If you find yourself creating the same outline of a document over and over again, you can save yourself an immense amount of time with a template. Here’s how to create custom-made templates in Google Docs. Although Google Docs does offer a wide range of templates to choose from for free accounts, they don’t cater to everyone’s needs. To create a custom template you can reuse multiple times, you’ll have to use this little workaround to generate them....
When you use the Search Charm in Windows 8 it remembers everything you search for, which is very useful, but if you share your PC with someone you may want to delete your history or even disable it. Here’s how to do it. How to Delete and Disable Search Charm History in Windows 8 Press the Win + C keyboard combination, or move your mouse to the bottom right hand corner of your screen, to bring up the Charms bar....
The Schlage Connect is a great smart lock, but it makes a pretty annoying beeping noise whenever you press a button and lock or unlock it. Here’s how to disable it for good, either on the lock itself or from your phone. First, don’t confuse the lock’s beeper with the its alarm—they’re two different things. The beeper is there to confirm a successful unlocking or locking of the smart lock when using the keypad, as well as confirming each press of a number....
Whether you need to point to an image for emphasis or demonstrate where to click for interactivity, there is a wide range of arrow shapes that you can create and customize in Microsoft Word. Let’s take a look at how they work. Drawing a Basic Arrow Shape First, let’s review the steps on how to draw a basic arrow. On the “Insert” tab on the Ribbon, click the “Shapes” button....
Using a built-in feature called Storage Sense, you can save disk space by configuring Windows 10 to delete files of a certain age located in your Recycle Bin automatically every day, week, or month. Here’s how to set it up. First, launch “Settings” by opening the “Start Menu” and clicking the “gear” icon on the left. You can also press Windows+I to open Settings quickly. In Settings, click the “System” icon and then click “Storage....
The “Do Not Track” option is enabled by default in Windows 8’s Internet Explorer 10 and available in Firefox, Safari, and Opera. Notice one of the major browsers missing, like perhaps Chrome? Well it finally got the feature and we are here to show you how to enable it. Enable Do Not Track in Chrome The first thing you need to do is click on the Customize and control Google Chrome button....
Minecraft is an amazing open-ended game, but what if you could take it to the next level? Using the Essentials Plugin Suite, you can add create and manage user groups, specify permissions for commands, and even add a class system! We’ve got a video tutorial you can use to get set up, but first, be sure you’ve got a Bukkit server working. If you need help, check out our article, How To Configure and Run Bukkit, An Alternative Minecraft Server....
When you have a spreadsheet full of data and need to find something specific, filters in Google Sheets can help. Just enter some criteria for the data you need and see your results in a few clicks. While filters are robust, they don’t have to be intimidating, so we’re going to go through the basics of applying a few simple filters in Google Sheets. Enable the Filter in Google Sheets Once you enable the filter feature in Google Sheets, it’s on and ready to use....
If you’ve got limited drive space or a slow internet connection, you might want to limit what things Outlook downloads. We’ve shown you how to control the items that Outlook downloads based on the ages of the items, but that’s not very flexible. It also only works on emails in your mailbox (and, for Outlook 2016 and later, delegate mailboxes), so if you’ve got access to public or shared folders, or you’ve got a lot of calendar events and tasks, you need another option....
RELATED: How to Find Your Spotify Wrapped 2021 What Is Spotify Wrapped 2020? Spotify celebrates the end of each year by showcasing which music, genres, and more that you listened to over the past 12-ish months. Spotify Wrapped 2020 is now live for subscribers to dig through and share with their friends on social media. If you don’t have a Spotify account, you can still experience 2020 Wrapped. Instead of jumping into your own streaming data, you can head over to the Spotify Wrapped website and scroll through the top podcasts, which decade’s music was listened to most, and more of 2020....
Like all sufficiently advanced technologies, Wi-Fi can feel like magic. But Wi-Fi isn’t magic – it’s radio waves. A variety of things can interfere with these radio waves, making your wireless connection weaker and more unreliable. The main keys to improving your wireless network’s signal are positioning your router properly — taking obstructions into account — and reducing interference from other wireless networks and household appliances. Image Credit: John Taylor on Flickr...
While we’re talking about the same extension, the implementations are different between Safari and Chrome (along with Firefox). We’ll cover both versions below. RELATED: How to Enable Dark Mode in macOS Mojave How to Use Dark Reader in Chrome and Firefox The Dark Reader extension for Chrome and Firefox is simple and straightforward to use. If you’ve ever used an extension in the browser before, you’ll feel right at home....
We have previously covered the security of saved passwords inside Internet Explorer and Chrome which lack browser specific master password protection. If this leaves you a bit wary and yearning to move or backup your passwords to KeePass (an open source dedicated password manager), this process is incredibly easily even if you have a multiple browser setup. Exporting Your Current Passwords As stated above, the overall process is very simple as it is just a matter of exporting your current passwords to a text file and then importing into KeePass....
MacOS applications are installed a bit differently than Windows. Since they’re almost always single .app files, you can move them around your hard drive much easier. Here’s how to track down the ones you lost. From the Applications Folder This method is obvious—just open your Applications folder. You can usually find this in the sidebar, at the top of your hard drive, or in your Home folder (the one with your name on it)....
Previously, we showed you how you can increase the size of the font in the Title bar, now we are back to show you how you can increase the size of everything on your screen. Making Everything on Your Screen Bigger Increasing the size of every element on your screen is done through the Metro Control Panel. To get there, press the Win + I keyboard combination and select Change PC Settings from the bottom right-hand corner of your screen....
Do you pin a lot of programs to your Windows 7 Taskbar and run a lot of programs at once? Between pinned programs and other programs running, your Taskbar can get crowded. There are a few ways you can reclaim the space on your Taskbar. Make the Taskbar Icons Smaller You can decrease the size of the icons on the Taskbar, so they’ll take up less space. The image above shows the Taskbar with the default, full size icons....
Docker Engine supports a plugin system that lets you add extra functionality to the container runtime. Plugins for new storage drivers, networking stacks, and logging systems are all freely available. Modern versions of Docker Engine include everything you need to manage plugins within the CLI. We’re concentrating on this “managed” plugin system in this guide. You must manually install and maintain plugins that use the legacy plugin system. All About Plugins Plugins extend Docker Engine with new capabilities that are too specific to ship with the general installation....
AWS’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is great for storing large amounts of objects, but it’s also an API that’s compatible with many other competiting services. If you want to move off AWS, transferring an S3 bucket is easy to do. How Does This Work? If both services you’re transerring to and from are S3 compatible, you can simply use a utility like rclone, configured to access each service, to transfer all the items over....
Need to quickly start a web server to test a PHP application? The PHP interpreter has one built-in! You can use this to rapidly inspect your work without running Apache, NGINX, or a containerization solution. PHP’s integrated server gets relatively little attention but is quite powerful for development purposes. In this guide, we’ll show how you can use it as an alternative to other micro-servers like Python’s SimpleHTTPServer or the http-server npm package, neither of which can execute PHP scripts....
We have already shown you how you can use the new refresh and reset features in Windows 8 instead of formatting your PC, the problem is that you are required to insert your Windows DVD every time you want to use the features. Here’s how to do it without the DVD. Refresh or Reset Your Windows 8 PC Without the DVD The first thing you need to do is create a new folder on the root of your primary drive and call it “Windows8Files”...
