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If you’re using Google Chrome’s Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode, an experimental flag can give you the ability to mute the video quickly. Here’s how to enable and use the mute feature for Picture-in-Picture mode. When you enable anything from chrome://flags, you’re using experimental features that haven’t been tested on all devices and could misbehave. You can potentially run into a few bugs along the way, so be careful when playing around with some of the available flags....

If you don’t use a password manager, those complex passwords can be pretty hard to remember. If you’ve forgotten your Yahoo password, you can’t really recover that same password, but it’s easy enough to recover your account by resetting your password to something new. Head on over to yahoo.com, and then click the “Sign In” button located at the top of the page. Next, click the “Trouble Signing In” link....

Microsoft Office wants you to save your documents to online locations like OneDrive or SharePoint. That’s the default in applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Here’s how to change the default save location back Documents or another folder on “This PC.” These instructions apply to the latest versions of Microsoft Office on Windows 10, whether you have an Office 365 subscription or you purchased a package like Office 2019....

The Sticky Notes app is part of Windows 10, but it’s also linked to your Microsoft account. You can access your Sticky Notes anywhere you have a web browser or on an Android phone. iPhone and iPad support is coming soon. RELATED: How to Use Sticky Notes on Windows 10 How to See Sticky Notes on the Web Windows 10 Sticky Notes syncs all your notes to the cloud and lets you create, view, and manage notes on the web from any computer....

Do you want to find all emails from a specific sender in your Gmail account? There are a couple of ways to do this, and we’ll show you how to use them on Gmail’s web interface and mobile apps. Sort Emails by Sender in Gmail on the Web On Gmail’s web version, there are two ways to sort emails by a specific email sender. Both ways are explained below....

Installing apps and games helps you take full advantage of your Google TV streaming device. But, inevitably, you’ll end up with some you don’t want anymore. Here’s how to uninstall apps and games on Google TV. Small streaming devices, like Chromecast with Google TV, usually don’t have a ton of storage space. And everything you install uses some of it. This is why it’s important to remove any apps and games you’re not using anymore....

This trick, thanks to an intrepid developer over at XDA Developers, gives you everything a custom launcher does on Android. That means you get more control your home screen, add widgets, and even use custom icon themes. In short: your $50 Fire Tablet now acts much more like a real Android tablet. You’ll probably also want to install the Google Play Store before continuing, if you haven’t already. Then, use it to install the launcher of your choice....

A broken Home button can spell trouble, and may seem like the device is practically useless until you get it fixed or replaced. It isn’t, however: you can still access the Home button with a neat little workaround. The key is iOS’ AssistiveTouch feature, which we’ve mentioned before. AssistiveTouch works by placing a small button on your Home screen. When you tap it, a handy menu will appear allowing you to access actions that are normally triggered using gestures or buttons....

Sure, LastPass has a browser app that you can use, but who wants to do that? The native Safari browser works really well, and all the other apps work with it. So here’s how to use LastPass in Safari on iOS. First, you’ll need to be using LastPass. Second, you’ll need to open up LastPass on your desktop browser in your regular computer, and then open your Vault, and then click on Bookmarklets....

A watermark is a faded background image that displays behind the text in a document. You can use them to indicate a document’s state (confidential, draft, etc.), add a subtle company logo, or even for a bit of artistic flair. PowerPoint doesn’t have a built-in watermark feature like Word, but you can still add them with a text box. How to Insert a Watermark into PowerPoint It’s not quite as easy to add watermarks to PowerPoint as it is to Microsoft Word....

If you have received a long email—or you’re writing one—Outlook lets you split the mail vertically into two panes, so you don’t have to scroll quite so much to reference different parts of the mail. If you’ve ever had to deal with a long email full of replies from different people, you’ll realize how handy this little feature is right away. You could use the top pane to keep an older part of the conversation in view so that you can refer to it while using the bottom pane to type your reply....

An essential feature to look for in an 8K TV is its upscaling capability. Upscaling is the process used by the television to increase the resolution of lower-resolution content. As you’ll mostly watch 4K, Full-HD, and HD content on your TV, upscaling quality will play a significant role in making such content look good on the screen. The scarcity of native 8K content is often cited as an argument against 8K TVs....

Samsung packs its flagship phones with a slew of features—some are even better than stock Android. Either way, there are a lot of things on these phones that you may not be using. Here are some of the best. One-Handed Mode: Manage that Beast of a Phone with One Hand Modern smartphones are big. Even if you opt for a “smaller” model—like the Galaxy S9—it can still be a challenge to do everything you need to do with a single hand....

USB moves fast, both in a “transferring your data” sense and in a “the standards have changed again” sense. The USB-IF just recently announced new naming schemes for USB 3.2, the latest USB spec that promises data transfer speeds up to 20 Gbps. But as fast as USB 3.2 is, Thunderbolt 3, a three-year-old USB standard, boasts twice the speed at 40 Gbps. USB 4 will change that by offering the same speeds....

It’s been a rough few days for Linux gaming, but the battle is over. In response to Canonical’s change of plans around 32-bit compatibility libraries, Valve has announced it will “likely” support Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 LTS. Following Canonical’s statement after “the huge amount of feedback this weekend,” Valve’s statement was posted by developer Pierre-Loup on the Steam forums on June 26. He explains the entire situation: However, things aren’t all rosy for Ubuntu....

Photoshop is already a powerful and versatile app, but you can make it even more powerful, more versatile, and easier to use with Photoshop Add-Ons. Photoshop Add-Ons theoretically come in two flavors, Extensions and Plug-ins, although the differences are mainly behind the scenes. Both do much the same thing: they either add new functionality to Photoshop—like better HDR processing or the ability to export layers to CSS—or make it simpler to use Photoshop’s existing feature set—like panels that group together a load of retouching actions or create lots of specific layers or masks at once....

If you lose your Apple device or an object tagged with an AirTag, you can utilize a network of hundreds of millions of Apple devices with Bluetooth to help get it back. It’s called the “Find My network,” and here’s how it works. What Is the Find My Network? Apple’s Find My network is a crowdsourced method of locating your lost iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, AirPods, Apple Watch, or Mac....

What Was G Suite? Before we talk about Google Workspace, let’s take a look back at G Suite. The service started in 2006 as a way for organizations to use Google’s services on their own domains for a monthly subscription. Rather than maintaining their own network storage, email server, and other various tools, G Suite allowed organizations to use Google’s suite of cloud-based productivity and collaboration tools as the backend of their business....

When You’ll Want to Use Reverse SSH Tunneling Sometimes, remote computers can be hard to reach. The site they are located at may have tight firewall rules in place, or perhaps the local admin has set up complex Network Address Translation rules. How do you reach such a computer if you need to connect to it? Let’s establish some labels. Your computer is the local computer because it is near you....

Windows provides several options for conserving power when you are not using your PC. These options include Sleep, Hibernate, and Hybrid Sleep, and are particularly useful if you have a laptop. Here’s the difference between them. Sleep Mode RELATED: PSA: Don’t Shut Down Your Computer, Just Use Sleep (or Hibernation) Sleep mode is a power saving state that is similar to pausing a DVD movie. All actions on the computer are stopped, any open documents and applications are put in memory while the computer goes into a low-power state....