Whether on Windows or Mac, many tools are available to help you diagnose your hard drive and repair it. If you suspect your hard drive is close to failing, be sure to try and make a backup of all your data or clone your hard drive before running any of the tools below. How to Check Your Hard Drive for Errors On Windows Windows includes built-in tools to help check your hard drive, and manufacturers may also provide tools to help diagnose problems....
However, a browser’s history can pose issues to your privacy. For example, if you share a desktop or mobile device with others (or if you’re worried about someone snooping around), you might want to clear it. In this article, you’ll learn how to clear browser history on five major browsers—Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, and Opera. Optionally, you can choose to delete additional forms of browsing data such as cached web content, site cookies, and autofill info to safeguard your privacy further....
Depending on how you want the inserted slides to appear in the main presentation, you will need to choose between two different methods for joining the presentations. In this article, I’ll mention both methods along with the advantages and disadvantages for each method. The first method uses the Reuse Slides option in PowerPoint and the second method uses the Insert Object option. Reuse Slides Method If you want the inserted slides to match the theme of your main presentation, then you have to use the Reuse Slides option....
When it comes to contributions, Wikipedia encourages users to contribute to Wikipedia. It wants you to edit mistakes, create new pages, and be a part of the rapidly growing community. They’re looking for users who are willing to cite sources, deliver unbiased content, and keep all relative entries up to date. Perhaps you have a topic in mind that you cannot locate an entry on a subject when running a search on the website, or have found a few mistakes on the page of your favorite rock band you want corrected....
Now this post isn’t going to teach you how to create those fancy GIFs from start to finish, but it will teach you how to take a video and at least convert it to an animated GIF. I’ll write up another post on how you can add text and graphics to your GIF. I’ll be using Photoshop CC for this tutorial because it allows you to have more control over the final product in terms of size, quality, frames, etc....
If you use Word a lot, chances are there are phrases, blocks of text, or graphics that you use frequently. Word’s AutoCorrect and AutoText features are made to help you insert those repetitive entries quickly, saving you time. Examples might be adding your signature at the end of a letter or inserting boilerplate language into documents like contracts or requests for proposals. The Difference Between AutoCorrect and AutoText In Microsoft Word, AutoCorrect allows you to create reusable text snippets—up to 255 characters....
There are several ways to make Gantt charts, but in this article we’ll show you how to make one in a program that you probably have available: Microsoft Excel. Though it probably won’t outdo custom-made software when managing a large number of tasks, for small projects it’s a perfectly good alternative. How to Create Gantt Charts in Microsoft Excel The nice thing about creating a Gantt chart in Excel is that you probably already own a copy of the spreadsheet and know how to use it....
Similarly, if you’ve not disabled the auto-download feature on your device, some files will still be downloaded to your device without your knowledge. Plus, deleted files also remain in storage until they’re overwritten with new data or you format your device. All these together make it harder to put all your downloaded files together and delete what you don’t need. This guide explains the different options you have to delete downloads on Android....
Certain websites require the use of cookies in order to work properly, so if they are disabled for any reason, you might get not be able to use the site. If you’re getting an error message that cookies are not enabled on your computer, here’s how to re-enable cookies in Internet Explorer: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0+ Choose “Internet Options” from the Tools menu in IE. In IE 10 and 11, you have click on the little gear icon at the top right to see Internet Options....
So here’s another way to “hide” your data, but with the big caveat that it can easily be found by someone who has some technical skills. If you’re trying to dupe your computer illiterate parents or friends, then feel free to try the following method. It’s basically a registry hack that hides a computer drive, i.e. C, D, etc, from the Windows Explorer interface. Even though you can’t see the drive in Explorer, it can still easily be accessed via the command prompt or by manually typing in the path into the address bar in Explorer....
For this GIMP tutorial, we used the most recent version available for Microsoft Windows, GIMP 2.10. Download GIMP for Windows, MacOS, and Linux from gimp.org. Black and White vs. Grayscale What’s the difference between black and white and grayscale? In black and white photography, the terms are used interchangeably. Consider the image below. This is a color photo in RGB mode. If we remove the color, it looks like this: Most people would describe this colorless image as a black and white photo, but a more accurate term is “grayscale....
Imagine you had a presentation with two dozen slides. To change one tiny element, you would have to move through all the slides making the changes one at a time. But what if you could change just one slide and have it applied automatically to all the remaining ones? Make Formatting Easier With A Slide Master Slide masters are like special templates but just more overarching. As the name suggests, it is the topmost slide in the deck that contains all the information about the theme, layouts, colors, and fonts that you want to have in all the slides....
Thankfully, Steam makes it easy to move a game from one drive to another. While this process was more complicated in the past, Steam has now integrated Steam Library folders directly into the client. How to Move Steam Games to Another Drive Before you are able to move a Steam game from one drive to another, you will have to create a new Steam Library folder on the destination drive....
If you don’t want that to happen or if you simply want to see both of your spreadsheets side by side in two different windows, then creating multiple instances of Excel makes sense. You can still split screen multiple spreadsheets within a single instance of Excel, but I find it cumbersome and not intuitive. Versions of Excel Before we get into details, you should determine which version of Excel you are using....
The 15GB free storage offered by the Drive is sufficient for most users who only use it to store their few important files. However, if you use it for more than that and a lot of your files happen to be in your Google Drive account, you’ll likely find yourself running out of space in your account soon. There are a few ways though, that when applied, help you make your free storage limit last a bit longer for you....
Whether it’s industry colleagues or just friends that you’ve met online, being able to track your followers allows you to stay on top of your social media presence. Not to mention, how about those mutuals that unfollow you? Is it in your best interest to continue following them? This is a choice you can make as soon as you have access to the data. We’ve tried many solutions when it comes to monitoring your Twitter followers count....
If you have a particular skill you’re trying to showcase, such as coding languages or using specific software programs, proving to others that you do know your way around them can put you a step above the rest. LinkedIn’s skill assessments allow you to showcase proof of your skill knowledge. In this article, we’ll explain what these assessments are, as well as how to take them and use them in your profile....
The friend wanted to know whether this was a phishing email or was it legitimate, but sent to them incorrectly by Apple? Well, it ended up being a fake email that was trying to get the user to click on a link so that they would enter their Apple ID credentials. Luckily, the friend didn’t click the link, but instead opened his browser and typed in iCloud.com and logged in that way....
Email does have similar features to letter mail that most of us never see. One of them is an IP address that’s sort of like a street address. The challenge is to track an IP address from an email. Let’s look at how to view and read an email header first. This is also a good way to tell if an email is fake, spoofed, or spam. How To Read An Email Header With every email, there is an email header....
There are various reasons why you might want to do it. Perhaps you were snooping on your friend’s social media account and accidentally read his new messages, or you want to remind yourself to read a certain message later. Whatever the reason, you should know that marking the Instagram DM’s as unread is not that simple. Who Can Unread Messages on Instagram? Until recently there was no way for any Instagram users to unread messages....
