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How Does Apple Pay Work? Apple Pay allows customers to pay with a pre-saved credit or debit card using Touch ID or Face ID. The process is fairly seamless; in person, you’d have to wave your phone or watch over the terminal, but online, you just click the buy button, authenticate with your face, and you’re done. Apple Pay can be used on any device with Touch ID or Face ID, though it will only work in Safari, which means users of other browsers like Chrome will likely choose a different option when checking out....

Raise your hand if you ever had someone that just won’t stop bugging you and keeps sending you unwanted emails. Sure, you could change your phone number and move 3,000 miles away, but changing your email is out of the question! Today we’ll learn how to auto-delete their annoying emails from ever reaching your inbox. Rather than a “Block” button like many email clients have, Gmail has a powerful “Filter” feature which you can use for all sorts of purposes....

In the US, we use a period, or point, as a decimal separator (1.23). The same is true in the UK and Australia. However, other European countries use the comma as a decimal separator instead. Different delimiters are also used for separating thousands groups (1,000). Say you’re creating different price lists for different countries. To display the prices correctly for each country, it would be helpful to be able to specify the characters used for decimals in prices and for separating thousands groups so you can keep each number formatted as a currency number for use in formulas if needed....

You’ve probably been annoyed at one time or another when visiting a website that requires a specific browser. Luckily, you can fool a website into thinking you’re using a different browser and you can do this with most, including Safari. User agent “spoofing” is not a new thing. It was sometimes necessary when there was a so-called browser war. Website designers would often design pages to render and deliver different content depending on the user’s browser....

With the Switch, Nintendo has left behind a long legacy of region-locking its consoles. Now, if you buy a console in the US, you can buy cartridges from Japan, or browse other region’s eShops for new games or cheaper prices. Here’s how to change the region on your Switch. While the Switch isn’t region-locked, there are still some differences that might make temporarily changing regions more appealing. A game may be released in Japan before it’s released in the US, or you might find a game for a cheaper price in another region’s eShop....

If you use Windows, you are probably familiar with the Add/Remove Programs tool in the Windows control panel. It lists the programs currently installed on your system and provides an easy method for uninstalling them with only a few clicks. In Ubuntu, you can add and remove programs very easily using the Ubuntu Software Center. In fact, it’s easier to install commonly available software than in Windows. When you want a specific type of program in Windows, you need to search online for it and possibly buy it....

Mailing lists are an old tool in the email arsenal, but their implementation in Gmail isn’t immediately intuitive. Read on as we show you how to email groups using your Gmail account. Don’t be too hard on yourself, you can look all the live long day in the Settings menu and you won’t find anything. Gmail does in fact have a mailing list function but they certainly don’t advertise it and it isn’t even, for all purposes, part of the actual Gmail system....

A new hidden context menu, called the “Power User” or Win+X menu, has been added to Windows 8 and 10 that is available by moving your mouse to the extreme lower left corner of your screen and right-clicking. You can also access it by pressing Windows+X on your keyboard. But if the items in that menu aren’t enough for you, a tool called Win+X Menu Editor will let you add, remove, and rearrange items in it....

Earlier this week, Steam released Family Options, their version of parental controls, for the Steam game client. Read on as we show you how to lock down adult games, online content, and purchasing options to make your Steam client kid-friendly. Why Do I Want to Do This? By default, when you launch the Steam client you have full access to everything: the Steam store, the complete game library of the current user, the Steam Community (online discussions), the profile of the current user, and all the settings....

Unknown devices show up in the Windows Device Manager when Windows can’t identify a piece of hardware and provide a driver for it. An unknown device isn’t just unknown — it’s not functioning until you install the right driver. Windows can identify most devices and download drivers for them automatically. When this process fails — or if you disable automatic driver downloads — you’ll have to identify the device and hunt the driver down on your own....

Microsoft’s Office 365 is actually pretty great — for $10 a month you can install Office on up to five computers, share with your family, use the official tablet / phone versions of MS Office, and you get 1 Terabyte of OneDrive storage. But all of a sudden the 64-bit version of Office went missing. What gives? It turns out there are many compatibility issues with plugins and other applications that integrate with Office, because most of them are only available in 32-bit versions, and aren’t compatible with 64-bit....

Sometimes you may need to jump to a specific location relative to your current location in a Word document. You can easily do this using the “Go To” function to jump forward or back a specified number of pages. To access the “Go To” tab on the “Find and Replace” dialog box, click the down arrow on the “Find” button in the “Editing” section of the “Home” tab. NOTE: You can also press F5 to access the “Go To” tab on the “Find and Replace” dialog box....

Sure, anybody can end a process from the Task Manager, but did you know you can also do it from the command line? How to Kill a Process From the CLI in Windows If the command prompt is your flavor of tea, you will need to know to know the name of the process you are trying to kill beforehand. The easiest way to get these is on the Details tab of the Task Manager....

Slack is one of the most popular workplace communication tools on the current market—but even still, it’s not clutter-free. You can remove some distractions by leaving old workspaces you aren’t active in anymore. Here’s how. Go ahead and open the Slack application on your Windows PC or Mac and navigate to the workspace you’d like to leave. You can view your current workspaces in the pane on left. Select the workspace name at the top-left corner of the window....

One of the best features of OneDrive in Windows 8.1 is that even if you have a terabyte of files up there in the cloud, it isn’t going to automatically try to download them to every device that you use. The files only download on-demand… but what if you want to make them download all at once? You can right-click on any file or folder inside of your OneDrive and choose whether to make it available offline, or to make it online-only, which will remove your local copy but keep it up there in the cloud....

Are you one of those people that loves to see the screensaver come on when you get up from your computer? Here’s an easy way to make the screensaver show up as soon as you lock your PC. To lock your computer, if you’ve never tried it, just use the WIN + L shortcut key combination, and your computer will be locked – you’ll have to enter the password to get back in....

There are a lot of ways that smartphones and Windows PCs can work together. One of which is the ability to mirror your Android phone’s display to your computer, and in some cases, control it with a mouse and keyboard. Here’s how it works. In this guide, we’ll be covering two of the most popular wireless screen mirroring methods. The first is exclusive to Samsung phones and allows you to actually control the phone from your PC....

Deregister It From Your Account On the Kindle, go to Menu > Settings. Next, head to My Account > Deregister Device. Now it’s ready for someone else to set up. Reset the Kindle (Optional) This step is technically optional, but it’s a good idea to reset your Kindle to its factory settings before selling it or giving it away. The new owner will be able to start from a totally blank slate....

There are a few things you can do to make sure your Android phone stays as safe as possible should it stray from your hands—a good lock screen password is a solid start. What you may not realize is that there’s a way to take that security a step further by enabling SIM Lock. RELATED: How to Secure Your Android Phone with a PIN, Password, or Pattern Before we discuss how to enable SIM Lock, let’s first talk about what it isn’t....

We recently showed you how to configure your iOS devices for app and media sharing; more than a few people wrote in asking how to do the same thing with Google Play purchases. Read on as we dig into how to share purchases across your Android devices. Why Do I Want to Do This? The motivation for wanting to share purchases between your Android devices is simple: it’s inconvenient and costly to purchase multiple copies of everything for every person in your household....