The photo editor on the iPhone and iPad comes with a built-in tool for flipping photos horizontally (sideways). But if you want to flip photos vertically (upside down), you will need to use a free third-party app like Photoshop Express.
Sometimes you end up taking photos that are mirrored horizontally. This is quite common when you take selfies. Want to change the direction of a photo (or a face)?
The photo editor on the iPhone and iPad comes with a built-in tool for flipping photos horizontally (sideways). But if you want to flip photos vertically (upside down), you will need to use a free third-party app like Photoshop Express. Let’s explore how to flip photos using Photoshop Express since it has more features.
This is for the iPhone and iPad using Photoshop Express
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This app is a feature-rich photo editing tool on your iPhone or iPad. In some ways, you can think of it as the mobile version of the Photoshop app. While many of its pro features are hidden behind a subscription, you can use the free version to make simple edits.
One of the features available on the free version is the ability to flip images both vertically and horizontally.
First, download the free app from the Apple Store iCloud service. Now, open the app and give it permission to access your photos. Next, from the Home tab, tap the Edit section button. Refer to below image:
Accessing Edit section
Here, choose the photo that you want to edit. See below image:
Selecting a Photo
From the photo editing view, go to the Crop button and tap it. See following image:
Accessing the Crop button
From here, choose the Rotate option. Refer to below image:
Accessing the Rotate option
Now, swipe left on the bottom toolbar to see the different flip options. See below image:
Accessing the flip options
Next, you can flip the photo as you please. See following image for the flipped photo:
The photo flipped
Once you are done, tap the Share button from the top toolbar. Refer to below image:
Accessing the Share button
Here, tap the Camera Roll button. The final flipped photo will be exported and saved to your Photos app. See below image where I saved the original:
Selecting to export and save the photo to the Camera Roll
Your original photo is left intact.
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Arthur C Clarke
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If you are big on security (or keeping a secret), you might not want the Edge browser to keep a permanent record of the sites you browse. If that’s the case, you can use a setting in Edge to automatically erase your data every time you quit the program.
If you are big on security (or keeping a secret), you might not want the Edge browser to keep a permanent record of the sites you browse. If that’s the case, you can use a setting in Edge to automatically erase your data every time you quit the program.
This is for PCs and Macs running Microsoft Edge. Screen shots are from Windows 10
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It lets you delete everything at once on Windows 10 PCs and Macs. You get an almost fresh browser every time you open it to browse the internet. It is handy when you browse only internet banking sites and some other private sites to do something specific.
You can clear the following sets of data:
browsing history
download history
cookies and other site data
cached images and files
passwords
autofill form data
site permissions
To setup this feature, first, open your Edge browser. Now, click the three-dot hamburger menu icon from the toolbar. Refer to below image:
Accessing the toolbar menu button
Next, from the drop-down menu, choose the Settings option. See below image:
Accessing Settings
Now, locate the Privacy, search, and services section from the sidebar. Next, from the Clear browsing data section, click the Choose what to clear every time you close the browser option. See following image:
Accessing clear browsing data for Edge
Now, you will see a list of data that you can clear when closing your browser. Click the toggle next to each data type that you want to clear. Refer to below image:
Enabling or disabling what to clear when closing Edge
That’s it. You have set up and started the automatic clearing process. The next time you close the Microsoft Edge browser and start it up again, the designated data will be cleared.
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“The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life”.
Andrew Brown
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When you are browsing the web using Safari on your iPhone or iPad, sometimes it can be difficult to read small fonts on the screen. On the other hand, you might find a site that has huge fonts and it makes things equally difficult to read. If you are using Safari on your iPhone or iPad, here’s how to make the text size on a website larger or smaller.
When you are browsing the web using Safari on your iPhone or iPad, sometimes it can be difficult to read small fonts on the screen. On the other hand, you might find a site that has huge fonts and it makes things equally difficult to read. If you are using Safari on your iPhone or iPad, here’s how to make the text size on a website larger or smaller.
This is for iPhone and iPad running iOS 13+
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You can use Safari’s built-in text zoom feature. This feature only changes the text size of the web page. It keeps everything else as it is. The images and other UI elements will stay the same. Once you have changed the text size of a website, Safari will remember it the next time you open the page.
First, open the Safari browser on your iPhone or iPad and visit the web page where you want to increase or decrease the text size.
Next, tap the “aA” button on the top left-hand side. Refer to below image:
Selecting Text Size button
Now, tap the “a” button to reduce the text size, or tap the “A” button to increase the text size. See below image:
Decrease or increase Text Size
The default text zoom is set as 100%. You can reduce the text size to 50% or take it up all the way to 300%. See following image where the screen is displayed at 50%, 150%, and 300%:
Display of 50%, 150%, 300%
If you want to quickly reset the text size to the default, simply tap the percentage value in the middle. Refer to below image:
Reset Text Size
Safari’s text zoom feature works in the Reader Mode as well. If you would like to read a long article without the site elements in larger text size, we recommend that you use Reader View.
Now, after loading the page, tap and hold the “aA” button to enable the Reader View.
Note! Not all websites support Reader View.
See below image:
Enabling Reader View
Next, tap the “aA” button again. From here, you can increase or decrease the text size. See following image:
Set Text Size in Reader View
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Elbert Hubbard
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While changing your browser’s font may not be a pressing issue, sometimes it is fun to make a change. We going to explore how to change the default fonts in Google Chrome.
While changing your browser’s font may not be a pressing issue, sometimes it is fun to make a change. We going to explore how to change the default fonts in Google Chrome.
This is for devices running Google Chrome
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Changing Chrome’s Fonts
In order to change the fonts in Google Chrome, you will need to access your Customize Fonts section. First, open your Chrome browser. Next, click on the three 3-dot (hamburger icon) in the upper right-hand corner. Refer to below image:
Accessing your Chrome menu
Now, click on Settings. See below image:
Accessing Settings
Next, click on the Appearance tab in the sidebar. Now, scroll down until you get to the Customize Fonts section and click on it. See following image:
Accessing your customize fonts section from the Appearance tab
Now, you can change all your font settings. Just click on each drop-down box and select a font from the listing. It is recommended you write down the default fonts in case you want to revert to the original ones. Refer to below image:
Accessing the drop-down boxes to change your fonts
When finished, exit Settings and restart your Chrome browser for the changes to take effect.
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If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
Lyndon B. Johnson, Former President of the United States of America
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The advantage of the Microsoft Office suite is that all the programs in the collection work quite well together. An example is the ability to link or embed a Microsoft PowerPoint slides into a Microsoft Word document.
The advantage of the Microsoft Office suite is that all the programs in the collection work quite well together. An example is the ability to link or embed a Microsoft PowerPoint slides into a Microsoft Word document. Lets explore how this is done.
This is for devices running PowerPoint and Word
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Linking vs. Embedding Explained
If you link or embed a PowerPoint slide in a Word document, the goal is always the same; to provide an external reference that complements the content of the document. However, there are subtle differences between linking and embedding that you should be aware of.
The difference between linking and embedding an object is how the object’s data is stored and how the object’s content is updated. Since data is stored differently between the two methods, the content update process will also be different.
If you link an object, then that link simply sends the reader to the location of the source object when clicked. The file itself does not actually store any data from the linked object to the file. This is advantageous if the object you are linking to is large in size and you need to reduce the size of your Word document. The downside is that if the location of the linked object changes, the link in your Word document will break.
If you embed an object, then you do not need to worry about whether the location of the object changes, as it becomes part of the document itself. That is, Word stores the object data in the actual Word file. The good news is that you do not have to worry about broken links in your document. The downside is that when the object is updated, those updates are not reflected in your embedded object, because there is no link connecting it to the source. Also, you will need to consider that the file size increases with embedded objects.
Link or Embed a PowerPoint Slide into a Word Document
First, open the PowerPoint project that contains the slide you want to link or embed. Now, select the desired slide by clicking its preview thumbnail. Refer to below image:
Selecting a PowerPoint slide
Next, copy the slide to your clipboard by using the Ctrl+c (Cmd+c on Mac) keyboard shortcut, or by right-clicking the slide and selecting Copy from the context menu. See below image:
Selecting the Copy option
Now, open your Word documentyou would like to link or embed the slide to. In the Clipboard group of the Home tab, click the down arrow under Paste. See following image:
Selecting the Paste option
In the drop-down menu, click Paste Special. Refer to below image:
Selecting the Paste Special option from drop-down list
The Paste Special window will appear. If you have copied the PowerPoint slide to your clipboard, you will see a Microsoft PowerPoint Slide Object option in the box under As. Next, click it to select the option. If you do not see this option, repeat the above steps. You may not have copied the slide to your Clipboard.
To embed the slide, click the bubble icon next to Paste.
To link the slide, click the bubble icon next to Paste Link.
Now, select OK to insert the linked or embedded object. See below image:
Selecting the Paste option to embed the PowerPoint slide
Your final Word document should look like the following image:
Your Word document with the PowerPoint slide embedded
The Microsoft PowerPoint slide is now linked or embedded into your Microsoft Word document.
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Visiting your favorite websites or just any website can be kind of frustrating when the on-screen text is hard to read. Fortunately, the Google Chrome web browser on the iPhone and iPad has a text-specific zoom feature. You can adjust the default text size on any website by using the Zoom Text function.
Visiting your favorite websites or just any website can be kind of frustrating when the on-screen text is hard to read. Fortunately, the Google Chrome web browser on the iPhone and iPad has a text-specific zoom feature. You can adjust the default text size on any website by using the Zoom Text function.
It’s easy to get confused as to which browser this applies to. This feature is for your Google Chrome browser, notthe default Safari web browser.
What’s neat is that Chrome remembers your preference and will show the designated text size going forward (no need to adjust the text every time).
Let’s explore how to change text size on websites in Chrome for iPhone and iPad.
This is for iPhone and iPad using Chrome
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To begin, open your Chrome app on your iPhone or iPad. Next, visit the web page that you want to increase the text size. Refer to below image:
Selecting a website on Chrome
Now, from the bottom toolbar, tap the three-dot hamburger menu button. See below image:
Selecting the menu button
Next, from the drop-down menu that appears, scroll down and choose the Zoom Text option. See following image:
Selecting the Zoom Text option
Now, you will now see a new toolbar at the top of your screen. Tap the “+” button to increase the text size or the “–” button to reduce the text size. You can select the Reset button to go back to the default text size. Once you are finished, tap the Done button. Refer to below image:
Selecting to increase the text size
A comparison between the default text size and zoomed text can be seen in the below image:
Default text size versus zoomed text
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Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
Mitch Kapor
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With a software update that arrived recently, called iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5, Apple is finally forcing apps to come clean about a kind of surveillance they have been conducting on us for the past decade. Behind the scenes, apps can probe your phone for personal information that helps them target you with ads or even sell data about you to others. Now. marketers and data brokers can not access a valuable way to identify your phone unless you explicitly say it’s okay.
With a software update that arrived recently, called iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5, Apple is finally forcing apps to come clean about a kind of surveillance they have been conducting on us for the past decade. Behind the scenes, apps can probe your phone for personal information that helps them target you with ads or even sell data about you to others. Now. marketers and data brokers can not access a valuable way to identify your phone unless you explicitly say it’s okay.
This is for the iPhone and iPad running iOS or iPadOS 14.5 or higher
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A feature on your iPhone or iPad called “App TrackingTransparency” allows you to ask apps not to track you across the internet for advertising and data brokering purposes.
Facebook, and its sister app Instagram, has begun asking permission and the company says it will roll out a screen arguing why you should allow it to track you.
Why Am I Tracked
To get the most out of their advertising budgets, advertisers want their ads to be seen by customers who will buy the product or service they are offering. That way, they do not spend money advertising to the wrong audience. To increase the effectiveness of ads, companies build advertising profiles on individuals, and these profiles can follow you across services run by different companies on the internet.
Apple began to fight back against this practice, building privacy controls. As of the 14.5 update, Apple requires app developers to ask your permission before adding information from that app or data from your iPhone or iPad to an advertising profile that would track you beyond its own app.
Facebook says by tapping “Ask App not to Track“, you are hurting small businesses and free apps that depend on its targeted advertising. In addition to targeting your interests, tracking also helps advertisers learn whether their ads work.
The decision to fight app tracking now is pretty self-serving on the part of Apple. The iPhone maker has a financial interest to push apps to make money from subscriptions rather than advertising, because it gets to take a percentage cut of any in-app purchases.
How Not to be Tracked
Whenever you use an iPhone or iPad app that wants to track you in iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, or higher, you will see a pop-up message that reads “Allow [app name] to track your activity across other companies’ apps and websites?” Just below that, you will find a line about what exactly the app wants to do with your data, such as “deliver personalized ads” or “measure advertising efficiency“.
If you do not want data from this app to go toward building a tracking profile that goes beyond the company that makes the app, tap “Ask App Not to Track“. Refer to below image:
Disallow app to track you option
By clicking “Ask App Not to Track“, you’re trusting the app vendor to follow through and honor this request. You are also hoping that Apple’s pressure on these app developers; and its future app screening process; will hold.
How to See Which Apps Track You
If you would like to see which apps you have allowed to track you, first open Settings (the gear icon) app on your iPhone or iPad. See below image:
Accessing Settings
In the Settings menu, tap Privacy. See following image:
Accessing Privacy option
In Privacy settings, select Tracking. Refer to below image:
Accessing Tracking option
There, you will see a list of apps that have asked for permission to track you. To change an option for an individual app, tap the toggle beside it. See below image:
Disallow an app to track you
After that, exit Settings. Any time you need to revisit information on which apps you have allowed to track you, just visit:
Settings > Privacy > Tracking
How to Stop Apps From Asking Permission
If you are frequently seeing “Ask App Not to Track” pop-ups, you can disable them entirely in Settings. Doing this means that you decline all requests to track you by default, but it does not ensure that apps will not ever try to track you.
First, open the Settings app and navigate to:
Privacy > Tracking
See following image:
Accessing Tracking option
At the top of the Tracking page, toggle the switch beside “Allow Apps to Request to Track“to turn it Off. Refer to below image:
Disallow apps to track you
After this, exit Settings.
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I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
Carrie Snow
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Have you ever noticed the message you see when you install a browser extension in Chrome, for example? For most browser extensions, a message appears stating that the extension can “Read and modify all of your information on the websites you visit.”
Have you ever noticed the message you see when you install a browser extension in Chrome, for example? For most browser extensions, a message appears stating that the extension can “Read and modify all of your information on the websites you visit.” Refer to below image where we are looking at DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials extension, an Internet privacy company, on their permissions:
Viewing a Chrome extension for permissions
What! Does not look secure to me as it reads all data on your device. You want to remove this browser extension and similar extensions for privacy issues.
To review your Chrome browser extensions:
Open Chrome, and click the 3-dot hamburger icon in upper-right hand corner.
Click on More Tools, then Extensions. They will be listed alphabetically.
Find a browser Extension that is enabled. Click on its Details button. Now, scroll down to the Permissions and Site Access sections to view how it is accessing your data.
You may be surprised as to the information the Extension is collecting on you. Let’s explore what this is about.
This is for modern day browsers like Edge, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Screenshots are from Chrome desktop version
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This means that the browser extension has full access to all web pages you visit. It can see which web pages you are browsing, read their content and look at everything you write. It can even modify the web pages; for example by inserting additional ads. If the extension is malicious, it can collect all your private information; from web activity and emails you write to your passwords and financial information; and send it to a remote server on the Internet.
I am tired of receiving fake emails, texts, tweets, posts, and so on. Recently I have been receiving media from Thank You, USPS, Wells Fargo, Cox Communications, and so on.
This is primarily due to my accounts being compromised and sold. Another reason is some browser extensions is watching my activity.
If a browser extension is completely reliable and trustworthy, that’s fine. The browser extension may behave responsibly and not capture any data or interfere with your banking information.
We do not say that you have to uninstall every browser extension you have. Instead, you just realize the enormous access you give to the browser extensions you install and act on accordingly.
See below image for a popular Chrome extension, Todolist, permissions allowing access to its web site:
Viewing a Chrome extension for permissions
But keep this in mind; if you do not trust the add-on, you may not want to run it in the first place. We recommend you click the Remove button to delete any extension you do not trust. See following image:
Removing a Chrome extension
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On the iPhone, there are two features you should be using; the SOS Contacts and Comprised Passwords.
On the iPhone, there are two features you should be using; the SOSContacts and Comprised Psswords. Let’s explore how to use these two features.
This is for iPhone running iOS 14+
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Create a SOS Contact
First, ensure that your most important people are in your Contacts. Now, search for your Health app either from your App Library (your last screen) or the Spotlight Search (your first screen). We are using the Spotlight Search. Just type the name “health” in the search box (without the quotes) and click the result. Refer to below image:
Accessing your Health app
Next, the Summary screen will be displayed. Now, click the Review Medical ID Access link. See Below image:
Displaying your Health Summary screen
Next, the Emergency Access to Medical ID screen will be displayed. Click on the Review Medical ID button at the bottom. See following image:
Displaying your Medical ID screen
Now, your Emergency Contacts will be shown (if any). Click on add emergency contact to add a SOS contact you want notified in case of an emergency. Refer to below image:
Displaying your Emergency Contacts and add one
SOS also contacts emergency services. A red asterisk icon will now appear next to Emergency Contacts in your Contacts list.
To send an SOS, hold down the power button on the right and one of the volume buttons on the left at same time. You can either use the Emergency SOS slider, or keep holding the button. A countdown will start, an alert will sound, and when the call goes through to 911, messages are sent to your Emergency Contacts. See below image:
Accessing your Emergency SOS slider
Security Recommendations
iOS 14 features Security Recommendations, which are handy if you store a lot of passwords in iOS, be it for apps or website visits. It will tell you if a password appeared in a known data breach/leak, and suggest you make changes if you have repeated passwords (because that is a big no-no).
First, launch your Settings (the gear icon) app. See following image:
Your Settings app
Next, scroll down and tap the Passwords option. Refer to below image:
Accessing your Passwords option
Now, the Security Recommendations screen will be shown. The number to the right indicates security risks found. Next, tap on the label. See below image:
Your number of security risks
Now, on the Security Recommendations screen, toggle Detected Comprised Passwords to On. Next, go through your list of compromised passwords and click the Change Password link as necessary. See following image:
Enabling the Detect Comprised Passwords toggle and reviewing your risks
Note! Some of your comprised passwords may be from old leaks. You know you have changed it since the date of the leak. If so, click the label to open the entry, then click Delete Password.
Next, go back to your Security Recommendations screen to check if your comprised passwords has been resolved. Now, exit Settings.
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Every iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch comes pre-loaded with a ton of useful apps from Apple, but sometimes those apps can go missing. If that happens, you may wonder where they went, why they disappeared, and how to get them back.
Every iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch comes pre-loaded with a ton of useful apps from Apple, but sometimes those apps can go missing. If that happens, you may wonder where they went, why they disappeared, and how to get them back. Let’s explore how to do this.
This is for the iPhone
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The apps that this can happen to include iTunes, FaceTime, Reminders, Stocks, Calendar, Music, Calculator, News, Notes, and many others; in fact 27 apps can be deleted. There are a number of possible reasons why an app has disappeared. It could have been moved or deleted. That’s obvious. Less obvious is that “missing” apps may still be on your device but have been hidden.
Find App Using Spotlight Searcn
First, before you try to reinstall a missing app, make sure that it’s not simply hiding on your device. On your Home screen, swipe downward with one finger near the middle of the screen, and your SpotlightSearch bar will appear. Now, type in the name of the app to see whether its icon appears in the results. In our example, we are searching for the Stocks app. Although Stocks appears in the results list, it’s not the right icon. Refer to below image:
Using Spotlight Search
If you see the app in the results, then the app is installed. But where is it? It’s possible that you can not see it on a cluttered screen full of apps, or it might be hidden in a folder somewhere. Also, with iOS 14 and higher, the app could be in your App Library but not present on your Home screen.
Find App Using App Library
To check your App Library, swipe all the way to the left (to the last page) and look for it. In my case, it’s in the Recently Added box because I just added it in creating this blog post. See below image:
Using the App Librtary
Download App From App Store
If you do not see the app you are looking for in the SpotlightSearch results or the App Library, then the app is not on your device. Fortunately, every removable iPhone app is available for free download again from the App Store. To get it back, open the App Store app. See following image:
Accessing the App Store
Next, when the App Store opens, type the name of the app you are looking for in the search bar and tap the Search button. Refer to below image:
Searching for the Stocks app
Some third-party apps have similar names to the built-in apps and may show up in the results. To confirm it’s the real app you are looking for, tap on its entry in the results list to see if it’s from Apple. See below image:
Finding the Stocks app
Now, the app you want will be free to download; you will see Apple’s iCloud download icon in the listing instead of a Get or Buy button. If you see an Open button, you already have the app on your device. See following image:
Download the Stocks app from iCloud
Check if App is From Apple
Next, when you are ready to download, just tap the iCloud download button and the app will be downloaded to your device. Once downloaded, you may ccheck if this is the correct app. Open the app and tap the blue link at the bottom labeled, in our example, About Stocks and Privacy… Refer to below image:
Check to see if we have the correct Stocks app
Now, read the verbage for mentioning of Apple. In the below image, a reference is made to Stocks are provided by Apple News:
Verifying the Stocks app is from Apple
Repeat the above process with any other missing Apple apps you want restored. Next, exit out of all open screens.
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