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How to Unhide Something on Your Facebook Timeline

If you have ever hidden something from your Facebook timeline, and now want to have it appear on your Facebook timeline again, here is the information you need to unhide something from your Facebook timeline.

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How to Stop Videos from Autoplaying on Facebook and other Websites

If you are like countless other users who are tired of autoplay videos on Facebook (and other websites), here is how to stop videos from automatically playing on Facebook and other sites, on your iPhone or Android phone, and in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and even Internet Explorer (IE).

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How to Cancel or Close a Payloadz Account

If you have ever used the Payloadz service, you may be wondering how to cancel your Payloadz account. In fact, Payloadz doesn’t explain anywhere on the Payloadz.com site how to cancel their service, and contacting them may not even help. They just keep billing you every month through Paypal. And that, in fact, is the key. So here’s how to cancel the Payloadz service (and also how to cancel any Paypal recurring subscription payment).

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How to Unsubscribe from Match.com When You Signed Up through the Match App via the App Store

If you are trying to cancel your paid subscription with Match.com and get the message “You are currently subscribed through the iTunes App Store. Please log in to your iTunes account to manage any subscription issues” when logged into Match on your computer, you may be having trouble figuring out exactly how to do that. They certainly don’t make it easy (but of course it’s easy enough to sign up for that paid subscription.

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How to Make a Gratitude Watch with Your Apple Watch

A picture is worth a thousand words, the old saying goes, and perhaps nowhere is that more evident than in how a picture can instantly evoke a feeling in you. And that is how we got the idea of creating a “gratitude watch” with an Apple watch. Imagine how calming it could be to see a picture that fills you with gratitude every time you lift your wrist! And whenever you check the time – often an action that creates stress – that will be countered with an image that induces calm!

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How to Migrate Your Email from Yahoo to Gmail (or Any Other Place)

One of the more frequent questions that we get is how to forward or migrate email from Yahoo mail to Gmail, or to another email account. Seems that lots of people are wanting to change their Yahoo email account to somewhere else these days. So, here is how to move your email from Yahoo to Gmail with as little pain as possible. These instructions can be used to change your email from Yahoo to any other email service as well.

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How Delete a Photo from an Existing Facebook Post

You know how sometimes you will post a photo to Facebook along with some text in the post, and then later you want to remove the photo without deleting the post? It seems impossible, but you can do it, with a caveat. Here’s how to delete the picture but not the post on Facebook.

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How to Change the Privacy Settings for Things You Share to Facebook

If you are trying to share something from a website by posting it to your Facebook timeline through that site’s Facebook Like, Share, or Recommend button, and you can’t figure out how to change the privacy setting for that share from ‘Only Me’ to ‘Friends’ or ‘Public’, here’s how to do it. After all, if you’re sharing it, you probably want others to see it!

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Amazon Echo Dot Setup and How to Use the Echo Dot as an Extension of Your Echo

People are starting to receive their preordered Amazon Echo Dots. The difference between the Echo Dot and the Echo Tap is basically that the Echo Tap is a wireless, portable Echo that is not voice-activated, while the Echo Dot is an Echo without a full speaker (the Echo Dot does have a small on-board speaker), that is voice-activated, and that you connect to either a wired or wireless bluetooth speaker of your own. But you can also use the Echo Dot as an extension for your Echo! (By the way, if your Echo Dot is hanging during wifi setup, we cover that too.)

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How to Disable Command-Q to Stop it from Closing Your Apps on Your Mac

It’s annoying as all get out – you’re just in the middle of something – whether it be composing an email, or a really great rebuttal online – and you go to hit Command+A to select all, or Command+W to close a tab, but you accidentally hit Command Q (CMD-Q) instead, and lose it all in the blink of an eye. Argh! Here’s how to disable Command Q on your Mac to stop it from closing your programs.

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How to See Who Liked a Facebook Page that You Run

Lots of people run Facebook Pages, and it’s always exciting when somebody ‘Likes’ your Facebook page. And you can see how many people have Liked your Facebook Page simply by loading that page. But it’s not obvious how you see all the people who Liked your page, so that you can reach out to them individually. So, here’s how to see who liked your Facebook Page.

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How to Stop Facebook from Posting Your Location (2016)

You may have noticed that Facebook recently started publishing the location from which you are posting when you post to Facebook via the web (with your browser), whether you want it to or not. And so you may be wondering how to stop Facebook from posting your location. Here’s how.

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How to Change Your Twitter Timeline Back to Chronological Order

Taking a page from the Facebook playbook, Twitter has just changed your Twitter news feed timeline to show you the “best tweets” first, instead of showing tweets in the chronological order (technically reverse chronological order) that they are posted.

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Connected to Hotel Wifi but Can’t Get Login Splash Screen? This May be the Problem

If you’ve stayed in a major hotel in the past several years, you know the drill for connecting to the hotel wireless network: connect to their wifi, try to connect somewhere with your browser, and the hotel wifi network login splash page will show up, so that you can agree to their terms of service, enter a password, etc.. But what if you can connect to the hotel wifi but you can’t get the login splash screen? Here’s what may be going on, and how to fix it so that you can connect to the hotel wifi network and get out to the internet.

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Location Based Reminders Now Available on iPhone for Anywhere

We’ve written before about how to set up location-based reminders in the iPhone, however until fairly recently it required you to have the address of the location at which you wanted to be reminded in your contacts. No more. Now you can tell Siri to remind you of something when you arrive anywhere, any time! Here’s how.