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How to Check the Apple Pencil Battery Apple’s Pencil is powered by a small built-in battery that must be charged for it to work. Owners of the second-generation Apple Pencil have it easy. To check the battery, magnetically attach the Apple Pencil to the side of your iPad. A pop-up notification indicating battery status will appear at the top of the iPad’s display once the second-generation Apple Pencil is attached. The status only appears briefly, though, and doesn’t help owners of the first-generation Apple Pencil....

Clean Up the Auto-Complete List in MacOS Mail The Apple macOS Mail application has a good memory when it comes to recalling the people you emailed in the past. Its memory is so good that Mail never forgets any email address. You must manually remove it. You can remove the email address of a single person or remove all the old addresses you no longer need by selecting multiples at once in the auto-complete list....

How to Close Apps on Android From the Home Screen To close apps on Android means to shut the apps down. You might shut down an app if it isn’t responding normally, if your phone or tablet is low on memory, or to clear up the screen. Closing running apps from the Home screen is the quickest way to shut them down. How to Close Apps Using the Apps Manager Your phone or tablet has a built-in manager for apps that you should use if you need to close background apps (apps that are running but don’t show up when you follow the method above)....

Manage Your Child’s Browsing on Chrome After setting up a Google Family Link account, you can use the app to manage the websites children can visit on Chrome, limit their ability to grant permissions to websites, and block or allow specific sites. Children signed in to their Google Account can’t use incognito mode. Block or Allow a Site on Chrome You can allow access to specific websites or block others. Your child can ask for permission to visit blocked sites, and the Family Link app notifies you so that you can approve or deny their request....

iRig MIDI 2 The iRig MIDI 2 is the most expensive MIDI solution for the iPad, but it’s also packed with features. The adapter provides MIDI in, out, and thru using the standard MIDI interface. It also has a USB port, so you can keep your iPad’s battery from draining down while you play. This makes it an excellent choice compared to other solutions. If you can’t keep your iPad charged, your playing time will be limited....

How to Create External Templates for Google Slides Unlike working with Google Docs and Google Sheets, you cannot simply copy and paste the contents of a locally-created customized presentation into a Google Slides file. Instead, upload them in the supported .odp format. With a bit of work, you can use customized templates created with LibreOffice or MS Office. Because you cannot add new templates to the Slides Template Gallery, you first need to create a new folder that will house the customized templates....

How to Create an iTunes Playlist To create a playlist in iTunes: If you want to take the playlist with you, you have a couple of options. To take it with you on your phone, sync the device with iTunes. You can also burn a CD if you want a physical copy. How to Delete an iTunes Playlist If you want to delete songs or an entire playlist in iTunes, have two options:...

How to Cut and Copy in Word There are several ways to use the Cut and Copy commands and these are universal to all versions of Microsoft Word. First, use the mouse to highlight the text, image, table, or another item you want to cut or copy. Then, use one of the following commands: Go to the Ribbon, select the Home tab, then select Cut or Copy. Right-click the selected text and choose Cut or Copy....

How Do I Delete an Apple Watch Workout? You can’t actually delete the workout on the Apple Watch itself. The Watch doesn’t have a feature to do that. However, if your Watch is paired to an iPhone, all workout data is saved to the Fitness app (formerly Activity) on your iPhone and you can delete the workout there. Here’s how: How Do You Delete and Edit Workouts on Apple Watch? Along with deleting workouts directly on the Apple Watch, another thing you might want to do, but can’t, is to edit a workout....

How Do I Get Rid of Apps I Don’t Want? There are multiple ways to delete apps that you don’t want from your Android smartphone. Here are two of the easiest. How to Delete Android Apps How to Delete Android Apps From Settings This option is particularly good if you’re trying to free up storage space, since it lets you see which apps take up a lot of space. How Do I Uninstall Preinstalled Apps in Android?...

How to Delete Photos From iCloud While Keeping Them on the iPhone To delete photos from iCloud without deleting them from the iPhone, you need to check your phone’s syncing status. Be sure syncing is turned off. Then, follow the steps below to remove images from the iCloud only: How to See if Syncing is Turned On or Off on iPhone Syncing must be off to ensure photos deleted from iCloud aren’t removed from your iPhone as well....

How to Turn the Chrome PDF Viewer On and Off Google Chrome’s built-in PDF file viewer is turned on by default. It is convenient if you want to view PDFs as quickly as possible, but if you prefer to download copies of PDF files, you can turn off the Chrome PDF viewer to make those downloads happen automatically. The following instructions can be followed by Chrome users on all major operating systems, including macOS, Microsoft Windows, and Linux....

How Do I Find Out What Graphics Card I Have on Windows 11? There are four ways to find out what graphics card you have in your Windows 11 PC. You can check your graphics card in both the Device Manager, the Task Manager, the DirectX Diagnostic Tool, and the Windows Settings app. How to Check Your Graphics Card With Device Manager The Windows 11 Device Manager provides a list of all the devices connected to your computer....

Causes of No Sound Coming From Dell Laptop Speakers There are a multitude of reasons as to why the speakers on your Dell laptop suddenly stop working. Because of this, there isn’t an universal solution for fixing this problem and you may have to try several. Possible reasons why your speakers don’t work include: Software conflictOverlooked volume and audio settingsOut of date or corrupt drivers How Do I Get the Sound Back on My Dell Laptop?...

My iPad Is Disabled and I Didn’t Type in a Wrong Passcode If you (or anyone else) types the wrong passcode into your iPad, it eventually disables itself completely. When your iPad is disabled, someone entered the wrong passcode often enough to disable it. If you have a toddler or an older kid, the child may have typed in the wrong passcode without realizing what might happen to the iPad. Consider childproofing your iPad using parental restrictions....

What Does the Red Light on the Modem Mean? Every manufacturer places a slightly different set of indicator lights on their modems, and the colors of those lights can mean other things from one model to another. Most modem lights tend to be green, and a red light usually indicates a problem or fault. When you see a red light on your modem, it typically indicates: No cable or DSL signal detected on the line: Your internet may be out, or there may be a connection problem....

This issue could relate to an errant app, storage capacity limits, or even hardware conflicts. Whether you rarely encounter it or you’ve seen too much of it, these approaches could resolve the problem. Causes of the Spinning Pinwheel of Death If you experience SPOD, it’s likely that a single frozen app is the cause. It appears when an app exceeds the Mac’s processing capability. The application could need to be updated or removed and reinstalled....

In some cases, bass.dll errors could indicate a registry problem, a virus or malware issue, or even a hardware failure. Bass.dll Error Messages There are several ways bass.dll errors can show up on your computer. Here are some of the more common ones: Bass.dll Not FoundThis application failed to start because bass.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.Cannot find [PATH] of bass.dllThe file bass.dll is missing....

In some cases, gpsvc.dll errors could indicate a registry problem, a virus or malware issue, or even a hardware failure. Common Gpsvc.dll Errors There are several ways that gpsvc.dll error messages might be phrased depending on the cause of the problem, but here are some of the more common gpsvc.dll errors we’ve seen: Gpsvc.dll Not FoundThe file gpsvc.dll is missingThis application failed to start because gpsvc.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problemCannot find [PATH]\gpsvc....

Gsdll32.dll Errors There are several ways gsdll32.dll errors can show up on your computer. Below are some of the more common error messages you might see. Gsdll32.dll Not FoundThis application failed to start because gsdll32.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problemCannot find [PATH]\gsdll32.dllThe file gsdll32.dll is missingCannot start [APPLICATION]. A required component is missing: gsdll32.dll. Please install [APPLICATION] againUnable to load DLL ‘gsdll32.dll’: The specified module could not be found....