How to See When Apps Access Your Camera and Microphone on Android
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December 31, 2020
Privacy is a big topic when it comes to mobile devices. iPhones and iPads show little orange and green indicator icons when apps access the...
Thursday, 31 December 2020
How to Use Outlook’s “My Templates” Add-in For Quick Text Entry
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December 31, 2020
Almost everyone who uses email at work types the same phrases multiple times a day. Save time by using “My Templates,” Microsoft Outlook’s ...
How to Use Shortcuts Directly From iPhone and iPad Home Screen
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December 31, 2020
There is a myriad of ways to launch a shortcut, including from the shortcuts app, Siri, and widgets. But the fastest way is by using a home...
How to Close All Google Chrome Windows at Once
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December 31, 2020
While browsing the web with Google Chrome, it’s easy to get carried away and open dozens of windows filled with hundreds of tabs. Luckily, ...
How to Get Started With Google TV
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December 31, 2020
The Chromecast with Google TV introduced the company’s vision for its smart TV devices. If you have a streaming device running Google TV, t...
Your Password Manager Can Do More Than Just Store Passwords
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December 31, 2020
It’s common sense that everyone should be using a good password manager (we hope, at least). It’s also worth noting that password managers ...
Get an On-Screen Windows Key Shortcut Guide on Windows 10
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December 31, 2020
Windows 10 features a rich collection of Windows key shortcuts that can make using a PC speedy fast—if you remember them. Luckily, thanks t...
How to Watch the 2020 Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball Drop
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December 31, 2020
No spectators will be allowed in person to watch the ball drop in New York City’s Times Square to mark the transition from 2020 to 2021. Th...
Samsung's New HDR10+ TVs Automatically Adapt Picture Quality to Ambient Lighting
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December 31, 2020
HDR is optimized to work in a super dark environment, but most people spend their TV time surrounded by ambient lighting, like sunlight or ...
Wednesday, 30 December 2020
Ekster's Aluminum Cardholder Takes "Minimalist" to the Extreme
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December 30, 2020
When it comes to wallets, I’ve been a fan of Ekster’s line of cardholders for quite some time. My daily carry has been the company’s vegan ...
How to Create a Gantt Chart in Microsoft PowerPoint
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December 30, 2020
A Gantt chart is a bar chart that shows the schedule of a project. Thankfully, Microsoft PowerPoint provides several Gantt chart templates ...
How to Add a Watch Face on Apple Watch
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December 30, 2020
A new Apple Watch comes preloaded with a couple of watch faces. There’s also a huge collection of additional watch faces, ranging from styl...
How to Hide or Remove System Preference Panes on Mac
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December 30, 2020
If you use a Mac, you’ve probably configured your machine with System Preferences, which includes individual configuration sections called ...
How to Turn off or Restart Your Playstation 5
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December 30, 2020
The PlayStation 5’s (PS5) user interface places the power options within a hidden menu, making them somewhat difficult to find. We’ll expla...
How to Make Calls from Windows 10 Using an Android Phone
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December 30, 2020
If your computer runs Windows 10 and you also have an Android phone, you should probably be using Microsoft’s Your Phone app. You can do a ...
Calculated Properties in PowerShell Functions
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December 30, 2020
Many times a returned property from an object in PowerShell may not be ideally named, or the value is not quite in the necessary format. Fo...
Which Streaming Gadget Should You Buy: Roku, Fire TV, or Chromecast?
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December 30, 2020
At this point, the set top box market has settled on three major choices—or rather, two major choices and a dark horse. For most consumers ...
What Is “Binning” for Computer Components?
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December 30, 2020
You might not realize it, but every time you purchase a new desktop CPU, you also get a ticket for a giveaway called the “silicon lottery.”...
LG Will Unveil Its First 8K QNED Mini LED TV Line at CES in 2021
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December 30, 2020
LG is already known for its impressive OLED TVs, and now it’s adding multiple new models to its LCD TV line. The models use Mini LED techno...
EA's Excellent 'Star Wars: Squadrons' Game Is on Sale for 40% Off
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December 30, 2020
For a while, EA had a bad rap for expensive games filled with endless microtransactions. Then along came Star Wars: Squadrons, an inexpensi...
How to Use Google Photos as the Screen Saver on Google TV
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December 30, 2020
Devices such as the Chromecast with Google TV can display a Google Photos slideshow as the screen saver. If you’d like to use your TV as a ...
Your Ancient Smartphone Will Stop Working on Sprint Networks January 1st, 2022
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December 30, 2020
T-Mobile and Sprint merged to become one company in April of 2020, but Sprint’s legacy network still exists to support old devices. That ma...
How to Enable a Firefox Extension in Private Browsing Mode
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December 30, 2020
Private mode in Mozilla Firefox keeps your local browsing history private. But, by default, Firefox turns off extensions while browsing pri...
How to Change The App Layout to a List on Apple Watch
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December 30, 2020
The Apple Watch has a honeycomb-style app screen. While it’s efficient, you might have trouble finding the right app on the small screen. S...
Quick Tip: You Can Stream Your PC Games to an Xbox One, Series X, or Series S
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December 30, 2020
Playing PC games on your TV is all the rage these days, with services like Luna and Stadia offering an easy entry to cloud gaming. But if y...
Here's the Best Time to See Tonight's Cold Moon
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December 30, 2020
If you missed the Great Convergence or didn’t catch the last meteor shower, there’s still some hope for an astronomical event in 2020. The ...
How to Stream the Most Acclaimed TV Series of 2020
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December 30, 2020
With so many people stuck at home for most of 2020, TV series captured more of the popular imagination than ever. Here’s how you can stream...
How to Use Your Phone to Pay for Gas
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December 30, 2020
Thanks to smartphones, it’s no longer necessary to stick your credit card into a grimy machine to pay for gas. There are a couple of differ...
The 11 Best Free Games for Your New Xbox, PlayStation, or Switch
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December 30, 2020
When you drop hundreds on a brand new console, either for yourself or your kids, dropping another load of money on games isn’t exactly appe...
How to Get a System-Wide Color Picker on Windows 10
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December 30, 2020
Need to figure out a color quickly? Using Microsoft’s free PowerToys utility for Windows 10, you can instantly bring up a color picker with...
Scopes in PowerShell
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December 30, 2020
In many programming languages, there is the concept of scope. Defined as what variables and functions are available in what context. An exa...
How to Stop the Spinning Wheel on Your Mac
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December 30, 2020
Your Mac hijacking your cursor and asking you to wait around is never welcome. People call it different things, including the spinning whee...
Monday, 28 December 2020
Space Tourist Smuggled Ashes of 'Star Trek' Engineer "Scotty" Aboard the ISS
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December 28, 2020
Space was truly the final frontier for actor James Doohan, who played Scotty on the original Star Trek series. His ashes have now been on t...
LG's Latest Smart Refrigerators Open With a Voice Command
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December 28, 2020
LG is already well-known for its see-through smart refrigerators. Knock on the door, and you can get a peek of what’s inside. Ahead of CES,...
How to Change Your Default Google Account on the Web
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December 28, 2020
It’s easy to use the web with multiple Google accounts signed in at the same time, but you will always fall back to the “default” account. ...
Grab a Gen 5 Fossil Smartwatch for $139 While You Can (53% Off)
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December 28, 2020
If you find it hard to justify a smartwatch due to the cost, you may want to jump on this sale today. Fossil’s Gen 5 smartwatch is one of t...
How to Open a PST File in Microsoft Outlook
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December 28, 2020
If you want to retrieve a single email from a backup file, importing that whole file of emails into Outlook is time-consuming overkill. Her...
Here's Everything Coming to Netflix the Week of Dec. 28, 2020
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December 28, 2020
You’ve had a holly jolly holiday, and now you’re ready to move on from the Christmas content. Well, good news! Netflix is helping you. It’s...
How to Check if Your Mac Is Using an Intel or Apple Silicon Processor
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December 28, 2020
In 2020, Apple started selling Macs with its own Apple Silicon chips. But from the outside, the Macs look the same as the old ones. How can...
How to Open Edge’s InPrivate Mode with a Keyboard Shortcut
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December 28, 2020
While using Microsoft Edge, it’s easy to quickly open a new InPrivate window using a keyboard shortcut. InPrivate is a special private brow...
Now's the Best Time to Start a Smart Home---Here's How
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December 28, 2020
Smart home technology has been flourishing for years now. Smart home manufacturers have had plenty of time to establish entire ecosystems o...
How to Debug a PowerShell Script
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December 28, 2020
Any script development usually requires troubleshooting which usually results in one of two approaches. Either manually setting variables t...
10 Tips and Tricks for iPadOS 14
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December 28, 2020
Apple’s iPadOS 14 update for the iPad, iPad Air, iPad Mini, and iPad Pro brings the iPad closer to the Mac without losing what makes the iP...
How to Easily Batch Rename Files on Windows 10
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December 28, 2020
Need a quick but powerful way to rename large groups of files in Windows 10? Using Microsoft’s free PowerToys, all that power is only a rig...
Sunday, 27 December 2020
Make Your Own Smart Lock with a Raspberry Pi, RFID Badge, and Custom Code
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December 27, 2020
One of the better smart home products you can buy is the smart lock. It’ll help you know who is coming and going, and you can set up routin...
A Pro LEGO Builder Just Recreated Hokusai's 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'
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December 27, 2020
Certified professional LEGO builder, Jumpei Mitsui, just finished building a LEGO replica of one of Japan’s most famous images: Hokusai’s T...
How to Delete Your Play Activity on the Nintendo Switch
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December 27, 2020
If you’ve been playing some embarrassing games recently on your Nintendo Switch and you don’t want them to show up in your Play Activity wh...
Quick Tip: Create a QR Code to Easily Share Your Wi-Fi Password
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December 27, 2020
Typing in your Wi-Fi details on new smartphones and tablets (and on your guests’ phones) can be a total hassle, especially if you have a lo...
How to Highlight Text in Microsoft Word
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December 27, 2020
If you want to emphasize important text within a Microsoft Word document so that it’s not overlooked by the reader, you can use Word’s high...
How to Control Alerts and Notifications on Your Apple Watch
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December 27, 2020
The Apple Watch brings notifications to your wrist. Finally, you can get important notifications without looking at your phone—and you’ll g...