Starting with the new widget, Google says it’ll help you “Feel closer to your family, friends, and favorite furballs.” It’s called the Google Photos People & Pets widget, and it lets you select a few faces and a frame, and then the widget will put photos of them on the widget, so they’ll always be on your home screen. Google is also rolling out new Memories in Google Photos based on holidays....
If you want to use the Gallery app to show people pictures of your kid/dog/home remodeling project and not your girlfriend’s chest/drinking exploits/night at the club then this tip is for you. By default Android’s Gallery application is aggressive about adding media. It assumes that if it is on your SD card then you want it in your gallery for easy access. This isn’t always the case and, thankfully, it’s easy to fix....
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is the slickest, fastest, most responsive release of Android yet. Here’s a list of the great features you have to look forward to when you get your hands on Android 4.1. Jelly Bean isn’t as massive an overhaul as Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich was, but it’s a significant release in its own right. Project Butter has made Android’s interface significantly responsive and largely banished lag....
The HDTV market is loaded with high prices, jargon, and more than a few pitfalls for the uneducated consumer. Save your money, spare yourself a headache, and get the best bang for your buck with our detailed HDTV buying guide. There has never been a point in history with a more dizzying array of television set options, add-ons, features, and technical and marketing terms. Between the legitimate specifications and the practically made-up marketing terms, it’s quite difficult for a consumer to keep everything straight....
There’s a lot packed into this new NVIDIA SHIELD TV update, but the thing that caught our attention the most is support for the highest tier of GeForce NOW. Using the power of the 3080 and the new Shield update, you can stream the latest video games in 4K resolution with HDR. The games also have immersive 7.1 surround sound, assuming you have the sound system to support it....
Microsoft Word has a zillion features, and even after using it for a while, you’re always finding something new. The Navigation Pane is a great feature that lets you easily skip between sections, but even more useful is the ability to use it to reorganize your documents. Reorganizing Documents with the Navigation Pane Simply head to the View tab and then click the Navigation Pane option to enable the panel on the left-hand side....
VBScript is gone. Once a scripting language to compete with JavaScript in web browsers, VBScript is now disabled by default in Internet Explorer on all supported versions of Windows after a recent Windows update. But VBScript has been fading away for years. Goodbye, VBScript! On August 13, 2019, Microsoft disabled VBScript by default in Internet Explorer on Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 systems via a Patch Tuesday update. Microsoft released a similar update for Windows 10 on July 9, 2019....
Apple Finally Listened If there’s one firm take-away from the 2021 MacBook Pro refresh it’s that Apple is finally taking on board many of the criticisms that the company has received over the past five or so years. This isn’t just good for MacBook Pro users, but for anyone immersed in the Apple ecosystem in general. Few companies can get away with being bullish like Apple can. They were the first major vendor to ditch the CD drive, the iPhone has never had a removable battery or storage option, and the “courage” the company displayed by removing the iPhone’s headphone jack is still scoffed at by many....
A Brief History of the Wink’s Many Owners Wink has been around for years now and was formerly the product of a company named Quirky. Quirky began life as a startup company in 2009 with several, well, quirky but useful sounding ideas. They announced a mirror that eliminates shower steam fog, a set of wheels designed to turn any object into a remote-controlled car, and more. In 2014, Quirky partnered with GE to create a new company named Wink to focus on internet-connected devices....
Ubuntu is pretty snappy out-of-the-box, but there are some ways to take better advantage of your system’s memory and speed up the boot process. Some of these tips can really speed things up, especially on older hardware. In particular, selecting a lightweight desktop environment and lighter applications can give an older system a new lease on life. That old computer that struggles with Ubuntu’s Unity desktop can provide decent performance for years to come....
Joonas Pihlajamaa’s employer requires him to change his password on a regular interval. He wanted to use a strong password but he didn’t want to be bothered remembering a really strong and random password every time he changed it. His solution? Gut a USB flash drive to conceal a random password generator and HID device that types in the new password automatically when plugged in. He can use his combination generator/key to both create strong new passwords and then, once he has changed his login credentials with the new password, simply plug the USB drive, like a key, into his work computer to login....
Did you know you can compare two different versions of your presentation in PowerPoint and merge the changes? This is a very handy feature you can take advantage of if you work a lot with PowerPoint presentations with your team. After a person has made changes to your presentation, you can compare your original with the one that has been changed. Just open your original presentation and go to Review and click on Compare....
In this guide we’ll explore what each technology does, why it’s needed, and what you should do to set it up. You’ll need all three pieces to maximize your email server’s deliverability and reputation. SPF We’ll take SPF first as it’s the simplest and oldest item on the list. SPF uses DNS records to define the server IP addresses that can send emails as a domain. An SPF record typically looks like this:...
The best thing about Firefox is that it’s incredibly customizable, but have you ever wondered how much of a price all those add-ons take? Here’s how to see which add-ons slow down Firefox startup time the most. Thanks to @codinghorror for pointing it out on Twitter, we can now know for sure, thanks to Mozilla Add-ons list of slow-performing extensions during startup—this doesn’t mean they necessarily slow Firefox down once it’s loaded, of course....
Claim This Special Perk in Fortnite Play Video Fortnite has taken the gaming world by storm, captivating players with an ever-evolving map, continuous storyline, live events, new game modes, and more. In short, it’s become a gaming culture phenomenon, and today, Epic’s giving out a special reward to all GeForce NOW players. Dive into Fortnite between Thursday, July 21 at 12:00 ET through Thursday, August 4 at 11:59 p.m. ET, and you will be gifted the “Dish-stroyer Pickaxe,” which will then be added to your skins collection on August 11th....
It’s a very ambitious build and, due to the work required in the main circuit breaker of your home, we highly recommend only those experienced with electrical work undertake the project. That said, it’s a really clever bit of recycling that yielded an impressive half-day worth of backup power. Hit up the link below for the detailed build log. FrankenUPS [via Hack A Day]
Origins of the Floppy Disk Throughout the 1960s, IBM shipped many mainframes with magnetic core memory, which could retain its contents when powered off. As the mainframe computer industry began to use solid-state transistor memory that lost its contents when powered down, IBM found itself needing a way to quickly load system software into these new machines at boot to get them going. The conventional solution required loading data from stacks of punched cards or spools of magnetic tape, which could be slow and bulky....
Samsung revealed earlier this week that Google Assistant was finally rolling out to the Galaxy Watch 4, which has only had Samsung’s Bixby virtual assistant since the watch was released last year. The good news is that it’s showing up on watches automatically without the need to do anything — in my case, the Assistant icon appeared at the bottom of my watch’s app list, and tapping it started the setup process....
Ubuntu 12.04 doesn’t ship with any screen savers, just a black screen that appears when your system is idle. If you’d rather have screensavers, you can swap gnome-screensaver for XScreenSaver. Screensavers were actually removed back in Ubuntu 11.10. Ubuntu uses gnome-screensaver and inherited the change from upstream GNOME. The GNOME developers think a black screen that puts your monitor into lower-power mode is optimal. Installing XScreenSaver First, fire up a terminal from Ubuntu’s Dash....
How to Use the New Share Sheet Let’s start with the part of Share Sheet which will be the most familiar—the Apps panel. You can still swipe horizontally to find apps you can share the data with. For instance, if you’re used to sharing photos or links to WhatsApp, you don’t need to adopt a new method. We’ll talk about customizing this section below. On top of the new Share Sheet, you’ll find a quick-share panel....
