Home Blog Page 253

Windows Phone 8: Change the Color of Accounts and Events in Calendar

0

The Calendar app in Windows Phone 8, by default, will assign a different color to each type of event or synced account. This may cause confusion when you try to identify which events come from which accounts. To better control and manage them, you can manually set the color for the events or accounts that matter most to you. Continue reading to find out how.

Kindle Fire: How to Disable Automatic Spelling Correction

0

The Kindle Fire has automatic spelling correction enabled by default. As with autocorrect on any device, it is not always helpful to every user, in fact in can actually create more problems than it solves. Here’s how to disable automatic spelling correction.

Word 2013: Save Table Templates for Quicker Access

0

If you usually have to work on documents with the same type of table, you can save that table as a template. By doing so, you can create it later in just a few clicks rather than manually creating a new one and adjusting the columns, rows, and other settings, which may take a lot of your time.

How Do I Prevent Motion Sickness When Using iOS 7?

0
ios 7 logo

With iOS 7, Apple has introduced the parallax effect for still backgrounds. When you tilt your phone, the background will move a bit, which yields a very nice 3D effect for your Home screen. Additionally, new zoom animations occur when you open or quit an app. While these features are wonderful eye-candy, in susceptible people these effects may cause the headaches and feelings of nausea associated with motion sickness.

iOS 7: Disable Translucent Background Effect

0

The new flat design in iOS 7 is a welcome change, but for many users, the style is not suitable for their tastes. Beside revamping the interface for all system apps, many interfaces like Control and Notification Center now have a translucent background which exposes the color of the content behind them.

Facebook App for iOS / Android: Delete or Reorder Stickers

0

The Facebook Stickers Store offers many sticker sets to help you express yourself in conversations with friends. With many sticker sets coming out regularly, you may download one and try it out to see if you like the set or not. This could make your sticker list clutter very fast. Luckily, you can delete and reorder the stickers easily.

iOS: Exclude Apps from Search

0

By default, Spotlight Search in iOS can search for results in a wide range of apps. While one search giving you results across all apps is a convenient feature, it may give results from unnecessary apps, and you may have to scroll very far down to get what you need. To keep the returned results clean and focus only on the apps that matter to you, you can hide other unnecessary apps from Spotlight Search and reorder the most important apps to the top of the result list.

Windows Phone 8: Control and Limit Data Usage

0

If you are using a limited data plan, you always have to worry about the amount of data usage. Luckily, Data Sense from Nokia provides the perfect solution to let you keep track of your internet usage, see which apps consumes the most data, and set the data cap.

Configure Console Login Password on Cisco Switch

Cisco devices allow password protection of console access. This tech-recipe describes configuring the use of a password to protect the console of a Cisco switch.

YouTube: Blur Faces in Videos

0

If you have a video that you want to share with the public but you also want to keep the people in the video anonymous, consider blurring their faces. This tutorial will show you how to do it in YouTube without any third-party applications.

Company of Heroes: How to Enable the Console

0

To utilize some of the cheat codes for CoH, you need to enable the console. To do this, follow the steps in this tech-recipe.

Company of Heroes: How to Toggle the Fog of War

0

As in most war games, CoH obscures the battlefield to hide areas that have not been scouted or occupied to help with the element of surprise. If you are struggling with this, the Fog of War can be disabled using the steps provided in this tech-recipe: