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When you create a Facebook account, your profile or page is automatically assigned a username , which is basically your name and a bunch of numbers. It’s relatively hidden: It only appears in the URL of your Facebook profile that you can send to people so they can find you on Facebook. However, your Facebook username is different from your Facebook name . Your Facebook name is what other users see on your profile or when they communicate with you on Messenger ....

While you can change your username on other online platforms, Skype doesn’t allow you to change it. But, there are other options you can use to change your Skype name. At the sign-up stage, Skype allows you to use your email address or your phone number. If you sign in with your phone number or email address instead of your Skype name, what you have is a Microsoft account, not a Skype name....

If your document is in PDF format, it’s likely to be in its final format—ready to wow your audience. This is where your highest quality graphics are used and where the final version of your text is presented, ready to print or share with others to read or distribute. This can mean large file sizes, especially if it’s an image-heavy document. While you can edit a PDF , you’ll have to reduce the quality to reduce the overall file size....

Apple AirPods are high quality, wireless Bluetooth earbuds designed for use with other Apple products like your iPhone or Mac. However, they’re not iOS-exclusive devices, meaning you can pair and use AirPods with your Android phone, Windows PC or Chromebook among other non-Apple devices. The pairing process may not be as intuitive at first as it is with other Apple products, but it’ll be a lot easier once you know the process....

Even with all the technology today, people still use physical flyers. We see them everywhere. From garage sale signs taped to poles to event flyers on the campus bulletin board, flyers are a great way to get the word out. You can use a tool like Canva , but Microsoft Word is a solid application for making flyers. You can find plenty of templates, so you never have to start from scratch....

By setting up an email signature, you don’t have to type your name, contact information, or website at the bottom of every email you send. Instead, you can create an email signature and automatically insert it or choose to add it to individual emails. We’ll show you how to create a signature in Gmail, Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo, and iCloud Mail. Whether you include your name and job title or add a closing like “Thank you,” setting up an email signature upfront saves you time from manually typing it later....

A sun or lens glare effect can be a great addition to a video, especially if you want to put some emphasis on a landscape or environmental shot. It can also be a neat effect or transition for music videos. It’s an effect that you can do through the camera itself; however, it can be much easier to add it during video editing to get the desired effect. Adobe Premiere Pro CC makes it very easy for beginners to add lens glare effects, as they have some specific effects already created to help achieve it....

However, you may be looking for something in particular. Maybe you want a trivia game about your family, a fairy tale where your child is the star character or a guide to your home and neighborhood for a houseguest. Well, guess what? You can make your own skill using Alexa blueprints. Here’s how! Browse Alexa Skill Blueprints Select a blueprint to view more details and check out examples. This helps you see how the babysitter blueprint can help when you’re away, or the family jokes blueprint can liven up quality time....

Too much text in your PowerPoint presentation can make for a dull experience for your audience. You’ll need to make important pieces of text stand out, but how? Depending on your audience, you could use the built-in text effect tools to curve text in PowerPoint. This will add some flair to your presentation, emphasizing important phrases or topic titles, but be warned—too many special effects like this one can ruin your presentation....

Apple Keychain does a terrific job of keeping the login info for websites, applications, and wireless networks secure on your Mac. It even allows for a seamless password auto-filling experience across Apple devices by syncing data over iCloud . But as you keep using your Mac, you may run into instances that require you to delete passwords from your default login keychain. You may even have to reset the keychain and start all over in some cases....

Deleting unnecessary files from Google Drive keeps your cloud-storage clutter-free, prevents it from reaching full capacity, and makes room for new uploads. If you’re on an iPhone or iPad, Google Drive and the native Files app allow for straightforward file removal. Whether it’s outdated documents, duplicated folders, or shared items you no longer need, this guide will walk you through how to delete Google Drive files directly from your iOS or iPadOS device....

To delete your Netflix account using other devices, you must first cancel your membership or subscription. Afterward, submit an account deletion request to Netflix via email and wait for further instructions. This tutorial covers everything you need to know about deleting your Netflix account. Delete Your Account in the Netflix App There’s an option to delete your account in the Netflix mobile app for Android, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Open Netflix on your mobile device and follow the steps below to delete your account....

Zoom conferencing service has become a household verb in less than a year. There’s a good chance someone has said they were going to “zoom” you. But not everyone has a device with a great mic, can be on screen, or can connect to the Internet . Here’s how you can just dial into a Zoom meeting with your phone. Dial-in By Phone and Zoom Free Basic Accounts At the time of writing this, Zoom gave notice that “Due to increased demand, dial-in by phone audio conferencing capabilities may be temporarily removed from your free Basic account....

There are several ways to connect devices in the Apple ecosystem, particularly iPhones and Macs . Apple lets you unlink specific apps, functionalities, or services shared on your iPhone and Mac. You can also disconnect both devices entirely. This tutorial covers different ways to disconnect your iPhone from a MacBook computer—and vice versa. Disconnect iPhone in Finder If your iPhone and Mac are connected via USB cable, unplugging the cable from either device will disconnect both devices....

iOS updates can be incredibly exciting. Not only do they come with amazing features that improve the functionality of your iPhone, but most incremental updates also contain loads of fixes that resolve known bugs and issues. That isn’t the case with the beta versions of iOS, however. They often break down key features, prevent apps from running properly, or cause battery-related problems. On rare occasions, you may experience that with stable iOS releases as well....

There are plenty of really cool YouTube tricks and hacks that will take your video streaming experience to the next level, but one thing you won’t find built into YouTube is a playlist download button. Maybe you built a playlist of your own videos and now you want to download all of them to your computer? Or if you’ve found a collection of public domain videos, a YouTube playlist downloader would be helpful in saving all of them at once....

When software is integrated into an operating system, it becomes the obvious choice to use . In older Windows releases, opening media files would open Windows Media Player, unless you installed an alternative like VL C. It wasn’t the best media player, but it worked out of the box, and that’s exactly what most users look for. Unfortunately, Microsoft stopped support for Windows Media Player in 2009, with the last release (Windows Media Player 12) now over ten years old....

Google takeout is a feature of your Google account that lets you download your data. You can export your photos, emails, calendar data, contacts, files, and lots of other data. Another way to save your information from Google is to selectively open the service that you want to download data from, such as Gmail or Google Photos, and pick what to save to your computer. Beyond a simple offline backup, you might want to download your Google data if you plan on deleting your Google account but you want to retain a copy of everything you’ve got stored on Google’s servers....

If you’ve ever had problems with people stealing your images after you posted them online, or you want to make sure that nobody would want to swipe your photos, you can add a watermark to them. The best way to keep your brand or name secured with each of your photos is to watermark them with your company logo, your last name, or anything else that tells viewers who made the image....

Like Windows-based computers, Mac has a hosts file to configure how your machine connects to the websites on the Internet. This file contains references to websites and IP addresses, and you can use it in many different ways on your Mac. One of the reasons you may want to edit the hosts file on your Mac is to block websites. It’s a great way to block certain websites from being accessed on your machine....