The Alexa app stores your shopping list, so when you open the app and select “Shopping & To-Do Lists” in the side menu, you’ll get a list of everything you added. However, if you’d rather not rely on the Alexa app for a text-based version of your grocery list (it’s not that great anyway), you can use a service called IFTTT to send that list to your email (or even Evernote or another service that IFTTT supports)....
There are a number of different default app categories. You can set a default web browser, search engine, phone app, messaging app, home screen launcher, and more. When something happens that requires one of these apps, the one you chose as the “default” will be used. RELATED: How to Change Browsers on Android The good news is this process is essentially the same on every Android device. First, swipe down once or twice from the top of the screen—depending on your phone—to open the notification shade and tap the gear icon....
Sorting and filtering data offers a way to cut through the noise and find (and sort) just the data you want to see. Microsoft Excel has no shortage of options to filter down huge datasets into just what’s needed. How to Sort Data in an Excel Spreadsheet In Excel, click inside the cell atop the column you want to sort. In our example, we’re going to click cell D3 and sort this column by salary....
Google Chrome automatically blocks downloads of suspicious files. However, if you think your file is completely safe, you can download it by temporarily allowing all downloads. Here’s how to do that on desktop, Android, iPhone, and iPad. RELATED: 50+ File Extensions That Are Potentially Dangerous on Windows Unblock File Downloads in Chrome on Desktop If you’re downloading a file from a non-fraudulent site, and you know it’s safe to use, here’s how to disable Chrome’s security option to enable all kinds of file downloads....
Chrome OS does a lot of things right: it’s fast, super efficient, and great for most everyday tasks. One thing it doesn’t do very well is cater to power users, but Google is slowly changing this. Recently, Google added the ability to quickly toggle both the touch screen (on touch-compatible devices, of course) and touchpad with simple keyboard shortcuts. These settings are technically still experimental, however, so they’re hidden. Here’s how to enable them....
Windows 10’s Creators Update added support for Dolby Atmos positional sound. This includes two things: Support for Dolby Atmos hardware and virtual Dolby Atmos sound that works in any pair of headphones. The Dolby Atmos for headphones feature is a bit weird. It appears in the standard Windows control panel as an option, but it requires a free trial or $14.99 purchase via the Windows Store before you can actually use it....
Microsoft recently released a new feature for the Windows 10 Mail app that lets you convey messages with drawings right inside the body of an email. This is a great way to quickly sketch things like graphs or tables to get your point across when simple text just doesn’t do the trick. Here’s how you can start using the Draw feature in the Windows 10 Mail app. RELATED: How to Back Up Messages From Windows 10’s Mail App...
Called the “Enhanced Spell Check,” this setting allows you to access Google’s more advanced spell check whenever you type something on the internet. But as is the case with most Google services, there’s a privacy cost to this. Turning on “Enhanced Spell Check” in Chrome also means agreeing to send everything you type on the web to Google’s server. So enable it at your own risk. Open the Google Chrome browser on your Windows 10 PC, Mac, Chrome OS, or Linux computer....
While you can certainly click around OS X to find whatever you need, there’s nothing easier or more efficient than the time-tested Spotlight. Spotlight is easier to use than you might think, thanks to its new natural language search. Before you begin searching naturally, we want to explain what Spotlight still cannot do. Spotlight can’t search the Internet, though it can hook into Wikipedia, Fandango, Weather, and other pertinent information....
Apple’s Photos app is a pretty solid offering, but if you take a lot of photos with your iPhone, you know it can be a hassle scrolling through them all to find photos you took at a certain location or on a certain date. Among all the other useful things Siri can help you with, she can also help make finding photos a whole lot easier. RELATED: 5 Things You Need to Know About Your iPhone’s Photos App...
These days, it’s easier than ever to board many of the most popular airlines using nothing more than your smartphone and a little know-how to boot. Today we’re going to give you a few tips and tricks to do just that. In order to streamline the process of getting all of their customers processed, many of the most popular airlines these days have begun offering a digital boarding services which allow you to easily check-in through an app or email, get your bags where they need to go, and leave the rest of the stress to the flight attendants at the front of the cabin....
You can think of the standard Galaxy S22 as the “baseline” model. Each model after the standard S22 gets a little bigger and adds more features. At launch in February 2022, the Ultra model cost $400 more than the S22 and $200 more than the S22+. RELATED: The Best Android Phones of 2022 Spec for Spec Let’s start things off by comparing the raw specifications of the Galaxy S22 Ultra against its smaller, cheaper siblings....
Multi-Account Containers is one of Firefox’s most remarkable features. It just got better, as you can now use it to connect Firefox VPN to multiple servers as you switch back and forth between accounts. Firefox is taking a significant step ahead of other browsers in terms of VPN functionality by adding support for its Multi-Account Containers feature, as announced in a blog post by Mozilla. Having the ability to switch between VPN servers quickly makes Firefox a terrific browser option for anyone who regularly connects to a VPN (specifically, to Mozilla’s VPN)....
When it comes to home improvement projects, a power drill is one of the most common tools you’ll need. But an impact driver is perhaps an upgraded version that you should consider adding to your arsenal. RELATED: The Basic Tools Every DIYer Should Own Power drills and impact drivers are similar tools: both look a lot alike, and they both are able to drive screws into different materials. However, impact drivers make the work a lot easier....
The Start Menu is a staple of the Windows experience and should be streamlined, efficient, and unmolested by the greater world beyond the operating system and programs it serves as a portal to. Microsoft brought the Start Menu back to the forefront in Windows 10 but they spoiled it in the process. It’s always popular to rant and rave about changes in operating systems when major iterations are released to the public....
Windows sync settings have been a part of the operating system since Windows 8 but in Windows 10 they get a makeover and some much-needed consolidation. Today we’ll discuss these new sync settings, and briefly compare how they differ from the previous version. When the sync settings debuted in Windows 8, it’s a safe bet few people even realized they existed. We did cover the sync settings at length, but the simple fact is that so many people didn’t upgrade to Windows 8, syncing your settings across several devices wasn’t terribly relevant to most Windows users....
You’ve probably seen the term “hot-swappable”—and to a lesser extend, “cold-swappable”—pop up if you’ve ever shopped for any digital storage devices. Here’s what that means. RELATED: How to “Clean” a Flash Drive, SD Card, or Internal Drive to Fix Partition and Capacity Problems At its most basic, hot-swappable means that you can plug in or remove a device without first shutting down your computer. USB drives are probably the first thing that spring to mind, and yes, they are hot-swappable....
If you happen to be researching specific computer hardware like SSDs, for instance, you might expect the smaller ones to be faster than the larger ones. But is that actually the case or is the opposite true? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. 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....
Laptops promise anywhere from 15 to 24 hours of battery life, but you’ll be lucky to get 10 hours. Those estimates aren’t wrong, and there’s no mistake: Manufacturers choose the most unrealistic benchmark with the highest numbers. Everyone Does It All PC laptop manufacturers trumpet their overly optimistic numbers because they have to. Everyone else does it. If one manufacturer is realistic and advertises 8 hours of battery life under regular use while other manufacturers advertise 15, that one honest manufacturer will get overlooked....
The 1MORE Evo earbuds are certainly aiming high, but did they actually make the shot? They certainly hit more marks than they miss. Design and Fit While the overall look of an earbud isn’t something we generally pay much attention to, it’s worth mentioning here. The 1MORE Evo are available in either black or white, and each finish is equally impressive. We’re reviewing the black model, with gold highlights and a mirrored finish that is truly impressive in person....
