By default, only people you follow can send you direct messages on Twitter. This is just one of the ways Twitter tries to keep harassment to a minimum. If you want your DMs to be open to anyone, however, you’ve got to enable a setting. RELATED: How to Report a Tweet on Twitter The process is similar on all platforms. Click or tap on your profile icon, then select Settings and Privacy....

Your Apple Pencil doesn’t have any sort of light that indicates its battery level. If you want to check how much battery power it has left, you’ll need to use a widget on your iPad Pro. According to Apple, the Pencil gets about 12 hours of battery life. If its battery ever runs out, you can connect it to your iPad Pro’s Lightning port and get 30 minutes of use time from just fifteen seconds of charging time....

When you delete a Snapchat friend, they can’t see your private Stories and Charms. They can still send you Snaps and Chats if you allow this in your privacy settings. They can also view all your content that is set as public. RELATED: How to Use Snapchat: The Basics of Sending Snaps and Messages Remove a Friend in Snapchat To begin the friend removal process, first, open the Snapchat app on your iPhone or Android phone....

By default, WhatsApp shows your friends whether you’re online now or when you were last online. If you prefer, you can hide your status.. Maybe you just want to check your messages without letting people know you’re online. Maybe you want to keep people from knowing when you’ve read their messages. Or, maybe you’re concerned about the privacy implications of the rising number of services that let people track your status and even try to guess which of your friends are messaging each other....

Jira is an issue-tracking application from Atlassian that makes it easier for teams to collaborate on software. It’s not open-source, but you can install it on your own servers rather than using the cloud version. Here’s how to set that up. Why Self-Host? There’s a lot of benefit to cloud applications—they’re generally very reliable, as they can benefit from the redundancy of a running at a datacenter scale. They’re also easier to use, as all the setup is handled for you....

Recently, NVIDIA’s SHIELD became the first Android TV device to get access to OK Google and the Google Assistant. The thing is, you really need the TV to be on in order to really make the most of it—but a new setting will still let you use it even when the screen is off. RELATED: How to Get the Most Out of Your Android TV Before we get into how to do that, though, let’s first talk about what to expect when using this feature....

How do you wrap your charging cables for storage or travel? There’s a chance that you might be doing it wrong and causing harm to the cable. Here’s how to properly wrap your cables so that they last as long as possible. RELATED: The Most Durable Micro USB Charging Cables For Any Situation One of the most common methods for wrapping cables is to just tightly wind them up around your hand, or around the power brick if one’s attached, but that can be pretty hard on the cable....

There are two places where you can uninstall channels and games—directly from the home screen and in the Channel Store. The home screen is the easiest method, but we’ll show you both. RELATED: Your Roku Now Has Free Local News Channels Built-In How to Remove Roku Channels from the Home Screen First, use your remote to highlight the channel on the home screen you would like to remove. Click the options button on the remote....

Ubuntu and many other Linux distributions use the GRUB2 boot loader. If GRUB2 breaks—for example, if you install Windows after installing Ubuntu, or overwrite your MBR—you won’t be able to boot into Ubuntu. You can easily restore GRUB2 from a Ubuntu live CD or USB drive. This process is different from restoring the legacy GRUB boot loader on older Linux distributions. This process should work on all versions of Ubuntu....

Why Reset Your Fire TV? While we don’t encourage people to take the scorched-Earth approach to fixing their gadgets, unfortunately that’s sometimes the only solution that works. Whatever your ghost-in-the-machine glitch might be, there’s a very good chance that a factory reset is the key to eradicating it. If you’re not put off by the hassle and you’re ready for that new-car smell, let’s reset your Fire TV. How to Reset Your Fire TV & Fire TV Stick First, let’s get one thing out of the way....

If there is a particular slide in your presentation that you feel would be useful in other mediums, you can save that slide as an image and use it accordingly. Here’s how to save a Microsoft PowerPoint slide as an image. First, open PowerPoint and, in the thumbnail pane, select the slide that you’d like to save as an image by clicking it. A box will appear around the slide once it’s been selected....

Thanks to a new feature in iOS 10.3, you can now see (and remove) every device connected to your Apple account right from your iPhone. You can also check the status of their Find My Phone and iCloud backup functions, check device info like model, version, and serial number, view and remove Apple Pay cards on the device. All this information gathered in a single place makes it extremely convenient to manage your stable of Apple devices....

Not sure which phone numbers you’ve blocked on your iPhone? You can easily check your blocked number list using Phone, Messages, and FaceTime settings on your phone. We’ll show you how. RELATED: How to Block Calls from a Certain Number on an iPhone Find Blocked Numbers in Phone To see your blocked phone numbers list with Phone, first, open the Settings app on your iPhone. In Settings, tap the “Phone” option....

The iPhone 7 Plus’ Portrait Mode is really awesome. In the right circumstances, it makes it possible to take portraits that look like they were shot using a DSLR and a wide aperture lens just using your iPhone. RELATED: How to Use the iPhone’s Portrait Mode But when you use Portrait Mode, your iPhone saves two photos, not one: a photo with the depth effect applied, and another without it....

Android tablets seem to be slumping hard: sales are down and developers aren’t interested in supporting them with specific apps…not even Google. But with slumping interest comes depressed secondhand market sales, so tablets are also hard to get rid of. There are a lot of things you can do with a tablet you’re not using, but my favorite use is sticking it on an elaborate PC desktop and using it as a dedicated widget pad and notification center....

If you have Location Services enabled on your iPhone, apps (and system services) you approve can check your location. Here’s how you can toggle GPS and other location-tracking methods off and on, easily. First, open Settings by tapping the gray gear icon on your home screen. In Settings, select “Privacy.” In “Privacy,” tap “Location Services.” In “Location Services,” tap the switch beside “Location Services” to turn it off. As soon as you flip the switch, you’ll see a pop-up warning....

Google Chrome lets you automatically translate a webpage not written in your browser’s default language. Like most online translation software, though, it can be a little unreliable. If you don’t need it—or if you use a different translation service—here’s how to turn Chrome’s off. How to Turn Translation On or Off The first thing you want to do is fire up Chrome, click the menu icon, and then click on “Settings....

If you use Microsoft Outlook, and want to set it up with your Gmail address, you’re in luck. Newer versions of Outlook make this easier than ever. You’ll need to enable a couple of settings on the Gmail website, and then connect to your Gmail account in Outlook. Let’s take a look. Step One: Prepare Your Gmail Account Before you connect your Gmail account to Outlook, you must prepare your Gmail account so that it’s ready for the connection....

Not all Internet traffic is equal. Streaming HD video or having a stutter-free Skype call is probably more important to you than downloading a big file. The Quality of Service feature on your router lets you prioritize the things you care about, so they happen faster than the things you don’t. What Exactly Is Quality of Service? Quality of Service is an excellent and underutilized tool that allows you to train your router to divvy up your available bandwidth between applications....

On Sunday, France is playing Croatia in the 2018 FIFA World Cup Finals, and if you want to watch the games without cable, we are here to help. Here’s how to watch France vs Croatia in the 2018 World Cup Finals online. We’ve got instructions for how to watch in Australia, Canada, UK, and the USA, and where to look for information for other countries. You can also try to bypass geographic restrictions if you’re out of town and having issues....