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When you’re not watching TV, it becomes a boring black rectangle in your living room. A screensaver can make it more interesting. Roku devices have some great screensaver options to choose from. We’ll show you how to change it. Roku devices come with a few screensavers pre-installed—including the 3D aquarium seen above—but there are also some you can install yourself. If you want to see the screensaver all the time, you can choose to have the TV never turn off....

Starting with iOS 7, Apple introduced a feature named Activation Lock for iOS devices. When you sign in with an iCloud account and enable the “Find My” feature, the phone becomes tied to your iCloud account. If you’re buying or selling a device, you’ll want to ensure that the Activation Lock is disabled so that it can then be activated by the new user. UPDATE: This article is no longer valid....

If you’ve applied various formatting changes to the content in your document, and they either don’t work or you want to start over, you can easily clear formatting from selected text in Microsoft Word. We’ll show you a couple of ways to do this. To clear formatting from content, select the text for which you want to clear formatting. To select all the text in your document, press Ctrl+A on Windows or Command+A on Mac....

Making Flash click-to-play is a good idea, but browsers are going further. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Microsoft Edge will all soon disable Flash by default, allowing you to enable it only on websites that need it. Each browser offers a way to control the list of websites that have been given permission to run Flash, if you change your mind later—or just want to trim the list....

Wish your Mac’s login screen worked differently? Maybe you don’t want to see a list of users, or maybe you wish you could change your keyboard format before typing your password. There’s no “Login Screen” panel in System Preferences, but these settings to exist—they’re just a little hidden. RELATED: How to Change the Login Screen Background In macOS Sierra, Yosemite, and El Capitan We’ve already shown you how to change your Mac login screen’s wallpaper, and that’s a great (albeit convoluted) way to give your login screen a custom look....

There are plenty of good reasons to delete the occasional Facebook message. Perhaps you’re planning a surprise birthday party for your partner or sharing an important password. We’re not here to judge the reasons why, just to show you how. So, here’s how to delete a message in Facebook Messenger. But first, an important caveat: deleting a message only removes it from your account. It doesn’t get deleted from the recipients’ inbox....

Forcing an older iPhone to restart was easy—all you had to do was press and hold the Volume and Home buttons. But the iPhone X and later don’t have a Home button, so the process had to change. Apple does provide a method to force restart all modern iPhones, but you need to know the particular combination for it to work. How to Force Restart a Modern iPhone In quick succession, press, and then release the Volume Up button, and then press and release the Volume Down button....

So, you finally installed Linux and when downloading your favorite app you got a file with the “.deb” extension. Now what? In this article, let’s look at the two ways you can easily install apps using DEB files on Linux. What Is a DEB File Anyway? A file ending with “.deb” is called a Debian Software Package file, and it’s used to install apps on Linux. DEB files are used only in Debian-based Linux distributions like Ubuntu and its various flavors, Pop!...

Do you send and receive audio iMessages on your iPhone (other than by accident)? Normally, audio recordings sent through iMessages last for two minutes, but if you’d like to keep them, there are two ways to do so. How to Keep Audio Messages, Manually or Automatically First, you can keep any given audio message manually by tapping the little “Keep” button next to them. If you do, your iPhone won’t delete it without your say-so....

Phones save battery life by turning off the display when not in use. However, not actively touching the screen doesn’t always mean you aren’t using it. Some Android phones can keep the screen on when you’re looking at it. The ability to keep a phone’s screen on when you’re looking at it was first introduced by Samsung, but it has since made its way to other devices. Along with Samsung Galaxy phones, Google Pixel handsets also have this feature....

When you close the lid of your MacBook, it goes to sleep. There’s no system setting you can tweak, and no command you can run, to change this. But there is a major exception to this rule, and another third party program that gives you control. We told you how to keep your Mac from falling asleep, but this is a little different. Say you want your MacBook running while its closed, so you can free up desk space or leave it as a server running for remote access....

Not all emails are worth reading. Some you can block, some you can’t. Instead of seeing the unread count go up and up, use this trick to quickly mark emails as read without opening them in Gmail. How to Mark Emails as Read in Gmail on the Web If you’re using the Gmail website on your Windows or Mac machine, you can mark all or individual emails as read....

If you tend to open a lot of tabs in your browser, it can become difficult to find the tabs with your most used websites. Pinning tabs in your browser moves those tabs to the left and shrinks the tabs to only show the favicon, and you can do it with a simple right-click. But what if, instead of keeping a specific set of tabs pinned, you regularly pin and unpin tabs as you work?...

GIFs are a great way to convey your messages and you can post these on a lot of social sites out there. If you are looking to post a GIF as a status or comment on your Facebook profile, here’s how you can do that. On Facebook, you can add GIFs from your phone or computer’s storage, from a GIF sharing website, or even from Facebook’s own GIF repository....

iOS 10 has ushered in a host of improvements, including one for the widget lovers: your favorite widgets are now accessible right from your device’s lock screen. What’s New With the Lock Screen RELATED: The Best New Features in iOS 10 (and How to Use Them) As soon as you pick up an iOS 10 device, you’ll notice a few pretty big changes. First, the swipe-to-unlock feature–a staple of the iOS lock screen since the beginning–is gone....

If you’re annoyed by the screen real estate that the stock Apple apps take up on your iPhone or iPad, there’s something new in iOS 10 you’ll love: the ability to remove them. If you’re still running iOS 9, check out our article on all the old ways to hide apps. They aren’t quite as good as iOS 10’s method, but they’re all you’ve got on older devices. RELATED: How to Hide iOS’ Built-In Apps in iOS 9 and Earlier...

There comes a time in every person’s life when they just need to play a game without disturbing someone else. But who wants to mute the game, losing potentially crucial details? Many modern games rely almost as heavily on audio as video at this point, so muting really isn’t an option. The good news is that there’s a way to send all audio to the PlayStation’s DualShock controller with headphones attached....

Windows 10 has a new “CompactOS” feature designed for PCs with a very small amount of storage, like tablets or laptops with only 16GB of space. It’s like full-disk NTFS compression, but smarter. Here’s how it works. This Replaces Windows 8.1’s WIMBoot RELATED: WIMBoot Explained: How Windows Can Now Fit on a Tiny 16 GB Drive The “CompactOS” feature replaces the “Windows Image File Boot” (WIMBoot) feature Microsoft offered in Windows 8....

If you pay for a book on Google Play Books, your significant other should be able to read it, too. The same goes for movies, music, and even apps or games—if you make a purchase, everyone in the family should be able to enjoy it. Thanks to Google Family, they can. What Is Google Family? Google Family lets families to share content across their Google Play accounts. You can have up to six accounts in your Family, with two primary types of accounts available within the Family....

It’s no fun to end your trip wandering around looking for your car. Now, thanks to a new iOS feature, you don’t have to–let’s take a look at how to take advantage of the “Parked Car” reminder in iOS 10. What Your Need Over the years, there’s been a plethora of iOS apps that help remind you where you car is parked. Some of them are standalone single purpose apps....