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Once the card is applied to an account, the owner can use the balance on a variety of different things. But if you are curious about whether or not you have anything left after applying a card and using it, then you can follow our tutorial below on how to check your iTunes gift card balance. How to Check Balance on iTunes Cards on an iPhone Our guide continues below with more information on how to check an Apple gift card balance and pictures for these steps....

How Much Space is Left on My iOS 7 iPad 2 The steps below are specifically for an iPad that is running the iOS 7 version of the iPad software. If your iPad is using an older version of iOS, then you might prefer to follow the steps in this article. Otherwise you can follow the steps below and find out the amount of hard drive space that is left on your iPad....

Set-top boxes like the Apple TV and the Roku 3 are incredibly useful for the ease with which they can let you watch streaming video on your TV. Unfortunately they only include HDMI as a connection option, which makes them difficult to set up on a television that does not have an HDMI port. Fortunately you can purchase a converter box that allows you to convert from an HDMI cable to an RCA one....

Xbox SmartGlass App Windows 8 has a new feature that lets you control your Xbox 360 from your PC or tablet with the SmartGlass App. Previously I showed you how to use the SmartGlass app on Windows 8 to stream music to the console. Recently it was released for iOS and Android devices. Here’s a look at how to get it set up. Note: At the time of this writing, the SmartGlass app only works on Android 4....

Convert AVI Video Files to MP4 (H.264) First, download and install the latest version of HandBrake if you don’t have it already. It’s available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. I am using the Windows version for this article, but the process is essentially the same in Mac and Linux. Installation is straightforward following the install wizard. After it’s installed, go ahead and launch HandBrake. Browse to the destination directory where you want the converted file to be placed after it’s converted....

There are a couple of ways that you can reply to a text message from your watch, including a list of default replies that include some common phrases that you might want to send in a text. Since typing or drawing on the the Watch is a little slow, these default replies can be helpful. You can even create your own custom reply through the Watch app on your iPhone....

Here, we’ll look at the Microsoft Forms survey templates available and show you how to tailor one to your needs. Microsoft Forms Survey Templates When you log into Microsoft Forms, you’ll see a handful of templates at the top. Click More Templates to review them all. You can then choose from one of the following to get started. Customer expectations surveyNew product surveyStudent remote learning sentiment surveyEntertainment event feedback surveyCustomer feedback surveyCourse evaluation surveyEmployee satisfaction surveyEvent feedback surveyNomination surveyParent satisfaction survey...

During a meeting, the organizer can create breakout rooms for participants to join. They can manually or automatically assign people to those rooms to hold mini-discussions. Then, everyone rejoins the main meeting after a certain amount of time or via an announcement by the organizer. If you believe your team could benefit from this, we’ll show you how to create breakout rooms in Microsoft Teams. Create Breakout Rooms When your meeting begins and you want to set up the rooms, click the Breakout Rooms icon at the top of the toolbar....

One of the benefits to full-featured spreadsheet applications like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets is the set of tools that they have for collaborating. This allows you to do things like comment or suggest changes on data in a way that is easy to track and manage. The guide below will show you two different methods for deleting a comment in Excel. The first method will involve using a button in the navigational ribbon, while the second method will have you right-click on the cell with the comment and delete it that way....

But if you no longer use your Gmail account and do not want to see any more new messages for it on your iPhone, then you need to delete that Gmail account from your iPhone. Remove Gmail from an iPhone The tutorial below is meant to delete your Gmail account from your iPhone. That means that any emails, contacts, calendars, or notes on your iPhone will be deleted as well....

Having access to characters from other languages is useful if you speak that language, but constantly switching between those different keyboards can be tedious, and you might decide to just stick to one keyboard or language. Luckily you can use a similar process to delete a keyboard on the iPhone as the process that you used to add it. How to Remove an iPhone Keyboard Our guide continues below with additional information on how to delete a keyboard from the iPhone 5, including pictures of these steps....

But perhaps one of the biggest uses of space on many iPhone owners’ devices is their Photos app. All of the pictures and videos that you take on your camera can really add to a lot of storage space usage, so it can be beneficial to remove any pictures that you don’t want or need anymore. Our tutorial below will show you how to delete pictures from your iPhone so that you can make enough room for other apps and files....

If you are unable to install a software update or download a video to your iPhone 5, you might be running out of space. You can delete songs as one way to create the necessary storage space, but you should also read this article on freeing up space on your iPhone 5. Remove a Song from Your iPhone 5 If you’ve purchased a song directly from your iPhone 5, then you might be worried that the song will be gone completely if you delete it....

But scrolling through the faces on your watch to find the one that you want can be annoying if you have a lot of different watch faces, especially if some of them are ones that you know you will never use. Fortunately you are able to delete watch faces from the device so that you are left with only the ones that you want to use. How to Delete a Watch Face Through the Watch App on an iPhone The steps in this article were performed in the Watch app on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 10....

But while you may have already deleted pictures or apps, you might also want to clean up the alarm menu. Our tutorial below will show you how ot delete an alarm on your iPhone using one of two different methods. How to Remove an iPhone Alarm Our guide continues below with additional information about how ot delete an alarm in iOS 9, including pictures of these steps. Cleaning up your app library is a great way to free up some device space....

Get Rid of Photo Stream on the iPhone 5 Note that this process is going to delete your Photo Stream pictures from your iPhone 5. Photo Stream will continue to work on other iOS devices connected to the same iCloud account, but images you take with your iPhone will not be uploaded to Photo Stream until you re-enable the feature on the iPhone. So once you are ready to turn off your iPhone 5 Photo Stream, you can follow the steps below....

The heart rate monitoring on your Apple Watch is used to calculate things like the number of calories that a workout is burning, but it can use a lot of the device’s battery life in the process of performing that measurement. Our tutorial below will show you how to turn off the Apple Heart Rate monitoring so that you can determine if the additional battery life is worth the reduce functionality....

If you’re not ready to update your PC, and you’re sick of these notifications, you can disable them. There’s a few methods you can try, from modifying the Windows Registry to making changes to Group Policy rules. Typically, this setting is meant for system administrators, but anyone can turn them off. We’ll show you how to disable update notifications on Windows 11 below. How to Disable Update Notifications on Windows 11 Using Group Policy First, we’ll look at disabling the notifications via Group Policy....

Turn On Night Light on Windows 11 To get started, open Settings by going to Start > Settings or using the keyboard shortcut Windows key + I to open the Settings page directly. Once the Settings page is open, click on System from the panel of options on the left. On the right side, click on the Display option. Toggle on the Night Light switch under the “Brightness & color” section to enable the feature....

For many Android users the need to install an app from outside the Play Store, such as a Web browser or file sharing sites like Dropbox or Google Drive, is not something that will come up very often. But some older apps, or smaller apps that might not be able to gain approval for the Play Store for one reason or another, can provide a lot of value to their users....