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A great solution to this is a quality AV receiver that can serve as the center of your home entertainment system by connecting all of your speakers and HDMI devices to one central location. But these receivers can be expensive and impractical for many people. Fortunately there is a less expensive option in the form of a device called an HDMI switch. An HDMI switch is a small device that connects to one of your TV’s HDMI ports, then turns that single port into a 3-port or 5-port option....

Fortunately this is a problem that Netflix is very aware of and, if you have gone exploring in the Netflix app settings on your iPhone, you may have encountered two cellular data usage options called “Save Data” and “Maximum Data.” These apps allow you to customize the quality of the videos that you stream over a cellular data connection. The “Save Data” option will use less data (approximately 1 GB for every 6 hours of streaming) while the “Maximum Data” option will throw caution to the wind and stream in the highest quality it can manage (Netflix states that this can be up to 1 GB of data every 20 minutes....

So if you are trying to help someone change something on their new iPhone, or if you are simply curious about the default Home screen layout of the iPhone 5 in iOS 7, then you can check out the screenshots below to see how it looks on a new device. Default App Layout for an iPhone 5 in iOS 7 The images below shows the first and second Home screens for an iPhone 5 running the iOS 7 operating system....

Usually, however, it just means that something is currently active. If you are wondering about the red bar at top of iPhone screen, then our tutorial below will explain more about the iPhone screen recorder and how you can enable and use it. How to Add or Remove the Screen Recorder Feature on an iPhone If there is a green plus next to the screen recorder option then you will be adding it to the Control Center....

But just as the Recycle Bin can be hidden, it can just as easily be displayed once more. Our short guide below will show you how to display the Recycle Bin on your Windows 7 desktop, plus point out a couple of other useful actions that you can perform with the Recycle Bin. How to Show the Recycle Bin in Windows 7 The steps in this tutorial will show you how to place a Recycle Bin icon on your desktop....

The Outlook version of this is called “Focused Inbox” and it tries to filter out emails that it thinks you don’t need. Our tutorial below will show you how to stop this setting so that you see all of your emails in your inbox instead. How to Stop Using the Outlook.com Focused Inbox Our guide continues below with additional information on how to turn off the Focused Inbox on Outlook, including pictures of these steps....

Every computer user has information on their computer that they value, and that they would be upset if it was gone. If you have been using your computer for a while and with regularity, then you certainly have personal documents and pictures that are irreplaceable, and you might even have some personal videos and business documents that hold a lot of personal or financial value. However, many personal computer users are under the impression that their computers are not vulnerable to catastrophic data losses, or that backup solutions are out of reach for the typical personal computer user on a budget....

This can be a problem if you are using the default settings in Microsoft Outlook, as it will delete those meeting requests by default after you have responded to them. Luckily there is a setting that you can change which will let you keep them in the inbox so that you can find and reference them later. How to Preserve Meeting Requests in Outlook 2010 Our guide continues below with additional information on how to keep meeting requests in your inbox in Outlook, including pictures of these steps....

But calculation operations can be resource intensive, particularly when working with large spreadsheets, so some Excel users will elect to switch their spreadsheets to manual calculation. This is fine when you are the one creating the spreadsheet, and know that you will need to manually calculate your formulas when you are done making changes to your data. But spreadsheets get shared with others, who might not be aware that those spreadsheets need a little more interaction....

Unfortunately not everyone works with data like that, and you may find yourself needing wider columns on a regular basis. This is why it’s so important to know how to expand cells in Excel. While you can manually expand Excel columns by clicking the column divider line, that can be tedious and imprecise. As with most other situations that you might encounter in Excel, there is a faster, automated way of formatting the perfect column width for multiple columns at once....

Your iPhone 11 lets you do things like listen to music, watch videos from places like YouTube and Netflix, and generally do almost anything that you could do with a computer. The volume of the audio you hear can either be played through the iPhone’s speakers, or through headphones that you’ve connected to the device, such as Airpods. But if you find that the volume gets too high, you may be looking for a way to set a maximum volume level so that it won’t be too loud....

If you are considering blocking Pokemon Go from accessing cellular networks, you might be wondering exactly how much data the app is using on its own. While it’s difficult to provide any sort of estimate, as data usage can vary wildly depending on play habits, you can find this information on the cellular menu on your iPhone. How to Check Pokemon Go Cellular Data Usage on an iPhone The steps in this guide were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus, in iOS 10....

But occasionally you will find a game that isn’t on Steam, meaning that the game needs to be managed either with a different gaming service, or even individually. If you’ve become accustomed to using Steam to manage your game library, then this can be a little annoying. Fortunately Steam has a way for you to add a non-Steam game to your library so that you can access it from within the Steam application....

Some other applications use alt text for screen readers, too, including Google Slides. So if you are creating a presentation and want to ensure that the pictures that you have added to your slides can be read by the screen reader, then our guide below will show you how to set alt text for that picture. See also How to merge cells in Google SheetsHow to wrap text in Google SheetsHow to alphabetize in Google SheetsHow to subtract in Google SheetsHow to change row height in Google Sheets...

But your iPhone also has a magnifier feature that works in a similar way, and there is a dedicated way to open it. One of those ways involves enabling the Magnifier feature from the Accessibility menu, but you can also use it by putting a shortcut on your Control Center. Our tutorial below will show you how to do this and make the magnifier feature easy to access. How to Put a Magnifier Shortcut on the iPhone Control Center The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 11....

Fortunately there is a scale in the Google Maps app that you can use to determine how far places are from one another. However, that scale is typically only visible when you are zooming, and will hide itself when the map is stagnant. Our tutorial below will show you how to change a setting so that the scale is always visible in Google Maps. How to Enable the Scale in Maps on an iPhone The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 11....

Your iPhone 5 has a feature called Auto-Lock that it will use if you have not interacted with your phone for a set amount of time. This serves the dual purpose of helping to conserve your battery, as well as adding some additional security if you have set up a password on the iPhone 5. But occasionally you might be using your iPhone in a manner where the auto-lock feature becomes disruptive and you need to turn it off temporarily....

Word 2013 provides a way for you to quickly convert a text selection to a standardized case, and one of the options available is to capitalize each word. If your document requires that a selection of text has each word capitalized, then our tutorial below will show you how to do this in just a few short steps. How to Capitalize Each Word in Microsoft Word 2013 The steps in this article were written using Microsoft Word 2013....

This does not apply to only the data in the cells, however. You can also customize the way that the cells themselves look. This includes providing you with the means to learn how to change border colors in Excel 2010. If, for example, you wanted to print or display your cells with a border color other than black, Excel 2010 allows you to do so. The method for changing border colors in Excel 2010 is found on the Format Cells menu and gives you multiple options for choosing how to color your cell borders....

One of those times is when you are entering information into a spreadsheet. if your current data is all in lowercase but you need it in capital letters, then you may be wondering how to change lowercase to uppercase in Excel 2010. Using all uppercase cases in Excel 2010 is a great way to make the letters stand out from the numbers and, in many situations, it simply makes the data in the spreadsheet easier to read....