Did you know there are music symbols that you add to your Microsoft Word document without adding graphic images? Let’s take a look. First, place your insertion point in the location in your document where you want to insert a music symbol. On the “Insert tab” on the Ribbon, click the “Symbol” button and then choose “More Symbols” from the drop-down menu. In the Symbol window, open the “Font” drop-down menu and choose the “MS UI Gothic” font....

Google has podcasts baked into the Play Music app for Android, and it recently released a dedicated Podcast app, as well. But you also can listen to podcasts directly on your Google Home pretty easily. There are a couple of ways to do this: by using your voice, or by casting. We’ll cover both. How to Listen to Podcasts on Home with Your Voice The easiest way to fire up a podcast on Google Home is by simply telling your Google Assistant to play the podcast you want to hear....

Windows 10 now performs “Power Throttling” of applications, even traditional Windows desktop programs and background processes. By limiting the CPU available to background applications, Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update can increase battery life on laptops and tablets. You can tell Windows not to perform power throttling for certain processes if this causes a problem. Why Windows Now Slows Some Programs Down RELATED: What’s New in Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update, Available Now...

If the document you’re creating includes equations, you might plan to number or label them. For both standard and nonstandard formatting, we’ll show you how to add numbers and labels to equations in Microsoft Word. Number Equations in Microsoft Word Whether you plan to use a table of figures or not, numbers allow you to reference your equations. And you might have a requirement to use customary numbering for the equations in your document....

Mechanical keyboards are a surprisingly resilient trend among gamers and power users. But as they get more popular, the various options and technical variations become more and more complex. If you’re looking for everything you need to know to get started in this surprisingly varied portion of the PC world, we’re here to help you out. The Basics: It’s All About the Switches RELATED: If You Haven’t Tried a Mechanical Keyboard Yet, You’re Missing Out...

Migrating your files, settings, and programs to a new PC can be a little intimidating, especially if you’re not completely organized. These tools and simple tips will help you get started. This process will be simple if you’re already creating regular backups. If everything’s scattered all over your old PC, you could lose it if your hard drive dies or you have another computer problem. Backups are essential. Transfer Your Stuff to a New PC the Easy Way Getting a new computer is a lot of fun, but it can also be a huge pain....

If you are one of those people who don’t safely remove their USB Devices just because you’re lazy, here’s a neat trick to do it from the context menu on your desktop. Even if you are not lazy and just forget, the icon will serve as a mental reminder. So let’s take a look. The Safely Remove Hardware Dialog Method This method will bring up the Safely Remove Hardware dialog box, from there you can choose which USB device you wish to eject....

If you’d like to keep an eye on how much battery life you have left in your iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, or iPhone 11 Pro Max, you can quickly see the battery percentage remaining. Here are two ways to do it. See iPhone Battery Percentage by Swiping Due to the notch on the iPhone 11, you can’t see the battery percentage on the status bar at the top of the screen like you can on iPhones with home buttons (such as the iPhone SE and iPhone 8)....

The macOS Disk Utility, by default, will not show you an empty, unformatted drive. You might think this means it can’t be used to create partitions on new disks, which is frustrating, but you can solve this problem with one click. Insert such a disk and you’ll see an error message: “The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer.” There are three options: “Eject,” “Ignore,” and “Initialize.”...

The good news is a spinning wheel means macOS hasn’t crashed completely. You might be able to wrestle back control. What Is the Spinning Wheel of Death on a Mac? That rainbow spinning wheel (whatever you might call it) is a common macOS wait cursor. It’s triggered when an application doesn’t respond for a few seconds and signals that you should wait before giving the app more instructions. This isn’t to be confused with the blue spinning wheel, which is also sometimes called the “JavaScript pinwheel....

Social networks are always trying to get you to “engage” more with their service and recently, Twitter has introduced a new trick: Highlights notifications. Highlights are, in theory, content Twitter thinks you’ll want to see because of some secret algorithm. If a few people you follow all share the same link or have a conversation, you might get a notification, like the one below, telling you about it—even if you had no interaction with the tweet yourself....

Ever wish you could copy something on one computer, then paste it on another? Synced clipboards are becoming common: you can sync your clipboard between macOS Sierra and iOS 10, for example, without any third party software. Pushbullet allows you to sync your Windows clipboard to Android (along with other features.) If you want to sync from macOS to Windows, however, you’ve got one main option: 1Clipboard. RELATED: How to Control Multiple PCs With One Keyboard Using Synergy...

There are plenty of software features baked into the Galaxy S22 Ultra for the S Pen. One of the best is the ability to instantly take notes on the screen simply by removing the pen. This works even if the display is off. Any time you pull out the S Pen, a notepad will open. RELATED: How (and Why) to Use Samsung Edge Panels on a Galaxy Phone First, swipe down once from the top of the screen to open the Quick Settings and tap the gear icon....

Smart punctuation is an iOS feature that automatically turns certain generic punctuation marks like straight quotes into better ones like curly quotes. The problem is that smart punctuation doesn’t always play nice with the internet. Digital typography has made making great looking fonts a lot easier. Now, how a character is positioned is dependent on the other characters around it, rather than each character taking up the same amount of space as they do in old typewriter-esque fonts like Courier....

Gaming PCs are great, but sitting at a desk after an entire day of work isn’t the most comfortable thing in the world. You could game on your TV, but what if your spouse or kids are hogging it? No worries: With the right stuff, you can turn your iPhone or iPad into the ultimate portable gaming machine. Find Good Games (and Get Them On Sale) RELATED: The Best “Console-Like” Games for iPhone, iPad, and Android...

If you need more storage space on your iPhone, the easiest way to tack some on is with a special flash drive that features a lightning port on one end and a USB port on the other. You’ll use an app designed for that drive to actually manage files. Unfortunately, there isn’t really a single way to manage flash drives on iOS. Each brand of flash drive has its own, proprietary app for managing files....

You’ve added all your media to a Plex server and it’s great, but now you want to watch your favorite YouTube videos in the same interface. Is that possible? Yep! Plex has a Watch Later function you can use to queue up videos, kind of like Pocket. Or, if you prefer, there’s a third party plugin that lets you browse your YouTube subscriptions right in the Plex interface. This is nice if Plex on a HTPC is the primary way you watch videos, but there’s an advantage here even if you use a streaming box: YouTube is terrible on Apple TV and Roku, because they force a web-based interface on those platforms....

One of the most important specs you have to keep your eyes out for is HDMI 2.1. Some modern devices like Sony’s PlayStation 5 require HDMI 2.1 in order to work properly, mainly due to the device’s usage of some of the best display technologies available. These cables tend to be a bit pricier than those that support HDMI 2.0 or lower, but that, unfortunately, comes with having the latest and greatest tech....

If you have local videos stored on your Android phone, there’s no shortage of ways to give them a watch. But that doesn’t mean all options are created equally—these are the best video apps for Android. Before we get into that though, we need to make it clear that these are apps for watching locally-stored videos. They are not for streaming services like YouTube or Netflix. This is all about watching videos stored on your phone, regardless of whether you shot them with your camera or downloaded them from somewhere....

RELATED: You Should Use Samsung’s Bixby, But Only For Routines It Can Be Started With a Button (or Your Voice) Like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant, Bixby can work with a voice command—in its case, the rather uninspired “Hi Bixby.” Unlike the others, though, the service also gets a dedicated hardware button on Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S8 and Note 8 phones, putting its functionality front and center. You can expect the feature to trickle down into Samsung’s less expensive models in the coming months, as well as ancillary gadgets like an Echo-style speaker and compatibility with third-party gadgets....