Documents can get pretty long. Bookmarks let you link to a particular location inside a Google Docs file, making it easier to jump back to (or direct someone else to) a particular section. Here’s how you can bookmark specific locations in Google Docs. How to Bookmark Specific Locations in a Google Docs File Inserting a bookmark into your file is like creating a link that jumps directly to a point in your document....

With iOS 10, you can finally adjust the intensity of your flashlight so you don’t burn your eyes. It’s really easy to do–here’s how. RELATED: What is 3D Touch and Why it Will Change How you Use Mobile Devices First, this tip relies on a 3D Touch shortcut, so it won’t work if your device doesn’t have 3D Touch. You’ll need an iPhone 6S or newer to use it....

Apple has made quite the splash with their new MacBook Pros. While the Touch Bar may have garnered the most attention, it’s what Apple removed from their top-of-the-line laptop that has people talking. Namely: ports. It seems Apple has made its mission to get everyone to use USB-C. The new MacBook Pro comes in a few configurations: there’s a 13-inch model with two USB-C ports, and a 13-inch and 15-inch models with four USB-C ports....

Plenty of Mac users grew up with DOS machines, and as such have fond memories of playing classic DOS games. Maybe you’ve even got some old CDs in a drawer somewhere. But your Mac won’t run old games like that out of the box. However, a Mac app called Boxer makes it easy to get those games running in macOS. We’ve talked about how to use DOSBox to run old apps and games on Windows computers, and DOSBox is available for Mac too....

Chrome no longer supports any plugin except Flash, and even Flash won’t run automatically unless you give it permission. However, Chrome’s new click-to-play behavior is a little different from the old behavior. Click to play is now the default, but if you changed it at any point, you’ll need to re-enable it from the Settings screen. Enabling Click To Play Plugins in Chrome Click on the settings wrench and select the settings menu item....

The instructions that make up a computer program are written, edited, and saved in text files. A program called a compiler then processes these files. This produces the executable version of the program. The text files of instructions are called the source code. The version of the program that can actually run on a computer is called the binary or the executable. That’s a simplified version of events, but it paints a correct—if generalized—picture....

There are two ways to do this. If you don’t mind installing an app on your phone, TrackR is the fastest option. It can ring your phone in seconds, even if it’s on silent. If you’d rather not load up your phone with extra bloat, though, you can use IFTTT to call your phone. However, this will only work if your phone isn’t on silent mode. Method One: Find Your Phone Fast with TrackR TrackR uses Bluetooth trackers to find things like your keys or wallet....

By default, most Windows 11 PCs will go into sleep mode after a certain period of time to conserve power. If you’d like to always keep your Windows 11 PC awake, you can make changes in Settings or try one of Microsoft’s PowerToys. Here’s how. How to Keep Your PC From Sleeping in Settings It’s easy to keep your PC from sleeping using the Settings app. First, launch Settings by pressing Windows+i on your keyboard....

Do you have a document where you need to number the paragraphs? Maybe you want the numbers as reference points or are simply required to include them. We’ll show you how to number paragraphs in Microsoft Word. Word offers a feature to number the lines in a document. But when it comes to numbering paragraphs, there isn’t a built-in feature or handy tool. However, by using the Numbered List feature and making some tweaks to the formatting, you can add paragraph numbers....

Sharing your contact information from macOS is fast and easy, but if you use your Mac for personal productivity as well as work, you might have sensitive information you don’t want others to see. How do you avoid this? For example, your contact card may have your home address and private email, which you don’t always want to share. With some people, you may just want to share the pertinent details like your work email address and telephone number....

Siri has arrived on macOS Sierra, and with it a new feature that allows you to pin widgets to the Today column in the notification center. This feature is very simple and useful, so let’s take a few minutes and show you how it works. Normally, when you ask Siri anything on macOS, it shows you the results in the upper-right corner of the screen. Note, however, there’s a a plus “+” button in the top-right corner of many Siri search results....

Every time you take a picture on your Android phone, it records specific data and codes it into the picture’s metadata. Part of that data includes the GPS location of where the photo was taken. While it’s easy to remove, there’s also a way to prevent Android from storing that info in the first place. RELATED: How to View (and Edit) Photo EXIF Data on Android Of course, that geolocation data does have benefits....

Today’s question is centered around geeky curiosity for the sake of curiosity: is there anyway to look at a Steam gaming account and see how much you’ve spent on your games and how much you’ve played them? Let’s take a look at how you can datamine your own Steam account (and the accounts of friends too). We love it when reader emails inspire us to fix our own lingering computer problems, learn a new trick, or go digging through our own data to sate our own curiosity about the subject at hand....

Guided Access allows you to set a screen time limit on your iPhone or iPad. This is great if you have a child–they can only play games for as long as you choose. The iPhone or iPad will be automatically locked after the time limit expires. You could also use Guided Access this to restrict your iPhone or iPad to a specific application–like an educational app, for example–for a specific period of time....

Your Mac doesn’t show the battery percentage by default, although you can click the battery icon to see the percentage in the drop-down menu. But this is not an intuitive step. Thankfully, you can add the battery percentage value next to the battery icon quite easily. Click the Apple icon from the menu bar and choose the “System Preferences” option. Here, go to the “Dock & Menu Bar” section....

But that’s not true, because lots of reviews are fake. Scummy companies have been known to hire fake reviewers to praise products and boost sales, meaning you never know for certain that a review can be trusted. Having said that, there are tools that help spot such nonsense, and you can learn to recognize fake reviews with time. Fakespot scans the language used in every review, and also checks the profile of every reviewer, then uses a number of factors to decide whether a given review is likely to be fake or not....

Most users have a smooth and trouble free experience with the Google Chromecast, but when it misbehaves the experience quickly goes from flawless to nearly unusable. Read on as we highlight the simply tweaks and fixes you can apply to get an underperforming Chromecast zipping along again. In the realm of streaming HDMI sticks the ease of use and application integration the Google Chromecast enjoys is as-of-yet unparalleled. We loved it when we reviewed it back in 2013, and we still love it....

It’s really annoying when you have a great photo that you want to use for something—say, your Facebook Cover Photo—but it’s the wrong aspect ratio. If you can’t take the photo again, your only hope is to use Photoshop (or any other good image editor) to try and fix things. Let’s look at my favorite technique to do it. This trick is quick and easy, but it’s not perfect. It works best where the background is reasonably plain or abstract....

Find is another great command line tool that every Windows user should know about because it can be used to search content of files for specific strings of text. Find’s Switches and Parameters As with every command prompt based tool in Windows, there are certain switches and parameters you will need to know in order to use the tools effectively. These are listed and explained below. /v – This switch will show any lines that don’t contain the string of words you specified....

The wall Command If you need to get a message out—fast—to the logged-in users of your computer, how do you do it? Email doesn’t satisfy the requirements. You don’t know when the email will be read. If you need people to know something right now, that doesn’t cut it. And anyway, you don’t want to clog up the inboxes of logged-out users who don’t need to see the message. Without exerting a bit of extra effort and wasting some time, you’re not going to know who is logged in and from where....