What Is a Senior Cell Phone Plan? Senior cell phone plans are exactly what they sound like—cell phone plans that are marketed and built specifically for the 55 and up crowd. Details vary by plan and carrier, but more often than not you’ll find that senior plans are simply standard plans that come with a slight discount. For example, T-Mobile’s Magenta MAX plan typically costs $140 per month, but the discounted Magenta MAX 55+ offers the same service for just $135 per month....

Made for the photographer on the go, our newest HTG Cheat Sheet is designed to be printed and is conveniently credit card-sized to fit in most wallets. Carry critical photographic info with you wherever you go! For the newbie photographer or the quick reference for the DSLR aficionado, the How-To Geek Photo Cheat Sheet will make your life easier with critical information to help you take better pictures. Whether it’s common aperture full stops, camera white balance settings, or the common exposure value table, the How-To Geek Photo Cheat Sheet is a great addition any the photographer’s wallet....

Everyone who uses a phone case wants something they actually like. So a customized phone case with the image of your choice sounds like a no brainer, right? That’s exactly what Google is doing with “Live Cases,” a new $35 product for the Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, and Nexus 6P that allows users to completely customize the look of their phone case with a photo or map. It’s…okay. RELATED: What is NFC (Near Field Communication), and What Can I Use It For?...

When you frequently use a long-standing and convenient feature in Windows, then suddenly see it removed from the latest version, it can be very frustrating. How do you get the missing feature back? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has some helpful solutions to a reader’s “recent file” woes. 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....

What Is Safety Check? Safety Check was introduced by Apple with the iOS 16 update to provide a fast way of reviewing settings and revoking access to potentially sensitive information. You can do all this manually using apps like Find My or by diving into the Settings menu, but Safety Check brings everything together in one place for peace of mind. The feature works in two ways: as a kill switch that quickly revokes access to apps, and as a menu for reviewing and revoking permissions on a person-by-person or app-by-app basis....

Many things have changed with the Start menu from Windows 7 to Windows 10. If you skipped Windows 8, you may be in for a quite an adjustment, particularly when it comes to Start menu “tiles”. We want to talk about how to add, remove, and customize them. We’ve already introduced you to the basics of the new Start menu, but there’s quite a bit more to it. The Start menu has what are commonly referred to as tiles....

You can quickly add visual appeal to your Microsoft Word document by adding a background color, image or texture. You can choose from a variety of colors and fill effects. Adding a colorful background image can be helpful when creating a brochure, presentation, or marketing materials. How to Add a Background Color To add a background color to your document, switch over to the “Design” tab on Word’s Ribbon, and then click the “Page Color” button....

While there is, unfortunately, no option to set up your own EQ configuration, Apple provides many different presets. Whether you want to get an added bass boost or you want to hear the vocals of your favorite song a little more clearly, there should be an EQ for every taste. Oddly, these aren’t visible within the Music app itself but fear not. We’ll show you where they are. How to Select an EQ Preset for the Music App To get started, open the Settings app and scroll down to “Music” before tapping it....

Improving Your Recommendations “Your recommendations” can be accessed from the “Your Account” menu. You will very likely be asked to sign in whenever you try to access your account. Along the top row you will see options to see what is recommended for you, the ability to improve those recommendations, among other options. When we click on the “Recommended for You” link, you will see recommendations which are generated based on items you already own....

Windows 10 makes it easy to check the resolution of any monitor you have hooked up. The process is different if you have multiple monitors hooked up, but here’s how it all works. Check Resolution If You Have Only One Monitor in Windows 10 If you only use a single monitor with your Windows 10 PC, you’ll use the Settings app to check your screen’s resolution. Start by opening the “Settings” app on your PC....

Not every image in your slideshow has to be a plain rectangle or square. You might want to spruce up the presentation by giving your picture some shape. You can easily crop an image into a shape in Google Slides. You may even have the reverse situation. Maybe you have shapes in your slideshow that you want to give some pizzazz. You can use images as the fill for shapes like circles, arrows, hearts, and stars....

Besides the normal content of your documents in Word, there are also characters that don’t normally display on the screen. In addition, Word uses several special characters for its own purposes, such as characters to indicate the end of a line or a paragraph. Word refers to these special characters as non-printing characters. Why would you want to display non-printing characters in a document? It’s easier to understand the spacing and layout in your document when these special characters are displayed....

Although Discord doesn’t have modern parental controls, the application does have several features you can use to restrict communication from unwanted parties and block content identified as inappropriate. Keep your kids safe while gaming online with their friends with these easy steps. How to Block Explicit Content in Discord In Discord, open the Settings menu by clicking on the gear icon in the bottom left next to your username and avatar....

Power off Your Controller to Save Battery The easiest way to make your controller’s batteries last longer is to simply turn it off when you aren’t using it. You can do this manually at any point while playing a game: Press and hold the Xbox button in the middle of the controller, then choose “Turn Off Controller.” If you don’t touch your Xbox controller for 15 minutes, it will power off automatically....

First: Check Your Brightness The most obvious thing to try when your iPhone screen appears too dim is to increase your screen brightness. You can do this in your iPhone’s Control Center by swiping down from the top-right corner of the screen to reveal the brightness slider. Move the slider up to increase screen brightness. If the brightness doesn’t seem to be increasing regardless of what you do, don’t panic (yet)....

The Universal Format? Linux hard drives are most commonly formatted to ext4, although other formats are slowly growing in popularity such as btrfs and ZFS. These are Linux-specific file system formats. With USB drives, it’s a different story. To enjoy the maximum flexibility, and to be able to use them on Windows or macOS as well as on Linux, they need to be formatted to something that works in all three operating systems....

Photos is Apple’s way of allowing users to consolidate their photos and videos into basically the same app on OS X and iOS, which then syncs across your devices via iCloud. If you ever delete a photo in Photos, you can still get it back. We’ve been covering Photos since it was released because it’s a good default photo management tool on iOS and OS X. For most users (not Photoshop users), it does just about everything they need it to do....

If you have an iPhone but use a Windows computer, then you gain a great deal more compatibility if you use iCloud. Thankfully, there exists an iCloud client for Windows, so you can sync your photos and manage your iCloud storage from your PC. You can use the iCloud for Windows client so you’ll have all your photos, mail, files, and other information available not only on your iPhone, but also your Windows computer as well....

Although the Google Play Store offers thousands upon thousands of applications to choose from, sometimes you’ll want to break free and install applications that aren’t available in Google’s official store. Read on to learn how. Your Android phone is, by default, set to disallow any applications that aren’t from the Play Store. It’s a wise move, as the majority of users are more likely to be exposed to rogue applications than when searching for apps outside of the Play Store....

How to Add AssistiveTouch to Accessibility Shortcuts You usually have to dig into the Accessibility section in the Settings app every time you want to enable or disable the AssistiveTouch feature. iPad users who have mapped extra features to their mouse, like clicking a button to go to the Home screen, find themselves frequently enabling and disabling the AssistiveTouch feature. RELATED: How to Click the Home Button with a Mouse on an iPad...