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The Adventure Sync setting in Pokemon Go allows you to accumulate distance in the game even when it isn’t open. This helps with in-game features like egg hatching and buddy candy distance. Recently Niantic increased the functionality of this feature so that you can receive notifications if there is a nearby Pokemon that you haven’t caught yet. This is helpful when you are trying to complete your Pokedex, and don’t want to miss out on a Pokemon that you could catch simply because the app wasn’t open....

How to Use Full Page View Mode in the Chrome Browser Our guide continues below with additional information on using full page view in Google Chrome, including pictures of these steps. A lot of the more visual content that you find on the Internet only looks better on a bigger screen. Higher-resolution images and videos reduce the pixelation that happens with low-res content, and you might be interested in making the most out of the screen that you use to consume pages on the Web....

I use the freeze top row option a lot myself, especially when I’m working with a lot of data. While freezing the first row is useful when you have a header row that you want to keep visible, you might want to have more than one locked row at the top of your spreadsheet. Our tutorial below will show you how to lock a row in Excel, or how to lock multiple rows to make a large worksheet easier to manage....

Smartphones are expensive devices, so it’s only logical that you would want to use things like cases and screen protectors to preserve the phone in case you drop it or do something else that could damage the phone or the screen. However, when you put something between your hand and the screen, the Pixel 4A is going to have a bit of trouble reading your touches as easily as if the protector was not there....

There are a number of different ways that you can visually separate elements of your document, but one of my personal favorites is the horizontal line. When used sparingly it can not only look nice, but provides a clear indication that a new section of the document is starting. You might be used to adding horizontal lines to a document in other word processing programs, but some of the methods that work in those applications won’t work in Google Docs....

This could be something like a picture or video, but it could also include data. One good way to present data is in a table. Our tutorial below will show you how to insert a table in Powerpoint 2013 by following a short series of steps. Once you have the table in a slide you will be able to add data to it, as well as change its appearance....

These two goals work against one another, however, as the screen will drain the battery pretty quickly. Apple makes the iPhone turn off after a period of inactivity by default, but you are able to keep the iPhone screen on longer, even indefinitely, by changing a setting that we discuss below. iPhone – Keep Screen On You can continue reading below for additional information on how to make the iPhone screen stay on for longer periods of time....

Use AirPlay to Watch Your iPhone 5 Screen Through Your Apple TV It is important to note that this will work for a lot of apps, but not all of them. Content and licensing subscriptions prevent certain apps from being used in this manner. So if you find that mirroring is working for some apps and not for others, then it is probably due to these restrictions. This tutorial is going to assume that you already have the following set up –...

Fortunately you can adjust this setting and place the most recent message at the top of the thread. Our tutorial below will show you where to find this setting and adjust it to make the email navigation on your iPhone a little easier. How to Enable the “Most Recent Message on Top” Setting in the iOS 10 Mail App The steps in this article were written using an iPhone 7 Plus, in iOS 10....

But there are a lot of apps that have CarPlay functionality, and you may not actually need all of them. Unfortunately, these unwanted apps can clog up the CarPlay interface, making it difficult for you to navigate to the apps that you would like to use. Luckily you can choose which apps to use with CarPlay so that you can streamline the connection between your phone and your car and improve your travel experience....

if you have noticed this behavior and are worried about other people using your computer and being able to see suggestions based on your browsing history, then you might be looking for a solution. Fortunately you can follow our tutorial below and remove your browsing history from these suggestions in Firefox. How to Customize Address Bar Suggestions in the Firefox Desktop Browser The steps in this article were performed in the Mozilla Firefox desktop Web browser....

Our tutorial below for removing the beginning characters in an Excel cell will show you a formula that allows you to remove the leading characters in a cell. Plus, since it’s a formula, you can apply it to a lot of different cells by simply copying and pasting the formula into additional cells. How to Remove the First Character from a Cell in Excel 2013 Our article continues below with additional information on how to remove first character in Excel 2013 cells, as well as pictures of the steps....

Unfortunately there is not a dedicated password removal option anywhere in Word 2013, so the method for deleting an existing password might be difficult to find. Our guide below will show you what you need to do to remove a password from a Word document. Removing Password Protection from a Word 2013 Document The steps in this article will show you how to remove a password from a document in Word 2013....

But if you don’t want to check your work email because you’re on vacation, or if you won’t be reachable for a little while, then you might want to set up an out of office reply for your Gmail account. Fortunately, this option is available in Gmail, and you can set a start and end date for the message, as well as customize its contents. Our tutorial below will show you how to configure and use the Gmail out of office option so that you can take advantage of this useful feature in your email account....

Is your device storage full? Our delete apps on Firestick tutorial will show you how to uninstall the apps you aren’t watching. The steps below were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus, in iOS 10. The version of Spotify being used was the most recent version available at the time this article was written. There are two different ways that you can connect Spotify to your Apple TV. We will show you both of them below....

HDR can create some interesting looking pictures, and can be fun to experiment with. Our guide below will show you how to take an HDR picture with the Camera app on your iPhone. Taking an HDR Picture on an iPhone The steps in this article were written using an iPhone 6 Plus, in iOS 9.2. Pictures that you take using HDR in iOS 9.2 will include an HDR tag at the top-left corner of the picture when viewing it in your Photos app....

One additional way that you can use this feature is by sharing your activity information with a friend or family member. The sharing interaction between two people are then shared, and you will receive notifications when they close their activity circles, or earn an award. But if you find that you dislike receiving these notifications, then it is possible to turn them off. Our tutorial below will show you where to find that setting and stop the notifications....

When AirDrop is turned on it is constantly checking for nearby iOS 7 devices with whom you could share files. It’s a great way to send a photo or video, but it is not something that every iOS 7 device user will need. So follow our steps below to learn how to turn off AirDrop on your iPhone 5 that is running iOS 7. Turn Off AirDrop on an iPhone 5 The steps below were performed on an iPhone 5 using the iOS 7 operating system....

How to Make Powerpoint Stop Turning Everything into a List Our guide continues below with more information on how to turn off automatic lists in Powerpoint 2013, including pictures of these steps. Bulleted and numbered lists are great visual tools to use in slide shows. You can use them in Powerpoint, and if you’re wondering how do you make a bullet point on Google Slides, you can do that, too. Lists let you separate ideas into distinct units that you can then evaluate as you discuss a slide, which can make it much easier for your audience to absorb large amounts of important information....

Fortunately Android Marshmallow lets you disable that geotagging if you don’t want to use it. Our guide below will show you how to find and disable it by following a few steps in your Camera app. How to Disable Location Tagging on Pictures on the Samsung Galaxy On5 The steps in this article were performed with a Samsung Galaxy On5, in the Android Marshmallow operating system. Note that this is only going to stop geotagging future pictures that you take with your phone’s camera....