There’s a lot to love about the iPhone, and it can be overwhelming at times. Apple’s smartphone includes thousands of handy features tucked away in places you might never discover unless someone told you about them. With that in mind, we’ve picked out ten great features every iPhone owner should be using—newbies and veterans alike. Silence Unknown Callers If you’re tired of interruptions by phone calls from unknown numbers or spammers, you can silence them completely....

Apple sells Apple Remote Desktop on the Mac App Store for $80, but you don’t have to spend any money to remotely connect to your Mac. There are free solutions — including one built into your Mac. These solutions will let you access your Mac’s desktop remotely, whether you’re using another computer on the same local network, or you’re halfway around the world connecting to your Mac desktop from a tablet....

When creating a Google Doc where you need to insert letters with accent marks, the process isn’t obvious. Here are a handful of different ways to type accent marks over letters in Google Docs. You may be composing a letter, creating an article, or writing an essay. If you need a letter with an accent mark as used in languages other than English, you have different options. You can insert a special character, use a keyboard shortcut, copy from Google Input Tools, use your computer’s tool, or check out an add-on....

Apple added the Shortcuts app to macOS Monterey in 2021, making it easy to build workflows using visual coding blocks just like you can on iPhone and iPad. While the feature still lacks the power of Automator or AppleScript, it’s still pretty useful. Here are some example workflows to get you started, all of which you can edit and duplicate to create your own. How to Add and Trigger Mac Shortcuts The shortcuts below link directly to workflows that launch in the macOS Shortcuts app....

There are few things as frustrating as experiencing trouble with your computer’s hard drive, but is there a partitioning scheme that works better than an MBR-based one? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites. The Question SuperUser reader Clay Nichols wants to know if GPT partitions are less likely to corrupt compared to MBR-based ones:...

When I first held GEEKOM’s Mini IT11, I immediately thought I had misread the included specs and capabilities. Surely, there was no way a PC this small could offer expandable RAM and storage alongside a relatively powerful graphics processor and all of the ports its marketing boasted. And yet it does, because we live in an age of space-saving tech. Even still, I was skeptical about how it would all work together without creating a perpetual desktop heat source for my office....

Spot Instances enable you to rent spare EC2 compute capacity at a fraction of the cost of On-Demand. They can be interrupted at any time, but when used in an auto scaling group they make for a great replacement for On-Demand. Spot Instance Pricing Is Mostly Static Nowadays In the past, Spot Instances worked a lot like the stock market. AWS customers would bid on a price they wanted their instance to run at, and the instance would run for as long as that price was available....

The Microsoft Office ribbon contains most of the commands you need, but sometimes it would be useful to add to it. Here’s how to find and choose other buttons to add to the ribbon in whichever tab you want. The ribbon bar has been standard in all of the Office apps—Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word (plus Project and Visio if you paid for them)—since Office 2007, and it’s fair to say it’s pretty useful....

There used to be an old typographical convention that it’s proper to use two spaces after a sentence. This came about because monospaced type has a uniform appearance and two spaces between sentences broke up the text and made it easier to read. Nowadays, one space between sentences is the norm both online and in print. However, maybe you have a professor who insists you put two spaces between sentences, and you don’t want to get marked down for forgetting to do this....

By default, Windows 10 hides scrollbars in Windows Store apps when they’re inactive. When you move your mouse, the scrollbars reappear. If you find this behavior annoying, you can turn it off and have Windows 10 always show scrollbars in Store apps. Microsoft added the ability to disable hiding scrollbars in Windows Store apps in the April 2018 Update. If your PC is updated with the latest build, preventing Windows from automatically hiding scrollbars is easy....

Regular backups are essential. When your hard drive dies—and it will die eventually—it’s important to know you’ve got another copy of everything somewhere. PC users can use Windows’ File History to back up their data, but Mac users have something that’s arguably simpler and more powerful: Time Machine. This free backup tool, included with every Mac, keeps a day’s worth of hourly backups, a month’s worth of daily backups, and weekly backups until there’s no more space....

Even if you’re already filtering unknown senders in Messages on iPhone, you still might see notifications every time you get a text from an unknown number. To stop that and silence the annoying SMS notifications, you’ll need to make a quick visit to Settings. Here’s how to set it up. First, open Settings on your iPhone. In Settings, scroll down and tap “Notifications.” In Notifications, tap “Messages.” In Messages notification settings, scroll down to the very bottom and tap “Customize Notifications....

Most PC gamers would rather die than let you take away their mouse and keyboard. But for third-person action games, racing, or emulated retro games, gamepads may still be worth using. If your controller isn’t quite working properly, you can calibrate it in Windows 10 to make sure that every movement translates to your game with 100% accuracy. Why Would I Need to Do This? Although many gamepads, like the Xbox One or Xbox 360 controllers, are usually calibrated for gaming on a PC right out of the box, others may need you to calibrate them before the system recognizes all their movements with complete accuracy....

Does Your Touchscreen Need Calibration? As Android has advanced and developed over the years, so too has the hardware it runs on. Android hardware today is far better and more capable than earlier generations. Modern Android touchscreens rarely require the user to calibrate or otherwise configure it. Touchscreen faults are more likely to be caused by hardware issues that cannot be fixed than any particular configuration problem. That said, calibration shouldn’t be ruled out completely, as it can be useful in some circumstances....

You have used tools like Microsoft Forms, Google Forms, or even Microsoft Word to create forms. But if you’re most comfortable using Excel, why not use it to create the form you need? Here’s how. Enable the Developer Tab in Excel In order to use the tools that you need to create a form in Excel, you must enable the Developer tab. If you already see this tab, you’re one step ahead and can move to the next section....

Creating tables in Word is easy using the commands on the ribbon. However, if you want to quickly create a table without removing your hands from the keyboard, you can easily create a basic table using the keyboard. NOTE: We used Word 2016 to illustrate this feature. However, it also works in Word 2013. To create a basic table, with one row and three columns for example, make sure the cursor is on a new line, then type four plus signs separated by spaces (plus, space, plus, space…) and press “Enter”....

Microsoft OneNote provides an option to close notebooks within the app—but this doesn’t permanently delete it. To get rid of the notebook forever, you’ll need to locate and delete the source file (locally on Windows 10 or in OneDrive). Here’s how. Closing vs. Deleting Notebooks in OneNote There’s an important difference to note between closing and deleting a notebook in OneNote. When you close a notebook, it doesn’t permanently remove the content within that notebook—it simply removes it from the list of available notebooks in the OneNote application....

Have you ever wondered why you can just type ipconfig into a command prompt and it works, but when you want to use a command line program you downloaded you have to navigate to its directory first? Here’s how to fix that using the Windows System PATH. What Is the Windows System PATH? If you’ve downloaded a program for the Command Prompt–like ADB, the Android Debugging Bridge–you can’t just type adb in the Command Prompt to run it, like you can with Windows’ built-in commands (e....

By default, iOS devices remember the Wi-Fi networks that you’ve joined in the past, and will attempt to automatically reconnect in the future. This feature is pretty handy most of the time, but on occasion can be a nuisance. Fortunately, it’s easy to have iOS forget specific Wi-Fi networks. Many of us live and work in places where there’s only one Wi-Fi network that you ever really use. And if you never join any other of the available networks in a location, having your iOS device forget networks won’t be of much use to you....

Word likes to use squiggly underlines to indicate something isn’t right in our documents. The more common ones are red (a potential spelling error) and green (a potential grammar error). However, you may have seen blue squiggly lines throughout your document as well. RELATED: The Interface, Fonts, and Templates Blue squiggly underlines in Word indicate formatting inconsistencies. For example, some text in a paragraph might be formatted in a different font size than the rest of the paragraph (as shown in the image above)....