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Bluetooth Devices Can Now Pinpoint Your Location Current Bluetooth proximity systems can guess how far away a device—like your smarthome or smartwatch—is by using signal strength. They might know you’re a few meters away, but they don’t know the direction. That’s enhanced with a new direction-finding feature in Bluetooth 5.1, which was just announced by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG,) the industry group that oversees Bluetooth. A positioning system can now determine the direction a Bluetooth signal is coming from....

Filters in Google Sheets let you analyze data in your document by showing only the things you want. However, it changes how others see the document, too. Here’s how to use filter views to leave each collaborator’s view unchanged. Fire up Google Sheets and open up a spreadsheet to get started. Click Data > Filter Views > Create New Filter View. The row numbers and column letters will turn a dark gray color when activated....

An odd quirk in Outlook is the inability to add a default signature to meeting requests. Here’s a quick and simple way to set up a one-click solution that avoids cutting and pasting every time you create a meeting. We’ve covered creating, editing, and applying Outlook signatures in detail before, but these can only be applied to emails. If you’re required by your employer to add a signature—or if you just feel it’s more professional to use one—then sending out a meeting request requires you to either copy and paste a signature in or use Insert > Signature....

Flowcharts and diagrams can help people understand confusing data. If you need one for your Google Docs or Slides file, you can create it without leaving your document. We’ll show you how. Insert a Flowchart In Google Docs Fire up your browser, open a Docs file, and then click Insert > Drawing > + New. RELATED: The Beginner’s Guide to Google Docs From the Google Drawing window, click the icon that looks like a circle on top of a square....

Your photos and videos are precious memories, and you don’t want to lose them. Here are four mostly-free services you can use to automatically backup your photos and videos and access them from anywhere. If you’re like most people, your phone is your primary camera. As such, it contains highlights of your life or your children’s lives, and you don’t want to lose those memories. If your phone gets lost, stolen, or broken, all of your photos and videos may go with it....

Any time you delete something in Windows, it goes to the Recycle Bin. It sits there until the Recycle Bin reaches it’s preconfigured maximum size (or until you empty the bin), at which point Windows deletes the oldest files in the bin to make room for new ones. This gives you a chance to restore deleted files before they’re permanently gone. Most people just leave the Recycle Bin alone, never adjusting its default settings and letting it do its job....

Windows 10’s new Sandbox feature lets you safely test programs and files downloaded from the internet by running them in a secure container. It’s easy to use, but its settings are buried in a text-based configuration file. Windows Sandbox Is Easy to Use If You Have It This feature is part of Windows 10’s May 2019 Update. Once you’ve installed the update, you’ll also have to be using the Professional, Enterprise, or Education editions of Windows 10....

AirPods Paired to an Apple ID Should “Just Work” When you pair your AirPods with an iPhone or iPad, iCloud shares that connection with your other linked devices. If you’re signed in to another device using the same Apple ID, your AirPods should “just work” when you try to connect. This is also true for the Apple TV. With your AirPods already paired to your Apple ID, you can use a handy shortcut to quickly connect....

What Is a JPG File? JPG (or JPEG), is a popular file format used for images and graphics — especially on the internet. It was created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) and uses a compression algorithm that reduces sections of an image into blocks of pixels. It’s able to compress up to a ratio of 10:1 without any noticeable degradation, depending on your settings. This alone is one of the main reasons why JPG has become the de facto standard of images on the internet....

While Excel offers many features and functions for working with times, you may want your times formatted as decimals instead. You might need them for use in other formulas, for a timesheet, or for your own preference. Here are a few ways to convert time to decimals in Excel. You can use whichever method you’re most comfortable with or works best for you. Use the Time and Decimal Formats Before you convert the times and decimals in your sheet, make sure that the cells are formatted as such....

Using an iCloud email alias is a great way of disguising your real email address. You can use an alias when signing up for newsletters or websites, keeping your real address out of their database. We’re going to show you how. Handing your real email address over to someone who you might not know or trust to keep it private can lead to spam and general misuse. By creating an alias, you’re adding a buffer between the email sender and your master email address....

You can easily ignore or reject calls on your iPhone. However, what if you want to at least send a quick message to acknowledge the call? There are three default text messages you can send as responses to calls on your iPhone. If none of the default text message responses serve your purpose, you can change them. To customize the “Respond with Text” responses, tap “Settings” on the Home screen on your iPhone....

Why would you need to find the identity of the current user? In many cases the owner of the computer is the only user and, without getting too existential, they probably know themselves. Perhaps, but it is also common for people to create additional user accounts to allow family members to have access to the computer. And, if you’re connected to a remote shell on a server somewhere, you may need a quick reminder of the username you’re logged in with....

Dark Mode Seems to be Everywhere Everybody wants in on the dark mode craze. Whether it be your operating system, your email, or your browser, you can probably turn on a dark mode setting (nobody told Microsoft though). For some phones and laptops, black and grey colors will extend your battery life. And if you’ve ever checked your phone “just real quick” in a darkened theater or after turning the lights off in the bedroom, you’ve discovered that bright whites of a light theme will blind everybody and earn you enemies for life....

For some inexplicable reason, Apple decided to disable Dashboard by default in macOS Mojave, and it’s nothing short of a travesty. Thankfully, turning it back on is a simple affair. Here’s how to go about restoring Dashboard to its rightful glory. For those unfamiliar with Dashboard, it’s a collection of widgets that has been around ever since Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger shipped many years ago. Dashboard lets you select widgets you can easily access without interfering with other apps, or having to launch any apps to do a simple task....

If you plan on moving into a new place, are selling your Eero system, or are just having issues with it, here’s how to factory reset it so you can start fresh from square one. RELATED: How to Set Up the Eero Home Wi-Fi System There are a couple ways that you can factory reset your Eero system: through the Eero app on your phone, or using the reset button on the back of one of your Eero devices....

What This Means for Twitch Streamers On June 8, 2020, the official Twitch Support Twitter account issued a statement about an influx of take-down notices. It asked streamers to remove all video clips that could potentially include copyrighted content under DMCA rules. — Twitch Support (@TwitchSupport) June 8, 2020 On Twitch.tv, there’s a general rule when using music on your streams: if you play any music for which you don’t have the proper licensing, you can be penalized by the legal owner....

Grype is an open-source vulnerability scanner that finds weaknesses within container images and filesystem directories. Grype is developed by Anchore but works as a standalone binary that’s easier to get to grips with than the Anchore Engine. Known vulnerabilities make their way into your software via outdated operating system packages, compromised programming language dependencies, and insecure base images. Actively scanning your artifacts keeps you informed of issues before malicious actors find them....

Reseat a Loose Monitor Cable Monitor cables can be loose if they weren’t inserted properly the first time. These loose cables can cause your screen to flicker. They may even loosen over time if they weren’t plugged in securely enough. To check for this problem, unplug your monitor’s cable and plug it back in securely—from both the back of the monitor and on the PC. Make sure that the cable is fully tightened and that it doesn’t look or feel loose....

While the concept of forking a GitHub repository is similar to cloning, there is an important difference between the two. We explain what the difference is, when you may want to fork instead of clone, and how to do it. Cloning vs Forking: What’s the Difference? When you clone a repo, you copy that repository to your local machine and are essentially subscribing to any updates made to that repo....