Android Users Alert! 17 malicious apps were uploaded on the Play Store early this month and didn’t get a chance to gain a following, and it had been downloaded around 120,000 times. Most of these are scanner apps. There were some photo editors and messaging apps as well. Once Google was notified about these apps, the company removed them from the Play Store. You can no longer download these apps but if you have them on your phone, you must uninstall them right away....

We write a lot of articles on this site that require you to connect to the Internet at some point. With a device like the iPhone 5, this connection can often occur with a wireless network. Your iPhone can even have its own wireless network, which can leave you asking the question “what is my hotspot password?” A wireless network requires two things – a modem that connects to the outside world via a cable, phone, or fiber optic connection, and a wireless router....

While the traditional way to take pictures on your iPhone involves opening the Camera app and pressing the shutter button, it isn’t always them most convenient way to accomplish this task. Luckily you can also use the side buttons to take images. But you can also customize these buttons, specifically the volume up button, so that it can take burst photos. Our guide below will show you where to find and enable this setting so that you can start taking advantage of the volume up button for multiple pictures....

How to Connect an iPad 2 to a Wi-Fi Network Before you are able to connect to a wireless network from your iPad 2, you will need to know the name of the network to which you wish to connect, as well as the password that is needed to access that network. Once you have this information, follow these steps to connect your iPad to a wireless network. Once you have connected to Wi-Fi on your iPad 2, you should check out the wireless sync feature....

There are a variety of changes you can make in this regard, including options for alternate languages, external keyboards, and even downloadable apps. Adding a new keyboard to your iPhone 7 is helpful when you need to type in a different language, and therefore need some other characters, or you want to use a keyboard app that you had on another phone or device. Or perhaps you type a lot of lengthy documents on your iPhone and would prefer to use a Bluetooth keyboard so that you can type faster and more accurately....

Using a Downloaded Pattern in Photoshop CS5 This tutorial is going to assume that you have already downloaded or otherwise acquired the pattern file that you want to add to Photoshop. Patterns are a great way to add an interesting look to a background or selection, because they are designed specifically for that purpose. Where you might otherwise only been able to use a solid color or gradient, you can now add a much more professional looking option....

Our guide below will show you how to add more rows to a Word 2013 table if the current number of rows in insufficient. You can add these rows either at the end of the table, or above and below current existing rows in the table. How to Add Additional Rows to a Word 2013 Table The steps in this article will assume that you have a table in a Word document, and that you wish to add additional rows to that table....

Instead of opening your browser each time, you can add a website to the home screen on your iPhone. This creates an app-like icon on your screen that you can tap to open the site directly. When you add a website to the home screen on iPhone, it behaves like an app. You can drag the icon to different locations on your screen or add it to a folder if you want....

You have two simple ways to add accent marks in Word. You can use a button in the ribbon or a keyboard shortcut. We’ll show you both so you can use whichever is most convenient for you. Using Symbols in the Word Ribbon Letters with accents are available in the Symbols collection in Microsoft Word. You simply select a font style, locate the letter, and pop it into your document....

But if you download just a few quality game titles, you’ll quickly find that the paltry 8 GB of internal storage is not enough. But now, the previously useless USB port on the back of the box can be used to expand its storage space. Add External Storage to Fire TV Plug a flash drive into the USB port on the back of your Fire TV. For this article, I’m using a USB 3....

Our tutorial below will show you how to take an existing list of information in a Word 2013 document and turn it into a list that has been sorted based upon the first letter of the word on each row of the list. Alphabetizing a Word 2013 Selection This article will focus on alphabetizing a list of information that has been entered individually on its’ own line. You can use the alphabetizing feature in other situations as well, such as alphabetizing a table column....

We’ve shown you how to limit the amount of disk space the Recycle Bin uses. But Microsoft added a utility to Windows 10 that’s still available in Windows 11, called Storage Sense, which makes keeping a handle on your storage space a lot easier. And it includes management of the Recycle Bin. Here’s how to automatically make Windows 11 clear out the Recycle Bin on a schedule, so you don’t need to think about it....

Don’t like this functionality? There are a few ways to stealthily edit a Google Docs document and become anonymous. You’ll need to make sure the document is set up to allow this, however. If you want to know how to be anonymous in Google Docs, follow our steps below. How to Go Anonymous in Google Docs If you’re editing a Google Docs document, you’ll normally need to be signed in to your Google account....

Fortunately you have control over many of the display options in Google Sheets, and one of those options is the horizontal alignment of the data in your cells. Our tutorial below will show you how to select data in your Google Sheets file and move that data to the center of the cell. How to Move Data to the Middle of the Cell in Google Sheets The steps in this article were performed in the desktop version of Google Chrome....

What is the difference between an MBR and GPT partition style? A MBR (Master Boot Record) is the partition style that has been around since the early days of the PC. It can run a maximum of 4 partitions; each partition can have a maximum size of 2TB. GPT (globally-unique-identifier partition table) is the new-school partition style that can support up to near 9.5 billion terabytes on a single volume. Each GPT volume can be up to 256 TB in size with a total of 128 partitions, but this is because of limits set on it by the NTFS file structure....

Almost every program that you use on your computer that includes text input allows for some level of customization in the way that text appears. Whether it’s a document in Word or a spreadsheet in Excel, there are options that let you choose how text appears in those applications. Do you have contacts from another account? Find out how to import them to Gmail with a CSV file so that you can access them there, too....

But the alarms that you create may not need to go off at the same time forever, so you might need to change that time at some point in the future. Our tutorial below will show you how ot change the time for your iPad alarm clock so that it goes off at the new, correct time that you need. How to Change the iPad Alarm Clock Time Our guide continues below with additional information on how to change the alarm time on an iPad, including pictures of these steps....

Change Windows 11 Account Picture Note: You need to have an Administrator or Standard account to change a photo. Also, the steps for changing an account image are the same for local, and Microsoft accounts via Settings. To begin, click on the Start button and then click Settings. Alternately, you can use the keyboard shortcut Windows key + I to open the Settings app directly. Next, click on the Accounts option from the list on the left....

Changing your Windows 8 account profile picture or photo is simple if you know where to look. It’s also nice customization that can personalize your Windows 8.1 Installation. It’s also a nice touch if you have multiple users on the same computer. Change Account Picture From the Start screen, right-click your current photo and then click “Change account picture.” You can also change your Account Picture under the PC Settings, where you can also customize your Start screen and Lock screen....

Or, perhaps you are trying to go somewhere else in your city, and would like to know the cost of an Uber or Lyft. Regardless of the reason you are using the Maps app, there are apps that can integrate with it to provide you with this other information that you might need to know. Our tutorial below will show you how to check the permissions for these types of extensions so that you can decide whether or not the data from the Maps app gets shared with those services....