If you use your iPhone to manage multiple address books from work, school, or your personal life at once, you’ve probably run into the problem of duplicate contacts before. Oftentimes when third-party applications like Facebook, Gmail, or Outlook attempt to import contact details into your phone, if there’s even a slight difference between the information one service has and what’s already stored locally on your device, the whole system goes haywire, and you can end up with a handful of contact pages that all belong to the same friend or colleague from the office....

Live photos are basically three second movie files—3D press the photo and watch it move. The cool thing, though, is you can edit them in the Photos app just like they were any other photo. Here’s how to edit your live photos, as well as change the key photo and video length, and convert them to different formats. How to Edit the Crop, Color, and Contrast of Your Live Photos Apple has tried really hard to make Live Photos as simple and easy to work with as regular images....

If you have an NVIDIA graphics card and monitor that both support NVIDIA G-Sync, you can use it to eliminate screen tearing and make the games you play look better. What G-Sync Does RELATED: G-Sync and FreeSync Explained: Variable Refresh Rates for Gaming “Screen tearing” has traditionally been a problem when playing PC games. Let’s say you have a 60Hz monitor, which means it can show 60 frames per second....

In early 2022, Google introduced a new Material You-inspired look for Gmail on the web. That redesign started rolling out to everyone in June 2022. It features a new sidebar that takes up more space. You can hide it. The new layout adds a sidebar specifically for shortcuts to Google’s other services that are sorta related to Gmail. The shortcuts include Gmail, Google Chat, Spaces, and Meet. If you don’t use those extra services, the sidebar is just taking up horizontal space....

Having a camera on your phone opens up a world of possibilities. The iPhone can identify objects from your photos, saving you the hassle of looking things up yourself. It’s a pretty cool trick to know. iOS 15 introduced a feature in the Photos app called “Visual Lookup.” After you take a photo, the app can identify various objects. You don’t have to do anything special, it just happens....

Windows 10 ships with many fonts installed automatically, but if you’re into graphic design, you might want to install more. Alternately, you might have problematic fonts you need to remove. Here’s how to install or remove fonts in File Explorer. Installing Fonts With File Explorer On Windows 10, you can install fonts in the TrueType (.ttf), OpenType (.otf), TrueType Collection (.ttc), or PostScript Type 1 (.pfb + .pfm) formats. If you have font files available that you’d like to install, browse to their location in File Explorer....

Windows 10 includes the Microsoft Store, which lets you download free or paid software from the internet. Here’s how to install apps from the Store. Free Apps vs. Paid Apps Before using the Microsoft Store—or any modern app store—it’s important to understand the difference between the two types of software in the store: free and paid. The second type is “paid” software, which you buy up front before you download and then usually you own the right to use it completely, although there are also paid apps that sell more features later through in-app purchases....

Double exposure images are popular at the moment. Taylor Swift’s Style music video and the True Detective opening theme both used the effect. It’s a technique where two separate photos—typically a portrait and a landscape—are blended together into one unusual image. Originally photographers took two photos (“exposures”) on the same piece of film to combine them, but now it’s usually done with software like Photoshop or GIMP. In this guide, we’ll show you how to make your own double exposure images....

Google Home is usually pretty good at recognizing when you’re talking to it, but sometimes it fails. By default, Google Home will show colorful lights whenever you activate it, but if you want it to make a sound too, you can do so. Those lights are handy, but you can’t see them from every angle, or if you’re busy looking at something else. If you’re not paying attention, you can recite a lengthy voice command to an empty room before you realize Google isn’t listening....

Google’s Pixel Launcher is a fantastic and clean home screen utility that everyone should be able to enjoy—the problem is, it’s a Pixel-exclusive feature. The good news is that you can actually set Nova Launcher up to look and function exactly like Pixel Launcher. And since it’s Nova, you can actually improve on Pixel Launcher’s functionality. I call that a win-win. So, what makes Pixel Launcher so good? Really, it’s the simplicity....

Windows PCs should shut down fairly quickly—unless there’s a problem causing a shutdown delay. Here’s how to make your computer shut down faster. Ensure Windows Isn’t Clearing Your Page File at Shutdown RELATED: What Is the Windows Page File, and Should You Disable It? Windows uses a paging file, also known as a page file, as additional virtual memory. Windows has a hidden option—disabled by default—to clear the paging file at shutdown....

If you want the latest Kindle features right this second (or you missed a past update), the best way to get an immediate update for your Kindle is to do it manually. Read on as we show you how to easily update your Kindle. Step One: Identify Your Kindle Model Although we’ll be updating a second generation Kindle Paperwhite in this tutorial, the same technique we’ll guide you through works on all the different Kindle models....

Evernote has limited their free plans, increased the prices of paid plans, and introduced a privacy policy that allows its employees to read your notes (Update: they’ve backtracked a bit on this, but they’ve still lost some good faith with many, including us). If you’ve ever thought about switching to Microsoft’s OneNote instead, now is probably a good time. Thankfully, Microsoft has released an official tool for migrating your Evernote data into OneNote....

The vim text editor, a standard tool included on Linux and macOS, can quickly encrypt text files with a password. It’s faster and more convenient than encrypting a text file with a separate utility. Here’s how to set it up. Make Sure Your System’s Vim Has Encryption Support Some Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, include a minimal version of vim by default, intended only for basic text editing. For example, Ubuntu calls this package “vim-tiny”....

You go to open the Wallet app on your iPhone so that you can delete a card or pass you’ve meant to get rid of, only the button to remove the card is nowhere to be found. Apple made this a bit tricky, but it’s easy once you figure it out. RELATED: Six Apple Wallet Features You May Not Have Known About There are a few different ways you can open up the Wallet app: From the lock screen (if you have that method enabled), from Control Center, or from the home screen....

By default, Chrome saves all downloaded files to the same location—a dedicated “Downloads” folder. The thing is, this isn’t always practical for all types of download files. The good news is you can easily tweak this setting. While there aren’t a slew of choices on what you can do with downloaded files, there are a couple of available options. Y can change the default download location or tell Chrome to ask where to save each file individually....

We all know that feeling: you record a video on your iPhone in portrait mode, and then try to watch it in landscape and everything is sideways. Luckily, you can correct a video’s rotation in just a few simple steps. Option One: Use iMovie Apple’s iMovie has this ability built in, and it’s free for all iPhones purchased after September 1, 2013. If you’re running a pre-5c iPhone and don’t want to pay $4....

Do you fancy a GIF on a website or in a message someone sent you? You can save that and any other GIFs to your iPhone’s Camera Roll, giving you quick access to them for viewing and sharing. RELATED: What Is a GIF, and How Do You Use Them? Save a GIF From a Website on iPhone If you like a GIF on a website and you’d like to save it to your phone for offline access, here’s how to do that....

Flutter is a Google development platform that lets you write cross-platform mobile apps using one codebase. Apps are developed in Dart, a typed and object-oriented language that compiles to either native code or JavaScript. This means you can target Android, iOS, desktop operating systems, and the web with a single Flutter project. Flutter comes packaged with a React-like framework for declaratively defining interfaces. It also ships with built-in Material Design and iOS-like components that let you quickly layer up a new interface....

RELATED: How to Master Notifications on Your iPhone Turn Off Notifications Using Do Not Disturb Mode The easiest way to silence your notifications is to turn on Do Not Disturb mode from the Control Center. Swipe down from the top-right of your screen. Then, select Focus > Do Not Disturb. On older iPhones, go to Settings > Do Not Disturb and toggle on Do Not Disturb mode. Scheduling Do Not Disturb Mode Using Focus If you want to schedule Do Not Disturb mode for a specific time, you can do that too using Focus....