Deleting Your Facebook Account If you are thinking about making a clean, permanent exit and delete Facebook from your life, here’s a simple summary of how to do it and what to consider before pulling the plug. Before you kick Facebook to the curb for real, download all your data and disconnect any services that you use your Facebook credentials to log in to. How to Download Your Data Facebook makes it easy to save all your stuff, including photos, videos, message transcripts, and friends lists....

You may need the public IP address when setting up a file server or website, while the private IP address is useful for communicating with local devices, forwarding ports from a router, or accessing your router to make network changes. Learn how to find your public IP on any web browser; how to find your private IP using a Windows, macOS, or Linux device; and how to find your router’s local IP address....

General Disney Plus Troubleshooting Tips Most issues with Disney Plus can be broken down into just a few basic categories: internet connectivity, problems with the streaming device, problems with the app or web player, and problems with Disney’s own servers. Since most Disney Plus problems fit into one of these categories, you can usually get the service to start working again by following these basic troubleshooting steps. Restart your streaming device or computer....

Get More Twitter Followers by Simply Posting More Tweets The first method to gain more Twitter followers is to post more. Experts say the optimum number of posts range from three to seven posts per day. Still, some businesses post upwards of 20 tweets per day, depending on their strategy. Each time you post a new tweet, you have another chance to reach more followers. But, how do you post more often when you’re out of ideas?...

Once you’ve set Google as the default search engine in your favorite browser, you can perform searches right there in the browser window without having to open the Google URL. For example, in most browsers, you can erase the URL or open a new tab, and then type whatever you want to search for on Google. What Does ‘Default Search Engine’ Mean? When a web browser is first installed, it’s pre-built with a specific search engine function so that when you do a web search, it uses that search engine versus something else....

What Is an MPL File? A file with the MPL file extension is an AVCHD playlist file. Since they are playlists, they’re not the actual recordings made with your camcorder or other video recording device. Rather, they’re just a reference to the actual videos, which are probably the .MTS files you should also see. This file extension is also used for MPL2 subtitles. These are text files that contain subtitles for media players to display during video playback....

Can You Use Outlook in Safe Mode? Even if you’ve been having problems with Outlook, it opens normally in safe mode because it starts without extensions or custom toolbar settings and disables the Reading Pane. These items are common sources of problems, so, after using safe mode, investigate those parts of the program to see what’s preventing it from opening correctly. How to Start Outlook in Safe Mode Using the Outlook Shortcut To open Outlook in safe mode, press and hold the Ctrl key, then select the Outlook shortcut....

Can I Make Free International Calls With WhatsApp? Well, kind of. Much like Telegram, Line, and Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp uses an internet or cellular connection to connect WhatsApp users to one another either via a direct message or voice call. WhatsApp can’t be used to make a telephone call to a mobile number that isn’t in your WhatsApp contacts list. Nor can it be used to phone a landline number. So, while your WhatsApp call to a contact in another country may look, sound, and feel like an international phone call, it’s actually a voice call or voice chat....

The mia_material_x node should form the basis of nearly every material you build in Maya, aside from skin shaders. To find mia_material_x, click the Hypershade window > Mental Ray > Materials > mia_material_x. The standard MIA shader is a neutral gray with a sharp specular highlight. The mia material has a vast array of options. Some of them will be important to you, but a lot of them you can ignore....

What’s the Meaning of Regression? Regression is a statistical modeling approach that analysts use to determine relationships between multiple variables. Regression analysis starts with a single variable you’re trying to analyze and independent variables you’re testing to see if they affect that single variable. The analysis looks at changes in the independent variables and attempts to correlate those changes with resulting changes in the single (dependent) variable. This may sound like advanced statistics, but Excel makes this complex analysis available to anyone....

How to Save Your Own Instagram Photos to Your Mobile Device If you upload an existing photo to Instagram without using any of the in-app filter or editing features to make changes, you obviously already have a copy of it on your device. But for those who snap photos directly through the app or upload existing ones with Instagram filters and editing effects applied to them, saving a copy of the finished product that gets posted can be easily and automatically done by turning on one simple setting....

Facebook Basics Facebook is the internet’s most widely used social network, with nearly three billion people using it to connect with friends and family, as well as meet new people. Its mission is to make the world more open and connected by connecting people and facilitating communication between them. People use Facebook to create personal profiles, add other users as Facebook friends, and share information with them. How Facebook works can be mysterious to new users, but it’s all about communication, so learning the network’s core communication tools is essential....

How Do I Stop My iPhone From Dimming Automatically? If you want to stop your iPhone from dimming on its own and take complete manual control over the brightness of the screen, then the first step is to disable Auto-Brightness. That will prevent your iPhone from automatically adjusting its screen brightness based on ambient light conditions. If you want to take total control, you’ll need to also disable the Night Shift feature....

Free benchmark tools, like those popular internet speed tests and bandwidth testing smartphone apps, are the two most common ways, but there are others, like service-specific tests, ping and latency tests, DNS speed tests, and more. Why Would You Test Your Internet Speed? One common reason to test your internet speed is to make sure that you’re getting whatever Mbps or Gbps level bandwidth you’re paying your ISP for. If your tests show a regularly sluggish connection, your ISP might have an issue, and you may have a refund in your future....

How to Set up Audacity for Recording Podcasts Audacity is a fairly complicated piece of software, but you don’t really need a deep knowledge of how it works under the hood to start using it. If you want to try recording a podcast with it, we walk you through all of the initial settings, the basic editing options you need to know, and also how to export into a format that you can upload to your podcast hosting....

How Do I Turn on Focus Assist? The fastest way to get into focus mode is to select the battery, network, or volume icon to the left of the clock on the taskbar—or use WIN+A—and then choose Focus assist. Select it once for Priority only, or twice for Alarms only. Focus assist will start automatically if you duplicate your display, when you’re playing a game, or when you’re using an app in full screen mode....

How to Use Outlook Search Operators To search for emails in Outlook precisely using search operators, enter your search keywords in the Search box. The Search box in Outlook Online is at the top of the page, in the header. The Search box in Outlook desktop apps is above the Message List. Employ the following search operators to construct a query: subject: — Searches the Subject of all emails for a specified word....

How to Start a Huddle in Slack in a Browser Beginning a new huddle is very simple, as are inviting people and sharing your screen. How to Start a Huddle in Slack on Mobile Slack huddles are also fairly easy to use on a mobile device, though the steps are slightly different compared to using a web browser. Most of the same huddle features from the browser version of Slack will work on mobile, but you won’t be able to change your video background or set a huddle theme....

How to Use the Clone Stamp Tool in Photoshop The Photoshop Clone Stamp tool copies one area of an image onto another area of an image. Photographers and designers often use the Clone Stamp tool to remove unwanted elements from a photograph. For example, it can be used to cover blemishes on people’s faces by copying from another part of the skin or to remove trees from a mountain view by copying parts of the sky over them....

What Is Hulu With Live TV? If you watch any on-demand television shows or movies online, there’s a good chance that you’re already familiar with Hulu. The service has been around for a long time, and it offers access to a huge library of on-demand content from ABC, NBC, Fox, and many other networks, in addition to exclusive content that you can’t get anywhere else. Hulu with Live TV is a subscription option that allows Hulu subscribers to gain access to live streaming television through the same platform....