How many times have you migrated to a new computer, or reinstalled Windows, and lost all the little settings in your Windows programs that you had finally tweaked perfectly? The good news is that you can easily save and restore the settings for lots of Windows programs, including Microsoft Office, so you can transfer them to another computer in one fell swoop. RELATED: How to Backup and Restore Your Office 2010 Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar Customizations...

Traditionally, a homepage is the first website your browser loads when you start it. But by default, Safari on Mac opens up a window of Favorites instead. If you’d like Safari to start with a website of your choice, follow these simple steps. First, open the Safari web browser by clicking its icon in the dock, by using Spotlight Search, or by selecting it from the macOS Applications folder. From there, navigate to the page you’d like to use as your home page....

There has been much ado about Apple’s removal of the headphone jack in its latest version of the iPhone. That means you only have one port on the phone–so how do you charge and listen to music at the same time? We have some options for you. Most people are concerned with why Apple removed the headphone jack in the first place. Their marketing department would like you to believe it was all about “courage” but there are actually more practical reasons....

Some game designers thoughtfully include performance checks and on-screen Frames-Per-Second (FPS) readouts for players to analyze, while others don’t. How can you get consistent performance checks and FPS readings regardless? Read on as we show a reader how to get the benchmarks he craves (along with easy screenshots and in-game movie recording to boot). Skyrim you say? An excellent game choice, if we do say so ourselves. One, in fact, we happen to have on hand so we can use your inquiry as an excuse to fire it up and show you how to get the feedback you want....

If you want to add a visual to your Excel spreadsheet that summarizes data at a glance, a chart is perfect. Depending on the type of data you have, however, it can be difficult to know which chart fits the best. Here, we’ll look at different types of data and the charts available in Microsoft Excel. In some cases, you may have more than one type of chart that suits your data just fine....

Windows can use multiple displays in several ways, extending or duplicating your primary monitor. You can even turn off your primary monitor. Here’s how to change secondary display settings with a simple keyboard shortcut. Using the Windows + P “Project” Menu To quickly change how Windows 10 handles multiple displays, press Windows + P. A dark-gray menu titled “Project” will pop up on the right part of your screen. (That’s “project” as in projector, not “project” as in a task people work on together....

The Usual Keyboard Shortcuts Won’t Work Copying and pasting text is a staple part of using a computer. When people use a Linux computer for the first few times, whether they come from the Windows or the macOS worlds, they are often confounded when trying to copy and paste within a terminal window. In Windows, you use Ctrl+C to copy a section of highlighted text and Ctrl+V to paste it. In macOS, you use Command+C to copy it and Command+V to paste it....

One of PowerPoint’s charms is the ability to visually represent information by using its large library of available graphics, such as charts and graphs. If you want to create a timeline, well, Microsoft has just the thing. Here’s how it’s done. Open your PowerPoint presentation and navigate to the slide in which you would like to add a timeline. Once there, navigate to the “Insert” tab and select “SmartArt” from the “Illustrations” group....

There are some things that are just a pain to type—especially when you have to type them over and over and over. Or even worse, if they thing you want to type doesn’t exist on your keyboard. What do you do if you’re using an American keyboard and need to drop a € into a document? I was having this problem. I was getting annoyed, and even worse, I was making mistakes....

Many use Slack for day-to-day professional communication, as well as simply shootting the breeze. Looking at the same old interface every day can be a bit of a bore, though, so why not change things up with a new color theme? By default, Slack appears in its default theme, “Aubergine”, which is clean and simple but unlikely to please everybody. You can choose a new theme from one of six presets, as well as two accessibility themes intended to better aid folks with visual disabilities....

iCloud Photos is a great way to seamlessly back up iPhone photos to iCloud. But if you’re running out of iCloud storage space and you’d rather not upgrade to a paid plan, here’s how to disable the iCloud Photos feature. Don’t worry. You can disable the iCloud Photos feature without losing any photo or video. But before we begin, we urge you to make a backup of all your photos and videos....

Although you do have to have YouTube Premium to officially download any content, it’s worth it to enjoy the videos anywhere. You also can’t download videos on the desktop website or any Smart TV, so this will only be on the official YouTube mobile app itself. For $12 a month, you can have ad-free videos that you can download and take with you on any mobile device. How to Download YouTube Videos on Your Smartphone or Tablet When you have a video showing on the YouTube home screen or a video that you have searched for, it’s simple to download....

Linux users normally edit configuration files with terminal-based tools like nano and vim . If you want to edit a file graphically—even a system file—the gedit text editor makes it painless and easy. Files, Files Everywhere An oft-repeated phrase concerning Linux and other Unix-based operating systems such as macOS is “everything is a file.” While that’s not strictly accurate, text files are often used for system logs and configuration. You can read these files to learn more about the inner workings of your operating system, and you can edit them to change its behavior....

What Is Timelapse Photography? Play Video The basic idea of timelapse is to show movement from a very long period of time in a short video. This is accomplished with a low frame rate. A typical movie has a frame rate of 24 frames per second, meaning the camera is essentially taking 24 photos every second. For things that move slower, such as a plant growing, 24 photos in a second wouldn’t show any movement....

Android 7.0 Nougat made some pretty big improvements to notifications, but there’s one feature that’s gone unsung. Now, you can easily manipulate an app’s ability to generate notifications directly from the notification shade. RELATED: The Best New Features in Android 7.0 “Nougat” One of Android’s best features has always been notifications. But as time has gone on and the OS has grown, developers have essentially learned to “abuse” the notification system (whether intentional or not), so Google started giving users more control of which apps could generate notifications in Lollipop....

Cross-App Messaging works in both directions: Facebook Messenger to Instagram, or Instagram to Facebook Messenger. However, it’s more prominent on Instagram as the Direct Message icon has been replaced with a Messenger icon. There are a couple of limitations, however. You can only message people on Facebook from Instagram, not groups or pages. In Facebook Messenger, you can message any Instagram account, but not Direct Message groups. It’s important to note that the two platforms haven’t “merged....

Chrome doesn’t really need to be restarted often. But, if for some reason you want to restart Chrome without having to close and reopen it manually—which takes a few clicks—there’s a quick and easy way to restart the browser with a bookmark. RELATED: How to Access Hidden Chrome Features and Settings Using the Chrome:// Pages Chrome has a few useful, internal pages which house all kinds of hidden settings. They all use the URL scheme chrome://something ....

We live in a very high-tech world. We walk around with our heads bowed down to our phones tapping away on the screens. But have we lost the art of handwriting? Not completely. iOS 10 has taken one more step towards incorporating handwriting into our daily communications. RELATED: How to Send a Digital Touch Message with Your Apple Watch You can use the Messages app in iOS 10 to send handwritten messages to your friends and family....

With the arrival of iOS 12, Apple made a big song and dance about digital wellbeing. The App Limits feature that came with it lets lock apps after a given amount of time. Here’s how it works. App Limits is precisely what it sounds like; it limits the amount of time you can spend using a particular app. You specify the apps (or whole categories of apps) and iOS will refuse to launch them when you’ve reached the allotted time....

The Nest Cam is an easy-to-use security camera that plugs into any outlet and connects directly to your Wi-Fi so that you can keep tabs on your home, no matter where you are. Here’s how to set it up. To start, obviously, you’ll need a Nest Cam—it comes in both indoor and outdoor varieties. Both retail for around $200, and work the same apart from their form factor. Once you have your Nest Cam unboxed, download the Nest app to your phone....