Chrome allows you to create multiple profiles, each with a different set of bookmarks, search history, settings, toolbar buttons, among other things. You can switch among your profiles, each profile opening in a separate Chrome window. RELATED: Everything You Need to Know About Google Chrome’s Profile Switcher Unlike Firefox, which provides the ability to select a profile every time you start it, Chrome always opens to the default profile. What if you occasionally want to start Chrome using a profile other than the default profile?...

Deleting contacts from your iPhone is easy, and there are several ways to do it. This article outlines the best way to delete a single contact, multiple contacts, or all of your contacts. Perhaps it’s time for some house cleaning, or you just don’t need some contacts anymore. Whatever the case, here’s how to remove contacts from your iPhone. Delete a Single Contact Go to Contacts and tap the contact you want to remove....

Windows 10 has an awful lot of options in its new Settings app, but from time to time, you may encounter a setting that’s grayed out, with the message “disabled by company policy” or “Some settings are managed by your organization”. Here are a few reasons that may be happening. Many of Windows 10’s settings are intertwined, which means for one setting to work, you may need another enabled first....

Actual Disk Usage and True Size The size of a file and the space it occupies on your hard drive are rarely the same. Disk space is allocated in blocks. If a file is smaller than a block, an entire block is still allocated to it because the file system doesn’t have a smaller unit of real estate to use. Unless a file’s size is an exact multiple of blocks, the space it uses on the hard drive must always be rounded up to the next whole block....

One of the most annoying things about the iPhone and iPad is the inability to hide built-in apps like Tips, Stocks, and News. iOS 10 finally fixed this annoyance, but if you’re stuck on iOS 9 or earlier, you still have a few other workarounds. RELATED: How to Remove Apple’s Built-In Apps from Your iOS Home Screen If you have a relatively recent device and the latest software update (iOS 10), you can use the built-in method for hiding these apps....

Sometimes pictures have places in Excel spreadsheets just like in Word documents. Whether you want to add a logo, photo, or illustration, you can easily insert a picture in Microsoft Excel. When you add an image in Excel, you can drag it wherever you like and resize it however you want. Unfortunately, Excel currently doesn’t offer a feature to insert an image directly into cell like Google Sheets does. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be done....

Netflix recently updated its mobile app with a long-awaited feature: now, you can specify how much data (approximately) it uses, so you don’t go over your cellular data cap. Netflix uses a lot of data, about 1 GB per hour while watching standard definition content. If you’re on a mobile connection with a data cap, which most people usually are, then that’s way too much. In order to rein in how much data your phone or tablet is using on your mobile connection, you first should make sure that you have the very latest Netflix update....

Services and Daemons Services and daemons are background tasks that run without a user interface, don’t require human interaction, and are usually started as the computer boots up. At one time, services were launched by init, which was the very first process to be launched. The details of the services were held in a collection of scripts located in the “/etc/init/d” directory. On non-systemd distributions that’s still the case. In the systemd world, services are launched by systemd which is the now first process to be launched....

If you write documents containing a lot of URLs, it can get annoying when the spell check in Word questions almost every one. You can save yourself a bit of time and frustration by telling Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to ignore URLs in your documents when performing a spell check. We’ll use Microsoft Word as an example, but the process is the same in each Office program. To ignore URLs when you run a spell check, click the “File” tab....

Making selections and masks is one of the most fundamental Photoshop skills. If you want to change your model’s eye color or remove a pesky photobomber, you need to be able to select only the area of the image you want to effect while keeping everything else safe. There are dozens of ways to create selections and masks in Photoshop, but in the June 2016 update, Adobe brought a lot of them together into one place: the Select and Mask Workspace....

The Modular watch face on the Apple Watch allows you to change the color of the time and the complications to one color of your choice. However, now a “Multicolor” option is available that makes the time and each complication on the watch face have a different color. Displaying multiple colors on the Modular watch face is easy. Press the digital crown until you return to the watch face and then force touch on the watch....

With all the things smartphones and tablets can do nowadays and their larger capacities, we tend to put all kinds of files onto them. Being able to compress files before transferring them on and off your device would make things easier. We previously showed you how to open zip files on an iPhone or iPad. Now, we’ll show you two ways to work with zip files on an Android device....

Modern mobile operating systems — Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android, and Microsoft’s Windows 10 — all provide a unique advertising identifier to apps you use. Apps use this identifier to track your interests and provide personalized ads. If you’d rather not see personalized ads in apps, all operating systems provide a way to disable — or just reset — your identifier. You’ll still see ads, they just won’t be personalized. These settings are just for apps, not websites in your browser....

Instead of using the cut and copy commands, “Ctrl + X” and “Ctrl + V”, to move content, you can more quickly move text using fewer keystrokes. Any content, including text, graphics, and tables, can be moved using the “F2” key and the “Enter” key. Simply highlight the content you want to move and press “F2”. Place the cursor where you want to move the content. Press “Enter”. The content is cut from its original location and pasted at the cursor....

Chrome’s spellcheck feature is handy, and works just like you’d expect: it underlines misspelled words, which you can right-click to see suggested spellings. You can even add a word to the dictionary. But what do you do when you accidentally add a misspelled word? We’ve got the answer. Access the Chrome Custom Dictionary with a Link Like most settings in Chrome, the custom dictionary is accessible with a URL. In the Chrome address bar, just type (or copy and paste) the following address and hit Enter:...

Why Your Kindle Has Ads How to Remove Special Offers If you purchased a Kindle with Special Offers (or got one as a gift), the good news is that you can remove the ads by paying back the $20 discount. However, the option isn’t available on your Kindle device itself. Select “Kindle,” and then click the device that you want to remove offers from. Finally, click “Remove Offers” and pay the $20 fee....

Want to reset your web browser to its default settings? You can’t necessarily just uninstall it — your personal files will stay on your computer. And if your browser is Internet Explorer, it can’t be uninstalled at all. Resetting your browser to its default state can often fix problems. For example, a program you install may change your search engine, install toolbars, and do other unwelcome things. Or you may have accidentally changed advanced settings on your own....

The Nest Thermostat is a piece of hardware with circuitry and an operating system, just like any computer. That means it’s also susceptible to crashing, freezing, and other problems. Here’s how to restart the Nest Thermostat if it ever becomes unresponsive. RELATED: How to Install and Set Up the Nest Thermostat That’s perhaps one of the drawbacks of a smart thermostat. All that added brainpower means more of a risk that it will freeze up and make your thermostat stop working temporarily....

By default, when you create a new workbook in Excel, the row height and column width is always the same for all cells. However, you can easily change the height and width for one or more rows and columns. For new Excel workbooks, the default row height for all the rows is 15, with the default font of Calibri and default font size of 11 points. The default column width for all the columns is 8....

If you want a quick and easy way to monitor your home while you’re away, here’s how to set up the SmartThings Home Monitoring Kit. What Is SmartThings? SmartThings is a smarthome product line from Samsung that aims to be a user-friendly way for homeowners and renters alike to keep tabs on their domain while they’re away from home. The main Home Monitoring Kit includes the necessary hub, two multipurpose sensors (open/close sensors for doors and windows), one motion sensor, and one smart outlet....