Google has added more and more parental control-style features to Android over the years. You can give a kid his or her own restricted user account, lock access to a specific app, or restrict what websites kids are allowed to use. Depending on the version of Android you have and your device manufacturer, you may not have some of these options — or they may look a little different....

Unlike Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets doesn’t offer an official method for inserting a table. As a workaround, you could create what looks like a table using borders and filters, but another option is to use a table chart in Google Sheets. Even though a spreadsheet is a structured tool for data, tables provide additional benefits. You can sort the data within the table while maintaining the integrity of the non-table data in the sheet....

The taskbar in Windows 10 is highly configurable, and Windows 10 already includes an option in its personalization settings to make the taskbar transparent. But, with a little Registry magic, you can enable a setting that gives the taskbar an even higher level of transparency. Make the Windows 10 Taskbar More Transparent by Editing the Registry To make your Windows 10 taskbar more transparent, you just need to make an adjustment to one setting in the Windows Registry....

By default, Windows will automatically put your PC to sleep after several minutes of inactivity, or when you close the lid. It will hibernate your computer a certain number of minutes later, but if you’d rather it hibernate more often, the settings are a bit tricky to find. In sleep mode, your computer goes into a lower power state. It can wake and become usable almost instantly because it keeps providing power to the RAM....

Have you ever wanted to make your iPhone completely silent but still alert your when someone calls, or when you receive a text? It is possible to silence the ringing and the vibrations, but still receive notifications by flashing the LED light on the back. This trick is very simple and will only take a few seconds to perform, but it may very well save you a great bit of hassle if you mute your phone for an important meeting or conversation, and then forget to unmute it....

Nintendo’s New 3DS XL promises 3.5 to 7 hours of battery life, which is quite a large range. These tips will help you get as much battery life as possible out of your 3DS, whether you’re gaming or it’s just sitting in your pocket. This advice applies to all models of Nintendo 3DS — New 3DS XL, New 3DS, 3DS XL, 3DS, and even the 2DS. The New 3DS models have better battery life than the original 3DS models....

If you don’t want to hear someone’s audio in a voice channel, or you’d like to stop getting message notifications from a user, you can mute that user on Discord. We’ll show you how to do that on your desktop and mobile. Note that Discord doesn’t notify the user that you’ve muted them, so you don’t need to worry about offending anyone. RELATED: How to Record Discord Audio Mute Someone’s Audio in a Voice Channel on Discord When you mute people in a voice channel, you don’t hear any audio in your channel from that specific user....

The Xbox Wireless Controller (which is what Microsoft calls its Xbox Series X|S controller) works perfectly well with several games on iPhones and iPads, including quite a few that are a part of Apple Arcade. For the most part, you won’t be stuck trying to figure out the control scheme, because most iPhone games show you the exact button prompts for the Xbox Wireless Controller. RELATED: What Is Apple Arcade?...

You’ve added comments to your worksheet, and now you want to print it out–with those comments intact. However, Excel doesn’t print comments by default. Here are two ways to do it. RELATED: Add Comments to Formulas and Cells in Excel 2013 Before printing comments on a worksheet, you must be sure the comments are not hidden using these instructions. Once your comments are showing on the worksheet, click the “Page Layout” tab....

Until watchOS 2, the “Mail” app could only show notifications for and display incoming emails. Now, you can reply to email messages in Mail using your Apple Watch the same way that you can reply to text messages on your watch. There are three ways to reply to emails using your Apple Watch. You can choose among several default replies, speak your reply, or reply with an emoji. When you get a notification on your watch that you received an email (as pictured above), tap on the notification to open the message....

Android Apps On Linux Being able to run Android apps on Linux gives you more choice—and then some. At the time of writing, there are nearly 3.5 million apps on the Google Play Store. Linux is extremely well-supported by the development community. No matter what you’re looking for, there’s likely to be a program for that task. But if you’ve ever used an Android app and wished there was a version for your laptop or desktop, you’ll welcome the ability to run the exact same Android app on your full-sized screen....

Thanks to the frequent sales, PC games just cost less than console games. If you’re patient and know the tricks, you can save quite a bit of money. Almost every game seems to regularly go on sale. Since Steam started holding their regular holiday sales, the sales are coming thicker and faster than ever. From bundles and other stores undercutting Steam to the constant sales on Steam itself, an environment of constant sales is the new normal....

Comments in Excel are great for making notes about certain cells so you can keep track of your work. If you’ve added a lot of comments to your worksheets, it can get hard to remember where you put a specific note in a comment. RELATED: Add Comments to Formulas and Cells in Excel 2013 However, you can search through only the comments in your worksheet or workbook, with this advanced setting....

When you’re out of the office, your work emails should be left firmly behind. To give you a break, you can set up out-of-office messages in Gmail to let people know you’re away. Here’s how. Set an Out-of-Office Message in Gmail Online The easiest way to set an out-of-office message in Gmail is to do so from your Windows PC or Mac. You’ll need to be signed in to your Google account to be able to do this....

With the recent software update to version 4.50, Sony added something to the PlayStation 4 and Pro that has long been requested: the option to set custom wallpapers. Here’s how to make it happen. First, make sure your PlayStation 4 is running the latest update—version 4.50. At this point, it should be, but check just in case. Good? Good. Go ahead and jump into the Settings menu—it’s the luggage-looking icon in the function area....

Unless you work from home, Google Maps is fantastic at knowing where you need to be, and how long to get there. But you did the math on when to leave. Thankfully Google can tell you that now too. Google Maps is excellent for finding directions to the places you need to go, even if that means making multiple stops. And Google is always improving the service, whether that’s adding commute features or helping you find Electric Vehicle Charging Stations....

If you need to share a Wi-Fi password from a Mac to an iPhone, you can do it fairly easily between your own devices and those of friends or family. Here’s how. Requirements To share your Wi-Fi password between a Mac and an iPhone, make sure the Mac is running macOS 10.13 High Sierra or later. Also, update the iPhone to the latest version of iOS. You’ll also need to be signed in to an iCloud account with your Apple ID on each device....

In typesetting terms, “widows” and “orphans” are lines at the end or beginning of a paragraph that are separated from the rest of the paragraph by a page break. If you think widows and orphans in your Word document are distracting, you can enable a setting that prevents them. So, which is which? A widow is the last line of a paragraph that appears by itself on the following page and an orphan is the first line of a paragraph that appears by itself at the bottom of a page....

If you use Google Calendar but also use Outlook for calendar items as well as email and contacts, you might be looking for a way to keep the two calendars in sync. Look no further. We will show you how to do this using a free tool. In this article, we will sync entries in a Google Calendar with our Outlook calendar, so the Google Calendar will be the source and the Outlook calendar will be the target....

Apple has gradually started removing every breakable, physical button on the iPhone—like the Home button, which isn’t even a real button on the iPhone 7 and 8. There are, however, still a few physical buttons that remain: the volume buttons and the Power button. RELATED: Why Does the Home Button on My iPhone 7 Feel Weird? You can obviously control your iPhone’s volume with the volume slider in the Control Center, but what do you do if the Power button is broken?...