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Making a PowerPoint Presentation Read-Only With read-only turned-on in Microsoft PowerPoint, you can no longer edit the presentation. Therefore, you shouldn’t make this change until you’re finished with the presentation. To make a PowerPoint Presentation read-only: In the pull-down menu, you’ll see four options: When selected, Always Open Read-Only tells readers the file is read-only and shouldn’t be edited.Mark as Final lets readers know this is the finished copy of this file....

Action Center Quick Action Buttons Action Center is the place in Windows 10 that provides system notifications as well as notifications from apps like email and Twitter. It also includes Quick Action buttons for getting to system settings. You can get to it by clicking the Action Center button on the lower-right corner of the taskbar next to the clock. The Quick Action buttons are at the bottom of Action Center....

Since the release of Show Mode and Dock for Fire HD 8 and 10 tablets, your tablet becomes a completely new device. At the same time, ads don’t display while the tablet is docked, and in Show Mode, ads are displayed again on the lock screen when you remove it from the dock. Remove Ads on Fire HD That’s it! The lock screen will only display random high-quality stock backgrounds like the one shown below and no ads....

Remove or Hide Teams Chat Button on Windows 11 Of course, as with anything in Windows, there is a couple of ways to do something. That includes hiding the Chat button. The easiest and most obvious way is to right-click the Chat icon on the taskbar and select Hide from taskbar when it pops up. That’s all there is to it. The Chat icon will disappear from the taskbar, and you can continue with your workflow....

Change Windows 10 User Account Name Hit the Windows key on your keyboard and type: control panel and select the classic Control Panel app from the list of results at the top. Then change the “View by” dropdown to large or small icons if it isn’t selected already. Now scroll down and click on the User Accounts option. That opens up the User Accounts section in the classic Control Panel, and from there, select Manage another account....

Google opened up invites again this evening and I went ahead and invited everyone who left a comment below. Probably over 15 invites went out. Your welcome! ;) Step 1 – Sign into your Google Account Use your favorite web browser (Chrome seems least likely to cause errors) to visit http://www.google.com and login to your Google account using the new Sign in button at the top-right google bar (as I’m starting to call it)....

Scan a Document to Google Drive on Android Open Google Drive on your Android device and tap the plus sign. Then, select Scan. Get your document in the camera frame and tap the shutter button to capture the scan. You’ll then see the scan display. Tap the checkmark to keep the scan or the trash can to delete it and rescan it. You can then use the editing tools in Google Drive to crop, rotate, or change the color of the scan....

Schedule Windows to Sleep and Wake Automatically There are third-party power management programs that do this, many of which come bundled with laptops. But if you are on a plain vanilla Windows desktop, you may want just to go ahead and do it natively. Here’s how: Disable hybrid sleep/hibernation. (Optional, but recommended.) Create a script file (.bat) to put your computer to sleep. Create a script file (.bat) to wake your computer....

All these features add a lot of convenience to your browsing experience, but it would also be a huge pain if you had to personalize Chrome separately on your other devices. Chrome’s Sync feature comes to the rescue allowing you to use the same preferences, extensions, themes, bookmarks, etc., on all your devices. Today we’ll show you how to set up Chrome Sync and connect all your devices. Set Up Chrome Sync Unlike Firefox Sync, you don’t have to register for a Sync account in Chrome....

SkyDrive Selective Sync Right click the SkyDrive icon on the system tray and select Settings. Then click Choose Folders. This gives you a list the folders you have on your SkyDrive. Just go through and uncheck the ones you don’t want to sync to your computer. Everything you’ve stored in SkyDrive is still there, but it will only sync what you want to your computer. Remember that with your Microsoft account, you automatically get 7GB of space in SkyDrive....

Take Mac Screenshots You can launch the macOS Screenshot tool using the Shift + Command + 5 keys on the keyboard or by clicking on it from LaunchPad. You can also activate it through the Touch Bar on select MacBook Pro models. The Screenshot tool offers five different solutions; three involve photo-taking, while the other two concentrate on video recording. Note: The Screenshot tool is available on macOS Mojave and later only....

The Light theme has been overhauled in this release. It is a system-wide elegant theme that brings lighter colors to the Start menu, taskbar, Action Center, touch keyboard, and other elements of the OS. It even includes a new default desktop wallpaper. We’ve shown you how to turn on the Dark Theme on Windows 10 (which has been available for a while). And here we’ll take a look at going the other way and enable the new Light Theme....

You can link your Google Calendar from the Echo app which is available for iOS, Android, Kindle Fire tablets, and there’s an Echo web interface as well. Once you have your account linked, you’re now able to add items by saying: “Add event to my calendar” or to be more specific, you can say something like “Add meeting with the dev team to my calendar for Monday at 2 pm....

What is Apple Music Spatial Audio? First, let’s take a look at Spatial Audio and what it means for your listening enjoyment. With Spatial Audio, you’ll hear supported Apple Music titles coming from all directions from your supported devices. Think about the multiple sounds you hear at the cinema, and that’s basically the concept behind Spatial Audio, except, in this case, the sound moves with you as the position of your device changes....

Using Apple News+ To get started, you need to make sure you’re running iOS 12.2 or above and make sure the Apple News app is up-to-date. Open the Apple News app, tap the “News+” button at the bottom of the screen, and then tap “Try it Free” off the bat. Or, scroll through and preview the magazines and digital newspapers the service has available, and tap the “Try it Free” button at any time....

When you are on the go and you need a quick solution to a math problem, or just a quick conversion between units, Google has a built-in calculator feature that seemingly knows the answer to everything. Google’s calculated results will work on mobile, desktop, and even tablet web browsers, hence the Universal title of this article. Previously we took a look at just converting currency using Google and tracking UPS and FedEx packages using Google....

For me, I love Portable Apps! They are exactly what I need being that I’m always on the move jumping between several computers daily. It allows me to have all the apps I need with me at all times (including a Firefox with all the bookmarks, synced right up to my last browsing session). In the past I always kept my Portable Apps installed on a flash drive I would carry with me however I always seemed to misplace them or leave them at home by mistake, and as luck would have it, this normally happened when I needed them the most....

Installing Voicemod Voicemod is just one of many voice modification tools out there, however, this one seems to be the cleanest. To start off, let’s visit the site to start the download. Here you’ll start off by clicking the Get Voicemod Here button. When you click there you’ll be asked to either login to your Discord, Google, or Twitch account. Since we’re using Voicemod for Discord I just logged into my Discord account (although I don’t believe it matters what account you use to login)....

Hulu on Apple TV Just fire up your Apple TV, and you will see the Hulu Plus icon on the main screen. If you don’t see it, restart your Apple TV, and it should show up after it reboots. If you’ve used Hulu Plus on another set-top box like the Sony SMP-N200 or Roku, the user interface will be familiar. But, of course, in typical Apple fashion, the UI is a lot more beautiful....

Why Use Join.me? Project Manager Need to share your screen quickly to review a PowerPoint or project plan? Join.me allows you to simply send out a link to the participants which they can click on for instant access to your desktop. The service also includes a free conferencing bridge line that supports 250 participants. Sales Or perhaps you’re a salesperson and need to review a proposal with a customer jump around your website to close a sale?...