What Is Dark Mode? Before we talk about the impact of the dark mode on your device’s battery life, it’s a good idea to understand it. Dark mode, also referred to as dark theme, is a display setting on many devices that switches the background color of the system and its apps from a light color to black or dark grey and makes the text appear in a light color, typically white....

A Discord server can be heavily customized to serve the needs of its members. One way to do this is by adding custom emoji. You can do this on the Discord website, or in the desktop or mobile app. A standard Discord server has a limited number of custom emoji slots. If you want to add more, you’ll need Discord Nitro subscribers to boost your server and add additional slots (up to 250)....

You’re listening to music, but then you click a video. Now both things are playing at once, and you have to pause your music manually like it’s the dark ages. There has to be a better way. And there is. Mute.fm for Windows and Background Music for macOS are two programs capable of pausing your music every time some other application starts making sounds. Open a video and your music will pause, automatically; close the video and your music will come back on....

If you visit an Apple Store in the hopes of buying a new iPhone, iPad, or MacBook, you have to talk to an Apple employee, since all the expensive products are kept in the back. However, if it’s just an accessory you want, you can buy it without actually interacting with anyone. RELATED: How to Save Money on Apple Products (Like the iPhone, iPad, and Mac) Thanks to the Apple Store app, you can use your iPhone to scan the barcode of an accessory off the shelf and use Apple Pay to pay for it....

You don’t have to be limited to using the display physically connected to your Windows 11 PC. Thanks to Google’s casting feature, you can mirror your desktop easily through the Chrome or Microsoft Edge browser. It’s similar to Apple’s AirPlay. “Google Cast” is a protocol that allows you to send things like videos and music to smart TVs and speakers. Google Cast is also built into Google Chrome, and since Microsoft Edge is built on Chromium too, it works there as well....

Do your formatting requirements call for a specific amount of space between your document’s content and the page’s border? If you use Google Docs, it’s easy to change your document‘s margins and set them to your liking. We’ll show you two ways to do that. One way to change Google Docs’ margins is to use the Page Setup box. In this method, you manually specify your page margins in inches....

Some manufacturers ship PCs with their internal drives divided into multiple partitions — one for the Windows operating system, and an empty “data” partition for your personal files. You can combine these partitions into a single one, if you prefer. This trick can also be used to remove recovery partitions, freeing up space that would normally be used for recovery data. Or, if you set up a PC with multiple partitions, you can undo all that....

Kubernetes is a platform for orchestrating containerised applications. Learn how to get started with DigitalOcean’s Managed Kubernetes service in this article. Why Use Managed Kubernetes? It’s possible to install Kubernetes on your own hardware. Popular solutions for running Kubernetes yourself include MicroK8s and K3s. Both these projects focus on providing a lightweight solution that’s easy to get to grips with. Even so, hosting your own Kubernetes installation can be time-consuming and tricky to maintain....

Adding a word cloud to your slideshow helps communicate what’s really important about the presentation by making certain keywords stand out. There’s no built-in tool in Microsoft PowerPoint for creating a word cloud, but it can still be done. Here’s how. Install the Pro Word Cloud Add-in Though there are several third-party applications available that claim to generate a word cloud in Microsoft PowerPoint, we’ll be using the free Pro Word Cloud add-in in this tutorial....

Abode’s Quick Actions are a lot like shortcuts, giving you quick access to certain tasks so that you don’t have to navigate through menus to do something. Here’s how to set them up. RELATED: How to Install and Set Up the Abode Home Security System One of the main screens in the Abode app on your smartphone is Quick Actions, and there’s even a button called “New Quick Action”. However, it doesn’t work, and you need to go to the Abode web interface in order to create Quick Actions....

There may come a time when you may need to factory reset your Nintendo 3DS. Maybe you’re getting rid of it, or maybe you just want a fresh start. Either way, it’s an easy process. Here’s how to do it. Step One: Make Sure It’s Connected to Wi-Fi If you have your Nintendo Network ID connected to your 3DS, you’ll first need to make sure the device is connected to the internet before you can factory reset it, so the NNID can be unlinked from the 3DS....

To the surprise of many, Windows has remained dominant as personal computers shift more and more to tablets and touch screen interfaces. And to the consternation of Microsoft, Google’s Chrome browser remains the dominant software on desktops (including laptops and Windows-powered tablets), despite some touch screen tools that are a bit lacking versus Chrome on Android phones and tablets. If you’d like your desktop Chrome browser to behave a little better on the Surface or similar devices, here are a few tips....

It’s easy to use a lot of mobile data with Instagram. Whether you’re posting your own photos and videos, or just flicking through your feed, it’s all pretty data intensive, especially if you have friends who post a lot of videos. The best way to save mobile data with Instagram is to not use it when you’re on mobile data! If that’s too much to ask, like with Facebook and Snapchat, there is a setting that will make Instagram use less data....

After Alexa gave users the ability to call other Echo owners, Google upped the ante with true phone calls. If you live in the U.S. or Canada, you can use your Google Home to place a call to anyone’s phone. You don’t need to limit yourself to other people who have a Google Home. Here’s how to get started making phone calls. If you already have a Google Home, you don’t need to do any setup....

If you deal with lots of emails, you know that the better organized you are, the easier it is to get things done. And one of the best ways to get better organized is to sort important message you want to keep into folders. Here’s how to do that in Yahoo! Mail. Create Yahoo! Mail Folders in Your Desktop Browser Log into your Yahoo! Mail account and open your inbox....

The Ecobee line of smart thermostats can use remote sensors to monitor the temperature in other areas of your house, rather than just where the thermostat is. Unfortunately, there’s no easy and simple way to select which sensor to use at any given time. Here’s a way around that, though, which lets you pick which sensor to use and when to use it. RELATED: How to Install and Set Up the Ecobee Smart Thermostat...

Although both the full size Echo and the Echo Dot have respectable sound for their given sizes, compared to much bigger tabletop Bluetooth speakers (or a full home theater system with Bluetooth support), they’re pretty anemic. Let’s look at how you can link them to bigger and more robust speakers. What You Need for Bluetooth Pairing This is not a tutorial on how to use Bluetooth to send music to your Echo (e....

With Windows 10’s Anniversary Update, you can now reset an app’s data without actually uninstalling and reinstalling the app. This can fix problems when an app has gotten into a bad state, or just quickly restore an app to its default settings. You’ll lose any settings and cached data in the app, so you’ll have to set up the app again from scratched afterwards. This new option only works for the “Universal Windows Platform” apps, which are generally installed from the Windows Store, but we have some tips on resetting desktop apps in the latter section of this article....

When you hover over an app’s taskbar button in Windows 10, you’ll see a small thumbnail of each app’s windows. With Firefox, you’ll only see the active tab in each window by default. But with a small change, you can see thumbnail previews of every open tab in every Firefox window. Here’s how. First, open Firefox. In any window, click the menu button in the top-right corner of the Firefox window (which looks like three horizontal lines) and select “Options....

Everybody is getting hacked left and right. Anthem lost 80 million records in 2015. The US government got hacked and lost personal data for millions, all the way down to fingerprint data. Now Equifax, a credit bureau, got hacked. So how can you protect yourself from criminals opening accounts in your name? Disclaimer: We’re not tax or financial advisors, so make sure to do your own research and maybe talk to a professional before taking any of the steps on this page....