Every week we round up some tips from our inbox and share them with everyone; this week we’re looking at more kindle books, running Windows 3.1 on the iPad, and some DIY antenna builds. Free Kindle Books Uri writes in with a free-books tip: When it comes to free books, we’re all about new material and sources too. Thanks for sharing! Running Windows 3.1 On the iPad Play Video...
This week we’re kicking off a new series here at How-To Geek focused on awesome reader tips. This week we’re exploring Windows shortcuts, Android widgets, and sparktacular ways to erase digital media. Temporarily Halting the Autorun Function in Windows The number of Windows shortcuts certainly seems to grow exponentially with each new release! Thanks for sharing such a handy shortcut. If you were at home (and not hobbled by the restrictions on your work computer) you could also permanently disable the autorun using this guide....
Once a week we round up some great reader tips and share them with everyone. Read on to see how to make your Android phone look like iOS, use a Google Maps mashup like a time machine, and download Wii game saves. Espier Launcher Brings iOS-look to Android HTG reader Huang writes in with the following tip: While many of us around the office are sporting Android phones, we’re also rather fond of the ease of navigation on the iPads laying around....
If you have an ebook reader chances are it’s a Kindle. Today we’re taking a look at ways you can get more from your Kindle using built-in tools, experimental features, and third-party software. Read on to supercharge your Kindle experience. You might have bought your Kindle, used it to buy some titles from the Kindle store, and thought that’s all there was to Kindle ownership. Millions of Kindle owners are perfectly happy with that arrangement but you can squeeze much more life and enjoyment out of your Kindle by digging into the device, employing third party hacks and software bundles, and more....
A touchpad can be extremely useful for most people, but there are times when it is little more than an irritation, so how do you permanently disable a touchpad if you do not want or need it? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answers to help a frustrated reader. Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites....
Single Sign-On and zero trust networks depend on securely passing identification details back and forth between users, identity providers, and service providers. SAML is the glue that lets that happen. Trust No One Like George Smiley in John Le Carré’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, you should trust no one and suspect everyone. Just because someone is authenticated, and inside your network perimeter, it doesn’t definitely mean they are who they purport to be....
Windows 7 has a ton of great features, most of which are really obvious—but there’s also some great features hidden away that you might not know even exist. One of these is that Windows 7 can automatically change your default printer based on which network you’re connected to. The normal use case, of course, is to switch printers depending on whether you are at home or at work, but this feature is especially useful if you use one of the many print-to-PDF solutions—you can continue to print things even while you aren’t connected to any network....
You meant well, you intended to be a good file custodian, but somewhere along the way things got out of hand and you’ve got duplicate photos galore. Don’t be afraid to delete them and lose important photos, read on as we show you how to clean safely. Deleting duplicate files, especially important ones like personal photos, makes a lot of people quite anxious (and rightfully so). Nobody wants to be the one to realize that they deleted all the photos of their child’s first birthday party during a hard drive purge gone wrong....
Have you ever wondered why the background color in the Windows Photo Viewer is white? Well after some thinking of our own, we thought it would be nice to show you guys how to change it. Read on to find out more. Changing the Background Color of the Windows Photo Viewer Press Windows + R keyboard combination to open the run box, then type regedit and press enter. Once the Registry Editor has opened, navigate to:...
Windows 8 will bring a lot of new features to the Windows computing environment, one of which will be Hyper-V. In order to run Hyper-V your processor must support Second Level Address Translation (SLAT). Read on to find out if your processor supports SLAT. What Is SLAT? Second Level Address Translation is a technology introduced in both Intel and AMD flavors of processors. Both companies call their version of the technology different names, Intel’s version is called EPT(Extended Page Tables) and AMD calls theirs RVI (Rapid Virtualization Indexing)....
Mail is the built-in email app on every iPhone and iPad. It doesn’t boast some of the more advanced options you’ll find in third-party apps, but it works well. If you’re new to Mail, there are a few things you might want to get set up before using it. Let’s take a look. How to Manage and Add Email Accounts Managing, adding, and removing email accounts on an iPhone or iPad happens in the Settings app instead of the Mail app....
If you’d like to safely eject USB drives from your desktop, we’ve got you covered with that one too. Adding Eject to the Desktop Context Menu Head over to the NirSoft website and grab a copy of nircmd, remember to get the version that matches your operating system’s architecture. Extract the file called nircmd.exe and paste it in the C:\Windows\System32 directory. Right click on the file and select properties from the context menu, once the properties have opened click the unblock button....
If your Windows 10 PC is running slow or acting abnormally, or if you just want to sell it, you’ll want to perform a factory reset. Here’s how to use Command Prompt to factory reset your computer. RELATED: How to Factory Reset a Windows 11 PC First, open Command Prompt. To do so, type “Command Prompt” in the Windows Search bar, and then click the Command Prompt app from the search results....
Ctrl+Alt+Delete isn’t just necessary on Windows and other desktop operating systems. Applications can freeze or get stuck in bad states on modern iPhones, iPads, and Android devices too. Every operating system has a way to forcibly end misbehaving applications. After you do, you can relaunch them and they should hopefully work properly. iPhone and iPad RELATED: No, Closing Background Apps on Your iPhone or iPad Won’t Make It Faster...
We have previously shown you how you can easily dual-boot your Windows 8 PC with Linux, but if you don’t want to mess around with partitions and still want to try out Linux, a virtual machine is the answer. Note: If you haven’t installed Hyper-V, now is a good time to see if your CPU supports SLAT and install Hyper-V. Creating a Ubuntu Virtual Machine in Hyper-V Open the Hyper-V Management console from the Start Screen....
The iWork apps are some of the best apps on the iPad, and each show just how powerful a touchscreen device can be with the most basic of computing functions. In fact, there’s not much to dislike about the iWork apps, except for one thing: importing and exporting files. You can open documents from email attachments, download them from websites, or import them from other apps like Dropbox. Once you’ve opened your file in Pages, Keynote, or Numbers on iPad, though, you can only send it via email, upload it to a WebDAV server or Apple’s iDisk service, or wait to sync it with iTunes on your computer....
You might not have lost your Android phone or had it stolen, but if you want to prepare for that possibility, here’s how to setup your phone to respond and contact you with its location. Image by the Comic Shop Introduction We’ve shown you that there are things to do when you’ve lost your smartphone, using Tasker and How to Easily Access your home Network from anywhere… Now lets take all of these disjointed parts and throw them together into one delicious geek cake (which isn’t a lie )....
Running Windows 8 from a USB should not be confused with installing Windows on a USB drive–in this case, instead of installing it on the drive, we’re just running it straight from the portable drive. Here’s how to do it. This is actually a new feature in Windows 8 called Windows To Go, but if you have been using the Windows 8 Developer Preview you will know that the binaries were removed for this release....
Since our home servers are constantly on, and often headless, it is nice to know when certain events happen on your server without having to log in and check all the time. This is where email notifications save the day. To set up E-Mail notifications in Windows Home Server, the first thing you going to want to do is fire up the Dashboard. Once the Dashboard has opened, click on the notifications button...
Ubuntu’s Built-In “Screen Sharing” Is a VNC Server When you make an SSH connection to a remote Ubuntu Linux computer, you get a terminal window interface. That’s perfectly fine for many tasks, such as system administration, and it has the advantage of being a lightweight connection. There are no graphics to transmit from the host computer to the local client, so it’s fast and easy to set up. If you want to see graphical applications installed on the remote host on your local computer, you can do that with a PuTTY connection, which is also easy to set up....
