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Clear Outlook Autocomplete Caches Here’s an example: As convenient as the AutoComplete feature is, there are times when you need to remove these cached email addresses from the cache. For example, perhaps someone at work just lost his/her job, and the email address is no longer valid. Or maybe you made a typo while sending an email and now that address is stuck in your cache. The good news is getting rid of that address from your auto-c cache is simple no matter the version of Outlook (2003, 2007, or 2010....

Twitch viewers can save small sections of streams they’re watching as clips that last less than a minute long. Twitch viewers (and streamers) can share these clips, sharing the moment on social media and elsewhere. If you don’t know how to clip on Twitch already, get started by following our guide below. How to Clip on Twitch in a Web Browser You can create Twitch clips in your web browser....

Thankfully, presentation creators who use Google Slides have plenty of pre-built templates ready to use. If you can’t find the design you’re looking for, however, you may prefer to create a Google Slides template of your own. Here’s how. Creating and Customizing Google Slides Templates If you’ve ever created or customized a PowerPoint template, you’ll be familiar with the master slide. This is the template that your presentation uses to determine the default font, color scheme, background, and other formatting options used in your presentation....

Instagram Stories are sets of photos or videos from the last 24 hours that don’t appear in your followers’ feeds and don’t stay on your profile. The reason you might want to make an Instagram Story is to give your followers a peek into what’s happening immediately in your life without having to feel like your oversharing. Your profile will appear at the top of their feed, letting them know you have a story going, but you won’t overwhelm their feed with each and every photo you post....

Mail merge is a feature that allows you to create multiple copies of letters and emails to send to your contacts. Each letter or email can include both standard and custom personalized content. The information you use to customize each letter or email is taken from your data source like a contacts list. If you use Gmail as your main email client, there is no built-in mail merge feature. However, there is a mail merge add-on available for Google Sheets that links with your Gmail account....

The Facebook Interests/Info To Page Conversion “Improvement” The last time I logged in to Facebook and visited my info tab I noticed that Facebook was prompting me to link my profile to a list of Facebook Pages. Every single Interest, Book, Movie, Music, and even my professional and hometown information list as possible Pages. According to Facebook: Pages are Public, and so that means if I went ahead and linked my account to all these Pages matching my info, that it would be available for ANYONE to see....

Delete Old File History Versions in Windows 10 Hit the Windows key and type: control panel and hit Enter or select the result at the top to open the classic Control Panel. From Control Panel, scroll down and click on File History. Next, click the Advanced Settings link from the list on the left. Under the Versions section in Advanced Settings, click the “Clean up versions” link. Also, note that here you can manage how often copies of files are created and the length of time versions are saved....

There are a lot of reasons why you’d want to turn off Google Now; here’s how to do it. Turning Google Now Off The feature is very easy to enable, so it should be just as easy to turn off. That is indeed the case — if you know where to look. First, start the Google app on your Android device. It’s in the main apps menu. Then, scroll all the way down and tap the three-dots menu button....

Disable or Enable the Camera on Windows 10 There are a couple of ways you can do it. You can use Device Manager to disable the camera. Or, starting with build 21354 and higher, you can use the new Camera Settings page. We’ll take a look using both options. Use the Windows Settings App If you’re running Windows 10 build 21354 or above, start by launching the Settings app. Open the Start menu and click Settings or use the keyboard shortcut Windows Key + I....

One thing that’s not obvious with it though is how to display two modern IE 11 screens side-by-side. Here’s how it’s done. Display Two Instances of Modern IE on Same Screen When you open a modern app by default it opens full screen. Once it’s up and running, launch swipe it down and to the left or right side of the screen to snap it in pace. Or if you’re on a traditional computer just use the mouse for the same motions....

Download Your Data from Apple First, head to privacy.apple.com and log in with your Apple ID and password. Then enter your two-factor authentication code if you have that enabled. You do have 2FA enabled with Apple and all other sites, right? If not, read our two-factor authentication guide for securing your online life. On the next page, click Get started under the Get a Copy of Your Data section at the top of the list....

PDFs make it easy to share a final copy of a document, but what happens if you want to make changes to a PDF? You may want to add annotations or drawings to the file, for instance. The good news is that it’s possible to draw on a PDF and there are a few ways you can do it. If you’re ready to start scribbling over your documents and learn how to draw on a PDF, follow the steps below....

Note: For this article, we’re using the Apple Mail app. Other email clients work differently, but the idea is essentially the same. Add Multiple Photos to Send in an Email on iOS To get started, you might think you should launch the Mail app, compose your message, and then attach your photos. The key to emailing multiple photos with iOS is to reverse your thinking. Instead of starting with composing a new email, start by opening the Photos app....

Here, we’ll briefly explain kerning with a couple of examples. Then we’ll show you how to enable and adjust the kerning in Word on Windows and Mac. What is Kerning? Kerning refers to the “spacing between characters in a proportional font.” So when using kerning with letters, punctuation, and symbols fit together nicely, you’ll see less space between them. As an example, the upper case letters A and V can benefit from less space between them because of how well they align: AV....

You don’t want to shut down your iPhone, either. Thankfully, the iPhone comes with a built-in switch that allows you to quickly enable or disable silent mode on your iPhone. You can also manage this setting from your phone by changing a few settings. If you’re in silent mode, you won’t hear any ringing, alarms, vibrations, or other types of alerts from your iPhone. If you want to know how to use it, here’s what you’ll need to do to enable or disable silent mode on an iPhone....

While Google Maps does have offline maps, you may prefer to use an alternative mapping app to get moving. If you want to take your Google Maps route data and import it into another app or service, you can. Exporting Google Maps route data requires a third-party tool, but it can be done—here’s how. Creating a Route Map in Google Maps Before you can export route data in Google Maps, you’ll need an actual route to export....

In most circumstances, the majority of users don’t need to worry about their “IP Address” due to DHCP from your local network or ISP. For system administrators, knowing the IP address of your machine, server, or customer’s PC is imperative. How To Find Your Local IP Address In Windows 7 Using CMD Step 1 Click Start, in the search Type in cmd. Next, Click on the program cmd. This click will open the Command Prompt/Windows....

macOS uses the HFS+ file system, while Windows uses the NTFS file system that shares little in common. This makes it difficult to move data between the two unless you have them networked together. If you’re working in a mixed environment, where you might need to work on files between both systems, a handy solution is to use a thumb drive. Before you start, though, make sure your thumb drive is formatted so it can work on both Windows and macOS....

The first thing I noticed after lucubrating through the terms and conditions was the tethering. If you’re a farmer like me and you don’t live in an area with high-speed internet access, the tethering becomes a make-it-or-break-it deal. With the new T-Mobile One, there is unlimited tethering at only 2G limacine speeds (512kbps), which stultifies any meaningful use. Getting decent speeds requires an additional $15 add-on for 4G tethering and has a data cap set at 5GB per month....

If you’re like me, you rarely open a link without it being in a new tab. With that pattern of browsing behavior it is easy to have 20-30 tabs open at once, and the measly 10 tabs in your history won’t be enough to fully recover should an accident happen. Let’s change that and add more tabs to this list! Step 1 In Firefox, Type about:config into the address bar and then Click the “I’ll be careful, I promise!...