By using a bit of color in your spreadsheet, you can make a cell or its contents pop. This makes it easy to spot the data you need at a glance. Here, we’ll show you how to highlight both cells and text in Microsoft Excel. While you can use conditional formatting in Excel to automatically highlight cells, you may have data that doesn’t change or simply want to apply a single highlight....
The Meta Quest 2 is a great standalone VR headset, but its battery life isn’t the greatest. You can expect between two to three hours of battery on a full charge depending on what you’re doing. It also takes around 2.5 hours for Quest 2 to reach a full charge. For many people, two hours is more than enough time for virtual reality experiences. After that, they’ll want to take the headset off and take a break – but for hardcore gamers , you can do things to extend the Meta Quest 2’s battery life....
If you’ve ever wanted to include data that you have in an Excel file into a Word document, you’ve probably just copied the data from Excel and pasted it into Word. While this works, there are a number of limitations. One of the most important is that if the original data file ever changes, your Word document will never reflect those changes. If either of those issues matter to you, there are better ways to insert an Excel worksheet into a Word doc....
You can stream more than movies and shows on your Apple TV. If Spotify is your music service of choice, then why not pop some tunes onto your smart TV for your next party or event? We’ll show you a few easy ways to get and play Spotify on Apple TV. You can then enjoy those great tunes or interesting podcasts from the popular music streaming service. Install Spotify on Apple TV Using the App Store The Spotify app was introduced a few years ago for the 4th generation Apple TV....
Microsoft Office is a popular and powerful productivity suite that professionals, students, and casual users can all rely on. However, as a Linux user, it may seem difficult to install or run Microsoft Office on your PC. Despite this challenge, there are ways to make this essential software accessible for Linux users. Several workarounds are available to Linux users that make it possible to access and use Microsoft Office applications....
Closing your MacBook will put it to sleep. All foreground and background apps and services will be temporarily paused until you reopen the lid. If you’re playing music, for example, closing your Mac stops the song. Downloading a file or installing an app on your MacBook? macOS will pause (or terminate) the activities when you close the lid. In this guide, we’ll walk you through two methods to keep your Mac awake when the lid is shut....
Choosing what to listen to when somebody else is involved can be a difficult task, especially if your music taste differs wildly. Spotify has created a solution to this problem with what they call “Blend” playlists. These are special shared playlists you can create with another Spotify user or users, which curate songs from your libraries into one playlist. Spotify is also doing away with their old Family playlists, replacing them with Blends....
There’s a lot your Mac laptop can do for you, and mirroring your Mac laptop to a PC monitor is one of the more unique features you can take advantage of. Screen mirroring is a way to cast content from one device to another. This lets you enjoy that content on a larger display such as a TV or monitor. Most smart entertainment devices allow you to do this, but native casting isn’t supported by all content sources....
For most Mac users, the preferred way of opening files or folders is through the Finder app . But that’s not the only way you can navigate and access the file or folder system – you can go through a command line. Terminal is the default gateway to that command line, which doesn’t require you to point or click anything – just type a command and your Mac and it will execute the command....
BitTorrent is perhaps the most famous peer-to-peer file transfer protocol. Certainly, it’s the one that kept most music and film executives up at night since it’s mainly known for enabling piracy. Yet, torrenting itself isn’t illegal and can be a cost-effective and useful way to share files with people without paying for online file storage. So, if you’re trying to open a Torrent file on Windows or Mac, but aren’t sure how to do it, here’s what you need to know....
Sharing a computer isn’t always the most advisable thing to do, especially if you’re worried about your family, friends, or someone malicious accessing your files. You could use separate user accounts , but if your files aren’t encrypted, it may still be possible for somebody else to gain access. There are a few ways you can password protect folders in Windows 10. If you have Windows 10 Pro , Enterprise, or Education, you could also use built-in features to encrypt files or a USB device ....
Macs have a reputation for being inadequate when it comes to gaming. No one buys a Mac to game on. They just game on Macs because that’s what they have. The truth is that Mac gaming has progressed in leaps and bounds, but Windows still has the lion’s share of PC games. The good news is that you can play many Windows games on your Mac, and they’ll run well if you have the hardware for it....
Does your Windows 10 screen automatically dim for no specific reason? Chances are you’ve enabled adaptive brightness on your PC , but there are other reasons why your screen automatically dims. No matter what’s causing it, there are a few simple fixes you can apply to your PC to stop it from automatically dimming. One of these methods should resolve the issue. Disable Adaptive Brightness Windows 10 comes with a feature called adaptive brightness that automatically adjusts the brightness of your display....
Years ago it would have been hard to imagine that a good portion of your life would be spent scrolling through webpages and texts on a single device. Let alone that device being a mobile phone. Nowadays, thanks in very large part to the boom of social media and their associated apps, it’s even harder to imagine your life without one. Today, mobile devices resemble personal computers, where large portions of personal data can be stored....
It happens all the time. You decide to clean up your hard drive and then three days later you can’t find an important file. It’s not in the right folder or the Recycle Bin, and you don’t have a hard drive back-up. You’ve accidentally deleted the file. So now what? Take a deep breath, unclench your jaw, and relax your shoulders. Whether it’s an Excel , Word , PowerPoint , Outlook email, or any other kind of file, with our help it’s possible that you can recover accidentally deleted files in Windows....
Accidentally deleting crucial files is a nightmare that many computer users have experienced. Fortunately, there’s hope when using Linux, as several tools and techniques can be used to restore files. Before diving into the recovery process, make sure you unmount the affected drive right away to avoid overwriting deleted files with new data. This step increases the likelihood of successful file recovery. If you’re unsure how to recover deleted files on Linux, follow the steps below....
Accidental deletion is one of the worst things that can ever happen to a smartphone user. Especially if you use an iPhone and you accidentally end up deleting text messages on your device, recovering the text messages from an iPhone is a bit too much of a hassle for any user. If you’re already in a situation where you’ve lost or deleted your messages, you might be looking for ways to recover them....
When you want to stream your favorite movie, TV show, music, or any other content, you could connect your device to your TV via USB cable or just use a Google Chromecast. There are so many things you can do with your Chromecast, but sometimes even the best device can hit an irreparable snag. You may encounter some issues or it just stops working, leaving you without any streaming content....
If you’ve received a 0x80070002 error while installing a Windows update, there are ways to get around this problem. This issue occurs for various reasons, including incorrect date and time settings and a faulty Windows Update feature. We’ll show you how to resolve the problem on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 PC. Other reasons you get the above error are that your internet connection isn’t working, the downloaded update files are corrupted, Windows’ system files are damaged, a third-party app is causing interference, and more....
If you’re trying to do something on your PC that requires changing the screen orientation, you can use the Windows 10 screen rotation feature to do it. It lets you change your orientation from landscape to portrait and portrait to landscape – however you want it to be set up. There are many reasons as to why you may want to rotate the screen in Windows 10. Maybe you want to use your second monitor in the portrait mode for previews....
