How To Create And Use Polls In Slack

While Slack doesn’t offer its own polling feature, you can use a few third-party apps. These let you set up a poll and take advantage of extra features you may find useful. Here’s how to create a poll in Slack with two popular, full-featured apps. Note: You can use the following instructions in the Slack desktop app or on the web. In addition to the links provided, you can obtain the apps from the Slack App Directory....

January 10, 2023 · 5 min · 1041 words · William Artiaga

How To Delete A Tiktok Video

Unless absolutely necessary, don’t delete any of your videos. Uploading one by mistake is one thing; bringing down an established video because it doesn’t perform like you want is something else. It could hurt your overall traffic on the platform. While getting docked by the TikTok algorithm can be fixed, it takes a lot of extra work that could be better spent growing your audience. How to Delete a TikTok Video on Mobile Deleting a TikTok from the app on iPhone or Android devices is often the easiest approach....

January 10, 2023 · 3 min · 510 words · Debbie Stallings

How To Enable Or Disable System Restore In Windows

Normally, Windows will create these system restore points automatically before certain events, i.e., installing new software, updating a driver, installing Windows updates, etc. If none of these events occur, Windows will create a restore point every seven days. In terms of files, System Restore will save a copy of a file or folder when it is modified, but only when a restore point is created. You can then restore a previous version of the file or folder by simply right-clicking on the file or folder....

January 10, 2023 · 4 min · 698 words · Stephen Miller

How To Export And Import Chrome Bookmarks

You’re probably using a Google Account to sync browsing data to the Google servers in real-time. Nevertheless, it’s always best to take a safer approach. Below, you’ll find step-by-step instructions to export bookmarks in Google Chrome to an HTML file, including what you should do to import them. You’ll also learn of other backup methods that involve syncing bookmarks via Chrome Sync (if you don’t already) and copying bookmark data in raw format....

January 10, 2023 · 5 min · 1024 words · James Turner

How To Fix Spotify Web Player Not Working

You may have enabled an ad blocker in your web browser, causing Spotify not to play your music. Your browser’s cache files could be causing problems. Or you might have the wrong playback device set in your browser. When the Spotify web player isn’t working, here’s a list of things to check. Choose the Correct Playback Device in Spotify Spotify lets you manually select the device for playing your music....

January 10, 2023 · 4 min · 746 words · Leontine Murtagh

How To Install Mac Os X Using Vmware Fusion

As I mentioned earlier, running another copy of the operating system in a virtual machine can help you in two ways: protect your privacy and keep your safe from viruses/malware. Starting with OS X Lion (10.7), you can install the operating system as many times as you like into a virtual machine as long as it is on the same hardware. So if you have a MacBook Pro with OS X El Capitan installed, you can install as many copies of El Capitan into virtual machines on that same machine....

January 10, 2023 · 6 min · 1171 words · Natasha Adams

How To Make Animated Instagram Stories For Free

If you’d like to learn how to make animated Instagram stories for free, we’ll take you through the basics. You can also use these tips to turn your photos into animated versions in your feed. Here is an overview of what we will cover: Why video stories are better than photos What software you need for this tutorial How to turn an Instagram photo into a video with music How to turn multiple images into a slideshow style video How to upload to Instagram with hashtags included...

January 10, 2023 · 11 min · 2197 words · Douglas Herman

How To Make Sure You Get The Network Speeds You Pay For

There are a number of ways that we can tackle this issue, and they should all be followed in order. By the end, you should have a good idea about how to fix any potential problems. Finding Your Current Speeds and Advertised Speeds Firstly, you need to make sure you aren’t actually being offered the speeds you think you are. You may have an email, letter, or contract that states your minimum speeds, estimated speeds, or ‘up to’ speeds....

January 10, 2023 · 6 min · 1123 words · Jason Bedeau

How To Make Your Own Telegram Sticker Pack

In this guide, we’ll show you how you can make your own Telegram sticker pack to share with your friends. Step 1: Design the Stickers For this step, you’re going to require some kind of image editing software. Don’t worry if you’re not a master graphic designer — creating stickers for Telegram is incredibly easy. Many stickers are hilariously simple meme-type images created from free stock photography and random quotes....

January 10, 2023 · 3 min · 443 words · Jeffry Mccoy

How To Manage Browser Cookies For Better Privacy

Cookies are used for several different purposes including authenticating, session tracking, and maintaining specific information about users, such as their site preferences or the items in their shopping carts. Though cookies can be quite useful, they also raise privacy concerns because they track user behavior across the Internet. Another problem with cookies is that they may not always provide accurate identification of a user and can be exploited by hackers....

January 10, 2023 · 5 min · 957 words · Janette Roshia

How To Setup And Program A Universal Remote

They are particularly helpful if you purchase a CRT. If you’re looking for suggestions for a universal remote, the Philips Universal Remote is one of the most affordable and easiest to use. Don’t panic at the thought of programming a universal remote, either – it only takes a few minutes to do and absolutely no technical skill. How to Setup and Program a Universal Remote Control There are multiple ways to program a universal remote, but the two most common are direct code entry and auto code search....

January 10, 2023 · 4 min · 656 words · Steven Youngman

How To Turn Off Your Ps5 Controller When Paired

This tutorial highlights five ways to turn off your DualSense controller and disconnect it from your PS5. Turn Off DualSense Controller Using the PlayStation Button Press and hold the PS button on the DualSense controller for 10-15 seconds. Release the PS button when the controller’s light goes off. You should see a DualSense Wireless Controller disconnected alert in the top-right corner of your screen. Turn Off DualSense Controller from the PS5 Profile Menu You can also turn off your DualSense controller from the PS5 interface on your TV or monitor screen....

January 10, 2023 · 2 min · 228 words · Stacey Halverson

How To Turn On Auto Complete In The Command Prompt

For example, if I am typing in C:\Documents and Settings, I would just need to type in C:\Doc and then press the TAB key. As you can see, there is only one folder that starts with “doc“, so it automatically gets completed with quotes added. Now that’s pretty neat. If you want to continue further, just add another \ to the end and then press TAB. Note that you can add the forward slash after the quote and it will still work just fine....

January 10, 2023 · 3 min · 524 words · Ron Arnold

How To Turn On Ray Tracing In Minecraft

Even Minecraft, known for its retro-style blocky 3D worlds, has not escaped the ray tracing glow-up. It’s not enabled by default, but you’re in for a magical time if you have the right hardware. What Does Ray Tracing Do in Minecraft? First, what’s generally referred to as real-time ray tracing in games is a more advanced approach known as path tracing. The general idea between the two is the same, but the math used in path tracing makes for a better final image....

January 10, 2023 · 5 min · 1063 words · Erica Cardoso

How To Use Vlookup In Excel

The VLOOKUP function in Excel scares a lot of people because it has a lot of parameters and there are multiple ways to use it. In this article you’ll learn all of the ways you can use VLOOKUP in Excel and why the function is so powerful. VLOOKUP Parameters In Excel When you start typing =VLOOKUP( into any cell in Excel, you’ll see a pop-up showing all of the available function parameters....

January 10, 2023 · 6 min · 1121 words · Floria Harper

How To View Your App Download History On Ios And Android

When you want to update or uninstall an app. If someone else is using your device and you’re unsure what apps they downloaded or accidentally deleted.To free up space on your device or reinstall a previously deleted app. Follow these steps to learn how to view your app download history on iOS and Android. How to See What Apps You’ve Downloaded on Android By default, Android users get most of their apps from Google Play Store....

January 10, 2023 · 3 min · 455 words · David Hall

How To Watch March Madness 2022 Online Without Cable

So how can you watch March Madness online in 2022 if you don’t have cable? In this article, we’ll cover the best places you can watch the NCAA tournament online. Where to Stream March Madness Online Four different channels host the games for March Madness online live: CBS, TNT, TBS, and truTV. To watch every game, you will need a service (or multiple services) that provides access to these streams....

January 10, 2023 · 3 min · 637 words · Douglas Zimmerman

Install Boot And Run Mac Os X From An External Hard Drive

Also, since you can run a full copy of OS X on the external drive, it can be used for troubleshooting purposes on other Macs or it can be as a kind of virtual OS X. I’ve already written about how you can install OS X in VMware Fusion, but that takes up space on your Mac. Using an external drive, you can save space on your Mac, though it might be a bit slower if you are using USB 2....

January 10, 2023 · 5 min · 864 words · Eva Alvey

Make Siri More Useful With Custom Shortcuts

Since the, well, Alexa and the nameless Google Assistant have overtaken Siri from a practical usefulness perspective. However, thanks to iOS 12, Siri now has a very powerful set of functions that allow custom integration with third-party apps. It’s called Siri Shortcuts and with it you can create what’s effectively a macro, where a custom voice command will trigger a series of actions. Getting the App Shortcuts may not be installed on your iOS device, at least it was missing from our iPad Pro....

January 10, 2023 · 3 min · 484 words · Steven Odell

Navigate Easier With Android S Smart Text Selection And Selected Text Magnification

The good news is that, with features like Smart Text Selection and Text Magnification, later versions of Android (versions 8 and 9, or Oreo and Pie) have found ways to alleviate some of the tedium. With Smart Text Selection, for example, when you select text in one app, such as, say, a street address in your browser, Android presents you with a suggested shortcut—in this case, the option of finding the location in Google Maps....

January 10, 2023 · 5 min · 983 words · Priscilla Moravek