In this digital age, there’s no better way to get children to practice writing than on a medium that they’re familiar with and enjoy. Your child’s smartphone or tablet can be a relevant and useful medium through which your child can learn how to form letters, down to perfecting their handwriting. Fortunately, there are writing apps for kids that can help your child move from the first shaky crayon-written letter, to polished words and sentences....

Windows 10 still needs some tweaking to really offer a good level of security. On top of this, Windows 10 is now also a cloud service, which means that Microsoft now also wants to collect and sell your information. Unless you do something about it, you’ll be sending oodles of private information to Redmond. Depending on your personal level of comfort, that might be a significant security and privacy issue....

In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the most useful commands and skills that you can use with your Echo device and Alexa. Note that you can enable any Alexa skill by simply saying “Alexa, enable the NameOfSkill skill”. 54. Ask Alexa About Her Skills If you’re not sure what you can ask Alexa, just say “Alexa, what things can I try?” and she’ll start telling you different commands you can speak....

Whether you’re a total beginner or a grizzled shredder, these are the six best guitar apps you’ll want on your Android phone. Songsterr (Free, In-app Purchases) Songsterr charges a monthly subscription fee, which might be a little hard to swallow for those of us who are used to getting user-made tablature for free. However, Songsterr is more than just an app to get access to tabs. It makes the whole process of finding, saving and learning songs so much smoother....

Today, our phones hold our phone books in a tiny SIM card, which saves phone numbers, email addresses and the contact’s photo. However, if you get a call or text message from an unknown number that’s not saved on your phone or SIM card, you may need a different service to find the person’s name or identity.To help you with that, here are some of the best sites to identify phone numbers online....

From smartphones to smart TVs, it’s a lot to take in all at once. It often falls to the younger generation to help their elders use and enjoy the benefits of modern tech. We have quite a lot of experience providing help and instruction to people of all ages. That experience has provided a number of key lessons when it comes to dealing with elderly users. If you’ve got users in your life who fall into that category, these general tips will help make the process of teaching technology much easier....

Whatever the reason for changing the boot sequence, the process of accessing the BIOS can vary by computer. The difference will depend on whether you have a legacy BIOS or the newer UEFI BIOS on your computer or both.I won’t go into details on the differences between the two types of BIOS, other than how to access them. Once you have gotten into the BIOS on your computer, you’ll then be able to change the boot order....

You can also take advantage of more than 100,000 Alexa Skills to create routines and further customize your smart home and improve its functionality. How to Create an Alexa Routine Making a new routine in Alexa is simple. There are three main steps involved. Once you learn how to do them, you can set up all the Alexa routines you want. Take a look. Open the Alexa app and tap the More tab in the lower-right corner to open the menu....

One reason for this is pure inertia. It’s not easy to simply change such a massive and entrenched system overnight. Another important factor is a cautious attitude when it comes to preserving the integrity of an election.The nature of paper-based voting fraud is well-known, but once you go digital there are an entirely new set of variables at play. Nonetheless, electronic voting is coming, and when you next head to the ballots there’s a good chance you’ll be pressing a button on a machine rather than marking a piece of paper or punch card....

This season’s hottest new trick they pulled is rolling out Snapchat Cameos. The feature that uses your selfie to replace the faces of people (and animals) in short videos that you can share with your contacts. Find out all there is to know about it and how you can use Cameos to bring more fun into your communication on Snapchat. What is a Snapchat Cameo Snapchat has turned your face into a cartoon before....

In view of this, have you ever stopped to wonder what Google does with the data it collects from you? Or if there’s a way to access this information? Should you even care?Google records almost everything you do with apps, websites, and other services connected to your Google account. This information is compiled and saved in an online profile called “My Activity.”In the next sections, we’ll explain what “Google My Activity” is and how you can use the tool to control Google’s data collection activity....

In this guide, we’ll show you how to insert a table and adjust its properties as well as how to edit a table in Google Docs, sort the table data, and remove a table you no longer want. Insert a Table in Google Docs You can add a table to Google Docs by simply selecting the number of rows and columns you want. Note: You can also select Table templates and pick a premade option if you prefer....

In this step-by-step tutorial, you’ll learn the basic principles of adding background music to videos that’ll work in any video editing app. This is thanks to the fact that video editing tools all tend to manage audio tracks and background music similarly. What Kind of Background Music Do You Want? Before you get started with your video editing project, decide on what exactly you want your final video clip to sound like....

In this article, we’ll walk you through the different ways to add friends on Discord. How To Add Friends on Discord Using the Website or Desktop App While the interface for Discord may look similar to other social media platforms, it can be a bit complicated for some. If you want to add friends using your PC or Mac, follow the steps below: Adding Friends Directly Adding Friends in a Discord Server Apart from adding friends directly, you can also add friends you meet on a Discord server....

If you want to make your Instagram stories stand out a little more, however, you could customize them by adding music. Instagram has the rights agreements with many major music labels, allowing you to directly add snippets of popular music to your Instagram stories with no rights issues to fret over. Here’s how to start adding music to your Instagram stories and make them more entertaining. How to Add Music to Instagram Stories Adding music to an Instagram story is a good way to create a more entertaining story for your followers....

You can add widgets to your phone’s home screen and tap on each widget to fully open the corresponding app. For example, you can add a widget for the Weather or Calendar app on your home screen to get the weather or see your appointments at a glance without having to open the apps.This guide explains how you can add widgets to the home screen or lock screen on your Android or iPhone....

About Changing Your Username on TikTok Here are a few things to keep in mind if you’re considering picking a new TikTok username: You can only change your username once every 30 days. You must pick a unique username that only contains letters, numbers, periods, and underscores. You cannot have a period at the end of the username. Changing your username also changes your profile link. Changing your username removes the verification if you have a verified TikTok account....

If you want to share your activities on Facebook, you can easily do this through a Facebook check-in from your device while you’re out and about. The following steps to learn how to check in on Facebook will help you learn this process to identify local places and share what you’re doing with your Facebook friends. What Is a Facebook Check-In? Facebook Check-In is a special status update that uses location features to identify places near you and informs people of your whereabouts....

In this article, I’m going to talk about how you can use formulas inside tables in Word. There are only a handful of formulas you can use, but it’s enough to get totals, counts, round numbers, etc. Also, if you are already familiar with Excel, then using the formulas in Word will be a piece of cake. Insert Formulas into Word Tables Let’s start out by creating a simple test table....

Peacock TV’s subscription plans ($4.99 per month) are also considerably cheaper than the top streaming services out there. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to download Peacock on your Fire TV Stick How To Install Peacock on Firestick There are two ways to install Peacock TV on your Fire TV device. The installation method to follow will depend on the availability of the streaming service in your region. Peacock is currently available in the United States and other U....