When you think of Facebook, search probably isn’t the first thing to come to mind. And to be fair, for a long time Facebook’s search function was pretty terrible. That’s not the case anymore, though. A number of changes in recent years have made Facebook’s search function really easy to use, and quite powerful, all at the same time. Here are a few things you can find quickly with this function, along with some tips to keep in mind....
The image below shows the top row of keys on a typical Chromebook keyboard. It may not look like it, but there are function keys hidden in that row. The keys between ESC and Power/Lock double as F1 through F10. We’ll show you how to use them. There are two ways to utilize the hidden function keys on a Chromebook. The method you choose will depend on how often you need the function keys....
Everyone knows about cutting and pasting by now. But did you know that your Mac sort of has a second clipboard known as kill and yank? Kill and yank originates from Emacs, which is a “family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility.” If you’ve never heard of Emacs, that’s okay—it’s usually found on Unix and Linux systems. Emacs is said to have over 2000 built-in commands, of which the aforementioned kill and yank are two of them....
The Magic Wand tool is used to select objects in an image and move them around. To use the Magic Wand tool in Photoshop 2020, first, open Photoshop and click on the Edit menu and select “Magic Wand”. Then, select the desired object or layer and drag it to the desired location on the canvas. To use the Magic Wand tool in Photoshop 2022, first open the Photoshop palette and select the brush tool....
If you’re on a collaborative team of workers, or you’re simply dealing with several revisions of your own work, it’s important to be able to track incremental changes. In Microsoft Word, the ability to compare every difference in two nearly-identical documents is built in to the Compare tool. Here’s how to use it. First, open Word and any document file. (It can be one of the ones you’re comparing, another document entirely, or simply a blank project....
RAID allows you to combine multiple physical hard drives into a single logical hard drive. This allows you to mirror your data across two hard drives, ensuring you always have your important data stored in multiple places. RAID stands for “redundant array of independent disks,” although there’s a type of RAID that provides no redundancy and only increases performance. RAID Levels RAID isn’t just a single way of combining disks....
Yes, Xbox Live does take PayPal Credit. No, Microsoft does not accept PayPal Credit. To use your PayPal Credit balance, sign in to your account and select “My Account” on the top right corner. Under “PayPal Credit” on the left, click “Use My Balance.” Enter the amount you want to spend and click “Apply. PayPal is not currently supported on Xbox. To add money to your Xbox, first sign into your Microsoft account....
Paytm is one of the major online money wallet account services that people can use to store their money or to buy things online, or in other words, Paytm is an online service that could be used to manage your money for later transactions. As you would know, after the cash crunch in India, people are finding ways to get money, and the payment portals have helped a lot. People have done the transactions like bills, online shopping, money transfers, etc....
Yes, * 67 still works on the iPhone. However, it is not recommended that this function be used, as it can cause problems with the phone’s functionality. Yes, Star 67 still works in 2021. The code is a toll-free number that allows you to call back the last person who called you. There are a few ways to hide your caller ID on iPhone. You can either disable Caller ID in your phone settings, or you can use a third-party app to conceal your number....
Tap to Select Words, Sentences, and Paragraphs You can now more quickly select words, sentences, and paragraphs with a few taps. These shortcuts should work anywhere you can edit text in iOS 13, but they seemed a bit flaky in apps like Evernote for us. Maybe app developers just need to release a few updates. While editing text: Double-tap a word to select that word. Triple-tap a word to select the sentence in which that word appears....
The finger command almost certainly isn’t installed by default in your Linux distribution. It was absent on the Ubuntu, Fedora, and Manjaro distributions used to research this article. We’ve already covered the pinky command, which is the lightweight version of finger. pinky is supplied by default, but if you want to use fingerYou, yed to install it. The finger and pinky commands perform the same sort of task. They both tell you some information about the currently logged in users on your Linux or Unix-like operating system....
When you’re dealing with a PC that is completely infected in viruses, sometimes the best thing to do is reboot into a rescue disk and run a full virus scan from there. Here’s how to use the Kaspersky Rescue Disk to clean an infected PC. There’s lots of ways to clean an infected PC, like booting into an Ubuntu Live CD and scanning for viruses, but this is an extremely simple—and free—solution from a trusted anti-virus vendor....
The cut Command The cut command is a veteran of the Unix world, making its debut in 1982 as part of AT&T System III UNIX. Its purpose in life is to snip out sections of text from files or streams, according to the criteria that you set. Its syntax is as simple as its purpose, but it is this joint simplicity that makes it so useful. In the time-honored UNIX way, by combining cut with other utilities such as grep you can create elegant and powerful solutions to challenging problems....
To use the Knife and Scissor tool in Illustrator, first select the tool from the toolbar. Next, click and drag to create a selection around the object you want to edit. Finally, use the options bar at the bottom of the window to edit your selection. No, Illustrator does not include a scissor tool. There are two ways to use the Scissors tool in Illustrator. The first way is to click and drag the scissors icon on the toolbar....
There are a few ways to use TTY on your phone. The easiest way is to go to Settings, then General, and then Accessibility. You can toggle TTY on or off here. Another way is to go to the Phone app and select the TTY button (it looks like a telephone). If you have a TTY app installed, it will be listed here. The function of TTY mode is to allow people who are unable to use a keyboard or other input device to communicate with computers....
Setting up a simple home security camera is a great way to keep tabs on your house while you’re away. A dedicated system is great, but in a pinch, you can use an old, spare smartphone that you have lying around. RELATED: 8 Clever Uses for Your Smartphone’s Camera (Aside From Taking Pictures) You could, of course, buy an indoor security camera that’s ready to set up and actually made for such a purpose....
Those Pesky Bugs Writing code is hard. Or to be more accurate, writing bug-free non-trivial code is hard. And the more lines of code there are in a program or script, the more likely it becomes that there will be bugs in it. The language you program in has a direct bearing on this. Programming in assembly is much tougher than programming in C, and programming in C is more challenging than programming in Python....
In this tutorial, we are going to cover the various methods of centering content vertically. Centering elements vertically is a task that often introduces additional challenges for web developers. There are various solutions with regard to centering, and they all depend on exactly what type of content you want to center. The reason is that HTML elements used for content can either be inline-level elements or block-level elements. Both of these types of elements behave differently so vertically aligning them is performed in different ways....
Even if you don’t use the Windows Mail & Calendar app, the Windows calendar is actually pretty nice. And with the Anniversary Update to Windows 10, you can now see your agenda and add calendar events right from the Windows taskbar. RELATED: How to Create and Sync Calendar Events in Windows 10 To see your agenda, just left-click the time and date on the Windows taskbar. If you’ve already got your calendar set up–or you’re syncing with another calendar–you can click any day on the calendar to see a list of events for that day....
Browser plug-ins like Flash and Java add additional features web pages can use. However, they can also slow things down when in use or add extra security holes, particularly in the case of Java. Each web browser has a built-in way to view your installed browser plug-ins and choose which are enabled, although this feature is hidden in many browsers. To remove a plug-in completely, you’ll need to uninstall it from the Windows Control Panel....
