Open the Settings app, tap Safari, and toggle Block Pop-ups to OFF. This allows pop-ups in Safari on your iPhone. You can also allow pop-ups in other browsers like Google Chrome. Open your browser app’s Settings to find this option.
Summary: Open the Settings app, tap Safari, and toggle Block Pop-ups to OFF. This allows pop-ups in Safari on your iPhone. You can also allow pop-ups in other browsers like Google Chrome. Open your browser app’s Settings to find this option.
This is for the Safari and Chrome. Screenshots are from iPhone 14 Pro running iOS 16+
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Allow Pop-Ups in Safari
To allow sites to open pop-up windows in your Safari browser, first, open the Settings app on your iPhone.
Next, in Settings, scroll down and tap Safari. Refer to the below image:
Accessing Safari
Now, on the Safari page, scroll down and toggle Block Pop-Ups to OFF.
Tip: To turn on Safari’s pop-up blocker in the future, re-enable the Block Pop-Ups option.
See the below image:
Toggle OFF to disable pop-ups
Allow Pop-Ups in Chrome
To enable pop-up windows in Chrome, first, launch the browser on your iPhone.
Next, when Chrome launches, in the bottom right-hand corner, tap the three-dot Menu and choose Settings. See the following image:
Accessing Chrome Settings
Now, in Settings, scroll down and tap Content Settings. Refer to the below image:
Accessing Content Settings
Next, tap Block Pop-Ups. See the below image:
Accessing Block Pop-ups
Now, toggle Block Pop-Ups to OFF. Then, in the top right-hand corner, tap Done.
Tip: To re-enable pop-ups in Google Chrome in the future, activate the Block Pop-Ups option.
See the following image:
Toggle OFF to disable pop-ups and tap Done
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Google’s Image Search results are sometimes so impressive that you want to save some of those images to your device. If you have found yourself in this situation, let’s explore how to download those images from your search results.
This is for mobile and desktop devices. Screenshots are from Windows 10 and iPhone 14 Pro running iOS 16+
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Save Images On Desktop
To download an image on a desktop, you just pick your image, click an option, and your image is saved to your computer.
First, launch your favorite web browser on your computer and open Google Image Search. There, find the image you want to save to your machine. Refer to the below image:
Search Google Images
Next, on the search results page, access the image that you want to download. See the below image:
Find an image
Now, right-click your image, and from the menu that opens, choose to Save image as. See the following image:
Check the option to save your image
Next, your browser will open your computer’s standard Save As window. Here, select a folder to save your image in, type your image name in the File Name field, then click Save. Refer to the below image:
Save your image
Now, you have successfully downloaded your favorite image from your Image Search results. If you are not sure exactly where the image file went, check your Downloads folder from File Explorer.
If your downloaded file is of low resolution, then try downloading that image directly from the source site. To do that, on the Image Search results page, click the link, beneath the image, and not the image, to be taken to the image site. There, right-click the image and choose Save image as.
Download Images On Mobile
On your mobile phone, you can download images from Google’s Image Search results using Google Chrome, Apple Safari, or Microsoft Edge. Mozilla Firefox does not offer the option to save images.
To start, first, open your web browser (we are using Safari) and launch Google Image Search or type into the search box “images.google.com”. Find the image you would like to save to your phone.
Next, on the search results page, tap the image to download. See the below image:
Tap an image you want to download
Now, on your image full-screen page, tap and hold the image. See the following image:
Press and hold your image
Next, on iPhone or iPad, from the menu that opens in Safari, tap Save to Photos. Refer to the below image:
Select the option to save your image
Your iPhone will download and save the image on your local storage or in our example using Safari, your Photos app. See the below image:
Your saved image
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Sean Cerety
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Google Chrome has had a built-in dark theme like Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge since Chrome 74. You can even apply a dark theme to every web page you visit using third-party themes or an extension.
Google Chrome has had a built-in dark theme like Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge since Chrome 74. You can even apply a dark theme to every web page you visit using third-party themes or an extension. Let’s explore this dark mode feature.
This is for devices running Windows 11 or 10. Screenshots are from Windows 10
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Chrome offers a built-in dark mode on Windows 11 and Windows 10. It even makes all of Chrome’s context menus dark, too.
Dark Mode for Windows 11
First, open the Settings app and navigate to:
Personalization > Color
Next, click the drop-down menu to the right of Choose Your Mode and select Dark. Refer to the below image:
Setting Dark Mode for Windows 11
Next, close out the Settings app and launch Google Chrome. Unless you have manually set Chrome’s theme, it will match your system.
Dark Mode for Windows 10
First, head to:
Settings > Personalization > Colors
and select Dark under Choose your default app mode. See the below image:
Setting Dark Mode for Windows 10
Apply a Dark Theme
Chrome supports user-created themes, which you can download from the Chrome Web Store. To give Chrome a dark interface, all you have to do is install a dark theme. Google even provides a helpful collection of editor-selected dark themes. This will give your Chrome browser a dark mode on Windows 7, Linux, Chrome OS, and any operating system without a native dark theme.
Note! Google now offers some official Chrome browser themes, including a “Just Black” dark mode theme. You may want to give that a try.
We recommend Morpheon Dark, which is the most popular dark theme in the Store. Unlike some other dark themes, it provides a decent amount of contrast between your active tab, which is a bit lighter, and your inactive tabs, which are darker.
This theme turns darkens the Tab Bar, Title Bar, Toolbar, and New Tab page. That’s all you can theme in Chrome. You can not make Chrome’sContext Menus or Settings page dark, for example. See the following image:
Apply Morpheon Dark Mode
If you ever want to switch back to Chrome’s default theme you can. Head to:
Menu > Settings
Look for the Themes option under Appearance and then click Reset to Default. Refer to the below image:
Reset to the default theme
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Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.
Dan Brown
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Google has confusing named products, and that might be most apparent with Google Wallet and Google Pay. These two apps have taken a convoluted path to get where they are today. So, which one should you be using?
Google has confusing named products, and that might be most apparent with Google Wallet and Google Pay. These two apps have taken a convoluted path to get where they are today. So, which one should you be using?
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Both Google Wallet and Pay have seen some pretty drastic revamps over the years. Their purposes have changed a lot and confused many people in the process. Let’s see what these products have to offer.
Some History
You may be surprised to learn that the original version of Google Wallet was introduced way back in 2011. The service was primarily for sending money to people and there was a physical Google Wallet credit card as well.
The Google Wallet card allowed people to pay for things in physical and online stores with the funds in their accounts. This was before mobile payments with tap-to-pay were widely supported. The Wallet card was a very clever solution.
Eventually, tap-to-pay gained enough traction that Google launched AndroidPay in 2015. It maintained Google Wallet and Android Pay separately until 2018 when the two were combined into a single service called Google Pay. The Wallet card was discontinued in 2016.
Then, in 2020, Google Pay got a massive overhaul with a bunch of new features. All of Google’s mobile payment services were under one umbrella… for a while. In the summer of 2022, the service was split in two, with the Google Wallet branding making a return.
That’s where things stand as of September 2022. Google Pay and Google Wallet exist as two separate products; sometimes. More on that later.
Google Wallet
Google Wallet can most easily be summed up by its name; it’s a digital wallet. You can add credit cards, debit cards, loyalty cards, transportation passes, event tickets, vaccine cards, and gift cards.
Basically, Google Wallet is for paying for things online and in physical stores with tap-to-pay. It features a very simple interface that shows your cards, tickets, and passes. Google Wallet is only available for Android since the iPhone does not allow non-Apple apps for tap-to-pay.
Google Wallet can generally be used with any card reader that has an Apple Wallet, Google Pay, or the contactless tap-to-pay icon. For online purchases, look for the Google Pay or Google Wallet buttons at checkout. It will take some time for the Wallet branding to replace Google Pay. Refer to the below image:
Google Wallet
Google Pay
Google Pay received a massive overhaul in 2020, and it’s pretty much the same experience now. The tap-to-pay functionality is still present in Google Pay, but that’s not the only thing it can do.
The Google Pay app has peer-to-peer payments, shopping deals, cashback offers, and a full-blown banking experience with personal finance insights. You can think of Pay as a combination of services similar to Venmo, PayPal, RetailMeNot, and Mint.
Unlike Google Wallet, Google Pay is available on both Android and iPhone. The tap-to-pay functionality does not work on the iPhone, but the other features do. It’s a feature-packed app that tries to do a lot of things. In fact, it might be too much for some people, which is why Google Wallet exists. See the below image:
Google Pay
Which App to Use?
Depending on where you live, you may not even need to decide which app to use. Google Pay and Google Wallet only exist side-by-side in the U.S. and Singapore. In every other country, Google Wallet entirely replaced Google Pay, and India does not have Wallet at all (as of September 2022).
Google Pay can do everything Google Wallet can do, but Google Wallet can not do everything Google Pay can do. If you are in a country that has both, you can choose between the full experience (Pay) or just mobile payments (Wallet). There’s no reason to have both.
Use Google Pay if you want peer-to-peer payments, deals, rewards, or personal finance tools. If you only care about mobile payments, Google Wallet is a much more streamlined experience for that. The choice is even simpler for iPhone users; Google Pay is the only option.
In closing, Google Wallet is for mobile payments, Google Pay is for mobile payments, and more. In the author’s opinion, it’s still too complicated.
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Some websites show you a “Sign in with Google” prompt to help you quickly sign in to that website. If you would like to avoid this prompt, there’s an easy way to disable it from your Google account’s Settings menu
Some websites show you a “Sign in with Google” prompt to help you quickly sign in to that website. If you would like to avoid this prompt, there’s an easy way to disable it from your Google account’s Settings menu. Let’s see how this is done.
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The “Sign in with Google” prompt is tied to your Google account and not to a particular web browser. This means that you will need to disable the prompt in your account to prevent it from appearing across all your web browsers, including both desktop and mobile browsers.
First, open your Google My Account site in a web browser on your Windows, Mac, or Linux computer. Then, log in to your Google account if you have not already done so.
Next, when the site loads, first, select Security in the left sidebar. Refer to the below image:
Selecting Security option
Now, on the Security page, scroll down to the Signing in to other sites section. Here, click the Signing in with Google option. See the below image:
Selecting Google sign in
On the next page, under the Signing in with Google section, toggle OFF the Google Account sign-in prompts. See the following image:
Disable Google sign in
Now, you will see an Updated message in the lower left-hand corner of your browser telling you that your settings are saved. Refer to the below image:
Your updated change notification
Note: If you are logged in to multiple Google accounts in your web browser, repeat the above process for each account to get rid of the Sign in with Google prompt.
If you want to reverse this action, simply repeat the above steps and toggle ON the Google Account sign-in prompts.
From now on, you will not see the Sign in with Google prompt on any website.
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Zig Ziglar
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Incognito Mode is a common feature in web browsers that allows you to use the web somewhat anonymously. On an iPhone or iPad, if you are using the Google app as a web browser instead of Safari or Chrome, you can browse in Incognito.
Incognito Mode is a common feature in web browsers that allows you to use the web somewhat anonymously. On an iPhone or iPad, if you are using the Google app as a web browser instead of Safari or Chrome, you can browse in Incognito.
The Google app for the iPhone and iPad offers an all-in-one experience. All of the searching and browsing results happens within the app. It’s essentially a mini-browser of its own but you may not want your activity recorded. Let’s setup this feature.
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First, open the Google app on your iPhone or iPad. Use Apple’s Spotlight Search (your first screen) to locate the app if you can not find it on your Home page or App Library. Refer to below image:
Accessing Google app
Next, tap your Profile icon in the top right-hand corner. See below image:
Accessing your Profile
Now, select Turn on Incognito from the drop-down menu. See following image:
Enabling Incognito
Next, you will see a screen saying you are in Incognito Mode . You can now do searches and browse the Internet without the activity being saved to your account. Refer to below image:
In Incognito Mode
To reset Incognito Mode, return to the Google App’s home page and tap the Turn Off button. See below image:
Turn off Incognito Mode
And that’s it. Just like Incognito Mode in a browser, your search and browsing history will not be saved to your account. This is a nice little trick to know if you find yourself using the Google app like a browser a lot.
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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
Ray Bradbury
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As of Google Chrome version 90 and higher, you can create a link to selected text on a web page. When clicked, this link takes you to the page and highlights the selected text.
As of Google Chrome version 90 and higher, you can create a link to selected text on a web page. When clicked, this link takes you to the page and highlights the selected text. Let’s explore how to create such links.
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Enable the Feature
For some of us, Chrome’sCopy Link to Text feature is enabled by default, for others, it’s not. If this is your case, you will have to manually enable it on Chrome’s experimental flags page.
First, open Google Chrome on your computer. In the address bar of any window, type:
chrome://flags
and press Enter. Refer to below image:
Enabling Chrome flags
Now, on the Experiments tab that opens, click the search box at the top and type this:
Copy Link To Text
See below image:
Setting up the feature
Next, in the search results, click the drop-down menu beside Copy Link To Text and select Enabled. See following image:
Enabling the feature
Now, Chrome will ask you to restart the browser so that the change can take effect. Click Relaunch in bottom left-hand corner. Refer to below image:
Restart Chrome
After Chrome restarts, the feature will now be enabled.
Create the Link
To use the Copy Link to Text feature, first, open a site and select the text that you want to copy a link for using your mouse or keyboard. See below image:
Highlight the link
Next, right-click the highlighted text and select Copy Link to Highlight from the menu. See following image:
Copy highlighted link
Now, Chrome will copy the link for your selected text to your clipboard. You can now share this link via social media, send it in an email, paste it in a text editor, or use any other method. Refer to below image for sending the link via email:
Paste the link in an email
When the recipient clicks the link, they will be taken directly to the page with the previously selected passage highlighted. See below image:
Once the above email link is clicked, you will see the highlighted text in the original document
It’s a very handy feature.. Repeat as often as you like.
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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.
Sam Ewing
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Google Chrome offers a tool that lets you perform a checkup to secure your web browsing.
Google Chrome offers a tool that lets you perform a checkup to secure your web browsing. Let’s explore this feature.
This is for devices running Google Chrome. Screenshots are from Windows 10 PC
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First, launch the Chrome web browser on your Windows 10, Mac, Chrome OS, or Linux computer and click the three-dot (hamburger icon) located in the top-right corner. Refer to below image:
Selecting the hamburger icon
Next, click on Settings from the drop-down menu. See below image:
Selecting the Settings option
Now, scroll down to find the Safety Check section and click the Check Now option. See following image:
Selecting the Check Now option
Next, Chrome will kick off the Safety Check test. Depending on how much browsing data you have, this can take anywhere from a few seconds to a couple of minutes. When finished, just click the Review option by any listing. Refer to below image:
Selecting the Review button
In this process, Chrome scans a total of four core modules to look for any malicious code. It will make sure that the browser app is on the most recent version for protection against the latest internet viruses and that all of your installed third-party extensions are harmless. It will also check whether any of your saved passwords have been compromised in a data breach and that Safe Browsing, a setting that warns you against suspicious sites, is enabled.
Once the Safety Check is complete, Chrome will pull up shortcuts for anything that may need your immediate attention, such as reviewing compromised credentials.
After running Safety Check on my PC, it found comprised passwords. See below image where we are displaying three of them:
Viewing Comprised Passwords
After taking the recommended steps, you can also run the Safety Check again to ensure that your new security settings are active.
There’s another feature you can use by switching on Enhanced Safe Browsing, an advanced mode that allows Google to assess your browsing for potential threats and suggest privacy-focused improvements. However, we do not recommend using this option because you are choosing to share a copy of your browsing data with Google.
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Two-Factor authentication (2FA) adds an extra security layer to your accounts across the internet. 2FA means your accounts require information beyond user name and password to confirm you are who you say you are before you can get into the accounts. Let’s explore how to access 2FA.
Two-Factor authentication (2FA) adds an extra security layer to your accounts across the internet. 2FA means your accounts require information beyond user name and password to confirm you are who you say you are before you can get into the accounts. Let’s explore how to access 2FA.
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The “second factor” comes in after you enter your username and password, which are considered to be the “first factor.” 2FA can be used to confirm your identity by asking for an extra piece of information. The additional information can be:
Something you know, like an additional passcode.
Something you have, like your phone to receive a one time authorization code.
Something you are, like a fingerprint or voice print. This is also called biometric security.
The idea is to provide another piece of information a hacker would not have, making it harder for the bad guy to break into your account.
The following is not an exhaustive list of services with 2FA ability, but we cover the major services everyone tends to use, and walk you through how to access. We will cover Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Instagram, LinkedIn, Microsoft, and Twitter. Activate 2FA on all of these and you will be more secure. Once you have found their 2FA screens you can can set it up for each app.
Amazon
First, launch Amazon.com on the desktop and login in to your account. Next, click the Menu icon in upper left-hand corner. Now, scroll down the drop-down menu to Your Account option.
Next, click on the Login & Security big button. Now, on the next page, click Edit next to Two-Step Verification (2SV) Settings. The preferred method is an authentication app (scan the QR code); phone number(s) are the backup method. Refer to below image where I already have 2SV based on my phone number (which is dimmed out):
Amazon 2SV
If you think your account has been comprised, go back to Login & Security and click the Edit button next to Secure Your Account.
Apple
Following are the steps on how to access 2FA for Apple using either iOS or macOS.
On iOS go to:
Settings > [your name at the top] > Password & Security > Turn on Two-Factor Authentication.
On macOS go to:
System Preferences > iCloud, then sign in, click Account Details > Security > Turn on Two-Factor Authentication.
Note! once Apple 2FA is activated for two weeks, you can not turn it off. “Certain features in the latest versions of iOS and macOS require this extra level of security, which is designed to protect your information,” according to Apple. See below image for iOS:
Apple 2FA
Facebook
First, login to Facebook on your desktop. Next, click the Down arrow in upper right-hand corner. Now, from the drop-down menu that appears, click on the Settings & Privacy option. On the next screen, click the Privacy & Checkup option. From there, click on the topic How to keep your account secure. Under this topic, you can access 2FA for Facebook. See following image where 2FA is On with a backup method of sending a text message to a phone number.
First, sign in to your Google account on your smart device. Next, at the top of the screen, locate the Security tab and tap it. Now, scroll down and tap the 2- Step Verification option. You can continuing scrolling to see more ways to verify you. Refer to below image where my 2SV is already turned On and I am using the backup method of Voice or text message:
Google 2SV
Google calls its system 2SV . It’s all about identifying you via phone. When you enter a password to access your Google account for almost any service, if 2SV is on, there are multiple options to get that second step. First among them now: the Google Prompt. You simply add your smartphone to your account, make sure the Google search app is on the phone, and at login, you can go to the phone and simply acknowledge with a tap that you are the one signing in.
Instagram
First, launch Instagram on your smart device. Next, go to your Profile in lower right-hand corner, then tap the menu (the hamburger icon) on the top-right. Tap Settings > Security > Two-Factor Authentication. There you can choose how you would like to get your authentication code by tapping the Get Started button. See below image:
Instagram 2FA
Linkedin
Business social network Linkedin makes it easy to set up verification, either by SMS texts or authentication app.
First, launch Linkedin on you smart device, then go to your Profile at upper left-hand screen. Next, go to Settings > Sign in & Security > Account > Two-step verification to activate it or deactivate. See following image:
Linkedin 2SV
Microsoft
First sign into your Microsoft account on your smart device. Now, tap your Profile. Next, scroll down and tap Security. 2FA is the second option, tap on it. Once again, tap Two -step verification > Manage. Microsoft will suggest you get app passwords as needed for older service or devices (like Xbox 360); go in later to generate one as needed. Refer to below image:
Microsoft 2SV
Twitter
First, to activate Login Verification on Twitter.com on the desktop, login to Twitter, Click the More menu on the left (the three dots) and select Security & Account Access > Security > Two-Factor Authentication. See following image:
Twitter 2FA
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We have all been there; looking up a word on Google just to find out how it’s spelled. No matter the typos, Google usually knows what you want to type. Thankfully, Google allows you to use its spell-check feature everywhere in your Chrome web browser.
We have all been there; looking up a word on Google just to find out how it’s spelled. No matter the typos, Google usually knows what you want to type. Thankfully, Google allows you to use its spell-check feature everywhere in your Chrome web browser.
Called the Enhanced spell check, this setting allows you to access Google’s more advanced spell check whenever you type something on the Internet.
But as is the case with most Google services, there is a privacy cost to this. Turning on Enhanced spell check in Chrome also means agreeing to send everything you type on the web to Google’s server. So enable it at your own risk. But, you can also enable Basic spell check without sending data to Google. Lets explore how to do this.
This is for PCs, Macs, Chrome OS, or Linux running Chrome
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First, open your Google Chrome browser. Next, click the three-dot hamburger icon located in the top right-hand corner. Refer to below image:
Accessing the menu hamburger icon
Now, from the drop-down menu that appears, select Settings. See below image:
Accessing Settings
Alternatively, you can press the Cmd+Comma keyboard shortcut on a Mac or Alt+E on a Windows PC to access the Settings option.
Next, in the sidebar, click Advanced to reveal the advanced menu. Now, choose Languages from the list. See following image:
Accessing Languages under the Advanced section
Under the Spell check section, toggle the radio button in front of the Basic spell check option to turn it On. If you want enhanced spell checking, toggle the radio button in front of the Enhanced spell check to turn it On. Keep in mind, the enhanced option means you are sending your browser activity to Google. Refer to below image:
Enabling Basic spell check option
At the time of writing, Enhanced spell check is not available for Google Chrome’s Android and iPhone clients.
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