You don’t need a torch or flashlight if you’ve got an iPhone. You can use the phone’s camera flash LED as a light source, lighting up dark or dimly lit environments. If you have an iPhone, you’ve always got access to a light source. Let’s take a look at how to turn the flashlight on or off on an iPhone. How to Turn iPhone Flashlight Off or On (iPhone X and Newer) If you have a relatively recent iPhone (eg....
Most people have no problem attaching one or two external monitors to their computer, but did you know you could have up to three multiple external screens? There are several options to do this. Some have limitations, but mixing and matching adapters or other devices allow you to have the ultimate multi-screen workspace. And if you’re using a laptop, this means you could also use your laptop display as a fourth screen!...
Think of the Whiteboard you use in the meeting room in your place of business, except this one is virtual. You can use it to sketch out brainstorm ideas on the digital canvas. If you haven’t taken advantage of it yet, here’s how to use the Whiteboard in a Microsoft Teams meeting. How to Use the Whiteboard in a Microsoft Teams Meeting The whiteboard feature is much like a standard whiteboard that you’d see in a classroom or the meeting room at your company....
All Evernote accounts are assigned an email address. To get your email address open Evernote and Click Tools, Account Info Right-Click your Evernote email address and Click Copy From here it’s pretty simple. Anything you send this email address will be uploaded into your Default Evernote Notebook unless you use an @ symbol to specify the folder you want it delivered to. Example: Get the Milk! @todo Because the email address isn’t the easiest to remember, I recommend you create a new Contact in your email account and give it a name like “Evernote Email” so you can easily find it on your mobile or Email Client....
Before the iPadOS 15 software update, iPad multitasking was limited to Slide Over and Split View. Now, there’s a multitasking menu, app window shelf, center window, and much more. iPad Multitasking Window On Apple tablets with iPadOS 15 installed, you’ll now find three dots at the top middle of the device. These dots show up whenever you’re in an app, giving you easier access to full screen, Split View, and Slide Over....
There’s a faster way to search the contents of files on your hard drive using the command line. The find command searches for text strings in files and returns the lines of text from the files in which the text string was found. NOTE: The find command is not suitable for large files or large numbers of files. Today we’ll cover how to use the find command and we’ll provide some examples....
The Focused Inbox feature works alongside the Other Inbox, which allows you to view “other” non-essential messages. These are considered to be less important and may include emails that are sent in bulk (eg. email newsletters) or those that are generated automatically. By using the Focused Inbox in Outlook on Mac, you can tend to the emails that matter most to you first before you tackle any non-important emails in the Other Inbox....
OneNote offers two useful features to help you and your team keep up. First, you can view edits made to a notebook by timeframe. Second, you can see which authors made changes and to what. Plus, you can combine these features for a more robust way to track your notebook edits. View Edit History in OneNote This feature is currently available in the OneNote desktop application but doesn’t include OneNote for Windows....
Step 1 Open the first Excel spreadsheet. Step 2 Open the second Excel spreadsheet. You’ll notice that there are now two taskbar buttons for Excel. But no matter which one you click, it pops up in the same window. Frustrating! Step 3 In Excel, Click the View tab. Step 4 In the Window section, Click View Side by Side. By default, this will show your two Excel spreadsheets in separate panes, stacked horizontally....
Here’s the exact excerpt from the email I received from noreply@lala.com: According to the email, all of my purchased web songs will be transferred over to iTunes, or I will receive an equivalent iTunes credit. While it’s a relief that not all of my purchased music will be available on iTunes, I don’t intend on paying the 50%+ more expensive iTunes prices for the same music. The Lala service will be shut down on May 31st....
Adobe Flash and Windows RT is No Longer Supported Flash is no longer supported. And Microsoft no longer supports the RT OS. How to Manually Remove Adobe Flash from Windows 10How to Manually Remove Adobe Flash from Your Mac While HTML 5 is taking over the duties of Flash on the web, there’s still plenty of sites that use it. If you go to a site that requires Adobe Flash, and it isn’t approved on Microsoft’s Whitelist, you’ll see a screen similar to this....
Unread Messages in Gmail Years ago, you could enable a Gmail Labs feature that would display an unread message counter on the tab. But that has long been abandoned and you had to use Chrome. However, there is an advanced setting you can turn on that does the same thing and it should work on any browser. Show Unread Gmail Messages in Your Browser’s Tab To get started, log in to your Gmail account if you aren’t already....
He decided that he will retire from his position within the next 12 months as the company looks for a new CEO. Until then, Ballmer is still running the show. “There is never a perfect time for this type of transition, buy now is the right time,” said Ballmer through a statement issued in a press release. For now, a board-elected committee is tasked with finding a new CEO. It’s chaired by John Thompson, its lead independent director and former Microsoft CEO and co-founder Bill Gates....
In a blog post on the Outlook Blog, Microsoft’s Eric Doerr says one of the reasons for this change is to help increase security of your “digital identity.” Outlook.com Forwarding and Aliases To get ahead of the game on this, it’s recommended that you verify your security information on accounts that are currently linked and set up email forwarding. We’ve shown how to do forwarding in our article: How to Get Gmail in Outlook....
Windows 10 Version 20H1 Microsoft put out a blog post to officially announce the new version of the OS on Wednesday. In the announcement, John Cable, Vice President, Program Management, Windows Servicing and Delivery writes: It’s worth noting that this isn’t going to be a major update with tons of new features. Most of the big new features are being saved for a more significant update with version 21H2. John Cable continues: “Windows 10, version 21H1 will have a scoped set of features improving security, remote access and quality....
At some point, you might have encountered the famous memory dump screen, which displays a cryptic error message on a blue background. Once archaic but now iconic, the blue screen of death is synonymous with catastrophic (and sometimes comedic) PC failures, and it has remained largely unchanged over the years. Microsoft did make minor updates to the appearance starting with Windows 8 in 2012. These days, you will be greeted by something less intimidating: a sad emoticon followed by an error code....
Windows 10 News and Interests Feature The News and Interests feature is a widget that lives on the notification area of the taskbar near the system clock. By default, when your mouse hovers over the button on the taskbar, the widget launches. It displays local weather, news, finance, traffic conditions, and more. Microsoft uses its Microsoft News network to bring news and other content from more than 4,500 sources. The company also will use AI to learn what news is relevant to you and when you dismiss or like stories in the feed....
The announcement came from the launch event in New York earlier this morning. Ballmer and a few other exec’s reviewed the new offering however the majority of the presentations I found were focused on collaboration. Office 365 is an online version of Microsoft Office, but it is also an Exchange and Sharepoint capable service that will work with desktop apps and mobile devices. Secondly, Ballmer honed in on the benefits for the small and medium-sized businesses drawing attention to the ease of getting the service up and running with little IT support....
The Office Suite for Mac includes a new Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and OneNote. Unfortunately, no updated Skype for the Business client for Mac. As mentioned in the announcement, the Office 2016 for Mac is only available for download to Office 365 customers. Everyone else will need to wait until September when it will go on sale as a standalone purchase. How to Install Office 2016 for Mac Office 365 Customers can download the Suite from the Office 365 Software Portal....
There are a few caveats however – aren’t there always? You can download, read, view, and present documents…But without an Office 365 subscription you can not do any editing. To the home user this isn’t probably a big deal, but in corporations where iPads are deployed regularly, it should help with productivity. To make things a bit easier, Microsoft is allows first time users a free 30-day trial of Office 365....
