To use your cellphone for hands-free calling, you need: A Bluetooth-enabled cellphone.A Bluetooth-enabled infotainment system or car audio system.The PIN for your infotainment or audio system.Additionally, it might be helpful to have a phone mount. Once you have those things, follow the steps and instructions outlined in the sections below. Verify That Your Phone Has Bluetooth, and Turn It On Pairing a phone to a car audio system varies depending on the phone and the infotainment or audio system’s setup....

Prevent Gmail From Automatically Revealing Your Online Status Your friend or colleague can see when you’re online throughout the Google network—via Gmail, for example—and available for chat. If you want to decide for yourself when your contacts can tell whether you are online, Gmail provides this option. Here’s how to protect your online status from showing up in Gmail and turn off the chat feature for all your contacts. How to Mute Notifications in Gmail Here’s what to do if you only want to mute the notifications of chat for a set amount of time....

How to Turn Off Automatic Wi-Fi Connections Computers and mobile devices work differently, but the process of disabling automatic Wi-Fi connections is simple to do on all of them. On Windows 10 To disable automatic Wi-Fi Connections in Windows 10: The process is similar for Windows 8 and older versions of Windows. On iOS iPhone and iPad devices associate an option called Auto-Join with each Wi-Fi profile. When enabled, your device connects to that network automatically when it’s within range....

How to Safely Remove an SD Card From a MacBook There are three ways to safely remove an SD card from a MacBook. They all accomplish the same task, which is to unmount the drive before you physically remove it. This is called ejecting, although it’s different from physically ejecting the card. You need to eject the card through macOS before you can physically remove or eject it from your card reader....

In Adobe Acrobat DC, open the PDF > Enter the password > OK > File > Properties > Security > Security Method > No Security > OK > OK. How to Use a PDF Viewer To Remove Password Protection From a PDF For legal reasons, you should only ever remove password protection from a PDF that you possess and know its password. Passwords are typically added to prevent plagiarism or to encrypt the information so that it’s safer to transmit online....

Replace a Broken or Lost Remote Control With a Universal Remote Big-box stores like Target and Best Buy carry a range of universal remote controls. They’re not brand specific, so you can program universal remote controls and use them with any device model from almost every electronics manufacturer. Most universal remotes work with multiple devices, so they can control your TV, cable box, and other peripherals such as DVD players and streaming devices....

For detailed steps on opening your computer’s case, see our article on how to open a standard screw-secured computer case. For screwless cases, look for buttons or levers on the sides or rear that are used to release the case. This is usually a good step to complete when opening the case, but if you haven’t done so yet, now is the time. There may be many styles of power connectors inside your computer, but all of them, aside from the large one connecting to the motherboard, will be small and relatively flat....

How to Restore a Mac to Previous Date If you already have backups turned on, then you can go ahead and take advantage of the restore function built into macOS. For the most part, the steps are similar between Intel and M1-based Macs. However, Apple did change the way you access the macOS Utilities functions, which include the restore and reinstall functions. If you don’t have Time Machine running on your Mac, then you need to get it set up and running in order to restore your Mac....

Save a Picture as a Local File on Windows or Mac Follow these steps to save a picture or image to your desktop device. Save a Picture to Google Collections If you want to use Google Collections you need to be signed in to your Google account. If you’re signed in, when you select an image from the search results, there’s an option to add the image to a ‘collection’. Follow the instructions below to add or remove an image from a collection, and to view all your saved images in your collections....

How to Take a Screenshot of Google Chrome Without Extensions In those cases where a web page comes pretty close to fitting within your browser window, only requiring the tiniest bit of scrolling to see the rest, you can zoom out a bit and take a normal screenshot. Take a Chrome Screenshot by Saving as a PDF You can also print the screen, save it as a PDF, and either keep it in its PDF format or convert it into an image format....

How Can I Take a Screenshot on My Samsung S20? At some point, you’ll want to take a screenshot on your Samsung Galaxy S20, whether you want to record what you’re doing in an app, a game, or on your home screen. There are several ways to do this, and understanding the differences can be helpful. Smart capture, for example, allows you to capture a single page or display by scrolling down as you capture the image, as opposed to what’s just shown on the screen....

How to Send an Email With Any From Address in Outlook When you create a new message in Outlook, the email address you used to sign in to Outlook appears in the From field. If you have multiple email accounts and want to use an email address that is not associated with the account you opened in Outlook, edit the From field of the message and enter any email address you want....

How to Send Private Birthday Cards on Facebook Sending greeting cards to your friends right from Facebook is fun. Facebook has built-in animated cards for all occasions, including birthdays, holidays, parties, relationships, celebrations, and friendships. You’ll find cards that are humorous, loving, sexy, funny, and edgy. Here’s how to send a birthday card that only your friend can view. (It’s also possible to send a card that others can see and respond to....

How to Make Outlook Allow Commas to Separate Multiple Email Recipients To have Outlook see commas when separating multiple email recipients: Why Comma Separators Don’t Work in Outlook In most email programs, it’s common practice to separate the names of email recipients with commas. However, in Outlook, the semicolon is used to separate email recipients. If you’d rather use a comma, change the Outlook settings. If commas are used to separate recipients in Outlook, a “name could not be resolved” message will appear....

Disable Any Auto-Responder To turn off any auto-responding rule you have set up in Mail and stop automatic replies from going out: To have Mail reply only to emails you received at a specific address, set the criterion to To contains me@example.com. To auto-respond only to senders in your Contacts, to people you have emailed before or VIPs, make the criterion read Sender is in my contacts, Sender is in my previous recipients or Sender is VIP respectively....

How Do I Start a Squad Stream on Twitch? You can set up and start a Squad Stream on the Twitch website through the Stream Manager. You can start a new squad, start a Twitch stream with an existing squad, or accept an invite to a squad through the same interface. Here’s how to start a Squad Stream on Twitch: How Do You Use Squad Stream? Squad Stream is a useful Twitch feature which lets you stream alongside up to three of your friends....

While you can take pictures, 10-second and 20-second videos on Spectacles, 30-second videos are the longest-form capture Spectacles support. How to Take 30-Second Snaps on Spectacles With a pair of charged, connected Spectacles, taking Snaps on Spectacles is handled by the Spectacles’ only button. To take a 30-second Snap on Spectacles, press the button Spectacles three times. You can press the button once or twice to take 10-second or 20-second videos, respectively....

How to Take a Screenshot The basic way to take a screenshot in Windows is the same way no matter what version of Windows you’re using, and it’s very easy: ​press the PrtScn key on the keyboard. PrtScn: Pressing the button once saves a screenshot of the entire screen. If you have multiple monitors connected, a single press of the print screen button will save a screenshot of all the screens in one single image....

How to Take Scrolling Screenshots in Android 12 If you already know how to take a screenshot with your Android device, then you’re already halfway there. If you don’t, the process takes a few seconds if you follow these directions. Will My Android 12 Smartphone Have Scrolling Screenshot? As one of the main features behind Android 12, every smartphone or device should have screenshot scrolling as long as it’s running Android 12....

Why Can’t I Use the WhatsApp Backup Tool? WhatsApp offers the ability for Android users to backup via Google Drive, and for iOS users to use iCloud. Unfortunately, you can’t use those services to restore the backup to a phone of a different type. It might not make sense to many, but it’s down to how WhatsApp currently operates. Can I Use a Third-Party App to Transfer My Backup? There are apps and tools out there that state they will transfer your backups across devices safely, but none of them are official solutions....