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If you’ve got a Google Chromecast, why not make mornings easier by turning your TV into a dashboard that shows you things like local weather...Read More
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Many websites have leaked passwords. Attackers can download databases of usernames and passwords and use them to “hack” your accounts. This ...Read More
Samsung just announced what will undoubtedly be the most popular Android smartphone for the year: the Galaxy S9. Like its predecessor, it’s ...Read More
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Valve’s Steam Link is a sleek, easy way to stream games from your PC to a TV elsewhere in your home. You connect the Steam Link to your PC v...Read More
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Facebook is a popular platform for sharing photos, even though it’s not a very good one. They prioritize fast loading images over high quali...Read More
If you’re a gamer (or just a PC user) with NVIDIA graphics, NVIDIA’s drivers are probably wasting gigabytes of storage on your hard drive. N...Read More
You’ve always been able to send static images to other people through iMessage, but you might not have known that you can also send animated...Read More
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Google has done a good job making a name for itself in the hardware game, and I’m not talking about the Pixel phones here—I’m talking about ...Read More
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Mozilla Firefox is an open source project, so anyone can take its code, modify it, and release a new browser. That’s what Waterfox, Pale Moo...Read More
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If you’re a keyboard person, you can accomplish a lot of things just using the Linux command line. For example, there are a few easy-to-use ...Read More
If you’re using the free and open source LibreOffice suite of programs, your word processor is probably way more powerful than it needs to b...Read More
If you’re looking to get a little more versatility out of your Chromebook, installing Crouton to get a full Linux desktop is a great way to ...Read More
Facebook Messenger is one of Facebook’s better features. You might not realize that you can customize the nicknames, colors, and the “Like” ...Read More
If you’ve installed NVIDIA’s GeForce Experience software, you’ll see quite a few NVIDIA processes running in the background on your PC. We c...Read More
When you open Microsoft Word, a list of recently-opened documents appears on the left side of the screen. You can clear documents from this ...Read More
You know you can use AirDrop to quickly share files between Macs and iOS devices, but on the Mac, Airdrop is kind of hidden. There’s an icon...Read More
If you’re a Google Home user, you probably love the idea of controlling as many things as possible in your house with just your voice. The t...Read More
Everyone’s talking about the internet and whether, or how, it should be regulated. But not enough people know how the internet actually work...Read More
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PC gamers have to set a myriad of graphics options to balance performance with graphics quality. If you don’t want to tweak them by hand, NV...Read More
While it’s not the main selling point of the HomePod, Siri capabilities allow you to control the speaker using your voice without having to ...Read More
Google’s image-based search engine has been a staple of the internet for more than a decade. But this morning it got a little less useful: i...Read More
With the Action Center, Windows 10 finally provides a central place for notifications and quick actions to live. Here’s how to use and custo...Read More
Last year, for the first time in five years, the number of cameras sold actually increased. While I’ve got nothing other than personal anecd...Read More
On 64-bit versions of Windows, you have two separate Program Files folders. But it doesn’t end there. You also have two separate system dire...Read More
Your kids need internet access to do their homework, but that doesn’t mean you’re comfortable with them accessing everything online. There’s...Read More
Google Chrome now has a built-in ad blocker, designed to get rid of the ads that are intrusive or otherwise annoying, but allow ads from sit...Read More
If you’ve been holding off on setting up a Kodi-based media center computer because they’re loud, expensive, don’t fit in your media rack, t...Read More
If you’re anything like me, you love working on a big, beefy desktop PC with as many monitors as will fit on your big, beefy desk. And if yo...Read More
Apple’s HomePod is an amazing speaker, but it comes at a price. Not just a dollar amount, but also the toll it could take on your finished w...Read More
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I’m getting sick of Windows 10’s auto-installing apps. Apps like Facebook are now showing up out of nowhere, and even displaying notificatio...Read More
While the HomePod is great for music, it can also do some other neat things, like read your text messages to you. Be careful, though, as any...Read More
You’d be forgiven if you’ve never heard of a phone “port-out” scam, because up until recently it wasn’t really a widely talked about issue. ...Read More
On February 15, Google Chrome will start blocking ads on intrusive sites, and mainstream ad companies aren’t particularly upset about it. In...Read More
If the desktop version of Skype is on your Windows computer, you’re vulnerable to a really nasty exploit. A flaw in Skype’s update tool coul...Read More
When you hover your mouse over a Taskbar button for an app with open windows, a thumbnail preview of those windows pops up. By default, ther...Read More
Overwatch is pretty great. As a multiplayer team shooter, it does almost everything right: plenty of variety, fast-paced gameplay, free hero...Read More
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Maybe you’ve heard it before: “Security is a myth.” It’s become a common refrain after a never-ending string of high-profile security breach...Read More
If you watch television, browse the web, or even listen to the radio, you’ve heard them: tax preparation apps promising to help you file you...Read More
When it comes to “regular” wristwatches, a lot of people have different watches for different activities. It makes sense—a sporty watch for ...Read More
Everyone should use a password manager, and third-party password managers like LastPass, 1Password, or Dashlane work better on an iPhone or ...Read More
Unless you’re constantly playing with one of those fidget cubes, your gaming PC is probably the loudest piece of equipment in your home offi...Read More
Google likes to give away free things to people who use its products—free books, free movies, free music, and a lot more. While you can find...Read More
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There are many reasons your Internet connection might appear slow. It could be a problem with your modem or router, Wi-Fi signal, signal str...Read More
You may have seen a new button in Facebook’s mobile app lately: under the Settings menu, a “Protect” option leads you to download an app cal...Read More
Every time you buy an iPhone (or an iPad, or a Mac, or even a new HomePod), Apple will ask you if you want to add AppleCare+ to your purchas...Read More
While not necessary for everyone, VPNs can be a crucial tool for online safety—especially if you use public Wi-Fi a lot. There are tons of o...Read More
Assuming you have it set up right, Windows Search is pretty powerful. Today, we’ll show you how to find files you’ve recently modified, and ...Read More
Old game consoles are great. Not just because there are plenty of old games that are still worth playing, but because the simpler electronic...Read More
How many times have you seen a Facebook post from a friend asking for numbers because they got a new phone and lost their contacts? Here’s h...Read More
Every device connected to a network—computer, tablet, camera, whatever—needs a unique identifier so that other devices know how to reach it....Read More
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Setting up the HomePod is pretty easy, and only takes a couple of minutes. However, if you’re coming across a mysterious blank white window ...Read More
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Developers of PC games, you’re getting kind of sloppy. Game installations have ballooned into drive-filling behemoths. Maybe 10 gigabytes fo...Read More
Google recently introduced a new feature into Android 8.1 Oreo that displays how good a public Wi-Fi network is before you connect to it. Us...Read More
If you’ve received a call from someone your caller ID identifies as “Scam Likely,” you’re probably using T-Mobile or MetroPCS. Your cellular...Read More
You can speed up your iPhone by replacing the battery, but you’ll have to take it to Apple, since the battery is not designed to be user-rep...Read More
There are plenty of smart plugs out on the market, but if you want a decently cheap option that’s reliable, Eufy’s Smart Plug and Smart Plug...Read More
Thank God, the cryptocurrency bubble finally seems to be bursting. It had gotten so ridiculous that GPUs were skyrocketing in cost. But now,...Read More
Apple’s AirPods “just work” with iPhones thanks to their W1 chip, but they’re also standard Bluetooth headphones. That means they work with ...Read More
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If you’ve ever taken a look into your Android device’s battery settings screen, you’ve probably seen “Google Play Services” listed here. But...Read More
Smartphones have become a sort of catch-all for our digital media collections, and it’s not uncommon to have a couple of movies tucked way f...Read More
Something called parentalcontrolsd is running on your Mac—at least, that’s what you found when you checked Activity Monitor. Maybe it’s usin...Read More
Modern office software suites can be unnervingly complicated. Like most of its alternatives, the free and open-source LibreOffice sticks its...Read More
Fake Android apps in the Play Store are a problem. People create listings designed to look exactly like popular apps, often using the same i...Read More
Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency out there, and it’s still the biggest—for now, at least. But, as we’ve explained before, Bitcoin has a ...Read More
The Amazon Echo can be used as an alarm clock, but you may not have known that you can set up repeating alarms so that you don’t have to kee...Read More
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Reading is cool, but we live in busy times and not everyone has time to sit back with a book—and even if you do, you may not have enough tim...Read More
If you run a Facebook Page with more than a handful of followers, your Facebook notifications can get a little out of hand. By default, any ...Read More
Like every piece of hardware, hard drives can fail. Mechanical hard drives in particular have moving parts that can (and eventually will) st...Read More
There’s never been an easier time to get started with streaming your PC gameplay online. Whether you want to share your gameplay with some f...Read More
Amazon’s Echo Dot is one of the cheapest ways to get Alexa into your home, but if you have it just sitting on an end table without much fanf...Read More
It seems like every news site starts playing video automatically these days. These are incredibly annoying, but thankfully, it’s easy to blo...Read More
Odin, all-father, rules the realm of Asgard as the supreme deity of the Norse pantheon. Odin, a piece of Windows software released internall...Read More
There are many reasons you might want to use a third-party DNS server, from parental controls and security features to speed and reliability...Read More
When you take a photo with your smartphone (or a modern digital camera), it logs the photo’s GPS coordinates and embeds it in the image meta...Read More
You’ve spend some time researching a product on your phone, then you open your laptop and find ads for that product plastered all over the p...Read More
We’re at T-minus three weeks to Super Bowl, the biggest event in American sports (sorry-not-sorry, “World” Series). What’s that? You don’t h...Read More
Chromebooks don’t normally run Windows software—that’s the best and worst thing about them. You don’t need antivirus or other Windows junk…b...Read More
The Amazon Echo has had calling and messaging capabilities for a while now, but you can finally send text messages from your phone via your ...Read More
NVIDIA and AMD send out new drivers for their current graphics cards at roughly monthly intervals. These often improve performance, especial...Read More
Look, autoplaying videos are awful. No one likes them, and I honestly don’t understand why this continues to be a thing that happens on the ...Read More
Recently, Reddit has been making news again with a subreddit in w hich people use a machine learning tool called “Deep Fake” to automaticall...Read More
Windows 10 automatically installs apps like Candy Crush Soda Saga and FarmVille 2 when you first sign in. It also displays more “Suggested A...Read More
If you use your iPhone a lot at night, even the Night Shift feature can’t stop your screen from burning your eyes. Luckily, there’s a way to...Read More
High-end graphics cards are in super high demand right now. Not because of a sudden bloom of PC gamers, but because they’re the most efficie...Read More
The Android notification system is arguably one of the best things about the OS. But what if you could make it better? An app called Converb...Read More
iCloud Photo Library is one of those features that just works: take a photo or video on your iPhone, and in a few moments it’s available on ...Read More
If you’re “the computer guy” (or girl) to your friends and family, you’re probably asked to diagnose and fix their problems on a regular bas...Read More