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How to Create a Poll on Twitter

By / December 14, 2015

This very brief guide will show you how to embed a “poll” within your Tweet!

Twitter now allows for users to create polls from within Tweets. Currently polls are limited to two ‘answers’ (ie. yes/no, true/false, X or Y). Update: You can now create a poll with more than two answers/options. Once you post a poll it will remain open for votes for 24 hours.

As of Wednesday, Oct. 21st, Twitter is rolling out the “Poll” feature to all of its users. If you don’t see the “poll” button as illustrated in this guide, wait a day or two :)

  1. Right now, polls work on Twitter for iOS (iPhones and iPads), Android, and via Twitter on the web. To make your own poll, start out by composing a Tweet as normal, in the form of a question you want answered (#1). Then click or tap the new Poll button (as illustrated by #2 in the screenshot below). Finally, enter the answers/options for people to vote on.

    2. Creating a Poll within a Tweet

  2. Send your Tweet as normal, and now people can vote on it! The total number of votes and percentage of those votes will be displayed within the Tweet as well.

    3. Twitter poll results simple view

  3. No one will know who voted, or how they voted. Neither you as the “poll creator” nor anyone who votes or views the poll will be able to see that information. Keep this in mind when you create a poll – unless your account is set to private, anyone can vote on your poll (and you’ll never know who it was).

    4. Twitter poll results detailed view

  4. Finally, as of right now (Oct 28th, 2015) – when someone votes on your poll, you aren’t notified in any way. So remember to check back 24 hours after you created it to see the results.

How to Securely Store Passwords in Windows

By / April 22, 2015

In light of the recent Heartbleed Bug and several other major website hacks (one of which involved 40 million credit cards being stolen) – it’s time to take your passwords seriously. Long gone are the days of thinking that a word with the vowels replaced by numbers (l1k3 th1s) can be considered ‘secure’. If you use the same password on more than one site or service, you’re asking for trouble. To keep yourself safe, you have to use a different password for every single service or site that you use, and those passwords have to be impossible to guess. Trying to commit dozens of secure passwords, like “#dOzu3!pDD”, to memory – not likely. So what’s the solution? To use a password manager. …

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How to Stop Your iPhone From Connecting to a Specific Wifi Hotspot

By / February 26, 2013

This tutorial will explain how to get your iPhone (or iPad) to “forget” a network that it has previously connected to, so that it stops connecting to it automatically in the future.

  1. Tap the Settings button on your iPhone/iPad.

    2. iphone and iPad settings button

  2. Select the Wi-Fi setting.

  3. Make sure your Wi-Fi is turned ON. Scroll down to the Network that you want to stop your iPhone/iPad from automatically connecting to, and tap the small ‘blue arrow’ next to it.

  4. Tap the large Forget this Network button.

  5. Tap the Forget button to confirm.

  6. Going forward, your iPhone or iPad will not automatically connect to the network. You’ll need to manually reconnect to it if you wish to use it again.

How to Set Up Your iPhone For the First Time

By / November 27, 2012

This detailed guide will take you each step of the way through setting up your iPhone for the first time. This is the first in a series of “getting to know your iPhone” tutorials. It will be updated frequently with links to other helpful iPhone tutorials, tips and tricks. Scroll to the bottom of this guide for a list of very helpful tutorials relating to setting up and using your iPhone. …

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