One of the most significant sticking points with Windows 11 is the strict system requirements. However, Microsoft has just announced that any PC can install the Windows 11 ISO, opening up the new OS to just about anyone who wants to install it. Windows 11 Running on Older PCs Microsoft is mostly sticking to the original Windows 11 system requirements, though the company did add a few more processors to the list of supported models....
Why You Need to Archive Your Emails A quick recap from our OHIO article: your inbox is not an archive, a bin, a filing cabinet, or a dumping ground. It’s an inbox! When you have hundreds or thousands of emails in your inbox, they quickly get buried. Out of sight is out of mind. It’s much harder to find specific emails, it makes your mail client work more slowly (even if you access your email through a browser like Gmail), and it can use up your storage if you use the Outlook or Apple Mail on your phone....
Microsoft Word is packed with features that improve usability and workflow efficiency. Navigation Pane is a great example, and you can use it to navigate headings, search your document for text or objects, and even easily reorganize your documents. Reorganizing Documents with the Navigation Pane First, you’ll need to display the Navigation Pane. You can switch to the “View” tab and select the “Navigation Pane” checkbox or simply press Ctrl+F....
Are you looking for something to watch without paying for a subscription? Here are six sites most people don’t know about that offer free TV shows and movies. RELATED: How to Get HD TV Channels for Free (Without Paying for Cable) Most of these services are only available to US viewers, though we’ll note the ones that are available outside that area. Of course, there are ways to access region-restricted websites from anywhere, if you want to go that route....
Microsoft’s core Office 365 client apps—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook—all contain a setting that lets you enable “Office Intelligent Services.” So, what are these, why are they turned on, and should you turn them off? Let’s find out. If you have an Office 365 subscription then in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook there is a section in File > Options > General called “Office intelligent services.” (If you’ve just purchased Office as a stand-alone set of apps without an O365 subscription then this section won’t be available to you....
When deciding which smarthome products to install in your house or apartment, there are a lot of things to consider. Your first step should be deciding which products will give you the most value. RELATED: How to Put Together Your First Smarthome (Without Getting Overwhelmed) Not all smarthome devices are useful to everybody. Some people might find a video doorbell, for example, a necessity while for others, it’s an interesting novelty....
A lot of people buy DSLRs and other cameras because they want to take good sports photographs; it’s one of the areas where your smartphone just can’t cut it. Here are the camera settings that will generally give you the best results. The Gear You Need for Sports Photos The biggest challenge with sports photography is distance: for most sports, you’re stuck on the sidelines while the action’s happening up to a few hundred feet away from you....
For $12.99 per month, both people get their own separate Premium account. That’s a savings of $2 per month compared to a $14.99 family plan or $7 per month compared to paying for two $9.99 individual accounts. RELATED: 6 Awesome Spotify Features You Should Be Using What Do You Get from Spotify Premium Duo? Spotify Premium Duo gives each person their own separate Spotify Premium account. If you already have an individual Premium account, you aren’t required to set up a new one....
Tech publications are screaming today that giving Facebook your phone number for 2FA allows them to target you for ads. But this misses a bigger point: Facebook is using your phone number to target ads whether you give it to them willingly or not. In fact, the problem gets much worse. Researchers have been able to prove that Facebook allows personally identifiable information, like your phone number, to be used to target you based on shadow profiles of information that they build—profiles that you cannot see and have no control over....
If you’re using a Windows PC or still rocking macOS Mojave or earlier, check out our guide to adding custom iPhone ringtones using iTunes. What You Need to Know about Creating Ringtones We’ll be using the Music app first introduced in macOS Catalina to create the ringtone, so the first thing to do is to make sure the song or audio clip you want to use is in your Music library....
Google Sheets lets you generate charts automatically to create a visually appealing way to convey information. Using charts is a great way to help people retain data a lot easier than looking at a bunch of numbers. Google Sheets gives you a wide variety of free graphs from which to choose. Whether you want to use a pie chart or something a little more complicated like a radar chart, you won’t be disappointed with the options available....
What You’ll Need If you don’t have one already, you’ll need a CD or DVD burner drive that works with your Mac. A great choice for Macs is the Apple USB SuperDrive. Just plug it in to a spare USB-A port on your Mac, and you’re ready to go. If your Mac only has USB-C ports, you’ll also need an adapter such as Apple’s USB-C to USB Adapter. You’ll also need a blank CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, or DVD-RW disc....
AirDrop lets you quickly transfer files wirelessly between iPhones, iPads, and Macs. When you share a document, the recipient will see the name of the sending device. If you’d like to change your AirDrop name, it only takes a few steps. Here’s how to do it. Before we begin, it’s important to know that your device’s AirDrop name is the same as the general device name that you might see while backing up your iPhone or iPad or in a list of devices in your iCloud account....
With Microsoft Excel’s built-in options, you can quickly and easily convert your comma-separated values (CSV) files to Excel format (XLSX). Here’s how you perform this conversion on your computer. Multiple Ways to Convert CSV to XLSX Excel offers multiple ways to convert a CSV file to an XLSX file. The first method is to open your CSV file in Excel and then save the file as an XLSX file. The drawback of this method is that it uses the default Excel data format, which might not work very well with your CSV’s data....
The DMG image format is by far the most popular file container format used to distribute software on Mac OS X. Here’s how to convert a DMG file into an ISO file that can be mounted on a Windows PC. First head over to this website and grab yourself a copy of dmg2img by clicking on the win32 binary link. Once the file has downloaded, open your Downloads folder, right click on the file, and select extract all from the context menu....
Why You Should Use Twitter Lists When Twitter was new, it was possible to follow everyone you found interesting and read all of their tweets. This became untenable as Twitter grew, and we were soon treated to a deluge of messages that were easy to miss. With Twitter lists, you can partition individual accounts off from others and transform that deluge into a small trickle, centered around one theme. You can also easily add accounts to Twitter lists instead of following them....
Sending a Google doc to someone via email is as easy as clicking a few buttons. You can use Gmail or any other email client to do it, and we’ll show you how on desktop and mobile. Multiple Ways to Email a Google Doc To email a Google doc, you can use an option within Google Docs that uses your Gmail account. Or, if you’d like to use your own email app, you can download your Google doc from the site to your computer, then attach that doc to an email in your email app....
Want to add some flair to your presentations? Google Slides allows you to embed YouTube and Google Drive videos in your slides. It also allows you to customize your video’s playback. We’ll show you how to embed your videos right here. Embed a YouTube Video in Google Slides If you’re looking to embed a YouTube video, all you have to do is grab your video’s URL (web link) and paste it into your presentation....
Adding images to your PowerPoint presentation is a great way to make your presentation more visually appealing. PowerPoint also brings a bunch of formatting tools to the table, including one to flip your images horizontally. Flipping a Picture Horizontally Go ahead and open your presentation and go to the slide with the image you’d like to flip. Once there, click the image to be flipped and then go to the “Format” tab....
Microsoft’s Xbox One includes a 500GB hard drive, but games are getting larger and larger. Halo: The Master Chief Collection takes up more than 62GB alone, even if you have the game on a physical disc. Here’s how to free up space so you have room for more games. Expand Your Xbox One With More Storage Space RELATED: How to Make Your PlayStation 4 or Xbox One Faster (By Adding an SSD)...
