How To Hide Apple Music In Itunes On Your Mac

While many users will just dive into this new service by Apple, others will take some time to see if this is what they would like to use for their music needs. If you are one of those users who are not yet ready to adopt Apple Music, you have a way to disable it in the iTunes app on your Mac. Disabling the feature will let you use the iTunes app as you were using it before, as if Apple Music doesn’t exist at all....

December 20, 2022 · 2 min · 372 words · Jimmie Quintanilla

How To Import Export Passwords Using Microsoft Edge

How to Import Passwords into Microsoft Edge Importing passwords into Microsoft Edge is extremely easy once you learn how. You don’t even need to export passwords from your old browser; Microsoft Edge will detect the browsers installed on your system and let you import from the browser of your choice. If you want to import a password manager’s vault into Edge, see if you can install the manager via the Edge add-ons store....

December 20, 2022 · 4 min · 723 words · Adele Mccabe

How To Improve Your Mouse Pointing Accuracy In Windows 10

Toggle Enhance Pointer Precision to ON or OFF The Enhance Pointer Precision is a mouse acceleration feature. Basically, it changes the sensitivity of the mouse depending on the speed at which you are moving it. When it’s set to OFF, the only thing that controls the movement of your cursor is the distance you move the mouse. When it’s set to ON, it impacts the speed the mouse is moved. With Enhance Pointer Precision set to ON, the faster you move the mouse, the farther the cursor moves....

December 20, 2022 · 3 min · 565 words · Candace Weibel

How To Install And Run Pantheon Desktop On Ubuntu

Because Elementary OS is based directly off of LTS releases of Ubuntu, it’s not too hard to get Pantheon on Ubuntu. In fact, it’s available in a PPA maintained by the Elementary developers. But there is one major question that you need to ask yourself. If you plan on using an LTS version of Ubuntu, you might want to use Elementary OS instead. Elementary is essentially Ubuntu tailored to work around Pantheon with some other nice quality of life improvements....

December 20, 2022 · 3 min · 551 words · Joe Coleman

How To Install Linux Deepin Desktop On Ubuntu

In your Ubuntu, open a terminal. The first thing we are going to do is to add the repository for Linux Deepin packages. Add the lines at the end of the file: Press Ctrl + O follow by Ctrl + x to save and exit the sources list. Next, we are going to fetch and import the public key for Linux Deepin packages. Update the system. Lastly, install the Linux Deepin desktop environment: This will install a big bunch of files to your system and could take a long time, depending on your Internet connection....

December 20, 2022 · 1 min · 202 words · Guadalupe Hawkins

How To Install Tor Browser To A Usb Drive

What Is Tor? Simply put, Tor is software developed by a non-profit organization that allows a user to browse the Internet anonymously. Without getting too technical, Tor accomplishes this by re-routing all of your Internet traffic through a series of relays all around the world. Each one of these “relays” is a computer that runs special software that allows a user to connect to the Tor network. When using the Tor browser, your traffic will connect to several different relays....

December 20, 2022 · 5 min · 902 words · Rosaria Ross

How To Keep Your Windows Drivers Up To Date

So how often do you need to update your Windows drivers? The answer to that is that it depends. Not helpful? Let me elaborate. Usually, if things are working fine then you don’t have to worry too much if you are running with outdated drivers. Drivers are only there to ensure that all the devices that are either part of or attached to your computer are functioning properly. If everything is working as intended, then it does not really matter too much if the drivers are several months or even several years old....

December 20, 2022 · 3 min · 579 words · Josephine Santiago

How To Know If Someone Else Is Logging In To Your Windows Pc

Recent Activity in Jump Lists Current versions of Windows 10 no longer show recent activity, outside of recently added apps, in the Start menu. Skip to the next section if you’re using an an earlier version of Windows 10 or earlier versions of Windows. However, Windows 11 does show recommendations in the Start menu. (The feature is turned on by default, but sneaky users might have turned it off.) These are based off of recent usage, which can indicate if someone else was using your PC....

December 20, 2022 · 8 min · 1580 words · Jennifer Hubbard

How To Lock Your Windows Pc Using Your Usb Drive

How to set up Predator Download Predator and install it. Now insert in a freshly formatted flash drive. You will now get to see the “Preferences” window for the tool. You can now set it up based on your requirements or consult the following screenshots for the references. Once you have properly configured the preferences for the tool, go down to the “Flash Drive” section that can be found in the “Main Options” tab....

December 20, 2022 · 4 min · 650 words · Brandon Chavous

How To Make The Most Of Dropbox Part I

In this first article, I will explain the basics of installing Dropbox and using its more common features. In the next article I will outline some of the more unique uses of Dropbox. 1. Installation First, visit www.dropbox.com and download the Dropbox client. After installing and creating an account, you will get a choice to keep the Dropbox folder location as default or move it somewhere else. At this point if you wish to make your entire “My Documents” folder as your “My Dropbox” folder you have that option....

December 20, 2022 · 4 min · 842 words · Stacy Bruner

How To Make Use Of Pivot Table In Excel To Improve Your Productivity

What Are “Pivot Tables?” Unfortunately, the name alone doesn’t really reveal how useful pivot tables are! So, what are pivot tables, and why are they useful? A pivot table in Excel is a separate instance of a table that you’ve already set up. The idea behind pivot tables is that you can select how the data is displayed without touching the “main table.” You can sort, tally up totals, and check highest sums in this separate instance without having to mess around with the actual data....

December 20, 2022 · 4 min · 800 words · Bernard Chen

How To Make Your First Nft

What Is an NFT and Why Are They so Hyped? NFT stands for “non-fungible token.” You can think of an NFT as a non-circulating crypto token that is completely unique and one of a kind. An NFT can be almost anything you can think of: a Tweet, a music album, or even the world’s first digital perfume. As a beginner, it can be hard to grasp why something so basic and otherwise worthless can be valued at sky-high prices....

December 20, 2022 · 13 min · 2711 words · Claudette Swamp

How To Monitor Network Load From The Command Line In Linux

In this article, we will discuss the slurm command along with the features it provides. Introduction Described by its man page as “yet another network load monitor”, Slurm is a generic network load monitor which shows device statistics together with a nice ascii graph – it supports multiple types of graphs. For those interested in its origins, the project started as a FreeBSD port of the Linux ppp link monitor called “pppstatus....

December 20, 2022 · 3 min · 505 words · Eric Dinkins

How To Move Windows Programs To Another Drive

Whether you just have limited space on your computer or you want to store your apps separately, moving the apps to a different drive will help. Running a lot of demanding applications like sophisticated games or video editing software will be easier if you keep your programs on a separate drive too. Here are three different ways that almost any computer user can utilize to move those apps to a new location....

December 20, 2022 · 5 min · 905 words · Tyler Horton

How To Move Your User Data To A New Mac Without Time Machine

If you want to copy over absolutely everything, this probably isn’t the method for you – Migration Assistant will work a little better. But if you’re interested in capturing Preferences related to the OS, like Dock and trackpad settings, this should get you there. Setting Up Your New Mac Because you’ll be copying over the exact settings from your old Mac, you need to make sure your new Mac’s user is configured in the same way as your old user....

December 20, 2022 · 4 min · 734 words · Susan Lee

How To Mute Spotify Ads On Android

Install the Mutify App Like many ad-neutralizing apps, given that it’s almost impossible to truly block ads on a number of platforms, the Mutify app relies on silencing Spotify ads instead. The app is completely free and easy to use and is free of ads, too. Most importantly, it works as intended! Note: this does not block Spotify’s ads. It only mute ads when it plays. Go to the Google Play Store and select it for install....

December 20, 2022 · 3 min · 527 words · Branden Dameron

How To Optimize Windows Index For Better Desktop Search

Rebuild the Index in Windows 10 It’s not every day, but there will be times when Windows search is acting funny and not showing the results as it should. Moreover, the search can also be terribly slow. When facing these kinds of issues, it is better to rebuild the Index in Windows 10. To do that, open the power user menu by pressing the keyboard shortcut “Win + X,” and then select the option “Control Panel....

December 20, 2022 · 3 min · 526 words · Lindsey Mobley

How To Perform A Google Search Anonymously

The techniques covered here will de-personalize, randomize, and anonymize your Google search queries. This will ensure better privacy on any other browser except Google Chrome since its omnibox address bar and APIs are closely integrated with the Google search engine. However, if you follow this guide to protect your privacy on Chrome, you can make the search inquiries more anonymous than before. 1. De-personalize: Turn Off Signed-Out Search Option If you thought that signing off from your Google account while using Google search gives you more privacy, you’re only halfway there....

December 20, 2022 · 3 min · 599 words · Pamela Baker

How To Personalize Your Windows 10 Notifications

It can get even more annoying when the notifications you do see stay on your display for too long. The good news is that there is something you can do about this. Let’s see how you can set up the Windows 10 notifications your way. How to Limit the Number of Notifications in the Action Center If you have the tendency of getting nervous when you see the number of notifications in the Action Center go up, there is a way to limit them....

December 20, 2022 · 4 min · 663 words · Fernando Walker

How To Read A Qr Code On Your Android Phone

They’re also used in virtual stores where shoppers simply scan items and get them delivered to their location at the chosen time, to transfer cryptocurrency, and for easy navigation in some cases. How to Read QR Codes on Android In order to read a QR code, you’ll need your Android smartphone with a camera, and, if there’s no native QR code reader, you may have to download a mobile app for it....

December 20, 2022 · 3 min · 525 words · Billy Kochanski