk Management in Windows 11. 1. Search for Disk Management To avoid clicking through menus, you can search for Disk Management and open it directly. To open Disk Management using the search bar in the Start menu, use the following steps:...
Things don’t always work exactly as they should, however. If your Alexa routines aren’t working, it could be a problem with the routine itself, or with your device settings. If you’re having problems with your Alexa routines, here are some troubleshooting fixes you can try. 1. Testing Your Alexa Routine If your Alexa routine isn’t working, there could be an issue with the routine or with the phrase that you use to trigger it....
Features and Tech Specs The Kindle Paperwhite controls and interface consists of a capacitive touchscreen, a sleep/power button and a microUSB port and that’s it. Navigation is done through touch and gestures, including two point multi touch gestures, swipe for scrolling, and long presses for contextual menus. When you’re reading a book, there are a several tap zones. The biggest is in the “next” page zone, which takes up much of the bottom-right quadrant....
On Friday, October 7, Apple will begin accepting preorders for the new iPhone 4S. It’ll hit stores in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan October 14th. The new smart phone will be available in other countries, Apple said, by October 28. Can’t decide whether the iPhone 4S — with double the CPU power and an improved camera — is a good option for you?...
The extension is straight forward to use. Check the Auto Replay box and a video will replay itself until you close the tab or navigate to a new page. It works with any video regardless of length. Pick it up from the official Chrome Web Store: Install the YouTube Auto Replay extension for Google Chrome Comment Name * Email * Δ Save my name and email and send me emails as new comments are made to this post....
At least that’s what it did for longgoodknight. He relates his experience with this tip: When his flight was ready to board and he had to take his power strip with him, the only sad part was the power-hungry friends left behind: Everybody asked, and every body was very grateful, but only two people of those plugged in were on my flight. The next time you travel via airport, bring along a surge protector and see what happens!...
How to Customize the Windows 8 Update Schedule From the Windows 8 Start Menu or search (Ctrl + W), type: automatic maintenance and click the link from the Settings results. The Action Center for Automatic Maintenance will open up. In this screen, the update schedule can be set to a different time. There’s also a checkbox you can uncheck, so your system doesn’t power on to update. Once set to the desired time, click OK to save changes and exit....
Disable the Windows 10 Welcome Experience To get started, open the Start menu and click on Settings. Or, if you are a keyboard kung fu warrior use the shortcut Windows Key + I. When the Settings app window opens up select System from the menu. When the System window opens up click Notifications & actions from the list on the left panel. Then on the right, scroll down and uncheck the “Show me the Windows welcome experience after updates and occasionally when I sign in to highlight what’s new and suggested” box....
But now, Google Mobile has upped the ante by offering mobile editing in Google Docs. Very, very groovy—that feature has been a long time coming, and I love it, even though it’s fairly rudimentary for the time being. Combine all of that with OffiSync—a free Microsoft Office Add-In that lets you open and save files directly to Google Docs—and you’ve got a real winning combination. Now, you can: Use Microsoft Word when you’re at home or work....
Facebook has officially announced that users will be able to send their friends Facebook Gifts from the iTunes Store. Your friend will be able to buy content like albums, movies, games, apps and whatever else they find. It’s something like a digital iTunes gift certificate, but on Facebook. Values announced are $10, $15, $25 or $50. A partnership with Apple is definitely making the service, that allows, among other things, charity donations, much more credible....
The feature is meant to work seamlessly as part of the Windows 10 sync feature. But in our experience, there are a few things that can go wrong. In this article, we’ll do a quick recap of how to sync Microsoft Edge favorites in Windows 10 and show you some tricks to make sure it works. Update: This article is about the original legacy Edge browser that originally was included with Windows 10 — Not Edge based on Chromium....
