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Jun
24
2024

How to Use an Image as the Background in PowerPoint

What is Powerpoint? PowerPoint is a slideshow presentation program that is a part of the Microsoft Windows Office suite of software products. PowerPoint makes it very easy to create, collaborate, and present your ideas in a more, visually compelling and dynamic way. Using an Image as the Background in PowerPoint If you can not find the slide background that you are looking for in a PowerPoint presentation library, you can use make use of any image of your own choosing. PowerPoint makes this t.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Make an Old Mac, MacBook, or iMac Faster

Speeding up your MAC PC Every computer would start to show its age over time. You would very likely know the signs of an outdated Mac PC: you can make a sandwich in the time it takes to boot up, it would not support a recent version of macOS, and modern resource-intensive software would struggle to run on it. But you might not have to get a new computer just yet. Mac devices hold their value for a reason, and there are several steps that you can take to get some more life out of an old MacBook.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Keep a Windows Laptop Awake With the Lid Closed

Keeping your Display On While your Windows PC mostly works very good on-the-go, you can also make use of it at home too. By connecting an external keyboard, monitor, and mouse, a laptop can also function as a desktop. But there is also one problem with this, which is: how do you keep the laptop on when it’s closed? By default, the Windows OS puts your laptop to sleep when your lids get closed. This means that even if you do not want to use your laptop screen as a secondary monitor, you s.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Increase Dedicated Video RAM

What Is Dedicated Video RAM? The computer Video RAM is a special type of RAM that works together with your computer’s graphics processing unit, usually shortened to as GPU. The GPU is simply a chip that is on your computer’s graphics card (or video card) which is responsible for showing images on your screen. Though technically not correct, the terms GPU and graphics card are mostly used interchangeably. How to Check Your VRAM You can easily change the amount of video RAM that yo.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Use GarageBand and Free Music Loops to Create Your Own Tracks

What is GarageBand? GarageBand is a line of digital audio workstations that is made available for iOS and macOS devices which allows users to make their own music or podcasts. GarageBand is created and sold by Apple for macOS and iOS, and it is a part of the iLife software suite. GarageBand music and podcast creation tools allow its users to make several tracks with already-made MIDI keyboards, pre-made loops, a list of several instrumental effects, and voice recordings. You do not need to hav.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Secure Your Discord Account

What is Discord? Discord is a free voice, video, and text chat application for teenagers and adults from the age of 13 upwards. Discord is all fun and games until your account is stolen fro you. Ensure that no one can access your account, even if they steal your discord password, by implementing two-factor authentication in your account. Do not forget to update your password and privacy settings regularly. How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication in Discord The two-factor authentication (2FA) .

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Jun
24
2024

How to Create a Teams Meeting in Outlook

What is a Microsoft team meeting? Microsoft Teams is simply a chat-centered workspace that is included in Office 365 which helps team members to achieve more together. Aside from just chats, Microsoft Teams also offers support for video calls and meetings to enable teams to meet live, whether it is on-demand or a scheduled meeting. Now that working from home is the defacto, video conferences are turning out to be the de facto way to meet. Here is how to create Microsoft Teams meetings directly.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Reset Your Apple Watch and Its Passcode

How to Reset an Apple Watch From Your iPhone If you have forgotten the passcode of your Apple Watch, the first way to reset the device is by making use of your iPhone. Open up the companion Watch application on your phone, then choose the My Watch tab. Click on General and then, scroll down to the very end of the page. At the bottom, click on Reset. On the Reset page, click on the first option which is Erase Apple Watch Content and Settings. Because it is impossible to undo this, you will have.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Fix a Windows 10 Kernel Power Error

What Is a Kernel-Power Critical Error? The Kernel-Power critical error is a system error that makes your system to crash. The error can trigger a number of problems, though, they are all related to a power issue. However, the Kernel-Power issue does not always show a power supply issue, Instead, it would show an issue with your system hardware that is causing a power fault, and in turn, your system to crash. The Kernel-Power critical error is denoted with the Event ID 41. Also, the Kernel-Pow.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Fix Your Keyboard Typing Numbers Instead of Letters

What is Num Lock? Have you ever been in a situation where you are typing on your laptop and, all of a sudden, some of the keys start outputting as numbers and symbols instead of as the letters that it should, for me, my keys such as "U, I, O ' changed to "456". What’s going on? The most likely answer to this problem would fall on your Num Lock key. Num Lock, Which is the short abbreviation for “number lock,” is a feature of PC keyboards that dates back to the very first IBM P.

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