With a line in your documents, you can visually separate your text or create a signature line. Microsoft Word offers various line types you can add to your documents, and we’ll show you how to do that. RELATED: How to Add a Dotted Line in a Microsoft Word Document Quickly Insert a Line in a Microsoft Word Document To quickly add a line in your document, use Word’s shortcut characters....
Start with Your Router Most smarthome devices require access to the internet to work correctly. While not all devices connect directly to the internet (like z-wave bulbs), those that don’t typically connect to a hub or other device to gain internet access. So in many ways, the single most significant point of vulnerability is your router. And securing your router should be your first step. You should change your default admin password used access the router....
Removing a distracting background from an image allows your audience to focus on the subject matter. Microsoft PowerPoint provides a suite of basic image editing tools—including one that lets you remove the background from an image. First, open PowerPoint and insert the image (Insert > Picture) that contains the background you want to remove. Next, click the “Format” tab that appears once the image is inserted. In the “Adjust” group, select the “Remove Background” option....
We recommend upgrading to Windows 10. In fact, you can still upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 for free. But, if you’re sticking with Windows 7 for now, we have some security tips. Business Users Can Pay For Security Updates We recommend businesses and other organizations pay for extended security updates if they still use Windows 7. This option isn’t available to home users, and the exact price of the updates depends on whether you have Windows 7 Enterprise or Windows 7 Professional....
The iPhone XR does not have 3D Touch, instead relying on something called Haptic Touch. It offers much the same features, and as of right now, it’s an iPhone XR exclusive. Here’s how to set it up. If you’re new to the iPhone XR, you may not realize that you have Haptic Touch, and you wouldn’t be the first, either. Haptic Touch is the iPhone XR’s replacement for 3D Touch, something most iPhone owners played with and then forgot about....
Signs of a Faulty HDMI Cable Signs your HDMI cable may be faulty closely mirror other faults, so even if you see these issues the cable may not be to blame. Once you’ve identified a problem, it’s time to move on to the next phase of troubleshooting: isolating the root cause. One of the most common issues with a faulty HDMI cable are “sparkles” or flickering dots that are usually white....
Some people like to keep their Outlook folders perfectly controlled, with emails neatly categorized and stored in a logical, minimal folder structure. Most of us aren’t like that, so Microsoft has provided tools to help. One of these tools is the little-known Conversation Cleanup tool, which deletes or moves redundant emails from a conversation. Here’s how it works. You can run the Conversation Clean Up tool against a single conversation, a folder, or a folder and all of its sub-folders....
If you want to run a logical test in a Google Sheets formula, providing different results whether the test is TRUE or FALSE, you’ll need to use the IF function. Here’s how to use it in Google Sheets. As the name suggests, IF is used to test whether a single cell or range of cells meets certain criteria in a logical test, where the result is always either TRUE or FALSE....
Google Meet is the video-chat tool integrated into G Suite and available to anyone with a Google account. By default, you’ll see the most active speaker on video calls with a lot of people, but you can now get a Zoom-style grid of videos. To change your video layout during a Google Meet video call, click the three vertical dots in the bottom right of your call and select “Change Layout....
By now, you may have seen articles on Facebook or alternative health websites. The gist: 5G is a dangerous escalation of traditional cellular technology, one packed with higher energy radiation that delivers potential damaging effects on human beings. Some 5G conspiracy theorists contend that the new network generates radiofrequency radiation that can damage DNA and lead to cancer; cause oxidative damage that can cause premature aging; disrupt cell metabolism; and potentially lead to other diseases through the generation of stress proteins....
It’s been a bit of a drag to be a PC gamer over the last year or so. Cryptocurrency miners gobbled up all of the graphics cards in an already somewhat niche market, sending prices for high-end and even mid-range GPUs skyrocketing. That has changed. Six months ago, we wrote about how this odd shift in the market made it more economical to buy a pre-made gaming PC than build one for the first time in…well, basically forever....
If you want to get as advanced as possible in Minecraft, redstone is where it’s at. Doors that automatically open, switch-controlled lights, farms that harvest themselves – it’s all possible with redstone. The easiest way to think about redstone is in terms of electrical devices. Redstone components like levers are just like switches on real-world devices and redstone dust is laid down in the game like electrical wiring. Although that seems pretty simple, you can string together redstone components together to create very complex things....
The new study comes from BlueMatrix, and it says, “87% of teens own an iPhone, and 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone.” If there was any doubt about what phone teenagers in the United States prefer, this study confirms the suspicion that most young people use iPhone, leaving Android’s install base to a minimal amount of GenZ. Breaking down the results, BlueMatrix said, “We view the elevated penetration and intention are important for a maturing premium smartphone market....
AMD Is Pushing Into Intel-Controlled Territory Laptops are a firmly Intel-dominated PC segment despite attempts by AMD, Qualcomm, and others to unseat it. AMD realistically won’t overtake Intel anytime soon, but the company is releasing APUs that perform as high or higher than what Intel has to offer. Similar to what’s happening on the desktop, AMD’s new processors threaten to chip away at the popularity of Intel. During 2020, around 100 laptops sporting new Ryzen 4000 mobile APUs are headed our way with quite a few hitting this spring....
Whether you need to focus on a project or just relax, background noise can help with either of those things. Here are the best websites and sources for background and ambient noise. Noisli If you’re looking for a small, simple collection of background noises, Noisli is perhaps the best site for that. It has a super simple and easy-to-use interface where you just click on an icon to play its specific background noise, and then adjust the volume with the slider right below the icon....
Why Smart TVs Are Cheaper Than Dumb TVs You’d think a dumb TV would be cheaper than a smart TV. After all, a dumb TV wouldn’t need the processing power and specialized software found on a smart TV. It could just act as a panel (like a computer monitor) and let you hook up devices via HDMI. So why is every TV becoming a smart TV? The Verge talked to Vizio CTO Bill Baxer at CES 2019....
The Secret Sauce Is Power Sensing The simplest way to use a power strip to save money is to place it somewhere you can reach it with your foot and then just give the switch a nudge when you’re not using all the gear attached to it. It really doesn’t get much simpler than that, but there’s no automation of any sort. If you forget to turn the strip off, the various electronics with their phantom loads keep on wasting power....
For an example of how useful this is: I was at somebody else’s house the other day and had some tasty wasabi peas. Since I wanted some for myself, I just pulled out my phone, snapped the barcode, and ordered them right then and there from my phone. Scanning Products the Easy Way You’ll be presented with a normal barcode scanner, which you just have to point at the product....
If you’ve ever tried to do anything advanced on your Android phone, you’ve likely heard (or read) the term “USB Debugging.” This is a commonly-used option that’s tucked away neatly under Android’s Developer Options menu, but it’s still something that many users enable without giving it a second thought–and without knowing what it really does. For example, if you’ve ever had to use ADB (the Android Debugging Bridge) to do things like flash a Factory Image on a Nexus device or root a device, then you’ve already used USB Debugging, whether you realized it or not....
Office 2019 is the latest version of Microsoft Office for both Windows PCs and Macs. If you subscribe to Office 365, you’ll always receive updates to the latest version of Office. If you buy a traditional single system license, you have to purchase each new version to receive it. The Latest Version is Office 2019 The latest version of Microsoft Office is Office 2019, which is available for both Windows PCs and Macs....
