So having a decent camera available to you all the time has probably led to more picture taking. But sometimes you want to capture something that is happening at the spur of the moment, and the couple of seconds that it takes to get to the Camera app might be too long. Fortunately, there is a faster way to access the camera from your lock screen on the iPhone 5....

Have Spotlight Search Check Other Locations on the iPhone Adding every option in Spotlight Search might initially seem like a good idea, but it can be problematic if you include something with a lot of data, such as your Mail, that could return a lot of useless results for more generic terms. So keep the tutorial below in mind so that you can return to the Spotlight Search menu and tweak it as needed until it is running optimally....

The list below can be fun to check out if you want to see what the most popular laptops looked like a few years ago. It give you a good idea of how much technology has changed over the years, while also allowing you to see how prices have dropped for components over time. September 2012 Best Selling Laptop Computers Between $1000 and $1200 5. HP ENVY 15-3040NR 15.6 Inch Laptop (Black/Silver)...

Preparing the Frames for Your Animated GIF in Photoshop CS5 An animated GIF in Photoshop CS5 is actually five separate images that you are going to arrange as layers. Each layer is going to represent a frame of your image, so each frame needs to be slightly different to help indicate that there is an action or movement occurring in your animated GIF. For the purposes of this tutorial, I am going to be creating an animated GIF in Photoshop CS5 of a star that is moving across a black background....

Our tutorial below will show you where to find the setting on your phone that will disable the Siri functionality. Once this process is completed, you will no longer be able to use Siri at all unless you choose to reactivate her at a later time. How to Turn Off Siri in iOS 10 The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus, in iOS 10.0.3. After you have completed these steps, you will know longer be able to use Siri on your iPhone....

Fortunately touchscreen laptops have also become a lot more affordable, and they work a lot better than earlier versions of the product that were available just a few years ago. So if you have decided to buy a new Windows 8 touchscreen laptop, then the five models mentioned below are all great options. Click here to see even more touchscreen laptop models, sorted from lowest to highest price. 1. Acer Aspire V5-122P-0863 11....

Windows 7 computers come with a lot of good fonts by default. These fonts vary wildly in their styling, ensuring that you will find something to suit your needs, whether it is a serious font, a fun font, a script font, or something else. However, Photoshop CS5 users often need to add something to their designs to make them really stand out for a crowd, and that is something that might not be possible using only your Windows 7 system fonts....

But you may be asking “how do you scan a QR code with an iPad” if you are on the Apple tablet and trying to use its camera to scan one of those codes. Fortunately, it’s very similar to how you would accomplish that on an iPhone. How to Scan QR Codes on an iPad This guide continues below with additional information to answer the question of how do you scan a QR code with an iPad, including pictures of these steps....

Getting Started With the Chromecast As you can see from the picture above, the Chromecast is actually a small device, similar in size to a USB flash drive. You connect it to an HDMI port on your television, then you can turn on your TV and switch it to the input channel to which the Chromecast is connected. You then complete a short setup procedure where you use a computer, smartphone or tablet to connect the Chromecast to your wireless home network....

The size of a picture or video on your iPhone can vary significantly depending upon the type of image or video that you take and store. For example, screenshots might only be 1 MB in size or so, while large video files can be hundreds of MB. Our guide below will show you where to check on your iPhone if you are curious about the amount of space that all your pictures and videos are consuming on your iPhone....

If you need to add an outline to an excel text box then you can select the text box, click the Format tab, Click the Shape Outline button, then choose the desired border color. While it is customary to display data in Excel in the cells of the spreadsheet, situations can arise where you need to display your information in a way that will not affect the layout of the rest of your cells....

But over time you may end up with a large number of these custom folders, making it difficult to quickly find the ones that you need. One way to organize your folders a little better is by sorting them alphabetically. Our guide below will show you an option in Outlook 2013 that will do this for you automatically, thereby making it a simpler task to find the folder that you need....

Include a $ Symbol When Entering Numbers in Excel 2010 This tutorial is going to focus on formatting a specific column of data as currency values. You can, however, select a row number or a specific group of cells that you want to format instead of selecting an entire column, as we will be doing in the steps below. Step 1: Open your spreadsheet in Excel 2010. Step 2: Click the letter of the column that you want to format as currency to select the entire column....

Send Yourself a Copy of Emails that You Send From Your iPhone 5 One of the benefits of using the BCC feature as opposed to the CC option is that it won’t allow other people to see the addresses of the other people to which the message was sent. If you are using multiple email accounts on your phone, for example, it also allows you to send the email to a more private email account without letting the other recipients of the message know that this email account exists....

After you have spent some time investigating you will be ready to complete our buy blog domain name process using GoDaddy. You will then be the owner of that domain name and you will be able to link it to a hosting company and set up a custom email with something like Google Workspace. Speaking of Google Workspace, you can also read our create website Google Workspace guide if you want to use Google’s website application for your site....

In a perfect world, these will all be what you need them to be, but it’s possible that you will need to adjust some of them. Fortunately, you can learn how to change automatic font color in Word if the current setting isn’t what you need. How to Change the Default Font Color in Word 2013 Our article continues below with additional information on how to change automatic font color in Word, including pictures of these steps....

When you press one of these buttons, then book will skip forward or backward by a predetermined amount. But if you are finding that amount to be too large or too small, then you might be looking for a way to change it. Our tutorial below will show you how to change the amount of time that you jump forward or backward in the Audible app when you press one of those buttons....

But if you have multiple email accounts on your iPhone, then you may have multiple calendars. You might even be using the Google Calendar iPhone app to access your Google calendar. It is simple to switch between these accounts on the device, but it can be frustrating if events are getting added to the wrong calendar. One way to fix this problem is to select a default calendar for your iPhone....

. This bigger screen makes it easier to read Web pages in the Safari browser, and it means that videos that you watch on the device will be larger. The iPhone 6 Plus also has an option that allows you to choose the level of zoom that will be applied to everything that you view on your screen. One other iPhone display option called True Tone can be really useful....

The iPhone can use a lot of data when it has a good Internet connection and you are downloading or updating apps or streaming content. Our tutorial below will show you some of the download over cellular iPhone settings that you can adjust to try and minimize the amount of cellular data that you use. How to Turn Cellular Data for Automatic Downloads On or Off for an iPhone Our guide continues below with additional information on the download over cellular iPhone setting, including pictures of these steps....