Have you ever received an event invitation that you wanted to attend but had a conflict at that time? If you’re an Outlook user, you can propose a new time for that meeting, appointment, or conference call. Strangely enough, the feature to propose a new time for an event isn’t available in all versions of Microsoft Outlook. As of this writing in July 2021, you’ll need to use the Outlook desktop application on Windows or Mac....

This is the 21st century, and nobody should have to buy a physical gift card when you can do it all from your phone. Thankfully, Apple has us covered, and you can instantly send anyone with an email address their very own gift card. It’s a little known fact that the App Store uses the same gift cards as the iTunes Store. This means you can use an App Store or iTunes gift card to buy anything from either place—music, movies, and TV shows, apps, games, and even in-app purchases....

Docker containers are intentionally isolated environments. Each container has its own filesystem which can’t be directly accessed by other containers or your host. Sometimes containers may need to share data. Although you should aim for containers to be self-sufficient, there are scenarios where data sharing is unavoidable. This might be so a second container can access a combined cache, use a file-backed database, create a backup, or perform operations on user-generated data, such as an image optimizer container that processes profile photos uploaded via a separate web server container....

Keeping an eye on battery life is important with any member of the iPhone 12 family, including the iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12 Pro, or iPhone 12 Pro Max. Luckily, you can easily see the exact percentage of battery life remaining. Here’s how. Swipe Down to See iPhone Battery Percentage Since the iPhone 12 family ships with a notch that blocks a portion of the screen, you won’t see the battery percentage number in the upper-right corner like you would on the iPhone SE (or the iPhone 8 or earlier)....

Google Chrome’s default search engine is Google. This makes perfect sense; the only problem is that it uses localized Google – for example, Google France or Google Israel. This impacts the interface language, and sometimes even the text orientation. Here’s how you can fix this and get “international” Google results with an English interface. First, we need to figure out what search query we’re going to use. Go to Google....

Siri can be useful for a number of things—some powerful, others more trivial. When it comes to the trivial, asking Siri to grab a shot of your mug may be one of the easiest. How to Take a Seflie with Siri Using Siri to grab a quick selfie is about as easy as anything you’ll ever ask Apple’s digital assistant to do. First, long-press the home button to call Siri....

Until recently, taking a video on Chromebook wasn’t a straightforward process (and wasn’t even part of the default Google Camera app!). However, now you can easily record videos and upload them to YouTube or share them with friends and family. How to Take a Video To take a video on your Chromebook, you first need to open up the camera. For this example, we will use the stock Chromebook camera app, though you can use any camera app from the Play Store that supports video capture....

As with many things in the Android world, there are tons of different keyboard apps at your disposal. We’ll be showing you how to turn off the vibration for two of the most common keyboard apps—Google’s Gboard and the default Samsung Keyboard. RELATED: How to Change the Keyboard on Your Android Phone Turn Off Keyboard Vibration for Gboard Gboard is available for all Android phones and tablets. It may already be the default keyboard on your device....

Bluetooth is great for wirelessly connecting peripherals such as mice, keyboards, controllers, headsets, and more to your Windows 11. Here’s how to turn it on and make your first connection. There are two major ways to enable Bluetooth in Windows 11: by using the Quick Settings menu or within the Windows Settings app. We’ll go over both options and some basic troubleshooting below. Turn on Bluetooth Using the Quick Settings Menu The fastest way to turn on Bluetooth in Windows 11 is by using the Quick Settings menu....

Getting out of bed can be a constant daily battle but having a good alarm clock can sometimes help a great deal. You may not realize it, but you can set Pandora to act as your alarm, which we’ll show you how to do today. One of the benefits of using the Pandora app on your smartphone or tablet is that you can set it to turn on at certain time to play your favorite station....

Three Ways to Access the Apple Watch Browser To access the Apple Watch browser, you’ll need to tap a link. There are three surefire ways of getting a link using stock apps within watchOS. There may be more if you use third-party apps, which you can install using the Watch app on your iPhone or on the Watch directly. RELATED: How to Install Apps Directly on Your Apple Watch 1. Use Siri The easiest way of launching the browser is to ask Siri to do it....

Tired of Ubuntu’s Unity desktop environment? Try Cinnamon, the latest desktop environment from Linux Mint. Cinnamon offers a more traditional, GNOME 2-like layout, but it’s based on the modern GNOME Shell — and you can install it on Ubuntu. One day, Cinnamon will be Linux Mint’s default desktop environment. It’s forked from GNOME Shell instead of being based on GNOME 2, so it can take advantage of modern technologies and shed GNOME 2’s outdated software....

Brightness and Contrast tools are for beginners! Ever wondered what graphics programs offer advanced users to ensure their photographs have a great value range? Read on to learn about Levels, Curves, and Histograms in three major programs. Curves and Levels are not as intuitive as the more basic Brightness and Contrast sliders Photoshop, GIMP, and Paint.NET all share. However, they offer a great deal more control over images that professionals and skilled image editors will demand....

You can lead a full and happy Minecraft life just building by yourself or sticking to local multiplayer, but the size and variety of hosted remote Minecraft servers is pretty staggering and they offer all manner of new experiences. There are Minecraft servers tailored to nearly every experience imaginable: servers focused on players fighting players, entire factions of players fighting other factions, creative plots where players compete to build the coolest structures, mini-games where shovels and snowballs become weapons, and ones where mansions become grounds for Cops ‘n Robbers variants....

Git is complicated. When you’re working in a team, managing unexpected git errors can be a hassle, and you don’t want to waste development time fixing git problems when you could be coding. A GUI git client can remedy these issues. The Command Line Isn’t Always Better First off, we’re definitely not saying you shouldn’t learn how to use git from the command line. It’s important that you’re able to execute git basic tasks (fetching, cloning, committing) even when you don’t have access to a GUI....

Hacking the registry allows you to tweak many things in Windows, such as the adding and removing items from the context menu, enabling and disabling Windows features, customizing the Control Panel, and many other items. We have documented a large collection of registry hacks and here is a list of 20 of the best hacks. NOTE: If you are not comfortable making changes to the registry, you should not do so....

VPNs and SSH tunnels can both securely “tunnel” network traffic over an encrypted connection. They’re similar in some ways, but different in others — if you’re trying to decide which to use, it helps to understand how each works. An SSH tunnel is often referred to as a “poor man’s VPN” because it can provide some of the same features as a VPN without the more complicated server setup process — however, it has some limitations....

When trying to create simple file copy backups in Windows, a common problem is locked files which can trip up the operation. Whether the file is currently opened by the user or locked by the OS itself, certain files have to be completely unused in order to be copied. Thankfully, there is a simple solution: Shadow Copies. Using our simple tool, you can easily access shadow copies which allows access to point-in-time copies of the currently locked files as created by Windows Restore....

YouTube has been around since 2005, and it’s one of the most visited websites in the world. Tons of features have been added to the YouTube website and apps over the years. We’ll share some you may not know about. View the Transcript of a YouTube Video Closed captions appear in real-time as a video is playing. That’s obviously the main purpose of closed captions, but you can also get a full readout of the transcript....

You’ve got questions and we’ve got answers. Today we take a look at using Greasemonkey scripts in Google Chrome, picking the right cable for your media center, and how to create a custom Windows 7 jumplist for any application. Once a week we dip into our mailbag and help readers solve their problems, sharing the useful solutions with you I the process. Read on to see our fixes for this week’s reader dilemmas....