Let me guess. Feeling chronically overwhelmed and stressed is not a habit you want to carry over to 2019. Instead, you want to stop feeling rushed. You want to feel free to do your best work, rather than battling to stay on top of your to-do list.
You’re far from alone. But it’s too easy to delude yourself into thinking that, if only you worked a little harder now, then next week, next month, everything will finally be under control. It rarely works like that.
Instead, you need to figure out and implement the systems that will keep you on track, save you time, and reduce your chronic overwhelm once and for all.
By doing this, you’ll finally find the free time to pursue the projects and hobbies you’ve been putting off for so long. Sounds tempting, right?
Maybe it was a video or series of photos that captured a crucial moment in time such as your wedding or the last holiday that included a loved one who has since passed. Perhaps it was a vital report for work that you needed to share with your boss — yesterday. Or it could be a long-lost WhatsApp or Kik chat with your best friend.
For those times when you might have erased an important file from your iPhone, you should consider turning to Joyoshare’s iPhone Data Recovery software for Mac.
What Joyshare iPhone Data Recovery Software for Mac Does
The product, which is available through a free trial, is a surprisingly simple to use data recovery tool that helps you recover data from your iOS device, iTunes, and iCloud backups through three different modes.
With the Joyoshare iPhone Data Recovery tool, you can recover various types of files, including photos, videos, contacts, messages, notes, call logs and more. In total, it can help you retrieve over 20 different types of lost files.
The software is compatible with the latest iPhone models, including the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR. It also works with the iPhone X, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone SE, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5, iPhone 4s, and iPhone 4.
How to Do It
Just how simple is it to use the Joyoshare iPhone Data Recovery tool? Let’s take a look:
Restore From Your Device
When I use Joyoshare, I typically use this first method to recover data since it only requires connecting my device to my MacBook Pro.
Once the devices are connected, start Joyoshare. The software will automatically detect your device. When it does, the software identifies necessary information about your iOS device under its “Recover from iDevice” model. This information includes details such as product version, deleted data, existing data, data capacity, and more.
On the right side of the screen, check the type of information you’d like to recover.
Press the Scan button.
Select the Stop button when you see the recovered data on the screen. You can also wait for the process to complete.
Next, select the Only show the deleted option to filter out the data that is no longer on your device.
Click Recover to save this data to the computer.
In the following example, I’m recovering deleted contact information from my iPhone XS Max:
Restoring from iCloud and iTunes Too
The Joyoshare iPhone Data Recovery tool also gives you the ability to restore deleted data from an iCloud backup and through iTunes. The process from each is similar to the steps you would take to find data directly from your device. The use the former, you’ll need to log into your iCloud account through the Joyoshare software. For the latter, you’ll need an iTunes backup on your computer or external hard drive.
An Incredibly Useful Tool
If you need to recover data from your iOS device, you can’t go wrong with Joyoshare iPhone Data Recovery tool. Available for both Mac and Windows through the Joyoshare website, you can download the tool through a free trial.
With this trial, you can scan your device or backup for missing files. You’ll need to purchase the software, however, to recover the actual data. When buying the Joyoshare iPhone Data Recovery tool, you’ll receive free upgrades when new iOS devices and software launch, so you always have compatibility.
Have you ever noticed how many Facebook symbols are scattered across the social network? While most of them are necessary, the sheer number can make Facebook confusing for newcomers.
With that in mind, in this article we take a look at what all of the Facebook symbols mean. From the all-too-obvious ones to the odd and obscure. This is a short guide to Facebook symbols.
Simple Facebook Symbols
The following are some of the more common icons that most people who use Facebook regularly will recognize.
One of the most recognizable images that’s core to the Facebook brand is the famous “Like” icon. You can like a status update, quote, link, an image, or anything else. Just click this image and let everyone know.
At the top of your Facebook home page, you’ll notice three dark icons. The image of a bell represents your notification list of the latest updates from your friends, as well as your favorite pages and groups.
Click on this little conversation bubble icon, and you’ll see a dropdown box displaying the latest Facebook messages you’ve received.
The last image at the top of the home page is the Friend Request icon. Click on this, and if you have any new friend requests, they’ll show up in a drop-down box.
Aside from the icons above, the other most common icons you’ll see on Facebook are the ones that display while you’re creating new posts.
Below the edit field, you’ll see a variety of symbols. By default, you’ll see an icon to add a photo or video to your post, an icon to tag (mention) friends in your post, or add a feeling or current activity tag to your post.
Under this, you’ll see a variety of other icons to update post settings.
On the left you’ll see the News Feed icon to post directly to your wall, and the Your Story icon to add the post to your story timeline. On the right you’ll see privacy settings to set your News Feed or Your Story privacy to Public or Friends.
Facebook Symbols to Enhance Posts
If you click on See More, you’ll see all of the other items you can add to your post.
This is a big batch of icons, but they do exactly what you would expect them to do.
Starting from the top left:
Photo/Video: Add a photo or video to your post.
Feeling/Activity: Tag your post with how you’re feeling or an activity you’re doing.
Check in: Tag the post with the location you’re at.
GIF: Add a fun GIF to your post.
Poll: Poll your family and friends about any topic.
Watch Party: Watch live or prerecorded video with friends.
Support Nonprofit: Encourage friends to contribute to your favorite nonprofit.
Tag Friends: Tag (mention) your friends in your post.
Sticker: Add one of Facebook’s many fun stickers to your post.
Live Video: Go live and stream what you’re doing now to all of your friends.
Tag Event: If you’re at a Facebook event, tag it in your post and let everyone know.
List: Insert a quick list of anything into your post.
Answer a Question: Answer a random question to start a fun conversation with your friends.
By the way, if you want to see the largest collection of Facebook symbols anywhere, while you’re editing or creating a post, just click on the “emoji” face on the lower right of the edit field.
This is where you’ll find a big list of emojis available for you to use. As you can see from the row of other icons, you can find pages and pages of emoji. You’ll find everything from animals and electronics to sports and flags.
Managing Other Facebook Posts
The last few most common icons are the ones that show up alongside posts, when you click the down arrow on the upper right corner of a post window.
This window appears with different options depending on where the post is and who posted it. In the example above, the post was published by someone else and shows up on my timeline.
Bookmark (Save post): Saves the post to your list of saved items.
Box with an X (Hide post): Tells Facebook’s algorithm you don’t like that post, or other posts like it.
Clock Icon (Snooze): Lets you silence any post from a person, group, or page for a limited time.
Comment with an Exclamation (Give feedback on this post): Report the post to Facebook for any reason.
Some other things you can do with individual posts is turn on notifications for comments (the Bell icon), or embed the post using embed code (the HTML end tag icon).
Managing Your Own Facebook Posts
If you click the down arrow at the upper right of one of your own posts, you’ll have many more options.
These options let you change the post in some way, save it or enable notifications, or even delete it entirely.
Just above the post, next to your name, you’ll see an icon of either two people or a globe. Click on the arrow and you’ll see another window like the one below.
This is an important dropdown, because it allows you to set the privacy level of your posts. For more help on securing your social networking, check out our guide to Facebook privacy.
This is something too few people pay attention to, but it can mean the difference between things being seen only by family and friends, or by the entire internet.
What do these icons mean?
Globe (Public): Make your post visible to anyone on the internet (use with caution!)
Two People (Friends except): Block specific friends from seeing your post.
One Person (Specific friends): Show your post on the feed for only certain friends.
Lock (Only me): Only you can see the post. Useful for posting important notes to yourself.
Gear (Custom): Add or remove friends or friends lists who can see the post.
As you can see, it’s very easy to customize the privacy of every Facebook post.
Other Facebook Symbols
The next batch of Facebook symbols will be well known to regular Facebook users, but not quite as recognizable to new users.
If you click on the Home tab, under your name you’ll see four icons in the left navigation bar.
These are Facebook’s core navigation areas.
News Feed: This is the frequently updated feed of your friends’ posts that you review every day.
Messenger: Takes you to the Facebook chat area where you can IM with friends.
Watch: Navigate to Facebook’s video streaming page.
Marketplace: Visit your local Facebook Marketplace to buy and sell goods.
If you scroll further down the Home page, you’ll see an Explore area in the left navigation bar. There are many unusual icons here.
These are areas of Facebook that aren’t all frequently visited by most Facebook users. In fact, many people don’t even know about them.
In this navigation pane you’ll find the following Facebook symbols:
Groups: Public or private groups of other Facebook users who share your interests.
Pages: Facebook pages devoted to a business or public person.
Fundraisers: Create or promote a fundraiser for your friends to contribute to.
Friend Lists: Create lists to organize groups of friends to share posts with.
Memories: Review and repost your Facebook updates from many years ago.
Manage Apps: This is where developers can create and manage apps that integrate with Facebook.
Games: Play Facebook games with friends.
Ads Manager: Buy or manage your Facebook ads.
Offers: Find special discounts and promotions.
Live Video: Check out the latest Facebook Live videos posted by Facebook users.
Notes: Write full-length posts (like blog posts) and see what friends have written.
Recent Ad Activity: See all of the ads you’ve clicked on or viewed recently.
Movies: See showtimes for movies near you, and buy tickets without fees.
Messenger Kids: A special messaging area made for kids, with built-in parental controls.
If you scroll down further, you’ll see even more Facebook symbols.
In this area, you can explore any of the following areas of Facebook:
Town Hall: Find and follow your elected officials.
Discover People: Explore profiles of people you may know.
Jobs: Find local businesses who are hiring and apply for jobs.
Saved: See saved posts and organize them into collections.
Buy and Sell Groups: All your local buy and sell groups organized into one place.
Gaming Video: Browse and watch gamers who livestream their gameplay.
Crisis Response: Get updates on active crisis and check if your friends are OK.
Weather: Check your local weather forecast.
Oculus: Read the latest virtual reality news.
Didn’t realize you could do so much on Facebook?
Once you start learning all about what all of the various Facebook symbols mean, it’s clear that Facebook is good for much more than just scrolling through your news stream and posting status updates.
Another great way to explore everything available in Facebook is just to start searching. There are many different ways to do this. A great place to start is our simple guide filled with Facebook search tips.
When you set up a new hard drive or buy a computer, the drive likely comes with a single partition. This places everything onto one logical sector of the drive.
But you can easily create partitions to keep different types of data separate. Here’s what you should know about partitioning and the benefits and drawbacks of doing so.
What Is Disk Partitioning?
When you install Windows on a fresh hard drive, the installer sees your disk as a bunch of unallocated space. You need to create a segment so the operating system knows what part of the hard drive it can use. This is called a partition. When you format a partition with a particular filesystem so it’s usable, it’s known as a volume.
A standard Windows installation might have a single partition that holds everything, including the OS files, your personal data, installed programs, and more.
If you bought a computer off the shelf, it might also have a secondary small partition for recovery purposes. This is separate from the main partition so that even if your Windows installation becomes corrupted, you can still restore it with the backup partition.
The Pros of Partitioning a Hard Drive
Why might you want to partition your hard drive? Here are some good reasons.
1. Ease of Reinstallation
Keeping your Windows system files separate from your personal information makes it easy to perform operations on Windows.
For example, it’s relatively trivial to reinstall Windows when it’s on a separate partition. All you have to do is format your Windows partition and reinstall the OS. Your installed programs and files will stay where you left them.
If you like, you can even clone your Windows partition so you have an exact copy of your OS setup to return to.
2. Simpler Backups
Backing up your files is vital. While putting files on a separate partition isn’t an actual backup, it can make your backup scheme much simpler.
Like with your Windows installation, you can clone the entire partition to have an exact copy of its data. For a simpler approach, you can point your backup app to protect the entire drive, instead of having to pick and choose individual folders.
3. (Potentially) Improved Security
Partitioning your drive can also keep your data safer from malware attacks. If ransomware lands on your Windows partition, it would have a lesser chance of locking your personal files on another partition. You can easily reinstall Windows per above.
Maybe you’re someone who loves to put everything in a certain place. Partitioning lets you add more dividers between data types. Perhaps you’d like to create a partition for games and apps and another for documents, music, and similar files.
If you find that the organization methods available to you on a single partition aren’t enough, adding new ones could help keep your data straight.
5. Install Multiple Operating Systems
I can't help daydreaming about my ideal dev setup. Nice desktop computer, with a partitions for all the major os's for compiling on…mmm
We’ve discussed separating your OS files and personal data in most of the above reasons. But that’s not the only use for partitioning a hard drive. You can also add a partition to a drive to install another operating system on it.
Perhaps you want to run Linux alongside Windows, but your computer can’t handle a virtual machine. You can create a new partition for Linux without touching your existing Windows system.
Alternatively, you could install an older version of Windows for backward compatibility.
6. Use Many File Systems
Another multi-platform use for partitioning is to work with multiple file systems. While you probably don’t need to do this with your internal drive, it makes external drives more useful if you use them with multiple OSes.
For example, you might split a 1TB external HDD into partitions. Making one FAT32 or exFAT would work with Windows, while the other as Mac OS Extended would be compatible with your Mac. This lets you best use the available space for your needs.
The Cons of Partitioning a Hard Drive
On the flipside, there are several reasons you should avoid partitioning your hard drive. Here are a few of them.
1. False Sense of Security
If you’re not careful, having multiple partitions could lead to a data loss disaster. While Windows shows separate entries for each partition you’ve created, those partitions are all still on the same physical drive.
Because of this, if your hard drive fails, is destroyed by a natural disaster, or otherwise stops working, you’ll lose everything on it. This could be a shock for a new user, who’s used to every drive in the This PC window representing a separate physical device.
One of the biggest hassles, when you have several partitions is keeping them straight. With any more than three or four partitions, you’ll likely lose the organization benefits just trying to keep track of them.
And even with an extra partition or two, you’ll still have to set up Windows to save your files and software on the other partitions. This is more complex than saving everything on one.
Additionally, the complexity of having multiple partitions introduces more chances for a mistake. When formatting one partition, you might accidentally erase another.
3. Juggling Partitions and Wasted Space
With one partition, you don’t have to worry about disk space aside from filling up the drive completely. But with multiple partitions, you might be cramped for space on one partition but have plenty of free space on another.
The limited space also means you could run into surprises. For instance, a major update to Windows 10 could require more space than you have free on its partition. You’d then have to remove some games from a separate partition, shrink that partition, then extend the one with Windows installed.
Thankfully, Windows makes it pretty easy to shrink and extend partitions, so you’re not locked into your initial sizes. But resizing partitions frequently is inconvenient.
4. It’s Generally Unnecessary for the Average User
Many power users like to partition for the reasons listed above, which is great. But for the average user, it’s often not necessary. Light users don’t typically have enough files that they need a different partition to manage them. And they don’t often install other operating systems.
While partitioning isn’t overly complex, it also introduces some potential for issues for a novice user. Compared to the low benefit, it’s generally not worth the effort for them to partition.
5. SSDs Negate Many Past Benefits
Many of the historical reasons for partitioning don’t matter as much now, due to the inclusion of SSDs in modern computers. See the below section for a discussion on this.
HDD vs. SSD Partitioning
As you may be aware, older hard disk drives (HDD) are mechanical. They have moving platters and a head that reads and writes data.
Because of this, the organization of data on the drive affects how quickly you can access it. If the drive has to spin all around to access data that are far apart from each other, it will affect performance.
For some time, partitioning was a solution for this. Your primary partition, with Windows installed, would live at the outside of the platter which has the fastest read times. Less important data, like downloads and music, could stay on the inside. Separating data also helps defragmentation, an important part of HDD maintenance, run faster.
But none of this applies to solid-state drives (SSD). They use flash memory to quickly access information no matter where it’s located on the drive. Thus, optimizing the placement of files on the disk is not a concern. And you don’t need to defragment SSDs.
Don’t worry about “wearing out” your SSD by partitioning it, by the way. The SSD organizes files on its own regardless of the partitions, so there’s no “uneven wear” issue. And modern SSDs are designed for loads of read/write cycles, so the chances that you’ll wear one out before you’d replace it anyway are low.
We’ve looked at some benefits and drawbacks of partitioning your disk. In summary, the potential hassle involved compared to the relatively small gain for the average user means you should stick to what you have now. But partitioning offers benefits for power users who want logical separation of data and don’t mind juggling free space.
While the thought of a machine that can squirt out endless ropes of molten glass is a bit frightening, the folks at MIT have just about perfected the process. In a paper published in 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, researchers Chikara Inamura, Michael Stern, Daniel Lizardo, Peter Houk, and Neri Oxman describe a system for 3D printing glass that offers far more control over the hot material and the final product.
Their system, called G3DP2, “is a new AM platform for molten glass that combines digitally integrated three-zone thermal control system with four-axis motion control system, introducing industrial-scale production capabilities with enhanced production rate and reliability while ensuring product accuracy and repeatability, all previously unattainable for glass.”
The system uses a closed, heated box that holds the melted glass and another thermally controlled box where it prints the object. A moveable plate drops the object lower and lower as it is being printed and the print head moves above it. The system is interesting because it actually produces clear glass structures that can be used for decoration or building. The researchers take special care to control the glass extrusion system to ensure that it cools down and crystallizes without injecting impurities or structural problems.
“In the future, combining the advantages of this AM technology with the multitude of unique material properties of glass such as transparency, strength, and chemical stability, we may start to see new archetypes of multifunctional building blocks,” wrote the creators.
One of the most recognizable images that’s core to the Facebook brand is the famous “Like” icon. You can like a status update, quote, link, an image, or anything else. Just click this image and let everyone know.
At the top of your Facebook home page, you’ll notice three dark icons. The image of a bell represents your notification list of the latest updates from your friends, as well as your favorite pages and groups.
Click on this little conversation bubble icon, and you’ll see a dropdown box displaying the latest Facebook messages you’ve received.
The last image at the top of the home page is the Friend Request icon. Click on this, and if you have any new friend requests, they’ll show up in a drop-down box.
