Blocking Software and Apps Plenty of good choices are available if you want to use one of the many site-blocking programs. Some programs are designed to monitor your child’s activities on mobile devices and computers. NetNanny is highly rated and monitors, restricts, or controls your children’s internet viewing. If your child uses an Android or iOS mobile device, reliable parental control monitoring apps include MamaBear and Qustodio. Free Parental Protection Options Before you start shopping for software, you can take some free steps to protect your kids....

Materials Required to Make Torches To make a torch, you need one stick and a piece of coal or charcoal. You don’t need both. Just one of the two types of material will do alongside a stick. How to Get Coal or Charcoal in Minecraft It’s easiest to find coal than wonder how to get charcoal in Minecraft, but we’ve got a quick overview on how to produce either so you can then craft a torch....

How to Create a YouTube Intro Make a YouTube intro for free with Panzoid, a web-based tool that works in any web browser. What Makes a Good YouTube Intro Video? A great YouTube intro can establish your brand, get your viewers excited for the video they’re about to watch, and show new viewers what you’re all about. While it’s acceptable to upload videos to YouTube without an intro attached, there are important reasons you might want to make an intro....

Using the Photos App for Apple TV Screen Savers The Apple TV comes with a range of beautiful screen savers, including a collection of moving images of places across the planet, but you can also create your own screen saver sets using your images. When you share your Photos images to your iCloud account, you can use the images as screen savers on your Apple TV. Using Home Sharing for Apple TV Screen Savers You can also use Home Sharing to create and enjoy your own photo screen savers on Apple TV....

Make Google Docs Landscape Format Many people think Google Docs is limited when it comes to style and format, but it’s easy to switch Google Docs to landscape format. You just need to know which menu options change the document format to landscape. It’s also possible to make landscape formatting the default format for your Google Docs documents. If you have an existing document saved in Google Docs and want to reformat it into landscape, the following steps do that....

How to Mark iPhone Emails as Read New emails that haven’t been read have blue dots next to them in the Mail Inbox. The number of these unread messages displays on the Mail app icon. Whenever an email is opened in the Mail app, iOS marks it as read. The blue dot disappears, and the number on the Mail app icon declines. To remove the blue dot without opening the email:...

How to Merge Cells in Microsoft Excel Excel offers one-click access to the merge tool. Highlight the cells you want to merge (the cells must be contiguous either horizontally or vertically), then go to the Home tab and select Merge & Center. When you select Merge & Center, the selected cells are merged into one cell and content is centered in the upper-left cell across the merge. To change this behavior, select the Merge & Center drop-down arrow and select an alternative behavior:...

How to Mirror an iPhone to a Smart TV Wirelessly You can wirelessly connect your iPhone to a smart TV as long as the TV is AirPlay 2-compatible. To find out if your TV is AirPlay 2-compatible, check with your TV manufacturer. Once you know the two are compatible, here’s how you mirror your iPhone. When you’re finished mirroring your iPhone to your TV, all you have to do is go back through those steps and tap Stop Mirroring....

Do Windows Apps Run on Chromebook? Most Windows apps will run, in one way or another, on most modern Chromebooks, using a few different methods. Browser-based apps Chrome plug-ins Remotely accessing another PC A “compatibility layer” tool for Linux, sort of a translator for software, called CrossOver Chrome OS. Currently, it only works with more recent Chromebooks using Intel processors. Since Chromebooks are designed to use web browsers as their operating system and the cloud as their storage system, Chromebooks typically have slower processors and limited physical storage....

How to Password Protect a Folder in Windows Since most versions of Windows can’t password-protect files, you need a third-party application such as 7-Zip. 7-Zip is a free and open-source file archive utility that protects folders with a password. Follow these steps to password-protect your folders with 7-Zip: Going forward, anyone attempting to view or extract the files within the archive is required to enter a password. How to Password Protect Using Windows’ Built-In Encryption If you don’t want to use a third-party application, there may be an alternative available depending on which version of Windows you use....

How to Lock a Word Document With a Password Protecting a Microsoft Word document with a password is easy due to the fact that the program itself contains its own free password feature. Here’s how to use it to lock your doc. The Microsoft Word document now requires your password to be opened. How to Unlock Word Documents With Passwords If you’re sending a locked Word doc to a friend or colleague, you don’t need to worry about teaching them how to manage password protected files as the Word document automatically asks for the password as soon as anyone attempts to open it....

How to Physically Clean Your Laptop To clean your laptop, follow these steps: Laptop Parts to Clean The parts of the laptop you should keep clean are the case, the display, the keyboard and touchpad, the ports, and the cooling vents. Isopropyl alcohol, available at drugstores and supermarkets. Because it evaporates quickly and doesn’t leave a residue, isopropyl alcohol is safe to use on electronic equipment and displays. Do not use: ammonia, tap water, mineral water, or household window cleaners....

Use Layout Options in Word to Position Images Positioning an image in Word usually requires only clicking it and dragging it where you want. That doesn’t always work, however, because the text flow around the image may change in a way that doesn’t look right for the document. If that happens, use the Layout Options to reposition the image. Move an Image or Group of Images Precisely To move an image a small amount to align it with another element in the document, select the image....

How to Stop Outlook From Downloading Images Automatically Emails with images are a nice thing to see in Outlook—as long as they’re sent from legitimate sources. Newsletters that look like websites are not only more attractive but also easier to read than their plain-text counterparts. But these emails may contain unwanted content that may cause harm to your computer or may be too large for your computer to handle. Protect your privacy and your computer with just a few simple steps....

How to Raise Your Hand During Zoom meetings, you may have a question or comment for the host. However, it’s not easy to get their attention in a virtual setting without disrupting them or another participant. Thankfully, Zoom has created a solution to this problem with the Raise Hand feature. Here’s how to do it. How the Host Can Respond to Raised Hands Once you’ve raised your hand, there are some things you may want to keep in mind about what the host sees on their end....

How to Record a Gameplay Clip on PS4 If you’re about to attempt something cool, or you want to illustrate something specific, then you can initiate a recording at any time. How to Record Retroactively on a PS4 There’s no way to know when something cool or weird will happen when you’re playing, so there’s a good chance that you won’t be recording. When that happens, you can take advantage of the PS4’s retroactive recording feature....

How to Recover Notes on iPhone From the Recently Deleted Folder The iOS Notes app is the perfect place to keep memories, to-do lists, shopping lists, and general notes you want to remember. Have your iPhone notes disappeared all of a sudden? Did you accidentally delete them? Don’t panic. There are several options to recover lost iPhone notes. To start, locate the Recently Deleted folder inside your Notes app to check for your notes....

How to Retrieve Archived Emails in a Browser Although archived messages are removed from your inbox, these messages are still stored in your Gmail account and can be retrieved in a few steps. These messages also remain indexed and appear when you search for Gmail messages. You can view emails while they’re archived, but if you plan to continue the conversation, move the messages in the conversation to the Inbox....

How to Right-Click on the Chromebook Touchpad Most Chromebooks have a rectangular touchpad with no extra buttons. Tapping or pressing anywhere on the touchpad with one finger results in a left-click. To perform a right-click, hover the cursor over the item that you wish to select and tap the touchpad using two fingers. How to Right-Click With the Chromebook Keyboard You can right-click using the touchpad in combination with the keyboard....

Can You Right-Click on iPad? Yes, you can right-click on an iPad, but only in a limited capacity. If you’ve become accustomed to using the right-click menu on your computer, you know it can open a world of options you wouldn’t be able to access with the left-click. But clicking is inherently a mouse function, meaning it was built into the computer mouse and desktop operating system to open contextual menus....