Note: The easiest way to update is to use the Apple TV interface. From the main menu, go to Settings > General > Update Software. If you want to have a clean restore and an update, you can connect it to your computer and use iTunes, too. Update Apple TV with iTunes Here’s how to update your Apple TV with your PC or Mac. First, disconnect the HDMI cable from your Apple TV, then unplug the power cord and Ethernet cable (if plugged in)....

New Instagram Editing Features To discover the new features, I’ll be using a simple image I took with my Android smartphone and will use the new features in the Instagram app to edit them — the iOS app received the same features, too. Until now, applying an Instagram filter to an image meant you had to settle with the predefined changes the said filter would produce. Namely, you couldn’t decide the amount of “Valencia” you wanted on your photo....

With much debate going on about whether iOS 7 is good or not, there’s no other choice but to pick a side – iOS 6 or iOS 7. I personally think iOS 7 icons are a bit of a Windows Phone ripoff, but hey — what are you going to do… It’s not the first thing Apple has copied or other Microsoft from Apple or Android, it’s really full circle....

One of those with tvOS 13 is a new Control Center – similar to what your iPhone or iPad has now. The tvOS version includes abilities like viewing your currently playing tunes or videos. It’s also where you can switch users, change audio output, search for content. You can also see the time and date at a glance and is where you’ll put the device to sleep. Using Apple TV Control Center on tvOS 13 To open Control Center, hold down the TV button on your Siri Remote....

Time to Translate As a concept, the Translation app envisions two persons communicating side-by-side with a mobile device between them. With the touch of a microphone button, one person says something into the device in their primary language. Automatically, this gets translated into the native language of the other person. Then, the back and forth begins. At launch, the app supports 11 different languages, including Arabic, Chinese, English (US and UK), French, German, Italy, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish....

If you want to remove or set the number of decimal places for a number directly, you’ll need to use the TRUNC function. Here’s how to use the TRUNC function in Excel. How to Use the TRUNC Function in Excel The TRUNC function doesn’t round up a number but instead removes the decimal places, truncating it in the process (hence the function’s name). This creates a true integer number (a whole number, like 8 or 10), which may be useful in certain situations....

Set Up Kids Corner on Windows Phone 8 To set it up, go to the Settings menu and select Kid’s Corner. On the next screen switch Kid’s Corner on. You can also tap the button on the bottom to pin it to the start menu. Now, if you click Games, you’ll be able to decide which games on the phone your kid can access. The same goes for Apps, Music and Videos — just select what you want....

This type of view is ideal when you want to see more than one page at a time. For example, you could have a school essay with many images, a business report with several charts, or a book where seeing more at once is beneficial. This also eliminates the need for scrolling. The nice thing about the side-by-side view in Word is that this also presents you with a thumbnail view....

Open the document you want to watermark and click on Design tab. Under Page Background, click on Watermark option. Open the Watermark menu and it will show you some basic watermarks and formats like Confidential, Disclaimers and Do Not Copy. Just select the one you want to use on your documents. You can even use custom watermarks like your company logo. From the Watermark menu, click on Custom Watermarks....

You can also use ZIP and other archive formats to compress your files and maximize your disk space, especially on lower capacity devices or devices. Windows offers a built-in zipping tool, but you can also use third-party software like 7-Zip to achieve the same effect. Here’s how. Using Windows File Explorer to Zip Files and Folders A method for creating zip files has been included with Windows since Windows XP....

There are two different versions of iConvert — the standard version which is free, and the HD version for $6.99. The free version only converts one file at a time to standard definition. The paid version will convert HD, and you can queue up several files to be converted. To use it, simply launch the application and drag a video file you want to convert into the application window....

What Is It? It’s a cross between your standard pinball simulator and a drawing program. Instead of getting points, your goal here is to hit bumpers and walls loaded with ink. The ball trails the color of the ink you last hit. You move onto the next level when you’ve released all the ink and made a masterpiece of the game field. As the game progress, you get more opportunities to paint....

Chinese tech geeks will be happy to hear this. A 32 GB iPhone 4S was reportedly selling for $2000 in China in October. Now, there’s a difference between that and the $399 it will cost via official channels (or $ 199 – 16 GB and $ 399 – 64 GB). It will be available for free at some carriers with a two year contract. Apple also says the device will also be available in 21 other countries: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Cameroon, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, China, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Grenada, Guam, Guinea Conakry, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, St....

While on a webpage you want to search, click the menu icon at the bottom of the screen. Then tap Find on Page. Then at the top of the page tap the search field to bring up the keyboard and type in your search term. As you type in the letters to your word or phrase, they start to be highlighted on the page. Then when you type in the entire word, you’ll see that term highlighted throughout the page....

Update: The LastPass app for iOS has the same marketing trackers. LastPass sent us an official comment regarding trackers, too. More on that below. LastPass Third Party Trackers Exodus Privacy is a non-profit organization led by “hacktivists” with the purpose of helping Android users get a better understanding of app tracking issues. The Exodus Report found the following seven embedded trackers in LastPass for Android: AppsFlyerGoogle AnalyticsGoogle CrashLyticsGoogle Firebase AnalyticsGoogle Tag ManagerMixPanelSegment...

Having to memorize all keyboard shortcuts is a daunting task, but Windows can make it easier by underlining shortcut keys on menu items. The underlined keys are disabled by default, but it’s easy to make them show up. Open Control Panel and select Ease of Access Center. Scroll down the list and click “Make the Keyboard Easier to Use.” Scroll down on the next screen and check “Underline Keyboard Shortcuts and Access Keys....

Microsoft and LinkedIn Announces Acquisition of Professional Network Microsoft’s vision for both companies is to harness the value of LinkedIn’s professional social network to bring value to end-users using popular services such as Office 365. If approved later this year, LinkedIn would be Microsoft’s biggest acquisition to date. Microsoft has made some interesting purchases over the years. Recent acquisitions include the developers of smartphone keyboard, Swift, and Xarmin developer tools....

This promotion has several genres of music available and the album you download is high quality MP3 files. While it does use Xbox Music to download these free albums, you by no means need to use Xbox Music to play them or be a subscriber to Xbox Music Pass. The deal also includes 50 digital box sets for $1.99 a pop. And according to the Microsoft announcement, the box sets usually sell between $15 to $100....

(Click to enlarge screenshots) To start things off, here’s all 7 Microsoft Office 2013 (Home 365 Premium) apps opened up in the File ribbon. Nice! Microsoft Word 2013 Word’s start screen… The ribbon hasn’t changed much, but all of the edges are now square. Document editing in Word 2013 is really smooth. Right away I noticed how the cursor sorta glides along and I’m typing vs. the tick, tick tick common with all other Windows Applications....

What wasn’t expected is that Microsoft, who stopped support for the 13 year old XP, released a fix for the outdated OS as well. Of course one could assume part of the reason Microsoft issued the patch to XP too is due to the media hype surrounding it this week. According to Microsoft Execs: While that is certainly a reasonable exception to the rule, since, according to NetMarketShare, 30% of the world’s computers still are running XP:...