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Panoramic Photos iPhone Open your iPhone’s camera and enable panoramic mode. Do this by swiping the photo options on the bottom of the screen near the shutter button. Now you are in panoramic mode. This is normally set to pan left to right. Simply tap the arrow. Now you can pan right to left. That’s all there is to it! This allows you to take creative and interesting panoramic pictures on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch that’s running iOS 7....

None Calligraphy Circles and Shapes Circuit Clouds Changing the background is easy. In any Office 2013 app, click the File Menu to access all of your options. On the File ribbon click the Account menu and there will be a drop-menu to select which background you’d like to use. Changes take effect the moment you make a selection. Note: The only exception to this is Outlook, which will instead have its menu labeled “Office Account” as shown here and below....

Whether it’s a Linux desktop or a server, it’s crucial that you periodically check how much free space your hard drive or drives have left. Linux has a few tools for this job, so let’s look at how to check disk space on a Linux device. Checking Disk Space on Linux Using Terminal Commands Overseeing disk space usage in most operating systems is simple, with just one tool to rule them all....

The good news is that it’s easy to look for and fix any spelling errors in Google Sheets using the built-in Spell Check tool. If you want to check spelling in Google Sheets, follow these steps. How to Check Spelling in Google Sheets Checking your spelling in Google Sheets is fairly simple. All you need to do is select the cells you want to check and then launch the Spell Check tool....

Disable Cortana on Windows 10 It’s worth noting that you don’t need to go through the more complex steps of completely removing it. You can disable Cortana – but it will still be there and possibly running in the background. It can also collect select search and other usage data. Let’s take a look at that first since it’s a less invasive approach. Open Start > Settings > Privacy. Then from the left side, click on Microphone and turn off Cortana’s access to it....

Note: This process uses Local Group Policy Editor which is not available in Home editions of Windows 7. Also, you’ll need Administrator rights to set it up. As a network administrator you can create a “white list’ of only specific programs users are able to run. First, click Start and type: gpedit.msc into the Search box and hit Enter. To access Local Group Policy Editor in Windows 8, at the main Metro screen just begin to type: gpedit....

For many years, this was a huge problem associated with the popular personal information manager. Outlook email messages became an easy vector for infecting your Windows PC. The only remedy for this was to convert your messages to plain text. Thankfully, recent revisions of Outlook added an option to disable this feature. Here’s a look at how to do it in the two most recent versions Outlook 2013 and 2016....

A few things to know before you use an online PDF converter; PDF to Word specifically. There is a 2mb file size limit, you cannot convert larger PDF files.If you use this application it will have access to a small portion of your Facebook personal data.You probably shouldn’t use this service to convert confidential or sensitive PDFs, although the developer states that their cache of your files is cleared every 24 hours – there is no way to be certain of that....

If you’re working with a netbook or a tablet computer, you likely won’t have an included DVD-ROM drive. Normally this is fantastic! It makes your overall device lighter, and less expensive. But, if you need to install or reformat Windows, then you run into some problems rather quickly. No DVD drive means you can’t just burn a copy of Windows and throw it in there. Fortunately, most netbooks have an SD Card slot, and all of them support USB Pen Drives....

If you share your computer with other people, Mozilla Firefox has a groovy feature that allows you to create multiple profiles. Here’s a simple guide that explains how it works. You can locate the profiles at the following paths. Go to Start Menu and type Run. Type firefox.exe -p to open Mozilla Firefox Profile Manager. Make sure Firefox is not running otherwise it will not open the Profile Manager....

Customize the Microsoft Edge New Tab Page When you first set up the new Edge, it asks you to choose a layout for the new tab page. You can choose between Focused, which is the default, and minimal layout. Inspirational, which is virtually identical to Focuses but includes the Bing image of the day. And Informational, which expands the Microsoft News section. If you just went with the default or want to change it, you can....

In addition, Windows provides the ability to customize the Start menu and change other UI elements throughout the OS. Another aspect of the OS you can customize is system icons. If you want to customize Windows 11 system icons for a fresh UI look or easier system management, here’s how to do it. Finding New Windows 11 System Icons You can change system icons to ones already included in Windows 11 or icons you find online....

Snagit has a lot of new features, and one of them is a screencast.com accessory for storing and quickly displaying your images and screenshots taken using SnagIt! Screencast.com is a website created by Techsmith for sharing your photos and storing them online, but mostly for the sharing part. Coming from the same company that introduced SnagIt, it works with the program near flawlessly. One of my first concerns with online photo storage is the terms of service and privacy policy....

As you can imagine, editing the HOSTS file can easily break your internet if it’s modified incorrectly or maliciously. So, it’s not particularly easy for a normal user to edit. This is a good thing. But if you want to change your HOSTS file purposefully, here’s how. Edit Your Windows 10 Host File as an Administrator The HOSTS file is normally stored in a plain text file in the Windows System folder and can be modified for various use cases....

The Active Hours feature in Windows 10 was first introduced with Anniversary Update, and it allows you to control when your system restarts after receiving Windows Updates. It’s an important feature as no one wants their PC restarting while in the middle of working on a document or playing a game. It lets the user tell Windows not to restart the PC during hours when they are active on the machine....

Like with your Android phone or personal computer, you don’t need people sniffing around through your private data. The good news is we can fix the issue by using guest mode so they can use your Chromebook or Chrome browser on your computer but not see your personal data. Here’s how to enable guest mode on Chromebook and the Chrome browser. Guest Mode vs Incognito Mode on a Chromebook It’s important to note that there is a difference between incognito mode and guest mode on a Chromebook....

The Collections feature available in the beta versions of Edge but has yet to appear in the stable build. The cool thing, though, is you can enable it in the stable build. Here’s how to enable and use the Collections feature. Update: Collections is Now a Feature of the Stable Version of Microsoft Edge You shouldn’t have to go through the steps below to set up the Collections feature anymore....

Microsoft includes built-in encryption with its Encrypting File System (EFS), which is a service that you can use to encrypt drives, files, and folders. The encryption is tied to the user’s account and inaccessible to other PC users. EFS isn’t as secure as other encryption methods like BitLocker since the key is saved locally. Still, it’s painless and allows you to encrypt files and folders on Windows 11. Encrypt Files and Folders on Windows 11 Like Windows BitLocker, EFS encryption can be used to encrypt the most critical files on your PC....

Of course, having your entire device encrypted makes it much harder for a would-be thief to access your data if its lost or stolen. But what if you upgraded an older device to Lollipop, like we showed you how to do on a Nexus 7 (2012)? No worries, you can easily enable encryption on it, here’s how. Encrypt Your Upgraded Android 5.0 Device If you want to use the encryption feature in Android 5....

The first method is automatic but inflexible. The others require that you scroll through and make changes manually. But there’s also a compromise: you can use Find and Replace. No, It’s Not Just for Finding Words You may know to use Find and Replace when needing to change multiple instances of any text, but the tool’s superpower translates to formatting, too. Change the look of all text that has been formatted a certain way, or change the text itself....