How to delete the last 15 minutes of your Google search history

Welcome toTNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. If you’re about to search for some scandalous terms, the incognito mode in Chrome (or any other browser) is your best friend. Just keep in mind that switching on incognito mode doesn’t meanall your data is private. But if you forgot to turn on the incognito mode, Google logs your history, and the sites will even show up in suggestions....

2 min · 297 words · Scott Duncan

How to develop a web app with SEO in less than 10 minutes

How to develop a web app with SEO in less than 10 minutes What is SEO, and why do you need it? SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. This term itself gives out what SEO exactly is. When you type some search keywords on a browser search box, the search engine has to decide how to display the results, which web pages list in the top 10 results, and which ones next....

8 min · 1647 words · Natasha Morgan

How to disable Chat and Meet in Gmail everywhere

Welcome toTNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Google has been pushing its Chat and Meet products in Gmail for the last couple of months now. The company wants to cash in on the growing work from home culture, and make you ditch products like Slack or Zoom in favor of its own offerings....

2 min · 292 words · Emily Brown

How to disagree with your boss without losing your cool… or job

How to disagree with your boss without losing your cool… or job How to communicate your grievances The tone is vital. You need to remember that you’re not looking to spark conflict; theconversationdoesn’t need to be adversarial and you need to do everything in yourpowerto ensure you’re collaborative and communicative. You need to appear confident, but not defensive. You need to strike the balance between speaking with authority — almost matter of factly — and coming across too strong....

3 min · 535 words · Elizabeth Clark

How to discover the order in which you joined Facebook

You’ve probably lived quite happily so far not knowing the order in which you joined (The?) Facebook. And, indeed, you may have absolutely no desire to find out either. But it’s so incredibly simple, that it would be a shame not to know. All you need to do is log-in to Facebook, click on your ‘profile’ link at the top right-hand side and then look at the URL bar. Now, this won’t work if you opted to use your own name (or any other username) as a unique identifier in here, an option that Facebook hasprovidedsince June 2009....

2 min · 373 words · Jonathan Cardenas
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