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Your smartphone or tablet’s home screen isn’t just for apps. Whatever platform you’re using, you can pin your favorite websites to your home screen so you can quickly access them. Some platforms offer bonus features. For example, Chrome for Android opens these websites in their own windows with no browser interface, while Windows 8 and Windows Phone offer live tile updates on some websites. Android Launch Chrome for Android and open the website or web page you want to pin to your home screen....

If you use a Mac with the same iCloud account as your iPhone, you can sync your Mac’s bookmarks with your iPhone. We’ll explain how to perform this integration as well in this guide. RELATED: How to Sync Any Browser’s Bookmarks With Your iPad or iPhone Bookmark a Website in Safari on iPhone To save a site to bookmarks, first, launch Safari on your iPhone and open your favorite site or web page....

To update your system to the latest release, there must be enough space on your hard drive for the update files. Windows will automatically try to use a different drive if your system drive is full, but with a few steps, you can also force Windows to download updates somewhere else. By default, Windows will store any update downloads on to your main drive, this is where Windows is installed, in the C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution folder....

Color correction and color grading are the processes of adjusting the color of a video to achieve a more balanced or stylistic look. Final Cut Pro X makes this reasonably easy to do. There are some differences between correction and grading. Color correction comes first and is where you correct over or undersaturated video to make the colors more uniform between clips. Color grading is used to give your footage a distinct look and adjust the overall mood of the clip....

It’s difficult for two or more people to work on a PowerPoint presentation simultaneously, as Office doesn’t have the same collaboration features offered by Google Slides. One way around this problem is to combine PowerPoint presentations into a single file. Merging two PowerPoints can be done by either importing the slides using the “Reuse Slides” option or by using the copy-and-paste method instead. These instructions are designed to work for the latest versions of Office, including Office 2016 and 2019, as well as Office 365 and Online....

Are too many tabs cluttering up your Chrome browser? Google has a solution to help organize all the tabs you have open. The Tab Groups feature provides neat, color-coded labeling for all your tabs. How to Use Tab Groups in Chrome To use the tab grouping feature, you’ll need to open a few tabs to use it to its full extent. Open a few of your favorite web pages to start grouping your tabs....

Focused Inbox is a feature in the Windows Mail app that automatically filters emails into two separate tabs: Focused and Other. If you don’t like the feature, here’s how to disable it. Note: If you’re using the Mail app with an email address other than a Microsoft account, you cannot enable the focused inbox feature. Open up the Mail app and click the cog icon at the bottom left....

Hold Tight If It’s an Update Sometimes your iPhone may appear to be stuck while applying an update, especially larger updates moving from one version of iOS to another. The progress bar that appears during installation seems to move at a glacial pace, to the point where you’ll find yourself staring at the screen looking for the slightest sign of movement. If your iPhone seems to be stuck while applying an update, Apple’s official advice is to “make sure that the progress bar on your iPhone screen hasn’t moved for at least one hour” before taking things into your own hands....

About Going Live on TikTok If you’re thinking about going live on TikTok, there are a few requirements that you must meet before you’re allowed to do so. First of all, you must be at least 16 years of age or older. There’s a restriction placed on the profiles of users under 16 that prevents them from going live. TikTok pulls the information you enter in your initial setup to determine your age....

One of the best features of the Xbox app is the ability to remotely install games onto your Series X or Series S, even if the console is turned off. In fact, Xbox gamers can do this from two of Microsoft’s apps—the standard Xbox app and the Xbox Game Pass app. Prepping Your Xbox Series X/S There is one setting on your Xbox Series X or S that you’ll need to switch on in order to do anything remote with the console....

How to Use Video Chat on Facebook Messenger on Mobile If you’re on an Android device, you can download the Messenger app directly from the Google Play Store. Apple provides the Messenger app for the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch through the Apple App Store. Once the app is installed on your smartphone or tablet, open it and tap the search bar to find the contact with whom you want to video chat....

A significant advantage of using Outlook on your computer is you can have multiple email accounts in one place. Here’s how you can manage everything successfully. If you’ve only used Outlook at work, you might not realize it can handle multiple accounts from multiple providers, including Microsoft, Gmail, Yahoo!, and pretty much any others you can think of. If you want to add email accounts to Outlook, we walk you through the process here....

If you are on a long haul flight on an aircraft without video screens in the seatbacks, it isn’t easy to know how far through your journey you are. You know when you took off. You know how long the flight is expected to take. But how do you know if you are on track, on time, or way behind schedule? If you don’t want to watch the in-flight movie you can usually switch your video screen to show a map with the position of your aircraft on it....

One of the quirky things about Google TV—which is different than Android TV—is the Play Store. It’s still present, but Google has integrated it deeply into the home screen. We’ll show you how to open it like normal. The Play Store on Google TV devices is hidden away in favor of an “Apps” tab on the home screen. You still use the Play Store when installing apps, but not in the typical way....

Did you just close a Safari tab or window? No problem—you can get it back. Like all modern web browsers, Apple’s Safari for Mac can reopen a closed tab or window—as long as you weren’t browsing privately. Tabbed browsing is perhaps the best thing to come to the internet since Keyboard Cat, and if you’re anything like us you probably have more tabs open than you can ever remember looking at....

Android has been around since 2008. You may not have been using it that long, but you’ve probably installed a decent number of apps in your time. Ever wonder which was the first? We’ll show you where to look. All the apps and games you’ve installed from the Play Store are tied to your Google account. Unless you manually remove it from your account, it will be there. That means we can look all the way back to the first apps you installed....

Why a Smart Kitchen? Your kitchen is a room of productivity and mess. You cook your meals, clean your dishes, and maybe even eat in your kitchen. Every cabinet, utensil, and tool contributes to your kitchen experience, for better or worse. And adding intelligence to your cooking space can improve your recipes and speed up the work. Kitchens can host some of the most useful smarthome technology in your home. You can buy smart ovens that take the guesswork out of cooking times and suggest recipes you may not have tried or a smart faucet that you can turn on and off by voice, or ask to pour a set amount of water....

Network locations have been part of macOS for years, but it’s a real shame how often they go unused. If you’re someone who regularly uses your Mac in multiple locations and connects to different networks both wired and wireless, then using multiple network locations can be a lifesaver. What are Network Locations? The best way to think of network locations is as a collection of saved preferences. If you like to have your Ethernet connection set up one way at home but want to have different settings at the office, then a pair of network locations is perfect because it saves you from diving into System Preferences every time you work from a different place....

Depending on your AirPods model, you may be able to use the skip song feature out of the box, or you might have to configure it first using your iPhone. We’ll explain both methods below. Skip Songs With AirPods Pro or AirPods (3rd Generation) If you’re using AirPods Pro or third-generation AirPods, you don’t have to configure anything; you can skip songs on your AirPods out of the box....

When opening Excel spreadsheets from unknown sources, a feature in Excel called Protected View shields you from potential risks. This is great, but to work on the document, you will need to switch to editing mode. How to Switch to Editing Mode Protected View is switched on by default. So whenever you open a file that originated from a website or that you received via email, you are taken to Protected View....