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By default, Microsoft Edge opens with a custom “New Tab” page full of content. Luckily, it’s easy to open the browser with a custom home page instead. You can also set the page that appears when you click a “home” icon on the toolbar, which is disabled by default. Here’s how to do both. Home Page vs. Startup Page vs. New Tab Page Like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge treats the concept of a “home page” somewhat differently from classic browsers of the past (and from modern browsers such as Firefox and Safari)....

Windows displays “Low Disk Space” notifications whenever any partition on your computer has less than 200 MB of space remaining. Here’s how to get rid of the notifications, even if you can’t free up the space. What You Need to Know If this warning is about your system drive, you should pay attention to it and free up some space. Windows doesn’t function well if your system drive is completely full....

When you email someone a copy of your Word document or PowerPoint presentation and they don’t have a font installed, Microsoft Office shows that document with the default font instead. This can mess up the whole layout and make the document look completely different, but you can fix this by embedding fonts into your documents. How This Works When you enable this option, Office takes the font file from your system and embeds a copy of it into the Office document....

Windows 10 now includes color filters, an accessibility feature that changes the color of everything on your screen. They apply at the system level and work the same way as Night Light, so they work with any application. Filters can turn your screen black and white, invert colors, help with light sensitivity, and make colors easier to distinguish for those with color blindness. To find this option, open your Start menu, click the cog-shaped Settings icon, and head to Ease of Access > Color & High Contrast....

Windows 10 offers a dark mode that applies a dark mode to apps you get from the Windows Store. It doesn’t affect most desktop apps, but we’ve got some other solutions for those. Here’s how to get your whole desktop (or as much as possible) looking dark. Enable Dark Mode for Windows 10 Settings and Apps To enable Dark Mode, head to Settings > Personalization > Colors. Select the “Dark” option from the drop-down menu under the “Choose your color” section....

Enable the Find My Network In order to use this method, you’ll need to have enabled the Find My Network. By enabling it, Apple reports that you can locate your misplaced device for up to 24 hours even if it’s turned off. If you’ve already enabled the Find My app on your iPhone, you may not have noticed this additional setting. It’s possible, though, that Find My Network was enabled by default after upgrading to iOS 15....

YouTube is a social media platform where you can create and upload video content for anyone to view. Some people make whole careers on YouTube, and the feeling of having people watch something you made entices many people to try their hand at it. So how do you start? Hardware While it’s easy to get started making videos even with just your laptop, if you plan on making a lot of content you’ll want a decently capable computer....

The Nest Cam is one of the most popular Wi-Fi cams on the market thanks to its ease of use. If you’re a recent owner or just someone who’s curious about what the device can truly do, here’s how to get the most of your Nest Cam. RELATED: How to Set Up the Nest Cam Many Nest Cam owners likely just set up the camera and hit record, but despite the Nest Cam’s simplicity, there are actually a lot of neat features that come with the device....

Years after the smartphone boom, there are hundreds of different Bluetooth controllers for Android. Most of them work just fine out of the box, but there are exceptions, like Microsoft’s new Bluetooth-equipped Xbox One S controller. The controller connects fine, but due to Microsoft’s firmware, the buttons are all scrambled and you can’t play standard games easily. If you want to manually edit the inputs for your controller, you’ll need a rooted phone, a file explorer with root abilities (we’ll use Root Explorer) and a bit of experience editing system files....

Someone sent you an iCalendar file, but you’re a Google Calendar user. Can you even use this? Yes! People associate the iCalendar format with Apple products, but it’s actually an open standard, and Google Calendar supports it. This means that both iCalendar downloads and iCalendar URLs work well with Google’s online calendar, though the way to add them is somewhat hidden. Here’s a quick explainer, so you can quickly add that file or URL to you Google Calendar....

AWS provides an extensive CLI that provides access to every service they offer. You can use this on remote machines to give them access to certain features of your account, or on your personal computer to help administrate your infrastructure. Install Python and pip The AWS CLI runs on Python, so you’ll need it installed along with its associated package manager, pip. There is a version for Python 2.6.5 and higher, and a separate version for Python 3....

There are two different operating systems running on Samsung smartwatches. Older models run Samsun’s own Tizen OS, while newer models have Google’s Wear OS. Google Assistant is officially supported for Wear OS, but not Tizen. Never fear, we’ve got your back for both. RELATED: What Is Google Assistant, and What Can It Do? Google Assistant for Wear OS Galaxy Watch Google Assistant was made available for Samsung Galaxy watches running Wear OS starting in May 2022....

Native Linux support for Apple’s new ARM-based architecture isn’t yet ready, but you can run Linux on an M1, M1 Pro, or M1 Max using a virtual machine. This allows you to run 64-bit x86 Linux apps or try out different distros from the comfort of macOS. RELATED: What Is Apple’s M1 Chip for the Mac? You Can’t Run Linux Natively on Apple Silicon (Yet) Native Linux support for Apple Silicon chips is coming....

I hate video chats. As a tool for a work-from-home writer, it’s obviously pretty essential, but between my pale complexion and a desk full of computer monitors, the picture streaming through my webcam makes me look like the least attractive extra in an Anne Rice movie. This is because monitors and laptop screens are optimized for showing black text on a white background, so they tend to give a washed-out, blue-ish tone to people with pale skin....

Android does a great job of keeping all your contacts in sync with your Google account, so theoretically you should never lose all your contacts. That said, things happen, and keeping a backup is never a bad idea. Here’s how to export all your contacts on Android. How to Export Contacts with Google’s Contacts App If you’re using Google’s stock Contacts app—which is available for free in the Play Store if it’s not already installed on your phone—then you’re just a couple of taps away from having a backup of all your contacts....

Maybe your Time Machine drive is full. Maybe you’re worried about an older hard drive dying on you, taking your backups with it. Whatever the reason, you want to migrate your Time Machine files from one hard drive to the other. Good news: it’s relatively straightforward. All you really need to do is format your new drive correctly, drag over the files, and set your new drive up to be the backup destination....

Whether you’ve outgrown your college era email address and you want a professional one, or you want to change your firstname.maiden account to firstname.marriedname one, we’ve got you covered with a start-to-finish Google migration guide. Why Do I Want to Do This? So much is contained within a Google account–emails, chat logs, files, contacts, your personal calendar, etc.–that you can’t just walk away from it and start over if you want a new account name....

When you first use your Apple TV, you’ll notice there are a lot of channel tiles on its main menu. If you want to change things up however, you can rearrange, add, and even remove them to better suit your tastes. RELATED: Is it a Good Time to Buy an Apple TV? The Apple TV in its current iteration is a fairly nice all-around streaming multimedia option for your living room and usability can be improved significantly by adding a Bluetooth keyboard or Apple’s iOS “Remote” app to navigate its somewhat clunky interface....

If you’re looking to get a little more versatility out of your Chromebook, installing Crouton to get a full Linux desktop is a great way to do it. But you don’t have to access the full desktop every time you want to run a Linux app—you can do it right from Chrome OS, too. What You’ll Need Before we get started, here are a few things you’ll need first:...

In the screenshot below, notice the date and time at the top of a group of messages. But, there are no times on the individual messages. RELATED: How to Prevent People from Knowing You’ve Read Their iMessage You might also see a Read message at the bottom of the latest message with a time (if it’s from the current day), a day of the week (if it’s from the last week), or a date (if it’s from before the last week)....