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As a parent, you have plenty to worry about; what your kids are doing on their computers shouldn’t be one of them. Today, well show you how to lock down your curiosity-prone kids and really take control of your home network with Microsoft Family Safety. Family Safety imbues your Windows account with a veritable cornucopia of monitoring and filtering tools that allow you to put up a virtual wall that you can exploit to monitor and filter app, game, and web activity....

Apple’s FaceTime will support up to 32 people on a group call, up from just two people. FaceTime will support animoji and filters, too. The update, coming with iOS 12 later this year, also lets you go from a group chat in iMessage directly to a group FaceTime call. Members of the group chat can drop in and drop out of the call at will. The FaceTime call screen has been redesigned to accommodate all these people....

GitHub is the go-to source for online Git repository hosting, but it also hosts a bunch of tools for project organization and automation, including built in Kanban boards with automation. Why Not Just Use Jira? Jira is the industry-standard project management software from Atlassian. It features Kanban boards, but also issue tracking, scrum-focused time management tools for agile teams, and tools for long term feature planning. It’s great, and also has integration with GitHub, so if you want the best issue tracking tool, you should use it instead....

In this day and age, it is not a bad idea to be leery of untrusted executable files, but is there a safe way to run one on your Linux system if you really need to do so? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has some helpful advice in response to a worried reader’s query. 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....

If there are lights in your house that can be controlled from two different light switches (as opposed to just one), then the light is commonly referred to as a three-way light, and the switches are referred to as three-way light switches. Here’s how they work. RELATED: How to Replace a Light Switch with a Dimmer Switch If you know anything about circuitry, then you at least probably know that an on/off switch is perhaps the simplest piece of circuitry there is....

There may be times when you want to add a note to an email message you received. Maybe you need to remember something about the sender or the contents of the email. There are several ways to add a note to an email message. NOTE: You can also create a new task containing an email message you received. This is useful if you need to do something related to the email....

You may very well be the king of backing up your data regularly, but archiving your data is a completely different ball game. Here’s how you can archive your digital files and keep them around for generations to come. RELATED: What’s the Best Way to Back Up My Computer? You probably have loads of photos and videos taken of precious memories stored on your computer or in the cloud somewhere....

Clearing the cache on your iPhone or iPad is really easy, but that will log you out of every single website that you were previously logged into, and wipe any other cookie-based preferences. So what if you want to just wipe cookies or cache for a single site? Luckily that’s also pretty easy… though not quite as simple since you’ll have to dig through a list of all the sites you’ve ever visited or that have put cookies on your device....

Outlook is fairly synonymous with email. Therefore, beyond all its other features, you want to make sure you know how to use it with e-mail as effectively as possible. We’ve been covering using aspects of Outlook for some time and grizzled Office vets will already know all this stuff, but new users, like those who need to know how to use Outlook in an office setting, might have to know how to use Outlook on a daily basis....

The built-in backup utilities in Windows are pretty solid. Let’s take a look at how to create a full backup image of your PC without the need for a third party utility. Open the System Backup Image Tool. In Windows 10, head to Control Panel > Backup and Restore (Windows 7) > Create a System Image. Choose where you want to save the backup image. Select the drives to back up....

The Ubuntu desktop has changed a lot over time. If you’re a new user, you may only know the Unity desktop environment. However, if you’re a long-time user, you may prefer the original Gnome desktop environment that was previously part of Ubuntu. We previously showed you how to switch to the Gnome desktop environment completely. However, if all you want is the classic Gnome menu, you can easily add this to the Unity desktop environment using ClassicMenu Indicator....

Google’s working on a new launcher for Android, one that seamlessly integrates Google Now. The Google Experience Launcher is officially exclusive to the Nexus 5, but you can easily use it on any other Android smartphone or tablet. Surprisingly, the new launcher isn’t even officially available for Google’s own Nexus 4, Nexus 7, and Nexus 10 devices yet. Read on for a look at what makes the new Google Experience Launcher special....

Continuity is a new set of features that allow Apple device owners (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Mac) to instantly and effortlessly transfer work, texts, and calls, as well as set up Personal Hotspots, between devices. Here’s what all that means and how to use it. Continuity is actually the name of the technology that encompasses all its features, which include Handoff, Phone Call Forwarding, Text Forwarding, and Personal Hotspot. These features allow anyone using a Mac to compose an email, browse a webpage, edit a contact, and other things, and then transfer it to an iOS device or even another Mac....

If the boring wall posters at Spencers aren’t tickling your fancy and you’d rather have something more customized to your tastes, you can actually make and print your own posters using a method called tiled printing. RELATED: How Big of a Photo Can I Print from My Phone or Camera? Tiled printing is when you print out a large image over several pieces of paper, with each piece of paper acting as a “tile,” hence the name....

Collaboration is key in many organizations, so using the tools you have on hand well, is important. Apple Mail gives you access to simple markup tools right within message composition. Thus, you can make quick edits inline and never leave the application. In Mail, you can mark up your image and commit to the changes within the message. This is a great deal more direct and convenient than say, adding text comments to the message, or opening the image in an external application, adding the markup, saving the image, and then attaching it....

Jumping to a specific page in Word is a common task and easy to do using the Find and Replace dialog box. You can also use this same tab to jump from one table directly to the next table in your document. Your cursor does not have to be in a table to jump to the next table. Put the cursor in any paragraph or table and press F5 or use the Ctrl + G keystroke combination to open the Find and Replace dialog box....

Collaborating on files with your colleagues is one of Microsoft Teams’ biggest selling points, but finding the right file can be a chore. Here’s how to turn a file into a tab with the click of a single button. If you’re repeatedly opening a file in Teams, adding it as a tab is much quicker than going into the “Files” tab and looking for it. Adding a tab in a Microsoft Teams channel to show an app or a file is pretty easy, although there are a number of steps....

Typically, people tether their laptops to their Android phones, using the phone’s data connection to get online from anywhere. But you may also want to “reverse tether,” sharing your PC’s Internet connection with an Android phone or tablet. There are a variety of ways to do this. You could use a Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth — or even reverse-tether entirely over a wired USB cable. It’s useful when your computer has an Internet connection, but your phone doesn’t....

Notifications are a key component of smartphones, so it can be annoying if you accidentally swipe one away before reading it. Introduced in Android 11, “Notification History” is a log of every notification you’ve dismissed. Here’s how to use it. The Notification History feature is not enabled by default. Once turned on, it will keep a log of every notification that was dismissed over the past 24 hours. This includes system notifications and alerts that appeared and disappeared on their own....

Windows 10’s Anniversary Update offers new “game hubs” for PC games in the Xbox app. Your friends on Xbox Live will now be able to see when you’re playing a PC game, and what PC games you recently played. If you’d like to keep your PC gaming activity separate, so your Xbox friends can’t see what you’ve been playing, you can disable this feature. Option One: Sign Out of the Xbox App RELATED: The Best Xbox Features in Windows 10 (Even If You Don’t Own an Xbox)...