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Supervised Mode is intended for organizations, but you can enable it on your own iPhone or iPad. Supervised Mode gets you a few extra features like hiding included apps, and always-on VPNs. You’ll need a Mac to do this, and your device will be wiped during the setup process. Supervised Mode could be used to seriously lock down a child’s device like an organization would lock down an employee’s device, too....

When you need support for your Mac—or you’d like to install some kind of upgrade—you usually need to know the exact model and year of the Mac you’re using. Here’s how to quickly find out. First, click the “Apple” menu in the corner of the screen and select “About This Mac.” A window will pop-up showing a summary of your Mac’s specifications. Look for the first line below the macOS version name and number....

Facebook Marketplace has become the go-to place for selling things online. If you’re on the lookout for a specific item, an alert can help you snag a great deal before everyone else. We’ll show you how to do it. Setting up an alert will allow you to be notified when new items matching your search parameters are posted. You can skip the search process and always know when new items are posted....

Practically all smartphones can tether, sharing their data connection with your other devices. You can do this over Wi-Fi, a USB cable, or Bluetooth — if your carrier lets you. You might have to pay extra. You should be able to tether with your phone if it’s a smartphone with a mobile data connection. This includes iPhones, Android phones, Windows phone, BlackBerries, Firefox phones, and almost anything else. Do Your Carrier and Cellular Plan Allow It?...

Bluetooth is gradually becoming omnipresent in technology and with good reason, it’s awesome. If you have Android devices then you can easily transfer files between them and a Mac with OS X’s Bluetooth File Exchange or BFE. Exchanging files via Bluetooth might seem a little unnecessary at first, after all why not just use a USB cable or an AirDrop alternative such as FileDrop for non-Apple devices? Those are great options to have in a filing sharing repertoire, but sometimes you can’t find a cable, or you may not simply be able to do ad-hoc, AirDrop-like file sharing....

There’s more to pasting data into spreadsheets than simply inserting values copied from elsewhere. Google Sheets offers several Paste Special options. With these, you can paste formulas, conditional formatting, and more, in addition to values. Access Paste Special in Google Sheets As a refresher, you can copy data in Google Sheets in a few easy ways. Once you do, you’ll then access Paste Special. To copy data: Right-click the cell(s) and select “Copy” in the shortcut menu....

The Signature Editor in Outlook 2013 allows you to create a custom signature from text, graphics, or business cards. We will show you how to use the various features of the Signature Editor to customize your signatures. To open the Signature Editor, click the File tab and select Options on the left side of the Account Information screen. Then, click Mail on the left side of the Options dialog box and click the Signatures button....

Word contains a little known feature, called the Spike, that allows you to gather blocks of text and/or images from different locations in a Word document and then paste all of that content to another location in that document or into another Word file or other program. The Spike in Word is named after the old-fashioned paper holder onto which people poked papers as they were done with them. You may still see the original version of the Spike in use in some businesses....

Fubo TV The Coke Zero Sugar 400 will be broadcast on NBC at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, and subscribers to Fubo TV ($64.99+ per month after a seven-day free trial) can stream it via the service’s NBC live feed. Check out the first race at the Daytona International Speedway with a full-capacity crowd since 2019. Hulu + Live TV Subscribers to Hulu + Live TV ($64.99+ per month after a seven-day free trial) can tune in to the live NBC channel to catch all the racing action....

If all incoming connections to your computer are being blocked, then how can you still receive data and/or have an active connection? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a confused reader’s question. Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites. Screenshot courtesy of Linux Screenshots (Flickr). The Question SuperUser reader Kunal Chopra wants to know how his computer can still receive data if all incoming connections have been blocked:...

Discord is an incredibly popular place for gamers to come together to chat and play. Because it’s so popular, malicious individuals are targeting scams, including one that could lead to you having a rather nasty virus on your computer. Perhaps the most popular (and dangerous) Discord scam involves a shady individual messaging you asking to try a beta of their game. However, there is no game, and the software you install is actually a virus that could take control of your account....

If you’ve bought a PC with Windows 8 or 10 installed, you may be surprised to find that there is not quite as much storage space available as you would expect based on the size of your hard drive. This could be for a couple of reasons, including a Windows recovery image occupying several gigabytes. It is also possible that your system supplier included their own recovery partition. We have already looked at how it is possible to create a recovery drive but it is also possible to take full control of your hard drive by claiming back the non-Windows partitions....

Apple revealed on Tuesday that it’s discontinuing the last remaining iPod product, the 7th-generation iPod Touch. The company didn’t give a specific reason for killing the iPod Touch, but it’s safe to say low demand is the main reason. The music player has become a niche product in recent years, as most people prefer to listen to music through general-purpose smartphones and tablets, and there are many full-featured smartphones around the same price as the $199 iPod Touch....

If you use Gmail or Google Chat, you probably find yourself using the search function constantly to look through your old emails or chat logs. It’s about to improve, though, thanks to new additions just announced by Google. The new changes, which are available on both desktop and mobile, include two new functions in Gmail. The first will let you search for emails within a specific Gmail label, so you can filter your results and find what you’re looking for more easily....

We all know we should create secure passwords. But, for all the time we spend worrying about our passwords, there’s a backdoor we never think about. Security questions are often easy to guess and can often bypass passwords. Thankfully, many services are realizing security questions are very insecure and axing them. Google and Microsoft no longer offer security questions for their accounts — instead, you can recover an account using an associated phone number....

RELATED: The 10 Best Comedy Movies on HBO Max in 2022 The Bourne Identity Play Video Director Doug Liman and star Matt Damon launched a lucrative franchise with The Bourne Identity, based on the novels by Robert Ludlum. Damon plays Jason Bourne, a covert agent attempting to piece together his identity after he’s been shot and left for dead. As he recovers his memories, Bourne is pursued by the secret government agency he used to work for....

Today’s Nintendo Direct livestream confirmed that the next mainline Zelda game will be called The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. That title might be why Nintendo’s branch in the United Kingdom avoided streaming the presentation live, as the UK is still in a designated mourning period for the death of Queen Elizabeth II — an unfortunate coincidence, if there ever was one. Tears of the Kingdom is set above the skies of Hyrule, and in the trailer, Link can be seen surrounded by floating islands and holding onto rocks as they are pulled off the ground....

Virtual machines generally run guest operating systems and their programs in a single window. However, both VirtualBox and VMware have features that allow you to free virtualized programs from their prison, running them on your host desktop. This means that you can use programs without the virtual machine window and guest operating system’s desktop getting in the way. If you use multiple monitors, you can even place different windows from a virtual machine on different monitors....

Keyboard shortcuts aren’t just for web browsers themselves. Most of those web apps you use — everything from Facebook and Twitter to Gmail and Outlook.com — offer keyboard shortcuts you can use to speed things up. A handful of keyboard shortcuts work almost everywhere. To use them, just go to the website and press the appropriate key. They won’t work while you’re typing into a text box, though. Keyboard Shortcuts For Any Web App RELATED: 47 Keyboard Shortcuts That Work in All Web Browsers...

When you swipe an app off your Android currently-running-apps list, what exactly happens to the application and data? Read on as we investigate. Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of Android Enthusiast—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites. The Question Android Enthusiast reader Eldarerathis is curious about the app-swipe functionality that allows you to pull up your list of running apps via the home button and then swipe them to the right, presumably to close them:...