When you launch Steam, it normally shows a pop-up window with advertisements for updates to games you own and new games. Here’s how to turn those popup ads off. This feature is located in Steam’s Settings menu, which you can access by clicking “Steam” in the top-left corner and selecting “Settings.” If you’re on a Mac, you can also use a hotkey to open up the Steam Preferences menu. Press Cmd+, to launch it....
If you want to share a cool game on your iOS device but not let everyone read your email, Locktopus offers a simple app-by-app lockdown solution. Locktopus is a super simple application for jailbroken iOS devices. Install the app from the BigBoss repository through Cydia, go to the system menu and set a password–more specifically, change the default from “password” to something a little more clever–and then tap and hold any application icon on your springboard screen as though you wanted to move or delete it....
K3d is an open-source wrapper around the Rancher/SUSE K3s Kubernetes distribution that lets you run the control plane inside Docker. The entire stack runs in Docker, giving you a fully containerized cluster that’s lightweight and easy to set up. Whereas K3s is designed for a broad range of workflows, K3d focuses more specifically on development situations where you’re already using Docker. It lets you spin up a Kubernetes cluster on your existing Docker host without running a virtual machine or any other system services....
The pattern is popular with large tech companies. Google, Microsoft, and Facebook are among the organizations that use monorepos. What makes a monorepo so appealing? The Alternative Monorepo stands against multi-repo. The multi-repo pattern sees you create a new repository for each of your projects. It’s usually pretty clear-cut when a project deserves its own repository. If you’re building an app, you might have three repositories: Server-side code: Your API (possibly with additional repositories for database schemas and documentation)....
Steam’s New Storage Management Page Steam gave its storage management page a complete overhaul that makes it a lot easier to create and manage your game libraries. If you have a small SSD for speed and a large hard drive for storage, you can use this improved page to move games back and forth between them. The new page has a more console-like look and feel, which is a smart move by Valve....
Gmail is already pretty great, but with the addition of a few carefully selected Google Chrome extension, you can get it to do so much more. Here are some of our favorites. We typically don’t recommend using a lot of browser extensions because they can be a privacy nightmare. Still, it’s hard to resist extensions that can significantly improve things for you. We’ve checked out all these extensions ourselves, testing them, looking at their reputations among users, and favoring extensions that make their source code public when possible....
Microsoft Office is mainly composed of Microsoft Word for documents, Microsoft PowerPoint for presentations, and Microsoft Excel for spreadsheets. Microsoft Office is available through a subscription to Microsoft 365 that costs $69.99/year, or $6.99/month for a single account. Family accounts with up to six users run a bit higher at $99.99/year, or $9.99/month. Alternatively, you can just download one of these lovely suites for free and start being productive right away....
RELATED: The Best Halloween Movies on Disney+ in 2022 The Addams Family Play Video The creepy, kooky, mysterious, spooky, and altogether ooky family was introduced to a whole new audience with this 1991 film. Based on the 1960s TV series (which in turn was based on Charles Addams’ comic strip), The Addams Family stars Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston as Gomez and Morticia Addams, the morbid but loving parents of children Wednesday (Christina Ricci) and Pugsley (Jimmy Workman)....
We at How-To Geek appreciate all our readers and hope you have learned new and interesting things from our many articles. We’ve collected the top 25 articles published on How-To Geek in 2012. How To Fix Shockwave Flash Crashes in Google Chrome If your copy of Google Chrome has taken on a sudden and inexplicable hatred for Shockwave Flash, we’re here to help. Read on as we show you how to tame Chrome and get it to play nice with Flash....
Every week we bring you interesting facts from the annals of Geek History. This week saw the beginning of Wikipedia, the release of Apple’s IIe computer, and Thomas Edison brought light to an entire town. Wikipedia Turns 10 Play Video Wikipedia originally began life as a side project to go with the digital encyclopedia Nupedia. There were too many articles for the editorial staff of Nupedia to handle at one time so they started collaborating with a wiki....
Resolution and Image Quality Nothing beats gaming on a high-resolution monitor that delivers stunning visuals. The higher the resolution, the better your graphics will be (assuming your other hardware is up to the task). For higher-end graphics, go for a monitor with a resolution of 2560 x 1440 or higher. These can be very expensive, but you definitely get what you pay for. Most gaming monitors, however, are 1080p, which means they have a resolution of 1920 x 1080....
Photoshop is not always the most user friendly of programs. Sometimes it has frustrating issues, and the solution is not always clear. Here’s a list of 10 annoying problems you might have with Photoshop, and simple solutions to fix them. They’ll range from simple to complex, some dealing with why the program won’t let you use your cursor tools, or why your cursor has changed shape. Read on to see the list, and what you can learn to make your graphics editing experience more pleasant and productive....
Have you ever surprised and impressed a non-geek friend when you were doing something on your computer that you thought was simple? If so, you performed a Stupid Geek Trick. These are simple, sometimes not very useful, computer tasks. Whether you’re the geek performing the Stupid Geek Trick and you want to learn more geeky tricks, or you’re the non-geek friend wishing you could do what your geeky friend did, here is a collection of some of the best of our Stupid Geek Tricks....
Siri is best known as Apple’s so-called digital personal assistant available on iOS devices like iPhone and iPad. Some might think Siri is only good for looking stuff up, but it can actually do a great deal more. The thing about Siri is that can be hard to get used to, but once you do, it is incredibly useful. You can do a fairly wide array of tasks on your iOS device beyond simply looking something up....
The Game In the original 1980 arcade version of Pac-Man, you play as a yellow, disc-shaped hero and munch your way through a maze. Your goal is to eat all the dots, while avoiding four ghosts of different colors that chase you. If you collect any of the four power pellets on the stage, though, the tables turn. Pac-Man briefly gains the ability to eat the ghosts, and they run away from you....
Heard of Pidgin? You should have. It’s one of the best multi-protocol instant messaging apps for Windows and Linux, and it’s open source. Pidgin includes some interesting plugins and features that you might not know about. This article assumes you’re already familiar with Pidgin. We’ve covered Pidgin in the past, so check out our beginner’s guide if you’re just getting started with Pidgin. Be a Psychic Psychic mode is arguably one of Pidgin’s coolest plugins....
iGoogle has less than a year to go before it’s shut down for good on November 1, 2013. While Google seems to think that iGoogle isn’t necessary anymore, there are other services waiting to take its place. Google says that “with modern apps that run on platforms like Chrome and Android, the need for iGoogle has eroded over time.” If you disagree, try one of the services below. Awesome New Tab Page Awesome New Tab Page isn’t a website – it’s an extension that replaces Google Chrome’s new tab page....
This week we take a look at tweaking the Window’s start menu search for fast and focused searching, locking down a hyperactive Android screen, and fueling your torrenting habit through Dropbox. Once a week we dip into our reader mailbag to help readers solve their problems, sharing the useful solutions with you in the process. Read on to see our fixes for this week’s reader dilemmas. Focus the Windows Start Menu Search Dear Stuttering,...
After cleaning out files on your hard drive, you may be left with a bunch of empty folders you want to delete. Rather than finding them manually, wouldn’t it be easier to use a tool that can find them for you and delete them? We found a free tool, called Delete Empty, that searches a specified path for empty folders and empty files (files of size zero) and deletes them, deepest paths first....
Microsoft Virtual PC is a free application that helps you create your own virtual machines inside your current operating system, so you can test software, or learn a new environment easily. Here’s how to get started. Using Windows Virtual PC First, you need to download Virtual PC from Microsoft’s web site. You’ll want to make sure to select the right Windows 7 edition from the drop-down menu and then select Windows Virtual PC....
