Google Meet Adds 60 Minute Limit For Free Video Calls

According to 9to5Google, Google Meet video calls with three or more people (without a subscription) are limited to one hour, instead of unlimited video time. Video call participants receive a warning at 55 minutes that their meeting will end soon, with the option of the host upgrading their Google account. If you’re having a one-on-one call with someone, you can still have a Google Meet video call for up to 24 hours if you don’t have a Google Workspace subscription....

January 2, 2023 · 2 min · 263 words · Richard Miller

Graphics Software Types Purposes And Examples

Common Applications Common graphics editors include Photoshop, Illustrator, Paint Shop Pro, CorelDRAW, The Apple Photos plugins from Macphun, Adobe Lightroom, Digital Image Suite, Canva, and related programs. In Windows 10, the Paint 3D program is core to the operating system. Some graphics software offers some limited editing capability but is optimized for display. The Photos program in Windows 10 is a great example, as is the free IrfanView viewer. What Isn’t Graphics Software?...

January 2, 2023 · 2 min · 276 words · Kimberly Joseph

How To Add A Watermark To A Photo In Corel Photo Paint

How to Make a Watermark in Corel Although there’s no one-click option to create a watermark, the steps below are straightforward and allow lots of formatting options. Tips for Applying Your Watermark If you want the watermark a little more visible, use a custom color in the Emboss options, and set it to a gray color slightly lighter than 50% gray. Scaling the text after applying the effect may cause it to appear jaggy or pixelated....

January 2, 2023 · 1 min · 170 words · Lisa Pitts

How To Add Friends On Epic Games

How to Add a Friend on Epic Games Here’s how to add friends on Epic Games: How to Add Friends to Epic Games From Facebook and Steam The other way to add friends on Epic Games is to connect your Epic Games account to another service. This is a great method if you have friends on other services that also use Epic Games. It’s also a good method if you aren’t sure what a friend’s display name or email address is because you won’t spend time asking and waiting for them to respond....

January 2, 2023 · 1 min · 184 words · Stephen Thatcher

How To Add Tasks To Google Calendar

How to Add a Task From Calendar on a Computer When working on your desktop, it’s easy to access Google Tasks from Google Calendar. Create task lists and add new tasks as needed. Work With Your To-Do List Managing Google Tasks is straightforward. Choose a date in the task’s properties to add it to your Google Calendar. To reorder the tasks in the list, drag them up or down. When a task is complete, put a check in the circle to the left of it to mark it completed....

January 2, 2023 · 2 min · 328 words · Charles Sanchez

How To Add The Quick Launch Toolbar In Windows 10

How to Add the Quick Launch Toolbar in Windows 10 Microsoft added the quick launch toolbar in Windows XP to provide an easy way to access common apps from your taskbar, but it disappeared with the introduction of Windows 7. If you miss the quick launch toolbar and pinning apps to the taskbar isn’t good enough, it’s pretty easy to add a quick launch toolbar yourself. Here’s how to add a quick launch toolbar to the taskbar in Windows 10:...

January 2, 2023 · 2 min · 214 words · Kelli Mctigue

How To Apply Custom Animation In Powerpoint

Apply Multiple Animation Effects Add multiple animation effects to any object on a PowerPoint slide. Make images fly in, teeter, and fade out. Make words type onto the screen. Create bullet lists that change color as you cover each point and become transparent when you move to the next point. Use your imagination. To apply multiple animation effects to an object: Modify an Animation Effect After you’ve added multiple animations to an object, change the way the animations appear on the slide....

January 2, 2023 · 1 min · 192 words · Frank Bond

How To Check Data Usage On A Wi Fi Router

How Do I Check My Wi-Fi Usage? Most home routers have some form of built-in data tracking. You can access that via your router’s admin settings page. How Can I Monitor My Home Wi-Fi Usage? The easiest way to continue to monitor your Wi-Fi usage is to reboot your router, so the bytes received and sent also reset, giving you a firm baseline. From there, when you begin checking again, you’ll know from then on how much Wi-Fi data you’re using on a per-day and per-week basis....

January 2, 2023 · 2 min · 265 words · Gene Ward

How To Create A Chalkboard Effect In Photoshop

How to Create Chalkboard Designs in Photoshop After you install the fonts and download the assets you need: How to Make a Chalk Drawing in Photoshop If you’d like, you can add a photo and make it look as if it were drawn with chalk. For best results, choose a simple image that doesn’t include a lot of intricate detail (such as a selfie). How to Add the Chalk Drawing to Your Chalkboard To add your image to the chalkboard:...

January 2, 2023 · 1 min · 146 words · Michael Butler

How To Create Digital Photo Albums In Powerpoint

Create a Digital Photo Album From Files Already on Your Computer Before you create a photo album, collect the picture files that you want to add to the album. To streamline your workflow, add the photos to a single folder on your computer. To create a photo album: Change the Order of the Photos on the PowerPoint Slides The photos appear in the digital photo album in the alphabetical order of their filenames....

January 2, 2023 · 2 min · 228 words · Wilton Proctor

How To Customize A New Tab Page In Chrome

Customize the Chrome New Tab Page Background With a Stock Image Google Chrome is a popular, secure, and powerful web browser that offers many customization options. When you open a new tab in Chrome, you may want to personalize the page’s look and feel. One way to change the background image on a Chrome New Tab page is to use one of Chrome’s stock images. You’ve set a new background image for your Chrome New Tab page....

January 2, 2023 · 2 min · 222 words · Kiara Wollenberg

How To Delete Photos On A Mac

How to Delete Pictures on Mac Using the Trash Bin One of the simplest ways of deleting pictures on Mac is by using the trash bin feature. It takes only seconds to learn. Here’s how to delete individual images as well as how to delete multiple pictures on Mac, along with some key and useful tips to make the process even more convenient. How to Delete Photos From Mac Using Photos App Another way to delete photos from your Mac is to use the Photos app....

January 2, 2023 · 1 min · 196 words · Howard Underwood

How To Delete Profiles On Xbox 360 And Xbox One

How to Delete an Xbox 360 Profile Xbox 360 consoles handle gamertag profiles in a somewhat unique way. The profile is tied to the device that it’s stored on, but profiles don’t have to be stored on internal hard drives. This is due to the fact that the Xbox 360 was originally available both with and without a hard drive, so consoles without hard drives needed to have the ability to store profiles on removable media....

January 2, 2023 · 2 min · 356 words · Peter Moye

How To Disconnect Spotify From Facebook

How to Disable Facebook Login on Spotify If you no longer want to use Facebook to log in to Spotify, you need to create a separate password. How to Disconnect Spotify from Facebook If you signed up for Spotify by email and later connected Facebook, you can disconnect the two accounts and retain your listening history and preferences. You can only do this from the desktop app, though, not on a smartphone or tablet....

January 2, 2023 · 2 min · 246 words · Kim Erickson

How To Do Split Screen On Chromebook

How Do You View Two Tabs Side by Side on a Chromebook? The Split Screen feature is different from Chrome OS laptops, tablets, and convertible devices. First, we’ll cover the steps for using a split-screen on a notebook-style device. Using Split Screen on a Chrome Tablet If your device is touchscreen-only, not only will you lack a keyboard, but the overall Chrome OS interface is slightly different. Namely, apps are displayed full-screen by default, meaning there’s no title bar....

January 2, 2023 · 1 min · 198 words · Annie Jernigan

How To Find A Google Home Mac Address

How to Find a Google Home MAC Address at Setup If you need to know your Google Home MAC address to connect to your network because of MAC address filtering, you can find it with these steps. How to Find a Google Home MAC Address After Setup If you’ve already set up and added a Google Home speaker via the Google Home app, you can find the MAC address with a few taps....

January 2, 2023 · 2 min · 247 words · Guadalupe Nelson

How To Fix D3Dx9 36 Dll Is Missing Or Not Found Errors

This DLL file is one of many similar files contained in the DirectX software collection. Since DirectX is utilized by most Windows based games and advanced graphics programs, d3dx9_36.dll errors usually show up only when using these programs. D3dx9_36.dll Errors D3dx9_36.dll errors can show up on your computer in a number of different ways. Here are many of the more common ones: D3DX9_36.DLL Not FoundFile d3dx9_36.dll not foundThe file d3dx9_36....

January 2, 2023 · 1 min · 205 words · Marty Maguire

How To Fix It When A Lenovo Laptop Camera Is Not Working

Causes for Lenovo Laptop Camera Problems There’s no root issue for Lenovo laptop camera problems. Here’s a list of possible reasons why the camera is not working. You haven’t selected the camera in the program you’re using.The program you’re using doesn’t recognize the camera.Another program is already using the camera.Your privacy settings are blocking the camera.The camera driver has encountered an error.Windows has failed to recognize the camera properly.Your laptop’s firmware has encountered an error....

January 2, 2023 · 1 min · 187 words · Rachel Berry

How To Fix Roku Error Code 009

What Is Error 009 on My Roku? The Roku Error 009 warning is almost always because the Roku device can’t connect to the internet. Error 009 can appear when trying to connect a Roku to both wired and wireless networks. Typical causes include an issue with the internet service provider, the modem or router, a corruption of user or DNS data, or hardware issues such as a damaged cable or a blocked Wi-Fi signal....

January 2, 2023 · 2 min · 229 words · Sharon Montero

How To Fix Time Machine Error Backup Volume Is Read Only

One problem you may encounter with Time Machine occurs when you see an error message that says, “The backup volume is read-only.” Despite this message, your backup files are probably in good working order, and no backup data has been lost. Causes of Time Machine Read-Only Error The cause of the read-only error message depends on a few factors, but in most cases, the Mac thinks that the drive permissions were changed to read-only as a result of a power outage....

January 2, 2023 · 2 min · 349 words · Donald Price