Slack is a popular communication service primarily used in workplace environments. If you want to try it, you can create your own free Slack workspace and invite anyone you want. Here’s how to set it up. To set up your own Slack workspace, head to www.slack.com and click the “Get Started” button in the top-right corner. Click on the “Create a New Workspace” option. Enter your email address and click “Confirm....
RELATED: How to Delete Instagram Messages Delete Facebook Messenger Messages on Desktop If you’re on a desktop computer like Windows, Mac, Linux, or Chromebook, use the Facebook website to delete individual or all messages from your account. To start, launch a web browser on your computer and access Facebook. Log in to your account on the site if you haven’t already. Then, in Facebook’s top-right corner, click the “Messenger” icon....
Roku TVs sometimes use a technology they call “Action Smoothing” to artificially speed up the framerate of video, but it often ends up looking fake and ruins the cinematic look of movies. What Is “Action Smoothing” Anyway? Action Smoothing is Roku’s implementation of motion smoothing, a common feature on high-end TVs. Motion smoothing works by increasing the framerate of the video on the TV. More frames make motion feel smoother, but there’s a problem: since there’s no way to create new frames out of nowhere, it has to take two frames and attempt to figure out what the “in between frame” is....
To allow websites to show pop-up windows in Microsoft Edge, you will have to disable Edge’s pop-up blocker that blocks those windows. Here’s how you do that on desktop and mobile. RELATED: How to Turn off Save Password Pop-ups in Microsoft Edge Why Disable Pop-Up Blocker in Edge? Normally, you do not have to disable Edge’s pop-up blocker as it is simply not required on most sites. However, a few sites require pop-up windows to fully function....
Slack recently updated its message box with a WYSIWYG interface. To bold text, select it and click the “Bold” button like you’re using Microsoft Word. Now, in response to criticism from some long-time users, Slack is offering a way to disable it and use classic Markdown formatting. If you like Slack’s new WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editing interface, great! It’s still the default. But the new rich text editor works differently from Slack’s old one, with different formatting rules....
One of Microsoft Excel’s greatest features is the ability to link to other workbooks. So if a time comes when you need to find those workbook links that you’ve included, you’ll need to know where to begin. A general search to locate the links to workbooks is easy if it’s just the text in the cells that you look through. But if you have workbooks linked in formulas, defined names, charts, or objects, it’s not an obvious search....
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Docker Engine exposes a REST API which you can use to control your containers without the docker CLI. The API exposes equivalent functionality using HTTP network calls. You can script common Docker operations using your favorite programming language or remotely control one of your hosts. The CLI internally relies on the same API to provide its built-in commands. In this article we’ll look at the basics of enabling and using the API....
Do you have screens with apps you only use occasionally? Or perhaps you’d like to rearrange the order your screens display in when you swipe? Beginning in iPadOS 15, you can hide and reorder your iPad screens. Here’s how. How to Hide iPad Screens Everyone organizes their devices differently. You might have a screen with all of your games, or one with all of your business apps. Maybe you don’t access the apps on those screens often....
Spotify codes make it easy to share your favorite songs and other items on Spotify. We’ll show you how to make and scan these codes on your Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. What Is a Spotify Code? A Spotify code is a machine-readable code in an image. It’s much like a QR code that you may already be familiar with. You can’t read this code, but the Spotify app on your iPhone, iPad, or Android phone can....
RELATED: How to Enable Dark Mode on Facebook Desktop Turn On Facebook’s Dark Mode on Android To make the Facebook app use dark mode on your phone, first, launch the Facebook app. In Facebook’s top-right corner, tap the hamburger menu (three horizontal lines). On the “Menu” screen, scroll down to the bottom. There, tap “Settings & Privacy.” From the expanded “Settings & Privacy” menu, select “Settings.” On the “Settings & Privacy” page that opens, in the “Preferences” section, tap “Dark Mode....
While Microsoft PowerPoint is almost exclusively used for presentation purposes, it’s also a great application for creating interesting and visually appealing brochures. Here’s how to create (and print out) a tri-fold using PowerPoint. Making Tri-Folds in PowerPoint Good news—there are templates! This is the quickest and easiest way to accomplish your goal, as there are several different tri-fold templates available for download online. Browse through the template library, select the one you like, and download it....
Autofocus doesn’t always work as well as you’d hope. Sometimes it’s necessary to go old school and focus your camera manually. Here’s how to make sure you get sharp shots. Autofocus is excellent on bright days when there’s a clear subject but, if you’re shooting in low light, want to focus on a specific object, or there isn’t a distinct subject, autofocus can struggle. For landscape images, for example, I almost always use manual focus because it gives me total control over the image....
Apple will likely release the stable version of macOS Mojave sometime in September or October of 2018. If you’ve already opted into the beta and want to opt back out, you can downgrade back to High Sierra. What You Need to Know If you installed macOS Mojave on a secondary volume (or partition) on your Mac, you can quickly remove that volume. Otherwise, this process will be easiest for you if you followed our recommendation to create a Time Machine backup before installing the Mojave beta....
We recommend using “reading mode” in web browsers to eliminate this. In reading mode, your web browser creates a special view with just the text and important images. But this mode isn’t just for reading—you can also print from it and get a better, more streamlined hard copy. All you have to do is activate the web browser’s reading mode before printing the article. Here’s how: Google Chrome: Chrome has a hidden reader mode you can enable....
SSH is a lifesaver when you need to remotely manage a computer, but did you know you can also upload and download files, too? Using SSH keys, you can skip having to enter passwords and use this for scripts! This process works on Linux and Mac OS, provided that they’re properly configured for SSH access. If you’re using Windows, you can use Cygwin to get Linux-like functionality, and with a little tweaking, SSH will run as well....
A corrupt SD card is a digital photographer’s worst nightmare. All those amazing photos ruined because a few 1s and 0s are in the wrong place? While you might be able to recover your images from a corrupt card, you don’t want to be in this situation in the first place, and that means knowing how to format your SD cards properly. RELATED: How to Recover Images Off a Corrupted SD Card...
Google Nest Hub If you’re feeling like an extra sweet grandchild, you can buy your grandma or grandpa what ReviewGeek has dubbed 2018’s product of the year—the Google Nest Hub (previously called the Google Home Hub). Jason Fitzpatrick, Founding Editor of Review Geek, loved this product so much he called its Ambient Mode the “Best Picture Frame Ever.” The nice thing about the Nest Hub is it’s not just a digital photo frame—it’s a device that could add a little extra functionality into your grandparent’s life (with a little learning curve, of course)....
Google Docs lets you suggest edits on a document when you’re collaborating with others. After you suggest an edit, the document’s owner can then accept or delete it. Here’s how it works. RELATED: How to See Recent Changes to Your Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides File How to Suggest an Edit in Google Docs When you’re viewing a document in Google Docs, you’re doing so in one of three states:...
Taking a screenshot on an iPad is as easy as pressing two buttons at once on your device—or you can use an alternative onscreen method. Here’s how to do it. What Is a Screenshot? A screenshot is a direct capture of exactly what’s on your device’s screen. With a screenshot, you can capture what you’re seeing, and then save it for later or share it with others without having to take a photo of your device with a camera....
