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Your iPhone knows a lot about your health, especially if you use apps like MyFitnessPal or track your activity using an Apple Watch. If given permission, apps can access that data. Here’s how to check which apps have access to your data. We’ve shown how it can keep tabs on your location and expose that data to apps before, but what about your health data? The Health app collects as much data as you can give it, and if you’re using apps for tracking your weight, calories, blood pressure, and more, that can be a lot....

Microsoft Word comes with pre-built page settings for creating books. Whether you’re creating a memoir or event guide, these settings let you create a beautiful book or booklet, from start to finish. Create a Book or Booklet First, go ahead and open Word. It’s recommended that you adjust these setting before writing the content of your book to prevent formatting issues late on. Once you’re in Word, head over to the “Layout” tab....

Hand-me-down hardware is a rite of passage for even the most hardened of technology fans, so there may be times where a child receives an old iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Here’s how to create them their own Apple ID and add it to your family. Apple IDs are vital for helping Apple and apps differentiate between users, and an Apple ID is necessary for making App Store purchases and signing up for iCloud....

The “Reset Your PC” feature in Windows 10 restores your PC to its factory default settings, including all that bloatware your PC manufacturer included. But the new “Fresh Start” feature in Windows 10’s Creators Update makes it much easier to get a clean Windows system. This was always possible through downloading Windows 10 installation media and reinstalling it on a PC. But Microsoft’s new tool makes performing a full Windows reinstall to get a completely clean Windows system much easier....

At CES 2019, NVIDIA announced that it was finally supporting FreeSync. Well, sort of—what the company actually announced was a “G-SYNC Compatible” program. But the rub is this: NVIDIA’s cards and drivers now work with FreeSync monitors for adaptive sync. The situation is a little confusing. Let’s fix that, shall we? Adaptive Sync, FreeSync, and G-SYNC Adaptive Sync, often branded as “FreeSync” by AMD and its partners, is a feature that lets a monitor pause its screen refresh until an entire frame of animation is ready to load....

Freeing up disk space on a full hard drive can be difficult, especially when it’s full of small files. However, there are some excellent tools for macOS that let you find the files taking up the most space and delete the ones you don’t need. Ready to get your disk cleaned up? Check The Most Likely Places Most of your files will only be in a couple of folders. The Downloads is one of them, and a lot of people fill it up and forget to empty it, but files are hiding in places you wouldn’t expect....

Microsoft Word’s Find and Replace feature isn’t just for replacing text. You can also use Find and Replace to locate specific types of formatting throughout your document and even replace that formatting with something else. When Is Finding and Replacing Formatting Useful? There are many ways to use Find and Replace for formatting, but when should you consider using Find and Replace instead of applying manual formatting changes or using other options like the Format Painter?...

Use the Editor in Apple Photos on the iPhone The iOS 13 update is like a box of chocolates with delightful little treats. While big banner features like the dark mode were talked about everywhere, what doesn’t get mentioned enough is the revamped editor in the Photos app. The built-in app has a new suite of editing features that can replace the basic features in photo editing apps like Snapseed. One of these features is the automatic straighten tool....

Generally, booting from an external drive will be slower, even with new Thunderbolt and USB-C drives. Those are still much slower than the solid state drives (SSDs) found in most new Macs. So while this isn’t recommended for daily use, it’s still possible. Straight from Disk Utility, No Third Party Apps Required Fire up Disk Utility from Spotlight (Command+Space) or the Utilities folder in your applications. You’ll be greeted with a list of all of your volumes, including your internal hard drive (probably called OS X or Macintosh HD) and your external hard drive....

Although there’s not a specific command to add a border to a whole slide, there are a couple of ways you can make it happen. One way is to create a border using the outline of a shape. The second is to use the Bing Image Search feature built into PowerPoint to search for and insert a border. Let’s see how it’s done. Adding a Border to a Slide Using a Shape Outline Open up your presentation and select the slide to which you want to add a border....

If you want to visually display data that changes over time, a line chart is ideal. With just a few clicks, you can create a line graph in Google Sheets and then customize it to your liking. Make a Line Chart in Google Sheets Start by selecting your data. You can do this by dragging your cursor through the range of cells you want to use. Go to Insert in the menu and select “Chart....

How to Save a Full-Page Screenshot as a PDF In iOS 13, iPadOS 13, and newer, you can take a full-page screenshot of a website in Safari and save it as a PDF in the Files app. There are two notable points about this new method: The PDF generates as one continuous page without any page breaks. Instead of a regular PDF, with an A4 page width, the PDF is the same width as the iPhone or iPad on which you’re viewing it....

RELATED: How to Sort Your Facebook Feed by Most Recent Situations Where You Can’t Send a Friend Request If you’re in one or more of the following situations, you can’t send someone a Facebook friend request: You’ve already sent the person a friend request. You or that person has reached the maximum friend limit. As of May 2022, that limit is 5,000 friends. You can remove one of your friends to send a friend request....

Note that unless a game specifically includes support for a keyboard and mouse as input devices, you won’t be able to use them. Also, there weren’t any PS5 games supporting a keyboard and mouse at the time of writing in September 2021. So you’re limited to select PS4 games that are backward compatible on PS5 and using apps like Netflix, YouTube, Spotify, etc., on your PS5. Here’s how you can connect a keyboard and mouse with PS5, just like you can with PS4....

Viewing the Total, Available and Used Disk Space Bash contains two useful commands related to disk space. To find out the available and used disk space, use df (disk filesystems, sometimes called disk free). To discover what’s taking up the used disk space, use du (disk usage). Type df and press enter in a Bash terminal window to get started. You’ll see a lot of output similar to the screenshot below....

You can add a trendline to a chart in Excel to show the general pattern of data over time. You can also extend trendlines to forecast future data. Excel makes it easy to do all of this. A trendline (or line of best fit) is a straight or curved line which visualizes the general direction of the values. They’re typically used to show a trend over time. In this article, we’ll cover how to add different trendlines, format them, and extend them for future data....

For the last decade and change, Valve’s Steam has been the de facto standard for digital games on the PC. Want a game? Install Steam and download it. New launchers have risen to challenge Steam lately, but none have been so well-positioned to put up a fight as Epic. Play Video There are a few different factors that can enable Epic to transition from a notable developer to a digital sales powerhouse....

For the Home and Office: Handy Gadgets for Everyone From the home office to the living room, these gifts will help keep your giftee organized, entertained, and pain-free after a long day. It’s No Banana Phone: Useful Phone Accessories Smartphones are so handy already, why not extend their usefulness by using them to track your gear, pairing them with some nice earbuds, or using a flexible tripod to take better pictures?...

Google Docs add-ons work similarly to how a browser extension works. They are a third-party app that you install to Google Docs to gain additional features. Some add-ons increase productivity (like proofreading tools) and some add more extensive capabilities (like allowing teachers to integrate grades into students papers). Here’s how to install them and some of our favorites. Installing an Add-On To get an add-on, open a new or existing file in Google Docs, click “Add-ons,” and then click “Get add-ons....

Apple just announced a trio of new phones with pretty silly names. On top of being kind of…not good names, they’re also confusing to type: is it iPhone XS or Xs? Xr or XR? So how do you actually capitalize these confusing names? We decided to take a closer look. It’s worth noting that these names are some of the most awful Apple product names in years. They remind you of early-era Android phone names like “Galaxy SII Epic 4G Touch” or something that Microsoft would put out....