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Swap Files vs. Swap Partitions There are several scenarios where you might want to increase existing or add new swap space to your Linux computer. Perhaps your swap space is frequently running at maximum or close to maximum. It’s easy to click the wrong option during the installation process and to decline adding swap to your system inadvertently. Maybe you previously decided that you had so much random access memory (RAM) you didn’t need any swap, and you’ve changed your mind....

Footnotes are great for providing additional information without taking up too much space. With there being a finite amount of space on each slide in PowerPoint, footnotes may be just the thing you need. Here’s how to add them to your next presentation. Open PowerPoint and navigate to the slide in which you would like to insert a footnote. Next to the text that needs a footnote, insert a number or symbol....

Standard keyboards don’t have dedicated keys for special punctuation marks, such as an en or em dash, if you want to use them in Google Docs. Here’s how you can create hyphens and dashes in your documents. As we are a technology website, we won’t go into detail about when and how to use each form of punctuation. Instead, you can check out what a hyphen, en dash, and em dash are if you’re unsure when to use each punctuation mark....

If you go to post a photo to Instagram but then decide not to, you get the option to save it as a draft. If it’s a nice photo you want to come back and spend more time editing, that’s a good thing; but if it’s a throwaway photo you’ve no interest in posting, it stays in your drafts until you delete it. The delete option is a little hidden, though....

What You Need to Know You will have to confirm deletion via email or text message within five days. We’ve heard from readers who have used both the chat feature and telephone number to successfully close their accounts. The Old Way to Close Your Account Click “Prime or Something Else” at the top of the customer support page. Under the “Tell us more about your issue” section, select “Account Settings” in the first box and “Close My Account” in the second box....

Your iPhone or iPad will prompt you about this after the upgrade. You’ll see an “Improve Siri & Dictation” screen. If you select “Share Audio Recordings,” your device will share your recordings with Apple, and they may be listened to by humans to help improve Siri. How to Disable Siri History Collection To find these options, head to Settings > Privacy > Analytics & Improvements. You’ll find the Analytics & Improvements option at the bottom of the Privacy screen....

On Twitter, you can DM (Direct Message) someone to communicate with them privately. Twitter allows sending and receiving DMs on both its website and mobile apps, and we’ll show you how to do that. Who Can You DM on Twitter? You can’t Direct Message just any user on Twitter. To DM someone, that user must be following you on Twitter or they must have enabled the option to receive DMs from anyone in their account settings....

Because Steam allows you to set your username to almost anything, it can be hard to find friends when they share names with others. Instead, send a Friend Code that is always unique. Each Friend Code is eight digits long and can be found in the Steam client. To access the “Add A Friend” page and your Friend Code in the Steam desktop program for Windows, Mac, and Linux, click the “Friends & Chat” button in the bottom right....

If you’re looking for your Windows 10 product key, you can find it by entering a quick command in the Command Prompt. Here’s how—plus a neat little trick for finding the product key using a Windows Registry method. Find Your Windows 10 Product Key Using the Command Prompt To find your Windows 10 product key using the Command Prompt, you’ll need to open the command line application with administrative privileges....

The types of formatting you can apply in a WhatsApp message are bold, italics, strikethrough, and monospacing. To manually apply the formatting, you need to place a particular punctuation mark on either side of a word (or series of words): Bold: Place an asterisk on either side (bold). Italicize: Place an underscore on either side (italic). Strikethrough: Place a tilde on either side (~strikethrough~). Monospace: Place three back ticks on either side (monospace)....

Have you ever made a Facebook post hoping it would your friends and followers would share it, only to find out they don’t even see a share button? That can happen if you don’t set the correct audience on a post. To make your Facebook posts shareable, you’ll have to change your posts’ audience to Public. Doing so adds a Share button to your posts that your friends and followers can use....

Android’s user-visible file system is one of its advantages over iOS. It allows you to more easily work with files, opening them in any app of your choice…as long as you know how. Stock Android includes a pretty watered-down file manager by default. Some manufacturers do pre-install their own more powerful file managers on Android devices. In other cases, you may need a third-party app to really dig into the files on your phone....

If you’ve ever spent time creating an iMovie project on your iPhone or iPad that you wanted to continue working with on your Mac, moving it over is a simple process. Here’s how to do it. Note: One thing to keep in mind about this process is that you won’t be able to send your projects back to your iPhone or iPad after migrating them to Mac. You’ll have to continue editing on your Mac, so be careful not to send unless you’re committing to editing on Mac....

So you want to play Minecraft with your family, but you only have one account. You won’t be able to play online, but with a few tweaks to the configuration files, you should all be able to play over the network together at home with no extra accounts necessary. Why Would I Want To Do This? It’s a point of confusion among many parents purchasing Minecraft for their kids: does every child need a separate Minecraft account?...

Now that you can post multiple photos at once to Instagram, people are starting to take advantage of the feature. If you crop a large panorama seamlessly, you can post the different segments as multiple photos and get a swipeable panorama. The resulting image looks like this. By swiping left and right you can view the whole image. While you can make your own swipeable panorama with any image editor, it takes a bit of time to get right....

Why Bother Preloading? Games are often ready well in advance of release, even in the era of day-one patches. If you have an unreliable or slow internet connection or are anticipating high demand for a particular upcoming title, preloading can be the difference between playing on release day and staring at a download progress bar. Even if a game has a large day-one patch, many of the base assets will be unchanged....

Like its predecessors, the DualShock 3 and the DualShock 4, the PS5’s DualSense controller can be used wirelessly. However, if it’s not connected to the PlayStation 5 by a USB cord, then you’ll need to use pairing mode in order to register it with the console. When the DualSense is in pairing mode, it can be wirelessly coupled with another device—the device in question being the PS5. Connecting the PS5’s First Controller If you’re turning on your PlayStation 5 for the first time, you’ll need to connect your DualSense controller to your console with a USB cord, as you’ll need it to set up your account....

Need to resize a group of images quickly on Windows 10? With Microsoft’s PowerToys utility, you can do it directly from File Explorer with a right-click—no need to open an image editor. Here’s how to set it up and use it. What Is PowerToys Image Resizer? Easy bulk image resizing is just a few clicks away in Windows 10 thanks to the “Image Resizer” module included with Microsoft PowerToys, a free suite of utilities for Windows 10 users....

You can send an email automatically in Gmail with a simple two-step process. First, you’ll create the email and save it as a template. Second, you’ll set up a filter to send that email based on criteria. If you’re ready to lighten your workload by automating emails instead of manually sending them, let’s get to it! Create the Email Template in Gmail You can create and use templates on the Gmail website....

If you print frequently with different paper sizes on a Mac, you might get frustrated if the system is stuck on the wrong paper size that you don’t want to use. Luckily, it’s easy to set the default paper size for all printers on your Mac. Here’s how. First, click the Apple icon in the upper-left corner of the screen and select “System Preferences.” When System Preferences appears, click “Printers & Scanners....