Android Wear has been around for a couple of years now, and it’s honestly one of those things that you don’t know how much you’ll use it until you actually have it. There are some really good, useful tools available for Wear that will make your life simpler, but we want to highlight a handful of apps that will also help you live a bit healthier. For Exercise: Strava and Runtastic If you’re a runner or cyclist, Strava and Runtastic are two excellent apps to track your progress....

Even though everyone may not get the chance to start their own private space enterprise a’la Elon Musk’s SpaceX, that doesn’t mean there still aren’t plenty of fun and interactive experiences that let anyone with a decently powerful PC to go zipping, flying, and rocketing through the stars of the Milky Way and beyond. With the help of new procedural generation technologies and the dedication of a few passionate space explorers/gaming developers, there are a slew of entertaining and educational games that can give you or anyone in your household to see the solar system and the rest of the universe in detail like they never have before....

Your iPhone Should Receive Around Six Major Updates A modern iPhone should see support for around six or seven versions of iOS. Take the iPhone 7, which shipped with iOS 10 in September 2016 and ended support with iOS 15, released in September 2021. The iPhone 6S saw even more than that, starting with iOS 9 and ending with iOS 15. “Major updates” refers to major new versions of iOS, the iPhone’s operating system....

Booting into Safe Mode has long been a staple when troubleshooting Windows computers. Safe Mode starts Windows with only a limited set of files and drivers so you can figure out what’s wrong with your PC. But for some reason, Windows 8 and 10 make Safe Mode hard to get to. Here’s a fix for that. Before Windows 8 came along, you could press F8 right before Windows started loading to open a text-based Advanced Boot Options menu....

Many times, the text in your spreadsheet is just as important as the numbers, or maybe more depending on your data. If you want to make certain text stand out, you can automatically highlight it in Google Sheets. You may have a sheet containing customer names, product details, student grades, or business locations. With conditional formatting, you can automatically highlight the text you need so that you can spot it quickly....

We love building our own computers but it takes quite a bit of time. If you love to build but find you don’t have the time, a custom-built PC still gives you control over your components, while leaving the actual assembly up to someone else. When considering a new computer, you can buy, build, or just get a laptop. Either way, buying a PC or laptop is pretty easy while building you own computer is akin to anything else that takes care and assembly....

Whether your Mac is starting to show its age or you just want to freshen things up a bit, changing the wallpaper is a dead-easy way to breathe new life into your boring computer. RELATED: Download the Wallpapers from iOS 10 and macOS Sierra Now OS X (now called macOS) comes with a handful of stock wallpapers that you can choose from, but you can also use a photo of your own as your wallpaper, which can add a personal touch to your desktop....

Sometimes it feels like you never have enough free disk space. Every app you install takes up valuable room on your main drive, and you might eventually run out. Here’s how to check how much you have left. Open File Explorer. To do so quickly, press Windows+E. Or click the folder icon in your taskbar if File Explorer is pinned there. You’ll also find File Explorer in your Start menu....

Like most word processing software, Google Docs comes integrated with a tool to check your spelling and grammar. Here’s how to use that tool. How to Check Your Spelling in Google Docs By default, Google Docs’ spelling and grammar check are enabled when you first open a document. Anytime you’ve misspelled a word or type “your” when you meant “you’re,” the spelling checker underlines the error with a red squiggly line, prompting you to make a change....

The Windows 10 taskbar works much like previous Windows versions, offering shortcuts and icons for every running app. Windows 10 offers all kinds of ways to customize the taskbar to your liking, and we’re here to guide you through what you can do. We’ve taken a look at customizing the Start menu and the Action Center in Windows 10. Now, it’s time to tackle the taskbar. With just a little bit of work, you can tweak the taskbar to get it running just how you like it....

If the Outlook client starts behaving oddly, one of the first things to do is see whether add-ins are causing the problem. Here’s how to disable them so you can tell if they’re the issue. What are Add-Ins? Add-ins are extra bits of functionality that software providers create to hook their application into Outlook. You can install add-ins yourself by opening Outlook and clicking Home > Get Add-ins, which will show you some of the add-ins available to you....

When you put your PC into sleep mode, it normally waits until you press a button before it wakes from sleep – but you can have your PC automatically wake from sleep at a specific time. This can be particularly useful if you want your PC to wake and perform downloads in off-peak hours or start other actions before you wake up in the morning — without running all night....

Your Apple Watch battery provides sufficient power to last for most of a typical day under normal usage. Apple estimates most people will get an average of 18 hours of battery life from one full charge, depending on use. That’s a pretty decent battery life for a watch that does as much as the Apple Watch does. However, if you need to get even more juice out of your watch, we have some tips that will help extend the life of your Apple Watch battery....

Many new laptops, tablets, and devices in between are coming with an ever-smaller amount of storage. But you can expand your device’s storage without spending much money or time. It’s actually a good thing that modern laptops are coming with less storage. This means they have faster-but-smaller solid-state drives. An SSD offers a much better desktop (or tablet) experience than a larger mechanical drive. Micro SD Cards RELATED: How to Buy an SD Card: Speed Classes, Sizes, and Capacities Explained...

If you already have your work experience listed on your LinkedIn profile, it’s easy to get the site to automatically generate a resume for you. Here’s how to do it. How to Generate a Resume from Your LinkedIn Profile All LinkedIn profiles include a button to download the profile as a PDF. This PDF is basically your resume, containing all the experiences you’ve listed on LinkedIn. This includes your academics, work experiences, and everything else that you have on your profile....

Windows 10 now allows you to remap an Xbox One Controller’s buttons, just like you can remap the buttons on an Xbox One console. This feature is part of the Xbox Accessories app, which isn’t installed by default. Limitations Unfortunately, this new remapping feature doesn’t fully eliminate the need for third-party controller remapping apps. There are a still few big limitations: You can only remap the buttons on Xbox One controllers....

Love Apple Music, but tired of the intrusive Connect feature taking up space on your favorite artist’s page? Well, don’t worry, because getting “dis-Connected” is just a matter of changing a few simple settings in your iPhone or iPad running iOS 8.0 or above. Creating and Managing Restrictions The Connect feed for artists that you follow and listen to is one of Apple Music’s flagship features with its new streaming service, but many hardcore enthusiasts are already sick of their main music app turning into another Facebook or Twitter, packed to the brim with irrelevant status updates that don’t add much extra to the overall listening experience....

The Microsoft Office Upload Center was a new feature added to Office 2010 and still available in Office 2013 and 2016. It allows you to manage documents you upload to OneDrive. If you upload a lot of documents at a time, this can be a helpful tool. However, if you don’t upload many documents at a time or at all, you can remove it from the notification area on the Taskbar....

If you’ve used Kindle devices or apps for a while, you know how easy it is for old devices to accumulate on your list. Why not make things easier on yourself by clearing out old devices and better organizing the ones you still use? To start, go to amazon.com, log in, and then click “Your Account.” On the account menu, select “Manage Your Content and Devices.” On the management page, click the “Your Devices” tab....

Rip a CD in Windows 7 Media Center Place your CD into your optical drive. From within Windows Media Center, open the Music Library and select the CD. If you haven’t previously ripped a CD in Windows 7 with either Windows Media Center or Windows Media Player, you’ll be prompted to select whether or not you’d like to add copy protection. Click Next. By default, your CD will be ripped to ....