The new local tab shows up on the left-side of the Google+ interface. Google+ will automatically bring up local recommendations based on your geo-location determined area. For the most part, only Zagat rated shops will show up. But, if someone from your friends list has written a review it will show up there as well. If you aren’t familiar with Zagat ratings, they work on a scale from 0 to 30....

If you need to present your detailed spreadsheet data in a user-friendly way, create a Pivot Table. It’s not as hard as you think. Hammad Saleem shows you how. We had another great show this week on Attack of the Androids (AotA). The AotA crew discusses the Android news of the week. Attack of the Androids appears weekly here on groovyPost. We’re also in iTunes you can subscribe here. Speaking of Android, here’s a great tip for Kindle Fire owners....

Access Windows 8 Help and Support From the Windows 8 Start screen type: winhlp32.exe and hit Enter. Or from the desktop, use the keyboard shortcut Windows Key + R and type: winhlp32.exe in the Run line and hit Enter. Windows Help and Support opens on the desktop. Type in the search term of what you’re looking for. Just like doing a search in Google or Bing, you’ll see the results below the search box....

Export Google Calendar(s) The first thing you’ll need to do is log in to your Google account and export the calendar(s) you want to display in the Windows Calendar app. Click the dropdown arrow next to My Calendars and then Settings. On the next page click the Export Calendars link. You calendars will be downloaded in .ICS format in a zip file, extract the .ICS file to a convenient location on your computer....

If you’re working on long documents, then you’ll probably want to number your pages to keep them in order. The good news is that this is quite simple to do in Google Docs, although you may need to tweak things a little to get the page numbers exactly where you want them. If you want to add page numbers to a Google Docs document, here’s what you’ll need to do....

The Windows 7 taskbar combines the functionality of the Quick Launch bar with that of regular taskbar tab buttons. Coupled with the new Windows Search or even RocketDock (MrGroove’s favorite tool), most users are MORE THAN HAPPY. I’m not most people, however, as I still miss the Quick Launch bar. Why? With the old Quick Launch Bar if you wanted to open a new instance of a program all you needed to do was click the appropriate Quick Launch icon once....

As with any email account, there are some emails that you’d rather not receive in the first place. Thankfully, it’s simple to block any accounts you want to in Gmail. Blocking a user doesn’t mean you won’t receive their email, but it will send their emails straight to your spam folder so that you don’t have to see it unless you want to. If you want to block someone in Gmail, here’s what you’ll need to do....

Play DVDs on Windows 10 for Free If you want to play a DVD or Blu-ray on your Windows 10 PC, you have several options. If fact, we took a look at six different programs for playing DVDs on Windows 8. All of those options will work with Windows 10, sans Windows Media Center, which Microsoft has completely killed off. Our best suggestion for playing DVDs (as well as virtually any media file type) is using VLC....

Original Article… Cancel Windows 10 Upgrade Reservation Right-click the Windows 10 upgrade icon on your system tray and select Check your upgrade status. Next, you will see the message about your upgrade reservation being successful. From here, click the hamburger menu in the upper left corner. In the list under Getting the upgrade, click View confirmation. The next screen will tell you that your upgrade is reserved, but click the small Cancel reservation hyperlink to cancel it....

Step 1 Open a Microsoft Word document and then Press Ctrl + D on your keyboard. Step 2 At the top of the Font window that appears you can Select your desired font, size, and style. You can also change up the color and add some effects, though you probably won’t want those to be your default. Once you’ve selected the font you want, Click the Set as Default button located at the bottom-left corner of the window....

Just like with Windows XP and Vista, in Windows 7 you can still change your user account name. However just like old Microsoft likes to do, they’ve changed around the user interface (UI) again and made it a little easier. How To Change Your User Account Name In Windows 7 Click the Windows Start Menu Orb and Type in user accounts then Select the User Accounts link from the list....

If your PC or Mac is ever compromised, the feed from your camera could be recorded and used elsewhere. Rather than risk your privacy, you can completely disable the built-in webcam on Windows and macOS devices. Here’s how. Disabling the Camera on macOS There isn’t a built-in option to disable the camera on your Mac completely, but you can revoke access to it. To do this, click the Launchpad icon on your Mac Dock....

Compressing Images on Microsoft Word for Windows To decrease the size of images in documents on Windows: In the pop-up box, you can choose to change the DPI for an individual image or all images in the document. It’s up to you. Compressing Images on Microsoft Word for Mac Decreasing the size of images in Microsoft Word in Mac requires a slightly different approach. Using the same Word document as before, here’s how to compress images in your document on Mac:...

Touch Bar is a useful feature. Unfortunately, Apple rarely promotes it, suggesting its placement on future MacBook Pro models could be in doubt. Until fairly recently, I rarely used Touch Bar on my MacBook Pro. Then I took the time to customize it to match my needs. Now, I use the Touch Bar every day. Here’s more about Touch Bar and how to customize it. What is the MacBook Pro Touch Bar?...

Creating a drop-down list in Excel is fairly easy. But what if you use Google Sheets instead? To be honest, the process is even easier. In the case of Google Sheets, you can pull in your drop-down list from a range of cells, or you can type in the full list separated by commas. Let’s take a look at the process and how you can customize your drop-down list once you’ve created it....

Windows Tools Folder Create a Shortcut to the Windows Tools Folder on Windows 10 To get started hit the Windows key and click on the Windows Tools icon on the left-hand side. You can find it quicker by opening W directly. Then drag and drop it over to the desktop. That creates the shortcut on the desktop. And you need to double-click on it to open the Windows Tools folder....

ANYWAY, the style was apparently successful enough because with the launch of Office 2010, Microsoft continued down the path of the Ribbon, although adding just a few adjustments. For example, the File button is BACK (thank god) so people shouldn’t be looking for the PRINT button anymore!!! HOORAY!!! For me personally, I like the Ribbon. It allows you to quickly navigate through various commands in Office and everything is just more logical....

Still, Telegram and Signal have been getting the most traction since the new WhatsApp privacy policies were announced. You might have tried out Telegram but decided it isn’t right for you. And you might be wondering how to delete your account. You can’t do it directly from the app on your phone. You need the app and the Telegram website. So, don’t delete your app just yet. Note: When you delete your account, you will lose all chat messages, groups, channels, secret chats, photos, and more....

Turns out, Google Apps for business (perhaps edu version as well???) by default comes with ads enabled in the Gmail web client. Fortunately, disabling the ads is simple once you know where to look in the Google Apps Admin console so if you’re like me and don’t feel like giving Google free cash, follow the groovyPost step-by-step below. Step 1 Login to Google Apps for Business (or education) and click Domain Settings...

Many users embraced the software as a service model promoted by Microsoft during its early launch, expecting new versions of the OS to be smooth sailing. It has turned out to be quite the opposite in many cases. Which brings us to the subject at hand—how do you obtain older releases of Windows 10 that do support your hardware and applications? It turns out, your options might be limited, but let’s investigate....