What Is a Twitter Reply? A Twitter Reply is a tweet sent in direct response to another tweet. It’s not the same as sending someone a tweet. Here’s how to reply to a Tweet: Who Sees Each Twitter @ Reply? Not everyone will see the @ Reply message you sent, perhaps not even the person to whom you sent it. The person you’re replying to must follow you before your reply shows in their homepage tweet timeline....

How to Rotate a Text Box in Word Text boxes make it easy to change the direction of text in word. All you do is create the text box, add some text, and decide how to rotate the text box. To create a text box, select Insert > Text Box and choose one of the built-in designs. To add text, select the text box and begin typing. To rotate the text with the rotation handle, select the text box and drag the rotation handle to the right or to the left....

How to Set Up Nintendo Switch Parental Controls To set up parental controls, you need to get to a certain menu within the system settings. However, once you reach that part, things change depending on whether you’re using your smartphone and the accompanying Nintendo app, or you want to set up parental controls solely via the games console. Here’s how to get that far. How to Set Up the Nintendo Switch Parental Controls Using the App Downloading the Nintendo Switch Parental Controls app takes a few moments, but it’s worth doing as you benefit from more features....

How Do I Share My Favorites on Spotify? Sharing liked songs on Spotify isn’t like sharing a playlist because it’s individual tracks rather than a playlist you have created. It’s almost as simple to share your favorites through this method though. Here’s how to share liked songs on Spotify with your friends. How Do You Copy All Liked Songs on Spotify? If you want to copy all your liked songs on Spotify and move them to a different playlist, the process is quite similar....

How Do I Stop Google Play Services From Draining My Battery? Google Play Services doesn’t use your battery directly. Now, if you track your battery usage, you’ve likely noticed Google Play Services seems always to be using your battery. What’s happening is Google Play Services needs power because the other apps on your phone are using it. The way to lower the overall battery drain is to limit what your apps can do, especially with location services and background operations....

How to Switch Phone Carriers These instructions assume you’re transferring your current phone number to your new carrier and that you’ve already considered the major factors listed at the bottom of this article and taken the necessary steps to unlock your phone if it was previously locked by your current carrier. What to Consider Before Switching Carriers Before you start the process of switching mobile phone carriers, there are a few essential things you need to check first....

Look for a Friend’s Posts in Your Facebook Feed Many people first begin to suspect they’ve been blocked by a friend on Facebook when they realize that they haven’t seen their posts in their feed for a while. It’s important not to jump to conclusions when this happens, as posts can often be hidden from you by Facebook’s algorithm, which is notorious for showing you content from some accounts over others....

Save Activation Status Information in Windows XP Follow the steps below to save the activation status information in Windows XP and restore it once you rebuild your system. Windows XP is now reinstalled on your reformatted hard drive. Reactivating Your Microsoft Product Users who reformat their hard drives and perform a clean operating system installation must reactivate the product. But, as long as the new installation is on the same system and there won’t be any hardware changes, it is possible to transfer the existing product activation and skip going through the product activation process again....

How Do I Turn Off the Vibrating Keyboard on iPhone and iPad? The default iOS keyboard pre-installed on Apple’s iPhones and iPads doesn’t actually have a haptic feedback feature so, if your keyboard is vibrating, it’s likely you or someone else has installed a third-party keyboard app. To remove the vibration, open the settings in the app and look for a setting like Haptic Feedback or Vibration. Then, switch it off....

How to Stop Quick Notes From Popping up on Your Mac If you’re running macOS Monterey or later, Quick Notes will be tied to your bottom-right hot corner. When you move your cursor into this corner of your screen, a small white box will appear, allowing you to create a Quick Note. The only way to prevent this from happening is to disable Quick Note as a hot corner in System Preferences....

How to Get Out of Safe Mode Turning safe mode off on your Samsung phone is a fairly straightforward process. What Is Safe Mode and Why Is It Used? Like most operating systems, Android launches several apps as part of its boot process. These third-party offerings can include commonly-used features like displaying your personal calendar or unread email messages. If you’re experiencing significant slowness or other problems while starting up your phone, one or more of these apps could be the culprit....

How to Turn on a Laptop Using the Internet In modern computers, Wake-on-LAN is a fairly common feature. This technology enables you to shut off your computer and use the internet to signal to your powered-off computer that it’s time to turn on again. Depending on your setup, enabling Wake-on-LAN will take different steps, but you can turn it on whether you’ve got a Mac or a Windows PC. Once it’s set up, you’ll have your choice of third-party applications to use to send the signal to turn your computer on....

How to Unlock a Disabled iPad If you enter the wrong passcode when trying to unlock your iPad too many times in a row, your iPad may become disabled. Sometimes, the screen will show that your iPad is disabled. In other cases, it may ask you to try again in five minutes or tell you that your iPad is disabled for many days or years (that’s not true; it just means that you should wait a minute) or to connect to your computer....

There are two major categories of apps installed in Windows 11: Microsoft Store apps and third-party apps. We’ll go over how to update both below. How to Update Apps on Windows 11 There are two ways to update apps installed through the Microsoft Store: manually and automatically. Manual App Updates Update an app manually if you know a newer version is available but Windows hasn’t given it to you yet....

Automatic Updates for Google Chrome on Mac or PC By default, Google Chrome on Mac and PC updates automatically. The web browser is continually checking for the latest version to download. Typically, you only have to restart Chrome to install the update. The More icon in the upper right corner (the three dots) will say Update and then when you press it, it turns into a colored arrow when there’s a pending update and you haven’t closed your browser window in a while....

Many of the best antivirus software packages have auto-update features, so updated files and patches are downloaded to your computer when available. Here’s a look at the auto-update features in the top antivirus programs so you can make sure your computer is continuously protected. AVG Antivirus AVG offers a free product, AVG AntiVirus Free, and a paid product with broader protection, AVG Internet Security. With both versions, automatic updates should be enabled by default, but it’s important to make sure....

Gather the Right Hardware Before you begin, gather the following tools: A new SSD A T6 Torx screwdriver Philips #00 screwdriver SATA to USB cable Spudger tool Format Your SSD Before you can do anything with your new SSD, you need to format it. Clone Your Hard Drive With Cloning Software As outlined below, after formatting your SSD, clone your Mac hard drive using Disk Utility or cloning software such as SuperDuper....

Some important issues to think about before you buy an electric car heater are whether to use a 120-volt or 12-volt heater, whether it’s safe to use a portable car heater in your vehicle, and how much wattage you need to warm up your vehicle. The major pitfalls may include power supply bottlenecks, fire hazards, and heat loss. Residential Space Heaters vs. 12-Volt Electric Car Heaters Residential space heaters are designed to run on AC power....

What is AVERAGEIF? The AVERAGEIF function combines the IF function and AVERAGE function in Excel; this combination allows you to find the average or arithmetic mean of those values in a selected range of data that meets specific criteria. The IF portion of the function determines what data meets the specified criteria, while the AVERAGE part calculates the average or mean. Often, AVERAGEIF uses rows of data called records, in which all of the data in each row is related....

How to Customize Control Center in iOS 16 Originally added in iOS 11, Control Center customization is still available in iOS 16 but the process is a little bit different in the newer operating system. How to Customize Control Center in iOS 11​​​ and Later Apple delivered a great update to Control Center with iOS 11: The ability to customize it. Now, instead of being limited to one set of controls, you can add the ones you find useful and remove the ones you never use (from within a certain set)....