It’s easy to know when you’re blocked on Instagram—you’ll no longer see the person’s profile. When someone restricts you, their profile remains visible, making it difficult to know when you’re restricted. In this article, we’ll show you how to know if someone restricted you on Instagram. You’ll also learn to use the restrict feature to limit people’s access to your Instagram content. What Happens When Someone Restricts You on Instagram?...
The latest Apple macOS versions detect whether you’re using the laptop on AC power for extended amounts of time. It automatically limits the maximum battery level to 80% to extend your battery life. Neither Windows 10 nor 11 have this feature at the time of writing, but if you want a similar option to make your battery last longer on your Windows laptop, you have a few options. Why Limit Your Laptop Battery Charging Level?...
If you’ve spent any amount of time on social media lately, you may have seen a “3D photo” show up on your newsfeed. These photos look like they have depth when you scroll past them or tilt your phone to the side. Posting your own 3D photos on iPhone doesn’t require any sort of advanced skills to make it happen. All you need is a compatible iPhone and a Facebook account....
Snapchat has always been about sharing content with multiple users at once. For those who don’t want to showcase their life to absolutely everyone, the platform offers an option to restrict who can view their content by creating private Snapchat stories. Stories are a great format for sharing memorable moments of your life with your followers on social media. But when you only mean to share your quick snaps with certain people from your friends list, learn how to create Private stories on Snapchat....
Recently, Instagram brought back the option for users to have a chronological news feed, a previously removed feature in 2016. Instead, they’ve switched to an algorithmic feed, which tries to figure out what you want to see the most and shows you that first. However, many users dislike this type of feed and just want to see things in the order they were posted. So this led to the reintroduction of the chronological feed, which users can now choose to use instead....
If you’re somebody who enjoys taking a lot of photos or videos on your iPhone, you may be struggling with space. You can back up to iCloud , but with only 5GB of free space, you might run out pretty quickly. That leaves you with few options, with deleting your files or upgrading your iCloud subscription the most obvious ones. If you have a Google account, you can take advantage of your free Google Photos storage as an alternative....
Have you ever downloaded a file from the internet only to find that you can’t open it because of the weird .rar extension? That’s because your computer can’t open this file format by default. RAR is a compressed file format that allows you to download and transfer large amounts of data from one computer to another. However, you need special software to access the data inside RAR archive files. Here’s everything you need to know about how to open or extract RAR files on Windows or Mac....
There are a number of reasons why you might want to pixelate part or all of an image. If you’re touching up a family photo to post online, you may want to pixelate the faces of some of your family members. If you’re editing a scanned image, you may want to pixelate some personal data to protect yourself before posting it online. There are several ways you can quickly pixelate an image on Windows and Mac using various free or paid photo editors, such as Photoshop and GIMP, or by using online services to edit your images....
The Legend of Zelda franchise currently consists of 27 video games, with the first game released on the original Famicom (Nintendo Entertainment System) in 1986. The latest game, Breath of the Wild, is a key title for the Nintendo Switch platform and a sequel is in the works as we speak. Zelda games are beloved by millions of people all over the world, but if you want to play them on a PC rather than a console, you’ll have to do a bit of legwork....
Because they don’t print by default, we’ll show you how to print Excel worksheets with gridlines using both the desktop application and Microsoft Excel on the web. If you’re printing an Excel spreadsheet with a lot of data, you may want to include the gridlines. These provide you with subtle borders around your cells without having to manually add them, thus making the data easier to read. Gridlines Versus Cell Borders in Excel The advantage to using gridlines versus cell borders when you print in Excel is that they appear around your data automatically when you mark the option as described below....
iOS is stable, but even a stable operating system can succumb to random bugs, glitches, and other software-related snags. Like any other desktop or mobile device, restarting your iPhone is often the best way to fix a problem. A soft reset clears the iPhone’s system cache and provides an excellent starting point to perform additional troubleshooting. Read on to learn multiple ways to restart any iOS device. Why You Should Restart Your iPhone Rebooting your iPhone can resolve numerous issues that prevent the device from functioning correctly....
Twitter has a sensitive media policy to block tweets that contain “potentially sensitive content.” Depending on how you use Twitter, you may want to either display all content in your feed or block certain types of content. In this tutorial, we’ll share everything there’s to know about sensitive content on Twitter, including how to disable Twitter’s warnings to view sensitive content and block potentially sensitive content to hide it from your search results ....
Are those files you’re sending too big for an email? Maybe you tried text and that didn’t work either. Fortunately, there are lots of ways to send large files to people over the internet, and most are even free. Maybe it’s vacation photos you want to send to a friend, home movies that your uncle asked for, or your music collection, 4K raw video files, backup data, video games, etc....
A nifty way to access our files over the internet is by using a NAS, or N etwork A ttached S torage device. A NAS is basically a way of connecting a centralized hard drive to our network, like a cloud storage device, providing access to it and all files within, to all of our other connected devices. This makes file-sharing and backing things up a whole lot easier when we can do it from anywhere....
Poor quality audio can take the buzz out of a movie you’re watching or a game you’re playing. Rather than settling for mono and outdated sound quality, you could think about upgrading your headphones to something a little better. The problem with that is, if your settings aren’t right, then you still won’t get the quality you’re after. To help resolve this issue, you can take advantage of a newer Windows feature called Windows Sonic for Headphones, which immediately improves the quality of your sound output....
iTunes is a really great media management app that provides you with a number of features to organize the media content stored on your computer. One of the features in the app lets you share your media libraries with your friends on your local network. What that means is you no longer need to get your media files out of your computer, put them in a portable drive, and give it to your friends for them to enjoy the content....
MacBooks offer outstanding battery life and usually allow for an entire day’s worth of moderate to heavy use on a single charge. Still, it’s important to keep regular tabs on the amount of charge remaining since intensive tasks and unoptimized apps can drain the battery quickly. macOS Big Sur, however, doesn’t make that easy. If you just upgraded from macOS Catalina, you would’ve immediately noticed the missing battery percentage indicator on the Mac’s menu bar....
Nobody likes a site that loads slower than it should. In today’s digital world, even a one-second delay in page responsiveness translates to reduced clicks, reduced user satisfaction, declining conversion rates, and lost revenue. Not only that, but site speed is now part of the ranking factors in Google’s ranking algorithm , meaning your site speed impacts search engine optimization (SEO). The snowball effect of this impact is loss of visitors from impatience and reduced search engine rankings....
Boomerang videos started as a trend on Instagram. Since then, people have continued sharing them on social media platforms, and Boomerangs have grown more popular by the day. Apps like Snapchat or Instagram have built-in features to create new Boomerangs . But what if you want to turn an existing video into a Boomerang? This tutorial will show you how to turn a video into a Boomerang on smartphones and computers....
If your iPhone’s power button has stopped working, you may wonder how to turn it off and on. Fortunately, a few simple, built-in solutions can help you navigate this issue. The process is quite straightforward and doesn’t require any technical expertise or advanced knowledge of iOS. You can use a Settings option or the built-in AssistiveTouch feature on your iPhone, which can be a lifesaver when your power button is unresponsive or broken....
