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There are lots of reasons you might want multiple Instagram accounts. Maybe you need one for your personal life and one for your business. Or maybe you and your partner share a device, but want to post photos to your own accounts. Here’s how to do it. Unlike Facebook, which is tied to your real identity, you can set up an account for anything on Instagram. And until last year, if you wanted to use more than one Instagram account on your phone, you had to log out of the first and then log in to the second....

Roku solves this problem with “My Feed,” a section of the home screen that notifies you when new episodes of a show you follow are available on a channel you’ve installed. You can also use it to find out when a movie you want to see is available for streaming. Many Roku users ignore this feature entirely, and that’s too bad: it makes discovering what’s on where a lot easier....

If you’ve ever found yourself wishing you had a magnifying glass with you, iOS 10 can now serve as an excellent replacement. The new Magnifier–not to be confused with the Text Size and Zoom features that makes your on-screen text bigger–uses your phone’s camera and flashlight to make sure you can always read that receipt or dig out that splinter. RELATED: The Best New Features in iOS 10 (and How to Use Them)...

Chromebooks are still a popular alternative to Windows and Mac laptops, and several of them are on sale for Black Friday. One of Lenovo’s mid-range models, the IdeaPad Flex 5i, is now at its best price yet. The Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5i is now on sale for $269.99 — a decent discount from the $429.99 MSRP, though the laptop has hovered around the $300 for most of November. The laptop has an Intel Core i3-1115G4 CPU, a 13....

Minecraft is one of the bestselling video games of all time but getting started with it can be a bit intimidating, let alone even understanding why it’s so popular. In this edition of How-To Geek School we’re going to help you get started with the game (or at least understand why your kids love it so much). Despite its simple appearance there is a whole lot going on in Minecraft....

RELATED: How to Buy and Sell Stocks on Your Smartphone The actual incident took place on November 3, 2021, and was first reported by the company on November 8, 2021. Robinhood said that hackers “obtained access to a limited amount of personal information.” Apparently, the person tricked a customer support employee into giving them access to the company’s customer support system, which is how they were able to obtain the personal information for so many Robinhood users....

Pick a Card Whether you’re performing a magic trick or just need a random card for a game, you can ask Alexa to pick a card from a standard 52-card deck. All you have to say is “Alexa, pick a card” and she’ll randomly pick out a card and tell you what it is. Unfortunately, that’s the extent of her skills when it comes to playing cards, as she doesn’t understand something like “Alexa, pick a five-card hand”, which would make a skill like this much more useful....

Whether you’re on vacation or just spending a fun afternoon at the park, a GoPro can turn any activity into an interesting story with the right tools and know-how. Here’s how to get the most out of your GoPro camera. Buy a Cheap Accessory Kit You might already have a mount or two for your GoPro, but you can really never have too many accessories for it. Luckily, you can get accessory kits that are pretty cheap, and come with a lot of useful stuff....

If you’re switching to a Mac from Windows, you might be wondering: What is the equivalent of Notepad on a Mac? The answer is TextEdit, and it’s much better than Notepad. Here’s why. The Mac’s Main Text Editor Believe it or not, TextEdit predates macOS itself. It originated as an app called Edit.app for the NeXTSTEP operating system in the 1980s, which later became the basis for Mac OS X....

We’ve covered enough of the basics in our guide on shell scripting that you should feel comfortable experimenting. In this week’s installment, we’ll be tackling some of the more fun stuff, like conditions and “if-then” statements. What Are Conditions? In everyday language, we say that conditions are requirements that must be met for something to occur. For my laptop to be able to connect to the internet, there are several conditions that must be met, like having an ISP, the modem and/or router being on, my laptop being on, etc....

Midjourney Beta Midjourney strikes a good balance between ease of use and impressive results. All you need to use it is a Discord account. Your text prompts are submitted as messages in a channel, and you get to see what other people are creating too. Midjourney offers some nice additional features like upscaling and variations. MidJourney Beta is free to use for the first 25 prompts. After that, you can choose from a number of full memberships that start at $10 per month....

When you buy a subscription to Office 365, you get client applications to download and run on your computer, along with various web applications that run in your browser. So, which applications do you get as standard, and how do you access them? When you subscribe to Office 365, you can download the desktop versions of all the regular Office apps you know and (maybe) love—Word, Excel, and so on....

If you have a newer HDTV set, you may have noticed that your TV remote can function as a universal remote of sorts (but it doesn’t work with all your devices). Read on as we explore how newer televisions are able to control the devices connected to them (and vice versa). Although we’re not there to examine your media center setup, we’re pretty confident we can guess exactly what is happening from afar: your HDTV set and your Blu-ray player are communicating via the Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) protocol (and the rest of your gear is not)....

Your iPhone is packed with hidden touch gestures and shortcuts you could use, if only you knew about them. You might have discovered some of these already, but Apple is always adding more new gestures. Here are 10 of our favorites. Tap the Menu Bar to Scroll to the Top RELATED: 8 Navigation Tricks Every iPad User Needs to Know In practically any app, you can tap the menu bar at the top of your screen—that’s the bar with the time on it—to scroll to the top of the current document or list....

According to the security research firm Check Point (via Bleeping Computer), there are clones of popular games like Temple Run and Subway Surfers appearing on the Microsoft Store that contain the Electron Bot malware. The malware is a backdoor that gives the attacker complete control over infected machines with the goal of social media promotion and click fraud through Facebook, Google, YouTube, and Sound Cloud. Confirmed game publishers releasing the spoofed games are Lupy games, Crazy 4 games, Jeuxjeuxkeux games, Akshi games, Goo Games, and Bizzon Case....

Getting your favorite electronic device soaking wet is always a gut-wrenching experience, but can high levels of humidity also damage electronic devices? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a worried reader’s question. Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites. The Question SuperUser reader user598527 wants to know if high humidity can damage electronic devices:...

Batteries need to be cared for properly — they’re a critical part of our mobile devices and battery technology hasn’t advanced as fast as other technologies. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of incorrect information about batteries out there. Some of the big myths come from old battery technologies and are actively harmful when applied to new battery technologies. For example, nickel-based batteries needed to be fully discharged, while modern lithium batteries shouldn’t be fully discharged....

Google is known for throwing Easter Eggs—hidden games, tricks, and other fun things—into its products. At one point or another, I’m sure you’ve seen some of these little things, whether it’s the Android version icons or one of the many hidden games in Chrome. Today, we’re going to talk about some of our favorites from Chrome, Android, and Google Search on the web. T-Rex Mini Game We’ve all seen the dreaded “no network connectivity” T-Rex show up when the internet isn’t working, but what you may not realize is that this is also a game....

If you’ve never used pie controls on your Android device before, you’re missing out. Pie controls are a unique way of quickly accessing your navigation keys and other shortcuts that don’t take up any space on your screen — you simply swipe in from the side to bring them up. These controls have long been a staple of some custom ROMs and Xposed modules for years, but you don’t need to go through the hassle of rooting to get them–you can just download an app from the Play Store....

If you want to fill sequential dates in your spreadsheet cells, you don’t have to type them manually. Microsoft Excel offers two ways to quickly and automatically fill dates in your chosen cells. We’ll show you how to use those methods. In both these methods, you enter the first date in a cell in your spreadsheet. Then, based on this date, Excel automatically populates the other cells with sequential dates....