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Disable the Dropbox Camera Auto Upload Prompt Right-click the Dropbox icon from your System Tray and select Preferences. In the Preferences window, click on Change AutoPlay Settings. This will opens up Windows AutoPlay settings. Scroll down to the Pictures category and then change it to Take No Action from the drop-down menu. When that is done, it won’t pester you anymore with requests to sync your photos. If you want a compromise that doesn’t altogether disable the feature, set Pictures to “Ask me every time,” and then you’ll have the option to open the Dropbox Camera Uploader when you connect....

Note: This feature also works with all apps in the Microsoft 365 Office suite. Turning it off works the same way as previous versions. Disable Live Preview in Office Click File > Options and under the General button uncheck “Enable Live Preview” — here you can also disable the Mini Toolbar if you don’t like it either. In Office 2007: Click the Office button and go to Options. Then select Popular in the left column and uncheck Enable Live Preview....

According to Google, the Promotions tab is for: “Deals, Offers, and other marketing emails.” Disable the Troublesome Gmail Promotions Tab The problem I have with that description is “other.” I’ve noticed newsletters that I want to read daily end up in the Promotions tab. Newsletters that are not marketing at all, but let me know what articles I can read on a website. In my opinion, the Promotions tab seems like the “pseudo-spam” tab....

Download Movies and TV Shows Next, choose the download quality you want. A screen will pop up with your options and lets you know approximately how much space will be used. For example, Data Saver takes up the least amount of space, while “Best” takes up more. Once you figure out the quality of the video you like, you can set it as the default, so this screen isn’t popping up all the time....

Export a Google Doc to Microsoft Office Format If you already have a Google Doc, open it and head to File > Download as > Microsoft Word (.docx) from the toolbar. Next, browse to the location on your PC where you want to save the document, give it a name, and click the “Save” button. Now you can navigate to the location you saved the doc, and you’ll find it’s saved in the appropriate Microsoft Office file format....

How to Export Edge Passwords You can quickly export Edge passwords by following these steps: If you want a more detailed walkthrough, follow the steps below. Exporting Microsoft Edge Passwords To start off, launch the Edge browser, and click the Options menu (three dots) and choose Settings. Next, choose Profiles from the left pane menu. Under the “Your profile” section click on Passwords. Now, click the three dots next to “Saved passwords” and choose Export passwords from the menu....

Temporary Fix: Hold the Option Key Down When you click the green button on any window, press the Option Key at the same time. The window will maximize normally. You can’t make maximize the default. Apple should have given me the option to return my Mac to the settings the way I always had. I have options, though; pardon the pun. BetterTouchTool Restores the Original Green Button OS X Daily has a complete walkthrough on how to set this up, including a great video on setting up Better Touch Tool....

Now, to be fair, you can watch Disney Plus through any browser on your Windows 10 machine. But you might not want to launch a full browser session or a new tab. And instead, have a more app-like experience with it. Thanks to Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) and a Chromium-based browser like the new Microsoft Edge, you can do just that. Here’s how. Install Disney+ as an App (PWA) on Windows 10 The steps for creating a PWA on any Chromium-based browser are virtually the same, but here we’ll take a look at using the new Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome....

Install Google Chrome Extensions on Microsoft Edge The first thing you need to do is enable Google extension support. Launch the browser and go to Settings > Extensions. Turn on the Allow extensions from other stores button at the bottom of the left panel and click Allow for the verification dialog. Now you can head to the Chrome Web Store and install any extension you want. Just click the Add to Chrome button and then Add extension to verify....

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....

When you’ve taken great photos, you want to show them off. Merging photos to make a photo collage is a great way to do so. If you want to know how to merge pictures together on an iPhone, there are a couple of reasonably simple ways to do so. How to Create an iPhone Shortcut to Merge Pictures Together Although the iPhone doesn’t come with any pre-installed functions that allow you to merge pictures together, it has everything you need to create your own using the Shortcuts app....

You don’t want to go nuclear and unfriend them, but it might be healthy for both parties if you mute them. Muting someone on Facebook hides their posts from view, but you can still go through and view their profile (and you still remain friends). You can snooze a person’s posts for 30 days or unfollow them (without unfriending them) to mute their posts permanently. Both methods are reversible if you change your mind, and the person won’t know that you’re muting them....

No problem! Today I’m going to show you a trick for using an RSS feed to get new images for your Windows 7 Background, so you won’t need to worry about finding and download new photos ever again! Using RSS and a .theme file tweak, we can direct your Windows 7 backgrounds to download automatically from an online picture source. In the tutorial below, I’ll use the Bing wallpaper feed: http://feeds....

You can schedule a meeting for a later date and time or start a meeting immediately. Here, we’ll walk you through both options for getting your group together in Microsoft Teams. Schedule a Meeting in Microsoft Teams You can schedule a meeting from the Meetings section in Teams. Click either of the Schedule meeting buttons, choose a date and time, and click Schedule. You’ll receive a confirmation that your meeting has been scheduled with options to copy the invitation or share the meeting on Google Calendar....

Have you ever skipped back in a sentence to correct a typo but ended up replacing the words in front of you? This can cause problems during editing, especially if you’re writing a long email in Gmail. Want to fix it? Here’s how to stop text overwriting in Gmail. What is Text Overwriting? You’re writing an email. You move the blinking cursor back by a few words to fix a typo....

If an app is still in active development, expect changes like these on a regular basis. The only want to get them on your phone, however, is through an update. Your iPhone apps should automatically update, but only if background updates are working. If your iPhone apps stop updating, you’ll miss out on new features and security patches. To get around this problem, we’ll show you how to update apps on iPhone below....

For example, you can add a 3D animal to your book report in Word, a building to your company spreadsheet in Excel, a medical instrument to your health presentation in PowerPoint, or an emoticon to an email in Outlook. Along with adding an eye-catching 3D image, you can format it to see a particular angle, make it larger or smaller, or align it perfectly on your page or slide....

Chrome Remote Desktop for Android Start by installing the Chrome Remote Desktop app from the Google Play Store, here, on your Android device. Once installed, fire up Chrome on your computer and install the Chrome Remote Desktop app. Connecting Once everything’s installed, start the app on your computer. You’ll find it in your Chrome Apps launcher. More details about running Chrome Apps can be found in this article. Then, go through the few steps needed to authorize the app....

If you want to remove or set the number of decimal places for a number directly, you’ll need to use the TRUNC function. Here’s how to use the TRUNC function in Excel. How to Use the TRUNC Function in Excel The TRUNC function doesn’t round up a number but instead removes the decimal places, truncating it in the process (hence the function’s name). This creates a true integer number (a whole number, like 8 or 10), which may be useful in certain situations....

OneNote offers two useful features to help you and your team keep up. First, you can view edits made to a notebook by timeframe. Second, you can see which authors made changes and to what. Plus, you can combine these features for a more robust way to track your notebook edits. View Edit History in OneNote This feature is currently available in the OneNote desktop application but doesn’t include OneNote for Windows....