How to Increase Your Views on TikTok Getting more TikTok views starts with understanding what types of content people love to watch on the platform. When viewing successful videos, look for things like: How it hooks the viewer inWhether the video is funny, entertaining, inspiring, educational, shocking, controversial, etc.Whether the video tells a storyHow short or long the video isThe hashtags in the captionWhether the video includes music or sound effectsWhether the user created the video for a TikTok challenge...

How to Hold the iPad in Portrait Mode Portrait mode, which means holding the iPad with a shorter side on top, works well for browsing the web or checking Facebook. Apple designed the iPad to make websites display better in portrait mode, which is how you typically hold your phone when browsing the web. When you hold it this way, keep the Home Button at the bottom, which puts it below the screen....

How Do You Use the Inspect Element Feature on a Mac? Before inspecting elements on Mac when using Safari, you need to enable the developer menu within the browser. Here’s a look at how to switch it on and what to do to inspect an element. Using the Inspect Element Feature in Safari Here’s how to use Inspect Element in Safari, the default browser on Mac computers. Using the Inspect Element Feature in Chrome on a Mac If you use Chrome instead of Safari on your Mac, it’s even easier to view an element as there’s no need to enable the feature....

How Do I Know if My Mac Microphone Is in Use? In macOS, you can tell if your microphone is currently in use by glancing at the menu bar. The menu bar has a Control Center icon, and you’ll see a yellow dot right next to that icon if your mic is currently in use. This is a useful security feature, because apps aren’t able to take active control of your mic without this dot showing up....

USB, Aux, Bluetooth, Direct Control (The Easiest Option) The easiest way to listen to an iPod, iPhone, or iPad in a car is to use a USB or auxiliary input, Bluetooth connection, or iPod Direct control. But if your car doesn’t have any of those connections, you’ll have to get creative. Depending on the head unit you have, there are three options you can look at to use your iOS device: a car cassette adapter, an FM broadcaster, or an FM modulator....

Resizing is About More Than Just Stretching and Shrinking When working with images on your computer, you’ll sometimes see selectable arrows on the sides and/or corners of the image. You could simply move the arrows as needed to make it just the right size. This is not the best way to resize images, however, since it stretches (or compresses) the image, making it look blurry, out of focus, and pixelated. A better way to resize your image is to use image-editing software, where you can control the image quality better, making the resized image look polished and professional....

How to Make Google Slides Images Transparent Google Slides has its own transparency slider for all images, so if you want to make an image transparent, that’s the best way to do it. How to Make a Shape Transparent in Google Slides Changing the opacity of shapes on Google Slides is a little different, but the process is still quick and easy. Insert the shape you want to change to transparent if you haven’t already, then follow these steps:...

How to Make a Brick in Minecraft Follow these steps to craft Bricks in Minecraft: What You Need to Make Bricks Here’s everything you need to craft Bricks in Minecraft: How you interact with objects depends on your platform: PC: Right-clickMobile: Single-tapXbox: Press LTPlayStation: Press L2Nintendo: Press ZL PickaxeClayCrafting Table (craft with 4 Wood Planks)Furnace (craft with 8 Cobblestones or Blackstones)Fuel source (Coal, Wood, etc.) What You Can Do With Bricks To build something, you must combine 4 Bricks to make a Brick Block....

Turn Wired Speakers Into Bluetooth Speakers Send music wirelessly to your wired speakers with the addition of Bluetooth adapters combined with an amplifier. If you have an Android or iPhone, use it to send music to a Bluetooth receiver connected to a traditional amplifier, stereo, or home theater receiver, which, in turn, connects to your wired speakers.Plug a TV, CD/DVD/Blu-ray player, audio cassette deck, or VCR to a Bluetooth transmitter which sends the audio signal to a Bluetooth receiver that, in turn, connects to an amplifier and your wired speakers....

Since this method requires selecting all songs at once, it’s only effective on the Spotify desktop app for Windows and Mac. It’s technically still possible on the mobile app for Android, iOS, and iPad, but it’s a tedious process since you can only move one song over at a time on these devices. How to Combine Playlists on Spotify Mobile There are two main ways to combine playlists using Spotify’s mobile apps on iOS and Android....

How to Message Someone on TikTok To send a DM, visit a user’s profile and tap Message. It works like that on the desktop site and in the mobile app. Below are alternative directions that work a little differently between the app and the website. Direct Messaging in the App You can access messages and send a new one from the Inbox tab at the bottom of the app. Direct Messaging From a Computer If you’re using TikTok without the app, you can still send a friend a text message from the Messages page of the website....

Open an Email in Its Own Gmail Window To open a Gmail message in a separate browser window, hold down the Shift key while selecting the message. You can arrange the windows and view them simultaneously. If you’re using Conversation View, you’ll see the entire conversation in the new window. If you only want to see one message and not an entire conversation, use the instructions below for disabling Conversation View or using Print View....

How to Open Disk Management in Windows The most common, and operating system independent, way to open Disk Management is through the Computer Management utility, described below. You can now partition a hard drive, format a hard drive, change a drive’s letter, or do whatever else you need to do in Windows’ disk manager tool. These hard drive tasks can also be accomplished with most free disk partitioning software tools. In most versions of Windows, Control Panel is most easily available from its shortcut on the Start menu or Apps screen....

On the Home Screen Simply find Settings on your iPad’s home screen and tap its icon to open. Use Siri Hold the Home button to activate Siri. Once the voice assistant activates, say, “Launch Settings.” Opening apps by name is one of many productive features Siri offers. Use Spotlight Search If the Settings app isn’t on the Home screen, use Spotlight Search to open Settings or other apps. What Can You Do in Settings?...

What Is WhatsApp? WhatsApp is a messaging app that uses secure encryption to keep your chats and phone calls private. WhatsApp works on Android, iOS, and you can even use WhatsApp on your computer. What Happens When You Delete WhatsApp? Before you delete your WhatsApp account, please note that deleting your WhatsApp account will do the following: Delete your account from WhatsApp.Erase your message history.Delete you from all of your WhatsApp groups....

Download Xbox 360 Games From the Microsoft Store There are a limited number of titles available to gamers through the Microsoft Store. While the number of Xbox One games far outweigh the number of Xbox 360 games, you’ll still find a selection of titles to play. To search for these games, you’ll first want to open the Microsoft Store. Play Xbox 360 Games on PC Using an Emulator If you can’t find the game you want on the Microsoft Store, you can install an emulator to run Xbox 360 games on your PC....

Update Your OS and Your Browser Software Malicious software usually makes it onto your computer in one of two ways: Either a hacker tricks you into installing it via an email or a malicious link, or it’s bundled with some legitimate software by a software developer who uses it as an additional source of revenue. If you’ve ever had your web browser hijacked, then you know what a pain it can be to deal with the aftermath of removing the browser hijacking software and resetting your browser so that it doesn’t go back to the sites that the hijacking software pointed to....

Whatever the reason may be for you, the following methods will help you learn how to print text messages from Android or iPhone. Some require a computer (PC/Mac), while others can be done directly from your phone. And, as you’ll see below, there’s no easy way to print text messages, probably because they were never intended to be printed. So, in order to print text messages, you have to mostly rely on screenshots so that you can easily see who said what and in what order....

Within those 30 days, you can reactivate your account by going to Snapchat on the web and signing in with your username and password. Reactivate Snapchat Using the Mobile App Follow these instructions to reactivate your Snapchat account from the Snapchat app on your iOS or Android device. Waiting for Your Snapchat Account to Be Reactivated According to Snapchat, it can take up to 24 hours for an account to reactivate....

Pick a Game to Record Your first step in making a Let’s Play video is an obvious one: picking the right game to record. If you’re making your game video for fun and to share with a few others, you’re probably going to choose your favorite games. However, if you plan to monetize your videos, you want to think about which games will attract attention and draw an audience. The games you record yourself playing should be visually interesting in some way—even if it’s for how terrible the graphics are, for example....