The tutorial below will show you how to use Spotify’s built-in sharing functionality to send a link to a song via text message. The recipient will then be able to open that link in the Spotify app on their phone, or in their Web browser (if they don’t have Spotify yet). How to Send a Link to a Spotify Song in the iPhone App The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 10....

Here, we’ll show you how to share a Google Calendar and how to stop sharing if you change your mind down the road. Share a Google Calendar Currently, you can set up sharing on the Google Calendar website but not in the mobile app. So, visit Google Calendar, sign in, and then follow these steps to share your calendar. You’ll then return to the Settings screen and see those you’ve shared with in the Share with specific people section....

So if you would like to be able to check missed calls in this manner, but those calls aren’t appearing on your lock screen, then you can follow our steps below to achieve that type of notification. How to See Missed Call Alerts on the Lock Screen on an iPhone 7 The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 10.3.2. The result of completing these steps will be that your iPhone will display alerts on your lock screen to let you know that you missed a call....

But this option can be turned on or off, so that behavior might not be occurring on your iPhone. Our short tutorial below will instruct you on where to go to find this setting and turn it back on so that your iPhone is once again showing missed text messages on your lock screen. Display Text Messages as Alerts on the iPhone’s Lock Screen The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 6 Plus, in iOS 8....

Temporarily Allow Pop-Ups in Firefox by Disabling the Pop-Up Blocker Note that this method should only be used as a temporary measure. You generally encounter more bad pop-ups than good, and your Web-browsing experience will be worse off in the long run if you allow all pop-ups to come through. So once you have followed the steps below to stop blocking pop-ups and completed whatever task you needed to complete, it’s a good idea to return to the Firefox Options menu and re-enable the pop-up blocker....

At first I thought I had inadvertently changed this setting, or that a new add-on or update had switched it. But when I checked my settings, I noticed that it was still configured to open the same five pages that it had always been. That’s when I closed Chrome and opened the Windows Task Manager, only to find that there were still several Google Chrome processes that were running. This meant that Chrome did not realize that it was closed, so launching the program would not indicate to Chrome that a new session had been started....

When we covered this story, we showed you how it works with Windows Phone. You can see that side of the coin in our article: Roku Adds Screen Mirroring to Windows and Android Devices. Now we’ll go ahead and take a look at using this new Roku feature to stream content or mirror your device from an Android smartphone or tablet. Stream Media from Android to Roku 3 First, make sure you have the latest version of the Roku firmware updated....

Set Up Twonky for Android, iOS, and Roku First, install the free app called Twonky Beam for your iOS or Android smartphone or tablet: Twonky App for AndroidTwonky App for iOS Then log in to your Roku account to the Add Channel page and type: mytwonky and click Yes, Add Channel. Then go to your Roku and update the Channels, and you should see the Twonky channel appear. Launch the Twonky channel, and you’ll see it already has some online video content you can access and link to your Twonky account....

Perhaps you sent a message a while back to a friend, but they have not responded, so you want to know if they have been invisible or not since you sent it. You might be trying to invite a friend to your private server but cannot figure out if your friend is online or not. Thankfully, there are a couple of different ways that you can learn if someone is....

This article is meant to help you with how to transfer files from phone to laptop without USB in different ways. You can try any or all of the methods to determine the one that suits your requirements the best. How to Transfer Files from Phone to Laptop without USB? Three Easy Methods to Transfer Files from Android to Laptop Wondering how to transfer files from phone to laptop without USB if you are using an Android device?...

But if you find that auto-correct is often wrong, or that it is trying to correct a lot of words that you have intentionally spelled incorrectly, then you may decide to turn off auto-correct entirely. This is something that can be accomplished from within the iPhone Settings menu, and requires only a few simple clicks. Disabling Auto-Correction on an iPhone The steps below were performed on an iPhone 5 using the iOS 7 operating system....

You might be used to going back and deleting the automatically numbered items, but you can alternatively choose to disable this feature entirely. Our guide below will show you where to go in the Word Options menu to stop the automatic numbering from occurring. Disable Automatic Numbering in Word 2013 The steps in this guide are going to turn off the feature that automatically creates numbered lists in Word. It will not affect other programs, such as Powerpoint or OneNote....

Our guide below will walk you through the process of configuring your Location Services so that you can turn off the Frequent Locations option. How to Disable Frequent Locations on an iPhone 6 The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 6 Plus, in iOS 9. These same steps will work for iPhone models running iOS 7 or higher. Note that this will not turn off Location Services on your device entirely....

One security option on the Apple Watch is a passcode that you can require whenever the watch is put on a wrist. This passcode can (and should) be different from the passcode on your iPhone, as you want to make it more difficult for would be data thieves to access it. But if you find the Apple watch passcode to be tedious or unnecessary, then you are able to turn it off....

But you may be worried that anyone with access to your phone is able to place a call with voice dial, so you might decide to turn it off. Our tutorial below will show you where to find and disable the voice dial setting on your iPhone 7. How to Disable Voice Dial on Your iPhone The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 10....

One element of subscriptions is that you can receive notifications when that channel posts a new video. If you subscribe to a lot of channels, or if you subscribe to someone that is particularly active, you might find that you are receiving a lot of notifications from the YouTube app. Our guide below will show you how to turn off all of the notifications that can be sent by the app on your iPhone....

The flashlight for the Galaxy On5 is found within the Notifications menu, which you can reach from your Home screen in three steps. Our tutorial will walk you through those steps so that you can access the device flashlight whenever you need it in the future. Activate the Galaxy On5 Flashlight The steps in this article were performed on a Samsung Galaxy On5 using the Android 6.0.1 (Marshmallow) operating system....

If that formatting requires the text to be kind of floating above the regular text, then you want to use superscript formatting, which is also the type of formatting that you would require when typing exponents. Use these steps below to type an exponent in Word by selecting some of the text in your document, then choosing the superscript formatting option to apply it to that selection. How to Use an Exponent in a Word Document The article continues below with additional information on how to type an exponent in Word, including pictures for each of the steps....

There are many different elements that make up the layout of a Microsoft Excel 2010 worksheet, but some people prefer not to use all of them. In some instances, these elements can be hidden from view if the person working on the file deems them to be distracting or unnecessary. These settings often remain associated with the Excel 2010 program, which means that someone else who was previously using Excel may have hidden something and never unhidden it, causing it to be hidden when you open the program....

But occasionally you will need to access data on one of the worksheets that you hid, and you might be having trouble figuring out how to accomplish that. You can unhide a sheet in a Google spreadsheet by opening the Google Sheets file, clicking the button with three horizontal lines at the bottom-left of the screen, then choosing the worksheet you want to unhide. Hiding worksheets in a spreadsheet application like Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets is an effective way to make it difficult for someone to edit data, but still keep that data available in case you need it later, or in case it needs to be used by a formula....