How to Find Which Apps Are Accessing a Permission on Android |
- How to Find Which Apps Are Accessing a Permission on Android
- How to Customize the Safari Start Page on Mac
- How to Use Linked Text to Update Multiple Word Documents
| How to Find Which Apps Are Accessing a Permission on Android Posted: 27 Nov 2020 08:35 AM PST  When you have dozens of apps installed on your phone, it's easy to lose track of which permissions each of them has access to. Therefore, it's best to ensure only the apps you trust can access sensitive data like your microphone. Here's how with Android's built-in permission manager. Do note that this feature is only available on phones running Android 10 or above. Open the "Settings" menu on your Android phone or tablet from the app drawer or by tapping the gear icon in the notification panel.
Go to "Apps and Notifications."
Select "Advanced" to reveal more options and then head into the "Permission Manager."
Android devices have different settings layouts, depending on the manufacturer. Therefore, if you are not able to locate this menu, try instead looking up "Permission Manager" from the search bar at the top of the Settings menu.
Inside the permission manager, you'll find a list of all the modules apps can request access to such as your phone's call logs, location, microphone, SMS, and more. Under each permission's name, Android shows how many apps have the right to read it.
When you tap any of these permissions, you can check which apps are allowed to access it and which ones you have denied.
In case you discover an app with a permission it's not supposed to have, you can instantly revoke it by tapping the app's name in the "Allowed" section and then switching to the "Deny" option.
By default, Android doesn't display system-level apps in this tool. To include them just like the rest of the third-party apps, tap the three-dot menu icon inside a permission's list and select the "Show System" button.
However, keep in mind that you often won't be able to deny permission to a system-level app because it may be essential for your phone to function. For instance, you can revoke Google Play Services' access to your calendar, but you can't revoke the "Physical Activity" permission as it's possibly needed for emergency services.
There are several more ways you can manage app permissions on Android to have a more secure and private experience.  |
| How to Customize the Safari Start Page on Mac Posted: 27 Nov 2020 07:08 AM PST
With a gray background and a couple of links, Safari's start page is quite bland. But it doesn't have to be! You can add more sections and change the background. Here's how to customize the Safari start page on Mac. Safari's customizable start page is available in Safari 14.0 or higher if you are running the latest version of macOS Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur, or higher. How to Customize Safari Start Page Sections
The start page in Safari 14 or higher is divided into different sections. In total, there are six sections available to you: Favorites, Frequently Visited, Privacy Report, Siri Suggestions, Reading List, and iCloud Tabs. The "Favorites" section shows two rows of websites and folders that are in your Favorites bar. You can click the "Show More" button to expand the section. As expected, the "Frequently Visited" section shows some of your frequently visited websites. To remove a website from here, right-click and select the "Delete" option.
"Privacy Report" shows a rundown of websites that you've visited over the past seven days and reports how many trackers have been blocked from profiling your presence on the web. You can click into the report and view exactly what trackers on each website were blocked.
"Siri Suggestions" will show you links that you have received in Messages or in the Mail app. The "Reading List" feature shows the most recent articles from your Reading List.
And lastly, the "iCloud Tabs" section shows you open tabs from your other Apple devices.
You can enable or disable any section as you wish. You can even disable all sections and only leave a translucent gray background as the start page.
Customizing the sections is quite simple. Simply open the Safari app or open a new tab to see the start page. Here, click the Menu button from the bottom-right corner of the screen.
Here, select the checkbox next to a section to enable or disable it.
Alternatively, you can right-click anywhere on the start page to see quick shortcuts to show or hide a section.
How to Change the Safari Start Page BackgroundOnce you have customized the sections that you want to see (or rather, hide) on the start page, it's time to customize the background. While the default gray background is minimal, you can spice things up by changing the background image. You can choose from a handful of images that Apple provides, or you can add your own. Click the Menu button from the bottom-right corner of Safari's start page and click the checkbox next to the "Background Image" option to enable the feature.
Now, scroll horizontally to see all available background images. Click an image to make it your background.
To use your own image as a background, click the "+" button.
From the file picker window, navigate to where you have downloaded and stored the image you want to use. Safari will first open the desktop backgrounds folder, making it easy to use any of the built-in wallpapers as the start-page background. Once you have found the image you want to use, select it and click the "Choose" button.
Now, the start-page background will be updated.
If you want to remove the current background or use another one, go back to the customization menu and click the "X" button next to the current background.
Find the text on some websites hard to read? Give your eyes some rest by setting a default zoom level for all websites in Safari for Mac.  |
| How to Use Linked Text to Update Multiple Word Documents Posted: 26 Nov 2020 10:23 AM PST
Microsoft Word makes it easy to add the same text to multiple documents. This is especially handy for text with special formatting, the kind of text that often breaks when pasting it into a new document. The time you find yourself changing the same details in a dozen documents, try this instead. Open a new Microsoft Word document and enter the text you're going to paste across multiple other documents. In this case, we're going to use an address and paste it at the bottom of a new document, keeping the formatting intact.
Save the file to generate a link. You can save it to any location, but note that if you move the file containing the text, you'll need to update the link. To do so, right-click in the body of the Word document and click "Update Link."
Highlight the text you want to link in a new document and copy it. You can right-click and select "Copy" or just use CTRL + C on your keyboard. On a Mac, press Command + C instead.
Place your cursor in the new document where you'd like the linked text to go.
From the Home tab, click the "Paste" drop-down arrow and then "Paste Special."
In the pop-up menu, click "Paste Link" and then select "Formatted Text (RTF)" from the options. Click "OK" to paste the linked text.
Now, if you need to update an address or add a new phone number, for example, you can change just the linked text in the original document. Once done, it will update all of the other files automatically.
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