ICYMI: Google Search for Customer Service Phone Numbers, "Find My Device" in Windows 10, Google App, Stopping Facebook Videos, Search !Bangs DuckDuckGo and Stopping Windows 10 Start Menu Ads

We've had another great week of cool tech tips here at One Cool Tip.

Cool tips this week feature tips for Google searches, new Windows 10 features, Google mobile app, Facebook videos and DuckDuckGo.

Check these cool tips for the week:

How to Find Customer Service Numbers Using Google Search

Learn how to use the power of Google to find the customer service numbers for major products and services.

"Find My Device" is New Feature of Windows 10 in November Update

The November 2015 update for Windows 10 brought a long-awaited feature, Find My Device.  Learn how to enable this valuable feature before you need it!

Google App Gets a Whole Lot Smarter

Google updated its mobile apps for Android and iPhone devices to answer more complex queries.  Learn how you can use these new search options.

How to Stop Facebook Videos from Automatically Playing to Save Data

Facebook could be wasting your mobile data.  Learn how to stop Facebook videos from automatically playing videos that drain your data.

Search Sites with DuckDuckGo !Bangs

DuckDuckGo is a terrific search engine.  One unique feature is the ability to search other sites directly such as Amazon using !Bangs.  Learn how to use this cool feature.

How to Stop Windows 10 Ads in the Start Menu

Windows 10 has a very annoying feature of "suggestions", ads, that appear in the Start Menu.  Learn how to stop these annoying ads with this cool tip.

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How to Stop Windows 10 Ads in the Start Menu

If you have Windows 10, you've probably seen the ads -- or as Microsoft calls them "suggestions" -- in the Start menu.

You didn't think your free Windows 10 upgrade was really free, did you?

There's an easy way to disable these annoying ads.

Here's how.

• Go to Settings
• Select Personalization
• Select Start
• Toggle the "Occasionally show suggestions in Start" option to "off"

That's it!  No more ads or suggestions in the Start menu in your Windows 10.

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Search Sites with DuckDuckGo !Bangs

DuckDuckGo is a terrific search site.

Unlike Google, DuckDuckGo protects users privacy while providing quality search results.

One very cool feature of the site is the ability to search other sites, especially e-commerce sites such as Amazon.

These searches, called !Bangs, are available for thousands of sites.

Here's how to search using !Bangs.

- from the DuckDuckGo main page, enter "!Amazon Shirts" (without the "s)
- The results be return search results directly from the Amazon site

Besides Amazon, !Bang searches are available for thousands of sites in a variety of categories.  These include Entertainment, Shopping, News and Tech.  Site searches include The Washington Post, Wikipedia, Bed Bath and Beyond and many more.

More information on !Bangs is available HERE.

Check out DuckDuckGo and !Bangs for your next web search.

Enjoy!

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How to Stop Facebook Videos from Automatically Playing to Save Data

Is your mobile data on your Android or iPhone device mysteriously disappearing?  

Did you just get a overage charge for your PC's mobile data plan?

The guilty culprit could be Facebook's use of auto-play videos.

This "data vampire" quietly siphons off your limited data from your mobile plan.

But you can strike a dagger into the heart of Facebook to stop this from happening.

Here's how.

First be sure to have the latest Facebook mobile app for your device.

For each type of device, you can change the auto-play option to On, Wi-fi only or Off.

Android Devices

1.  Open the Facebook app
2.  Tap the  icon
3.  Scroll down to Settings
4.  Tap the Video Auto-play
5.  Select an option.

iOS Devices (iPhones, iPads)

1.  Open the Facebook app.
2.  Tap the  icon

3.  Scroll down to Settings

4.  Select Account Settings

5.  Select Videos and Photos

6.  Select an option:    On Mobile Data and Wi-Fi Connections, On Wi-Fi Connections Only or Never Autoplay Videos

PCs

1.  Log into Facebook
2.  Click the  icon in the top right corner.
3.  Select Settings
4.  Select Videos
5.  Select an option from the dropdown menu, On or Off

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Google App Gets A Whole Lot Smarter

The Google mobile App for iOS and Android devices has become smarter.

It's always been able to answer specific questions, like "Who is George Washington".

The app can analyze a question and answer specific qualifiers such as tallest, largest, or first.

Using the voice search option makes asking these questions even easier.

Consider these questions:

     -  What is the tallest building in the United States?

     -  What is the largest city in the United States?

     -  Who was the fifth president of the United States?

In addition, the brains behind the app can provide information based upon specific dates or other key events.

For example, "Who was the president of the United States in 1911?"

Other examples of more complex questions include "Who was the Vice President of the United States when the Titanic sank?"

These improvements brings natural language computers even closer to human capabilities.

Google can still get questions wrong.  But it's an amazing new leap forward.

The mobile Google App is available for iOS HERE and for Android HERE.

Enjoy!

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"Find My Device" is New Feature of Windows 10 in November 2015 Update

By now you should have received the November 2015 update to Windows 10.

This automatic update released last week brings many behind-the-scene fixes as well as new features and capabilities.

The most interesting new feature is a "Find My Device" feature builtin to Windows 10.

We've told you about this type of service available for PCs and Macs.  Now a basic service is built into Windows 10.

While the feature is now available, users must turn it on by going to: Settings> Update & Security> then Find My Device.

To Find Your Device

1. Ensure you are logged in with the same Microsoft account that you log into your PC
2. Go to http://account.microsoft.com/devices
3. Choose the device you want to locate and click Find My Device.
4. You'll see a map with your device's location.

Enjoy!

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How to Find Customer Service Phone Numbers Using Google Search

Have a problem with a product or service and need to call customer service?  What's the number?

Use Google to quickly find the phone number, usually toll free.

Here's how.

1.  Go to http://www.google.com ot use the search Google search in Google Chrome.
2.  Enter the search 'xxx customer service number' where "xxx" is the company name.
3.   Sears Customer Service Number
4.  Google will return the following results:

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This Hack Will Let You Use Siri Hands-Free Even on Older iPhones and Not Be Connected to Power

One of the cooler features of the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus is the ability to use Siri hands-free without being plugged in.

Earlier iPhone models such as the 5, 5s, 6 and 6 Plus only allow the voice-activated Siri while the device is plugged in for power.

But there is a cool hack that allows the older devices to activate Siri with the "Hey, Siri" command.

Here's how to do it.

1. Ensure that the "Hey Siri" command is enabled in settings (Settings, General, Siri, Allow "Hey Siri")
2. Press the home button once to activate Siri and ask a simple question like "What Time is It?"
3. After Siri answers, Siri will accept the "Hey Siri" command for another question.
4. You can continue to ask Siri questions, hands-free, and not be connected to power.
5. If the screen times out and locks, you'll no longer be able to use this trick.  You can change the length of time for the lock screen in settings.

Of course, the reason that Apple requires Siri to be connected to power in the older models is to conserve battery strength.  But there are times when this hands-free trick can be handy, like in the kitchen.

So enjoy!

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Google's New "About Me" Lets You Manage Your Profile Information in One Place

What have you told Google about yourself?

Not much?

If only it was that simple.

As Google has acquired a variety of services over the years, your Google-wide profile may reveal more information than you remember.

Google has released a new tool, About Me, to let you see what Google has as your profile information.

http://aboutme.google.com

The new site allows you to edit key profile sections: 

• Personal Contact Info
• Education
• Work History
• Sites
• Places
• Gender, Birthdays, More
• Privacy

This is a great new capability to review profile information that Google has on each user.  Be sure to check it out to ensure that you are only sharing information that you mean to share.

Enjoy!

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How to Use Facebook Keyboard Shortcuts

It's not very obvious but Facebook has a number of useful keyboard shortcuts when using a web browser on the Windows PC or Macintosh.

Facebook Keyboard Shortcuts

Press the following keys:

j or k - Scroll up or down in News Feed
p - Post a new status
l - Like or Unlike a story
c - Comment on the selected story
s - Share the selected story
o - Open the attachment of the selected story
<Enter> - See more of the selected story
/ - Search
? - More shortcuts

That's it!  Use these keyboard shortcuts the next time you are using Facebook on the web.  facebook has a few more keyboard shortcuts to access other others besides the News Feed.  Press ? to see them when you are in Facebook.

Enjoy!

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How to Use "Pin Tab" to be More Effective with Google Chrome

How many browser tabs do you have open?  Just one or more, many, many more?

We all do it.  An open tab for email, one for Facebook, one for watching an Ebay auction, and a few more searches.

It's called "tab creep".  We're all creatures of habit and the tabs we have from left-to-right usually indicate the importance of the tabs.  We open the most important ones first.

Google Chrome has a cool tip managing the tabs.  Specifically, any tab can be "pinned".  By pinning a tab, it will shrink and move to the left.  In addition, if Chrome is closed, pinned tabs will be retained when the browser is opened next.

To pin a tab, right-mouse click on the tab and select "Pin Tab" from the dropdown menu.

You'll notice that pinned tabs lose the close "x".  To close a pinned tab, right-mouse click on the pinned tab and select "close tab".  To unpin, right-mouse click and select "unpin" tab.

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Access Prospective Search in iOS 9 For Quick Access to People, Apps, News and Nearby Restaurants

A very cool but often overlooked feature of iOS 9 is prospective search.

It's easily accessible from the home screen by <swiping> right.

This page shows your most recent contacts as well as most recent apps, tops news and nearby places such as restaurants, gas stations and convenience stores. (In the screenshot above, I scrolled down a bit to show the news but that hid the most recent contacts.)

Clicking the Breakfast icon will show a map and list nearby restaurants.  The Breakfast icon changes by the time of day to lunch or dinner.

This is a hidden gem in iOS 9.  Check it out!  Enjoy.

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