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Keeping your family photos safe from device failure is the primary reason backups exist. iCloud claims to back up all your photos “in the cloud,” but the way it works varies depending on what settings you have enabled. My Photo Stream vs. iCloud Photos “iCloud Photos” does what you’d expect—it stores all your photos in iCloud. Whenever you take a picture on your iPhone, it immediately uploads to iCloud where it’s backed up even if you break your phone....

Justifying $1000 on a Chromebook is a tough sell to many, and rightfully so. But there’s more to Google’s Pixelbook than just a high price tag—there’s something about this laptop that can’t be described just by looking at the spec sheet. The Pixelbook: More Than Just a Premium Chromebook, A Truly Incredible Laptop The Pixelbook isn’t just “a really expensive Chromebook.” It’s a useful, versatile, and powerful laptop. The distinction has to be made here, because Chromebooks have always sat in this weird place where many people don’t consider them to be “real” laptops, but more like casual-use toys or throwaway devices....

The main purpose of Wi-Fi cameras is to record video, but that’s not the only thing they can do. Modern Wi-Fi cams are sophisticated pieces of hardware and they can do a lot more than simply record video. RELATED: What You Should Know Before Buying Wi-Fi Cameras This also means that if you’re in the market for a Wi-Fi cam, there are a lot more features that you’ll want to know about a specific model other than its video quality....

No, Microsoft isn’t making Windows 10 into a Linux distribution. It will still be based on the Windows kernel. But Microsoft “will be shipping a real Linux kernel with Windows that will make full system call compatibility possible.” The kernel will be compiled by Microsoft based on the latest stable branch of the kernel.org source code. It will initially be based on version 4.19 of the Linux kernel. Microsoft’s Linux kernel will be tuned for WSL 2 and “optimized for size and performance to give an amazing Linux experience on Windows....

This feature is now going live for Windows Insiders. If you use Android notification mirroring on your PC, you’ll be able to type a reply directly into a notification to reply to a message in any app that supports Androids’ inline replies. This was announced by Aarthi Hatter, a Microsoft senior program manager, on Twitter. — Aarthi Hatter (@aarthi_hatter) July 22, 2019 Assuming you’ve already set up Android notification mirroring, you don’t have to enable anything extra—this feature will just arrive for you within the next few months after Microsoft finishes testing it with Windows Insiders....

The public debut of the humble mousepad happened in 1968 during “The Mother of All Demos,” a revolutionary demonstration given by Douglas Engelbart. It was a typical-sized mousepad—just big enough for the general area around the mouse. That was pretty much the norm for mousepads in the following decades. Recently, however, there’s been a rise in popularity for giant mousepads, otherwise known as “desk mats.” A desk mat just might be your new favorite desktop companion....

An App Can Only Record Your Activity In the App First, let’s make this clear: iPhone and iPad apps can’t record everything you do on your phone’s screen. An app can only record what happens within the app itself. In other words, even if an app is trying to record everything it can, it can only record the swipes, taps, and data you enter within that app. The Expedia app was one of the few singled out here....

Don’t let yourself or someone you care about fall for a Facebook scam. Learn what to look for and stay safe. Facebook Phishing Phishing is the act of impersonating a service to convince a target to give up their login credentials. While Facebook phishing is ultimately no different from any other kind of phishing, it’s significant because some of the other scams on this list rely heavily on compromised accounts....

You Can’t Play via the Game Pass App Thanks to Apple’s strict App Store guidelines that require each playable game to be approved in-house, there’s no dedicated Game Pass app for playing games in the cloud. There’s an Xbox Game Pass app that acts as a showroom of sorts, but you have to use Safari to play games when the time comes. Fortunately, the experience isn’t diminished thanks to the ability to add web apps to your iPhone or iPad home screen....

Here’s How to Estimate Your Savings There are so many sizes of televisions with so many different generations of power optimization. Combine that with the huge number of potential accessories that might be part of your general TV setup like consoles, streaming sticks, media receivers, sound bars, cable boxes, and so on, and it becomes impossible for us to give you a straight answer like “You’ll save $38 a year unplugging it all when you’re not using it....

If you’re faced with planning regular meetings, keep track of them by scheduling recurring events in Google Calendar. Here’s how to add, edit, and remove recurring events from your personal or work calendar. How to Add a Recurring Event in Google Calendar If you’d like to add a recurring event in Google Calendar, you can do so using the website or mobile app. Using Google Calendar in a Web Browser To add a recurring event using the Google Calendar website, select the “Create” button in the top-left corner....

Adding a text box to a document is a great way to highlight relevant information—like a pull quote—and be able to move it around easily. Google doesn’t make adding one obvious, so here’s how to add a text box to a Google Docs file. How to Add a Text Box in Google Docs Google Docs lets you add text boxes to your documents to personalize and highlight specific information, but it does so in a different way than you might expect....

A sharp photo is one where the subject is in focus with clear lines, crisp details, and no (unintended) blurring. It’s generally a sign of a high-quality, technically excellent image. Here’s how to make sure you always take sharp photos. I’ve explained in detail before what makes a photo sharp, but now we’re going to look at the practical side of things. To recap, sharpness is a combination of:...

How iCloud Photos Works There are many ways that you can back up your photos. You can transfer them to an external drive, your computer, or a third-party backup service. But nothing will work as seamlessly as iCloud Photos. iCloud is Apple’s own cloud syncing service that lets you securely back up data like photos, messages, and apps to their cloud storage. Once it’s uploaded, this data can be accessed on all of your Apple devices or by using the iCloud website....

Microsoft OneDrive can back up your computer’s Desktop, Documents, and Pictures folders automatically for you. Here’s how to back up your other Windows folders—including Downloads, Music, and Videos—to OneDrive as well. OneDrive has a feature called “Folder Protection.” This feature allows you to back up the contents of your Desktop, Documents, and Pictures folders to OneDrive so that you won’t lose anything if your computer somehow gets corrupted. Microsoft has since renamed this functionality to “Manage Back Up” of your “Important PC Folders,” but it still works exactly the same as before....

PowerPoint can automatically resize an image to fit a shape. You can also resize multiple images already in your presentation to all be the same size. Here’s how it works. Automatically Size an Image to Fit a Shape First, go ahead and open a new PowerPoint presentation and insert a new slide that has a content box in it. You can do so by clicking “New Slide” on the “Insert” tab and selecting one of the slide templates....

Minecraft creations can be huge and intricate, so you may want to back up your saved games, just in case. With a Dropbox account, however, you can take it one step further and access your save files from any computer. Where Are the Save Files? As we mentioned in our How To Get Started With Minecraft article, the game is in the form of an executable Jar file. It creates a directory on your computer for your saved worlds and settings, but it differs depending on what OS you’re running....

Google Docs uses a specific font and line spacing by default. This guide shows you how to change the default format settings in Google Docs, so you’re not manually swapping out those elements for something better with each new document. For example, when we create a new document in Google Docs, the font is set to Arial, the size is set at 11, and the line spacing is set to 1....

Start by opening the “Clock” app on your iPhone and selecting the “Alarm” tab. RELATED: Wake Up Groggy or Grumpy? Scientists Say Skip the Traditional Alarm Here, make sure you can see the alarm you want to customize. Tap the “Edit” button in the top-left corner of the screen. Now, select the alarm you want to customize. From the alarm customization screen, choose the “Sound” option. You have two options to choose from: You can either use one of the available ringtones or choose a song from your phone’s audio library (or Apple Music)....

First, ensure your iPhone or iPad has multiple languages installed. To do so, head to Settings > General > Language & Region. Tap “Other Languages” and add a language you want to use. This is also where you can set your overall system language on your iPhone or iPad. But you don’t have to switch to the new language—just add it to this list. Next, head to the main Settings screen and scroll down until you see an alphabetical list of installed apps....