Unlike most reminders that remind you to do a certain action at a desired time, GeoNote gives you reminders when you enter a location. If you’re a big fan of location-based services, then GeoNote is the perfect reminder for you. Image by Menino.Us GeoNote is one of the few Geo-Reminder applications that are available on the market for free. Its simple interface allows us to create To-Do list quickly. Just click the “Add Location” button to add your first note....

Netflix recommends content based on what you’ve watched, but if it thinks everyone in your household is the same person then its recommendations will be terrible. Here’s how to improve recommendations for everyone with user profiles. RELATED: How to Set Up Parental Controls in Netflix Setting up multiple user profiles benefits everyone. In a family setting, it allows you to separate the viewing habits of the adults and the kids, allows you to take advantage of Netflix’s parental controls and “Kids” profile stocked with age-appropriate content....

Pod scheduling issues are one of the most common Kubernetes errors. There are several reasons why a new Pod can get stuck in a Pending state with FailedScheduling as its reason. A Pod that displays this status won’t start any containers so you’ll be unable to use your application. Pending Pods caused by scheduling problems don’t normally start running without some manual intervention. You’ll need to investigate the root cause and take action to fix your cluster....

Web APIs An application programming interface (API) lets software talk to other software. That requires a set of specifications. There must be a documented set of functions that the API endpoint provides and rules about what the API client must do to use those functions. The type and format of the data returned by the API must be defined for each function. You usually want to restrict who has access to the API, so API clients must authenticate in some way....

Who doesn’t love animations? They make everything look so cool. But in some cases, animations are a distraction, and the same is true for Windows 8’s start screen (the “Modern UI”). Fortunately, there’s a very simple way to disable all those animations. Keep reading to find out how it’s done. The animations are especially noticeable when you switch from the good ol’ peaceful desktop to the start screen by pressing the winkey....

HomeGroups make sharing files and printers with other PCs pretty simple. But if you don’t use it and would prefer not to see it in File Explorer at all, it’s not too hard to disable. RELATED: Windows Networking: Sharing Files and Resources Windows networking can get pretty complicated. If all you want to do is share your files and printers with a few other Windows PCs on your local network, though, the HomeGroups feature makes that task much easier....

Ubuntu’s Update Manager keeps your packages at the latest version, but occasionally a new package version may not work properly. You can downgrade an installed package and lock it at a specific version to prevent it from being updated. This is particularly useful when you run into an updated package with a regression – a bug that prevents things from working properly. How It Works Your system generally has multiple versions of a package available in its repositories – for example, when Ubuntu updates a package, it places the new, updated package in a special updates repository....

Google Docs has no direct option to flip images, but you can paste your photos in its Drawing tool and then flip them horizontally or vertically. We’ll show you how. RELATED: How to Flip a Picture in Microsoft Word Use “Drawing” to Flip Photos in Google Docs In this method, you will cut your photo from your document, paste it into Docs’ Drawing tool, flip the photo, and then add it back to your document....

We’ve shown you how to add “Page X of Y” to a header of footer of large spreadsheets in Excel. The same thing can be done in Word for longer documents. It’s a bit different than in Excel, so read on to find out how. There are two ways to add “Page X of Y” to a header or footer in Word. The easiest way is to use the Page Number gallery....

Have you ever wanted to have additional functionality like Email, Bit-torrent or even MySQL directly on your router? Well maybe now you can. How-To Geek dives into how-to install Opkg software on DD-WRT. Image by Jean Spector and Aviad Raviv If you haven’t already, be sure and check out previous articles in the series: Turn Your Home Router Into a Super-Powered Router with DD-WRT How to Remove Advertisements with Pixelserv on DD-WRT...

Thanks to the underlying WebKit-based engine Blink they both share, it’s surprisingly easy to take Chrome extensions and use them on Opera (and, less practical but still as cool, do the reverse and use Opera extensions in Chrome). Read on as we show you how to port your favorite extensions effortlessly across the browser barrier. How Exactly Does This Work? Back in 2013 Google announced a pretty significant shift in Chrome development: they ditched the WebKit rendering engine for an engine derived from WebKit, Blink....

This isn’t always good enough though. Some of your containers might have dependencies on each other that break the application if they can’t be fulfilled. In this guide, we’ll show how you can configure your Compose services to accommodate these dependencies, making it possible to start containers in order. The Basics Docker Compose supports a depends_on field in docker.compose.yml files. Services can include the names of their siblings in depends_on....

Ever been copied into an irrelevant email thread that clutters up your inbox and causes alerts to come up for a conversation you couldn’t care less about? Here’s how to ignore that thread so that you never see it again. RELATED: How to Change Outlook’s New Mail Alert Sound Start by selecting any message from the thread. On the “Home” menu, click the “Ignore” button. You can also right-click the message and select “Ignore” from the context menu, or open the mail and click Message > Ignore....

New games with their fancy textures, 3D modeling, and immersive environments have their charm, sure, but what if you crave some old-school arcade gaming? Read on to see how you can turn your computer into a virtual arcade cabinet. Vintage games ran on hardware significantly less powerful than that found in modern desktop computers. With the right software, a joystick or two (if you want to make the experience feel more authentic), and a little digging online to find your favorite games, it’s easy to play the arcade hits of your childhood....

Outlook lets you share your calendar with individual people, but you can also publish your calendar so that anyone with the right link can see it. Here’s how to do that and why you might find it useful. What’s the Difference between Sharing and Publishing? You can make your Outlook calendar available to other people in two ways: Share your calendar. When you share your calendar, only the person you share it with can see it....

A new feature in macOS Sierra allows you to sync files from your desktop and Documents folder to iCloud, so you can access them on all your device. However, if you went to disable this feature, it will delete them from your computer. Fear not, though: those files still exist. They were simply removed from the desktop and Documents folder and left in iCloud Drive. RELATED: The Best New Features in macOS Sierra (and How to Use Them)...

Modern-style apps in Windows 8 need a screen resolution of at least 1024×768. Unfortunately, many netbooks have a 1024×600 resolution. If you have a netbook, there’s a chance you can bypass this limitation and run modern apps anyway. If your screen resolution is too low, you’ll see a message saying the app cannot open. If no higher screen resolutions are appear available, you can try this trick to make Windows think your screen resolution is higher....

Here’s a little-known fact: There are applications that let you annotate and modify PDF files for free, with no watermarks. This way you can review a document and make your comments without wasting any paper in the process. Update: Do not install Foxit. They are bundling search hijacking browser extensions that will ruin your day. The application we’ll be using for this quick tutorial is Foxit Reader. This is an alternative PDF reader (alternative to Adobe Reader, that is)....

If you need version control for your projects, want to host it yourself, but don’t want to use barebones git, you can set up a Gitlab server to store all of your code while providing easy access through a web interface. Gitlab Is Like Your Own Hosted Github Gitlab is a hosted git service that works much like Github, with an interactive web panel for managing your projects and viewing code....

Windows 10 comes with a built-in Mail app, from which you can access all your different email accounts (including Outlook.com, Gmail, Yahoo!, and others) in one single, centralized interface. With it, there’s no need to go to different websites or apps for your email. Here’s how to set it up. Setting up Mail From Other Accounts Mail supports all the most popular mail services, including Outlook, Exchange, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, iCloud, and any any account that supports POP or IMAP....