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Using my iPhone Headset, not 5 minutes ago from 35k feet up I just had a conversation with my wife. The quality? Surprisingly clear (according to her) for both of us. A few times it skipped out a little but I had a nice 5 minute conversation with her before I told her I had to go so I could blog about it… (sorry honey)… Halfway through writing this groovyPost, it occurred to me I could demonstrate for myself the quality of the call....

Google Docs has become a popular file editor. However, giving tough competition to other file editors, like MS Office, and has a good collection of features. Suppose if you need to design a landscape document in place of a portrait-oriented, Google docs provides the facility to do so. However, you may find it difficult to search for the right command buttons. In this text, we have thrown some light on creating a one-page landscape document in Google Docs....

This tutorial outlines the steps to download all your emails from the server to Outlook as a local copy. Microsoft’s email, calendar, contact, scheduling and collaboration platform, Exchange Server, is used by many small, medium or large scale organizations of all types. And Outlook is its primary emailing interface. Directly synced with the Exchange Servers, Outlook makes it pretty easy in sending and receiving emails. It doesn’t really matter whether your using Gmail, Yahoo or Outlook as your email client, all these emails could be very efficiently handled....

Sitting at home all day can get quite boring sometimes, but with a fresh idea like this one, you’ll have something fun to play around with. In this tutorial we’ll show you how to use a fun photography and Photoshop trick to clone any item or person you want! Let’s get started: You Will Need A Digital Camera (Point-and-Shoot or DSLR)A TripodA Room with Constant LightingSome Free Time Taking the Photos Set up your camera on a tripod....

Moving your Google Picasa to a new computer is simple as long as you first copy all your photos and, Picasa is installed under the same user paths as your old system. For example, when I moved over my Picasa install to my new computer, my user profile was located at c:\users\skrause\ on both systems so both my photos and Google database/config files will be located in the same place....

Password Protect PDF Files in Windows and macOS Method 1: Use Microsoft Office to Create Password Protected PDFs When you encrypt and password protect a document you created using a Microsoft Office program (e.g., Excel, Word, PowerPoint), you can save it as a PDF that is also password protected. Open your Microsoft Office file in the respective application.Click File > Save As… Then Save as type list box, then select PDF....

Every now and then, Sony pushes out an update for their PlayStation line up. And updates are important to ensure that the system keeps on functioning properly without any comprises in security or performance. Playstation usually receives OTA updates through Wifi, but there will be times when the update will fail to install online. In such a scenario, you have to install the update manually. The process of installing the updates manually is fairly easy, and in this article, we will guide you through it step by step....

When you mount an ISO image on Windows 11, you can access the contents contained in the image. ISO images allow software and media distribution without the need to ship physical media. Microsoft uses the ISO image format to distribute versions of its operating system—including Insider editions. Sometimes you’ll need to access the contents of an ISO image. We’ll explain how to mount an ISO image on Windows 11....

Nintendo has released a real-time strategy and puzzle game called ‘Pikmin 3‘ that has been developed and published for Nintendo Switch & Wii U platforms. It’s a sequel to the GameCube games Pikmin and Pikmin 2 which was launched back in 2013. Now, plenty of players have started searching online about the steps that How to open the bamboo gate in Pikmin 3 game. If you’re also one of them, check this article to quickly unlock the bamboo gate....

While it is chock full of excellent system info, it opens to the Processes tab by default. That’s good if you are looking for an app or service to kill because it’s spiking your CPU and eating RAM. But you might be interested in a different tab such as Performance and want to make it the default. Starting with Windows 10 version 1903, you can set it to do just that....

Prepare Your Data Microsoft recommends formatting your geographic data in a table. If it’s not, you can select the data, click Format as Table on the Home tab, and choose a style. Other data suggestions from Microsoft for the 3D Map feature include: A table where each row is a unique record.Text as column or row headers instead of data.At least one geographic property per row of data, such as city, state, region, country, or zip code....

If you learn how to make a flowchart in Microsoft Word, you’ll always have a tool at your disposal to do these kinds of thought experiments. In this article, you’ll learn what the basic symbols in flowcharts mean, and how to draw out these flowcharts in Microsoft Word. If you already understand basic flowcharting, you can skip down to the section on how to make a flowchart in Word....

Android Screen mirroring is a way to protect your Phone’s current screen from other digital devices such as Laptops or PC. It continuously sends a copy of your screen to another device. There are many benefits of screen mirroring; you can use it to demonstrate your work, have good gameplay on a big screen and watch videos with all and many more. However, there are tons of websites, apps, and devices available, which allow you to mirror your android to a laptop or pc....

If you are using Mac and using a Mac word processor, then it will save any word file in the “.pages” extension. This extension is invisible on Mac, but when you are transferring that file to windows, then it will show you the extension as “.pages.” It looks not accessible to anyone when you try to open it. It is possible to open that file in Microsoft Word and Windows....

However, Gedit can be configured to a fully-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) with the help of plugins and customize its preference. Read on below how to do that. Where would one find Gedit text editor? ​Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and those GNOME-installed Linux distributions come pre-installed with Gedit while Linux Mint, Xubuntu, Kubuntu and the remaining Linux distros that have their own desktop environment may have to manually install Gedit. Simply turn up your terminal program and key in the commands below:...

If you’ve never merged cells in an Excel spreadsheet, groovyPost is here to help! We’ll walk you through how to merge cells into a single cell and then unmerge them if you change your mind. How to Merge Cells in Excel Open your Excel workbook to the spreadsheet you want to work with and follow the steps below to merge cells. Keep in mind that the upper-left or far-left cell data will remain, but any data in the other cells you’re merging will be deleted....

TikTok has got us memorizing songs and jokes beyond comparison. While we dabble in these trends, some of us have explored our hidden talents within this fun app. We are unsure when TikTok stopped being a pastime activity during covid to a full-blown hub of creators. So how do you go public on TikTok and show your talents to the world? You can play around with the flexible TikTok features by making your account public while keeping some of your videos private or just for friends....

One fairly rare type of file (from a Windows point of view) is a TGZ file. This unusual file type isn’t one that Windows will know what to do with, so you’ll need to work around that to open it. If you want to know how to open a TGZ file on a Windows PC, follow the steps below. What is a TGZ File? A TGZ file, .tgz file, or tar....

Most websites don’t want or support a single user logging into multiple accounts. Previously we looked at how to get around this using Firefox, this time we will take a doing something similar with Chrome. While this method for Chrome isn’t quite as good as Multifix, it doesn’t require you to install any browser extensions either. All it takes is a little “incognito.” Note: This should work for other browsers as well, but we’ve only tested it with Chrome....

By default Firefox 4 is set to never remove items from your Downloads list history. No matter how old or how long the list gets, all of your past downloads will be there unless you manually press the Clear List button. What we’re going to do in this post, is make this list clear itself automatically. Let’s get started! Step 1 In Firefox 4, Type about:config into the address bar and Press Enter....