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You’ve probably heard stories about your privacy while using Google products. Are you concerned about what Google might be tracking from your online activities? You don’t have to wonder. Google offers all of this transparently via your Google My Activity page. Navigating Google My Activity When you first log in to Google My Activity, you’ll see links along the left pane to access different types of activity logs, as well as settings you can configure to protect your privacy....

YouTube Music The new YouTube Music service allows you to create playlists and favorite all music that’s currently in the YouTube library including music videos and live performances. The layout is simple and easy to use on both Android and iOS. There are three tabs that include Home, Hotlist, and Library. The Library is where you will spend most of your time as it is where you find all the music you’ve liked and subscribed to....

Differences Between Cloud Drives Unlike Google and Microsoft, Apple has not been a popular cloud platform considering the company’s ability to be two steps ahead in so many areas; services continue to be amiss. With Microsoft giving away online storage tiers starting at 15 GB or higher compared to iCloud’s limited 5 GBs, users are probably best served to complement their Apple devices with third-party Cloud services like Microsoft OneDrive, even if you want to still engage in the Apple ecosystem....

Rakuten Rewards Rakuten is Japan’s largest e-commerce retailer. In 2010, it entered the U.S. market by purchasing Buy.com. Three years later, Buy.com became Rakuten.com. It was Rakuten’s 2014 purchase of Ebates.com that increasingly put the Rakuten name on the map. Ebates, founded in 1998 in Menlo Park, California, was a cash-back and shopping rewards company that relied on affiliate links to make money. Rakuten purchased it for $1 billion. It wasn’t until early 2019 that Ebates became Rakuten Rewards in the United States....

Add a PIN to Netflix Account with the Profile Lock Feature To start you will need to launch Netflix in a browser. Then log in to your profile and click your icon in the upper-right corner of the screen. And select the Account option from the menu. Now scroll down to the Profiles & Parental Controls section and click the down arrow. That will bring up some settings you can change....

This Photoshop groovyPost is great because it’s very easy and yet, the effects you can create can be really amazing! Let’s jump right into it with a groovyVideo followed by our classic step-by-step of the process. You Will Need: Adobe Photoshop CS2/CS3/CS4/CS5 An image (can be almost any image) Practice! Video: Step 1 – Choose an Image for your Text Effect You’ll need an image to start with. I chose to work with the sky image we made in a previous tutorial and if you have made one yourself it will work great....

Word 2010 Default Style Keyboard Shortcuts If you don’t know already know the following Word 2010 style keyboard shortcuts, learn them. They’ll save you tons of time in the long run: These will let you whip through basic Word documents without touching your mouse. Custom Style Keyboard Shortcuts in Word 2010 If you want to move beyond the default keyboard shortcuts for Normal and H1 through H3, you can set up your own custom style keyboard shortcuts....

The code below is a simple process that does a few things: Windows XP Windows 7 @echo off REM EFS Encryption Script Version 1.0 REM ====================================================== REM First, let?s create a file to store all the work were doing. echo ?????? » “%userprofile%\My documents%computername%.efs” echo ?????? » “%userprofile%\My documents%computername%.efs” REM ====================================================== echo %date% %time% » “%userprofile%\My documents%computername%.efs” REM =================================================== cipher /u » “%userprofile%\My documents%computername%.efs” REM =================================================== REM Begin encryption of the ?...

In a nutshell, here’s what you need to know about blocking iPhone contacts: You can block people in your contacts list or unknown numbers from your recent calls list.When you block someone, their calls go straight to voicemail. In your voicemail inbox, you’ll see a separate folder for “Blocked Messages.”When a blocked contact sends you a text, it’ll still say “Sent”, but you’ll never see the text.Blocking is one-way. It won’t stop you from sending them texts or calling them....

This is handy for the attendees to revisit the happenings during the meeting and for others who were unable to attend. Here, we’ll show you how to record a meeting in Microsoft Teams and then where to find and play the recording when the meeting ends. Record a Meeting in Microsoft Teams Whether you start your meeting from the Meetings tab, a channel, or chat, you’ll use the same actions to start and stop the recording....

For example, you might have a local drive that’s short on storage space. Maybe you have a 256 GB SSD or low capacity NVMe m.2 drive to run the OS. But also have a larger drive in your PC where you want to store data. Whatever the case, here’s a look at how to change the default download location in Microsoft Edge. Microsoft Edge: Change Downloads Folder location To change the location of the Downloads folder location first launch Microsoft Edge....

First, login to OWA and click the Options tab on the top right of the web client. Click a Theme icon to change your OWA look. If your Exchange admin enabled all the default themes (or installed new custom themes) use the arrows to scroll through the entire list. If you click on a theme it will be applied to all the screens in the OWA client. Before After...

Clear Safari iPhone Cache To get started head to Settings > Safari. Next, scroll down to the bottom of the screen and go to Advanced > Website Data. Now tap Remove all Website data and Remove Now. This clears out your iPhone cache including browsing history, cookies, location data, and more. Clear App Cache This is a more tricky one. Not in its execution, but whether or not you want to do it....

Extract Audio from a Video to MP3 Using VLC You won’t get any special message from VLC letting you know the file conversation is complete. The progress bar will disappear from VLC when finished. The amount of time it takes will vary depending on the length and size of the video file. Open the destination folder you chose, and there you will find your MP3 file with just the audio from the video....

Edit, Modify and Arrange Widgets in iOS 10 To access your iOS 10 widgets, swipe to the left. Swiping left will display a list of the default out of box configuration for widgets. To start modifying the layout, swipe down to the bottom of the screen, then tap the Edit button. This will open the Add Widgets setting. Here you will see all your activated widgets, along with more widgets for different apps you can add....

Android Desktop Notifications on Windows For this to work you’ll need to install a couple of things. Desktop Notifications Android AppAndroid Desktop Notifications for Chrome or Firefox (Beta) First make sure you have desktop notifications enabled on your Android, if you don’t the app will remind you to turn them on. Launch the app and you’ll see the connect code – enter that into the Chrome extension. Click the notification icon on the upper left side of your browser....

Windows 10 Shared Experiences To turn Shared Experiences on or off, head to Settings > System > Shared Experiences and toggle the switch to enable or disable it. Note that you can also choose to share or receive data from only your devices or any device nearby from here. Since this is a relatively new feature, few apps take advantage of it as developers haven’t implemented it yet. However, depending on the app, you can use it to remote control applications, share web links, or send messages between Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, Xbox, iOS, and Android....

Using your browser, you have to tell Twitter to stop tracing your surfing. Luckily, it’s not that hard. Below are a few examples of where to find the DNT settings in major web browsers. These implementations are evolving, and you should check the help pages of your browser for more details. If you are using Firefox. Open the Preferences menu and click Privacy. Check the box for Tell web sites I do not want to be tracked....

Windows 10 Power Options By default, when you open the Start menu in Windows 10 and select the Power button, no Hibernate mode is listed. Alternately, you can right-click the Start button or use the Windows key + X keyboard shortcut to bring up the “power user menu” and go to Shutdown or sign out. Even there, you will not find a Hibernate option. Enable Hibernate for Windows 10 To enable Hibernate mode in Windows 10, head to Settings > System > Power & sleep....

Recently someone on the groovy team ran into a meltdown of their Android Market app. For some reason the app completely vanished, it wasn’t in the application list, and it wasn’t showing up in the drawer either. Puzzled, we tried a few different things but eventually found a solution. Read on for the fix! Step 1 Install ASTO File Manager* on your phone, the free version works just fine. Since your market is likely broken, below I’ve uploaded a copy of the latest ....