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How to Access Google Docs Version History Google Docs version history helps you control changes made to your shared documents, which is important when you’re collaborating on documents with a group of people. Accessing the revision history in Google Docs is easy, and there are a couple of ways to do it. Work With Revision History in Google Docs Once the Version history for a document is open, you should see a list of the saved versions of the document....

How to Plant Seeds in Minecraft The general steps for planting in Minecraft are the same regardless of what you’re trying to grow: What Materials Do You Use to Plant Seeds in Minecraft? Different seeds grow different crops. You can plant some crops to make even more of the same crop. For example, planting 1 Carrot will yield multiple Carrots. This chart explains what you need to plant each crop: Saplings, Mushrooms, and Sugar Cane will grow on any block, but Sugar Cane will only grow near water....

Print Incoming Mail Automatically in Outlook Create an advanced rule to make Outlook print emails automatically as they are retrieved. Add the Print Action in Previous Versions of Outlook Older versions of Outlook have a slightly different menu system for adding rules. To automatically print emails in your inbox, use the procedures below. Access the Rules Wizard in Outlook 2013 In Outlook 2013, to access the Rules Wizard to set up the same rule described above:...

How to Turn On iPad Restrictions Parental controls allow you to regulate what is available on the iPad. First, you need to set a parental controls passcode and turn on Content and Privacy Restrictions. iPad Parental Control Settings After you create a passcode, tailor the restrictions to your child’s age and what areas of the iPad you want them to access. This includes selecting the type of movies (G, PG, or PG-13) and music available to the child, and limiting the device to certain websites....

How Do I Register My Echo Device? Here’s how to set up an Echo Dot: Why Is My Echo Dot Saying It’s Not Registered? If you’re in contact with the original owner of the Echo Dot, you can ask them to deregister it. After they remove the device from their account, you’ll be able to register the Echo Dot with your account. If you have a second-hand Echo Dot you can’t register, ask the previous owner to perform these steps:...

What Does Resetting Network Settings Do, and Should I Do It? Resetting network settings removes and reinstalls your network adapters and sets other components to their original settings in order to fix connection issues. You will erase the configuration for every single adapter and revert everything back to its factory settings. Resetting should be done as a last resort if you’ve already tried all options and nothing seems to work. In most cases, adapters are set to automatically detect changes in the network so you probably won’t see any issues; however, make a note of the settings for the other components if you do decide to reset....

How to Restart an HP Laptop Restarting or rebooting an HP laptop is done the same way you would most laptops and desktop PCs: through the Windows start menu. Your HP laptop should then reboot back to Windows. You can also reboot to the Advanced Startup Options to gain some additional insight into what’s going on with your computer (especially if you’re restarting to solve a problem). If you want to reboot to the Advanced Startup Options menu, you can press Shift+Restart....

How to Roll Back a Driver in Windows The Roll Back Driver feature is used to uninstall the current driver for a hardware device and then automatically install the previously installed driver. The most common reason to use the driver roll back feature is to “reverse” a driver update that didn’t go well. Think of rolling back a driver as a quick and easy way to uninstall the latest driver, and then reinstall the previous one....

How to Use iMovie to Rotate a Video on an iPhone If you accidentally took a sideways video with your iPhone camera when you were sure you were shooting in landscape mode, rotate the video using iMovie, which is free and available from the App Store for both iPhone and Mac. Another free, third-party app for iPhone is Rotate And Flip - RFV. If your iPhone runs iOS 12 or earlier and has iMovie on it, use iMovie to rotate a video....

How to Upload Your Videos to Google Photos Before you can rotate a video, upload it to Google Photos. How to Rotate Your Videos in Google Photos After the video has been uploaded to your Google account, change the rotation. Limitations You can rotate any video you filmed and downloaded to your phone. You cannot rotate videos you downloaded from the internet. The video needs to be saved to your phone and then uploaded to Google Photos to adjust it properly....

You can use an Android emulator. This is an application which simulates an entire Android device (including both hardware and software), so the Android app will behave as if it’s on an Android device. Emulators allow you to install the app locally, so it’s always available, but they borrow a good amount of horsepower from your PC. If you feel like this is the approach for you, use the Bluestacks emulator to run Android apps on your PC....

How to Save on ‘Animal Crossing: New Horizon’ If you’ve spent any time playing ANCH, you’ve likely already noticed there are no settings to tweak and no apparent way to save your game manually. If that gives you hives, we understand. But don’t panic just yet. There is a way to save your game manually, and it’s easier than you think. When you’re ready to save your game, all you need to do is press the — (minus) button on your left controller....

Worried about how you look? You can blur your Google Meet background. How to Use Google Meet’s Tiled View To see all meeting participants at once on your screen in a grid format, choose Tiled view. How to Use Google Meet’s Sidebar View Better for smaller meetings with a featured speaker, the Sidebar view shows the speaker on the main part of the screen and smaller tiles of non-speaking participants in the sidebar to the right....

Ways to Select Multiple Emails in Mac Mail Your Apple Mail account can quickly get out of hand if you don’t read, sort, filter, delete, save, or print some of your emails in an effort to keep up with your correspondence. You can handle one email at a time, but your productivity improves exponentially when you deal with a selection of emails at the same time. Use one of several approaches to collect a range or combination of messages in the Mac Mail application to forward more than one message at once, save them to a file, send a couple to the printer, or quickly delete them....

Change the iPad Screen Background in Photos You have options to personalize your iPad including buying a distinctive case and customizing sounds for email and text messages, but by far the easiest way to add some personality to your iPad is to set a custom background image for your lock screen and your home screen. One way to select a background image (called wallpaper) is by using the Photos app....

Getting Rid of the Jaggies in Line Art You can use this little trick to smooth out those jaggies fairly quickly. This tutorial uses the free photo editor Paint.NET, but it works with most image-editing software. Adapt this technique to another image editor as long as the editor has a Gaussian blur filter and a curves or levels adjustment tool. These are fairly standard tools in most image editors. Save this sample image to your computer by right-clicking if you’d like to follow along with the tutorial....

How to Speed Up Xbox Series X and S Downloads Xbox Series X and S game files are typically massive due to the high quality graphics, as you’re downloading everything needed for 4K resolution regardless of which console you have. If you’re suffering from sluggish downloads, you can use these tips to speed up your Xbox Series X or S downloads and get into the game faster. To speed up your game downloads as much as possible, and start playing sooner, try each of the following troubleshooting tips....

Don’t panic, at least not yet. Chances are a troublesome extension is wreaking havoc. Get rid of the extension and you rid Mozilla Thunderbird of its problems. How, though, can one uninstall an ​add-on without the menus and dialogs in Mozilla Thunderbird that make that possible? Fortunately, Mozilla Thunderbird includes a “safe” mode that disables all extensions before (hopefully) launching the application. You can then uninstall problematic extensions. Start Mozilla Thunderbird in Safe Mode to Uninstall Broken Extensions To launch Mozilla Thunderbird in Safe Mode and get rid of extensions that cause problems, first make sure Mozilla Thunderbird is not running....

Stop an App Download From the Google Play Store Many apps in the Google Play Store (and other app stores) deliberately try to look like other popular apps. Search for a Google app, and you’ll see plenty of copycats. If you accidentally tap Install on one of these lookalikes, you can stop the download immediately by tapping the X next to the progress bar. Stop a Download From an App When you start downloading something from an app, such as a mobile browser or messaging app, there’s no straightforward way to pause or stop the download....

How Do You Stop Your Computer Screen From Recording? There are two standard methods to start recording the screen on your macOS. You don’t need a third-party tool as QuickTime, and the Screenshot toolbar can help you record a part of the screen or the entire screen. The Screenshot toolbar on macOS is a utility tool which can record the computer screen and also take screenshots. The Mac displays a small preview window on the bottom-right of the screen and the recording is saved on the desktop by default....