A few years ago, a trend started with Android manufacturers where they thought it would be a good idea to take the Settings menu—a generally straightforward place on most phones—and paginate it. So instead of having a solid list of things that can quickly be scrolled through until you find what you’re looking for, you’re stuck with flipping through a series of tabs and then scrolling through each one. It makes no sense....

With Instagram’s Go Live option, you can start a video broadcast of yourself and let people on this platform watch and interact with it. We’ll show you how to do this on your iPhone, iPad, and Android phone. When you go live, Instagram notifies some of your followers so they can watch your broadcast. They can then watch as well as post comments on your live video. RELATED: How to Live Stream Games on YouTube...

Word tracks certain summary information about documents, such as the number of words in a document. If you want to display the number of words contained in your document in the document itself that you can quickly update, this is easily accomplished. To insert a word count in your document, place the cursor at the point in the document where you want to insert the word count and click the “Insert” tab....

The PDF format is meant to ensure the formatting of a document is preserved when viewed on different operating systems and devices. If you’re viewing a document on a PC in a dark room, you might want to change the color scheme so the screen is not so bright. Adobe Acrobat Reader has a special setting just for this purpose, and we’ll show you how to select different color schemes that are more suited for reading in the dark....

Chromebooks have a slightly different key layout than most keyboards. If you’re the type of person who likes to yell on the internet, the search key—which is in the same spot where you’d normally find a Caps Lock key—can really throw you off your game. Nothing quite like hitting a Google search mid-rant. But if you’re not into that, we have good news: you can change the search key. In fact, you don’t have to change it to Caps Lock....

Typing on a phone is rarely fun. Thankfully, iOS makes it a little easier with options to copy and paste, share text, look up words, and perform a variety of other formatting options. Here’s how to work with text on your iPhone or iPad like a champ. Selecting text on an iPhone is a simple matter of placing your finger on the item you want to highlight until you get the two selection handles....

How to Set a Kindle as the Default Device Next, under “Manage Your Content and Devices,” select “Devices.” Finally, click the “Set as Default Device” button. Click “Save” to save your settings. How to Set a Smartphone or Tablet as the Default Device If you prefer to read e-books with your smartphone or tablet, you can set the Kindle app as your default device. This will show you a list of all the smartphones, tablets, and computers you have the Kindle app installed on....

The WeMo Switch is a cheap and easy-to-use smart outlet that can turn anything with an on/off switch into a smart appliance, allowing you to control it from your smartphone. Plus, it comes with a small handful of automation features, including the ability to set a timer so that it shuts off automatically after a certain amount of time has elapsed. RELATED: How to Set Up the Belkin WeMo Switch...

You configured your headless Raspberry Pi just the way you want it, it’s settled in and running smoothly, but suddenly you want to move it away from its Ethernet tether with a Wi-Fi module. Skip hooking it back up to all the peripherals and quickly add in Wi-Fi support from the command line. Why Do I Want to Do This? If you’re a Raspberry Pi enthusiast (or quickly becoming one), you know how annoying it can be to realize that your headless Pi project now needs yet another little tweak that likely necessitates hooking up a monitor and keyboard/mouse to the box....

If you have multiple people in your house, and want them all to have access to the Nest Thermostat from their phones, here’s how to share access to the device with other users. RELATED: How to Install and Set Up the Nest Thermostat Granted, you may not want your kids to have access to your Nest Thermostat, but sharing access with your significant other can be convenient if either one of you wants to adjust the thermostat from your phone, then leave the unit itself locked so that the kids can’t mess with it....

Switching between the open Safari tabs on your iPhone doesn’t have to be a pain. Safari lets you jump or slide between tabs quickly using either a swipe gesture or the Tabs button. We’ll show you how to do both. RELATED: The Complete Guide to Mastering Tabs in Safari How to Switch Tabs With a Swipe Gesture in Safari The Safari interface changed with iOS 15, putting the tab bar at the bottom....

If you are regularly seeing the “Whoa! Google Chrome has crashed” message, there is likely a problem on your system. An occasional crash can happen, but regular crashes are probably caused by something you can fix. If you are curious just how often Chrome is crashing, you can type chrome://crashes into your location bar and press Enter to view a list of crashes and when they occurred. This is just one of Chrome’s many hidden chrome:// pages....

Word can automatically create a backup of your document every time you save it. However, you can also have Word automatically save your document for you at regular intervals using the AutoRecover feature and use this feature to recover any changes lost in your documents. Turn on the AutoRecover feature To turn on the AutoRecover feature, click the “File” tab. On the backstage screen, click “Options” in the list of items on the left....

By default, short dates in Excel are formatted using slashes (3/14/2016). If you use a lot of dates in your worksheets, and you prefer to put periods in your dates (3.14.2016), you can easily change the format. First, select the cells containing the dates you want to change. Then, right-click on the selected cells and select “Format Cells” from the popup menu. On the Format Cells dialog box, make sure the “Number” tab is active....

Microsoft’s Windows 10 seems like a big change. The version number alone is a big leap from Windows 7, and most of the default apps are new-style “universal apps,” not traditional desktop apps. But, if you depend on traditional Windows desktop applications, you shouldn’t worry. Don’t let Windows 10’s new look fool you — if an application ran on Windows 7, it should also run on Windows 10. Under the Hood, It’s Similar to Windows 7 and 8 RELATED: Windows 10 Is Almost Here: Here’s What You Need to Know...

Hulu (30 days) Hulu offers a 30-day free trial of its service. You don’t have to watch ads, either—Hulu offers a plan without ads, and your free 30-day trial can be ad-free. Like Netflix, Hulu offers a library of original series and movies. It also has a lot of TV shows, and some TV shows make their episodes available on Hulu the day after they air on traditional TV. If you like Hulu, you can stick with it for $5....

“Podcast ratings give listeners an opportunity to support their favorite podcast shows and enable a two-way feedback loop between creator and listener,” said Spotify in a blog post. When you listen to at least 30 seconds of a podcast, you’ll have the option to give a rating between one and five stars. The average rating and the number of ratings a podcast has will be shown on its page when the show reaches at least ten ratings....

For instance, some third-party bands don’t fit in the slots on your Apple Watch as well as Apple’s first-party straps, so they can protrude and potentially malfunction as a result. Then there’s the trouble of spotting the right materials. While bands are inexpensive nowadays, that doesn’t mean they’re all good. Some might look good on the outside, but offer poor construction and cheap parts when you unwrap it. Getting the right size is also important....

Storage Costs Money The size of your initial volume will vary depending on your server’s type, but you can provision anywhere from a few GB to 16 TB per volume. You can provision multiple volumes to attach to a single instance, and you can swap volumes between instances. There’s also AWS Elastic File System (EFS), which is a volume you can share between multiple instances, though it’s a separate service from EBS....

Don’t you hate it whenever you’re safely at home, and there’s no one else around to access your phone, and yet you still have have to unlock it whenever you want to use it? Android 5.0 Lollipop’s Smart Lock solves that. Many of you probably know the frustration, you’re listening to something like Pandora or Spotify, and you want to change the station, or give something thumbs down, or bookmark a song — whatever the case, anytime you want to do that, you have to unlock your device....