In this guide we will walk you through the simple steps to cast your Android device’s display onto your TV’s, allowing you to stream movies, shows, music, and other content. How to Cast Android to a TV Using Chromecast The most common method of casting Android to a TV is with Chromecast. A Chromecast is an inexpensive device that serves as a “bridge” between your Android phone and TV. There are also TVs (including select Android TVs and Vizio SmartCast TVs) that have the Chromecast system built-in....

How to Rename Your Apple Watch The Apple Watch uses your name and the model in the device name. That’s great if there’s only one person in your family with your name or if you only have one of each product. But if those two conditions don’t apply, then what? Here’s how to change your Apple Watch’s name to whatever works in your world using your iPhone. Once you’ve updated your Apple Watch name, you can change it again at any time....

How to Change The Size of Desktop Icons In Windows 11 The simplest way to change desktop icon sizes in Windows 11 is using its bespoke context menu. How to Change the Size of Desktop Icons In Windows 11 Using Keyboard Shortcuts You can skip over accessing the desktop context menu on Windows 11 and use shortcuts to change desktop icon size instead. Hold the Control and Shift keys on your keyboard, and then press either 1, 2, 3, or 4....

How to Change Car on Google Maps Changing the Google Maps vehicle icon may seem like a clever hack at first, but it’s extremely easy to pull off. Here’s what you do: In other words, changing your car on Google Maps involves nothing more than starting navigation and tapping on your vehicle icon before you set off to drive (or while you drive, if you have a passenger to help you)....

Use a Portable Charger A portable charger is a charger that you take with you. Charge it at the airport before the flight or at home before you leave. Most portable chargers provide enough power to run devices a few times. For a tablet, phone, e-book reader, or another device that charges over USB, a USB battery is all you need. Some have multiple USB ports to charge more than one device at the same time....

How Do I Check My Wi-Fi Router History? Checking your router’s history is a relatively simple process, but it changes slightly depending on the brand of router you own. The general steps are similar, but your router’s interface may look different from the screenshots. Can You Check Wi-Fi History? Some routers allow you to view more of your Wi-Fi history, such as what’s known as an outgoing log table. You can see some website IP addresses of where you or someone on your network has browsed....

Why Change a Turntable Cartridge or Stylus? Turntable cartridges—the stylus, also known as a needle, in particular—wear down through use. Eventually, these parts must be replaced to maintain top sonic performance, especially if you have one of the best turntables available. Periodically changing the stylus will also help preserve the integrity of your growing collection of vinyl records, which can become scratched or damaged from needles played out past the recommended lifespan....

Choose Graphic Design Software Based on Task It’s almost impossible to name the “best” graphic design software, but among the high-end professional applications, Adobe InDesign is the most prolific page layout program, and it continues to improve with each new version. Along with its partners, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, this Creative Cloud trio is arguably the best graphic design software on the market today. Publishers of Graphic Design Software There are five major publishers of graphic design software:...

Preparing to Connect Bluetooth to iPhone Place your iPhone and Bluetooth device near each other. Bluetooth’s range is a few dozen feet, so devices that are too far apart can’t connect. The technology’s theoretical limit is 33 feet, but the closer the two devices are, the better. As a security precaution, both devices must be in a “discovery” mode, although the name for that mode varies by manufacturer and the procedure for activating it isn’t uniform....

How Do I Connect My Roku to Wi-Fi Without a Remote? Roku has an app on both the iOS App Store and Android Google Play that allows you to use your smartphone as a remote. This way, you can still use your Roku device to connect to Wi-Fi. How Do I Find My Roku IP Address Without Wi-Fi or a Remote? First, you should know if your Roku isn’t connected to a Wi-Fi network, it won’t have an IP address....

How to Connect Sonos Beam to a TV Usually, Sonos products are set up through the app to enable wireless communication, but with the Sonos Beam TV speaker, there is a more traditional setup: cables you’ll need to connect from your Beam to your TV to get it up and running. Connecting Sonos Beam to TV Tips If you’re looking for an HDMI-ARC connection, it will be labeled on your television as HDMI-ARC on or around the HDMI port itself....

How to Connect an Xbox Series X or S Controller to PC With USB If you’re most comfortable with a wired connection, here’s how to use your controller with your computer via USB: How to Connect an Xbox Series X or S controller to PC With Bluetooth If you prefer a wireless connection, that’s also an option. You’ll need to make sure that your computer supports Bluetooth, and add a Bluetooth card or dongle if it doesn’t....

How to Control F on Android Android lacks a universal Control+F shortcut to find text so there’s no single, standardized way to find text that works in all Android apps. Most apps, however, do have a way to find text and we’ll explain the most common and give you tips on finding the feature in the app you are using. How to Control F in Chrome on Android Here’s how to Control+F in Chrome on Android....

Convert Word to JPG Using Paste Special Word’s Paste Special option copies the contents of a document and then pastes it as an image. Convert a Doc to JPG Using the Windows Snipping Tool If the Word file you want to convert to an image occupies less than one full page, use the Windows Snipping Tool to create a JPG file from it. Save a Word Doc as JPEG Using Microsoft Paint Paste contents of a Word document in Paint to save it in a different way....

How to Copy CD to iPod or iPhone Using iTunes To begin the process, you’ll want to make sure that you’re importing the songs from the CD in the format you prefer. The two most common music formats for use with iOS devices are MP3 and AAC. With this done, you’ll want to confirm that the songs have imported properly. Browse through your iTunes library in your preferred way to where the files should be....

How to Create a Simple Poll in Slack Using Emoji One way to do a poll is to install a poll app from the Slack App Directory like Simple Poll, Polly, or Poll Champ. However, your Slack administrators may not have given you permission to install them. If that’s the case, there’s a simple workaround; no installations are necessary. You can create a poll using emojis. Here’s how. That’s all you need to do to set up your poll using emojis....

How to Create a ZIP File in Windows There are several ways to create a ZIP file. Here’s one easy approach for creating a ZIP file in Windows. How to Create a ZIP File on a Mac Macs include a built-in ability for compressing and unzipping files. How to Email a ZIP File Just as every OS has its own method of creating ZIP files, each email client has its own method for sending them....

Defining and Managing Names with the Name Box One way, and possibly the easiest way, of defining names is using the Name Box, located above column A in the worksheet. You can use this method to create unique names that are recognized by every sheet in a workbook. To create a name using the Name Box as shown in the image above: Naming Rules and Restrictions Syntax rules to remember when creating or editing names for ranges are as follows:...

Select your user account icon in the top right corner of the screen and then select Settings from the drop-down menu. I want to hide my contentI want to permanently delete my content You can choose to simply hide all of your channel content like videos and playlists, however, your channel page, name, art and icon, likes, and subscriptions will remain unhidden. If you’d prefer to go with this option, select I want to hide my content, check the boxes to confirm you understand, and then select the blue Hide My Content button....

How to Delete Voicemail on iPhone How to Delete Multiple Voicemails At Once on iPhone To delete more than one voicemail, or all of your voicemails, at the same time on your iPhone, follow these steps: When Deleted iPhone Voicemails Aren’t Really Deleted Even if you delete voicemails from your inbox, the voicemails you think are deleted may not be totally gone. That’s because iPhone voicemails aren’t deleted until they’re also cleared....