How Do You Do a Hard Reset on a Kindle Paperwhite? A hard reset removes all of the data from your Kindle and returns it to factory conditions. You do it through the Settings menu. How Do I Reset an Unresponsive Kindle Paperwhite? If your Kindle Paperwhite is frozen or otherwise unresponsive, you may want to do a hard restart. A hard restart differs from a reset because it doesn’t reset the settings or delete your library....
How to Get Started With a YouTube Music Premium Family Plan By default, YouTube Music Premium is designed for use by only one person. If you want to share it with additional people you need to first convert your YouTube Music Premium subscription into a YouTube Music Premium family subscription. After you have completed that task, you can invite up to five people to join your family plan. How to Manage Sharing Your YouTube Music Premium Family Account While you can add people to your family plan during the upgrade process, YouTube also allows you to add new people and also remove people from your account at any time....
How to Turn on Personal Hotspot When you use tethering to set up a Personal Hotspot, anywhere your iPhone or iPad can access a cellular signal, your computer can get online too. After you set up the service with your cellular provider, following that company’s instructions, it is time to turn on the Personal Hotspot service on your iPhone or Wi-Fi compatible iPad. Follow these steps: Deactivate the Personal Hotspot when you aren’t using it by moving the slider to the Off/white position to reduce your security risk and battery drain....
See How to Access Advanced Startup Options in Windows 8 for instructions on the six different methods to open this very helpful menu of repair and troubleshooting tools. The Windows 8 Safe Mode Catch-22 Of the six methods outlined in the linked instructions above, only methods 1, 2, or 3 allow access to Startup Settings, the menu that Safe Mode is found on. Those three methods only work if you have access to Windows 8 in normal mode (method 2 & 3) or, at very least, if you can get to the Windows 8 sign on screen (method 1)....
How Do You Transfer Data From Android to iPhone? There are lots of apps out there that can help you make this move. Some are paid, some are free, some are reputable, some shady. For most people, the best option is a free app by the most trustworthy source when it comes to iPhones: Apple. Apple’s Move to iOS app finds all of the important data on your Android and easily moves it to your new iPhone....
How to Turn Off Narrator in Windows 11 Narrator can be turned off on Windows 11 using a keyboard shortcut and also through the Settings app. The keyboard shortcut is the fastest option, but it’s important to only use it once, as the same key combination will also turn Narrator back on if you do it again. To quickly toggle Narrator off in Windows 11, press the Windows key + Ctrl + Enter....
How to Delete Microsoft Teams on Windows 10 If you can’t figure out how to uninstall Microsoft Teams, you’re not alone. If you downloaded the stand-alone Microsoft Teams app, you can uninstall it as you would remove any program from Windows. However, if you have Microsoft Office installed on your system, the Teams Machine-Wide Installer automatically restores the app when you reboot Windows. To remove both Teams and the Teams Machine-Wide Installer, follow these steps:...
How to Unlink Fortnite Accounts From PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch Unlinking an Epic Games account, which is the same thing as a Fortnite account, isn’t actually done from your video game console. Instead, you’ll need to log into the Epic Games website on a computer or mobile device. Why Unlink Your Epic Games Account? Epic Games accounts are used to power Fortnite’s online matches and sync player progress between different video game consoles....
Can I Update My iPhone Through My Computer? While the easiest way to update your iPhone is to download and install the OS update directly on the device, you can use your computer to perform the update. This way was how we installed all iOS updates before 2011’s iOS 5 when Apple added the over-the-air update feature. There’s not a solid reason to update your iPhone through your computer. It won’t save you data (you’d need Wi-Fi with your computer) or battery life (in most cases, your iPhone needs to be plugged into power or the computer to do the update)....
Why Are My Messages on My Mac Not Updating? Any discrepancies between what’s on your phone and Mac could be because of the different ways you use them. While your iPhone and iPad are typically on and connected to the internet constantly, they can be way faster to sync than your Mac, which you might switch off, restart, or put to sleep. If your Mac’s Messages app isn’t syncing correctly, you can try closing and reopening it and then waiting to see if new messages appear....
How to Get a Podcast on Spotify To get your podcast on Spotify, you’ll need to have the RSS feed and at least one episode hosted on your website or a podcast hosting service. Once you’re ready, do the following to submit your podcast to Spotify. Submit Your Podcast to Spotify It’s important to realize that Spotify functions as a podcast discovery and listening service, not a podcast hosting service. Basically, you can’t upload your podcast episodes to Spotify’s servers, so you’ll need to either host the files on your own website or use a podcast hosting provider....
Use a Dynamic Range With the COUNTIF - INDIRECT Formula The INDIRECT function can be used with a number of functions that accept a cell reference as an argument, such as the SUM and COUNTIF functions. Using INDIRECT as the argument for COUNTIF creates a dynamic range of cell references that can be counted by the function if the cell values meet a criteria. It does this by turning text data, sometimes referred to as a text string, into a cell reference....
How Do You Drag and Drop on iOS 15? iOS 15 allows you to use a continuous gesture to drop text, images, or documents from a source app to a destination app. Before iOS 15, you could drag and drop within a single app only. Drag ad Drop Text Between Apps You can easily move text or URLs between apps instead of copy-pasting them. Drag and Drop Images Between Apps Image sharing is faster and more intuitive with a drag and drop....
How to Use Controllers on the Steam Deck The Steam Deck has built-in, highly customizable controls, but they aren’t always the most comfortable for long play sessions. Thankfully there are other options. The Steam Deck is compatible with both wired and wireless controllers, and you can even connect multiple controllers at once to play couch co-op with your friends. You can use wired or wireless controllers with the Steam Deck:...
How to Add Notes in PowerPoint Keep on track during your slideshow by adding speaker notes to each slide of your presentation. You don’t need to write down everything you want to say, just add enough information to keep your speech flowing. How to See Your Notes During a Presentation If your computer is connected to another monitor or projector, you can enable Presenter View in PowerPoint 2016, 2013, and 2010....
Known as a leap second, the extra tick was chalked up in 1972 as a means to keep clocks in sync with the Earth’s actual rotation. Computers have a hard time digesting the leap second and cause all sorts of issues trying to make sense of the anomaly, occasionally throwing the internet and other connected systems into disarray. Engineers at Meta have recently blogged about their intention to build momentum to scrap the leap second, arguing it causes more issues than it solves....
The company just surprise-dropped a beefy demo to the Nintendo eShop for all to play, consisting of three areas from the game and allowing for two-player same-system co-op. This demo answers some long-held questions regarding Kirby’s latest jaunt. First of all, it’s a standard 3D platformer and not an open-world adventure. In other words, expect a world map for choosing levels. Also, while you can co-op, it does not allow for two Kirbys....
Update version 1.1.0 of the Nintendo Switch exclusive titles fixes “select bugs,” though the company did not list which issues this update clears up. For the uninitiated, Pokemon Violet and Scarlet are plagued with bugs throughout nearly every aspect of their playtime, from character pop-ins to excruciatingly slow frame rates (and beyond). Nintendo properly announced one minor bug that has been fixed, as the music will now play correctly during battles with the Elite Four on the Victory Road path....
What Is an OVA File? A file with the .OVA file extension is most likely an Open Virtual Appliance file, sometimes called an Open Virtual Application file or an Open Virtualization Format Archive file. They’re used by virtualization programs to store various files associated with a virtual machine (VM). The file is stored in the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) as a TAR archive. Some of the files you might find within it include disk images (like VMDKs), an OVF descriptor XML-based text file, ISOs or other resource files, certificate files, and an MF manifest file....
What Is an OXT File? A file with the OXT file extension is an Apache OpenOffice extension. They add features to OpenOffice applications, such as its Writer word processor, Calc spreadsheet program, and Impress presentation software. You can download OXT files from the Apache OpenOffice Extensions page. How to Open an OXT File OpenOffice can open an OXT file via its built-in Extension Manager tool. For v2.2 and later, you can just double-click or double-tap the OXT file to install it....
