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DOS isn’t widely used anymore, but you’re still likely at some point to need to boot into a DOS environment. Windows’ built-in formatting utility lets you create a DOS-bootable floppy drive, but not a USB drive. Here’s how to get around that. RELATED: Do You Need to Update Your Computer’s BIOS? DOS may be a relic of the past, but you wouldn’t know that from reading instructions written by manufacturers for BIOS updates, firmware-updating utilities, and other low-level system tools....

There may be times when you want to make changes to a document, but not take the chance that the changes become permanent. To avoid affecting the original document, you can create a clone of the document, and we’ll show how to easily do this. There are a couple of ways to open Word. You can open Word by running the program (from the Start menu, Desktop, or Start screen) or by double-clicking a Word document file (....

Note: These screenshots are from Word 2010 but it’s the exact same process in 2013. Create Booklets Open Word and select the Page Layout tab, then click on the icon in the corner of Page Setup to launch the Page Setup dialog. It’s probably best to do this before creating your document, then you’ll get a better idea of how the layout will look. However, you can make your document first then create the Booklet layout, and edit it from there....

Google Docs is great for collaboration, but grabbing images that were uploaded to the document is more difficult than it should be. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to download the original photos to your Windows 10, Mac, or Linux computer. While you can’t download individual images from Google Docs (or, at least, not very easily), you can export them all in one go. You can do this by downloading your Google Docs document as a zipped web page in the HTML format, with any other content (such as images) saved separately....

What Do You Need for Apple Fitness+? Apple Fitness Plus requires an Apple Watch Series 3 or newer and an iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV. The watch tracks your activity, while you follow along with the class playing on the other device. Some Apple Fitness+ classes are all bodyweight exercises. Others, like most of the strength training classes, require two small dumbbells. There are also indoor running, rowing, and cycling classes, that require a treadmill, rowing machine, or static bike, respectively....

Portainer is a popular Docker UI that helps you visualise your containers, images, volumes and networks. Portainer helps you take control of the Docker resources on your machine, avoiding lengthy terminal commands. Portainer recently reached version 2.0 which added support for Kubernetes clusters. The tool also supports Docker Swarm and Azure ACI environments. In this tutorial, we’ll be keeping it simple and using Portainer to manage a local Docker installation....

If you don’t wish to use a particular email account with Microsoft Outlook, or you’d like to close your Outlook account completely, it’s easy to do that. We’ll show you how in this guide. When you remove an email account, Outlook stops syncing new emails from that account. It also deletes your email account’s cached content, such as emails and attachments. However, note that your original emails with your email service are retained....

Firefox Quantum has deep integration with the Pocket read-it-later service, which is now owned by Mozilla. You’ll see a Pocket page action in the address bar, a “View Pocket List” feature in the Library, and recommended articles from Pocket on the new tab page. Firefox offers a way to disable this Pocket integration, but it’s hidden. We think Pocket is an excellent service, but obviously not everyone will want to use it....

MongoDB is a document-oriented NoSQL database engine that’s gained popularity with developers for its JSON-like storage model. MongoDB often provides a more direct mapping between code and persisted data, facilitating rapid iteration and helping address the sizable impedance mismatch of traditional SQL databases. Docker is a platform that packages your application components as isolated containers. Containerizing your MongoDB database makes it portable across environments, letting you spin up an instance anywhere Docker is available....

If you’ve decided to upgrade your power tool game and get a table saw, there are several things you should know before you crank it on and slide your first pieces of wood through. RELATED: The Basic Tools Every DIYer Should Own Don’t get me wrong; all power tools should be wielded properly and safely, but none more so than the almighty table saw. To give you some perspective, a typical table saw rotates the blade at around 4,000 RPM, allowing the teeth of the blade to make a cut approximately every 370 microseconds (that’s around 2,700 cuts every second)....

Forwarding emails is a common practice in inbox management. But what if you need to forward all emails to another address? You can set up a forwarding email address in Gmail to do this automatically. Maybe you’re preparing to switch from one email address to another, or perhaps you use Gmail for business and want others at your company to receive the emails, too. You can set this up in a few simple steps....

Click the “Account & Lists” button in the upper-right corner of the page, and sign in if you haven’t done so already. Click the “Your Account” item on the dropdown list. Step Two: Configure Your Communication Preferences The first thing we’ll do, now that we’ve arrived on the account page, is to configure a few communication preferences. These preferences include things like whether you get any promotional material through physical mail, how you want emails you do receive formatted, and the types of categories for which you do or don’t want to see promotional emails....

If you have an Android phone, you should be aware of the permissions your apps have been granted. For instance, there’s no reason for a calculator app to connect to the web. On the Galaxy Note 8 (and probably any phones coming after), Samsung has automated this process with a tool called the App Permission Monitor, which notifies you if any apps use a permission that’s especially important or outside their normal operating range....

As you scroll through your Twitter Timeline, by default, videos will start autoplaying. Thankfully, they do so without sound, but it can still be annoying, and if you’re on mobile, it can burn through your data cap. Here’s how to stop it from happening. On the Web Click on your profile picture in the top right of the Twitter web site, and then select Settings and Privacy. Scroll down to Content and under Video Tweets, uncheck the box that says “Video Autoplay”....

Plex Media Server isn’t just a great solution for organizing your movies and TV shows: it’s an all around personal media Swiss Army knife that includes solid support for storing and displaying your personal photos right alongside your other media. Why Use Plex for Your Photos? There’s no shortage of ways to store and display your family photos these days, but there’s a certain allure to using Plex Media Server to do so....

Generations have grown up with Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Woodstock, Lucy, Linus, Peppermint Patty, and the entire Peanuts gang from Charles Schulz’s comic strips. After the announcement that Apple+ would be the exclusive home for Peanuts specials (including both A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and A Charlie Brown Christmas), fans were outraged. As a result, the specials were scheduled to air on PBS in 2020 and 2021, in addition to being available on Apple TV+....

The Nintendo Switch has a dedicated button to take screenshots. It can now even record videos in some games, too. These screenshots and videos are saved to your Switch’s internal storage or a microSD card, and you can view them, move them around, and post them to Facebook or Twitter right from your Switch. Or, of course, you can remove the microSD card and pop it into a PC, the way you would with a normal camera....

Capturing your phone’s screen is useful in many situations. If you’re a Pixel user, you can do it with a couple of button clicks. How to Take a Screenshot With the phone in your hand, you’re going to press two hardware buttons at the same time: Power and Volume Down. Hold these two buttons down for about half a second. When the screenshot is taken, it briefly shows up as a preview overlay on top of your screen, and then disappears....

Linux Mint is one of the most popular desktop Linux distributions around, and version 21 was released earlier this year. The next update, a minor release, is now available for beta testing. Linux Mint 21 was a significant update, with an Ubuntu 22.04 core platform and major changes to all the desktop environment options. Linux Mint 21.1, nicknamed “Vera,” is a smaller-scale upgrade based on the same release of Ubuntu....

Apple’s Wallet app provides a convenient way to pull up all of your digital loyalty cards, boarding passes, tickets, and more. It also serves as the home for Apple Pay. However, here are six features within Apple’s Wallet app that you may not have known about. RELATED: How to Set up Apple Pay and Google Wallet on Your Phone Add Unsupported Passes to Wallet RELATED: How to Add Any Card to the iPhone Wallet App, Even If It Isn’t Supported by Apple...