How To Make Facebook Use Dark Mode On Android

RELATED: How to Enable Dark Mode on Facebook Desktop Turn On Facebook’s Dark Mode on Android To make the Facebook app use dark mode on your phone, first, launch the Facebook app. In Facebook’s top-right corner, tap the hamburger menu (three horizontal lines). On the “Menu” screen, scroll down to the bottom. There, tap “Settings & Privacy.” From the expanded “Settings & Privacy” menu, select “Settings.” On the “Settings & Privacy” page that opens, in the “Preferences” section, tap “Dark Mode....

January 3, 2023 · 2 min · 215 words · Bernard Gamache

How To Make Firefox Tabs Open At The End Of The Tabs List

In the old days, when you opened a new Mozilla Firefox tab, it always opened at the very end (right side) of the tab bar. If you want to get that behavior back, you can make a quick change in Firefox’s advanced preferences config page on Windows, Linux, and Mac. Here’s how. First, open Firefox. In the address bar of any window, type about:config and hit Enter. You’ll see a “Proceed with Caution” message....

January 3, 2023 · 2 min · 226 words · Esther Milam

How To Make Siri Understand You Better

Siri isn’t all that great to begin with, but here are some ways to at least improve the Siri experience and get her to understand you better when shouting voice commands. RELATED: 26 Actually Useful Things You Can Do with Siri You’re probably better off going with either Alexa or Google Assistant for your voice-control needs, but we get it—if you have an iPhone, using Siri as your main voice assistant just makes sense....

January 3, 2023 · 4 min · 807 words · Kent Vanegas

How To Make The 50 Amazon Fire Tablet More Like Stock Android Without Rooting

Install the Google Play Store for More Apps Get a More Traditional Home Screen Launcher Just download your launcher of choice—we recommend Nova Launcher—and grab the LauncherHijack APK from this page. Once you’ve installed both, head to Settings > Accessibility and enable “Turn On Detect Home Button Press” in Settings > Accessibility. The next time you press the home button, you’ll be greeted with Android’s familiar home screen, ready for you to add and arrange your shortcuts....

January 3, 2023 · 2 min · 226 words · Gregory Daniels

How To Make The Font Of The Title Bars Bigger In Windows 8

Today we are going to show you how you can increase the font size in the Title bar, so if you hate the small font or simply cant read it, then this article is for you. Making the Title Bar Font Bigger Right-Click on your desktop and choose Personalize from the context menu. When the Personalization applet loads, click on the Display hyperlink in the lower left corner. Here you will see the Title bars text size....

January 3, 2023 · 1 min · 113 words · Roy Britton

How To Make The Most Of A Windows 8.1 Tablet S Limited Storage Space

Some Windows tablets have as little as 32 GB of internal storage, and future ones may only have 16 GB! This is extremely cramped for a large Windows system, so you’ll want to make the most of the little space available to you. Luckily, most Windows 8.1 tablets have a Micro SD card slot or USB port. You can add removable storage to expand your tablet’s storage, so you have more options than you do on an iPad or Nexus tablet....

January 3, 2023 · 5 min · 921 words · Virginia Duhart

How To Make The Most Of Free Time At Home

Watch Educational Content on YouTube If you like to learn new things, you don’t have to look any further than YouTube. Yes, the site is also jam-packed with music and funny videos, and entertaining shows. However, it’s also a veritable goldmine of interesting educational content. No matter what your interests are (geography, psychology, history, filmmaking, writing, etc.) you can find a YouTube channel about it that will teach you something new or interesting....

January 3, 2023 · 6 min · 1119 words · Les Brunson

How To Make Tri Folds In Powerpoint

While Microsoft PowerPoint is almost exclusively used for presentation purposes, it’s also a great application for creating interesting and visually appealing brochures. Here’s how to create (and print out) a tri-fold using PowerPoint. Making Tri-Folds in PowerPoint Good news—there are templates! This is the quickest and easiest way to accomplish your goal, as there are several different tri-fold templates available for download online. Browse through the template library, select the one you like, and download it....

January 3, 2023 · 2 min · 355 words · Cheryl Leonard

How To Make Your 120Hz Or 144Hz Monitor Use Its Advertised Refresh Rate

So you’ve purchased a monitor that offers a 120Hz or 144Hz refresh rate and plugged it in–great! But don’t stop there. Your monitor may not actually run at its advertised refresh rate until you change some settings and sort out your hardware. Set Your Refresh Rate in Windows Most importantly, you’ll want to ensure Windows is actually set at the advertised refresh rate and not a lower refresh rate, like 60Hz....

January 3, 2023 · 4 min · 705 words · Stanley Begay

How To Manage Notifications On Iphone And Ipad

Android users have been a spoiled bunch when it comes to device notifications. iPhone and iPad users had to wait until 2011 to see a notification center appear on their devices. It works pretty well though it handles things much differently than its Google counterpart. We’ve spent quite a bit of time lately discussing notifications, specifically managing them on Android 5 Lollipop, and also how to tame Facebook’s myriad ways of interrupting you....

January 3, 2023 · 4 min · 729 words · Theresa Long

How To Manually Focus Your Dslr Or Mirrorless Camera

Autofocus doesn’t always work as well as you’d hope. Sometimes it’s necessary to go old school and focus your camera manually. Here’s how to make sure you get sharp shots. Autofocus is excellent on bright days when there’s a clear subject but, if you’re shooting in low light, want to focus on a specific object, or there isn’t a distinct subject, autofocus can struggle. For landscape images, for example, I almost always use manual focus because it gives me total control over the image....

January 3, 2023 · 5 min · 988 words · Theodore Meyer

How To Manually Rotate Your Iphone Or Ipad Display Without Tilting

Sometimes you might need to rotate your iPhone or iPad’s display without physically tilting the device. Maybe your rotation sensor is broken or it’s physically impossible. If so, there’s a way around it. Here’s how. An accessibility feature built into iPhone and iPad called AssistiveTouch provides a shortcut menu that allows you to simulate physical movements, gestures, and button presses from a centralized interface. One of its features includes changing the screen orientation without you having to physically move your iPhone or iPad....

January 3, 2023 · 2 min · 426 words · Natalie Jeffery

How To Mine Your Social Media Data For A Better Roi

From customer service to social selling, there’s a reason why brands both big and small are upping their investments in social media at large. According to our recent survey of 250 business executives, 72% are currently using social media as a source of data and insights to inform their company’s business decisions. That said, there’s still plenty of skepticism and struggle among brands when it comes to their ROI. Maybe your boss wants proof that this whole “social” thing is paying off....

January 3, 2023 · 9 min · 1879 words · Sarah Thomas

How To Mirror An Image In Microsoft Word

Mirroring an image is useful if you want to print a photo in a flipped perspective. Thankfully, Microsoft’s suite of applications can help. Here’s how to flip an image in a Microsoft Word document. To mirror an image in Microsoft Word, open the Word document that contains the image (or insert the image by clicking Insert > Pictures) and then click the image to select it. Next, on Windows, right-click the image and, from the context menu, select “Format Picture....

January 3, 2023 · 2 min · 258 words · Charles Cronin

How To Modify A Signature For Use In Plain Text Emails In Outlook 2013

If you’ve created a signature with an image, links, text formatting, or special characters, the signature will not look the same in plain text formatted emails as it does in HTML format. As the name suggests, Plain Text does not support any type of formatting. For example, if you include an image in your signature, as shown below, the plain text version will be blank. Active links in HTML signatures will be converted to just the text of the link in plain text emails....

January 3, 2023 · 3 min · 450 words · Virgil Boyer

How To Monitor Your Digitalocean Droplets

Monitoring your cloud resources lets you stay ahead of demanding workloads. DigitalOcean’s droplets benefit from versatile built-in reporting options that give you visibility into your usage. Graphing Droplet Metrics The most straightforward way to monitor your droplets is with the graphs in the Cloud Control Panel. Log in to your DigitalOcean account and click one of your droplets. You’ll end up on the Graphs screen. The graphs give you an at-a-glance view of your droplet’s CPU, RAM, and disk and network utilization....

January 3, 2023 · 5 min · 1048 words · Elizabeth Patel

How To Mount An Iso Image On Windows 11

ISO files, sometimes called ISO images, are a type of archival file. Windows didn’t offer any native support for ISOs for years — you had to use third-party tools. Luckily, Microsoft added support for ISOs starting in Windows 8. Here’s what you need to know about ISOs on Windows 11. How to Mount an ISO Image on Windows 11 ISO files were originally designed to be exact copies of optical disks, like CDs or DVDs....

January 3, 2023 · 3 min · 451 words · Tyrone Dare

How To Move The Windows Users Profile Folders

If you want to change the name of your Windows 7 or Vista account, that is easy. However, even when you change the name, the folder name of your user profile remains the same. If you try to rename the folder it will severely mess up your account. Consequently most people have come to the conclusion that it is impossible to change the name of your Windows profile folder without breaking everything....

January 3, 2023 · 4 min · 726 words · Ricky Estrada

How To Opt Out Of The Macos Mojave Beta

Apple will likely release the stable version of macOS Mojave sometime in September or October of 2018. If you’ve already opted into the beta and want to opt back out, you can downgrade back to High Sierra. What You Need to Know If you installed macOS Mojave on a secondary volume (or partition) on your Mac, you can quickly remove that volume. Otherwise, this process will be easiest for you if you followed our recommendation to create a Time Machine backup before installing the Mojave beta....

January 3, 2023 · 6 min · 1248 words · Charles Wetzel

How To Opt Out Of The Microsoft Office Customer Experience Improvement Program

When you install any recent version of Microsoft Office, Microsoft assumes that you want to sign up for the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP). There’s a check box during installation that’s selected by default and automatically signs you up for the program. According to Microsoft, the CEIP is a tool that collects customer information to try “to improve the products and features customers use most often and to help solve problems....

January 3, 2023 · 2 min · 285 words · Nicholas Holland