Google Maps Not Talking Or Giving Voice Directions? 12 Ways To Fix

Google Maps should give voice directions when you start navigating to a place . Voice navigation is super helpful if you have to keep your eyes on the road when driving or cycling. Google Maps voice navigation is stable and almost always works. However, slow internet connection, incorrect navigation settings, and temporary system glitches can ruin the functionality. This tutorial covers 12 fixes to try if Google Maps isn’t talking or giving voice directions on your device....

February 2, 2026 · 7 min · 1410 words · Patricia Mazza

Got A New Computer? Here Are The 10 Things You Should Do

Getting a new computer is an exciting experience, like purchasing a new car—you can’t wait to test its capabilities. At the same time, it can feel overwhelming, especially if you’re changing platforms, for example, from Windows to macOS. Following our step-by-step guide, you can effectively set up your new computer and optimize its performance. Whatto Do Immediately After Getting a New Computer Here’s a helpful guide for those who have just acquired a new computer....

February 2, 2026 · 11 min · 2240 words · Marva Lopez

Grounded

The final pre-launch update for Grounded added a lot of new content, including a complete overhaul of weapon upgrades. The most significant change is that quartzite is no longer used to upgrade weapons, which may be a letdown for those of you who have been stockpiling it. Nonetheless, we’ll show you the new resource you need and how to use it to upgrade weapons in Grounded . How to Upgrade Weapons inGrounded To upgrade weapons in Grounded , you’ll need tough nuggets as well as a smithing station....

February 2, 2026 · 2 min · 368 words · Doris Mckeon

Grounded Eelgrass Location

Grounded has players braving the outside and taking on plenty of enemies while the size of a pea. However, it’s more than just fighting off massive spiders, allocating resources, and building bases to ensure sure that you can survive the backyard and uncover its mystery is critical. One of those important resources is Eelgrass, but it can only be found in one specific location. Where to Find Eelgrass inGrounded Eelgrass can be found submerged underwater in the Koi Pond....

February 2, 2026 · 2 min · 316 words · Roger Moore

Grounded Mint Mace

Grounded is an open-world survival crafting title that has players exploring a massive wilderness, which is ironically their backyard. Taking notes from films like “Honey I Shrunk the Kids,” the game has players looking for a way to reverse their small predicament and survive the hostile creatures that were once harmless when they were small. To that, you’ll need weapons such as the Mint Mace. Fortunately, this equipment isn’t difficult to acquire once you know what’s needed....

February 2, 2026 · 2 min · 419 words · Carla Hamilton

Grounded Pinecone Pieces

As you progress through Grounded , you’ll start to understand that most parts of the yard serve a function. For example, every now and then you’ll come across a Pinecone. You can hit these with a hammer to receive Pinecone Pieces, which are useful in a number of recipes. However, you may have forgotten where to find Pinecones in the time since you last saw them. Here’s where you need to head and what gear you need to bring with you....

February 2, 2026 · 2 min · 321 words · George Hoyt

How To Add A Signature In Outlook

Email signatures are common especially in business environments. These signatures usually give you information about the sender of the email, and it often contains their details such as their name, their position in the company, email address, and some other information. You can add your signature in your Outlook emails, too, if you want. While we already have a guide on adding signatures to your emails, the interfaces that let you do it have changed since then....

February 2, 2026 · 6 min · 1066 words · Cheryl Grace

How To Add Decorative Borders To Microsoft Word Documents

A Word document doesn’t have to consist of just words on a blank, white page. If you’re trying to create a more imaginative document, or you just want to introduce a custom document style, you may want to think about adding a decorative border to your Word document. Decorative borders can take a blank, white document page and enhance it, making certain pages (or all of your pages) stand out. We’ll show you how to add decorative borders to Microsoft Word documents below....

February 2, 2026 · 6 min · 1130 words · Morris Mattila

How To Add Stickers, Links, And More To Your Instagram Stories

The Instagram stories feature is a great way to keep your followers updated on happenings throughout the day that you don’t necessarily want in your Instagram feed. Stories can increase engagement with your social media profile, too, if that’s what you’re after. Thankfully, making good stories for Instagram doesn’t have to be difficult. There are many tools available to take your stories to the next level, such as adding links viewers can click, stickers showing your location, the time, and more....

February 2, 2026 · 6 min · 1147 words · Nicholas Garcia

How To Cancel Your Canva Subscription (Mobile And Web)

Canva is a graphic design tool that lets users create professional-grade images and artwork from thousands of templates. But to access Canva Pro features requires a paid subscription. And while the Pro plan is definitely worth the monthly subscription fee, there are many reasons you might want to cancel the plan. In this article, we’ll explain how to cancel your Canva subscription on each available platform. How to Cancel Your Canva Subscription If you want to cancel your Canva subscription, you can do so via your web browser, mobile, Android app, or iOS app....

February 2, 2026 · 3 min · 514 words · Michele Sims

How To Change Margins In Google Docs

If you’re using Google Docs to type up a letter or an article, you’ll start with a representation of a blank piece of paper on your screen. The size of the virtual paper matches the usual page layout and size you’d see if you printed your document on a typical piece of document paper using A4 (or 210mm by 297mm) sizing. If you plan to print on different paper, or if you’re changing page orientation , you may need to alter the page margins....

February 2, 2026 · 8 min · 1587 words · Michelle Larson

How To Change Or Customize Your Friend Emojis On Snapchat

Snapchat emojis aren’t just a way to express your feelings and emotions on a social media platform. When you exchange Snaps with someone on the app, Snapchat applies a new emoji to your conversation, indicating a different level of friendship or relationship. These emojis aren’t set in stone, and you can change friend emojis on your device if you’d like to see a different emoji instead of a default option picked by Snapchat....

February 2, 2026 · 4 min · 735 words · Craig Mitchell

How To Change The Screen Resolution In Windows 11

If you’ve just bought a new monitor or something isn’t looking right, your screen resolution might be at fault. Windows will occasionally set the wrong resolution for your monitor, causing your screen to become blurry. In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to change screen resolution in Windows 11. Why Does Screen Resolution Matter? Your screen resolution determines the number of pixels on your screen. Therefore, it impacts the sharpness of your display....

February 2, 2026 · 4 min · 823 words · James Goble

How To Check Word Count In Wordpad

WordPad is a basic text editor that is a bit more sophisticated than Notepad, but it’s an amazing tool if you need the bare minimum. It’s completely free, unlike Microsoft Office, and it comes preinstalled in all Windows OS versions. But being so simple means it lacks some useful functions other text editors have. Among them are the word counter and grammar-checking tools . That means you can’t check the word count in WordPad, but there are alternative ways and we will show them to you....

February 2, 2026 · 4 min · 812 words · Guy Clark

How To Clear Dns Cache On Windows, Mac, Android & Ios

When you browse the internet, a Domain Name System (DNS) service will actively translate, or “resolve,” the various web addresses that you come across into a format that your Windows, Mac, Android, or iOS device understands. These addresses are then cached locally to help speed things up. But if something changes in the meantime, your web browser may run into connectivity issues and fail to load some websites properly. In that case, you must get rid of the DNS cache to force your device to look up each web address again....

February 2, 2026 · 6 min · 1072 words · Antone Vallo

How To Clear Your Origin Cache

Origin is EA’s answer to Steam, but anyone who calls themself a PC gamer knows it pales in comparison. Origin is often accompanied by odd glitches, especially if you’re trying to play older titles on a more modern operating system. The good news is that there’s a relatively simple way to correct many of these problems: clear your Origin cache. Clearing the cache is a simple process that anyone can do, and it will clear corrupted or glitched data that might otherwise result in errors....

February 2, 2026 · 4 min · 769 words · Daryl Levine

How To Control Fan Speed On Pc

Computers usually have multiple fans to cool off the electronics, unless you’re using a water cooling system . Your system may have one fan for the processor, another for the graphics card, one for the power supply, and maybe 1-4 additional fans attached to the PC case. Cooling fans are absolutely necessary to keep your system cool, but they shouldn’t make your PC sound like an engine. To find the optimal balance between noise and cooling, you need to learn how to control the fan speed on your PC....

February 2, 2026 · 6 min · 1209 words · Beverly Weideman

How To Create Price Alerts For Holiday Shopping Deals

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday behind us, one of the biggest spending holidays is still on the horizon: Christmas! While savvy shoppers may have gotten their Christmas shopping out of the way during the year’s two biggest days for deals, there are more savings to come as retailers work to clear out their inventory before the new year. With plenty of year-ending online sales left to be scavenged, it’s worth it to know some of the best ways of having the internet do the hardest parts of shopping for you....

February 2, 2026 · 5 min · 865 words · Marco Pond

How To Customize Gaming Visuals With Nvidia’S Freestyle Game Filters

NVIDIA Freestyle is a new method for NVIDIA GPU owners to customize their gaming experience. Available on the GeForce Experience app for free, you can use Freestyle to add shaders, filters and effects to your gameplay. I’ll take you through the ins and outs of this new feature and how to use it in supported games. Using Freestyle is very straightforward and there are 15 default filters, 38 different settings, and all sorts of customizable combinations and visual adjustments available....

February 2, 2026 · 3 min · 565 words · Linda Whitney

How To Customize Safari In Macos Big Sur

Safari always had a strong reputation for being the best performing web browser on the Mac. Incredibly, macOS Big Sur has made it even better. Not only is Safari now up to fifty percent faster compared to Chrome, but it’s also much more power-efficient than before. However, all of that won’t matter unless you personalize the browser to work the way you want it to. So below, you will find everything that you need to know about customizing the most important aspects of Safari in macOS Big Sur....

February 2, 2026 · 6 min · 1276 words · Bonnie Ferraro