The Basics: The Activity Monitor The Activity monitor is the primary gateway to the health information on your Apple Watch. At a glance, it tells you if you’re meeting your move, exercise, and stand goals for the day. If you want to know those goals in numbers, you’ll need to swipe up on that screen. That second screen also tells you your steps for the day. If you swipe left, or right you can review how far you got on each goal: move, exercise, and stand....

In this article, we’ll show you what Snapchat does and try to help you understand its meteoric rise in popularity that has expanded far beyond its original millennial user base. How to Use Snapchat Snapchat is a social network that lets you send photos and text messages to friends that expire. This has been a hallmark feature of the service since its beginning. The idea is that it lets you be more genuine and spontaneous, without having to worry that future employers or in-laws might stumble across it (a very valid concern with more prominent and indelible social media profiles, like Facebook and Instagram)....

It entirely depends on your purpose for having an account, although I personally find it to be the perfect place to post things that I know no one will care much about. And maybe that’s why Twitter is the way it is. Thankfully, there’s a way to help make your Twitter user experience better, thanks to TweetDeck. What is TweetDeck? If you want to be able to view multiple parts of Twitter simultaneously, you’ll need TweetDeck....

That being said, if you don’t have a Logitech keyboard or mouse, then you can most definitely uninstall Logitech Options. You can kill the LogiOptionsMgr.exe (UNICODE) and LogiOptions.exe (UNICODE) processes if you are no longer using your Logitech peripherals, and really, you should. There’s no reason to have more processes running than are necessary. Admittedly, in the grand scheme of things, LogiOptionsMgr.exe (UNICODE) has a relatively small footprint of just 3....

Here’s an example of Windows 7 acting unstable. Only a portion of my desktop background is showing, and shortcut icons are blank. Right-click the Taskbar then click Start Task Manager. Windows Task Manager launches. Click the Processes tab, right-click on explorer.exe and click End Process. You’ll get a message asking if you really want to end explorer.exe – click End Process. The desktop will clear of everything except Windows Task Manager....

Windows 10 Mobile Build 10136 The main story here is that this build is much more stable than the previous one and there are several tweaks and refinements to the UI. Microsoft’s Gabe Aul wrote that “There are far too many subtle changes in the UX to cover.” Microsoft’s last version of Windows 10 for phones, build 10080, was horribly bug infested. I had it installed on my Lumia 635, and it was so bad, half of the features never worked....

In Windows 7 and 8.1 you needed to use a third-party utility like KatMouse to get the same behavior. If you’re using a laptop and your mouse is positioned over an inactive window, you can unintentionally scroll to a place you don’t want to be. So in that scenario, you might want to turn it off. Personally, I really like it to be turned on. Although I’m still in the habit of clicking a windows first, then scrolling — still trying to get over that....

Setup To add a sender to the VIP Mail list on iPhone and iPad, click on an email from the person or organization. From there: VIP status also shows up on Mail for Mac and when using Mail on iCloud.com, if applicable. In the following example, emails from UPS now have VIP status. A gold star icon denotes each. Folder Once you assign VIP status, you can find all related emails in the VIP Mail folder....

New Features in Xbox One May Update Voice Messages allow you to send and receive voice messages from other players via the Xbox One Messages app. Just record your message via a headset or the Kinect by selecting the microphone icon. It also allows you to exchange voice messages between both the Xbox One and Xbox 360. Updated Xbox One SmartGlass lets you turn your console on or off by tapping the Kinect icon and then select the console on your home network....

If you’re a YouTube junkie, you know about some of the annoyances on YouTube. Every user wishes they could change or disable, advertisements, autoplay options, and more. If you want to change it to your own preferences, give YouTube Options for Google Chrome a try. With YouTube Options for Chrome, you can disable advertisements, change screen resolution, disable comments, and much more. The extension also works with many other video hosting websites including Vimeo, DailyMotion, Metacafe, and others....

Make Windows 10 Start Menu Full Screen To get started hit the Windows key and select Settings from the Start menu. Or if you are a keyboard warrior use the key combination Windows Key + I to open Settings directly. Now in the Settings app select Personalization from the home screen. Next, in the Personalization section of the Settings app select Start from the list on the left. Then on the right-hand side turn on the “Use Start full screen” button....

Google Provides instructions for blocking contacts that have already called at least once in this video: But, what if you want to block someone who has never called you before? It’s a little different. Google doesn’t mention it specifically, but you are able to block any number existing in your contact list. So, all you really have to do is the following: For the full instructions, read on. Manually Blocking a Phone Number From Calling Your Google Voice Step 1 Sign in to your Gmail* account and go to your Contacts list....

For example, the operating system and some programs may use log files to track activity and issues. These files can grow large over time, and you may not need to keep all the previous content. Instead of opening the file and selecting all the content to delete it, you can use various command-line tools to nullify a file quickly and easily. If you want to know how to nullify a file in Linux, follow our guide below....

The Apple app store has plenty of great games that can be played directly within the popular messaging app, allowing you to play everything from Hangman and Boggle to Chess and Air Hockey. If there’s a game you want to play, the chances are that there’s an app for it. Are you ready to take on your friends at some great games right through your phone? If so, here’s how to play iMessage games on iPhone....

Restart Chromecast with Google TV If your experiencing issues with the Chromecast one option is to simply restart it to get it working. You could always unplug the power and plug it back in again. But the device is probably behind your TV and hard to get at. Luckily you can restart it from the Google TV interface. To get started grab your remote and select your profile picture at the right of the home screen....

Search with Windows 10 Start One of the easiest ways to find a setting or anything else for that matter is to use the Start menu. Simply hit the Windows key and start typing in your query. For example, you can type in “control panel” to bring up the classic legacy Control Panel if that’s how you are used to finding things. Or, type “Printer” to get ahold of printer and scanner settings....

Step 1 In IE9, Click the Gear (settings) button and Select Internet Options. Step 2 The Internet Options window should now be open. Click the Programs tab and then the Make default button. Done! Now Internet Explorer 9 will be your default internet browser. Keep in mind that if you had IE8 set as your default browser before upgrading, it likely carried over the preference for you automatically. Comment Name * Email *...

Every night, I make these ambitious goals to wake up early, seize the day and punch out before 5 PM. But by the time 5 AM rolls around and my iPhone alarm is buzzing and glowing like a demented lightning demon caught in the groggy web of predawn darkness, I can never quite remember why I was so pumped – about getting up before the sun. Snooze… and then it’s 10 AM, and I hate myself....

So, here it is: To Hide the Navigation Pane in Windows Live Photo Gallery ,as I accidentally discovered, you have to click this nearly invisible blue arrow that only appears when you hover near the edge of the Navigation Pane. To Show the Navigation Pane in Windows Live Photo Gallery (and other applications that have Navigation Panes like this), you have to again find this little blue arrow that you probably didn’t know existed in the first place and click it....

Sometimes your computer’s startup speed is not up to par with your expectations. More often then not, it is the software installed on your computer that is slowing you down. Whether you are an average user or a computer expert, Soluto is an effective diagnostics tool that will help you reduce your computer’s boot up speed without having to do a lot of research. Step 1 – Download the software To test this software out, you must download at from the developers website, http://www....