How To Convert Heic Images To Jpg On A Mac The Easy Way

Apple started using the HEIC image format with iOS 11. It’s preferred over the incumbent JPG because of its smaller file sizes, and it’s also made its way to the Mac. HEIC can cause problems for some apps. Here’s how to easily convert HEIC files to JPG. If you live your life on iOS, then the chances are pretty good that you never really know when an image is in the HEIC or JPG formats because, for the most part, it doesn’t matter....

November 21, 2022 · 3 min · 434 words · Timothy Garcia

How To Create A Gantt Chart In Google Sheets

A Gantt chart is a commonly used type of bar chart that illustrates the breakdown of a project’s schedule into tasks or events displayed against time. Google Sheets has a handy feature to help you create a Gantt chart for your project. Fire up Google Sheets and open a new spreadsheet. First, create a small table and insert a few headings into the cells to get started. You’ll need one for tasks, start date, and end date....

November 21, 2022 · 3 min · 568 words · Mark Felton

How To Decide Which Nintendo Switch Is Right For You

The Nintendo Switch OLED The newest Switch choice happens to be the most powerful one. This is a new version of the Switch is called the Nintendo Switch OLED Model, named so because of the new OLED screen. In essence, it’s the same Switch we all know and love, but the screen is a substantial improvement over the original models. It’s 0.8 inches larger and substantially brighter with deeper blacks thanks to the OLED technology....

November 21, 2022 · 4 min · 679 words · Connie Fleming

How To Delete A Twitch Account Or Disable It

Twitch is a great platform to sit back, relax, and watch your favorite streamers play games and chat with their communities. If you’re bored of Twitch, however, you might want to disable or delete your account. Here’s how. How to Delete a Twitch Account If you want to delete your Twitch account, you can, but this will permanently delete everything attached to that account, including friends, subscriptions, and channel follows....

November 21, 2022 · 3 min · 602 words · Theresa Pirtle

How To Disable The Delete Confirmation Dialog Box In Outlook

If you delete a lot of emails when sifting through your Outlook inbox, you might have turned on the option to automatically empty the deleted items folder when exiting Outlook. That’s handy, but you most likely have to confirm the deletion of the emails every time. Whether you manually send a lot of emails to the trash, or you’ve set up rules to redirect emails you know you don’t want, that pesky confirmation dialog box displays anyway....

November 21, 2022 · 2 min · 297 words · Frances Montalvo

How To Erase Your Ios Device After Too Many Failed Passcode Attempts

When someone tries to access your iPhone or iPad by guessing the passcode, it will initially lock them out, increasing each interval with each failed attempt. You can however, set it up so that it fully erases your device after 10 failed attempts. Here’s a situation that we can all imagine happening. Let’s say you leave your iPhone in the back of a taxi, or it falls out of your pocket while sitting on a park bench....

November 21, 2022 · 3 min · 441 words · Stephan Wolf

How To Factory Reset Your Roku

That account is tied to your credit card number, after all, which is how you pay for TV and movie rentals on your Roku. As much as you love your friend, you probably don’t want to give them free movies for life on your dime. And you’ve almost certainly logged into Netflix, Hulu, and numerous other accounts while using your Roku, and you probably don’t want to give you friends lifelong access to those things either....

November 21, 2022 · 2 min · 286 words · Cody Mcmackin

How To Find Section Breaks In A Word Document

Section breaks in Word allow you to break up your document into sections and format each section differently. When you create a new document there is only one section by default, but you can add different types of section breaks as needed. What if you want to change the type for a section break or delete a section break in a long document with a lot of section breaks? You can easily search for section breaks so you can jump from one to the next....

November 21, 2022 · 3 min · 455 words · Roseann Moorehead

How To Get The Most Out Of Slack To Boost Your Group Productivity

Just as its name implies, Slack is a great tool to pick up any of the “slack” that might be leftover whenever you try to coordinate multiple people on a single project, website, or coding effort. For anyone who’s out of the loop, Slack is a messaging platform that thousands of companies, websites, and independent agencies can use to create a common space where their employees, engineers, and creatives can come together to collaborate on any project of their choosing....

November 21, 2022 · 7 min · 1316 words · Christina Tarvin

How To Install Linux

Choose a Linux Distro and Download It First, you’ll need to choose a Linux distribution you want to use. Linux distributions package up the Linux kernel and other software into a complete operating system you can use. Different Linux distributions have different system tools, desktop environments, included applications, and visual themes. Ubuntu and Linux Mint are still some of the most popular Linux distributions. We really like Manjaro, too. There are many, many other options—there’s no wrong answer, although some Linux distributions are intended for more technical, experienced users....

November 21, 2022 · 7 min · 1442 words · Patti Mack

How To Make A Playlist From Your Pixel S Now Playing History

Not only does the feature recognize songs in the background, but it also keeps a running history of the identified songs saved in the handset’s settings. These songs can be exported to a YouTube Music playlist for future listening. At this writing, YouTube Music is the only supported music service for this feature. The option won’t even appear if you don’t have YouTube Music installed on your Pixel. There’s a chance more music providers might be added in the future....

November 21, 2022 · 2 min · 224 words · John Nagy

How To Manage Your Subscriptions On Apple Tv

The new Apple TV comes with a ton of features including the ability to manage subscriptions right from your device, which you may find more useful than doing so from iTunes. In the past, we’ve explained how to cancel your Apple Music subscription, which also covers how to cancel others as well. It’s pretty easy but it’s even better if you can just manage subscriptions from the Apple TV itself....

November 21, 2022 · 2 min · 385 words · Robert Plitt

How To Pin Your Favorite Settings To The Start Menu In Windows 10

If you find you’re accessing the same settings over and over in Windows 10, you can add these settings to the Start menu as tiles for quick and easy access. We’ll show you how to do this. To pin a settings screen to the Start menu, open the Start menu and click “Settings”. Click on a settings category, such as “Update & Security”. On the screen for that settings category, a list of subcategories display on the left....

November 21, 2022 · 1 min · 176 words · Anne Lima

How To Print Document Properties In Word

We’ve shown you how to set the advanced document properties, or summary information, that are stored in your Word documents, along with the properties automatically maintained for each document. Printing this information, if you should need to, is quite easy to do. NOTE: We used Word 2013 to illustrate this feature. Open the Word document for which you want to print the document properties. Click the “File” tab. On the backstage screen, click “Print” in the list of items on the left....

November 21, 2022 · 2 min · 321 words · Robert Miners

How To Safely Share Passwords With Family Members

Keeping your password secret is a fundamental security practice, but there are times when you want to share a password with family members. Don’t just send those passwords in an email, though! Use these secure alternatives instead. Why Would I Want To Do This? Although the majority of your passwords should remain secret, there are plenty of times when sharing a password with your spouse and family members is useful....

November 21, 2022 · 13 min · 2714 words · Leon Jenner

How To Save Money When Buying The Nest Thermostat

The Nest Thermostat isn’t exactly cheap, but if you’ve been in the market for a smart thermostat for a while now and just don’t want to pay full price for one, here’s how you can save money when buying the Nest Thermostat. One of the great features of smart thermostats is that they come with the ability to better manage your home’s heating and cooling, saving you money on your utility bills in the long run....

November 21, 2022 · 4 min · 813 words · Jimmy Mcguire

How To Show The Navigation Bar Instead Of Breadcrumbs In Ubuntu S File Manager

By default, Nautilus displays a breadcrumb bar showing the path to the selected folder or file. However, this may not be efficient if you need to enter a long path. You can easily change Nautilus to display the location entry rather than the breadcrumb bar. The location entry allows you to easily enter a path to navigate to a specific folder or file. We’ll show you how to change the breadcrumb bar to the location entry....

November 21, 2022 · 2 min · 323 words · Jessie Winston

How To Start Your Own Minecraft Server For Multiplayer Gaming

If you’ve played Minecraft, then it’s easy to see how much fun it can be. Running your own server lets you bring all of your friends into the same game, and you can play with rules you get to make or break. It’s the ultimate in an already addictive game! We’ve already shown you How To Get Started with Minecraft, a Game Geeks Love. What’s better than single player? Multiplayer, of course!...

November 21, 2022 · 5 min · 932 words · Alia Age

How To Sync Your Imessages Across All Your Apple Devices

Messages in iCloud lets you sync your iMessages across all of your Apple devices using your iCloud account. Here’s how to set it up. Apple announced this feature during WWDC 2017 last year and just recently pushed it out to the public. Technically, you’ve always been able to sync iMessage between your Apple devices, but it wasn’t true syncing per se. While any new iMessages sent or received would pop up on all your devices, deleting a conversation on one device wouldn’t delete it from your other devices....

November 21, 2022 · 2 min · 426 words · Paulette Cortez

How To Update Discord

To ensure Discord keeps providing you with the smoothest experience possible, keep the app up to date on all your devices. We’ll show you how to update Discord on your Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. RELATED: How to Clear Discord Cache Files on Desktop and Mobile Why Update Discord? When you update Discord, you get bug fixes, performance improvements, and sometimes even new features. An update is supposed to enhance your experience with the app, and this is exactly what Discord updates do....

November 21, 2022 · 3 min · 598 words · Kelly Liang