Once you add the league and team, you can see their schedule, so you’re always in the loop with the next game. And you can view their games and matches in the Google Calendar mobile app as well. So, you get schedules on the go. Add a Team to Google Calendar Head to the Google Calendar website and sign in if necessary. Then, follow these steps to add a sports schedule....

Even though a Cloud server is a lot more reliable than your home or office computer, even Google has it’s outages from time to time. Just yesterday Google was struggling to repair a major crash that happened over the weekend. Google plays it safe and makes backup copies of everything, but people experiencing the crash lost all past emails until the backups were restored. How can you avoid this? By backing up your email!...

Calibrate a Windows 10 Touch Screen To get started, open the Control Panel and select Tablet PC Settings. Or, hit the Windows key and type: calibrate and select the “Calibrate the screen for pen or touch input” result at the top. It will have two tabs if you only have a touch screen, but you will have three tabs if you have configured a pen device. So in the following example, I only have a touch screen – select the Calibrate button under the Display tab....

Panoramic Photos iPhone Open your iPhone’s camera and enable panoramic mode. Do this by swiping the photo options on the bottom of the screen near the shutter button. Now you are in panoramic mode. This is normally set to pan left to right. Simply tap the arrow. Now you can pan right to left. That’s all there is to it! This allows you to take creative and interesting panoramic pictures on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch that’s running iOS 7....

In this line of work, I end up downloading many files (large files) during the day. Windows ISO images, complex programs like Photoshop, large PDF files, multimedia files, and more. The default download location on my local drive on my main production box would be okay if I had a large traditional 1 or 2 TB hard drive. However, my main production PC has a smaller SSD, and space is at a premium....

Configure Xbox One DNS Settings Fire up your Xbox One console and press the Xbox button on your control and go to System > Settings on the menu. On the following screen, head to Network > Network Settings > Advanced Settings. Now, you will see your device’s current network information like IP, MAC address, and DNS addresses on this screen. You might want to note the DNS on a piece of paper if you want to change them back later....

In a few of our previous tutorials, we’ve shown you how to easily change the start menu orb in Windows 7 and also how you can enable Dream Scene on Windows 7 . Today we’ll show you yet another cool and easy customization trick – changing the logon screen in Windows 7. Although we’ve already covered this How-To using the Registry method, in today’s groovyPost we will use a simple tool to do the same thing....

Monitor Gmail Logins You can monitor recent activity on your account. Log into your Gmail account and scroll down to the bottom of your inbox. Then click the Details link at the bottom of the page. That will bring up a log that displays the number of places you have logged in from — including your current session. The information includes the browser type, Location/Country, IP address, and date and time....

Thankfully, it’s possible to choose whether Google Sheets copies and pastes a formula or just pastes the result of that formula as a value. Doing so is quick and easy, once you know how. If you’re unsure how to copy a value not a formula in Google Sheets, follow the steps below. Why You Might Want to Copy a Value and Not a Formula in Google Sheets When you’re copying a cell that contains a formula, Google Sheets will default to pasting the formula itself rather than the result....

While you can simply drag and drop worksheets into different workbooks without any problems, which is fine for basic Excel work. But if you’re working between enormous workbooks at the office, or at home for that matter, this can help keep things a bit more neat and organized. Copy or Move Worksheets to a Different Excel Workbook Open the workbook with the sheet you want to copy and right-click on the Sheet’s tab at the bottom....

OCR works well in OneNote, but the conversion quality will depend on the quality of the source image or file printout you use. If you want to use OCR to copy text from images in OneNote, here’s how. Copying Text from Single Images in OneNote It’s an easy process to copy text from a single image saved in your OneNote notes, but you’ll need the desktop version of OneNote to do this, rather than the Windows 10 UWP app for OneNote....

Free Printable Calendar Pically is a free, cross-platform software, which allows you to do just that – create your own printable, personalized calendars, of which you can then print copies for your family, friends and whoever else you want. The only things you’ll need — apart from the software itself — is Java installed, paper and some ink in your printer cartridge. Start by downloading Pically to a place you can easily find on your computer’s hard drive....

To see how the end product looks, check out this groovyPost.com greeting e-card I threw together this afternoon and uploaded on YouTube. Here’s how you can make your own PowerPoint e-greeting: Step One Download the e-Card template I built for the demo below OR, grab the Official Microsoft template from Microsoft.com for building e-cards with Powerpoint 2010. Step Two Open the template in PowerPoint 2010 or PowerPoint 2007. You’ll notice that there are instructions in the bottom pane, but we’ll walk you through them visually to help you out....

You can manually check for updates by heading to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update and click the “Check for updates” button. But to make getting there easier here’s how to create a shortcut on the Start menu or on your desktop. Pin Windows Update to Start Pinning Windows Update to start is a straightforward process. Go to Settings > Update & Security and right-click on Windows Update and Pin to Start....

We’ll show you how to create custom number formats in Google Sheets. You can start with a built-in format and edit it or create one from scratch; here’s how. Create a Custom Format Using a Built-In Option If you want a quick way to create your custom number format, you can start with one of the built-in options. Simply select the one closest to your needs and edit it to fit....

Today I’ll show you how to create a drop-down list in a cell using Data Validation. Although I’m taking the screenshots using Excel 2016, the steps are the same if you’re using older versions. The steps are also the same in modern versions of Excel in the Microsoft 365 (formerly O365) suite. Create a Data Table and the List of Options First, set up a basic data table. You can either type your data in manually or copy and paste it from another source....

Turn off Action Center in Windows 10 Home or Pro Update: 1/8/2016: I just found out that now you can indeed turn Action Center off easily in Settings. Go to Settings > System > Notifications & actions and click Turn system icons on or off. Then at the bottom of the list, you can flip Action Center off or back on again. And, this option is available in both Home and Pro versions of Windows 10....

Disable Autoplay in Disney Plus App To disable the autoplay feature in the Disney Plus app launch the app on your phone or tablet. Then tap your profile picture at the bottom right corner of the screen. After that, tap the big Edit Profiles button. The next step is to tap the pencil icon on the profile where you want to disable the autoplay feature. On the following screen is where you will see where the Autoplay feature is enabled....

According to Google, the Promotions tab is for: “Deals, Offers, and other marketing emails.” Disable the Troublesome Gmail Promotions Tab The problem I have with that description is “other.” I’ve noticed newsletters that I want to read daily end up in the Promotions tab. Newsletters that are not marketing at all, but let me know what articles I can read on a website. In my opinion, the Promotions tab seems like the “pseudo-spam” tab....

The Games folder lives in the Start menu in All Programs. The default games are boring and most users don’t play them. Click Games Explorer to launch a central location where you can manage the default games and others you’ve installed. You need Administrator privileges to disable the default games. Click Start and type: optionalfeatures.exe in the Search box. Hit Enter. The Windows Features screen comes up. Uncheck the Games folder all subfolders too....