How to Open and Access Gmail Contacts To open your Gmail address book in a desktop browser, follow the steps below. Other Ways to Access Gmail Contacts Enter https://contacts.google.com/ into the browser URL field to open your Gmail Contacts screen. You may be asked to sign in to your account. Gmail Contacts Features Here are some useful features that make managing Contacts in Gmail easy: Track contacts: Keep track of people you frequently contact and add them to a Frequently Contacted list....

Is It Worth It to Overclock My Monitor? The default refresh rate of 60 Hz means your monitor is refreshing the image on the screen at a rate of 60 times every second. If the image on your screen isn’t changing rapidly, you won’t notice a more rapid refresh rate. However, when it comes to video games with lots of animated graphics moving across the screen quickly, even a 25% increase in refresh rate will be very noticeable....

If you don’t press a key, your PC will try to boot to the operating system that’s currently installed on your hard drive. If this happens, just restart your computer and try to boot to the Windows Vista DVD again. In our case it’s a Startup Repair, but there are a lot of tasks that could be completed with the Windows Vista DVD. Select Next. This link will begin the Windows Vista System Recovery Options....

How to Play a DVD on an HP Laptop and Other Windows 10 PCs Playing DVDs on Windows requires two things, an application to play them and a drive to put the DVD in. If your HP laptop has a built-in DVD player, then you can eliminate one of those steps. If it doesn’t, check the section below for more information. The best application for playing DVDs on any Windows 10 laptop or PC is VLC because it’s free, open-source, well supported, and easy to understand....

Get the Minesweeper Download From the Microsoft Store Microsoft still hosts an “official” version of Minesweeper in its digital storefront. Here’s how to find and install it. How to Play Minesweeper Online for Free If you’re using a computer that doesn’t let you download games or programs (e.g., if your employer doesn’t allow it), you can still play Minesweeper during your downtime. A quick internet search will turn up plenty of sites where you can play it for free....

How to Report an Accident The following instructions assume you already know how to use Apple Maps. You can report an accident directly in Apple Maps on your device. However, you can also use Siri or CarPlay if you’re driving. Using Siri and CarPlay to Report Accidents If you’re driving, a safer way to report an accident is to ask Siri to report it or use the CarPlay display in your vehicle if you have one....

How Do I Reset My Apple HomePod mini Using iPhone or iPad? Maybe the most common way to reset a HomePod mini is using the same app that you used to set it up in the first place: the pre-installed Home app on an iPhone or iPad. To do that, follow these steps: How Do I Reset My Apple HomePod mini Directly on the HomePod? If the last option was the most common, this one is probably the easiest....

How to System Restart Roku This is analogous to restarting your computer to fix problems. A system restart turns off your Roku device and then turns it back on. This may or may not correct any problems. Since Roku streaming sticks and boxes don’t have an on/off switch (except for the Roku 4 and Roku TVs), this is the only way to do a system restart. Using your Roku’s remote control, you can execute a system restart using the following steps:...

Common Google Play Store Errors Before you begin troubleshooting Google Play errors, visit Downdetector.com to see if other users are reporting problems with Google Play. If so, the issue likely lies with Google Play Services, and it will resolve itself soon. Often, you’ll receive an error code that indicates what’s wrong. Here’s a list of common Google Play error codes and what each means: Error 944 Google’s servers are having connectivity problems; wait until Google resolves the problem....

How to Restore an iPhone Without iTunes The way iPhone users have backed up and restored their devices has been by connecting their phone to iTunes and saving their data to the computer’s hard drive. That method works fine if you have iTunes, but you should learn to back up and restore your iPhone without iTunes. Why Not Use iTunes? The number of ways to restore an iPhone has expanded thanks to the rise of Apple’s cloud storage service, iCloud....

There’s an option in iTunes called “Complete My Album” that could potentially save you lots of money. This very handy, yet often overlooked, feature can be used to purchase the remaining tracks in an album rather than having to buy the complete collection again at a higher overall cost. As well as saving time on manually cherry-picking tracks in order to complete your chosen album, the price is reduced to reflect how many songs are remaining....

How Do You Scan a Barcode? To scan a barcode on your iPhone or iPad, you’ll need to first download a barcode scanner iOS app. There are many iPhone barcode apps available for download from the Apple App Store but, for this example, we’ll use QR Code Reader - Barcode Maker. This app is easy to use, supports all major barcode formats, and is free. This app can also be used to make your own barcodes....

How to Scan a Hard Drive With the Error Checking Tool Scanning your hard drive with the Error Checking tool can identify, and possibly correct, a range of hard drive errors. The Windows Error Checking tool is the graphical version of the command-line chkdsk command, which is still available and offers more advanced options than Error Checking. Error Checking is available in Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP, but there are differences as shown....

How Do You Screenshot on a Logitech Wireless Keyboard? To take a screenshot on Windows, press Windows key+PrtSc. If PrtSc shares a key with another button (such as Insert, Tap, or Delete), you may need to press Fn+Windows key+PrtSc. To capture only the active window, use Windows key+Alt+PrtSc. To take a screenshot on Mac, press Shift+Command+3. Alternatively, press Shift+Command+4 to select the portion of the screen you want to capture, or press Shift+Command+4+Spacebar to capture a specific screen element (such as a menu or app)....

The Simple Solution: Cover It Up Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best ones. To be absolutely sure that no one is watching you through your webcam, get some electrical tape and cover it. If you don’t want tape residue on the camera, use a longer strip of tape and fold it back on itself. The best hacker in the world can’t defeat electrical tape. If you want a more sophisticated approach, roll up a coin in the electrical tape so that the weight of the coin keeps the tape positioned over the camera....

Add Expressions to iPhone Texts Open an existing conversation and double-tap a message, image, or video. A pop-up toolbar appears, displaying multiple options to express approval, disapproval, love, laughter, excitement, or confusion. When you select one, it is appended to that message for all recipients in the conversation to see. How to Add Camera Effects to iPhone Text Messages If you have a device with iOS 12 or above, you can add camera effects to text messages:...

How to Set an SD Card as the Default Storage Device on Android Some Android devices allow you to set an SD card as the internal storage device. This allows you to install apps directly to the SD card and avoid the trouble of constantly moving over other files if your device doesn’t have a lot of built-in storage space. This process requires at least Android 6. Here’s how to set an SD card as the default storage device on Android:...

Setting up DNS Aliases​ You can create one or more directories for content within your web server’s file structure, but you can’t put them in any location on your machine. For example, most Apache server web files are located in the htdocs folder. Create a sub-folder there to host your domain files—perhaps within a www folder to segregate the content from other uses. It’s a good idea to put an index....

How to Set up a Fire TV Cube Here’s how to set up a Fire TV Cube: How Do I Get My Fire TV Cube to Control My TV? Your Fire TV Cube includes something called an IR blaster, which means you can use it to control most devices that use IR remotes. That includes most televisions, soundbars, Blu-ray and DVD players, and a variety of other home entertainment devices. Some ceiling fans and other fixtures and appliances can even be controlled by the IR blaster in a Fire TV Cube....

How Do You Set Up Alexa Intruder Alert? An Alexa intruder alert is a routine you can set up to have Alexa activate various devices and say pre-set phrases if you suspect an intruder has entered your home. Unlike Alexa Guard, which listens for sounds that indicate a break-in may be in progress, you need to trigger an Alexa intruder alert manually with a voice command. It works the same way as any other Alexa routine, so you can customize the alert to activate any smart home device or say any phrase you like....