Laptop trackpads can be annoying. Your palm hits them while you’re typing, moving your cursor and messing up your flow. This can be particularly annoying if you have an external mouse connected, and aren’t even using the trackpad. If you’d rather the trackpad turn off entirely the second you connect any kind of external mouse, macOS offers this option, though it’s a little buried. First, open up System Preferences, which you can find by clicking the Apple logo at the top-left of your screen, then clicking “System Preferences....

Google Chrome’s built-in password manager is better than nothing, but it’s not the most secure. If you’re planning to move to a dedicated password manager, here’s how you can safely export and delete saved passwords from Chrome. We recommend you use a dedicated password manager for saving and syncing all your usernames and passwords across your devices. Not only is it more secure, but it’s also convenient because you can generate strong passwords for all your accounts....

If you want to hide spelling and grammar errors in a specific Word document without all of your other documents being affected by the setting change, then you’re in luck. Microsoft Word, unsurprisingly, has a way to do this. You might be wondering why you’d want to turn off spellcheck for a specific document in the first place. There is any number of reasons. Perhaps you like leaving the feature on in most documents but have one where it distracts you....

Apple goes to a lot of effort to make their iPhones as accessible for everyone as possible. One system option allows you to invert all the colors on the phone’s display, which is useful if you’re sensitive to brightness, have certain kinds of color blindness, or just are in the dark. Here’s how to enable it. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Display Accommodations. Select Invert Colors and then turn either Smart Invert or Classic Invert on....

How Your Echo Supports Podcast Playback Using TuneIn with Your Echo Device Because there is no need to register for a TuneIn account or even turn it on in the settings for your Alexa account, you could actually start using it right this instant. Have an Echo device nearby? You can immediately dial into any podcast in the vast TuneIn library. Want to hear the newest edition of the popular podcast RadioLab?...

Bluetooth 5.0 is so cool. It lets you do things with Bluetooth audio that have been on our wish lists for a long time—like separate the audio from a specific app (say, Music) and only play it over a Bluetooth connection, keeping other media audio (like navigation sounds) on the phone. RELATED: What Is Media Volume Sync on the Galaxy S8? The Galaxy S8 is the first phone to have this feature, so it’s probably a new one for many users—in fact, I’d bet there’s a fair share of S8 users out there who may not even know this feature exists!...

The app system in iMessage is really cool, letting you paste content directly into messages that once required several additional steps. If you’re choosy about which apps appear in iMessage, though, you can prevent iMessage from automatically adding them. While there’s a lot more to iMessage apps than preventing their installation, here’s the gist: many iPhone apps, such as Giphy or IMDB, will install a small iMessage plugin when you install the app....

The Roku Channel Store offers hundreds of video sources, not to mention the hidden channels you can find around the web. Keep adding things, and eventually you’ll have way more channels than you can navigate quickly. Isn’t there some way to move your favorites, like Netflix and PBS, toward the top? As it turns out, there is. I don’t blame you if you haven’t discovered it yet, though: it’s somewhat buried....

When sending email, you might want to know that your message has been delivered (delivery receipt) and you might want to know whether the message was opened (read receipt). You can request one or both types of receipts easily in Outlook 2013. NOTE: The recipient generally has the option of declining the sending of receipts, preventing you from receiving either type of receipt even though you request them. Additionally, not all e-mail programs support the sending of delivery and read receipts....

In the Creators Update, Windows 10’s Bash shell now allows you to run Windows binaries and standard Command Prompt commands, right from Bash. You can run both Linux and Windows programs from the same Bash shell, or even incorporate Windows commands into a Bash script. What You Need to Know RELATED: Everything You Can Do With Windows 10’s New Bash Shell Here are some basic details you need to know about this feature:...

Last week we showed you how to set up a simple, but strongly encrypted, TrueCrypt volume to help you protect your sensitive data. This week we’re digging in deeper and showing you how to hide your encrypted data within your encrypted data. What’s a Hidden Volume? Most people are already familiar with the idea of encryption—using a simple or complicated encryption scheme, data is shifted in some fashion so that it no longer appears in its original state without decryption....

Zoom is one of the top video conferencing applications currently on the market. If you’re working from home or need to have a meeting with a remote client, you’ll need to know how to set up a Zoom meeting. Let’s get started. How to Download Zoom If you’re just joining a Zoom meeting, you don’t need to have Zoom installed on your computer. However, if you’re the host, you’ll need to download and install the software package....

If your home’s Wi-Fi signal sucks, you might be looking at mesh solutions like the Luma Home Wi-Fi System. Luma consists of multiple Wi-Fi extenders that you spread across your house in order to cover every nook and cranny with an excellent Wi-Fi signal. Here’s how to set it all up and how to configure it to deliver the best Wi-Fi possible all around your home. What Is Luma? Much like Eero, Luma is essentially a set of routers that link together to create one big Wi-Fi network....

Tags are a big part of photos on Facebook. They let your friends take pictures of you, and then when they tag you, they’ll appear on your Facebook page. Without tags, you’d have to download and re-upload any photos you wanted on your page. Unfortunately, because you can be tagged in any photo, you can be tagged in photos that aren’t of you, or photos where you don’t look so great....

Made an iMessage gaffe? Within a short window of time, you can unsend or edit messages sent to other Apple users from your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. It’s virtually the same process on every platform, which we’ll walk you through. How to Unsend a Message You can unsend or edit iMessages that you’ve sent using any device, even if it isn’t the device you used to send it (for example, unsending a message using your Mac that was originally sent from your iPhone)....

Do you get too many newsletters and other promotional emails? These emails aren’t technically “spam” — they’re from legitimate organizations. Thanks to the US CAN-SPAM act, every legitimate company offers a consistent way to unsubscribe from their newsletters. The next time you want to stop receiving emails from a legitimate organization, don’t just click the “Spam” or “Trash” button. Unsubscribe from those emails to keep your inbox clean. How to Unsubscribe RELATED: Forget The Gimmicks: Here’s the Best Way to Organize Your Gmail Inbox...

Your Android device’s built-in Clock app can serve as an alarm clock, a kitchen timer, and a stopwatch for timing activities. You can create multiple alarms and timers, adjust the snooze times for your alarms and record lap times using the stopwatch. We’ll show you how to use these tools and point out some of the cool features of each tool. To access the Clock app, either tap the Clock icon on the Home screen, or open the App Drawer and open the Clock app from there....

Lookup functions in Microsoft Excel are ideal for finding what you need when you have a large amount of data. There are three common ways to do this; INDEX and MATCH, VLOOKUP, and XLOOKUP. But what’s the difference? INDEX and MATCH, VLOOKUP, and XLOOKUP each serve the purpose of looking up data and returning a result. They each work a bit differently and require a specific syntax for the formula....

While there are bigger monitors, the INNOCN is arguably right around the limit of what can be considered a usable monitor size rather than something more like a TV. Fortunately, this monitor has some compelling features at a competitive price point that may make it worth challenging your expectations and rethinking how you both work and play. Unboxing Is a Two-Person Job Unlike most monitors, because of its size and roughly 35-pound (16kg) weight, we removed the INNOCN Ultrawide 40-inch Monitor from the box horizontally rather than vertically....

When burning a CD or DVD with Windows, you’ll be asked whether you want to use a Live File System or a Mastered disc format. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages. Windows 7 refers to this as “Like a USB flash drive” or “With a CD/DVD player.” But how exactly can a non-rewritable disc function like a USB flash drive? Disc Burning Basics A standard writable CD or DVD can only be written to once....