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If you find yourself frequently visiting a website or using a web app on your iPhone or iPad, it’s easy to add a shortcut icon directly on your Home screen using Safari that you can quickly tap to launch the site. Here’s how. Add a Website to Your iPhone Home Screen First, open Safari and navigate to the website you’d like to put on your iPhone’s Home screen. Once there, make sure you can see the navigation toolbar by tapping once near the bottom of the screen, which will make it appear....

One of the biggest annoyances of sharing your Prime Video account with someone was the fact that all their watch history would start to affect your recommendations. Now, with separate profiles, that issue is gone. Unlike Netflix, Prime Video remembers the profile you were using the last time you logged in and opens it directly on your next visit. Create Profiles from the Desktop Website To create a new profile, open the Prime Video website in your browser and click on the Profile icon....

Google Chrome lets you personalize your experience with themes to make things a little more fun, and with the recent release of Google’s internally-designed looks, it’s trying to remind us that themes still exist. Here’s how to install and remove them. How to Install Themes Google released a bunch of new themes recently—14 to be exact—that change the way you look at your browser. While these aren’t the only themes you can download, it reminded us how useful Chrome’s often-forgotten themes feature is....

While the Ring Doorbell can send you alerts if anyone actually rings it by pressing the button, you can also receive alerts whenever motion is detected. Unfortunately, it isn’t perfect. Here’s how to adjust the sensitivity of that motion. RELATED: How to Install and Set Up the Ring Video Doorbell The Ring Doorbell uses infrared technology to determine if motion is by a person or not, but it can still invoke a lot of false positives....

ProtonMail has both free and paid plans that allow you to send and receive emails securely. If you’ve been paying for ProtonMail for a while but would like to downgrade to the free plan, you can do so relatively easily. Before You Downgrade Your ProtonMail Plan A paid ProtonMail subscription grants you features and additional storage that you don’t get with a free plan. Before you downgrade, you should make sure that you prepare your account accordingly....

A HiFi system is a set of components designed to make music sound as good as possible. HiFi aims for clear, noiseless audio, not just high volume and boosted bass. Music on a HiFi system will sound radically better than music on the headphones that came with your phone, due to many different factors like less signal interference (and thus, less noise), higher frequency response and clarity on the headphones, and a much better listening experience with over-ear headphones....

If you’re like many spreadsheet application users, you might feel intimidated by pivot tables. But if you start with the basics and learn how to build a pivot table in Microsoft Excel, it can become your favorite feature. What Are PivotTables in Excel? A pivot table provides an interactive way for you to arrange, group, calculate, and analyze data. You can manipulate the same data several different ways to view exactly what you need....

When you want to know how much your sales went up or your bills went down, you can calculate a percentage difference in Google Sheets. With a simple formula, you can see the percentage increase or decrease between your values. You can also format the result as a percentage or whole number, automatically or manually. RELATED: How to Calculate Percentage in Google Sheets Calculate a Percentage Increase or Decrease To calculate the difference between two values as a percentage, you’ll use a basic formula....

Part of PowerPoint’s charm is its ability to show tables, charts, SmartArt, and shapes in motion. In many cases, however, revealing an object before animation runs counter to the goals you set for your presentation. When you’re putting together a PowerPoint with a lot of animation, you might want to keep your screen clean by hiding an object before it starts to follow its defined animation track. Let’s say you are showing a map, for example, and want to use multi-colored tags to pinpoint the hospitals, hotels, and schools in a given area....

It’s every little kid’s dream: getting someone to pay you to play the games you already enjoy. And like most dreams, the reality is somewhat underwhelming. A career as a game tester boils down to being an elaborate quality control worker. But there are other ways you can make extra money by gaming at home. Here are a few. Trade In-Game Items for Cash In just about any multiplayer online game, the best gear and weaponry is also the hardest to obtain....

You’ve just received an iTunes gift card or promo code and need to redeem it via your Mac—what’s next? Don’t know what to do? There’s a simple process behind getting your credit or free app. All you need is your Mac computer, your code, or a gift card you need to load onto your account, and you can get started from there. You’ll have some extra cash to spend or a new app or game in no time....

The default Samsung home screen launcher on the Galaxy S22 series has a “media page” on the left-most page of the home screen. On some models, it’s Google Discover, on others it’s Samsung Free. The steps below will remove the page no matter which one is enabled on your particular device. RELATED: Niagara Launcher Is the Best Android Launcher for Big Phones Remove Samsung Free on the Home Screen The first method we’ll use takes place on the home screen itself....

Whether for business trips or taxes, you might need to fill out an expense form at some point. If you don’t happen to have a company or a consultant that provides a template for you, you can create one using a template provided by Word. Setting Up an Expense Form Filing an expense report is a necessary part of any business trip. While each company might have its own rules to follow in terms of reimbursement, the general structure of the form (and the items in it) will remain pretty consistent no matter where you are....

RELATED: How to View and Edit Apple Notes on Windows 10 Sharing a Note vs. Inviting Someone to Collaborate on Notes Sharing a note and getting someone to collaborate on your notes are two different things. When you do note-sharing, your recipient gets a copy of your note. They can make any changes they want to this note, but it won’t affect your original note. When you invite someone to collaborate on your notes, on the other hand, the recipient gets access to your original note....

Google Chrome now has built-in support for media keys. Unfortunately, Chrome will take over your media keys and prevent them from controlling apps like Spotify when you’re watching YouTube, for example. Here’s how to make Chrome ignore your media keys. This same tip also applies to the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser. In both browsers, however, this option requires an experimental flag that may be removed in the future. We tested it in the latest version of Chrome—Chrome 75—on June 24, 2019....

ABC ABC is the home of Grey’s Anatomy and the place to catch every episode if you ever miss out. Although the website only offers a few episodes, it’s free to see the recent ones that you may have missed. You can catch recent episodes on the app for iPhone, iPad, and Android if you want to watch on a smaller screen. Google Play You can purchase Grey’s Anatomy on Google Play as well, which is great for Android users or those who use the Play Movies app....

To disable the passcode on your iPhone, you must know your current passcode as well as your Apple ID’s password. You will enter these details to turn off the passcode. In case you have forgotten your passcode, check out our guide to see what options you have. RELATED: What to Do If You Forget Your iPhone or iPad’s Passcode Disable the Passcode on iPhone To turn off your iPhone’s passcode, start by launching the Settings app on your iPhone....

The passcode on the Apple Watch is necessary for security reasons, especially as it’s the only way you’ll be able to use Apple Pay on your Apple Watch. But entering the passcode a couple of times a day can get annoying quickly. Using a setting in the Watch app, you can automatically unlock your Apple Watch when you unlock your iPhone. To set this up, open the “Watch” app on your iPhone....

Tap to Select Words, Sentences, and Paragraphs You can now more quickly select words, sentences, and paragraphs with a few taps. These shortcuts should work anywhere you can edit text in iOS 13, but they seemed a bit flaky in apps like Evernote for us. Maybe app developers just need to release a few updates. While editing text: Double-tap a word to select that word. Triple-tap a word to select the sentence in which that word appears....

Hit Your Move, Stand, and Exercise Goals At the heart of Apple’s fitness tracking is the ring system. The three rings each represent a goal for the day: Move, Stand, and Exercise. To fill the rings, you perform each of these activities. The Move ring tracks your active energy, which is the energy you burn while you do other things in addition to your body’s normal basal functions. If you want to adjust your Move goal, launch the Activity app on your Apple Watch, press the screen firmly (Force Touch), and then choose “Change Move Goal....