Remove whichever videos you want from this page. To view more videos you’ve watched on this account, scroll down and click the “Next” button at the bottom of the page. You can also rate videos by clicking the stars to the right of a video. If you want to keep a video in your history, but don’t want it to influence your recommendations, you can also select the “Don’t Use for Recommendations” option to make that happen....
Google+ is sort of an anomaly—the folks who love it really love it. The folks who don’t, well…don’t. If you signed up at some point but don’t really use it, there’s a chance you still get unwanted notifications. If that sounds like you, I have good news: disabling all Google+ notifications is actually pretty easy. And if you don’t want to disable them across the board, you can actually take granular control over your notifications....
Many websites offer helpful pop-ups to enter important details such as login credentials, captcha, forms, and more. So it makes sense to allow pop-ups for certain websites. How to Disable Pop-Up Blocker for All Websites in Safari It’s annoying to click on the pop-up blocked notification every time you visit sites that require you to allow pop-ups. Luckily, you can change Safari’s default behavior and get pop-up windows while browsing....
Rest Mode is one of the handiest features of the PlayStation 4. Instead of powering down completely, your console just goes into a low-power sleep mode (like your laptop does when it hibernates). This means that it’s quicker to start up, can charge the controller, and best of all, can download updates and games from the PlayStation 4. RELATED: Should You Use “Rest Mode” on Your PlayStation 4, or Turn It Off?...
If you want to create a backup or use a new maps service, you can download your Google Maps data easily. You don’t have to fish through all of your Google account data. Go right to the Google Maps desktop website and export your information. Create an Export on Google Maps To download your data, head to Google Maps on your computer and sign in. Next, click the three-line menu icon in the top-left corner next to the Search box....
By default, Windows hides empty drives from your File Explorer view. Here’s how to display all of them instead. Empty drives mostly refers to drives with removable media–such as card readers–that are permanently connected to your computer but may or may not have actual media plugged in. Windows assigns those drives a permanent drive letter, but hides them from view by default unless a card inserted. But, if you use those drives a lot and frequently swap media, it can be a bit disorienting seeing them disappear and reappear all the time....
Bitdefender, like other antivirus tools, is more than just an antivirus that quietly protects your PC. Install Bitdefender and you’ll get a password manager, separate web browser, and a variety of other notifications and advertisements you might not want to see. RELATED: What’s the Best Antivirus for Windows 10 and 11? (Is Microsoft Defender Good Enough?) The following steps were performed with Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2017, and should be similar with other paid editions of Bitdefender....
So you’ve just got your first iPhone—or you’ve only used your phone for simple tasks—and you haven’t installed an app before. With apps, an iPhone can do so much more than just call, text, or snap photos. Here’s how to install them. Requirements To download or purchase apps on your iPhone, you need to have an Apple ID with a form of payment (such as a credit card) set up with Apple....
Basically, Windows is going to use the filename for whichever file that you right-clicked over, even when you have multiple files selected. The trick is just to choose the right one. For example, if I’ve selected all the files and right-click over Readme.txt, then use Send To –> Compressed Folder… The file created will be Readme.zip. Of course, you can type in a new name, but who wants to use extra keystrokes?...
An organizational chart is a helpful tool for laying out your company’s structure. You can also use one for organizing job positions or even a family tree. Here’s an easy way to create an organizational chart using Google Sheets. Set Up Your Data Google Sheets offers an organizational chart as one of its built-in options. However, before you can create the chart, you need to make sure your data is set up correctly....
Facebook is starting to become essential. From logging into websites to keeping in touch with old friends, it’s just become a part of everyday life. Everyone looks at you funny if you say you don’t have a Facebook account. A lot of people, however, don’t want their Facebook account to be easily found. If you’re a teacher, the last thing you want is your students creeping through your old photos....
Browsers want to be helpful, so they always offer to save your passwords when you sign into websites. If you use a separate password manager like LastPass or 1Password—or if you just want to store your passwords in your own brain—you can make your browser stop asking you to save passwords. Google Chrome RELATED: How to Use Google’s Password Manager to Sync Your Passwords Everywhere To find this setting in Chrome for desktop, click on Chrome’s menu > Settings....
Steam has a built-in system for making a backup of its game files, so you don’t have to re-download a full game every time you uninstall it and want to play again later. But like a lot of Steam’s features, it hasn’t been updated in quite a while, and frankly it often manages to break the game restoration process anyway. On top of that, it’s slow, it’s clunky, and you can do better on your own....
By default, new Terminal windows open to your Home directory. However, if there’s another directory you use often that you want immediate access to when you open the Terminal, there’s an easy way to set this up. RELATED: Beginner Geek: How to Start Using the Linux Terminal The .bashrc file in your Home directory contains commands that run when you open a Terminal window. So, we can add a cd command to change to a specific directory as soon as the Terminal window opens....
Tap on “Settings”. Under “Account”, tap on “Music & Media”. Tap on “Link account on Spotify.com”. Enter in your Spotify username and password, and then tap on “Log in”. Tap on “Okay”. Now, whenever you want to listen to a song or a playlist, you can tell Alexa something like, “Play Collective Soul on Spotify” and it will shuffle through various songs from Collective Soul. Here are some other Spotify commands you can give Alexa:...
By default, Netgear Arlo cameras are named by their serial numbers, which can cause confusion once you add multiple cameras to your setup. Here’s how to rename them in the Arlo app to make it easier to identify which camera is which. RELATED: How to Set Up the Netgear Arlo Pro Camera System Open up the Arlo app and tap on the “Settings” tab at the bottom. Select “My Devices” at the top....
You were messing around with the settings for a Mac app, and now that app won’t load. Is there some way to reset the application, start fresh, and get things working properly again? As to turns out, yes. Your Mac, for the most part, stores settings for your applications in the Library folder, and they’re easy enough to delete. The application will re-create them from scratch, with its original default settings intact....
This usually happens if you’re holding the phone in a way that’s not firmly in landscape mode, like if you point the phone down. It can also happen if you open the camera app and start recording before it can change orientation. On other occasions, you may rotate your phone while recording a video. The orientation is locked after you start recording, so the parts of the videos where you rotated your phone won’t look right....
WhatsApp, now owned by Facebook, is one of the most popular messaging apps available. It’s almost completely replaced SMS in parts of the world. Update: You can still access and send WhatsApp messages from the web and your computer, but the process has been updated throughout the years. Here’s how to use WhatsApp on your computer. RELATED: How to Use WhatsApp on Your Computer (and Web) Unlike a lot of other messaging apps, you can only use WhatsApp on a single device: your smartphone....
How to Add Friends to Activity Sharing From Your iPhone When you invite a friend to Activity Sharing, you’ll be able to see their progress on their daily rings, monitor their workouts, send encouraging messages, and vice versa. To add friends to Activity Sharing from your iPhone, open the “Activity” app on your iPhone, and go to the “Sharing” tab. If asked, tap on the “Get Started” button. From the Sharing screen, tap on the “+” button from the top-right corner....
