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In your Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, you can change your slides’ background to a picture, solid color fill, gradient fill, texture fill, and even pattern fill. You can apply a custom background to all or select slides in your presentation. Here’s how. RELATED: How to Use an Image as the Background in PowerPoint Change the Background for Select Slides in PowerPoint To use a custom background only for select slides, first, open your presentation with the Microsoft PowerPoint app....

Normally, Safari on iPhone and iPad keeps track of which sites you visit in a special History list. While it’s possible to completely wipe your history in Settings, you can also erase only more recent history if you’d like. Here’s how. First, open Safari on your iPhone or iPad. Tap the “Bookmarks” button (which looks like an open book). On the iPad, you’ll find it in the upper-left corner of the screen beside the address bar....

In the age of smartphones, we keep everything stored on our little pocket computers: pictures, spreadsheets, documents, videos, music, and everything in between. If you want to share this content with other people, though, why huddle around a tiny screen when you have that nice, big TV just sitting there? RELATED: How to Mirror your Mac, iPhone, or iPad Screen on Your Apple TV Now, the idea of connecting a smartphone to a TV is nothing new—far from it, in fact....

If you’ve downloaded images or videos to your Files app on your iPhone or iPad, you might be wondering if you can copy them to your Photos library. The answer is yes, and we’ll show you how to do it. First, open the Files app and navigate to the folder that contains the media files that you’d like to move to Photos. In our example, we’re using the Downloads folder, but the files could just as easily be copied from other folders in Files, such as Dropbox or your iCloud Drive....

Twitter typically notifies you about likes, retweets, or mentions. But sometimes it notifies you about “News for You,” inviting you to read the latest news on Twitter. Here’s how to turn off those news notifications on your iPhone or Android. First, open the Twitter app on your phone. Tap your profile picture and then tap “Settings and Privacy.” Tap “Notifications” in the list of settings categories. Tap “Push notifications” under Preferences....

RELATED: How to Enable Dark Mode on Facebook Desktop Activate Dark Mode in Facebook on iPhone To turn on Facebook’s dark mode on your iPhone, first, launch the Facebook app on your phone. In the app’s bottom bar, tap “Menu” (three horizontal lines). On the “Menu” page, in the top-right corner, tap “Settings & Privacy” (a gear icon). On the “Settings & Privacy” page, from the “Preferences” section, select “Dark Mode....

“My computer’s been running for 100 days without a reboot!” “I haven’t reinstalled Windows in five years!” Geeks love to brag about this stuff. Here’s how to find your uptime and installation date on Windows, Linux, and Mac. “Uptime” is a geeky term that refers to how long a system has been “up” and running without a shut down or restart. It’s a bigger deal on servers than typical desktops....

Adding pictures to your PowerPoint presentation can make it more visually appealing. However, when you first add a new image, it covers up whatever else is on the slide, including text. Here’s how to move pictures and other objects backward and forward to create the layering you want. Sending an Image Behind Text If you haven’t already, go ahead and open the PowerPoint presentation you’ll be working with and hop over to the slide with the text and image....

Like many Bethesda games, modding is one of the big draws of games like Skyrim and Fallout 4 on the PC. Nexus Mod Manager is one of the best ways to install mods on your favorite games, and we’re here to show you how to use it. Nexus Mod Manager actually supports many other games, too, including The Witcher games, Dragon Age, Dark Souls, and other Fallout and Elder Scrolls games, so you should be able to adapt the instructions for any other game Nexus Mod Manager supports....

Installing Windows 10 from a USB drive beats installing it with a DVD any day of the week. Here’s what you need to make your own bootable Windows 10 installer—and how to do it. What You’ll Need We’ll be using Microsoft’s recommended method to make a bootable Windows 10 USB drive. It requires: The Windows Media Creation Tool, which you can download for free A Windows PC An eight-gigabyte flash drive An internet connection...

It sucks when, after a day or week taking photographs, you come home, look at your shots, and realize you’ve messed up the exposure. You might be able to fix things with a bit of work in Photoshop, but it’s not a situation you want to be in. Here’s how to get the right exposure every time, on location. Shoot RAW The easiest way to always hit a target is to make the target nice and big....

RELATED: How Far Can an Electric Car Go on One Charge? What to Do When Planning an Electric Car Road Trip If you want to drive cross-country in your EV, it will take a bit of planning beforehand. You’ll need to make sure you have access to charging infrastructure — and a backup plan if the ones you find don’t work out. Find Charging Stations Before You Go As travel publication Roadtrippers demonstrates in a short and sweet video on the topic, apps like ChargeHub and PlugShare will help you find stations along your trip route....

If you’re looking to relive the classic titles of yesterday on the console you have today, the Nintendo Wii makes a perfect platform for emulating older Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo Entertainment System titles—read on as we show you how. We love retro games and we love squeezing extra value out of the hardware we already have—see, for example, our guide to setting up your Wii to play awesome 1980s and 90s retro point-and-click adventure games....

You’ve worked hard on your spreadsheet. You don’t want anyone to mess it up. Fortunately, Microsoft Excel provides some pretty good tools for preventing people from editing various parts of a workbook. Protection in Microsoft Excel is password-based and happens at three different levels. Workbook: You have a few options for protecting a workbook. You can encrypt it with a password to limit who can even open it. You can make the file open as read-only by default so that people have to opt into editing it....

Kubectx and Kubens are two tools which accelerate your Kubernetes management experience. They address some of the shortcomings of Kubectl by making it quicker and more convenient to switch between cluster environments. Both commands are developed by the same author and bundled into one package. Kubectx changes the active Kubernetes context. This is the combination of server URL and user credentials defining the cluster you’re connected to. Kubens switches between namespaces within that cluster....

Wine is an open source program for running Windows software on non-Windows operating systems. While it’s most often used on Linux, Wine can run Windows software directly on a Mac, too–without requiring a Windows license or needing Windows running in the background. This isn’t necessarily the best option if you want to run Windows software on a Mac. Wine isn’t perfect, and not every application will run ideally. Some applications will crash or not run at all....

Windows can show you which applications are using your network right now and how much data they’re transferring. You can even see a list of apps that have used your network over the last 30 days. This shows which apps are using the internet, but the below methods don’t just show internet usage. They show all network usage. Whether an application is communicating with a remote server on the internet or another computer on your local network, it will appear as using your network connection all the same....

It’s All a Matter of Process Inside your Linux or Unix-like computer, there will be many processes running even before you launch the application you want to use. The majority of these processes are vital elements of Linux itself or supporting processes for your graphical desktop environment. There’s a lot going on behind the scenes. Of course, there are only so many system resources and CPU time to go around. The Linux kernel is the controller for all of these processes....

Aside from the traditional method of sending a PowerPoint presentation to others as an email attachment, you can also upload and share your presentation from the cloud. All you need to get started is a OneDrive account. Here’s how. Sharing Your PowerPoint Presentation You can save a PowerPoint presentation to the cloud fairly easily. In fact, it takes only a few simple clicks. For this to work, though, you’ll need a OneDrive account....

Want to send off a bunch of files in an email, or maybe you received a compressed ZIP file as an attachment on your Chromebook? Whether you want to zip or unzip files, Chrome OS makes it a breeze to do without any additional applications. RELATED: Everything You Need to Know About Zip Files How to Zip Files To get started, open the Files app and navigate your way to the folder with the files you want to zip up....