Take Control of Your Smartphone’s Automatic Photo Uploads

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Read This Article → How to Change the Primary Email Address for Your Microsoft Account The primary email address for your Microsoft account is what you use to sign into Windows and other Microsoft services. If you’d prefer to use a different address than the one you signed up with–even a non-Microsoft address–it’s an easy change to make. Read This Article → Take Control of Your Smartphone's Automatic Photo Uploads Modern smartphones and cloud photo services want to automatically upload every single photo you take to the cloud. This ensures all those photos you take are safely backed up somewhere, but it isn't ideal for every single photo. Unfortunately, companies like Apple and Google haven't gotten that message. Here’s how to control which photos get uploaded, and to where. Read This Article → When Is It Better to Use #!/bin/bash Instead of #!/bin/sh in a Shell Script? When you are creating a new shell script, you want to make sure it is as problem free as possible, but sometimes it can be a bit confusing to know which shebang is the best one for you to use. On that note, today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a confused reader’s question. Read This Article → Can You Plug Space Heaters Into Smart Outlets? Space heaters are great for warming up rooms in your house, but they can also be dangerous if used improperly, which might have you wondering: Can you plug space heaters into smart outlets? And even if you can, should you? Read This Article → How to Temporarily Prevent Your Mac from Sleeping Let’s say you start a big download, then go to bed. When you wake up, you realize your Mac went to sleep before finishing its job. Isn’t there some way to stop this? Read This Article → How to Sync Your Mac’s Desktop and Documents to Other Devices with iCloud Over time, your Mac has inevitably amassed a lot of files in the Desktop and Documents folders. If you have more than one Mac, you can now share them easily over iCloud, and you can also access these files anywhere, on any device. Read This Article → How to Rename Worksheet Tabs in Excel By default, worksheet tabs in Excel are given generic names, such as Sheet1, Sheet2, and so on. If you have a lot of worksheets in your workbook, finding specific sheets can get tricky. Read This Article → The Most Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for the Windows Taskbar There’s no faster way to navigate your computer than with keyboard shortcuts, and Windows continues to add more with each new version. Everything begins on the taskbar and Start menu, though, so it’s really handy to use them without ever clicking your mouse. Here are some useful keyboard shortcuts for working with the Windows taskbar. Read This Article → How to Use the PlayStation 4’s DualShock 4 Controller on a Mac Mac gamers are real. If you work in one of the creative industries, there's a good chance you have a beast of a Mac that's more than capable of playing modern games—although not at maxed out settings. The real barrier is trying to play anything not in the Civilization series with a trackpad. To play other games, you'll need to set up a controller. Got a DualShock 4 controller for your PlayStation? Good news: It’ll work on your Mac, too. Read This Article → What Is the Dark Web? There are two webs. There’s the normal web most people use every day, which is easily accessible and indexed by search engines. And then there’s the “dark web”–hidden websites that won’t show up when you search Google, and can’t be accessed without special software. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Time Management For Dummies Everyone is endowed with the same amount of time each day: 86,400 seconds — and your ability to manage that time toward goals and objectives can tip the balance of success in your favor. No matter what career and job role you're in, this practical guide delivers solutions for working better and faster, getting rid of time-wasting distractions, and ultimately reducing stress. Click here to download