How to Disable a Laptop Keyboard The easiest way to disable your keyboard is by locking your computer or putting it in sleep mode. On Windows machines, there are several ways to do this. Win+LCTRL+ALT+DeleteStart buttonClose the lidUse a screen saver The easiest method is the Win+L keyboard shortcut. Any typing that happens after you use this shortcut only serves to wake up the screen. The next easiest is pressing CTRL+ALT+Delete....

Consider the Effect of Room Size on Sound Quality Bluetooth speakers are portable devices. That small size gives them lesser powers of amplification than their bigger cousins. Sound is a form of energy, and it follows the inverse square law, which states the intensity of sound decreases by approximately six decibels for each doubling of distance from the sound source. The effect is the opposite when you bring the source of sound closer....

Creating a New Playlist To create a new playlist in Windows Media Player 11 (The process is very similar in WMP 12 or newer): You will see a new playlist with the name you just typed in. Populating a Playlist To populate your new playlist with tracks from your music library, drag and drop tracks from your library to the newly created playlist displayed in the left pane. Again, you may need to select the plus (+) icon icon next to the Library menu item to see the suboptions....

Microsoft is phasing out Skype for Business; new subscribers can sign up for Microsoft Teams Meeting. Current subscribers can use Skype for Business for the time being. How Do You Make Someone a Presenter in Skype? A presenter is the focal point of a Skype meeting. We’ll illustrate how to make someone a presenter during the Skype meeting in these steps. How Do I Change the Presenters on a Skype Meeting?...

Check the File Compression Over time, headphones can lose their oomph. Yet sometimes you just want to turn up the music. Here’s how to bring back the music. The key to solving these issues is to understand the “chain” between you and your preferred listening material. First, you have the music itself, then the playback device, then your headphones. Each of these can add or subtract to the volume of what you’re listening to, using both hardware and software....

How to Disable All Notifications in Microsoft Edge By default, Edge will ask you whenever a site requests permission to send notifications. This setting allows you to have complete control over which sites get notification permission. If you prefer not to see these requests and block all notification requests by default, you can disable all Edge notifications. How to Block or Allow Specific Sites From Sending Notifications If you want to block a few specific sites or allow a few, Edge makes it easy....

How to Manage Push Notifications on iPhone Push notifications are enabled by default as part of the iOS. Choose which apps you want to get notifications from and what type of alerts they send. Manage AMBER and Emergency Alert Notifications on iPhone At the bottom of the Notifications screen, there are several toggle switches that control alert preferences: Always: Receive alerts when the phone is locked or unlocked.When Unlocked: Alerts don’t appear on the Lock Screen....

There are several aspects to managing favorites. You can create one and edit an existing one, as well as organize favorites into familiar categories, export them so that you can access the favorites on a new computer, delete them, and more. How to Create Favorites in Internet Explorer Building a catalog of your favorite sites is the foundation of any bookmarking tool, including your browser’s. Adding IE favorites is easy to do and will become even easier once you get used to it....

Use Asterisks to Make Your Words Stand Out The best boldface alternative for plain text is to use asterisks. Surround the text you want to emphasize with asterisks to make them stand out from the rest of the words. Example include: I will not go with you after what you said to me!My leg hurts so incredibly bad.You won’t believe it: I got fired today… This approach is effective only if you limit the bold lettering trick to a small group of words....

What You Need to Save Data to an SD Card on Android Starting with Android 4.0 (released in 2011), you can save your Android smartphone or tablet data to an SD card. High-capacity SD cards ranging up to 2 TB aren’t expensive. Double-check the maximum capacity of the MicroSD card that your device supports before you buy one. Aside from clearing storage space, the other benefit of saving files (mainly music, videos, and photos) to an SD card is that you can swap the files to another smartphone or tablet....

Move Columns Using Your Mouse There are several ways to rearrange the columns in an Excel worksheet, but one is easier than all the others. It just takes a highlight and a drag-and-drop motion. Here’s how to move columns in Excel using your mouse. Move a Column in Excel With Cut and Paste The next easiest way to move a column in Excel is to cut and paste the column from the old location to the new....

How Do I Open the Task Manager in Windows 10? From the Start Menu to keyboard shortcuts, there are multiple ways to open Task Manager in Windows 10. Here are the most common ways to do it: Type Ctrl+Alt+DeleteType Ctrl+Alt+EscOpen Power User Menu by typing Windows+XRight-click the TaskbarUse File ExplorerCreate a shortcut How Do I Get to Task Manager on Keyboard? Here are a few keyboard shortcuts to open up Task Manager quickly:...

Head over to the Overclock website and enter your graphics card information with the word overclock into the site’s search engine. Look through forum posts and read how others have successfully overclocked that same card. What you want to look for and write down are: Maximum core clocksMaximum memory clocksSafe maximum temperature (when in doubt, 90 degrees C is good to use)Safe maximum voltage This information will provide a reasonable guideline about how far you can safely overclock your GPU....

The first thing you’ll need to do is make sure your Galaxy Buds 2 are in Bluetooth pairing mode, which allows them to be discovered by other devices, and then synced (connected to). How Do You Put Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 Into Pairing Mode? Pairing mode works differently if you’ve never connected your earbuds to other devices before or if this is your first time using them. You can also connect them manually or by using the Galaxy Wearable or Samsung Galaxy Buds app for your respective mobile device....

Can Google Home Play Audible Books? Google Home devices don’t support Audible books natively, but you can listen to Audible books on a Google Home speaker if you have the Audible app on your phone, tablet, or computer. One method requires the Google Home app you initially used to set up your Google Home device, and the other uses Bluetooth. How to Play Audible Books on Google Home With Bluetooth Your Google Home speaker can work as a wireless Bluetooth speaker, which means you can use it to listen to Audible books by connecting it to any device with the Audible app installed....

How Do I Play Music on My Twitch Stream? There are a lot of ways to play background music on a Twitch stream. If your stream is configured to broadcast the same audio output you hear through your headphones, then you can just load up a YouTube video or a music player like Spotify, play a song, and it will play on your stream. If you’re streaming from a console, then you can do the same thing by launching an app like Spotify on the console, playing a song, and then returning to your game....

There are two ways to reset your Fire TV Cube. If your Fire TV Cube is unresponsive, but your remote works, press and hold the Volume Down and Mute buttons until the light flashes blue. This will reset the Fire TV Cube even if it’s unresponsive. If your Fire TV Cube is responsive, you can initiate a factory reset from the menus: How Do You Reset a Fire TV Cube Without a Remote?...

How to Save a PNG in GIMP The regular file format for images produced in GIMP is XCF, which isn’t suitable for use outside the graphics program. When you’ve finished working on an image in GIMP, you should save it to a standard format such as PNG. To save an XCF file in the PNG format using GIMP: The Export Dialog in GIMP There are several options in the Export dialog that you can select to optimize your images for the web....

How to Turn On Google Chat History Google saves your conversations in Gmail Chats by default. Here’s how to turn this feature on and off for inidivdual conversations. What Happens When I Turn Off Gmail Chat History? If history is disabled, messages may disappear before the intended recipient reads them. Also, if one party disables the history feature, Google won’t save the conversation. However, if a user is accessing the chat through a different client, their client may be able to save the chat history despite disabling the Google Chats history setting....

How to See Your Spotify Stats on PC, Mac, and Web One of Spotify’s best features is its ability to track the music you play over time and provide insight into your habits. This helps you find your favorite tracks and tells you how your tastes change over time. The Spotify app on PC, Mac, and the web interface provides the most details on your recent Spotify habits. You can view your top artists, songs, and a list of your Spotify playlists by following these steps:...