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This feature is welcome and perhaps overdue for Facebook’s mainline messaging app. WhatsApp and Instagram (both owned by Facebook), for example, already have encryption and multi-factor authentication. It’s about time that Facebook implemented this feature directly into Messenger, which more and more users are turning to for daily communications instead of text or email. Secret Conversations add one more compelling reason to use Messenger instead of SMS or other unencrypted methods....

Today, we’ll show you how to add an email account in iOS 11, making it available in the default Mail app. This procedure works on both iPhones and iPad. NOTE: If you use a different email app, like Outlook, Airmail, or Spark, you must add your email accounts inside those apps. Access Email Accounts in Settings To add your email account to your iPhone, tap Settings on your Home screen....

Log in to your Outlook.com account, click on Settings (wheel icon), type language in the search box and click Language and region. Click the down arrow and select your language. In my example, I chose Deutsch (German) and clicked Save. You will need to refresh your browser for the changes to take effect. As you can see in my example, everything has been flipped into my chosen language. It’s quite simple now with the new search feature in settings....

For example, you can use Google Sheets to track stocks, create custom number formats, etc. If you’re trying to improve your productivity, you might even want to checklist in Google Sheets. Creating checklists in Google Sheets used to be difficult, but the process has improved. If you want to create a checklist in Google Sheets, here’s what you’ll need to know. How to Create a Checklist in Google Sheets To create a checklist in Google Sheets:...

Too many channels mean more to scroll through. More scrolling means it’ll take you even longer to start watching your favorite TV show or movie. There’s a simple fix, however. You can customize the Roku interface and quickly delete channels on Roku that you don’t watch. You can always restore them later. Cleaning up your channels list is a simple process but it can take a few minutes. If you want to know how to delete channels on Roku, follow this guide....

Word has a number of features that make it perfect for collaborative work, including the ability to recommend suggestions and add comments. If you don’t want to see these comments, however, you can delete them from your document. Here’s what you’ll need to do to delete comments in Word. How to Remove Comments in Word Comments are notes you can add to a document in Word. These could be an editor’s note, reminding you to make a change....

We previously showed you how to get rid of the annoying Windows 10 upgrade notification. However, Microsoft has been getting more aggressive in pushing the new version of Windows and at times upgrading PCs without permission. In a perfect world, Microsoft would have every computer running Windows 10, but the reality is, that isn’t going to happen. Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 with Update 1 are still supported, and many users are comfortable with their current version....

YouTube Autoplay When the video you’re watching ends, you’ll see the following “Up Next” message. Here you can click play to watch the following video or cancel – but you only have a few seconds to do it. This can be a very annoying feature since YouTube doesn’t always have the best suggestions I want to play. Often there will be something of interest in the recommendations, but I would instead select these on my own, and they’re usually not the next in line anyway....

In this guide, we’re going to cover all of the different ways you can donate to your favorite Twitch streamer as well as some free ways to support their success. What Are Twitch Donations? Twitch donations are any means you use to financially support a creator. There are ways to provide cash to your favorite Twitch streamer without spending money, but most Twitch donations will cost money. The reason these donations are called “donations” is that they aren’t required....

Of course, you want to get your map ahead of time before you travel. Once you download the map(s), you can use the maps as if they were online (sans a few features). If you want to know how to download offline maps on Windows 11, follow the steps below. How to Download Maps on Windows 11 Before heading out on your trip, use the following steps to download maps on Windows 11....

One of the new visual features users have been asking for is a dark theme which is already available in some apps like Microsoft Edge and Mail and Calendar. But this will give that dark theme throughout all of the OS. Also, if you’re running Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), there are new color themes, including black, in Office 2016 which you can check out here. Windows 10 Dark Mode To turn on the Dark theme, go to Settings > Personalization > Colors....

Encrypt External USB Flash Drive Windows 10 Plugin your flash drive (you can do this with an SD card, too) and wait while Windows recognizes it. If AutoPlay comes up, select “Open folder to view files.“ From the Ribbon, select the drive you want to encrypt. Then from the Ribbon, click the Manage tab then BitLocker > Turn on BitLocker. Alternately, you can open This PC, right-click the drive, and select Turn on BitLocker....

It’s come a long way since then. New features are added to each release, making it hard for documents to remain compatible with older versions. Thankfully, Microsoft has a workaround—compatibility mode. Unfortunately, compatibility mode can cause problems, especially if you’re trying to edit older documents in a newer version of Word. If you’re unsure how, here’s how to get out of compatibility mode in Word. What is Compatibility Mode in Microsoft Word?...

What is an ESN? An ESN is a serial number attached to every phone on a CDMA network like Sprint or Verizon. Instead of using a SIM card like GSM networks do (At&t or T-Mobile,) a CDMA ESN is a unique identifier that allows the phone to be validated and connect to the cell tower. (To thwart confusion: if you have a SIM card, then you probably don’t have an ESN attached to your phone....

With different styles and customization options, you can create a useful pie chart in Excel and an attractive one simultaneously. How to Create a Pie Chart in Excel While some of the features for customizing a pie chart differ slightly, the process for creating one is the same in Excel on Windows, Mac, and the web. You’ll see that pie chart pop right into your spreadsheet, ready for you to customize!...

You could spend money on a commercial app like Mirroring360 from Splashtop or Reflector from the developers of AirParrot to do the job. Or, if you don’t find yourself in this scenario often, it can be done with the free and straightforward LonelyScreen utility. We already showed you how to mirror your Android device to Windows 10 using the Connect app. However, the Connect app in Windows 10 doesn’t support iOS, so you will have to look at another option....

Pause Windows 11 Updates To begin, click the Start button and then click Settings from the menu. Alternately, you can use the keyboard shortcut Windows key + I to open Settings directly. When the Settings app opens, click on Windows Update at the bottom of the list on the left. On the following “Windows Update” page, click the “Pause” dropdown and there you can choose to pause updates for up to five weeks....

That said, mistakes happen—you might delete the document by accident. Alternatively, you might change your mind and decide to keep it. Oops! If that’s the case, you’ll need to know how to recover deleted Google Docs files. We’ll explain how to do this below. How to Restore a Deleted Google Docs File Like a PC and a Mac, Google Docs (and Google Drive generally) uses a trash bin system for deleted files....

However, there are times when the graphics card doesn’t work the way it should. For example, you might get an Error 43, a BSOD error, or Windows may just freeze up because your GPU is struggling under load. If this happens, you may need to know how to reset a graphics card on Windows 11 or 10. How to Reset a Graphics Card on Windows If Windows is starting to freeze, a good troubleshooting step you may want to try first is a restart....

Saving Microsoft Word Documents Correctly To utilize the restore feature in Microsoft Word, you must save your document on Microsoft OneDrive. As a Microsoft 365 subscriber, you’ll have plenty of room as each account comes with 1TB of online storage. Microsoft Word automatically saves your document as changes get made. The key to using the restore tool is making sure you’re saving a Microsoft Word document properly. At the heart of this is the AutoSave feature, which saves your documents in real-time to Microsoft OneDrive....