How to Turn Memories Off (and Back On) While Memories can be a wonderful way to recall fun times, exciting news, or great accomplishments, you may also have difficult memories from times in your life that you don’t necessarily want to be reminded of. It’s easy to turn the Memories feature off. Here’s how: How to Block Memories Involving Certain People or Dates From the same page, you can block Memories related to certain people or dates....

How to Turn on Microphone on an Android Phone If your microphone appears to be switched off on your Android phone, it’s simple to turn it back on. Here’s where to look and how to enable your microphone. How Do I Unmute My Microphone on Android? If you’re taking a call on your Android phone and you appear to be muted, so the caller can’t hear you, fixing the issue is pretty easy once you know where to look....

How Do I Get macOS Monterey? The macOS Monterey is a free update for anyone with an eligible computer, and there are two ways you can get the update: Click the Apple Menu and select System Preferences > Software Update. If the software update is available, you can click Upgrade Now to begin the download and installation process. Alternatively, you can download the update from the Mac App Store. Regardless of how you get the upgrade, Apple will automatically guide you through the download and installation process once you start the download....

How to Use an iPhone or iPad as a Webcam If you need to use your iPhone or iPad as a webcam for a typical work call, you’ll need to use the software your company is using to host the call. A very popular app is Zoom (Zoom is the name of the company and the software is technically called ZOOM Cloud Meetings). Another popular one is Microsoft Teams. If you are new to Zoom, here’s how to set up and join a call using Zoom....

Set Up Hot Corners on Mac You can use one or all four hot corners per your preference and decide which action to take from a list of options. Using Hot Corners on Mac Once you set up hot corners, it’s good to give them a test to make sure the actions you picked work for you. When you finish, select OK. You can then close the System Preferences and try your hot corners....

Download Instagram and Create an Account The first thing you need to do is download the Instagram app for your iOS or Android device. After you download it, create an account. Here’s how it works. How to Navigate Your Instagram Feed After you create your Instagram account, have some followers, and follow other accounts, here are the basics of navigating your Instagram feed. How to Engage With Instagram Posts Here’s what to do to interact with the Instagram accounts you follow....

How to Use Macro Mode on iPhone 13 Pro Unless you turn off the setting (see below), the iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max will automatically enable macro mode when the phone detects you are close to an object. So, if you see an interesting flower (for example), open the camera app and move closer to the flower. The phone will detect you are close and switch to macro mode. The phone will go back to the regular camera mode when you move away....

What You Need to Play Games With a Keyboard and Mouse on the Switch If you enjoy playing games like Fortnite on Nintendo Switch, but you prefer the controller layout of a PC, you’re in luck. To play games using a keyboard and mouse on the Switch, you might need to purchase some extra peripherals. If you already have a gaming keyboard you like, there are also USB adapters for gaming consoles....

Preparing to Use the Clone Stamp Tool Click File > Open to navigate to a photo and open it. Zoom into the image to make the areas that you want to work on clearer and easier to see. In the bar at the bottom of Paint.NET’s interface are two magnifying glass icons. Clicking on the one with the + symbol zooms in a few increments.When you’re zoomed in close, you can either use the scroll bars to the left and bottom of the window to move around the image or select the Hand tool in the Tools palette and then click directly on the image and drag it around....

How to Enable Split View Mode in Skype on Windows 10 The command to enable Split View is under the More menu in Skype. Here’s where to find it. How to Use Split View in Skype for Windows 10 After you activate Split View, you have more options for how to view your Skype conversations. Here’s what to do with the feature after it’s on. What Is Skype’s Split View Mode?...

How to Use The COUNTIF Function in Excel The COUNTIF function can be input manually or using Excel’s Formulas menu. In either case, the eventual formula will look something like: =COUNTIF(D4:D10,“Yes”) In this COUNTIF example, the function would search through cells D4 through D10 looking for the word ‘Yes.’ It would then output a number of how many times it finds it in the cell you input the formula in. You can write this in manually if you prefer, but an easier method is to use Excel’s Function menu....

How to Download Movies From Netflix You first need to install the Netflix app, which you can download from the Google Play Store. Once it’s installed, the steps to download movies and TV shows are the same regardless of which type of device you use: Netflix Smart Downloads, Partial Downloads, and Downloads For You Using Smart Downloads, when you finish watching an episode from a series, the Netflix app automatically deletes the one you watched and downloads the next batch so they’re ready to go....

Email headers offer access to many of an email’s details, such as its path, email program, and spam filtering information. In Mail, you don’t have to open the full message source to access all the header lines for a message. You can get a display of all the usually hidden header lines right in the message itself. Once there, you can look for X-Unsubscribe information, for example, that lets you know how to sign off an email list or examine Received lines to see which path an email took to get from the sender to your Mail inbox....

What Content Does Discovery Plus Offer? In addition to programming from the Discovery, Discovery Plus includes content from various networks, including HGTV, Food Network, TLC, ID, OWN, Animal Planet, History, Lifetime, A&E, and more. Alongside familiar shows like The Property Brothers, The Pioneer Woman, and Pawn Stars, Discovery Plus will also feature exclusive original programming. Discovery+ also has exclusive streaming rights for many BBC nature docuseries, including Planet Earth, Blue Planet, and Frozen Planet....

Insert an Image in Google Slides If you want to wrap text around an image in Google Slides, you need to know how to add an image to your presentation. Here’s what to do. How to Wrap Text Around Images in Google Slides Do you want your presentation or slideshow to look really eye-catching? Having the text wrap around images is a great way of making your presentation look more professional without being too much effort....

Find the Average in a Range To find the average value for a range containing error values—such as #DIV/0!, or #NAME?—use the AVERAGE, IF, and ISNUMBER functions together in an array formula. Sometimes, such errors are generated in an incomplete worksheet, and these errors will be eliminated at a later time by the addition of new data. If you need to find the average value for the existing data, you can use the AVERAGE function along with the IF and ISNUMBER functions in an array formula to give you the average while ignoring the errors....

Social media consultant Matt Navarra initially spotted the potential feature on Thursday. His screenshots posted to Twitter shows how you would upload a photo and apply filters or edits through Instagram’s desktop website. Facebook spokesperson Christine Pai confirmed to Bloomberg that the feature is being tested. “We know that many people access Instagram from their computer. To improve that experience, we’re now testing the ability to create a Feed post on Instagram with their desktop browser,” she said....

Much like pairing a PlayStation 5 (or PS4) controller with a Mac, Nintendo controller support isn’t new for Apple’s computers—but up until now, it hasn’t been available for its mobile devices. It turns out, though, that buried among the multitude of new functions coming to iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 is compatibility with Bluetooth Nintendo controllers. Once the iOS 16 developer beta became available, it was only a matter of hours until some began to discover the new feature....

Short Stuff There are also debut works like Bard Constantine’s young adult fantasy “The Pale Lord,” Ryan King’s science fiction story “Earth’s Exiles,” and Callie Chase’s dystopian “Bug.” Nothing grabbed my attention until I found “A Dog’s Life” by the author John Sibley. The narrative nonfiction structure of this book made it an easy read as a serial. As much as I enjoyed Sibley’s work, I wish there were some better-known nonfiction authors available on the Vella store....

The new Thinkpad Z series, announced today at CES, brings some new and innovative features to the 30-year-old Thinkpad line of laptop computers. First and foremost? They will be among the very first laptops powered by the blazingly fast AMD Ryzen PRO 6000 U- and H-series processors. The Thinkpad Z13 ships with an AMD Ryzen Pro 6000 U-series process with an optimized Ryzen 7 Pro chip for increased audio and video performance....