If you want to get a refund on an app, music, movie, TV show or book purchase from the App Store or iTunes, you can go directly to Apple and request one at any time. It’s much easier than getting a refund on PS4 , which has strict stipulations on when you can request a refund on digital content, although you will need a good reason for the refund – you can’t just use the refund process to ‘trial’ premium apps you don’t really want to pay for....

You might have tried out Google’s AR animals already, but if not, they are great fun to photograph alongside real-world objects such as people and pets. Now, Google has added a collection of 10 dinosaurs featured in the film Jurassic World. All you need to do is to search for them just like any other Google search. Here are the ten dinosaurs: Ankylosaurus Brachiosaur Dilophosaurus Parasaurolophus Pteranodon Spinosaurus Stegosaurus Triceratops Tyrannosaur Velociraptor How to take AR photos of dinosaurs First, you’ll need to be using your phone or tablet, not a laptop or PC....

If you don’t already have one in your car, a dash cam is the single best gadget you can buy. That’s because it will provide video evidence – an unbiased witness – that can help to prove what happened if you or someone else is involved in a collision, or some other bad driving. There are lots of affordable options, and it’s a good idea to choose one which includes a rear camera as well as a front-facing one to cover the action that happens behind you....

With so many photos cluttering up our smartphones these days, it can be hard to spend any time looking at them or arranging them into collections to remind us of important events or celebrate different stages of life. That’s where photobooks can be an excellent option: they take digital photos and turn them into printed versions, beautifully arranged in themed albums. Here’s how to make a photobook online. What you’ll need There are very few requirements for assembling your photobook....

It’s easy to get caught up in the creative aspects when building your website; uploading enticing pictures, ensuring the colours are just right and writing catchy content, among other things. So by the time it comes to completing the contact page, it’s no surprise that many people just slap in a Google map, jot down their address and leave it at that. This is a mistake. Considering that this is where your visitors decide whether or not to get in touch with you, so it’s worth investing time and energy to get it spot on....

How to make PivotTables in Excel: What is a PivotTable? While it might sound like an avant-garde piece of designer furniture, a PivotTable is a data summary tool that can display information about large data sets in a customisable tabulated form. In simpler terms, it’s a clever trick that shows you what you want to know about stuff you already have in your spreadsheets. Say you have a large data set that includes a range of information about your business, and you want to know how much a certain project has cost or which salesperson has performed the best over a set period?...

Cables out of control, making your home ugly and your desk uncomfortably cluttered? Here are our inexpensive tips to tidy up your charger clutter and organize cable chaos, as we review neat solutions and the best cable and dongle cases and bags. In the supposed Age of Wireless our desks, TVs, living rooms and whole houses remain a viper’s nest of trailing, tangled, tense cables. Nowhere are these wires more massed than where you heap your device chargers for phone, tablet, camera, power banks , and other wall chargers ....

For all the high-profile new features Microsoft introduced on Windows 10, it took a key one away. You can no longer play a DVD on your PC and laptop, even if your device still has a disk drive. If you upgraded from high-tiered versions of Windows 7 or 8.1, you may still have a native program in the form of Windows DVD Player, but it will be impossible for everyone else unless you install a third party program....

The UK’s National Crime Agency along with the FBI, Europol and various security software firms have worked together to temporarily pause the attacks from the Cryptolocker and GOZeus malware. Operation Tovar: in a nutshell Since last Friday, 30 th May, law enforcement agencies, internet service providers and tech security firms from 11 countries have teamed up to try and stop infected computers from communicating with each other. It has been fairly effective, but they admit that they can’t keep the criminals’ network down for long....

We’re big fans of Windows 10 . The interface tweaks and new features – plus the free upgrade for most users – make is an absolute no-brainer when it’s released on 29 July. One of the new features lets you record any game you play in Windows and take screenshots. Here we’ll show you how to record games in Windows 10. There’s currently no way to upload it directly to YouTube or any other video-hosting site, nor to stream your games live to the internet; you’ll need a third-party app such as Twitch to do that....

If you’ve just bought yourself a shiny new external drive and can’t get it to work on your Mac, it’s possible that the drive isn’t compatible with macOS. But unlike other electronics on the market, it’s possible to reformat an external drive to work with the operating system(s) of your choice. It’s easy to do on a Mac using Apple’s built-in Disk Utility, and here’s where we show you how....

One of the coolest new features coming in Android N is the ability to directly reply to messages and emails from the notification bar. Here’s how you can reply to notifications right now in Android Lollipop or Marshmallow . Also see: How to direct reply in Android N . See all Android tutorials . How to directly reply to notifications in Android To get started you’ll need to download and install the free quickReply app from Google Play....

Among the many features on your Android phone, perhaps one of the most useful is that it can be your alarm clock, whether it’s to wake you up in the morning or remind you to take the chicken out of the oven. There are two main types of alarm – one-time and recurring – both of which are available in the Clock app. Alongside these, you might also want to use the Timer option that’s better suited to reminding you when the pasta’s done....

Chromebooks are excellent modern laptops due to their simplicity. With these Google-powered machines you can get plenty of work done thanks to Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Gmail and other useful, free software. If you’ve got a new device, you’ll no doubt be keen to get it up and running, and we’ll guide you through the process. Google has a guide that takes you through creating an account , so maybe use that before you go any further....

More often than not, your PC will be supplied with a generic image that might look nothing like the PC tower in front of you, and the connectors might be different too. Here we’ll show you how to plug everything in and get your computer and display up and running. (Obviously, we’re assuming you have access to another computer – we can appreciate the irony of providing an online guide for a PC that’s not yet running....

The arrival a baby into your family is always a huge event. Naturally, friends and family will want to bless you with gifts for the little one but knowing what to get and the risk of someone already buying it can make things a little stressful. It’s a free feature that lets you create and manage a shopping list for people who want to buy you items to celebrate the arrival of your newborn....

How to speed up web browsing on Android phone or tablet. Speed up Android browsing. Make Chrome faster on Android. Make Android browser faster. Two great ways to supercharge your Android smartphone – or tablet ‘s web browser. See all Android tips . How to speed up Android browsing: Allocate more memory to Chrome browser This works only on the Chrome browser, which you may have to access from within the ‘Google’ section of your home page....

Disney+ is now live in the UK, four months after it arrived in the US and a few other countries. It brings with it a huge selection of Disney and Pixar films and shows, along with loads of Star Wars and Marvel content, but for UK fans there’s one big omission right now: Frozen 2. Yup, the return of Elsa and Anna is available to watch on the Disney streaming service in the US right now after Disney gave it an early release to capitalise on the huge numbers of people suddenly working from home – often with kids....

Bitdefender is one of the most effective choices when it comes to antivirus software. If there’s a reason why you need to disable it we’ll explain how to do it. But before you do, see if there’s an alternative. It’s unwise to turn off antivirus protection for any long period of time, and this is why the default is to temporarily disable Bitdefender for five minutes. If the firewall is causing problems you can disable that module in the same sort of way, but you might want to consider adding an exception so the program which is being blocked can work, but the firewall continues to do its job for all other apps....

If you’re running out of space on your Mac or just want to clear out software that you don’t use, you’ll want to know how to remove apps. Those coming from a Windows background will be looking for the uninstaller wizard, but you won’t find those on Apple computers. So, here’s what to do if you want to uninstall apps on a Mac. How do I delete unwanted programs from my Mac?...