You should always know, before receiving it, whether a device it refurbished or not. Short of that, a business is using some pretty shady tactics to get one over on you. It’s happened before, and it will likely happen again. While shopping for a smartphone, you need to know the difference between a refurbished phone and a brand new phone. Companies and businesses will lie or deceive to get more money out of their customers....

Clean Up Outlook 2010 Folders and Conversations Important: This is an article for Outlook 2010. If you are looking for modern versions, check out our article on how to clean your Outlook inbox fast. It has been updated for Microsoft 365 (formerly O365). Under the Home ribbon, click the Clean Up tool, and you’ll have three options. Clean Up Conversation – just one chain of emailsClean Up Folder – entire inbox or other foldersClean Up Folder & Subfolders...

You can pair AirPods with Android phones, Windows PCs, and even with a Chromebook. If you like the idea of using AirPods with Google’s low-cost alternative to a traditional laptop, here’s how to connect AirPods to a Chromebook. Do AirPods Work With a Chromebook? The short answer is yes and no. If you want to listen to the audio from your Chromebook through wireless headphones, then you can use your AirPods....

Launch the VLC player and make sure you have the latest version. Click on Help and select Check for Updates. It will show you if a new version is available. Click on Yes when it asks you to install the latest version of VLC. Now, click on the Media menu and select Convert/Save. Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + R to open the convert video dialog box....

Search Folder for Outlook 2010 Launch Outlook and expand an account or your Outlook data file. At the bottom of each account tree, you’ll notice an icon that says Search Folders. Step Two Right-click Search Folders in the account that you’d like to apply the search to and click New Search Folder…. If you’d like the Search Folder to be generated from all of your accounts, right-click Search Folders under Outlook Data File....

We already showed you how to customize fonts in Outlook 2010, but things have changed quite a bit since then. So here’s how to find this little-known setting to customize the font for email titles, row headings, and the body of messages. Customize Outlook Reading Pane Fonts First, from the Ribbon, select the View tab and then Current View > View Settings. When the “Advanced View Settings” window comes up, there are two buttons to note that allow changing fonts — Other Settings and Conditional Formatting....

Too Many Apps? I have about 900 apps installed on my iPhone. And many of them haven’t been used in a long time, if ever. If you’re in the same situation, iOS 11 has a feature you will love. . If you’re curious about how many apps you have installed on your phone, go to Settings > General > About. Apple added a new feature to iOS 11 that allows you to offload unused apps, which is different from deleting apps....

It looks good, but if you find it’s too dark or aren’t a fan of it, you might want to get rid of it. The initial public build of Windows 10 (10240) did not have a built-in option to disable it. However, some third-party solutions became available. Unfortunately, they did not work as intended. We detailed our experiences trying to use one of them. Thankfully, Microsoft started listening to the complaints and added an option to disable it in the November Update within the Personalization settings....

Enabling Remote Desktop for Windows 7 is simple, so this will be a real quick article. It’s worth mentioning that these steps are virtually identical for Windows Vista, too. Update: Windows 7 is no longer supported by Microsoft. For the latest, greatest, and most secure OS, make sure you’re running Windows 10. For more, please read our article on how to use RDP on Windows 10. Enable RDP on Windows 7 1....

This is a great way to get your profile out there on social media or via text message to a new pal. Since TikTok is newer than Instagram, we’ll show you where to find your code and how you can share it right from TikTok. How to Find Your TikTok QR Code Currently, you’ll need to use the TikTok mobile app to get your code. It’s not available on the TikTok website....

This can make it hard to locate one particular video that you have commented on. This guide will cover all of the different ways that you can help narrow down your search. You can also use the troubleshooting methods detailed later in this guide to help you resolve any issues that you might be experiencing while using the TikTok application. How To Find Videos You Commented On TikTok 1. Download Your TikTok Data One of the most concise ways to find a detailed history of the videos you have commented on is to request a copy of your user data from TikTok....

Part of the magic behind IoT (Internet of things) are unique identifiers that enable everything on the planet to communicate. True, we’ve talked about IP Addresses in the past. However, there is a network address down another level that is assigned to every computing network device. And unlike an IP address, it’s assigned at birth / never changes. This is called a MAC address. This has nothing to do with Apple’s line of Macintosh computers, but it too has a MAC address, and we are going to show you how to find it....

Some automated messages are legitimate, like the text messages you may see from your bank. Others are less clear, like phishing attempts, gambling ads, and more. Luckily, Apple provides the ability to hide spam texts from unknown senders on iPhone. An unknown sender on your iPhone is someone texting you who isn’t on your Contacts list. You can sort the text into known and unknown categories. If you want to hide spam texts from unknown senders on your iPhone, you can follow these steps....

Pandora Widget Do you love listening to Pandora but hate the fact that you have to leave your browser open? Countless times my favorite song has been playing only to be promptly interrupted when I accidentally closed the wrong Firefox window. One of the ways to bring Pandora “beyond the browser” is to run it as a Gadget in Windows 7 or Vista. As a gadget, Pandora will never be interrupted by browser mishaps again....

We’re going to create a basic bar graph for this article, but there are other ways to visually represent data like Pie Charts, Line Charts, and Radar Charts. If you haven’t created a chart or graph in Excel before, starting with a bar graph is easy to get started. This article will show you how to create a bar graph in Excel and add some customizations. How to Make a Bar Graph in Excel To start creating your first bar graph in Excel, do the following:...

With Collections, you can organize quizzes for each class or term, surveys for customers or employees, and forms for sign-ups or registrations. However you want to group your forms, Collections in Microsoft Forms makes it easy. How to Create a Collection in Microsoft Forms If you want to create a collection in Microsoft Forms: Add Forms to a Microsoft Teams Collection Once you create a Collection, you can quickly add surveys, quizzes, or forms....

Starting with Windows 8, Microsoft has allowed you to control the behavior of notifications. You can make them display longer or turn them off completely. Here’s how. Configure Windows 10 Notifications To configure the number of seconds that notifications display on the screen in Windows 10, head to Start > Settings. You can also open Settings with the keyboard shortcut Windows Key + I. When the Settings app opens up, click on Ease of Access....

Sadly, Google (YouTube’s owner) doesn’t have a great reputation for privacy. If you want to protect your account on YouTube, you may wish to manage (and boost) your YouTube privacy settings. Here’s how. How to Change Your Privacy Settings on YouTube YouTube allows you to manage some of the information that it shares with other users, such as your playlists and current subscriptions, in your YouTube settings area. You can change these settings via the website or YouTube app....

Move the Start Button on Windows 11 to the Left When you begin using Windows 11, you’ll find yourself automatically moving the mouse pointer over to the lower-left corner to access the Start button. That’s just because of muscle memory. Unfortunately, it isn’t there it’s located at the center of the screen like the shot shown below. Open the Settings page by using the keyboard shortcut Windows key + I (note that several Windows 10 keyboard combos still work in Windows 11)....

How to Pin your Favorite Sites to the New Tab Screen on Chrome To get started, open chrome to a new blank tab. Google Chrome, by default, will list your most visited websites in order from top-left to bottom-right. Hover your mouse over a thumbnail that belongs to each website to display 2 commonly unknown options: Pin and Remove. If you want Chrome to reflect your Most visited websites literally, you can leave it as is....