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Why Should You Customize the Safari Toolbar? By default, the Safari toolbar shows all your enabled extension icons along with the URL bar and navigation buttons. If you have a lot of extensions, you might want to hide some from the toolbar. You might also want to disable the Sidebar button or the Share button if you’re going for a cleaner look. When you go to customize the Safari toolbar, you’ll find a new set of buttons that you can add to the toolbar....

By default, the folder list in Outlook 2016 for Mac is grouped into similar folders, which means that folders that are common to all your accounts, such as Inbox, Drafts, Sent Items, and Deleted Items, are grouped together. The Inbox folder at the top of the folder list combines messages received in the inboxes for all your accounts, and then each separate inbox is listed below that. This allows you to quickly and easily check all your email without having to scroll to access your other accounts....

There’s nothing more tedious as a system administrator than running security updates on a dozen servers every single day. Luckily Ubuntu will let you automate stable security updates so you’re never at risk. All you need to do is run this one single command on your server: If you get an error about the package not being installed, run this first: If you are logged in as root you can skip the sudo, of course....

Each Linux distribution comes with a single default desktop environment chosen from the many different desktop environments available for Linux. But you don’t have to stick with the default. Switching desktop environments is as simple as installing a software package and selecting your preferred environment on the login screen, known as a display manager. You don’t have to install an entirely different Linux distribution. Desktop Environment Basics RELATED: “Linux” Isn’t Just Linux: 8 Pieces of Software That Make Up Linux Systems...

Windows 10’s Creators Update added a new live game-streaming feature. You can broadcast your gameplay in real time to your friends without any additional software. This feature uses Microsoft’s Mixer service, originally named Beam, along with your Xbox gamertag. It can’t stream to Twitch, unfortunately, so you’ll still need third-party software to do that. First: Configure Game Broadcasting Settings RELATED: How to Stream a PC Game on Twitch with OBS...

When you’re working on a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel, locking your cells is crucial to protecting data, preventing mistakes, and more. Today, we’ll show you how to do it. Why Lock Cells in a Spreadsheet? If you collaborate with others on a workbook, you might want to protect a cell by locking—especially if you want to make any changes or adjustments later. Locked cells can’t be reformatted, altered, or deleted....

Parallels is easily the best virtualization software on the Mac, and earlier this year, they quietly added a new app called Parallels Desktop Lite to the Mac App Store—and unlike its cousin, it’s free to download. The catch: if you want to use Windows virtual machines, you’re going to have to pay for a $60 a year for a subscription. But the program itself is completely free otherwise, meaning if you want to create Linux, Chromium OS, or even macOS virtual machines, you don’t need to pay a dime....

You can perform basic mathematical operations in Excel, including multiplication. You can multiply numbers in a single cell, from several different cells, or even an entire column. There’s no MULTIPLY function in Excel, so we’ll use a simple formula. RELATED: Functions vs. Formulas in Microsoft Excel: What’s the Difference? Multiply Numbers in a Single Cell You can use a simple formula to multiply numbers in a single cell. Open Excel and then select the cell you’d like to input the equation....

If you’re a regular PC gamer, you know that playing a game in full screen mode can sometimes be a frustrating experience. Switching to a background program, using a second monitor, or suddenly getting a notification that takes focus can mess up your game. Playing the game in a window fixes these problems, but it’s less immersive and doesn’t use your monitor’s full space effectively. Borderless windowed mode is an elegant solution....

More than $5000. That’s how much one man’s child ran up on his credit card by playing “free” games on his iPad. Many games may be advertised as free, but they actually try to push expensive “in-app purchases.” Some children – particularly younger ones – may not realize that the “buy more stuff” option in a free game actually adds charges to the credit card you have saved on your tablet or smartphone....

When you need to highlight a portion of text, it’s not always convenient to use a text box. To emphasize a paragraph while keeping it within the main content, you can put a border around that text in Word instead. You can put a border around specific text, such as a single sentence, or an entire paragraph. Let’s look at how to do both as well as customize the border....

Well, you’ve really done it this time. You searched for something embarrassing—like “Linux”—on your Oculus, and now it’s in your search history. What are you going to do? Luckily, we’ve got the instructions for clearing your browser or search history on your Oculus Go. Finding Your Oculus Go Browser History Open up your browser using the main navigation tool, and then look over to the right-hand side. Click the “Settings” button (the gear icon) at the upper right-hand corner, and then click the “History” option....

If you’re looking to send an email in Gmail to a large number of undisclosed recipients, you may wish to hide their email addresses from others. It’s easy to do using the blind carbon copy (BCC) feature. Send Emails to Undisclosed Recipients in Gmail on the Web It’s possible to send emails without identifying all of the recipients by sending the email as a BCC to certain addresses. If you want to do this using Gmail in your web browser, open the Gmail website and select the “Compose” button to open a new message....

While researching for our article about what happens when you install crapware from a really lousy download site, we noticed that some of the crapware and spyware will actually try to install a proxy server to spy on you. So how do you know if your PC is using a proxy? It’s really quite easy, although there are a couple different places to check depending on what you are using....

If you’ve got a netbook with really great battery life, you’ll probably still have loads of time left even with only 10% of the battery remaining. Here’s how to tweak the settings so it alerts you or goes into sleep mode at a more reasonable time. Note: obviously if you don’t have a great battery in your laptop, you should probably be careful with these settings or you might lose data....

Starting in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, you can choose a custom text size for different apps on your iPhone and iPad to read content more easily. The “Text Size” option for the Control Center allows you to make the text size smaller or bigger for every app to fit text on the screen. Once you set a standard font size on your iPhone or iPad, it applies to Notes, Calendar details, Contacts, social media updates, and pretty much every other app....

Tasker for Android allows you to automate almost anything you can think of on your phone. It’s even popular on Android in spite of only having a paid version, which shows just how powerful it is. We’ve covered using Tasker in the past, but its interface has changed over the years. We’ll walk you through the process of getting started with this complex application. Contexts, Tasks, and Profiles To use Tasker, you’ll need to know its jargon....

Only one cash prize went unclaimed at Pwn2Own 2014. All major browsers were hacked, but hackers were unable to claim the $150,000 grand prize for hacking IE 11 secured with EMET. Secure your own PC with EMET today. Microsoft is targeting EMET more at system administrators, but any Windows user can use EMET to quickly enable some additional security features without any special knowledge. This tool can even help secure outdated Windows XP systems....

The Run box is a convenient way to run programs, open folders and documents, and even issue some Command Prompt commands. You can even use it to run programs and commands with administrative privileges. RELATED: How to Open Hidden System Folders with Windows’ Shell Command The Run box has been around since the early days of Windows. It’s become a less-used feature since Windows 7 enhanced the Start menu search to accommodate most of what you can do with the Run box, but the Run box can still be useful....

If you have a computer with a hefty amount of RAM, would you gain any benefits from disabling the page file or should you just leave well enough alone? Today’s SuperUser Q&A discusses the topic to help satisfy a reader’s curiosity. 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. Photo courtesy of Collin Anderson (Flickr)....