Apple now supports Windows 10 in Boot Camp. If you have Windows 7 or 8.1 installed on a Mac, you can take advantage of the free upgrade offer and get Windows 10. Just ensure you’ve updated your Apple software first. If you’d like to perform a clean install of Windows 10, you can do that in the future after taking advantage of the free upgrade once. You’ll be able to install Windows 10 on that same Mac in the future....
If you’re getting too many text message notifications on your iPhone from a certain person (or group) in Apple’s Messages app, it’s easy to mute the entire thread. Here’s how to do it. First, open the Messages app on your iPhone. Locate the conversation you’d like to mute in the list of message threads, touch it, and swipe your finger to the left. Two options will appear on the right side of the screen....
iTunes isn’t an amazing program on Windows. There was a time when Apple device users had to plug their devices into their PCs or Macs and use iTunes for device activation, updates, and syncing, but iTunes is no longer necessary. Apple still allows you to use iTunes for these things, but you don’t have to. Your iOS device can function independently from iTunes, so you should never be forced to plug it into a PC or Mac....
To find a specific date in the calendar in Outlook, you can scroll through all the weeks and months. Or, you can save some time using the Go To Date feature and enter a date to which you want to jump. You can even jump to a date using a date-related phrase, such as “7 days from now” or “10 weeks from now.” Open Outlook and click Calendar at the bottom of the window....
Have you ever been working on an Excel spreadsheet when dotted lines suddenly appeared? While fine to some, those dotted lines may be distracting to others. We’ll show you when and why these dotted lines appear and how to remove them. There are a few instances where you may see dotted lines in Excel. If you set up your sheet to print or use the Page Break Preview, you’ll see dotted lines for page breaks when you return to the Normal view....
How to Reorder Watch Faces on Apple Watch There’s no limit to how many watch faces you can add to the Apple Watch. But once the initial excitement wears off, you’re left with three to four watch faces that you might want to use regularly. RELATED: How to Add a Watch Face on Apple Watch That’s what we have found in our experience. In fact, we’ve found a set of three watch faces to be the sweet spot: one complication heavy (Infograph), one simple or analog (Typography or Numerals), and one for fun (Memoji, Photos, or Mickey Mouse)....
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to try a new version of Ubuntu while knowing you can return to the previous version if you don’t like it? We’ll show you a tool that allows you to take a snapshot of your system at any time. TimeShift is a free tool that is similar to the System Restore feature in Windows. It allows you to initially take a snapshot of your system and then to take incremental snapshots at regular intervals....
Shortcuts are great for giving you quick access to files, apps, and folders. But did you know you can also use them to run Command Prompt commands? Windows gives you all kinds of ways to run command prompt commands. Sure, you could open a Command Prompt window and just type the command. You could also create yourself a batch script (or a bash script or PowerShell script if that’s your thing)....
If you’re a salesperson, a marketing specialist, or anyone else who collects a lot of business cards, you’d probably like a better way to store all those cards. Well, it’s time to go paperless and use your iPhone to turn those cards into contacts. There’s a app called CamCard Free in the App Store that allows you to scan your business cards directly into the contacts on your iPhone. It scans each card and stores the relevant information in a new contact....
Microsoft frequently updates Windows 10, but it’s not always clear when each update was installed. Luckily, there are two easy ways to see a list of the most recently installed updates. Here’s how to check. First, open “Windows Settings.” The quickest way to do this is by clicking the small gear icon in the “Start” menu or by pressing Windows+i on your keyboard. In “Settings,” click “Update & Security.”...
Valve’s self-branded Steam Controller might just be the most exciting thing to emerge in video game inputs in a decade…but that doesn’t mean it’s intuitive to set up. Just as the double-touchpad design takes some getting used to, its software needs some serious tweaking by the end user. Get Comfy with Big Picture Mode and Pair Your Controller Unfortunately, the Steam Controller can only be adjusted in Steam’s TV-friendly Big Picture Mode....
Do Not Disturb mode automatically silences all calls and notifications. But if someone calls repeatedly, they can be allowed through, so can your Favorites from the Phone app. You can control Do Not Disturb mode right from the Control Center on your iPhone. Apple added a new customizable Do Not Disturb feature in iOS 12. On your iPhone, swipe down from the top-right corner of the screen. If you have an older iPhone with a Home button, swipe up from the bottom of the display....
iCloud Optimized Storage is the newest addition to the iCloud lineup, saving space on your Mac’s hard drive by storing documents you don’t use too often in iCloud. If you’ve already got an iCloud plan for your iPhone, and are running out of storage on your Mac, you can use it to get rid of those “Disk Space Full” notifications. Optimized Storage Settings To get to the settings, head to Apple Menu > About This Mac > Storage > Manage....
Need to get some files into or out of a Docker container? The docker cp command lets you copy between host and container filesystems so you can add config details, create backups, and restore existing data. Basic Syntax docker cp accepts source and destination paths as its two arguments: Here example.txt is being copied from your working directory to /example.txt in the my-container container. You could reverse the two arguments to copy /example....
You might be asking yourself why we’d write an article about how to switch to Google as your default search engine on the iPhone or iPad when it’s already the default. The answer is simple: rumors are that Apple might switch the iOS default search engine to Yahoo or Bing at some point in the future. Luckily you’ll have already read this article and you’ll know how to switch the default search engine....
If you need to see a part of your Word document up close, or if you need to see more of the page than what you get at a standard size, you can zoom in or out. Here’s how. Zoom In and Out of a Word Doc Using the Zoom Bar The need to zoom in and out of a Word document is quite common. It’s so common that Microsoft put a zoom bar on the right side of the status bar at the bottom of the window for quick access....
Windows 8.1 RTM is nearly here and Microsoft is continuing to work hard adding polish and improvements to the operating system. The Verge has obtained a copy of the latest leaked build and taken it for a test spin, so if you are curious about the latest round of changes, then here is your opportunity to see what is new! Screenshot courtesy of the The Verge. Windows 8.1 is continuing to evolve and add the ‘polish’ many users have wanted since the initial 8....
Microsoft introduced ‘Money in Excel’ back in 2020, which allowed people to connect their financial data to Excel sheets. Now the functionality is being discontinued, alongside a few other Microsoft 365 features. Money in Excel was released in 2020, as a dynamic template and add-in for Excel that could connect to financial accounts (such as banks, credit cards, investments, and loans). Data could be synchronized with an Excel sheet in one click, which you could then turn into helpful charts, graphs, and tables....
Sometimes, you don’t need the full version of an app. Photoshop is a potent image editing tool, but the desktop version is more than you need for many purposes. To fix this, Adobe has announced a new Photoshop web app that provides a limited version of the full app’s tools. Adobe says that coworkers “can review and add comments right in the browser without having to download apps or have a Creative Cloud subscription....
Anyone who has needed to create a large number of folders in Windows knows this is a tedious task. Simplify your creation by typing a list of the folder names in a text document, and get a program to do all the manual work. The first thing you need to do is type a list of the folders you want to create in a plain text document. You should put every new folder on a new line....
