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Individual, Family, and Premier Plans There are three tiers of Apple One plan. Each tier includes everything in the bottom tier and more. They start at $14.95 per month for an individual plan and go up to $29.95 per month. It will come with a free 30-day trial of each service you don’t already have. If you’re not familiar with all these services, here’s a quick summary: Apple Music: A music service that offers access to a library of millions of songs for on-demand streaming—like Spotify....

Google updates Chrome regularly with new features, security updates, and more. Chrome downloads those updates and installs them automatically. But how often does that happen? It depends—turns out the Chrome update process is pretty complicated. Major Stable Versions Every Six Weeks Chrome is developed in the open and anyone can install the unstable versions. But, when it comes to the Stable branch, builds are released roughly every six weeks. For example, Chrome 73 was released on March 12, and Chrome 74 was released on April 23rd—six weeks to the day....

Apple’s Photos may not be perfect, but as somewhere to easily organize photos it’s unparalleled, especially If you’re living the iCloud Photo Library lifestyle. Smart Albums are great for that, but are you using them to their fullest? Smart Albums are a massively under-utilized aspect of Photos, which is a shame because they make keeping a growing photo library in check easier than you might imagine. Want to have all photos from a particular period in one place?...

Many websites have leaked passwords. Attackers can download databases of usernames and passwords and use them to “hack” your accounts. This is why you shouldn’t reuse passwords for important websites, because a leak by one site can give attackers everything they need to sign into other accounts. Have I Been Pwned? RELATED: Why You Should Worry Whenever a Service’s Password Database Is Leaked Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned website maintains a database of username and password combinations from public leaks....

Pie charts are popular in Excel, but they are limited. You’ll have to decide for yourself between using multiple pie charts or giving up some flexibility in favor of readability by combining them. If you do want to combine them, here’s how. For example, the pie chart below shows the answers of people to a question. This is fine, but it can be complicated if you have multiple Pie charts....

PowerPoint handouts are a great resource to distribute to your audience so that they can follow along during your presentation or use for future reference. If you’d like to customize the handout layout before its distribution, PowerPoint has a way. Customizing a PowerPoint Handout’s Layout Go ahead and open up the PowerPoint presentation you’ll be working with if you haven’t already. Switch over to the “View” tab and click the “Handout Master” button....

BetterTouchTool lets you bind any gesture you can think of to any action you can think of. It’s like AutoHotKey on Windows, but in addition to keyboard shortcuts, you can also greate gesture shortcuts for your trackpad. BetterTouchTool has a simple configuration interface so that you can get started with customized gesture shortcuts right away. BetterTouchTool isn’t just for trackpads either—it supports shortcuts for your keyboard, magic mouse, Apple TV remote, and even the MacBook Pro’s Touchbar....

Windows 10’s October 2018 Update features “suggestion” banners or tiles that appear throughout the Settings app. You can easily disable these if you don’t want to see them. To disable these suggestions, head to Settings > Privacy > General. Click the switch under “Show me suggested content in the Settings app” to disable this feature. If you want to re-enable the suggestions in the future, return here and re-enable the switch....

If you own a Razer mouse or keyboard, you’ve probably installed the Razer Synapse software. By default, it automatically pops up a “Razer” splash screen every time you boot your PC. Here’s how to stop the popup. We performed this process with Razer Synapse 3. If you have an older version of Razer Synapse, the interface may look different. To find the option, locate the green Razer icon in your notification area, right-click it, and select “Settings....

Windows 10 provides visual feedback when you tap your touch screen. By default, a transparent circle appears under your finger after you tap. Here’s how to disable these. To find this option, head to Settings > Ease of Access > Cursor & Pointer. (To quickly open the Settings app, press Windows+I.) Scroll down to the “Change Touch Feedback” section. Tap the “Show visual feedback around the touch points when I touch the screen” toggle to “Off....

How to Edit and Mark Up Images and PDFs All of Preview’s editing and markup features are now available directly in the Quick Look menu. This means you can crop an image, rotate it, mark it up with text, and even add a signature, all without opening the image in Preview. The same goes for PDFs. Start by opening the Finder app (file explorer) and locating the image or PDF. If it’s on your Desktop, click it to select it....

Windows is the most targeted operating system on the planet. That means you should fortify your PC’s defenses to stay safe both online and offline. This guide shows you how to enable or disable Secure Sign-In for Windows 10. Secure Sign-In is an additional component on the Windows 10 login screen. It doesn’t prevent anyone from accessing your PC if they have your credentials. Instead, Windows 10 removes the login fields until you type a string of keys....

Before you sell your Xbox One or pass it on to someone else, you should perform a factory reset. This wipes all your personal data. Whoever gets the Xbox One will have to go through the first-time setup process once again, signing in with their own Microsoft account. If you didn’t factory reset your Xbox One and you no longer have access to it, there’s no way to remotely wipe your Xbox One’s data....

It’s a great way to combat package theft because packages will only arrive when you’re home to receive them. Your orders also might be combined in fewer boxes, so you’ll have fewer packages and boxes to deal with. Plus, delivery drivers won’t have to make as many trips to your home. RELATED: How to Stop People from Stealing Your Packages

Ryzen Master lets you easily fall back to the default settings if things go wrong. You still need some basic overclocking understanding, but it’s a nice, easy gateway into the world of overclocking. What Is Overclocking? Overclocking increases the clock speeds of your processor (measured in Megahertz or Gigahertz) beyond what its advertised specifications are. Dialing up the clock speeds makes your CPU work faster, and that, in turn, improves performance....

A word of caution: installing Chrome extensions is more dangerous than you’d think, so we generally advise against adding too many of them. However, this one seems okay and is open source to boot. If you’re still cautious, you can manually set it to only work on certain sites, like YouTube, in Chrome’s extension settings. RELATED: Browser Extensions Are a Privacy Nightmare: Stop Using So Many of Them Installing AudioPick Click “Add to Chrome” on AudioPick’s download page, and accept the permissions....

How to Restart Your Apple Watch To restart the Apple Watch, you’ll have to turn it off and on again, like your iPhone. Unfortunately, there isn’t a simple “Restart” button that you can press. Before you start, make sure that the Apple Watch is not on the charger. Press and hold the Side button on your Apple Watch until you see the Power menu. Here, swipe the “Power off” slider to the right of the screen with your finger....

If you’re presenting a slideshow to others who speak a different language, you can use subtitles in Microsoft PowerPoint. This helpful feature lets you talk to your audience without doing the work of translation yourself. RELATED: How to Translate a Word Document How Subtitles Work in PowerPoint If you have members of your audience who speak a different language or dialect, you may contemplate translating the slides or even creating two versions of the presentation....

How to Watch the Fight Live in the United States UFC 242 is exclusive to ESPN+, ESPN’s streaming service, in the United States, so the only way to watch the fight live is online. For that, you’ll have to sign up for ESPN+ and then purchase the fight as a pay-per-view event. Coverage of the main fight card begins at 2:00 PM Eastern Time (US) and early prelims start at 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US)....

It’s easy to take screenshots in Windows 10. However, you can’t grab a screenshot that includes your mouse cursor in the image unless you use a workaround or a third-party tool. We’ll show you how to do both. Take Visible Mouse Cursor Screenshots with Steps Recorder If you want the mouse cursor to show up in your screenshots, then Steps Recorder is one way to do it. It ships with Windows 10, so you don’t need to install it separately....