How to Find the Perfect GIF: 10 Must-Try Websites Serving as snackable -- and often laughable -- bits of visual content, GIFs help us accurately convey our thoughts and feelings when we're limited to virtual communication. The trouble is, finding the perfect GIF by hunting through Google Image Search or that desktop folder of your favorites can take way more time than it's worth. Finding the right GIF doesn't have to be a lengthy process -- you just have to know where to look. To help, we've collected 10 awesome websites below that'll help you find what you're looking for quickly ... without forcing you to lower your GIF standards. (Or, want to create your very own GIF?
mindmup Capture ideas at the speed of thought – using a mind map maker designed to help you focus on your ideas and remove all the distractions while mindmapping. Create unlimited mind maps for free, and store them in the cloud. Your mind maps are available everywhere, instantly, from any device. Brainstorm, create presentations and document outlines with mind maps, and publish your ideas online and to social networks.
11 Apple AirPod tips because you never read the manual Apple's AirPods are convenient and wireless. But if you've found yourself with a pair and are still wondering how to make the most of them, including how to avoid losing them, we have your back. It's pretty easy to pair them with your Apple products and start listening to music, but there's a lot more to know about AirPods if you want to make the most of them. Here's what you need to know. The pairing process for the AirPods takes three seconds -- literally. Open the charging case, wait for the prompt on your phone, tap Connect and you're done.
Indie Box: Let's Bring Our Data Home The first ready-to-use personal server appliance for storing personal data and running indie web applications at home. Made for humans, not just geeks. Pre-installed indie web applications provide functionality such as calendaring, address book management, publishing, sharing, bookmarking, photo and media management and more. Indie Box One eliminates the need to entrust our personal data to big internet companies who often share and use it in ways we don't appreciate. By keeping personal data at home under our own control, Indie Box One lets us cut the cord from the ever-more invasive internet overlords and their monetization schemes and become independent citizens of the internet again.
How to boost your phone's slow data connection or poor signal strength It's incredibly frustrating when your phone won't load web pages, send messages or Facebook won't refresh -- especially when you're in an area you know has a strong cellular signal. Wireless networks are complicated, and there are numerous factors that can cause coverage hiccups and signal issues. Sometimes it's the carrier, other times it's your phone. The tried-and-true fix is turning Airplane mode on, waiting a few seconds, and then turning it off. But that doesn't always work, and when it doesn't, you'll need to take more drastic steps like removing your SIM or resetting network settings.
How to prioritize Apple Health sources on iPhone Apple’s Health app is a great place to see a summary of your activity and other health data. But if you have multiple devices that are acting as sources for the same data, you may get the best results by choosing which devices are prioritized for different measurements like steps, heart rate, distance traveled, and more. You may want to prioritize Apple Health Data sources permanently or change them based on your needs. For example, if you’re thinking of running a marathon, you may want to make an external heart rate monitor your primary data source so your Apple Watch battery lasts longer (with Power Saving Mode). There are lots of other scenarios where prioritizing your health sources can be beneficial, especially if you know that one device in particular is the best fit for tracking a certain measurement.
How to turn your old, slow laptop into an awesome Chromebook for your kids School starts for my kids in a few weeks and all three of them will be working on Chromebooks in class. We have one at home, but as they've grown, so has the amount of time they need to spend on it and, well, they're not always the best at sharing. There are certainly some good deals on new ones, but I was hoping to find another way. Buried in a closet of tech flotsam was a 2011 HP Pavilion dm1z, an 11.6-inch netbook running on an AMD E-350 processor with integrated graphics, 3GB of memory and a 320GB hard drive. I made the mistake of updating the laptop's OS from Windows 7 to Windows 10 in 2016, which essentially turned it into a battery-powered paperweight, but also a perfect candidate for a fresh start as a Chromebook. Google's Chrome OS isn't available for consumers to install, so I went with the next best thing, Neverware's CloudReady Chromium OS.
How to delete your phone's zombie apps and old online accounts You've been a fervent web user for a couple of decades now, plus you've owned a smartphone for coming up to ten years. All this online activity accumulates a huge amount of digital clutter. Free trials that you signed up to. That dormant Flickr account. How to Build a Computer The Digital Trends PC Build Guide Choosing the right componentsPutting the hardware togetherWhat to do if your new rig won’t boot Building a computer used to be a complicated process where careful selection of delicate parts was a necessity. When that collection of components finally booted for the first time, it was a triumphant experience. Knowing how to build a computer made you quite the tech-head.
How to Change a PDF to a Word File When you want to convert a PDF to Microsoft Word, you have numerous options. While they all work best when the PDF file primarily contains text and each one is straightforward to use, the best method largely depends on your personal preference and the applications you're most comfortable using. Word, Adobe Acrobat, and even Google Docs feature an approach to convert PDF to DOCX. Instructions in this article apply to Word 2019, Word 2016, Word 2013, and Word for Office 365. How to Save a PDF as a Word Document When a PDF file is mostly text, opening it within Microsoft Word will convert it to a DOCX file automatically. How to Set Up Your Signature in Apple's Markup & Make It Easy to Sign Forms on Your iPhone Who needs a pen when you've got an iPhone? If you have a form, agreement, or contract that you need to quickly sign, you do it directly from iOS without the use of a third-party app. Using Markup, which is available in several native Apple apps, you can sign and send important documents in just a few seconds. Below, we'll show you what Markup looks like in each of these apps — including Books, Files, Mail, Messages, Notes, Photos, and Safari — and how to draw your signature, then save it for use anytime you need to sign other documents on the go. Note: There are a few differences between Markup on iOS 12 and iOS 13, so we'll be making a note of that whenever they come up, but we'll primarily focus on iOS 13.
How to manage your shortcuts on iPhone and iPad If you have a large collection of shortcuts, either that you've added to your library from the gallery or an external source, or that you've created on your own, you might be wondering how you can get a handle on them. Well, Shortcuts makes it easy to rearrange, delete, and even duplicate your shortcuts, all with a few taps. Likewise, it's also easy to manage options like having a shortcut appear on (or disappear from) the Shortcuts widget that appears in the Today view, as well as the share sheet that you use when you want to share content in other apps. How to rearrange your shortcuts How to delete shortcuts
15 Apple Maps Tips That Will Help You Navigate Like a Champ Before the arrival of Apple Maps in 2012, Google Maps was the default navigation app for iOS. But Apple wasn’t happy letting Google commandeer all that territory by itself and it was determined to create its own unique mapping app for its hardware. The project has had its ups and downs over time, but with iOS 13, using its own original mapping tools and analytics, Apple launched an overhauled Maps app.
Lock down your Gmail account like it's Fort Knox: Google Advanced Protection Program You keep a lot of sensitive information in your Google account -- bank account balances, email addresses and phone numbers, pictures of your face, your friends' faces, your family. If you want to protect that sensitive data with the highest level of security you can get, you'll want to take a look at the Google Advanced Protection Program. Google's program makes it practically impossible for anyone other than you to access your Gmail, Google Drive, Google Photos or other Google services. Google claims it offers the strongest consumer-grade security available. You have a right to be concerned -- data breaches have become so commonplace that CNET now keeps a running tally. Just last month, hackers rang up thousands of dollars' worth of Facebook ads on unsuspecting users' credit cards.