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Google now offers a tool that automatically deletes your search and activity history from YouTube. By default, your data is stored forever, but it can be wiped from Google’s servers every 3 or 18 months. Similar auto-delete settings are available for your location history as well as your “Web & app history.” These aren’t just privacy settings—choosing to wipe your history regularly means Google won’t use that wiped YouTube history to personalize your video recommendations....

Since the game went online over a year ago, players of Niantic’s massively popular (and often frustrating) AR monster-catcher have wondered where all the legendary creatures are hiding in Pokémon Go. The original Game Boy title had massively powerful, interesting, and unique legendary Pokémon way back in the 90s, but the smartphone game launched without access to Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, and Mewtwo, despite a heavy feature in the original trailer....

These are just different ways of storing the partition table on a drive. GPT is more modern, and is required for booting Windows systems in UEFI mode. MBR is required for booting older Windows systems in BIOS mode, although the 64-bit version of Windows 7 can also boot in UEFI mode. How to Check Which Partition Table Your Disk Is Using To check which partition table your disk is using, you have two options: You can use Windows’ graphical Disk Management tool, or you can use the command line....

How to Film a Good Screencast To create a screencast, you have to record what’s happening on your desktop, together with the commentary you’re adding to it. That requires the ability to record video from your desktop, and audio from your Linux sound subsystem, and possibly from other sources as well. When you watch a good screencast, you’ll notice the commentary or narrative is right on point. It’s polished. The delivery has confidence and clarity....

Clearing out cookies generally signs you out of all accounts, but Chrome makes one exception: your Google account. This is new as of Chrome 69, but Google does not hide the change: it’s explained in the settings screen, as shown above. But what if you actually wanted to remove your Google cookies? It’s still possible according to Adrienne Porter Felt, an engineer and manager on the Chrome team (via Bleeping Computer):...

Remote Assistance lets you—or someone who you trust—gain access to your computer remotely. It’s a useful way to let a family member or trusted tech diagnose a problem you’re having with your PC without having to be there. When not using Remote Assistance, you might want to disable this potentially vulnerable service. How to Disable Remote Assistance Open up Control Panel by clicking the Start Menu, typing “Control Panel,” and then clicking the application’s icon....

There are times when it can be useful to see all of the events in your calendar at once. Outlook lets you export all of the events between two dates into a single CSV file. Here’s how it all works. Want to know how many pointless meetings Chad from Marketing has invited you to in the last year? Wondering when the last time your supervisor had a one-to-one with you was?...

Instagram is the place to be these days and, as someone once said, sharing is caring. It could be your wedding or something much more mundane, but without followers, it’s pointless. Here’s how to make it easy for people to follow you. The people who work at Instagram know that the key to a great Instagram profile is to make sure it’s easy for people to follow you. All the best photos in the world won’t do you any good if nobody knows that they exist, so sharing your Instagram profile is vital....

Adobe Flash is used for certain content on websites—usually video or web apps. While it’s slowly being phased out in favor of HTML5, occasionally a website still requires you to have the Flash player installed. It’s not installed by default on macOS anymore, but you can still download it. Warning: Do not download Flash from anywhere except Adobe. It’s a common phishing tactic for a malicious website to claim your Flash player is “out of date” and direct you to a fake download....

Have you ever needed to press a key every couple of seconds, or every few minutes? Perhaps you’re playing a video game and you’re waiting for an item, or you’ve got some other reason. Either way, here’s how to make your PC do it automatically. You’ll need to start by downloading and installing AutoHotkey, which is a simple scripting language that allows you to create easy scripts. Once you do that, right-click anywhere and choose New –> AutoHotkey Script....

Whether you have two integers, a few cells, or a couple of columns that need to be multiplied together, Google Sheets provides a few different ways to find the product of your data. Here’s how. Multiply Two Integers Together There are two ways to find the product of two numbers. One uses a built-in formula, while the other uses the multiply operand to complete the calculation. Both work virtually the same and multiply numbers just as you would expect....

What Is Netplay? Netplay enables online play in emulators, but it isn’t quite the same as traditional online play in video games. Since the original console being emulated wasn’t made for online play (and netplay is a hack on top of it), what’s happening is the emulator’s “state” is constantly being synced between players. While this is fine for some games, Super Smash Bros. Melee for Nintendo GameCube is still being played after all these years because of its vibrant competitive scene....

The situation with iCloud storage would be funny if it wasn’t so ridiculous, and we’ve already made our feelings clear on whether Apple should offer more storage for free. But if you really must pay, why not save some money? Even though Apple’s pricing of iCloud storage has improved, that doesn’t excuse the fact that it should be offering more of it for free, and there’s a school of thought that it should give away enough to fully back up any iPhone or iPad they sell....

The default wallpapers that come with your computer, phone, or tablet aren’t necessarily terrible, but if you want to give your device a unique look, using a custom wallpaper is the best option. Here’s how and where to find cool wallpapers online. Google Image Search Perhaps the easiest way to find a cool wallpaper that fits your liking is by just using Google Image Search. Start by typing in what you’re looking for, followed by “wallpaper....

Why Send a Password-Protected Email? When you send an email to a standard webmail address like Gmail, the server receives the email and notifies the recipient. The server can see the entire contents of the email, and any devices set up for use with that email address can notify the recipient of a new message. This usually takes the form of a push notification with a visible subject line and a preview of the message contents....

Your hearing is important, and if you lose it, you can’t get it back. We all like to listen to loud music, but limiting the volume is vital, especially for kids. Here, we explain how to limit the volume of Apple Music. Parents know that making sure their children don’t destroy their hearing by listening to music too loudly is important, but as anyone with children will attest, simply making that statement isn’t always enough to ensure compliance....

Apps in the Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, and Slides) keep track of all the edits, changes, and versions of a file so you can revert to an earlier version if you need to. Here’s how to do it. First, open up a file you have stored on Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides. We’ll be using Google Docs, but the process is the same on the other two services as well....

If you use a Mac, iPhone, or iPad, you might have wondered what iCloud is using all that space for. Today, we’ll take you through the entire range of iCloud syncing and show you how to turn it off, if you so desire. iCloud syncs quite a few applications, which is not only convenient but essential for applications to work correctly across your Apple devices (like Calendar, Notes, and Reminders)....

Burst mode, where your camera keeps taking photos as long as you hold down the shutter button, is handy when you’re trying to take action, sports, wildlife, or any other kind of photos where the subject is moving quickly. There’s a knack to doing it right, so let’s dig in. Previsualize Your Image When you’re using burst mode, you don’t have a lot of time to think about the photo as you take it....

Miracast is a wireless display standard included in Windows 8.1, Android 4.2, and newer versions of these operating systems. With a Miracast receiver plugged into a TV or another display nearby, casting your screen should be easy. Windows 8.1+ RELATED: What is Miracast and Why Should I Care? If your computer came with Windows 8.1 or Windows RT 8.1, it should support Miracast. If you’ve upgraded an old PC to Windows 8....