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Your iPhone uses nine minutes as the snooze time for all your alarms. While there’s no direct way to change this snooze time, you can use a couple of workarounds to get alarms at custom intervals. We’ll show you how. RELATED: How to Set an Alarm for Sunrise or Sunset on iPhone Why Nine Minutes? Apple has not officially explained the reasoning for their nine-minute snooze time. But, unofficial sources, like Apple Explained, believe that this snooze time comes from mechanical alarm clocks....

The Key to Smarthome Bliss: A Single App Other than voice, the best to way to control your smarthome is through a single app. This is especially true if multiple family members interact with your smarthome. If everyone is always second-guessing which app controls the living room lights and which controls the smart plugs, you might be tempted to give up in frustration. It’s even worse when you have to change infrequently used options, like routines, timers, or scenes....

Microsoft Word has been able to publish content to blog platforms since Office 2007. The feature is still available and has matured to a point where it gives Windows Live Writer a run for its money. Here is how to get set up. How to Create a Blog Post in Office 2013 When you launch Word, you should see a Blog post template somewhere near the top of the screen....

You can back up your USB drive by creating a saved image. You can then take that saved image and clone multiple USB sticks. This guide shows you how to create an image of your USB drive using Windows 10. Copy Versus Clone Don’t follow this guide if you’re simply copying files from a USB stick. Take the usual drag-and-drop method in File Explorer to transfer files to and from the USB stick....

Steam allows you to remotely install games from your smartphone, just like you can with a PlayStation 4 or Xbox One. You can download games to your gaming PC from anywhere, ensuring those big downloads are complete and the game is ready to play when you get home. You can also do this from any web browser. What You Need to Know RELATED: Should You Shut Down, Sleep, or Hibernate Your Laptop?...

Windows 10 allows you to quickly sign in with a numeric PIN instead of a longer password. if you have a keyboard with a number pad, you can use that number pad to enter the PIN–after you enable Num Lock. Here’s how to enable Num Lock at boot so you don’t have to press the key every time. This should be a lot easier to enable, or even be the default setting, considering Windows 10’s use of PINs....

Have you ever noticed that a pixel – a little dot on your computer’s LCD monitor – is staying a single color all of the time? You have a stuck pixel. Luckily, stuck pixels aren’t always permanent. Stuck and dead pixels are hardware problems. They’re often caused by manufacturing flaws – pixels aren’t supposed to get stuck or die over time. Image Credit: Alexi Kostibas on Flickr Stuck vs. Dead Pixels Stuck pixels are different from dead pixels....

With Google Chrome’s built-in QR code option on your desktop, you can make QR codes for any sites and web pages you visit in the browser. When others scan them, they’ll be taken to the site. Here’s how to use it. Why Make a QR Code in Chrome? There are many reasons to generate QR codes for websites. One neat reason is that you can quickly send a website from your desktop browser to your smartphone....

One of the Google Pixel 6’s most touted features is called “Magic Eraser.” It allows you to select objects in photos and “magically” remove them. The good news is you can get this on almost any Pixel phone. Magic Eraser is not as dependent on Google’s Tensor chip as people assumed. In fact, any Pixel phone running Android 12 can use the feature. That includes the Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 5a, Pixel 5, Pixel 4a, Pixel 4, Pixel 3a, Pixel 3a XL, Pixel 3, and Pixel 3 XL....

To allow people to find your profile and follow you on Instagram, you will have to share your profile’s web link with them. It’s easy to get your Instagram profile link on both desktop and mobile, and we’ll show you how. RELATED: How to Tell if Someone Follows You on Instagram What Is My Instagram URL? Your Instagram URL (web link) is Instagram’s domain name, a forward-slash, and then your username....

If you need to insert the cent symbol (¢) in your Microsoft Word documents, the fastest way is to use a keyboard shortcut. We’ll show you how to do that on Windows and Mac. RELATED: All of the Best Microsoft Word Keyboard Shortcuts Insert the Cent Symbol in Word on Windows On Windows, you have two keyboard shortcuts to add the cent symbol to your documents. Use the first shortcut if your keyboard has a numeric keypad, or use the second shortcut if it doesn’t....

Kodi can do a lot out of the box. If you’ve got a collection of ripped Blu-Rays and CDs, you can browse them from your couch with a beautiful interface. If you’ve got a TV tuner card, you can watch live TV with NextPVR. As local media players go, it’s very complete. What Kodi can’t do, at least on its own, is stream media from the web. To do that (among other things), you need add-ons....

Chrome OS normally puts your operating system into a low-power sleep mode when you close the lid. This can be problematic if you hook your laptop up to an external monitor. Here’s how to stop your Chromebook from going to sleep when you close the lid. RELATED: Should You Shut Down, Sleep, or Hibernate Your Laptop? Before we get started, a necessary disclaimer: closing your laptop’s lid and throwing it in your bag while it’s still on could cause some serious problems due to poor circulation or blocking of vents....

A New Privacy Option for Your Location Before iOS 13 for iPhones and the new iPadOS for iPads, you only had three choices when an app wanted access to your location: Never, While Using, and Always. The “While Using” option is a good compromise, ensuring apps could bring up maps and make use of your location while you’re using them. Unlike apps with the “Always” permission, they can’t access your location in the background....

WhatsApp lets you make voice and video calls on Windows and Mac. If you prefer using your computer over your smartphone, we’ll show you how to make voice and video calls using WhatsApp’s desktop apps. What You Need to Make WhatsApp Calls on Desktop Even though you’ll be able to make WhatsApp calls on desktop, there are some limitations that you should be aware of. To use desktop calling on WhatsApp for Windows, you should update to Windows 10 64-bit version 1903 or newer versions....

A good password or PIN is difficult to crack but can be difficult to remember. If you forgot or lost your Windows login PIN, you won’t be able to retrieve it, but you can change it. Here’s how. Resetting Your Windows PIN When Not Signed In Assuming you’ve already added a PIN to your Microsoft account, that PIN will make logging into devices much faster. If you’ve been locked out of your Windows PC for any reason, start by going to the login screen and clicking the “I Forgot My PIN” link....

By default, PowerPoint slides use a widescreen format in a 16:9 ratio. If you’d like to change it to the standard format (4:3 ratio), or even create a custom size, PowerPoint provides a quick and painless way to make this happen. Resizing PowerPoint Templates Resizing the slides in PowerPoint will affect the way they appear during the actual presentation and how they appear on the handouts. Go ahead and open up the presentation that we will be resizing and select the “Design” tab....

How to Watch the Fight Live in the United States UFC 239 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 10:00 PM Eastern Time (US), with the early prelims beginning at 6:15 pm EST and the prelims starting at 8:00 pm....

There are times when you might need to quickly disable biometric authentication on your iPhone. Instead of digging around in Settings, this quick shortcut temporarily disables Face or Touch ID on your iPhone. If you’re somewhere (like a border check or party) where you think your face or thumbprint could be used against your will to unlock your iPhone, this quick shortcut will disable biometric authentication. You can even do this if your iPhone’s in your pocket....

If you’ve ever built a computer and purchased a Windows license, you probably don’t want to buy another license for your next one. With the slmgr command, it’s possible to deactivate your old PC and then activate a new one. Deactivate an Old PC Instead of Buying a New License Windows licenses are expensive. At $100 to $200, an official product key from Microsoft costs about the same as a 1 TB solid-state drive, 16 GB of RAM, or a motherboard....