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Google Pay has really grown over the last several months. It stepped away from the Android-specific branding and has added supported for loyalty cards and boarding passes. So what all can you do with Google Pay? What is Google Pay? Google Pay is Google’s contactless payment system—much like Apple Pay or Samsung Pay. But it hasn’t always been called “Google Pay.” In fact, that’s one of the more recent changes to the platform—it was called “Android Pay” for years before....

As a geek, I’m not subject to the normal whims of the populace, which can be annoying when you hang out on Twitter and there’s a flood of tweets about things you don’t care about. Here’s how to filter tweets in the Twitter web interface. To accomplish this, we’re going to use a user script, which means all you Internet Explorer users are pretty much left out in the cold....

Starting with the more affordable U5120G, you’ll get 480W of audio power, which is more than enough to make you feel like you’re part of the movie or show you’re watching. It has a total of 12 speakers tucked into the soundbar, so it will direct the sound all around your room. It also comes with support for DTS:X. The soundbar that really stole the show for us is the U5120GW+, which is Hisense’s more expensive model....

If you have trouble reading text on websites, seeing specific colors, or have dyslexia, Google Chrome has accessibility features that can help. You manage them individually through various Chrome extensions available in the Web Store. Official Google Accessibility Extensions Google offers four official accessibility extensions that you can add to your browser from the Chrome Web Store: Color Enhancer: A customizable color filter applied to webpages that improve the perception of colors for people with partial colorblindness....

If you use Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and iCloud Drive to share and back up files, you can add them to the Send To context menu in Windows for quicker file moving. We’ll show you how to add these services to the Send To context menu in File Explorer (or Windows Explorer in Windows 7), so you can quickly send files from your PC to your cloud accounts. We use Dropbox as an example here, but the same procedure will work for Google Drive, OneDrive, iCloud Drive, and most cloud services that create a sync folder on your PC....

Wireless is really convenient until you drop your connection or get really low speeds. Thanks to DD-WRT, it’s easier than ever to extend your home networks range with a few simple tweaks and a spare router. DD-WRT is a fully feature-packed alternative firmware for your router. If you don’t know what it is or how to get it on your device, you should start off with Turn Your Home Router into a Super-Powered Router with DD-WRT....

Analysis of business data often requires working with date values in Excel to answer questions such as “how much money did we make today” or “how does this compare to the same day last week?” And that can be hard when Excel doesn’t recognize the values as dates. Unfortunately, this is not unusual, especially when multiple users are typing this information, copying and pasting from other systems and importing from databases....

AppArmor locks down programs on your Ubuntu system, allowing them only the permissions they require in normal use – particularly useful for server software that may become compromised. AppArmor includes simple tools you can use to lock down other applications. AppArmor is included by default in Ubuntu and some other Linux distributions. Ubuntu ships AppArmor with several profiles, but you can also create your own AppArmor profiles. AppArmor’s utilities can monitor a program’s execution and help you create a profile....

Creating pictures from monospaced ASCII characters may be useless, but it sure is fun! If you’ve got some time to spare and can download some free software, you can automatically create ASCII art and other wordy graphics in no time. What is ASCII, and Why Do These Pictures Look So Weird? ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, and it usually refers to a set of standard monospaced characters when you refer to it in this context....

Kubernetes clusters can encounter several issues while trying to pull your container images. When an error occurs, your Pods will enter an ImagePullBackOff state. Here’s how to debug this common but cryptic message so you can get your services online. How Image Pulls Work Kubernetes needs to fetch an image when you create a new deployment or update an existing one with a different tag reference. Responsibility for pulling images lies with the Kubelet process on each worker node....

If you’re underwhelmed by the reach of your wireless signal, follow along as we show you how to extend your wireless network using routers powered with Tomato firmware. Last year we showed you how to extend your network using DD-WRT powered routers. Since then, several readers have written in, asking how they could do the same thing with Tomato routers. Many of them said they’d switch to DD-WRT if they had to, but would prefer to keep using Tomato if possible....

Things You Will Need A x86 Version of Windows 8 A x64 Version of Windows 8 A x86 Version of Windows 8 Enterprise A x64 Version of Windows 8 Enterprise A Windows 8 PC Note: While we will use all the images above you don’t really need the Enterprise Edition. You could always leave out parts of the tutorial if you know what you are doing, if you are not comfortable with that and still want to follow through you could always grab the Enterprise evaluation images that are available for free to the public, on MSDN....

When it comes to music, album art is a big part of the fun. But what if you’ve got hundreds of albums with no cover art? Read on to see how you can track down the correct art for each. Album Art Downloader We’re going to be using a free application called Album Art Downloader. It’s got an unconventional interface, but it works very well. To get started, click the link, download the application and install it....

Have a huge folder of images needing tweaks? A few hundred adjustments may seem like a big, time consuming job—but read one to see how Photoshop can do repetitive tasks automatically, even if you don’t know how to program! Photoshop Actions are a simple way to program simple routines in Photoshop, and are a great time saver, allowing you to re-perform tasks over and over, saving you minutes or hours, depending on the job you have to work on....

If you’ve upgraded to Windows 10 but don’t love what you see, there are ways to make Windows 10 look and act like Windows 7. That way, you can get the familiar interface you love while still taking advantage of Windows 10’s other useful features. RELATED: All the Ways You Can Still Upgrade to Windows 10 for Free Get a Windows 7-like Start Menu with Classic Shell RELATED: Bring The Windows 7 Start Menu to Windows 10 with Classic Shell...

Out of all your online accounts, there’s a good chance that Google holds most of your information. Think about it: if you use Gmail for email, Chrome for web browsing, and Android for your mobile OS, then you’re already using Google for almost everything you do. Now that you’re thinking about how much of your stuff is stored and saved by Google, think about how secure that account is. What if someone got access to your Google account?...

The worst part about making a mistake in your config files is that nginx will stop and it won’t start back up again until you fix the problem. So anybody trying to visit your site will get a fun error page. So first you’ll want to figure out where nginx is located, which you can always do with a quick ps -ef | grep nginx (or many other methods that produce similar output)....

Wouldn’t it be awesome if there was a program that automatically downloaded, categorized, and organized your favorite television shows—a true fire-and-forget solution? There is; read on as we show you how to build a supercharged TiVo with Sick Beard. What Do I Need and What’s the Point? You don’t need much to turn your computer into a supercharged TiVo style device that uses the internet as a source for all your television watching needs....

One of Git’s core features is the ability to make multiple versions of your project. Often, these are used for short-term forks called “feature branches,” which get merged into master. However, sometimes it is necessary to have truly separate branches, which makes it harder to keep them in sync. Why Maintain Different Branches? Usually, branches are short lived, and intended to be merged back into the main release branch. In some cases though, it’s necessary to maintain fully separate branches....

The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a common service used to transfer files between clients and servers. It’s often useful to automate these file transfers, and PowerShell scripts can come in handy to speed up this process. How To Use FTP in PowerShell There are a few different ways to make FTP transfers in PowerShell. The simplest is to use WebClient.UploadFile. PowerShell is an object-oriented scripting language, and you have full access to ....