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If your iPhone or iPad is having performance issues or slowing down, it could be that the device would benefit from a clean slate. Over time operating systems can pick up little kinks that affect the way they work, this is understandable as they are very complex software configurations. Sometimes it’s a good idea to completely reset a system so that it returns to how it was when it first came out of the box. This is called a ‘factory reset’. It’s also what you need to do if you want to wipe your iPhone or iPad if…

Wordle 926 answer for January 1: Happy New Year! Wordle players are in for a treat on the first day of the new year with an easy answer today. The answer is relatively simple and can be deduced quickly, even by new Wordle players. The letters used in the word are common and their arrangement is not complex at all, therefore, players should get the Wordle 926 solution expeditiously. While solving the puzzle, it is essential to use a well-thought-out strategy, but there is no need to panic in moments of uncertainty. If you…

Back in February, TikTok revealed that it was testing a feature that will give you a way to reset the recommendations that pop up on your For You page. Now, the ByteDance-owned app is rolling out this "refresh" option to all users, so you can get rid of video recommendations that no longer feel relevant. If you enable it, the For You feed will look as if you've only just signed up for an account, and TikTok's algorithm will start surfacing content based on your newer interactions on the app.  To give your feed a reset,…

The idea of a fresh start, of a new beginning, has a beguiling appeal that has made it an enduring trope in literature. As well as a temporary escape into reading, books suggest the possibility that life outside the story might also be lived differently. All these narratives embody a utopian ideal: somewhere out there, there’s something better worth beginning again for. But utopia literally means no place. There is a warning in this; set out in search of a new beginning and you may get nowhere.The idea of a second go at…

When JS Bach composed the first instalment of his Well-Tempered Clavier it had a simple premise. Part compositional brainteaser, part circuit training for performers, the book includes one prelude and one fugue for each of the 12 keys in western tonality in their major and minor forms, to be played on whichever keyboard instrument was available.That instrument definitely wouldn’t have been a Steinway concert grand piano (yet to be invented in 1722). And Bach would presumably have been surprised to find a sizeable audience…