Google Docs uses a standard font when you create a document. If you aren’t happy with its appearance, here’s how you can change the default font instead of manually adjusting it each time. Fire up your browser, open a Google Docs file, and then change the font. Click the drop-down box and make sure the Style is set to “Normal Text,” as well. This refers to the main text style (excluding titles or headings) used throughout your document....
Windows 10’s default system font, Segoe UI, looks pretty nice. However, if you have something better to replace it with, you can change the default system font on your Windows 10 PC. We’ll show you how to do this. How to Change the Default System Font Using Registry Editor At the time of writing in March 2021, neither Settings nor Control Panel has an option to change the default system font....
Browsing the web on an iPhone is a great way to kill a few minutes, and it’s still the best mobile browsing experience around. If you’ve collected a bunch of open tabs, here’s an easy way to close just the ones you want. There are, in fact, a couple of different ways to close tabs in Safari on iPhone. Whether you want to close all of the open tabs or just a select few, we’ve got your back....
Microsoft’s Xbox One has limited support for some types of physical keyboards, but not mice. Connect a keyboard and you can use it to type text more conveniently than using the on-screen keyboard with your controller. For additional input options, you can install the Xbox One SmartGlass app on your phone or tablet. It gives you a keyboard and touchpad you can use to navigate the interface via your phone....
If you have your PC set up as a living room gaming PC and media center, why use a mouse for everything when you could just use your game controller? By default, Xbox controllers work well with many PC games, but it won’t allow you to navigate the desktop and play something from Netflix. But with some third party software, you can use an Xbox 360 or Xbox One controller as a mouse and keyboard....
Outlook lets you apply a default signature to new messages, replies, and forwards—you can even have different default signatures for new messages and replies/forwards. You can also create additional signatures that you can apply to any message on the fly. Here’s how they work. A mail signature is a useful way of including information about who you are, what you do, and how to contact you. In a lot of companies, it’s a requirement, and your signature might have been set up for you before you joined....
Delete an Instagram Comment on iPhone and Android Start by opening the “Instagram” app on your iPhone or Android device and then finding the Instagram post in question. After opening the Instagram app, you can go to the Notifications section to find recent comments left on your post. When you’re viewing the post, tap on the Comments icon (speech bubble icon) to view every comment associated with the post. Here, locate the comment (your own or someone else’s) that you want to delete....
The latest versions of Skype include suggested responses from Cortana. These are automatically generated replies to common types of messages, which you can send with a single click or tap. They’re similar to smart replies in Gmail. If you’d like to disable these suggested responses, click Menu > Settings in Skype for Windows, Mac, or Linux. Click the “General” category in the left pane. Under Cortana, disable the “Suggestions” feature....
You’ll Need Some Disk Space If you want to download and install your own local version of Wikipedia, you should know that you will need some extra disk space: A lot of extra disk space, especially if you want to have images as well. You will need about 50 gigabytes for a text-only copy, and another 100 gigabytes or so if you want all of the images. Luckily storage is cheaper than it ever has been — it is pretty easy to buy storage for less than 20 dollars a terabyte now....
Audio equipment can be costly. Audio mixers, used to balance and EQ audio, can easily cost hundreds of dollars, and while they’re very nice to have on your desk, you can achieve many of the same effects through software. VoiceMeeter is a free app that functions as an in-software mixer board. While it’s a little complex, it’s about the same experience you’d get out of a hardware solution. VoiceMeeter has two versions, a simple version just called VoiceMeeter, and a “pro” version called VoiceMeeter Banana....
Once you’ve learned how to navigate directories on Windows 10, the next step is learning how to find and open files using the Command Prompt. It’s just as easy as navigating through and opening a file in File Explorer. Here’s how it’s done. First, open the Command Prompt on your PC by typing “cmd” in the Windows Search bar and then selecting “Command Prompt” from the search results. With the Command Prompt opened, you’re ready to find and open your file....
Mechanical keyboards are great! But they’re also more complex than conventional keyboards. While they’re less likely to fail entirely, all those individual components mean you’re likely to have issues with certain switches—one for each key, somewhere between 60 and 110 of them, depending on the size of your keyboard. If a single key on your keyboard is either efusing to egister or rrrrepeating when you strrrrrrike it, you have a few options for fixing the problem before replacing the entire keyboard....
Whether you’re looking to fix your mirror selfies or you just want a flipped version of an image, Adobe Photoshop makes it easy to flip images, both horizontally and vertically. We’ll show you how to do it. With Photoshop, you can flip your entire images, entire layers, or select areas on your photo. You can flip horizontally as well as vertically in all these cases. RELATED: How to Flip a Picture in Microsoft Word...
Wireless devices with Bluetooth radios must be “paired” with each other before they can communicate. This involves making them discoverable and potentially entering a PIN. The pairing process works with “Bluetooth profiles,” and each device has to be compatible. For example, you can only pair a mouse or keyboard with a device that’s been designed to work with that type of accessory. Put an Accessory or Device Into Discovery Mode RELATED: More Than Headsets: 5 Things You Can Do With Bluetooth...
An Excel theme is a collection of colors, fonts, and effects that you can apply to a workbook with a couple of clicks. Themes ensure a consistent and professional look to your reports, and they let you more easily adhere to company branding and identity guidelines. Applying an Excel Theme You will find the themes under the “Page Layout” tab of Excel. You can select a theme for your workbook, which would apply the collection of colors, fonts, and shape effects....
Google added this feature in April 2019. Scheduling emails previously required a third-party extension like Boomerang. It’s now built into both Gmail’s website and the Gmail app. You can have up to 100 scheduled emails at a time. How to Schedule an Email on Desktop In the Gmail website in desktop browsers, compose your email regularly. Instead of clicking the usual Send button, click the down arrow to the right of the Send button and then click “Schedule Send....
In this article, we’ll show how to use Firebase to send push notifications from your server-side PHP code. We’re using the third-party php-firebase-cloud-messaging (PHP-FCM) library to further simplify the Firebase integration. Outlining the Architecture Successfully sending a push notification requires several components to be working together. First you need an active Firebase account with a project that’s got FCM enabled. We’ll set this up in the following steps. You’ll be issued a server key that your PHP backend must include with its Firebase requests....
Use Delivery Instructions Delivery instructions can go a long way. If your packages are being stolen because they’re left on your lawn or in your driveway, then clarifying that parcels need to be delivered at the front door could solve your problem. You could even ask packages be left in another location, such as at a back door. You could also require that packages are signed for upon delivery, so packages will never be left outside at all....
Windows might seem clear when you look through them, but when you take a photo, you’ll notice that the glass has quite a significant effect on how things look. There’ll be reflections, flare, and all sorts of weird stuff going on that your brain mostly ignores—but your camera captures. Let’s look at how to take better photos out of windows. Shoot From Inside Out Just like it’s much easier to look out a window from inside than outside, it’s much easier to take photos from inside....
Why Turn Text eBooks Into Audiobooks? Audiobooks are a pretty locked-down medium. You’re kinda stuck committing to one platform, such as Audible, and making all of your book purchases there. But what if you get your eBooks from other places, or you already have an existing library of eBooks? The advantage of platforms like Audible is the audiobooks are read by actual people, oftentimes the author themselves. We can’t replicate that, but with a handy app, you can listen to any eBook you want—even ones that aren’t available as audiobooks....
