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Setting the Contact Card on Your MacBook Air My interest in this topic stemmed from an initial problem when I was importing new contacts. iOS kept pre-filling my information with information from another contact card that I had stored in iCloud. It wasn’t immediately obvious how to change this setting so, after some digging, I found how I needed to go about using a different contact. Simply follow the information below to learn how to make that change on your own MacBook Air....

The Spotify app on your iPhone is about 100 MB in size but, if you use Spotify a lot, then it’s entirely possible that it uses considerably more space than that. Downloaded playlists can use a lot of space, as can the cache that is created when you search for and listen to a lot of music in the app. Our tutorial below is going to show you a couple of different places where you can see information regarding the storage space usage by Spotify on your iPhone....

Depending upon the volume of email that you receive, it can actually be taking up a significant amount of space on the device. Our guide below will show you how you can check the total amount of storage space that is being used on your iPhone by the Mail app. Check the Storage Space Being Used By Mail On Your iPhone The steps in this guide were performed on an iPhone 5, in iOS 8....

Creating a VIP in Mail on the iPhone Note that this method is going to require that the email address that you want to filter to your VIP inbox already exists in your iPhone as a contact. If the email address is not attached to a contact a contact, then you will need to create that contact, or add the email address to an existing contact. So once you have the contact set up, follow the steps below to add that contact to your VIP inbox....

This can be especially problematic if you are using that site for a specific reason, and are unable to do so because the site won’t load properly. Fortunately Internet Explorer 11 has a Compatibility View mode that lets you force the domain to open in Internet Explorer as if it were an older version of the browser. How to Open a Website in Compatibility View in IE 11 The steps in this article are going to show you how to add a website to your compatibility view list in Internet Explorer 11....

Fortunately you can re-enable Outlook 2013 to connect to the Internet by following a few short steps. Out guide below will walk you through those steps so that you can freely enable or disable the Outlook weather bar to suit your preferences. Enable or Disable Internet Access for Outlook 2013 Note that this setting only prevents or allows Outlook to connect to Microsoft’s servers for application-related information. Outlook will still be able to connect to your email server to send and download emails regardless of whether this setting is enabled or disabled....

Step 1: Create a new folder on your Desktop, then drag all of the images that you want to change into the folder. For simplicity’s sake, call this folder “Originals.” Step 2: Create another folder on your Desktop, but call this one “Changed.” Step 3: Launch Photoshop, click “File,” click “Open,” then double-click one of the files in the “Originals” folder that you want to edit. Step 4: Click “Window” at the top of the window, then click “Actions....

Microsoft Word has a lot of ways to align text as well. Our how to center text in Word article can show you a few of those options. Centering Text in an Excel 2010 Cell The directions below are meant to center text inside of a cell horizontally, so that there is an equal amount of space to the left and the right of your text. You can follow a similar process to center your text vertically, however, by clicking the Middle Align button directly above the Center button that we will direct you to below....

This can be frustrating to deal with, and you might have even resorted to trying to figure out the order in which to place each slide element to achieve the desired result. But there is a feature in Powerpoint 2013 that helps you to change the layers of your pictures, text boxes, and other slide elements. Our guide below will show you where to find these options and how to use them....

If you use Reminders on other devices, then it’s probably in your best interest to keep all of your reminders synced across all of your devices. However, you may notice that your iPhone is only syncing reminders for a short period of time. Our guide below will show you how to change this reminder duration so that you can sync reminders from further back. Adjust the Duration for Reminder Sync on an iPhone The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 12....

Step 1 – Click the “Start” button at the lower-left corner of your screen. The window that pops up is referred to as the “Start” menu. Step 2 – Type “msconfig” into the search field at the bottom of the “Start” menu, then press “Enter” on your keyboard. Step 3 – Click the “Startup” tab at the top of the window. Step 4 – Scroll through the list of startup programs, then click the box to the left of each program that you want to enable....

I experienced an issue with this myself a long time ago where my name was misspelled on my email account. If I hadn’t sent an email to a friend who told me about it, I may not have noticed for a while. If you want to make sure that everything looks right for the messages you send from your iPhone, then you can follow our steps below and see what your current sender name is and how you can change it on your device....

Font Color Settings in Outlook 2013 The steps in this article will show you how to change the font color for an individual message in Outlook 2013, then provide additional steps for setting the default font color in Outlook 2013. Note that this will not change the font color for text that you have already typed. If you wish to change the font color of existing text in Outlook 2013, then you need to select the text first, then change the font color....

Port 25 was commonly used by email spammers to send their messages, and many popular Internet service providers chose to block it as a result. An Internet service provider will often allow email to go through that port when it is being sent by someone on their own email domain, but will choose to block others. Fortunately this can often be resolved by simply switching your outgoing port to a different port that is not being blocked....

This is different than the card that you have set up in Apple Pay, so it’s possible to have a card in Apple Pay that isn’t on your Apple ID. If the card that is currently attached to your Apple ID isn’t the one that you want to use for app purchases, in-app purchases, or iTunes purchases, then you may be wondering how to change that card. Our guide below will show you how to add a new card to your Apple ID directly from your iPhone....

You can view the available storage space on your iPhone SE at any time by finding the menu that displays that information. Our tutorial below will help you navigate to the storage menu so that you can see how much space you are currently using, as well as how much space is left. How Much Memory is Left on My iPhone SE? The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone SE using the iOS 10....

These updates often add new features and fix issues or security problems that have been discovered. But this can make it difficult to remember which version of the application is currently installed on your computer, especially for something like Google Chrome, which receives a lot of updates. Our tutorial below will show you how to check your Chrome version number by following a quick set of steps. How to Find Your Google Chrome Browser Version Number Our guide continues below with additional information on how to check your Chrome version, including pictures of these steps....

Our article continues below with additional information and pictures of these steps. Powerpoint 2010 presentations are often made better when you use audio or video files. However, sometimes these files are embedded in your presentation, which can make the file size very large. Large Powerpoint slideshows can be difficult to distribute, which can make it complicated to reach your desired audience. Luckily you can learn how to compress audio and video files in Powerpoint 2010, which will reduce the size of the file....

But if a link is unnecessary, or was included in a segment of text that was copied and pasted from another location, then you may wish to delete it from the document. This can be accomplished rather quickly within Word 2010, and our tutorial below will present you with two different methods of deleting hyperlinks. Removing a Hyperlink in Microsoft Word 2010 The steps in this article will remove a hyperlink that has been added to a word, picture, or string of text....

Adding text boxes is the typical method for showing text on a slide, and you can click and drag on a text box when you need to reposition it. But when you need to delete a text box from a slide you may have found that it isn’t as easy as you would have thought. When you need to add text to one of the slides in your presentation, a text box is usually the best option....