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Use Less Data By lowering the amount of data you use, you could reduce a big chunk of your bill. Track your data usage: In addition to looking at your monthly bill for overall usage, track your data usage with a third-party app, or, if you use an Android device, built-in functionality. Check to see which apps are data hogs, and which use data in the background. Whenever possible, connect to Wi-Fi: When you’re at home, work, or anywhere else with a trusted connection, use Wi-Fi....

Send a File Attachment With Outlook.com The size limit for attached files in Outlook.com is 20 MB. However, you can bypass that limit by sharing files as a OneDrive, Dropbox, or Google Drive attachment. Files from these cloud sharing services appear as a link in the message. Sharing files from a cloud service doesn’t use up your email storage and doesn’t take time to download these attachments in Outlook. Identify Yourself and Alert Your Recipient About the File Attachment Let your recipient know that you’re sending an email with an attachment so they don’t assume that it is a spam email....

How to Send a Lot of Emails to Spam: Yahoo Mail Manually mark any spam that makes it to your inbox. This moves the email to a separate folder and gives Yahoo’s filtering system information it can use for future emails. If the email is particularly spammy or you manually marked it as spam in the past but are still receiving it, open the email, select Spam in the row of action icons above the email field, then select Report Spam....

How to Add Music to an iPhone Alarm Setting an alarm with music is done differently than setting ringtones on an iPhone. To make a music alarm, select the Clock app. Set Up the Timer to Stop Music The Clock app has a Stop Playing feature that automatically turns off any music, video clip, TV show, etc., that’s playing on your iPhone. Start the Stop Playing timer, then turn on your music and doze off to your favorite tunes, confident that your iPhone will turn off the music when you want it to....

How to Set Up Your iPad Passcode To make a new passcode for your iPad: How to Set Up or Add a Fingerprint to Touch ID For extra security, set up Touch ID, which uses a fingerprint you save to the iPad to unlock the device and perform other actions. Here’s how to set it up or add a new fingerprint. Custom Alphanumeric Code brings up the iPad keyboard and lets you create a passcode with both numbers and letters....

Set One or More Excel Print Areas How to Add Cells to an Excel Print Area Once you’ve set a print area, you can add adjacent cells to it, if you made a mistake the first time or input additional data. How to Clear a Print Area in Excel You can also change print areas that you no longer need or created by mistake. View Your Excel Print Areas You can see your print areas and preview them before printing your spreadsheet....

How Do You Set Up a Digital Antenna? Setting up a digital antenna is a straightforward process if you have digital television. Digital antennas connect using the same type of coaxial connector that was analog antennas previously used. You will probably find the setup process quite familiar if you ever set up an analog TV antenna. Here’s how to set up a digital antenna: How Do I Get a Digital Antenna Signal?...

How to Enable Canned Responses in Gmail Before you can start using templates, enable them in Gmail, which you can do by using the Canned Response feature. How to Save a Message as a Gmail Template While Gmail provides some pre-made templates, you can create and customize your own as well. Here’s how to save an email for future use as a template in Gmail. How to Create a New Message or Reply Using a Gmail Template Once you create your template, here’s how to use it as a canned response or reply in Gmail....

What Is Screen Time? Screen Time is a feature of the iOS that lets you track how much time you use your devices, schedule time away from those devices, and set limits on the use of certain apps or groups of apps. It lets you do all of this for your kids’ devices, too. Screen Time is similar to Do Not Disturb. Not Disturb prevents people from calling or texting you during certain periods of time, including while driving....

How Do I Access Google Family Bell? Google Family Bell is available through the Google Assistant settings menu on your Android device. What Can You Do With a Family Bell? Family Bell allows you to create repeating alerts to help you and your family members remember various tasks and events. You can create a Family Bell for any event you like, set any time for the announcement to occur, and have it repeat on the specific days of the week that you want....

Set up Guides To set up guides for an InDesign document, you must be in Normal View Mode, which you set at View > Screen Mode > Normal. If the rulers aren’t turned on across the top and left side of the document, turn them on using View > Show Rulers. If you are working in layers, select a specific layer name in the Layers panel to place a guide only on that layer....

How to Set Up PPPoE Internet Access How PPPoE Works PPPoE internet providers assign each of their subscribers a unique PPPoE username and password. Providers use this network protocol to manage IP address allocations and track each customer’s data usage. The protocol works on either a broadband router or a broadband modem. The home network initiates an internet connection request, sends PPPoE usernames and passwords to the provider, and receives a public IP address in return....

How Do I Share My Wi-Fi Password From My Phone to My Mac? It’s simple to share your Wi-Fi password from your iPhone or iPad, providing you know where to look. Here’s what to do. Can I Share a Wi-Fi Password to My Computer? If you have an iPhone or iPad, you can share a Wi-Fi password with your Mac by following the steps above. Unfortunately, it’s not possible to share your password if you have an Android tablet or phone or use a Windows-based computer....

Split Your Screen in Windows 11 and 10 With Snap Windows There are several ways to split a screen in Windows 11 and 10, but the easiest is with Snap Windows (known as Snap Assist in Windows 10). Snap Windows lets you drag a window to a corner or side of the screen to “snap” it there, which in turn makes room for other windows to be snapped in the resulting empty screen space....

How to Stop iPhone App Crashes To fix iPhone app crashes, try these six tips, in this order. Quit and Relaunch the iPhone App The first and simplest step is to stop iPhone app crashes is to force the app to quit and then restarting it. Force quitting apps stops all of the app’s processes and starts them fresh (but it doesn’t save battery life!). If the app crash was caused by some feature going slightly wrong, this solution could fix it....

How to Stop Windows 11 Updates in Progress Windows 11, like prior versions of Windows, will automatically download and install updates. Automatic updates install important security and bug patches, but they can reduce system performance if you’re using the PC while the update is downloading or being installed. Windows 11 will download and begin to install updates as they become available. This happens automatically without prior notification, so you may not notice the update until system performance takes an unexpected turn for the worse....

How to Enable a Complex Passcode on Your iOS Device The iPhone gives you the option of entering a six-digit passcode instead of the familiar four-digit passcode for better protection. You can also enter a custom alphanumeric passcode or a longer custom numeric passcode. To configure a stronger passcode through the Settings app: Considerations For maximum security, in the Face ID & Passcode settings screen, set the Require Password option to Immediately unless you want a longer period of time before it is required....

Subtract Dates With the YEAR Function Subtracting dates with the YEAR function may be helpful if you want to adjust a project’s scheduled date or experiment with how long a single activity would take. In this example, we want to find out the number of years between two dates. Our final formula will look like this: = YEAR ( D1 ) - YEAR ( D2 ) To enter the formula into Excel we can either type it into cell E1 with the two dates to be subtracted in cells D1 and D2, or use the YEAR function dialog box to enter the formula into cell E1....

This article explains how to enable two-factor authentication on your Epic Games account, protecting your Fortnite data and in-app purchases. How to Enable 2FA in Fortnite When you enable two-factor authentication (2FA) on your Epic Games account, you’re also enabling it for Fortnite. While it’s a free game, it has in-game transactions, so when you enable 2FA for Fortnite, you’re protecting your data and those in-game purchases. What is Two Factor Authentication?...

How to Uninstall Bitdefender on Windows Windows has a robust uninstall system and remains the best way to uninstall Bitdefender, whatever version you’re running. How to Uninstall Bitdefender Agent From Windows If you’re happy enough with simply removing the main antivirus program, then you can stop your uninstall process there. However, if you want to remove any trace of Bitdefender from your system, then it’s a good idea to follow these steps to remove the Bitdefender Agent, too....