What if you no longer want to be a part of a family group, however? If this is the case, it’s easy to remove yourself from Family Sharing on iPhone in just a few taps. If you’re the family organizer for the group, you can even remove other people. Here’s how to leave Family Sharing on iPhone. What is Family Sharing? Family Sharing on your iPhone or iPad allows up to six people to share access to a range of Apple services....
Whether it’s to troubleshoot a pesky problem or just clear out leftover “cruft,” you’ll need to know how to restart or reset a HomePod mini. Here’s what you’ll need to do. When Things Aren’t Working Right, Reboots Can Help As much as we love our tech, even the best-made electronics are prone to errors, bugs, and crashes. Maybe your HomePod isn’t responding at all, whether you tap the screen or say “Hey, Siri....
Since its rebranding, Microsoft has continued to update and refine Outlook.com with features and functions, making it one of the best webmail services. One new feature I discovered is the ability to send your emails to Microsoft’s popular note-taking app, OneNote. Save Email to OneNote To set this up, sign in to Outlook.com, select an email message, right-click it and select Save to OneNote. A dialog will pop up on the screen to choose an existing section or create a new one....
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had 12-20 work-related tabs open, only to lose all of them from an accidental close or crash. Chrome itself is rather stable, and if you close it manually you can always reopen your tabs from the New Tab page under “Recently closed.” My problem usually occurs when I put my Laptop to sleep and it doesn’t wake up properly. When the computer boots back up, the tabs aren’t in the recent list....
When I first got an Android phone, I thought the only safe way to remove the SD card was by first turning off the device. But that isn’t the case, as you can usually unplug it without problems. But, to be on the safe side, it’s a best practice to unmount an SD card before you remove it safely. This safe unmounting will not only prevent you from losing data but also lets you disconnect the SD card without physically removing it should you ever need that....
Friends One component of the Find My app for iPhone and iPad is the ability to track the location of others. Here’s how to add new friends, keep track of them, and more. Adding Friends You are now sharing your location with the contact, and they can offer to do the same on their end. Finding Friends You can find different information about your friend through the Find My app. On the friend’s card, you can find their current location (plus directions) and contact information....
Editor’s note: In October 2016, Windows announced the Windows 10 Creators Update slated for public released in March/April 2017. We’ve been testing out the new features that are now available for Windows Insiders. Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter so you can get a sneak preview of all the upcoming features in the Creators Update. How to Make a Wired Network a Metered Connection As we’ve covered earlier, there are ways to tame Windows 10’s heavy data usage....
Create Google Docs the Easy Way Instead of going into Google Drive and clicking through the process to create a new document, just type: doc.new into the browser’s address bar and hit Enter. You will be taken directly into Google Drive and be staring at a fresh new document. If you’re not logged into your account, you will be prompted to log in first. However, once you are logged in, you can simply type in the ....
What is Hide My Email? When you use your email online to make purchases, it’s possible that your email address is being sold to marketers, who then sell it to other marketers, and so forth. To combat these folks and scammers alike, “Hide My Email” lets you use temporary Apple email addresses. Messages sent to these addresses are automatically sent to your primary email address. There are two ways to use “Hide My Email....
There’s a faster way to search the contents of files on your hard drive using the command line. The find command searches for text strings in files and returns the lines of text from the files in which the text string was found. NOTE: The find command is not suitable for large files or large numbers of files. Today we’ll cover how to use the find command and we’ll provide some examples....
Microsoft Word has a little-known feature called the Spike, but instead of storing pieces of paper, you can store blocks of text. Unlike the Windows clipboard, these blocks of text stay on the Spike until you want to paste them to another location in the current document or into another new or existing Word document. The Windows clipboard only stores one copied item at a time unless you use a third-party tool to expand the clipboard’s capabilities....
What Do You Need? To use a supported trackpad or mouse, you must own an iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 or later, iPad (5th generation) or later, or iPad mini 4 (or later). You must also have iPadOS 13.4 or later installed on your machine. The trackpad support works with the Apple Magic Mouse 2, Magic Trackpad, and many third-party mice that connect through Bluetooth. In May, Apple’s releasing a new Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro, which includes both a keyboard and a built-in trackpad....
Backup and Reset Your Apple Watch Before getting started, you might want to back up the data and settings on your Apple Watch. The good thing here is your watch is automatically backed up regularly during an iPhone backup session. This happens each time your iPhone is connected to iTunes or if you have automatic iCloud backup turned on. But if that isn’t good enough for you, you can force a watch backup....
You and your family can gather activities for a vacation. You and your office team can create a slideshow for your presentation. Or you and your pals can plan a party. With Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for the web, you can see each other’s edits in real time and use comments to communicate. Here’s how to collaborate in Microsoft Office online. Start by Sharing the Document To work together on any Office document, you’ll need to share it first....
With Ice Cream Sandwich slowly trickling out to Android devices, now is the opportunity to give your HP TouchPad some love from the big green robot. Follow these simple steps below, to enjoy a TouchPad with both WebOS and Ice Cream Sandwich (CM9). Editor Note: This is alpha software, meaning things are definitely broken. If that sounds scary to you, I recommend you hold off until there’s a more stable version....
A Working Definition of IoT Much like “the cloud,” the definition of IoT varies by context and application. Here is the way I like to define it: “Non-traditional networked devices that interact with the physical world in some way” I admit that is a broad definition and could include almost anything. The phrase “non-traditional” focuses on things that aren’t typically networked. Your laptop, your printer, and smartphone are traditional devices. An electrical outlet, a lamp, and a doorbell are not....
What Is It? This app is a choose-your-own-adventure book set to an interactive iOS app. The story starts with the main character, Taylor, stuck in the middle of a blizzard. He reaches out to you for advice, and you pick between two responses. Depending on how you answer his queries determines where the story goes. One cool aspect, pardon the pun, is the inclusion of the Apple Watch. The story can be continued on either the watch or with iOS....
MAC Filtering ASUS Router If it talks on your network, wireless networks included, it has a unique MAC address that never changes. On an ASUS router, you have two options for using MAC filtering. Accept mode is a whitelist. You specify which devices are allowed to connect. Everyone else is blocked.Reject mode is a blacklist. You specify which devices are not allowed to connect. Everyone else can use the network....
Examples of Individual Cumulative Update For example, you might have multiple PCs, which, even for a large organization such as a school, having each machine connected to the internet can bring your network to a halt. Sure, there is a new way of using one PC on your network to share updates with other machines, but this feature can reduce the performance of your PC, as I’ve observed. Cumulative Updates can also help bring a fresh installation of Windows 10 up to date too....
KB5004745 for Windows 11 Insiders The main change to note here are the Start menu has a search field at the top. Here is a look at the old Start menu without the Search field: And here is what the new Start menu looks like: Also, notable features include the taskbar now displays across multiple monitors, right-click once again to get the Refresh option and Snap Layouts supports three apps on top of each other in portrait mode....
