There are two versions of Microsoft Edge: The original one that came with Windows 10 and the new Microsoft Edge based on open-source Chromium code. How you update your Edge browser depends on which one you have. RELATED: Why You Should Update Your Web Browser How to Upgrade to the New Edge Browser If you haven’t updated your Windows 10 PC to the new Microsoft Edge yet, you can download it from Microsoft’s website....
Entering your full password on a touch screen device can really become a pain in the neck, luckily for us we can link a short 4 digit PIN to our user account and log in with that instead. Note: PIN codes are nowhere near as safe as using an alphanumeric password, however, they do still have a purpose when you don’t want to enter your 15 character password on a touch screen device....
If you bought a Wi-Fi only iPad and now you wish you could use GPS with it, this is the guide for you. Follow along to hook your iPad up to an external GPS unit and/or GPS-enabled smartphone phone. There are a few reasons why you may want to undertake this quick project. Among those reasons: you have a GPS device with a long battery life and more accurate results than your iPhone or you have a Wi-Fi only iPad and want to add in mapping capabilities using GPS instead of coarse Wi-Fi location data....
If you’re curious about how often your heat or air conditioning is on throughout the day, you can actually look at your Nest’s usage history to see when things were running, as well as see what the temperature was set it at a particular time during the day. RELATED: How to Install and Set Up the Nest Thermostat Normally, if you wanted to see how often your heating or air conditioning was being used, you would have to check with your utility company, and even then they probably wouldn’t be able to pinpoint specifically how much your heating or air conditioning was being used....
Although the Olympic Games will be held without spectators and under strict safety guidelines, they will still include hundreds of events with thousands of athletes from around the world. Here’s how you can stream the 2020 Summer Olympics. How to Stream the 2020 Olympics Opening Ceremony The opening ceremony sets the stage for the Olympics with spectacle and grandeur that’s often elaborately over-the-top. The Tokyo opening ceremony might be more subdued given the state of the world and the lack of spectators, but it’s likely to celebrate Japanese culture and provide visiting athletes the chance to show off their unique cultures as well....
In the pantheon of awards shows, the Golden Globes comes second only to the Oscars (for movies) and the Emmys (for TV). The Hollywood Foreign Press Association hands out awards that typically offer a preview of later winners at other events. NBC NBC is the main broadcast home of the Golden Globes, and if you have a TV provider login, you can watch the ceremony on the NBC website or NBC mobile app for Android, iPhone, and iPad....
What’s Up With YouTube TV’s Pricing Strategy? YouTube TV started as a cord cutter’s dream. It was only $35 when it first hit the market in 2018 with a huge selection of channels. However, the price has since jumped to $64.99, which is approaching double the launch price. In a recent interview with The Verge’s Decoder podcast, YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan spoke about the price increases, citing “the economic realities of how content pricing works and the like....
Have you ever been the victim of identity theft? Ever been hacked? Here’s the first in a series of critical information to help you arm yourself against the surprisingly frightening world of hackers, phishers, and cybercriminals. Some of our geekier readers will already be familiar with a lot of this material—but maybe you have a grandfather or other relative that could benefit from having this passed on. And if you have your own methods for protecting yourself from hackers and phishers, feel free to share them with other readers in the comments....
It’s easy to pin apps and folders to the Metro Start screen in Windows 8. What about your favorite websites? Windows 7 allows you to pin websites to the Taskbar. It’s also easy to pin your favorite websites to the Windows 8 Metro Start screen. Open Internet Explorer 10 from the Metro Start screen and navigate to a website you want to pin. Once the site has loaded, click the Pin to Start button on right side of the bar at the bottom....
Computers today are used for much more than generating documents, writing and receiving email, and surfing the web. We also use them to listen to music, watch movies and TV shows, and to transfer media to and from mobile devices. Below are links to many articles we have published on various media topics, such as streaming media, managing and organizing your media, converting media formats, obtaining album art, preparing media for transfer to mobile devices, and some general information about working with audio and video....
Continuous delivery (CD) pipelines automatically release code to live environments as it’s integrated into your project’s main branch. This allows developers to focus on building new features, instead of manually rolling out deployments. CD is often discussed in the context of developer productivity but it’s also a competitive asset for your business. In this article you’ll learn how CD adds business value, and the ways in which it benefits you and your customers....
You’ve probably noticed that Ubuntu comes with a Public folder in your home directory. This folder isn’t shared by default, but you can easily set up several different types of file-sharing to easily share files on your local network. This folder was originally meant for the Personal File Sharing tool, which is no longer included with Ubuntu by default. You can install the Personal File Sharing tool or use Ubuntu’s built-in file-sharing feature to share files....
Previous Versions is an incredibly useful feature built into Windows 7, which allows the OS to record and view earlier versions of files without a flux capacitor. Here’s a detailed guide to using this excellent feature. This feature goes beyond the functionality of the Recycle Bin as it allows you to: Recover files you may have permanently deleted. View or restore a version of a file which you have saved over....
Your camera uses a light meter to figure out the correct exposure settings for any scene. Like most “automatic” camera features, you do have some control over how it works. Let’s look at the different metering modes and when to use them. Your Camera’s Light Meter Whether you’re shooting in automatic mode, a semi-automatic mode, or full manual, your camera always calculates the “correct” exposure settings, either to use or merely display when it thinks you’re under- or overexposed....
Docker’s Moby Project disassembles the foundational components of Docker Engine into a modular toolkit that other container-based systems can reuse. Moby was spun out of the then-monolithic Docker codebase in 2017. It’s developed into a comprehensive library of container backend components which can be combined to create full container solutions like Docker itself. As a Docker end user you don’t directly interact with the Moby project. It’s aimed at people building containerization platforms, not developers building and running container images....
First, Try to Find It Unless you’re in a situation where it would be dangerous to retrieve the phone, you should try to locate your phone and get it out of the water as quickly as possible. Here’s a few ideas: If you can’t see the phone, try to feel the phone underwater with your feet, or grab a fishing net and scoop up the sand until you find it....
Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite tricks for keeping your gear from getting lost and getting it back should it go missing. Now we’re back to share some great reader tips. Johann opts for the most straight forward method: There’s much to be said for this. If someone finds something and they’re inclined to return it, a straight forward label is certainly easier for them than say, plugging the device in and seeing that the disk label is your phone number....
You can view the full set along with the individual descriptions for each at the blog post linked below. 10 Possible Future Apple Products [via MakeUseOf]
You’ve got questions and we’ve got answers. Today we look at how to boot into Windows after uninstalling Linux, sharing folders between a Mac and a Windows computer, and how to reinstate the missing Outlook reminder bell. Once a week we dip into our mailbag and help readers solve their problems, sharing the useful solutions with you I the process. Read on to see our fixes for this week’s reader dilemmas....
There’s more to using the Linux terminal than just typing commands into it. Learn these basic tricks and you’ll be well on your way to mastering the Bash shell, used by default on most Linux distributions. This one’s for the less experienced users – I’m sure that many of you advanced users out there already know all these tricks. Still, take a look – maybe there’s something you missed along the way....
