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How to Send Text Messages from Your Chromebook

Chrome OS offers a handful of ways to keep your Chromebook and Android phone in sync. One of its features allows you to access your SMS inbox and respond to texts from your Chromebook. Here’s how to set it up.

Before you can enable the text message functionality, you will have to pair your Android smartphone with your Chromebook. For this, you need to be running Android 5.1 or higher on your handset, and at least Chrome OS 71 on your computer. Also, make sure both devices are signed in to the same Google account.

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How to Edit a Received Email in Microsoft Outlook

The subject and body of a received email are at the whim of the sender, but you can change the subject line to something better or add notes to the body quickly and easily using Microsoft Outlook. Have you ever forwarded an email to yourself or created a new task instead of marking an email for Followup just so you could add notes to it? Maybe you’ve dragged an email into OneNote or Evernote so you can write a little context around it? Or perhaps you’ve just quietly cursed the sender for not adding a useful subject line or not adding a subject at all.

One way or another, received emails would sometimes be more useful if you could edit the subject or add notes to them. But there’s no need for a clunky process or third-party software because, in Microsoft Outlook, you can edit a received email.

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How to Disable Recommendations on Google TV

Google TV streaming devices have a Home screen stuffed with recommendations. There are many ways you can fine-tune these, but if you prefer a less cluttered interface, you can also turn them off.

The Google TV Home screen on devices like the Chromecast with Google TV is very different from the company’s previous streaming media platform, Android TV. For one thing, you don’t have as much control over how the Home screen looks. If you enable “Apps Only Mode,” you can turn off most of the recommendations, but there are still a couple of catches.

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How to Disable Auto-Correct on iPhone and iPad

When your iPhone or iPad corrects a word automatically, it’s drawing on both a dictionary and a predictive text algorithm that learns from how you type. The dictionary may not include every proper name, acronym, or new term as it appears on the scene, so it can be frustrating when auto-correct changes what you know is correct. Also, if you misspell a certain word frequently enough, the predictive text algorithm will learn that typo, and it may begin “fixing” correct instances of a word or term when you don’t want it to.

There are some advanced remedies for auto-correction woes, such as attempting to retrain the algorithm or adding custom shortcuts, but sometimes the easiest way to deal with auto-correct is to turn it off completely. Here’s how.

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