How to Use the New File History Feature in Windows 8

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[Motherboard] How to Spell Check Worksheets in Excel Excel's spell check feature doesn't have all the bells and whistles that Word's does, but it does provide basic spell-checking functionality. You can check the spelling of words in the cells of a worksheet and add words to the dictionary. Read This Article → How to Manage Your YouTube Privacy Settings Thanks to Google’s big Google+ push a few years ago, many YouTube accounts are connected with the real name of their owner. Punch your name into Google, and one of the first results could be your YouTube account, complete with a feed containing all the videos you’ve viewed and channels you’ve subscribed to over the past few years. Read This Article → How to Use Windows’ File History to Back Up Your Data File History is Windows 10’s main backup tool, originally introduced in Windows 8. Despite the name, File History isn’t just a way to restore previous versions of files–it’s a fully-featured backup tool. Read This Article → Why You Should Upgrade Your Router (Even If You Have Older Gadgets) Many people have the attitude that it doesn’t matter if their router is older because their phone, laptop, or other wireless gear isn’t cutting edge anyways. Even if you don’t have brand new tech toys you still benefit from upgrading a dated router. Read This Article → How to Make Your iPhone Flash Its LED When You Get a Notification Have you ever wanted to make your iPhone completely silent but still alert your when someone calls, or when you receive a text? It is possible to silence the ringing and the vibrations, but still receive notifications by flashing the LED light on the back. Read This Article → How to Create a Folder with No Name on Your iPhone or iPad When organizing your Home screens on your iPhone or iPad, you've probably noticed that a default name is given to each folder when you create it. iOS won’t let you delete the name and leave it blank, but there is a trick to getting around this problem. Read This Article → How to Share or Save a Voicemail on an iPhone In versions of iOS before 9.0, saving a voicemail message meant you to use a third party app and jump through several hoops–or worse, hook up an external recording device. iOS 9 makes it a simple task by including a share sheet in the voicemail interface. Read This Article → Android’s “App Standby” Saves Battery, But Disabling Apps Is Still Better With Android 6.0 Marshmallow, Google added more than just Doze. It added a feature named App Standby, which is designed to prevent apps you never use from draining your battery. It’s less effective than disabling apps completely, but it has its place. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Introducing Java 8: A quick-start guide to Lambdas and Streams Java SE 8 is perhaps the largest change to Java in its history, led by its flagship feature—lambda expressions. If you're an experienced developer looking to adopt Java 8 at work, this short guide will walk you through all of the major changes before taking a deep dive into lambda expressions and Java 8's other big feature: the Streams API. Click here to download