Apple Music launched recently with a ton of fanfare and hype. Thus far the reviews are fairly positive, and the 3-month free trial is a great selling point, but at some point you may decide you don’t want to pay for it and need to cancel. Update: This process has changed. Here’s how to cancel any app subscription on an iPhone or iPad. RELATED: How to Cancel App Subscriptions on iPhone or iPad...
Changing your Gmail password is a simple process in your web browser or mobile app, and will take you just a couple of minutes. Here’s how to do it. Change Your Password from the Google Homepage First, head over to the Google home page, and then click the “Sign In” button at the top right. You’re redirected to a sign in page where you must provide your current Google username (or the phone number you used to create the account)....
As if there weren’t already enough ways to control all of your smarthome devices, text messaging could be the most convenient method for some users. Here’s how to make it work using IFTTT and some hashtags. When Text Messaging Can Work Well Some people spend more time in the Messages app than any other app. Thus, you probably have your phone set up in such a way that you can quickly and easily send a text message whenever you need to....
WAV audio files are a great way to preserve the complete and accurate quality of a recording in a truly lossless format on your computer. However, if you’re not an audiophile and are concerned about storage space, it might be time to convert them to a more manageable format like MP3. What Is a WAV File? A Waveform Audio File Format (WAV, pronounced “Wave”) is a raw audio format created by Microsoft and IBM....
When you create a survey with Google Forms, you can use conditional questioning to send respondents to specific pages based on their answers. Here’s how you can use branching logic to send people to questions that pertain to their responses. The first thing you want to do is open the Google Forms survey where you want to use logic branching. If you don’t already have a survey prepared—or if you haven’t ever used Forms before—check out our beginner’s guide to Google Forms to help you get started....
Sometimes you just need to make a decent-looking graph, but don’t want to get bogged down in a complex spreadsheet app. Here are some free websites that let you create graphs, no matter what your experience level. NCES Kid’s Zone: Great for Learning to Make Graphs The National Center for Education and Statistics (NCES) has a great Create A Graph tool intended to help beginners get started making graphs and charts....
To make an account on Yahoo, you’ll need an active internet connection and a mobile phone with texting capabilities. Be prepared to enter some identifying information as well, like your first name, last name, and date of birth. RELATED: How to Send SMS Text Messages From an iPad Make a New Yahoo Email Account To start setting up your account, first, open a web browser on your device and launch the Yahoo site....
RELATED: How to Save an Email as a PDF in Gmail What to Know When Downloading Emails From Gmail Your downloaded Gmail email is saved in an EML format. This format can’t be opened with Gmail, but you can use a desktop email client like Outlook or Windows Mail to open these email files. You can also attach this downloaded EML file to the new emails that you compose in your preferred email client....
YouTube makes uploading videos easy. Downloading them is another story altogether. Here’s how you can download any video you’ve ever uploaded to YouTube. How to Download a Single YouTube Video From the YouTube homepage, click your profile image at the top-right corner of the screen. If you don’t see your Google profile image, you’ll need to sign in. Near the top of the list, click the “YouTube Studio” option....
If you leave your Roomba to do its thing unattended—which is the whole point, after all—every once in a while it can get stuck in a corner or under furniture. If you can’t figure out where it went, and you have a Wi-Fi connected model, you can ring it from the app to help you track it down. To find your Roomba, open up the iRobot HOME app on your phone and tap the three dot menu button in the bottom right corner of the screen....
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a search engine in possession of a good fortune must be in want of more data. If you want to earn some extra money (in the form of Google Play Credit or PayPal money), Google will give you some in exchange for answering a few occasional survey questions. The rewards you get won’t pay your bills or anything, but each survey rewards anywhere from ten cents to a dollar or so for a few seconds of your time....
Windows 11’s 2022 Update arrived on September 20, 2022. Named 22H2 during development, this update is packed with features like File Explorer tabs (coming soon), automatically generated captions for any audio content, enhancements to Snap Layouts, and performance and battery life improvements. Most features are available to everyone in all regions immediately after installing the update. However, Microsoft cautions that File Explorer tabs aren’t available yet, but are coming in October 2022....
Hey, did you know that the Google Play Music app that comes with your Android phone can subscribe to, stream, and download podcasts? The feature works okay, though not nearly as fleshed-out as the various dedicated podcast managers out there. But if you hate having extra apps on your phone, and you’re already an avid user of Play Music, it could be the right move for you. Here’s how it works....
Apple doesn’t really believe in detailed instruction manuals, so some handy tricks slip through the cracks. One such trick we’ve recently discovered is that you can move multiple app icons at once on iOS. Here’s how. On the Home Screen, tap and hold an app icon until it starts to jiggle. Be careful not to press too firmly or you’ll activate 3D Touch. Update: Starting with iOS 13, you must now long-press an app icon and tap “Rearrange Apps” or long-press and hold until the icons start jiggling around....
To set this up, start by opening up the Alexa app on your phone and tap on the menu button up in the top-left corner of the screen. From there, select “Settings” down at the bottom. Tap on “Notifications”. Select “Shopping Notifications”. Tap on the toggle switch to the right of “Shipment Notifications via Alexa”.
Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update adds a “3D Objects” folder to This PC. It even appears in File Explorer’s sidebar. Microsoft is clearly trying to promote Paint 3D and Windows 10’s other new 3D features, but you can hide the folder if you don’t like it—you just need to dig into the registry. This won’t delete the folder from your PC. The 3D Objects folder and its contents will still be accessible at C:\Users\NAME\3D Objects , where NAME is the name of your Windows user account....
If you would rather access your Hotmail from within a desktop client, you can setup Hotmail in Thunderbird. Enabling Hotmail from Gmail First go into your Gmail account and select Settings then click on the Accounts tab, now click on “Add a mail account you own”. In the next screen enter in the Hotmail or Live address into the Address field then click on Next Step. In the next section we need to enter in the proper settings so the connections work....
Facebook is an international social network. There are hundreds of millions of users who don’t speak English as their first language. You might end up friends with some of them, whether it’s because you meet travelling, or they’re distant family, or for any of a million other reasons. To help make life easier for you, Facebook will, by default, translate their posts for you. This is great if you don’t speak a word of French, or Swedish, or whatever language your friend is posting in, but if you do the translations are often merely okay....
Lots of iPhone and iPad apps ask for ratings, and they often don’t stop. Even if you do leave a review just to stop seeing the review requests, new apps you install will pester you for reviews, too. iOS 11 fixes this problem, limiting how often apps can ask for ratings and allowing you to stop these requests entirely. Apps Can Only Ask For Ratings Three Times Per Year RELATED: What’s New in iOS 11 for iPhone and iPad, Available Now...
This setting arrived in Slack in June 2020. Previously, Slack only let you specify certain hours of the day when Do Not Disturb mode enabled itself automatically. So, if you took the weekend off, you’d still see notifications during the day on Saturday and Sunday unless you manually enabled Do Not Disturb mode ever weekend. To find this setting in Slack for desktop, click your Slack’s workspace name at the top-left corner of the screen....
