Updated September 13, 2017 Adding an Apostrophe Select the cell in which you want to type a date. This method works best when you have only a few dates to enter. Press the “apostrophe” key to insert an apostrophe as the first character of the cell, forcing Excel to keep the data formatted as text instead of converting it to a number. Type the date and press “Enter.” Although the apostrophe remains in the cell and you can see it in the formula bar, it is invisible in the cell itself....

Mobile phone security is more important than ever, since we carry cell phones almost everywhere we go – even into work. A report by WTHR in Indiana installed spyware on a reporter’s phone to determine whether it could do everything it claimed. They found it could track her, read her text messages and record her conversations. It also enabled the person who installed the spyware to tap into her phone when it wasn’t in use and listen to what was happening near the phone via the speaker....

Enabling password protection secures your iPhone from prying eyes, but there are also a few alternatives that can help further secure your private data. With the iCloud “Find My iPhone” feature, for example, you can protect your iPhone’s digital content and remotely delete your contacts, calendar and other important information from a lost or stolen iOS device. To protect data like your contacts, photos, browser bookmarks and notes without the need to erase everything, you can use the Secret Apps app....

Yahoo Messenger lets you send instant messages and chat over voice or video with your Yahoo Messenger connections. When you invite people to connect with you on Yahoo Messenger and they accept, certain information is automatically exchanged. One piece of information central to instant messaging is a user’s online status. Yahoo Messenger has three basic types of online statuses – “Available,” “Busy” and “Invisible to Everyone” – so it’s easy to determine someone’s online status....

After you have switched to a new Internet service provider, you will get a new email address that you will want to tell your family and friends about. It’s convenient to send the same message to everyone at once so you don’t have to type it out multiple times. When sending the same message to multiple recipients, it’s courteous to use the “Bcc” field (blind copy) for each of your correspondents, rather than putting their addresses in the “Cc” field (just copy) and revealing each person’s address to the other recipients....

Using Global Positioning System tracking to locate someone is possible with mobile and PDA smart phones. GPS tracking is primarily used by parents to keep track of children or for adults with elderly parents. Information transmitted by the GPS tracking device is not completely accurate, according to Verizon Wireless. Location information can be delayed or misinterpreted depending on the location of the nearest satellite or cell tower transmitting the information....

Creating a writable drive on your computer is necessary if you wish to utilize the drive on the system. Accomplish this by placing a working file system on the volume, enabling your operating system to understand the manner in which it should seek information on the disk. This generally takes no longer than 10 minutes to perform, but it may take longer for larger (1 gigabyte or more) drives. Writer Bio

Making a free talking avatar allows you to stand out from the crowd. While others may have a picture that represents them on the websites they join, your avatar that speaks will draw the attention of website or email viewers with audio. The words you make your avatar say will stay in the minds of your listeners, will tell the listeners about your character and won’t cost a penny to create....

Photo slideshows are fun to create. They can be a way to show off family pictures or to make an impressive presentation with images and graphics for work. Whatever the purpose for your photo slideshow, you may want to make it viewable on a DVD player. For that, you will need to burn your slideshow to a DVD. The steps for burning a slideshow DVD differ slightly for Macs and PCs....

An employee website can strengthen the bond between employees by making them feel that they are part of a community. It can also serve to introduce new staff to the company, provide existing employees with updated company information and can serve as an online community for socializing among workers. Writer Bio

You can create a website with a WYSIWYG–“what you see is what you get”–tool and never see any of its underlying code. If you don’t own WYSIWYG software or prefer to hand-code a web page, you can also create pages in text editors like Notepad, which comes with every Windows PC. To create complex pages and websites, you need to learn the web programming language known as HTML, but beginners can get started by creating and coding a basic HTML page in Notepad....

You may not use hanging indents often in your documents, but you might need to use them if you ever create a Modern Language Association bibliography. Unlike a standard indentation, a hanging indent moves a paragraph’s first line to the left and its remaining lines to the right. It’s not difficult to add a hanging indent to one paragraph manually, but it could take time to a format a large document....

If you’ve ever had an issue with your iPhone that requires a reinstallation of the firmware, then you probably know how valuable having a backup of your iPhone’s photos, contacts and applications is. While having one backup is sufficient for many users, some users need to have more than one iPhone backup saved on their computer. If you’re one of these users, you’ll find that the process of making more than one iPhone backup is not as difficult as it may seem....

Logging in with the administrator account on your laptop is necessary when you want to install software or hardware, change other user accounts, access system files or change security settings. Windows 7 comes with a hidden administrator user that is disabled by default. Using the Windows “Computer Management” tool, you can enable the administrator account, set a password for it and then log in as it. Writer Bio

Dots per inch or “dpi” is a measurement of the quality of an image. Typically, the higher the dpi, the better the quality of the image. A high-quality image is important for printing posters or other large format images or graphics. Adobe Acrobat Professional files are called Portable Digital Format or “pdf,” a high-quality digital file suitable for use in commercial offset printing. Converting your PowerPoint slide to a ....

Solaris 10 uses a UID (User ID) to identify each user account. The UID is a unique number assigned to each user. It is usually assigned by the operating system when the account is created. It may be necessary to modify or change a user’s UID so in order to allow the user to access a particular program or another operating systems in a network. The “usermod” command is used to change a user’s UID....

Most Mac OS X users are familiar with disk image files ending with the “.dmg” suffix. Files ending with “.img” are called disk copy files, and are another type of disk image. The icon is a picture of a hard drive on a piece of paper with the corner folded up. IMG files were more common with the OS 9 operating system than with OS X, but can still be mounted on modern Mac computers....

A USB (universal serial bus) flash drive is a type of memory device designed to serve as a portable means of backing up important files on your computer. In order to effectively use a USB flash drive, you must know how to open it to access the data. Once you open the flash drive, files and folders can be clicked and dragged to its window. Upon dragging data to the flash drive window, your computer copies files to the device, effectively backing them up to the portable drive....

Bluetooth technology allows two individual devices or machines to create a small private network where the devices can exchange information. This technology is often used to connect headsets to mobile phones, but you can also find it in computers, MP3 players and even televisions. If a machine, like a computer, doesn’t have Bluetooth technology installed, you can insert a Bluetooth dongle, which is a small adapter that plugs into a port on the machine and will provide a Bluetooth connection that the machine can use....

Many iPhone owners are not aware they can listen to songs stored on their iPhone over their PC speakers. The most straightforward way to listen to the iPhone over external PC speakers is simply to plug the speaker jack into the earphone jack of the iPhone. The iPhone earphone jack supports the same size adapter as the speaker jack. However, you can also use the “Line In” jack on your computer and play music files on your iPhone through the speakers connected to your PC....