Google Photos is one of the best services for backing up photos and videos to the cloud. There are a couple of upload quality options you can use to maximize your storage space. We’ll show you how it works. Starting June 1, 2021, Google Photos no longer offers free unlimited storage. Previously, you could back up photos and videos at “High Quality” and they wouldn’t count toward your storage. Now, everything you upload counts, so you may want to adjust the upload quality....

GitLab’s Merge Requests are your chance to review code before it enters your project’s main branch. A Merge Request (MR) is a wrapper around a git merge operation that’s accessible within the GitLab web UI. Once you’ve reviewed your code, you can initiate the merge with a single click. Adopting an MR-driven workflow helps you guarantee code quality by creating an expectation that all commits are thoroughly reviewed. Merge Requests are one of the foundational elements of the GitLab experience....

Unless you’re a Mac user who’s terribly out of the loop, you probably know that Siri has arrived on the latest version of Apple flagship desktop OS: macOS Sierra. Thankfully, Siri can be easily turned on and off or configured to your liking. RELATED: 26 Actually Useful Things You Can Do with Siri There are quite a few things you can do with Siri, which has made its way onto the Apple TV and even the Apple Watch....

If you want to keep your conversations list in the Alexa app from getting out of control, here’s how to delete certain conversations that you’re no longer participating in. With the new calling and messaging features brought to Alexa, there’s now a new Conversations screen in the Alexa app that’s very similar to your phone’s own text messaging app. And just like with your stock messaging app, you can delete certain conversations in order to clean it up a bit....

What Uses All That Space? Whether you buy a laptop, tablet, or brand-new game console, system files always eat into the advertised drive capacity. The $499 Xbox Series X comes with a 1TB internal NVMe solid-state drive, which has around 800GB of usable space once system files have been accounted for. The $299 Series S has the same nippy drive, except it’s half the size, with only around 360GB of available space once you’ve plugged it in....

Formulas can be powerful ways to manipulate, evaluate, find, and analyze data. But with formulas can come problems. Here are several common formula errors in Microsoft Excel, how to correct them, and tools for further help. When you enter a formula into a cell and hit Enter or Return, you may see one of the following errors in the cell instead of the expected result. You might also see errors beyond those listed here, but these are some of the most common formula errors in Excel....

Last week we told you all about camera white balance and how to fix color issues right in your camera. But what about the photos you’ve already taken that need a little help? Read on as we show you how to fix color issues in existing photos. Why Do I Want to Do This? Several readers contacted us after we published the white balance explainer with a simple request: to show them how to fix their existing photos with white balance problems....

Apple offers 5 GB of free iCloud space to everyone, but you’ll run up against that storage limit sooner than you’d think. Device backups, photos, documents, iCloud email, and other bits of data all share that space. RELATED: How to Free Up Space on an iPhone or iPad If you have multiple iOS devices, you’ll run out even faster. That free 5 GB is per Apple ID, not per device, so it’s a good idea to free up wasted space before paying for more....

Sony’s PlayStation 4 includes a 500GB hard drive, but games are getting bigger and bigger–Grand Theft Auto V alone requires 50GB of space on the hard drive, even if you have the disc. Here’s how to free up space–and upgrade your PS4’s storage capacity so you can fit more games. Upgrade Your PlayStation 4 With a Larger Hard Drive RELATED: How to Make Your PlayStation 4 or Xbox One Faster (By Adding an SSD)...

If you use Spotlight to search for files on your Mac, you might notice that results may often be cluttered with things that are useless or irrelevant. If you want more accurate results from your Spotlight searches, there’s an easy fix. Let’s take an example from our Mac. Below, you can see our results when we search for “November”. We get some relevant items at the top, but then we have the definition, something that is available in the iTunes Store, a movie, and other stuff we could just find by other search methods....

If you’re using Telegram on your iPhone, you may have noticed chat suggestions from the app in the share sheet. If you want to keep your Telegram contacts out of the iPhone share sheet, you’re in the right place. Telegram allows you to customize your experience to only show certain types of contacts in the share sheet. For instance, you can choose to show only Telegram group chat suggestions in the iPhone share sheet and hide all other types of chats....

Almost everything you need to do in Windows PowerShell you can do in a normal window. However, you’ll occasionally have to open PowerShell as an admin to run certain commands that require you to have elevated privileges. Here’s how. Use Windows Search You can quickly launch Windows PowerShell as an admin from the Windows Search bar. In the Search bar, type “Windows PowerShell.” Next, right-click the Windows PowerShell app in the search results, and then click “Run as Administrator” in the menu that appears....

Whether you need your kids to get their homework done or if it’s just dinner time, Google WiFi has a feature that lets you “pause” the internet on their devices. Here’s how to set it up. RELATED: How to Set Up the Google WiFi System This feature doesn’t pause internet access for your Google WiFi network, just certain devices that you specify. You can even create groups of devices and pause all of them at once with a single tap, as well as create automatic resume times....

When positioning most security cameras, it takes some time and a bit of trial and error to get them set up perfectly. However, Netgear has added some features that makes the setup process a lot easier for its Arlo cameras. RELATED: How to Set Up the Netgear Arlo Pro Camera System It’s not too difficult to get the perfect angle of a security camera; you have to take a guess and then look at the live video feed to see how good of a job you did....

Are you looking for a specific word on a web page? If so, ease your task by using your browser’s find function to locate specific terms on the current web page. Another way to do this is to use Google Search with a custom parameter. We’ll show you both ways. RELATED: How to Search Google Like a Pro: 11 Tricks You Have to Know Find a Word on a Web Page in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge To find a specific string of text or numbers on a web page, use Chrome, Firefox, or Edge’s “find on page” feature to quickly locate all occurrences of your word....

This method uses Group Policy Editor which is not available in Home versions of Windows 7. First type gpedit.msc into the Search box in the Start Menu and hit Enter. When Group Policy Editor opens navigate to User Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ Start Menu and Taskbar. Then double-click on Add Search Internet link to Start Menu. In the screen that comes up select Enable, click OK, and close out of Group Policy Editor....

There has been a whole lot of talk in the news lately of the rocky relationship between streaming giant Netflix and broadband internet providers. Is it possible to tell if your ISP is messing with your Netflix connection and degrading the quality? Determining if your ISP is specifically messing with the bandwidth they allocate to Netflix is difficult to ascertain with absolute certainty. That said, we can conduct some simple testing to see what your connection speed is to the Netflix servers, check how Netflix ranks your ISP, and otherwise get a feel for whether or not there’s a good chance your ISP is engaging in some thoroughly un-net-neutral hijinks....

When you minimize a window in macOS, it goes to the right edge of your Dock by default. If you’d rather it minimize to the app’s icon, like Windows’ taskbar does, you can alter this behavior in System Preferences. Minimizing apps to the right edge of the dock is fine, but it can quickly become crowded with minimized windows. To make applications minimize to their Dock icon, first open System Preferences and click “Dock”....

There are a ton of generic OBD-II adapters you can use to make your car smarter. However, one stands out above the rest. Automatic Pro does more than just pair with your phone over Bluetooth. It has its own GPS, 3G radio with 5 years of free service, plus OnStar-like Crash Alert. Here’s how to set yours up. Setting up an Automatic Pro is a little different than most other OBD-II adapters....

Want to share your family photos after your death, but take your search history to the grave? All that and more is possible with Google’s Inactive Account Manager. Let’s take a look at how you can put your Google account on autopilot when you’re no longer at the wheel. How You Can Control Your Information After Death It’s not nice to think about, but one day, you will die, along with the keys to your online kingdom....