Privacy and security features are usually an afterthought for Facebook users, but Facebook looks to be changing that image. Facebook Privacy Checkup The company announced the rollout of its Privacy Checkup tool this week. It allows you to review and control who you’re sharing your personal data with. it’s simple to run, and you’ll find it under the Privacy shortcut on the Facebook menu bar. As it’s rolling out to all accounts though, you should see a message pop up urging you to check it out....

Even avid Android enthusiasts miss this not-that-obvious UI convenience. Just slide your finger over a contact from the to left or right. Now enter contacts through the contact app or by using your phone’s dialer and pressing the Contacts tab. Here’s a short video that shows you how you do it. This feature is not available for stock Android, sadly. While I’m at it, I might as well thank you all for the quality content you provide here on GroovyPost ;-) Thanks for the kind words and for reading!...

This morning Google posted some of their employees favorite Android Tips and Tricks for their new Nexus S mobile phone or Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Normally I would just mention the article and send you on your way with a link however over the last few weeks I’ve been going through some old posts finding a lot of dead links. With this in mind, today I’m going to plagiarize the article (providing 2 backlinks of course) to make certain this data doesn’t get lost sometime in the future....

In a nutshell, Google Goggles lets you run visual searches by taking snapshots of stuff IRL (do people still use that acronym?). Its functionality and potential is best explained in this video: Wanna give it a whirl? Google Goggles for the iPhone is built right into the Google Mobile app. So, if you haven’t already, grab or update the free Google Mobile iPhone app from the App store that was released today....

The new local tab shows up on the left-side of the Google+ interface. Google+ will automatically bring up local recommendations based on your geo-location determined area. For the most part, only Zagat rated shops will show up. But, if someone from your friends list has written a review it will show up there as well. If you aren’t familiar with Zagat ratings, they work on a scale from 0 to 30....

If you need to present your detailed spreadsheet data in a user-friendly way, create a Pivot Table. It’s not as hard as you think. Hammad Saleem shows you how. We had another great show this week on Attack of the Androids (AotA). The AotA crew discusses the Android news of the week. Attack of the Androids appears weekly here on groovyPost. We’re also in iTunes you can subscribe here. Speaking of Android, here’s a great tip for Kindle Fire owners....

Screensaver Basics: Setting the Sleep and Screensaver Timer Sleep and screensaver are two different things. Sleep is when the AppleTV goes dormant. It won’t show an image at that point. One problem you’ll have with your screensaver is if your Apple TV goes to sleep too soon. You’ll want to make sure your sleep timer setting is greater than your screensaver setting. To change sleep’s default time, head to the Settings app....

Access Windows 8 Help and Support From the Windows 8 Start screen type: winhlp32.exe and hit Enter. Or from the desktop, use the keyboard shortcut Windows Key + R and type: winhlp32.exe in the Run line and hit Enter. Windows Help and Support opens on the desktop. Type in the search term of what you’re looking for. Just like doing a search in Google or Bing, you’ll see the results below the search box....

Export Google Calendar(s) The first thing you’ll need to do is log in to your Google account and export the calendar(s) you want to display in the Windows Calendar app. Click the dropdown arrow next to My Calendars and then Settings. On the next page click the Export Calendars link. You calendars will be downloaded in .ICS format in a zip file, extract the .ICS file to a convenient location on your computer....

Keep in mind that if your recipient receives emails in plain text, they won’t be able to click links. To add links to text or images in Gmail, here’s what you’ll need to do. How to Create a Hyperlink in Gmail Most users will prefer to add a Gmail hyperlink to text. You can link to URLs (website addresses) or email addresses using the mailto: prefix. Converting URL Text to Hyperlinks Gmail is smart enough to decide what a link is if you type or paste the URL for a web page into your email message....

If you’re working on long documents, then you’ll probably want to number your pages to keep them in order. The good news is that this is quite simple to do in Google Docs, although you may need to tweak things a little to get the page numbers exactly where you want them. If you want to add page numbers to a Google Docs document, here’s what you’ll need to do....

The Windows 7 taskbar combines the functionality of the Quick Launch bar with that of regular taskbar tab buttons. Coupled with the new Windows Search or even RocketDock (MrGroove’s favorite tool), most users are MORE THAN HAPPY. I’m not most people, however, as I still miss the Quick Launch bar. Why? With the old Quick Launch Bar if you wanted to open a new instance of a program all you needed to do was click the appropriate Quick Launch icon once....

As with any email account, there are some emails that you’d rather not receive in the first place. Thankfully, it’s simple to block any accounts you want to in Gmail. Blocking a user doesn’t mean you won’t receive their email, but it will send their emails straight to your spam folder so that you don’t have to see it unless you want to. If you want to block someone in Gmail, here’s what you’ll need to do....

Play DVDs on Windows 10 for Free If you want to play a DVD or Blu-ray on your Windows 10 PC, you have several options. If fact, we took a look at six different programs for playing DVDs on Windows 8. All of those options will work with Windows 10, sans Windows Media Center, which Microsoft has completely killed off. Our best suggestion for playing DVDs (as well as virtually any media file type) is using VLC....

Original Article… Cancel Windows 10 Upgrade Reservation Right-click the Windows 10 upgrade icon on your system tray and select Check your upgrade status. Next, you will see the message about your upgrade reservation being successful. From here, click the hamburger menu in the upper left corner. In the list under Getting the upgrade, click View confirmation. The next screen will tell you that your upgrade is reserved, but click the small Cancel reservation hyperlink to cancel it....

The first step is to place the picture you want to scan text from your OneNote 2013 workbook. You can do this by pasting the image in or selecting it through the Insert > Pictures button from the ribbon. With a photo in OneNote, right-click the image, and from the context menu, choose “Copy Text from Picture.” OneNote will instantly grab all of the text from the image and then paste it into a giant text block....

Step 1 Open a Microsoft Word document and then Press Ctrl + D on your keyboard. Step 2 At the top of the Font window that appears you can Select your desired font, size, and style. You can also change up the color and add some effects, though you probably won’t want those to be your default. Once you’ve selected the font you want, Click the Set as Default button located at the bottom-left corner of the window....

Just like with Windows XP and Vista, in Windows 7 you can still change your user account name. However just like old Microsoft likes to do, they’ve changed around the user interface (UI) again and made it a little easier. How To Change Your User Account Name In Windows 7 Click the Windows Start Menu Orb and Type in user accounts then Select the User Accounts link from the list....

On earlier versions of Windows, you could hover the mouse over the system clock and see the estimated battery time available to you. Unfortunately, this was removed this feature from Windows 11 because Microsoft thought the time being shown wasn’t entirely accurate. The time left if you’re playing a game is different from the time left if you’re using a web browser, for example. You’ll only see the percentage of battery remaining on Windows 11, but you can still check the battery time remaining on Windows 11 using the Settings app, along with other battery details....

If your PC or Mac is ever compromised, the feed from your camera could be recorded and used elsewhere. Rather than risk your privacy, you can completely disable the built-in webcam on Windows and macOS devices. Here’s how. Disabling the Camera on macOS There isn’t a built-in option to disable the camera on your Mac completely, but you can revoke access to it. To do this, click the Launchpad icon on your Mac Dock....