Windows Media Player may feel like an aging application, but it’s still present in Windows 10. If you prefer to use the classic WMP for music and videos, it can be set as your default media player. We’ll show you how. Sure, Windows 10 has more modern media players such as “Groove Music” and videos can be played in the basic “Movies & TV” app. However, Windows Media Player is still a favorite among Windows users....

Some Apple Watches have an electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) built in. If your doctor wants you to use it—or you want to share the results of it with them—here’s what to do. Read This First But first, a few quick notes: The author of this piece is not a doctor. This is a technology article on a feature of the Apple Watch. If you are concerned about your health, contact your doctor....

Did you know that PowerPoint 2010 has a feature called Broadcast Slide Show with which you can share your presentation through the web to another computer, smartphone or any other device with a browser? Here’s how to use it. Sharing Your Presentation After you have finished your presentation, go to Slide Show tab and click on Broadband Slide Show. You will see a window telling you about this service and that you will need a Windows Live ID to use it....

The Voice Memos app included with your iPhone is a convenient way to record quick voice messages, or anything else you can hear. Voice memos normally stay on your iPhone, but you can move them to your computer through the Share feature or via iTunes. Option One: Send Individual Voice Memos to Your Computer RELATED: How to Create Voice Memos on Your iPhone The Share feature allows you to send individual voice memos from the Voice Memos app to other services....

Turn Off the Keyboard Sound on iPhone and iPad On an iPhone and iPad, Apple makes it easy to turn your keyboard’s sound off. To do that, first, launch Settings on your device. Then, select Sounds & Haptics > Keyboard Feedback. On older iPhones and iPads, you’ll select “Sounds.” On the “Keyboard Feedback” page, turn off the “Sounds” option. This disables the sound that’s played when you press a key....

Hooks are commonly used to log container events, implement clean-up scripts, and run asynchronous tasks after a new Pod joins your cluster. In this article, we’ll show how to attach hook handlers to your Pods and gain more control over container lifecycles. The Two Available Hooks Current Kubernetes releases support two container lifecycle hooks: PostStart – Handlers for this hook are called immediately after a new container is created. PreStop – This hook’s invoked immediately before Kubernetes terminates a container....

Android has taken huge strides since Android 2.3 Gingerbread, but many devices are still using it. If you can’t upgrade your old device, there are ways to make it feel more modern. These apps won’t actually upgrade your Android device to Jelly Bean, but they’ll replace some of the more outdated parts of Gingerbread and make your device feel more like Jelly Bean and Ice Cream Sandwich. the latest versions of Android....

We’ve all had programs crash on us in Windows at one time or another. You can take the time to manually start the program again, or you can have a simple program like ReStartMe restart it automatically for you. ReStartMe is a free program that has one purpose in life, to restart processes. You tell it to watch specific processes and if any of those processes exit, whether they crashed or you accidentally closed them, ReStartMe will automatically restart them....

Over the years, we’ve written about loads of ways to disable features, tweak things that don’t work the way you want, and remove other things entirely. Here’s the list of the 50 best ways to do just that. Just in case you missed some of our recent roundup articles, here’s a couple of roundups of our very best articles for you to check out: The 50 Best Registry Hacks that Make Windows Better The 20 Best How-To Geek Explainer Topics for 2010 The 20 Best Windows Tweaks that Still Work in Windows 7 The 50 Best How-To Geek Windows Articles of 2010 The 10 Cleverest Ways to Use Linux to Fix Your Windows PC...

Best Tech Gifts for Grandparents Not every grandparent is tech-savvy, but regardless of their understanding, there are plenty of incredible gifts for them to pick up. Whether you’re looking to make sure they don’t have to do as much housework, trying to give them a little peace of mind, or just trying to help them stay busy, there are plenty of great ideas. If your grandparents aren’t all that into technology, you might have to help them with the set-up of these gifts....

If your Evernote installation has become sluggish after adding thousands of notes, you might be able to speed it up a bit with this great tip from Matthew’s TechInch blog that uncovers a secret debug menu in the latest Windows client. It’s important to note that Evernote runs database optimization in the background automatically, so this really shouldn’t be necessary, but if your database is sluggish, anything is worth a shot, right?...

At MakeUseOf they’ve shared a small tutorial on how to configure the free Android application PC Auto Waker. Essentially it’s just a lightweight wake-on-LAN (WOL) client that sends a packet to your computer. If you’re familiar with WOL you can likely just grab the application and plug in the necessary information. If you’ve never messed around with WOL, we’d suggest reading over their tutorial to get a clearer idea of how the application functions and what you need to configure on your computer....

Your Attack Surface An organization’s attack surface is often described as the sum of the ways the organization could be breached. That’s a self-limiting viewpoint. It assumes the collection of known attack vectors is a complete list of the vulnerabilities that cybercriminals may try to exploit. A better definition is that your attack surface is the sum of all IT assets exposed to attackers. Whether they have known vulnerabilities or not, any exposed IT entity–from servers to APIs—should be considered part of your attack surface....

BusyBox is open-source and licensed under the GPL. It was created in 1995 with the intention of making a bootable system fit onto a single floppy. Bundling commands together into one binary reduces overheads and permits code-sharing between seemingly independent applications. What Does BusyBox Include? BusyBox provides the everyday convenience commands that often feel like they’re part of your shell. Although userland tools like ls and cat are ubiquitous, they actually reside in a separate utility package that’s independent of your shell....

For years, Intel’s flagship Core processor series has had three performance tiers: i3, i5, and the top-of-the-line i7. But after several disappointingly small performance iterations and the looming specter of AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper processor, Intel announced a new king of the CPU hill: the Core i9. This super-powered monster is also one of the first in the new “X-Series” of performance-oriented CPUs, which also come in i7 and i5 flavors....

Image by Nathan W. Pyle. One of the primary, and easiest to apply tricks, is to toggle off the highest power consuming elements of your device. Chris writes: For those curious why Chris waits until his battery is low to charge it: batteries have a finite number of charge cycles before the performance begins to degrade. Older Ni-Cad batteries had issues with battery memory but still had a recharge based life cycle (that said, some readers still found Ni-Cad batteries to be an ideal solution for their needs)....

Debugging most Linux programs usually involves checking log files, which can be a complex process. When running in a containerized environment under Docker though, you’ll need to use more specific tools to debug apps in production. Where Are Logs Stored? The simple answer is that Docker stores container logs in its main storage location, /var/lib/docker/. Each container has a log specific to their ID (the full ID, not the shortened one that’s usually displayed) and you can access it like so:...

What Does Password Expiration Solve? First, it’s important to understand why enforced password expirations became popular. Most organizations require a password change every 30 or 90 days. This dates from the historical background of simpler password hashes which could be cracked relatively quickly. Back when an attacker could crack a password in a couple of months, security practitioners suggested that changes within that timeframe would help to keep users safe....

On August 24, 1995, Microsoft launched Windows 95. This innovative, and highly-successful PC operating system weaned people who used PCs off of command lines. It also made Microsoft a household name. Here’s why Windows 95 was so special. All Windows, All the Time One of the most notable features of Windows 95 was that it tried to steer users completely away from a command prompt for the first time. Unlike Windows 3....

The Commodore 64 was released in 1982 (nearly 40 years ago!) as an 8-bit come computer, packed with 64KB of memory. It eventually became the best-selling single computer model of all time, and like many retro computers and consoles, there are still a few people actively developing new software and games. Spiro Harvey, also known as ‘Not a Wizard’ on YouTube and other platforms, has been working on a port of the popular game Wordle designed for the Commodore 64....