Switching the Time Format On your Android phone, scroll over to the Settings icon on your home page screen and tap on it to open the settings page. Scroll down the list of options on this page until you get to the section titled “System.” Tap on this section to bring up a list of options relating to the manner in which the phone’s general information is used to interact with users, including changing the language, accessibility, and backup options....
Update Contacts with iTunes Apple iTunes isn’t just a music player but a great tool to manage and store data from your iOS device. In addition to safely storing your apps, music, and photos, iTunes makes it easy for you to update and transfer information, like your contacts, to your devices. Launch iTunes. Make sure you’ve updated iTunes to the most recent version to ensure that you don’t run into any issues during the syncing process....
1. Google As soon as an order you’ve placed online ships, a tracking number is sent right to your email. Once you have that number, tracking a package from a major shipping partner couldn’t be any easier. If your package is sent via USPS, UPS or FedEx, copy and paste your tracking number right into Google.com. It’s really that simple. Assuming you’ve entered a valid tracking number, the first Google search result will direct you to the appropriate shipping partner page....
Why Use flac2all At its core, flac2all is both a wrapper and a scheduling program. It takes a list of FLAC files and uses various codecs to queue and manage the transcoding process. One advantage of this approach is that flac2all does not depend on a single encoder, which means that you can easily adapt the program to any new format you might want to use. For example, you can install the custom Fraunhofer FDK AAC encoder alongside regular AAC....
Notifications for live streaming are only good if you are really interested in them and if they are useful to you, otherwise they are nothing but annoying things that distract your work. If you happen to get a lot of Live notifications in your Facebook account, you will want to turn them off to rid yourself of that annoyance. Turning Off Facebook Live Notifications You are going to use the Facebook website to turn off the Facebook Live notifications....
How Instagram Decides What to Display on Your Feed Instagram is taking a whole new approach to your feed. Instead of showing you content that you’ve already shown interest in (by following the account), it shifted the focus to discovering. With that in mind, Instagram is now flooding your feed with countless suggested posts, which can be images or Reels. You may be wondering what they are based on. As the company itself explains, there are various criteria for suggested posts showing up in your feed, including:...
In this article you’ll learn how to record your data more efficiently by transforming your Raspberry Pi 4 into a connection point between the cloud and any sensors, smart devices and controllers on your network. Logging your data in the cloud can help you identify trends: for example, using your smart scale to record your daily weigh-ins or your smart exercise bike to record the number of miles you’ve cycled....
This feature, known as “Approve with Apple Watch,” provides two solutions. It lets you view the passwords on your Mac (specifically in Safari) whenever you need to type in your password. Secondly, it offers a unique way to approve app installations and other password-protected acts, such as unlocking settings in System Preferences, modifying root files, unlocking a secure Notes file, etc. To use Approve with Apple Watch, you’ll need the following: First, to enable the Auto-Unlock feature:...
However, not all extensions are useful. Some can invade your privacy, or worse, steal your personal data. Because extensions run in your browser, malicious extensions can use their access to snoop on your browsing or capture credit card numbers or passwords. There’s also a risk of these extensions taking screenshots of any open tab, saving or adding cookies, injecting JavaScript, liking Facebook posts, or visiting sites in the background. Extension Police can identify extensions with this ability....
Tip: you can also use Rufus to format a USB drive in FAT32, which isn’t possible with the regular formatting tool in Windows 10 and 11. What Is a Bootable USB? A bootable USB drive (or “Live USB”) refers to any USB hardware device whose file systems have been reformatted, enabling it to install an entire operating system. The bootable USB drive folder can be viewed in a File Explorer window and contains various setup files and preloaded commands....
For those not familiar, Hulu is a popular video playback site from NBC that streams many mainstream television shows right to your browser. The biggest problem with the site is that it blocks access for users outside the continental United States. Hulu isn’t the only site in the world that does this either. Many sites restrict access based on the IP Address that you are currently connected with. This is where Hotspot Shield comes to the rescue....
The Gmail’s web app is really bare-bones (Inbox is trying to make it a bit better). All you can do is read and write email. If you want to do more, you need to hunt for other services that plug into Gmail. Want to track read emails? Install Mailtrack. Want to send a survey to your readers? Try Google Forms or Typeform. Want a better scheduling feature? Try one of the hundreds of calendar apps out there....
What is RescueTime and How Does it Work? As its name implies, the primary objective of this Web app is to help you “rescue” valuable time from the plethora of distractions on the Internet. It does this by monitoring the amount time you spend on specific websites. It also categorizes the sites you visit. RescueTime allows you select the categories that you consider to be distracting and the ones that you think are productive....
Note: much of this introduction will be from the perspective of iOS, as that’s how I play my music, either from my iPad or from my iPhone. However, I have also added it to my Mac as my daughter sometimes plays her music that way, so I am including some of that experience as well. Downloading and Logging In Before you start, turn on iCloud Music Library. In iOS, it’s in the Settings app under Music....
Being savvy isn’t about skill – it’s about attitude This may appear to contradict the following list of skills, but it’s an important thing to internalize once you get beyond the basics in pretty much any field, especially tech. Things are changing constantly, and being able to adapt quickly is more important than memorizing computer facts. Try new apps, devices, services. If you don’t understand how something works, do a little research....
For some people it’s easy to skirt the topic by just telling yourself everyone does it, so why shouldn’t you. But for others, they find it hard to do something they know on some level is wrong. Is it really harmless or are there some people being hurt in the process? We asked the staff here at Make Tech Easier to chip in and tell us how they feel about the ethics of pirating apps, music, and other media....
What is Popcorn Time? Started in 2014 by a few programmers in Buenos Aires, Popcorn Time serves as an open-source Netflix-alternative based on BitTorrent technology. It lets you stream torrents of movies and TV shows without having to wait for the download to complete, making it easy for you to watch your favorite films and television series. Also, since it is built to work with torrents, when you download a film, you’re also sending it to other users, just like with other BitTorrent clients....
When the client enters the same username, password or URL in his browser, the remote connection is established. Now the host and the client are connected via the remote desktop connecting software and both users can share their computer screen with each other. Not only screen sharing, but they can exchange instant messages, send files, share control and do a lot of other tasks. There are lots of remote desktop sharing applications available for Windows, Linux or MAC....
Introduction KeepMeOut is an excellent online service which prevents users to visit a specific website according to defined time interval. Using KeepMeOut, you can specify a website which you want to restrict and make a bookmark for it. Using the bookmark will prevent users from visiting the specified website too often, usually according to a set time interval. If you visit the website too much, it will show you a warning message regarding the website....
Until now, you might have picked up the Remarkable 2 to do all of your digital notetaking when you’re out and about. Both of these devices are monochrome e-ink displays that allow you to scrawl notes, but there’s actually a lot to consider before you settle on one, with these two tablets offering very different features. Keep reading to find out how the Kindle Scribe and the Remarkable 2 compare....
