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Quickly Turn off App Notifications from the Notification Center You can disable an app’s notification from the notification itself. This works when you see a notification banner or alert in the top-right corner of the screen. When you see a notification, right-click it and choose the “Turn Off” option. Your Mac will instantly stop notifications from the app. Alternatively, you can use the Notification Center to do this. Click the Date and Time from the menu bar to show the Notification Center....

The New Item menu in File Explorer lets you create new files in the current folder, but you might not ever use some of the options. Here’s how to remove unwanted entries from the list. You can access the New Item menu by clicking the “New item” button option when you’re in a File Explorer folder. You can also access it by right-clicking an empty area in a folder and then pointing to the “New” option on the context menu that appears....

How to Add Favorites in Apple Maps First, open the Apple Maps app. If you can’t find it, use the built-in Spotlight Search feature to locate the app. Next, use the search bar to look for a place you want to add to your Favorites. Once you find it, swipe up on the card to expand it. Scroll all of the way to the bottom of this page. Here, you’ll find the “Add to Favorites” button....

Windows 10 tracks how much data you use, which can help you stay under data caps, whether you’re on mobile data or your home internet connection. The latest versions of Windows 10 makes it easy to clear your usage data. For example, you might want to erase these details and start over on the day your internet service provider starts counting your data for a new month. To do this, head to Settings > Network & Internet > Data Usage....

Google Maps is an invaluable tool for navigating using your smartphone. But did you know Maps keeps track of your travels even if you’re not actively using it? This feature enables you to see a running list of your visited restaurants. If you use Maps while signed in to your Google account, it records your location history. This somewhat creepy functionality can be managed if you don’t like it, but it does provide some interesting insight into your habits....

Animoji is a really fun feature in iMessage on newer iPhones, but you can also send Animoji to friends and family that don’t have iMessage—or don’t even have an iPhone for that matter. RELATED: How to Use Animoji on the iPhone X, XS, and XR When you send an Animoji to another iPhone user, it’s optimized to show up as an animated GIF of sorts, complete with audio. However, it’s really nothing more than a video, so you can send Animoji to anyone, whether they use an iPhone or an Android device....

Discord is an excellent, free chat application that was built for gamers, but is useful for anyone. It comes with Slack-style text chat, group voice chat channels, and plenty of tools to manage your users. It’s a great tool for getting a community together or talking with friends while you play games. Here’s how to set up your own server. What Is Discord? Discord is a lot like Slack with some extra features that are designed to help gamers…but honestly, it’s a great chat program all around....

You’ll use the same steps on both your desktop and your phone to format your comments. RELATED: How to Find Your Comments on YouTube Strike-Through Comments on YouTube With the strike-through option, you can add a line crossing out your comment text. To use it, add a dash before and after your comment text. This will add the strike-through effect to your text. For example, if you want to use strike-through for the following text:...

When we talk about “unpairing” a Galaxy Watch from your phone, there are two very different things that can mean. You can “unpair” from the Bluetooth menu, making your phone forget the watch, or simply disconnect the watch from your phone temporarily. RELATED: Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 Review: Greater Than or Equal Unpair a Samsung Galaxy Watch First, swipe down once or twice—depending on your phone—from the top of the screen and tap the gear icon....

This is easier than you might think. You can try Linux on your PC before installing it, and you can even install it alongside Windows 7 when you make the leap. Here’s what you need to know. A Real Alternative to Windows 7 In 2020, Linux works a lot better than you might think. Especially if you have an older PC that ran Windows 7, your hardware would be well-supported and “just work” without any extra fiddling....

Excel’s FREQUENCY function lets you count how many times values fall within specific ranges. For example, if you had the ages of a group of people in your spreadsheet, you could figure out how many people fall into different age ranges. Let’s take a look at how to calculate frequency distributions and, with a slight modification, frequency percentages. What Does the FREQUENCY Function Do? Excel’s FREQUENCY array function lets you calculate a dataset’s frequency distribution....

Microsoft confirmed last year that it was merging the modern (“OneNote for Windows 10”) and classic (Win32) OneNote applications on Windows into one combined application, and now the company has detailed its recent and upcoming changes. The updated OneNote app has a similar layout as the classic OneNote app, but with a completely refreshed look and feel to match Windows 11 (and Microsoft’s other modern apps). There’s still a ribbon interface at the top with tabs for switching between tools, just like all the other Office applications....

Android and iOS are in constant competition for unique features, but more often than not they just end up taking features from the other platform. That said, iOS still has a few tricks up its sleeve. Each platform has features that set it apart from the other, and there will always be comparisons drawn between the two. This isn’t about saying which OS is “better” than the other—that is purely subjective....

Do you use Steam on Ubuntu? You may have to switch to a new Linux distro in the future. A Valve developer announced that Steam won’t officially support Ubuntu 19.10 or future releases. Ubuntu-based Linux distributions are also affected. Update: In response to “the huge amount of feedback this weekend,” Canonical announced plans to continue building 32-bit compatibility packages for Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 LTS. Valve now says Steam will “likely” support Ubuntu 19....

Users shouldn’t have to know about tech company feuds. In an ideal world, where the user experience is the top priority, your ability to watch videos would not depend on how well two multinational corporations are getting along this month. If you haven’t noticed, we don’t live in an ideal world. If you read a lot of tech news, you saw this coming. Most people don’t, so here’s a quick explainer of why these two technology giants can’t get along, and what it means for users....

Roku has revealed a new range of smart lights and home cameras that will branch out the Roku name to more than just smart TV boxes. These smart home products are made in partnership with Wyze — in fact, many of Roku’s new smart home products are basically rebadged Wyze products. Both the smart home cameras and the lighting products are identical to existing products in Wyze’s range. The difference is that these products will integrate with your Roku TV OS, allowing you to view live streams of your cameras right from your TV....

Photo by Steve Webel. Note: Sending an email is always free, but the person that receives the message will probably be charged for a text message. Keep that in mind when using this. Sending Text Messages To get started simply enter the SMS Gateway address in the same way that you would with an email address, compose your message, and then send it on its’ way. In just a short while your family, friends, or coworkers will have the new SMS show up on their mobile....

Internet Worms Spread like Real-World Parasites Most malware has to brute-force its way onto your computer, either by tricking you into downloading dubious software or by piggy-backing on benign email attachments. But worms are different. Worms, unlike viruses or trojans, take advantage of a computer’s pre-existing security vulnerabilities at an operating-system level. Worms are also standalone software or files, and they typically travel across a computer network (your home or work network, for example), rather than through software downloads....

Google Chrome already blocks some types of “mixed content” on the web. Now, Google announced it’s getting even more serious: Starting in early 2020, Chrome will block all mixed content by default, breaking some existing web pages. Here’s what that means. What Is Mixed Content? There are two types of content here: Content delivered over a secure, encrypted HTTPS connection, and content delivered over an unencrypted HTTP connection. When you use HTTPS, content can’t be snooped on or tampered with in transit, which is why it’s critical websites offer encryption when dealing with financial information or private data....

You have almost certainly encountered archived files at some point—ZIP, RAR, and so on. They look like a single file, but act a lot more like a package, letting people bundle and compress multiple files and folders into a single, smaller file. 7Z files work the same way, and are particular to the popular 7-Zip compression tool. What Is a 7Z file? 7Z is the file extension used for an archived file created using 7-Zip, a free, open-source file compression tool....