The Clock app on your iPhone has another helpful feature stored within it, and that is the Timer. you can use this to time segments of a workout, or to set a timer for something that you are cooking in the kitchen. And since you are usually near your iPhone anyway, there is less risk of leaving it somewhere that it might not be heard. So check out our short guide below to learn how to use your iPhone as a timer....

The timer functionality of the iPhone’s Clock app lets you specify a period of time, at which point the iPhone will play a sound to let you know that you need to do something. Whether you use this for cooking or exercising purposes, such easy access to a good timer can come in handy in many situations. Our guide below will show you how to use this feature of your device....

Our tutorial below will show you how to select a slide and apply a transition effect to that slide. You will be able to choose from a handful of different transition effects, and you can even modify the speed of some of them. How to Add a Transition to a Slide in Google Slides The steps in this article assume that your presentation has at least two slides. The transition will be shown as the presentation reaches that slide....

Fortunately you can achieve this behavior by changing the default browser on your computer. Our guide below will help you find and modify this setting so that any Excel links you click in the future will open in your preferred browser. How to Choose Which Browser Excel Links Open in When You Click Them The steps in this article were performed on a computer using Windows 7. The result of completing this tutorial will be a change to the default Web browser on your computer....

Fortunately Excel 2010 also has a spell checking utility, and it is very similar to the one found in Word 2010. Our guide will show you how to access and use it to fix any typos that might exist in your spreadsheet. Check Spelling in an Excel 2010 Spreadsheet This tutorial was written specifically for Microsoft Excel 2010. However, these steps are very similar for other versions of Excel as well....

These types of ads are convenient, but they’re also highly intrusive. There’s a way to stop this ad tracking, however, at least on your mobile devices. Beginning with iOS 14.5, Apple added a new privacy tool to thwart these types of ads from happening. Best of all, it’s only a one-step process. If you want to stop ad tracking on your iPhone, here’s what you’ll need to do. How to Manage iPhone Ad Tracking to Block Personalized Ads The App Tracking Transparency tool gives you the option to block app developers from using your personal information for targeted ads in certain apps....

But the default settings for these features will make it so that any audio message that you send or listen to will be deleted from your iPhone after 2 minutes. This choice was likely made in an effort to conserve space on the device, but you may decide that you would like to keep your audio messages around for a little longer. Fortunately you can elect to set up your iPhone so that you audio messages are never automatically deleted by following our guide below....

Stop the iTunes Default Player Prompt Nag screens are very annoying, thus the moniker that they have been assigned. We expect a program to operate in a specific way when we launch it, and this intrusion into our expected behavior is frustrating. At this time I also want to point out that iTunes is not the only program that obsessively prompts for default program status. All of the major Web browsers will do the same thing, providing that you have more than one browser installed on your computer, and you need to take action to prevent them from displaying their own nag screens as well....

If you have had trouble finding that message, then you might have enabled a setting on your iPhone that causes you to send yourself copies of the emails that you write on the device. But after using that setting for a while you might determine that you don’t need it any longer. Our guide below will show you how to get rid of the BCC option for the iPhone Mail app....

One way that you can make it a little more difficult for them to find your recent documents is to hide all of them. Removing the list of recent documents in Excel 2013 creates a barrier to finding your recent workbooks, ensuring that anyone who simply opens Excel on your computer won’t be able to immediately find what you have been working on. How to Hide the List of Recent Documents in Excel 2013 The steps below are going to hide the list of documents that is visible when you click the Open option in the column at the left side of the Excel 2013 File menu....

But you may decide later that you do not like the ability to sync data between your Chrome installations, and that you would prefer to turn it off. Our guide below will show you how to disable Chrome syncing on your iPhone. Turning Off Data Syncing for Chrome in iOS 9 The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 6 Plus, in iOS 9.2. Once you have finished the steps in the guide below, the history and data from the Chrome browser on your iPhone will no longer sync with the data for other instances of Chrome that you are using on other computers and devices....

The only thing better than watching Disney+ is watching Disney+ with friends. Having a physical watch party isn’t always possible, however. The good news is that you can still watch your favorite Disney+ content together, even if you can’t all be in the same place. By streaming on Discord, you can all watch the same show in real-time and discuss it over Discord as you watch. If you’re unsure how to stream Disney Plus on Discord, here’s what you’ll need to do....

Although you can make the speaker sound better by adjusting EQ settings, getting it to say your name without making it sound weird is a different story. You can go about this two ways. The first one is to use your nickname if you have a more pronounced one. However, if you don’t have one or have one you don’t like, you can also spell your name out. Nickname on Google Home By default, Google Home will use your name....

Disabling an account allows you to preserve the users’ settings and files if you need to restore access to it later. Windows 11 provides a few different ways to disable an account using the Settings app or the more technical Computer Management tool. If you want to temporarily disable an account on Windows 11, follow these steps. How to Temporarily Disable an Account on Windows 11 As we’ve mentioned, there are two methods for disabling an account on Windows 11 using the Settings or Computer Management tools....

Google’s multilingual translation service can translate text, speech, images, websites, or even real-time video. You can access it via its web interface, mobile apps for iOS and Android, or browser extension. Translate Text with Google Translate If you need to translate a bit of text quickly, you can type: Google Translate into search to get the basic translation tool. This provides an easy way to quickly copy and paste some text and get the translation to and from the language you need....

In that instance, you can turn off the active status feature on Facebook. Turning it off will give you a modicum of privacy by not allowing users and other contacts to find out about your online presence on the social network. Turning off active status on Facebook is straightforward on your desktop and mobile devices. Here’s how to do it. How to Turn Off Active Status on Facebook on a PC or Mac First, we’ll look at turning off active status on Facebook using your desktop browser....

But if you decide that you no longer need the vibration to alert you to new information, and that it is more of a problem than it is a solution, you may be looking for a way to disable it completely. Rather than going through and changing all of the vibration settings for your individual apps, your iPhone has a setting that will simply disable every vibration on the device....

One of the options that you will find in Microsoft Excel 2010 is an “autofill” button that appears when you paste content into your cells. While the assorted options that are included with that button can allow you to perform certain pasting actions more quickly, the presence of the button can lead to misclicks, and it can make it difficult for you to make adjacent selections. You can remove the autofill or paste options button in Excel by going to File > Options > Advanced > then unchecking the box to the left of Show Paste Options button when content is placed....

But you may find that you are having trouble with a Bluetooth device, or that your iPhone is connecting to a Bluetooth device automatically when the device is turned on. One way to prevent this is by simply turning off the Bluetooth feature on your iPhone. Our guide below will show you how to do so. Turning Off Bluetooth on an iPhone 6 The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 6 Plus, in iOS 9....