Procreate is a powerful and popular app for art creation. There are tons of tools available on the app to help you draw or paint whatever your imagination desires. However, before you can use these tools to their fullest potential, you’ll need to understand how they work to help you achieve your desired effects. Blending is something you may want to do often in artwork, so there are several ways to achieve this effect in Procreate....
Hard drive failure can mean a catastrophic loss of treasured pictures, important documents, and even your beloved ten-year long game of Civilization. Therefore, it’s a good idea to check your hard drive for possible errors routinely. Whether on Windows or Mac, many tools are available to help you diagnose your hard drive and repair it. If you suspect your hard drive is close to failing, be sure to try and make a backup of all your data or clone your hard drive before running any of the tools below....
There will be many instances when it is useful to know what has been printed from a certain computer. You can find out everything that you’re about to print and you will also know how to view what you’ve already printed — whether it was recent or a long time ago. You can also check to see if anyone else has been printing from your computer without your permission. How To Access Your Print Queue Viewing your print queue allows you to see the document that you’re about to print....
Of course, it can only do this if it has a solid Wi-Fi connection. Without Wi-Fi, Google Assistant can’t sync with your smart home devices, your Google Nest products, or basically any of the traits that make it so useful. Here is how to connect Google Home to Wi-Fi. How to Connect Google Home to Wi-Fi There are two ways to connect your Google Home device to your Wi-Fi network. The first is during the setup process of the device....
Once you get a Roku device, you’ll need to connect your device to Wi-Fi. This allows you to set up your Roku account and access various streaming channels . If you aren’t sure how to connect your Roku to Wi-Fi, this guide will show you how. You can connect your Roku to the internet via Ethernet as well. In this case, you simply plug your Ethernet cable into the Ethernet port on your Roku, and your device has internet access....
Knowing how to convert the text in an image to an editable document in Microsoft Word can be a real time-saver. We’ll show you a few different ways to do just that, step by step. Imagine you want to convert a photo of an informational brochure into Word so you can edit the text. Or maybe you want to transform an image-only (i.e., scanned) PDF into an editable Word document. In either case, there are a few ways you can convert an image into text that you can edit in Word....
Microsoft Office tools are becoming more and more powerful with each update. Nowadays, you don’t even need a dedicated app for flowcharts. You can make flowcharts in PowerPoint, Word, and even Excel. We’ve already covered flowcharts in PowerPoint . So in this article, we’re going to show you how to create a flowchart in Word and Excel. We’re going to use Microsoft Office 2019 for the demonstrations, but you can follow the same steps using Office 2010 or Office 365....
While Microsoft Word may not be the first drawing tool you think of, its drawing tools are among its little-known features that are simple to learn and easy to use. These drawing tools come in various shapes and forms including arrows , banners, callouts, squares, circles, stars, and flowchart shapes you can use to create images or illustrations. If you’re looking for the right image or clip art to add to your document, and you can’t find the exact one you want, you can draw it in Word using the drawing tools....
You may have run into an error while using a virtual machine on your computer that relates to virtualization . What is virtualization? Does your computer have it? How do you turn it on? Find the answers to these and more questions below, whether you’re using an Intel or AMD system. What Is Hardware Virtualization? There’s a good chance that you know you need virtualization but don’t know what it is....
If you started using a password manager and want to import your saved passwords or just want to save a backup copy of your logins, you can export passwords from your web browser in a few steps. We’ll show you how to export passwords from Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari so you’re covered no matter which browser you use. Take Precautions With the Password File When you export passwords from your web browser as described below, you’ll receive a readable file....
Your iPhone provides several ways to hide apps that are too embarrassing or too addictive to keep on the Home screen. For instance, you can chuck them inside folders or move them into the App Library. If you have iOS 14 or later installed, you can also reduce clutter by disabling entire Home screen pages . That’s all well and good. But what if you want to find apps that you hid away a while back and can no longer remember how to get to?...
Teredo is a networking protocol. It’s used to initiate a secure connection between a client and server, such as with devices that use network address translation (NAT). If Teredo isn’t working it means that the Xbox Live app, for example, is unable to establish connections with other devices and you won’t be able to use party chat or multiplayer gaming on Xbox Live. There are many things that can cause the “Teredo is Unable to Qualify” error in Windows 10....
Discord has quickly become the gold standard for building gaming and hobbyist communities since it first launched in 2015. It has a number of useful features that allows its users to stay in touch remotely with friends and like-minded strangers, with screen sharing and voice or video communication offered for free. Unfortunately, some Discord users who attempt a voice call will see a “RTC connecting” error appear that seems to prevent the call from connecting....
Discord, the popular gaming communication tool, is regularly updated with new features and bug fixes. You don’t have to try the alpha Discord Canary release to get some of these, as the Discord client will update automatically. However, if your Discord update has failed for some reason, you’ll miss out on these new features and fixes. You may also find yourself stuck in a Discord update failed loop, where Discord simply can’t update and won’t allow you to use the client until it’s fixed....
There are as many BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) errors than we can count, yet some of them will show up with more frequency and vengeance than others. The WHEA ( Windows Hardware Error Architecture ) uncorrectable error is one of those unwelcome visitors and can be incredibly frustrating to solve, but with some systematic sleuthing you can track down the source of the problem and troubleshoot your PC sooner rather than later....
In this article, we will be taking a look at the top sources for free cloud storage. We will briefly explain the functionality of each provider, but ultimately all of these providers are highly rated and trusted. The main focus here will be their free storage offering. Google Drive – 15GB Free Per Account Google Drive is a great opportunity for anybody that already has an existing Google email address. If you have a YouTube account or Android phone, you’ll already have an account too....
Ever need to insert an Excel worksheet into a Word document and have them linked so that when you update the main Excel worksheet, it automatically updates the values in the Word document also? Well, there are actually a couple of ways to insert an Excel spreadsheet into Word: linking, embedding and creating a new one. Whether you embed or link, the inserted Excel spreadsheet will not automatically get updated unless you specifically create the link between the two files....
Even if you have an external monitor, running a Windows 11/10 laptop with its lid closed might force the PC to go to sleep. Here’s how to stop that. If you’ve hooked up an external monitor to your laptop, you might prefer closing the laptop’s lid and maybe placing the device on a vertical stand to free up desk space. Sadly, the default power options in Windows prevent you from doing that....
As an Internet device, your Android smartphone or tablet, just like the family PC, allows access to all sorts of things your children don’t need to see or participate in. Just as important, though, are the messaging, banking, and many other apps that are not only private but also vulnerable. While you might not mind letting your little (and not-so-little) ones play with your smartphone now and then, you don’t want them installing potentially damaging or inappropriate apps or launching existing ones and inadvertently altering or deleting critical data....
One of the more common animations or transitions you’ll see in videos are fade-ins and fade-outs. These are popular because they both look nice and are pretty easy to achieve. Using Adobe Premiere for video editing, you can add a fade-in or out animation to anything – text, logos, clips, etc. In this Premiere Pro tutorial, we’ll show you two different ways to use a fade-in/out animation. First with an element such as text or a logo, and then on a clip to use it as a transition....
