To prevent such social awkwardness, you may want to consider the Chat Undetected extension. Here’s a demo of it in action. Before you install Chat Undetected, your Facebook friends will see when you read their chat messages: But afterwards, you can read their messages and they’ll never know: The thing that I will warn you about the Chat Undetected extension is that, at least for Chrome, you’ll have to install it as an ....

Manage Your Google Location History This feature could be quite useful if you want to retrace your steps, but some people might just find it creepy. However, editing or deleting your location history is easy to do. I’ll guide you through the process below. First of all, let’s take a look at your Google Location History dashboard. Go to this address and click Dashboard on the top left side of the screen....

To enable this feature visit the Gmail in personal search results field trial page. Once there, click the blue “Join the field trial” button that appears. Changes won’t be instant. It could take a few minutes, or a few days. You’ll receive an official email from Google once the change has been applied. From what I’ve heard, the amount of time the activation takes depends on a combination of the size of your Gmail inbox and the number of people who’ve signed up before you that have yet to be activated....

Google has officially opened its social platform Google+ to Google Apps Accounts including Google Apps for business, education, and the free service. Here’s how to activate the service in the Google Apps administrator console. Login to your Google Apps administrator account and visit the control panel. This can be done at: In Google Apps, the control panel clicks the Organization & users tab and then clicks the Services sub-tab. About halfway down the list of services, you’ll find Google+....

Resolve Office AutoUpdate for Mac, not Working To download the latest updates for Office 2016, I needed to have AutoUpdate version 3.4 installed. Unfortunately, checking for Updates from the Help menu was not working. I even tried to download the update manually, but Microsoft’s Support page behaved unresponsive, even in alternative web browsers. It turns out the culprit was the DNS server Microsoft uses to connect to the public Internet. Either it’s a compatibility issue with OS XYosemite’s version, or Microsoft is not aware of the problem yet....

First introduced on the iPhone 4S a decade ago, Touch ID is an authentication tool found on all modern iPhones, select iPads, and Macs, including the 2021 iMac. The tool has various features, including the ability to unlock your device, use Apple Pay, log into third-party apps, and make purchases on the different Apple online stores. Touch ID Issues: Basic Troubleshooting Once you set up Touch ID on your Mac, you might never run into any problems....

Importing Snagit Quick Styles Now that we know how to export files, placing them into your installation of Snagit is relatively similar. However, there are two options: 1. Completely overwrite any existing styles, or 2. merge existing styles. We’ll cover both below. Important! : Before we get started, you must exit all Snagit applications. Completely shut down Snagit, this includes closing the editor and the program that docks in the system tray....

Your computer runs sluggish when opening multiple windows. (This is especially true for laptops.) You run hardware-intensive applications (i.e. games/3d design) and want to get the most out of your system. You simply don’t like the fancy themes look. Solution: The fix is a simple process and will increase overall performance for Windows XP and Vista. For Windows XP: 1. Click Start at the bottom left-hand side of the desktop....

If you need to use a select group of apps, maybe an in-house line of the business app (LOB) or light productivity applications such as Microsoft Office or Adobe Photoshop, you can get away with using a Virtual Machine (VM). One leading solution in this category is VMware Fusion, which was among the first vendors to bring Windows virtualization to Intel Macs nearly 10 years ago. I decided on trying out VMware Fusion, because of my great experience with the Windows version....

Access the Office Insider Program on Mac First, you need to be running the Office 2016 for Mac suite. If you have it installed already, launch any of the apps in the suite and click Help > Check for Updates. Check off the Join Office Insider Program on the Microsoft AutoUpdate window and you should be good to go. So far, nothing new is ready yet, but you will be notified as soon as they are....

You’ll need to install App Lock from the Play Store. It’s free. When you first open the app, asks you for a PIN code right away. Enter at least four numbers and tap OK. On the next screen, you’re asked for a security question, answer and hint. Enter a question that you are sure to remember the answer to. This will be asked in case you forget your code....

This week Google Docs introduced Pivot Tables, an Excel feature that has been missing for some time. Pivot tables come in handy when you have a large spreadsheet that you want to summarize. The process works by allowing you to rotate data and view it from multiple angles, and when you look at data from different angles it might open up some opportunity to see patterns that weren’t so obvious before....

It’s easy to change the default email. Then when you click on email links you’ll get sent straight to Gmail, Yahoo or your email client of choice. From the Firefox Menu go to Options. Now go to the Applications tab, and scroll until you get to mailto (or, alternately, you can use the search box on top). From the dropdown select Use Gmail, Use Yahoo! Mail or select Use Other....

While it is chock full of excellent system info, it opens to the Processes tab by default. That’s good if you are looking for an app or service to kill because it’s spiking your CPU and eating RAM. But you might be interested in a different tab such as Performance and want to make it the default. Starting with Windows 10 version 1903, you can set it to do just that....

How to Play Apple Music on Fire TV There is no app to download to your Fire TV; instead, you need to link your accounts. If you have already linked your Apple Music account with Alexa, things should work without having to do anything. But if you haven’t linked things up yet, here is how to get started. Open the Alexa app on your phone or tablet or head to alexa....

Note: For this to work, you need to be logging into Windows 10 using your Microsoft account and not creating a local account. Reinstall Windows 10 Apps Launch the Microsoft Store app and click the “See more” (three dots) button next to your profile avatar in the upper-righthand corner. Then from the menu, click on My Library. When your library opens up, you should see all the owned apps and other items you have downloaded over the years on other Windows 10 systems....

Now, did you know that when you installed SP1, Windows created what Microsoft calls Service Pack Backup Files on your hard drive, which roughly takes up about 500MB of data? The files are used if you ever want to uninstall Service Pack 1; however, if you never plan to do that (why would you want to?), that’s 500MB of dead/wasted space on your drive. Today I’ll show you how to free up that space and reclaim 500 megs on your drive....

Today people store everything on their smartphones. Bank Account information, email, contacts, notes, personal pictures… everything! Losing your smartphone is a nightmare in itself, after all they don’t come cheap. But an even worse problem lies in someone finding your phone and stealing not only it, but the contents too. Don’t wait until it’s too late, this guide will show you how to set up your Android phone so that if it is stolen you can keep your data safe....

Note: This article has been updated to reflect the changes in the Google Play Store. If your list looks like the one in the image below and you’re not using all of those devices, you’ll want to shed the old ones. The process is easy. And even though you can’t remove a device altogether, you can at least remove it from the Play Store list. Remove Android Devices from Google Play Store List Log in to the Google Play Store and click Settings (gear icon) on the top right side of the page, or click this link to get where you need to be easily....

The “open with” menu in Windows 7 displays an auto-generated list of recommended applications for opening files; some of them are good. The problem is that some of the recommendations would make absolutely terrible choices for opening up the file! For instance take the example below; I’m sure I will NEVER use visual studio or the VAIO Control Center to open up a simple txt file, but that is what Windows suggests....