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You’ve set up your home office desk and it looks perfect. Click Here to Continue Reading

While some traditionalists still shoot film, the entire industry has been steadily shifting away from film since the early 2000s. Click Here to Continue Reading

If you have a bunch of Philips Hue lights next to your PC or Mac, good news: you can now sync lighting colors to what’s on your screen. Just download the new Hue Sync App.

Remember running to the phone to make sure you didn’t miss a call? Yeah, no one does that anymore.

Changing your Outlook.com password is a simple process you can do from any web browser, and it will just take you a few minutes. Here’s how to do it.

Windows 10’s Redstone 5 update adds tabs to nearly every application on your system. You can remove these tabs from any application you like, giving those applications a traditional windows title bar once again.

Samsung Galaxy smartphones typically have great cameras. Pro Mode lets you move beyond the simple “point and shoot” features by unlocking advanced adjustments like ISO and aperture settings, and letting you tweak just about every aspect of the photography experience. Here’s how to access and use it.

Writing tools are like burritos: a cheap one will get the job done, but a premium one is more satisfying. Click Here to Continue Reading

Flight prices change all the time. If you buy a flight at the right time, you could save yourself hundreds of dollars. Here’s how to use Kayak’s price alerts to get the best deals.

Some Windows 10 PCs, including Microsoft’s Surface Laptop, come with “Windows 10 in S Mode.” PCs in S Mode can only install applications from the Microsoft Store. But you’re free to leave S Mode, if you like.

Turn-based (or asynchronous) multiplayer games are the greatest thing to hit mobile gaming since, well, ever. Click Here to Continue Reading

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This November Pokémon fans will get a special treat: two new Pokémon releases on the Nintendo Switch that don’t just rehash old ground b… Click Here to Continue Reading

The Reading View in Microsoft Edge removes ads and unnecessary images, simplifying pages for reading. It’s great for reading long articles, where you don’t want all that clutter distracting you.

The “Sets” feature in Windows 10’s Redstone 5 update makes tabs appear alongside windows in the Alt+Tab switcher. Even Microsoft Edge browser tabs appear in Alt+Tab. But you can hide these tabs and restore the classic Alt+Tab behavior, instead.

If you buy a cellphone from your carrier, it’s almost always locked to their network. Click Here to Continue Reading

Plex is adding beta support for podcasts to iOS, Android, Roku, and Plex Web today, alongside a custom home screen for mobile users.

When it comes to mobile VR there are two major competitors: Google Daydream View and Samsung Gear VR. If you have a Galaxy phone, you can use either. So which one is better? Turns out, it depends on what you’re after.

In photography, we use focal length as a primary descriptor of lenses. It’s the measure (in millimeters) of the distance between the rear nodal point and the focal point of the lens, while the lens is focused to infinity. Yep, that’s quite a mouthful, so let’s break it down.

A Wi-Fi hotspot is really just a wireless access point. Typically, they are public locations where you can access the internet through Wi-Fi on your mobile devices. They are convenient, but there are also some security issues to be aware of when using them.

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California is now testing a unique license plate option: a digital license plate that sports a Kindle-like E-ink display and host of features t… Click Here to Continue Reading

Loot boxes basically how free to play games make money now, but legislatures around the world are thinking of regulating them as gambling.

If you have ever worked with a team on a project, you might be familiar with Slack, one of the better-known tools for group communication and collaboration. It’s not the only tool of its kind around, though, so let’s take a look at some alternatives.

CARROT Weather has long been the best reason to buy an iPhone, but not anymore: the sarcastic weather AI now works on Android. We’re sure Apple stocks will plummet.

Templates are great, but creating them is usually different for every program. In macOS, however, a little known macOS feature named “Stationary Pad” lets you turn any file into a template.

How often do you find yourself misplacing your keys and totally forgetting where you left them? Click Here to Continue Reading

Windows 10 includes a new way to install and manage fonts right from the Settings app. You can even download fonts from the Store. The old Fonts tool in Control Panel is still available, but it isn’t your only option anymore.

If you’ve ever tried to buy a book from the Kindle or Audible app on your iPhone or iPad, you might have been surprised that there’s no store in the app. Instead, you have to go to Amazon’s website, buy the book, and send it to your app.

You’ve heard the rhetoric: Google (or Facebook) knows too much about me! But it’s really not that big of a deal. Your data is safe, it’s not really about “you” anyway, and nothing is being sold.

A big mouse pad is good. So it follows that an absolutely enormous mouse pad is better, right? Click Here to Continue Reading

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It’s BBQ and grilling season for many of us, and a successful cookout is far easier with the right tools. Click Here to Continue Reading

Spotify is one of our favorite music streaming services and one thing you might not know is that to use it, you don’t need to download an app: you can use it straight from your web browser.

The latest version of macOS is macOS 10.13 High Sierra, which was released on September 25, 2017. Apple releases a new major version roughly once every year. These upgrades are free, and are available in the Mac App Store.

If you have a home office or specific space for your desktop PC, adding a TV to your monitor setup is a great way to add an incredible amount of versatility to your workflow (or play).

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Social networks are fun, and even useful. But they’re a terrible primary tool for staying informed about the world. Here’s why—and what you should be using instead.

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Game performance is measured in “frames per second,” or FPS. High FPS gives you smooth gameplay, while low FPS looks more like a slideshow. Here’s how to see any PC game’s FPS—and increase your FPS in your favorite games.

An Amazon Echo is in trouble for recording a conversation and sending it to a user’s employee. Click Here to Continue Reading

The dream of playing PC games on your iPad is dead, at least for now: Apple has denied approval for Steam Link in the App Store.

Instapaper is down in the European Union today. So is the Chicago Tribune, the LA Times, and several other US-based newspapers.

Roku players and TCL Roku TVs have an “Audio Guide” feature. If you press the * button on your remote four times quickly, the narrator speaks menu option names out loud. Here’s how to turn it on and off.

You’ve no doubt heard the terms gigabytes, terabytes, or petabytes thrown around before, but what exactly do they mean in terms of real-world storage? Let’s take a closer look at storage sizes.

“Exclusive Nintendo game” is almost a redundant phrase, since most of Nintendo’s best games are the ones the company makes it… Click Here to Continue Reading

The Oculus Go headset is really great, but sometimes it just locks up and stops working. And when that happens, the easiest thing to do is reboot it. But what’s the best way to reboot it? Here’s what you need to know.

By default, WhatsApp has a pretty weird and childish background for your chat messages. The good news is that you can change it. Here’s how.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new European Union law that takes effect today, and it’s the reason you’ve been receiving non-stop emails and notices about privacy policy updates. So how does this affect you? Here’s what you need to know.

While iPads are still a way off replacing computers for everyone, they are incredibly capable devices. Click Here to Continue Reading

Remember Stumble Upon? You pressed a button to be taken to a random website, which was a blast back in the early 2000s.

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Amazon has been testing a feature that allows you to track your package on a map, and now the company is rolling it out widely to more users.</&hellip; Click Here to Continue Reading

Chrome can generate secure passwords for you, but you have to dig through some obscure settings and enable an experimental feature.

Do you suspect that your Google account might have been compromised, or maybe you’ve decided that using “password” might not be the safest way to secure your account? Whatever your reasons, changing your password is a simple and painless procedure.

The Mac has existed in some form since 1984. As of this week Mac OS X, now called macOS, has been around for half of that time.

A cast-iron skillet is a commitment and involves care and attention, but it’s a valuable part of an avid chef’s arsenal. Click Here to Continue Reading

Apple’s iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch devices all run the iOS operating system. You can upgrade to the latest version of iOS right from your Settings app, but Apple regularly drops support for older devices.

Not sure where that file you just downloaded to your Mac actually came from? There’s a quick way to check in macOS.

Amazon keeps all your old payment methods in your account, even those that have expired. If you’ve ever had a payment declined because an expired card was listed as your default payment method, you know how annoying it can be. Here’s how to change your default card on Amazon, and also clean up all your old, unused ones.

Windows 10’s Redstone 5 update is scheduled for release in fall 2018. This major upgrade includes tabs for almost all your applications, a clipboard history that syncs between your devices, and a long-awaited dark theme for File Explorer.

If you rent your home, you could feel left out of the current smart home renaissance. Fear not, though. Click Here to Continue Reading

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Amazon screws up every once in a while and you have to send a package back. Click Here to Continue Reading

A compromised password can’t protect you. PassProtect is a Chrome extension that notifies you whenever a password you enter is exposed, giving you the chance to change it.

Windows 10 now lets you select which GPU a game or other application uses right from the Settings app. Previously, you had to use manufacturer-specific tools like the NVIDIA Control Panel or AMD Catalyst Control Center to control this.

Mozilla is rolling out two factor authentication for Firefox accounts and if you sync passwords using Firefox Sync you should enable it immediately.

Windows 10’s Bash shell finally has convenient copy and paste keyboard shortcuts, but they’re disabled by default for compatibility reasons. These shortcuts are already available in Insider Preview builds of Redstone 5, which will be released sometime in Fall, 2018.

Windows 10 now lets you choose which sound output and input devices individual apps use. For example, you could have one app play audio through your headphones and another app play it through your speakers.

Computer batteries have a limited lifespan and degrade over time, so they’re often the first thing to go in a Mac laptop. You can replace a battery yourself or pay Apple to do it, but you should check its health. first. Any battery life issues you’re having could be due to a runaway process or just heavy use.

Windows 10’s Redstone 5 update brings a modern screenshot tool to Windows 10. A new keyboard shortcut lets you screenshot part of your screen, and add annotations.

Full size kitchen blenders are great for big recipes (and big pitchers of Margaritas) but they’re not so great for a quick smoothie or s… Click Here to Continue Reading

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Speculative processing, the technology exploited by the Meltdown and Spectre bugs, is vulnerable in yet another way, and the fix could impact your performance by 2-8 percent.

Google Image Search is a great way to find an image that is similar to one you already have or to help you track down the original source of a photo on the internet. Here’s how to use it.

A Comcast Xfinity website was leaking Wi-Fi names and passwords, meaning now is a good time to change your Wi-Fi passcode.

You’ve finally built that monster triple monitor desktop setup you’ve been dreaming about. Click Here to Continue Reading

Apple’s Facetime video calling is perhaps one of their most used features. It lets people with iPhones, iPads, and Macs make easy video calls to one another. You can’t make Facetime calls from Windows, but there are several other ways to make video calls—even to iPhone users.

Google Pay has really grown over the last several months. It stepped away from the Android-specific branding and has added supported for loyalty cards and boarding passes. So what all can you do with Google Pay?

On Windows 10, each window has a colored window border and a shadow. You can change the color of your window borders and even disable the shadow, if you like.

All your computer hardware, from the motherboard to the webcam, needs drivers to function properly. Here’s how to download the official device drivers for your hardware, whether you’re using Windows 10 or 7.

Is your network or Wi-Fi running slow? Many different devices and apps connect to the network, and it can take just one hidden device or app to slow your network to a crawl.

Email as we know it dates back to the 1970s, and was never designed with security in mind.

A hub for this and a hub for that. When you dive into the smarthome market, you’re inevitably going to end up with a handful of smarthome hubs taking over your house. It’s annoying, but it’s probably not going to get any better.

The world of smartphones may prefer small bezels over headphone jacks, but you can still use your beloved wired headphones with fancy new phones… Click Here to Continue Reading

Resident Evil 7 is an incredible horror game that can’t run on the Switch. Click Here to Continue Reading

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Resident Evil 7 is an incredible horror game that can’t run on the Switch. Click Here to Continue Reading

Lots of malware tries to bog down your browser, but Google Chrome isn’t defenseless—on Windows there’s a built-in scanner called Cleanup.

PDFs are handy for distributing documents so that they’re seen the same way by all parties. Typically, you’ll create documents using another app, and then convert them to PDF. Here’s how to do it for a Microsoft Word document.

Google Assistant is growing rapidly, getting new features and more smarthome support every day. Click Here to Continue Reading

Google has introduced significant new features to improve battery life on Android over the last few years, with Oreo bringing the best improvements yet. Here’s how it’s looking to improve that even further with Android P.

I’ll admit it, I haven’t been using Windows for a while. So when I got a new Windows 10 PC and started using it, one of my first questions was “What is this annoying People icon and how do I remove it?” That’s what we’re going to disable today.

There was a time when you had to have Microsoft Office installed to create, edit, or even view a Microsoft Word document. Thankfully, that’s no longer the case. There are a number of free alternatives for working with those Word documents people occasionally send you.

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Streaming TV services are becoming valid cable replacements for many people, but there are a lot of choices out there at this point. We’ve looked at the five biggest—now it’s time to compare them.

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You don’t need an antivirus for your iPhone or iPad. In fact, any “antivirus” apps you see advertised for iPhones aren’t even antivirus software. They’re just “security” programs that can’t actually protect you from malware.

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Amazon may have gotten a head start on the smart speaker market, but if a third-party analytics company is to be believed, Google is catching up fast. Click Here to Continue Reading

Apps like Twitter, Slack, and Facebook let you direct messages to a user by typing @ followed by a username. Gmail now does the same thing, sort of.

How many times do you go to a website to read an article and once the page loads, you’re bombarded with banners and distracting ads? Firefox’s Reader View removes the clutter and simplifies the page for better readability, leaving only what you actually want to see: the article.

We’ve all heard it: “have you tried turning it off and back on again?” It’s the first step when troubleshooting any tech problem—it even makes your phone perform better when nothing is wrong. But why?

Looking for some entertainment to go with your summer gatherings?  Add to the festivities with… Click Here to Continue Reading

Twitter sends a lot of emails—like, an utterly unreasonable and incredibly annoying amount. If you’re not careful, you could end up with five or ten emails a day. Here’s how to stop it.

What would BitTorrent look like if it was lightning fast, always available, completely private, and secure? It’d look a lot like Usenet. Read on to learn how to ditch Torrenting and enjoy super speeds and selection on Usenet.

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Bluetooth speakers are great for portable music playback, but for those times that you want to take them somewhere a little more off the beate… Click Here to Continue Reading

Today, Microsoft announced a new kind of game controller, called the Xbox Adaptive Controller, that features an impressive 19 ports to connec… Click Here to Continue Reading

Don’t assume everyone you talk to on Facebook is real: there’s an entire marketplace of fake accounts for sale.

Windows/macOS: Fender’s Riffstation can scan any audio file then help you learn how to play it on your guitar. Once a $35 purchase, it’s now free.

It’s a sad fact that the Xbox One has the fe… Click Here to Continue Reading

It’s an internet cliche: “if you’re not paying for something you’re not the customer, you’re the product being sold.” And it’s true, but doesn’t explain why internet companies watch you constantly.

With the beta release of Android P, Google is making available a new navigation system: Gestures. This replaces the Back-Home-Recents navigation scheme that Android has used for years with quick swipes and slides.

The problem with having a popular phone like an iPhone is that, by default, everyone has the same ringtone. If you want to give your iPhone a more personal sound, here’s how to do it.

There are two ways to install iTunes on Windows 10: By downloading it from Apple’s website, or by installing it from the Microsoft Store. You get the same application either way, but the Store app has less bloat.