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Why Track Your Activity? Your Apple Watch is constantly monitoring your movement and heart rate to keep track of how much energy you are burning throughout the day. This goes towards your Move goal, a daily challenge where you try and expend an achievable amount of energy by getting up and moving. While passive energy tracking is useful, your Apple Watch tracks your energy expenditure much more accurately when you monitor using the Workout app....

Contexts in the Docker CLI provide a streamlined mechanism to interact with multiple Docker endpoints. You can set up contexts for each of your hosts and switch between them on the fly. When a context is active, Docker will direct all of your commands to that host. If you mostly use a local Docker install but sometimes need to start containers in production, Docker contexts are one option available to you....

Now a new version of the Notary signing system seeks to change that. A multi-vendor working group was established in December 2019 to improve the image signing experience and solve several of the problems with the original implementation. Notary v2 launched in alpha form in October 2021. Here’s how it makes signing more compatible with modern container usage patterns. What is Notary? Notary, also known as Docker Content Trust, provides the mechanisms that sign and verify your container images....

We’ve long had the ability to send text messages from a computer with third party apps like Pushbullet and MightyText. Google has now finally added this functionality to its Android text messaging app. But how does it compare to the tools we’ve had for so long? Android Messages for Web, as Google calls it, is the company’s newest feature for its texting platform. While available freely in the Play Store for any Android device, Android Messages is the stock messaging option on Pixel devices....

You’ve probably run into these embeds very often without thinking about it—whenever you send someone a link on a social media platform or messaging app, the link expands to include content from the website, usually an image, title, and description. Here’s how to set that up. What Are Open Graph Meta Tags? The configuration for these embeds is done using tags, usually in the header of your site. There’s a standard for them, originally created at Facebook, called “the Open Graph Protocol....

APTonCD is an easy way to back up your installed packages to a disc or ISO image. You can quickly restore the packages on another Ubuntu system without downloading anything. After using APTonCD, you can install the backed up packages with a single action, add the packages as a software source, or restore them to your APT cache. Installation APTonCD is available in Ubuntu’s default software repositories. Search for “APTonCD” in the Ubuntu Software Center and you’ll find it....

Modern email systems keep your mail in the cloud so you can access it from anywhere, but even they have storage limits. Here’s how to take a backup of your Microsoft Outlook emails and restore it if you ever need those messages again. How to Take a Backup In Microsoft Outlook Taking a backup in Microsoft Outlook is very easy. Backups are stored in PST (Personal Storage Table) files, which can be opened directly in Outlook....

Ubuntu’s new Unity is a slick interface, but they’ve pared things down to keep it that way. Not many icons appear in the system tray, even for apps that are running. Luckily for us, there’s an easy fix. The Unity interface is still pretty rough around the edges, enough so that plenty of users have switched back to Gnome. If you’re still using Unity, though, you’ll notice that very few applications’ system tray icons are displayed in the system tray....

Your Apple TV is much more than a media-streaming box. It has built-in games, and it works with the Xbox controller and other popular game controllers. Power up your Apple Arcade experience (or just download individual games) with a physical controller. Not All Xbox Controllers Are Supported (Yet) With the release of the Xbox Series X and S consoles in November of 2020, Microsoft has released a new version of its wireless controller....

In this article, we’ll look at a process you can use to begin containerizing “legacy” software. While no two products will be the same, and the term “legacy” is subjective, we’ll focus on broadly applicable steps for packaging tightly-coupled systems currently tied to individual environments. 1. Identify Candidate Systems It’s worthwhile first preparing a systems inventory that lets you identify good candidates for containerization. In some cases, you might conclude a particular application simply can’t be containerized....

With contact groups, you’ll never have to manually add the same people to an email over and over. By grouping regularly used contacts, you can save tons of time in the future. Here’s how to do it on a Mac. Creating a New Contact Group Open the Contacts app on your Mac. You can find it in your “Applications” folder or search for it with Spotlight. Make sure to select the account (in the left sidebar) where you want to create the group and then click the “+” button....

No matter which device you’re using to write, Grammarly can help keep your writing sharp. Despite that, the built-in autocorrect feature can sometimes incorrectly edit your writing. Here’s how you can deactivate Grammarly’s autocorrect across its various apps and extensions. We’re going to go over disabling the autocorrect feature found in the company’s browser extensions and mobile keyboard apps. At the time of writing, the word processor built into the Grammarly desktop app does not autocorrect your writing....

The Windows Task Scheduler can automatically send email at a specific time or in response to a specific event, but its integrated email feature won’t work very well for most users. Instead of using the Task Scheduler’s email feature to send emails, you can use the SendEmail utility. It allows you to construct a single-line command that authenticates with an SMTP server and sends an email. The Problem With The Task Scheduler’s Email Function When we covered setting up your computer to send you email notifications when anyone logs in, we found that the built-in email feature had some issues....

iPhone’s Depth Effect feature enables you to overlay elements on top of the time on your lock screen. Here are some tips for getting the feature working and picking the right photo. What Is the Lock Screen Depth Effect? The Depth Effect is a subtle effect that overlays elements from your iPhone wallpaper on top of the time. Apple has previously used this effect on Apple Watch faces that use Portrait photos....

It’s nice to have plenty of applications in our Android phone, until we realize that these applications clutter up our phone by consuming our limited screen space. These are some tips to organize your screen for optimal productivity. Using Folders to Organize Your Applications Most Android phones come with 3 to 5 home screens that may not be enough to place all our application shortcuts, but we can use folders to group your home screen shortcuts into some quick pop-up menus....

You might think that you need expensive software to take advantage of Camera RAW—something like Photoshop or the more modestly priced Lightroom. Fortunately there is freeware that can help you achieve professional results without professional costs. Shooting in JPG can be very limiting, so Camera RAW formats can give you superior images, as long as you can process (or develop) your images. Adobe has great tools for developing camera RAW, but, as we know, Adobe products are expensive and sometimes cost prohibitive....

Forgetting your password is always a pain, but luckily there’s an easy way to reset your Domain Administrator password. All you need is a copy of the Windows Server 2008 R2 installation disk and one simple command line trick. Replacing Utilman.exe Boot off the Windows disk and select the “Repair your computer” option from the lower left-hand corner. Follow through until you get to the option to open the Command Prompt, which you’ll want to select....

If you develop websites, you need to use multiple versions of different browsers for testing your sites. There are ways to run multiple versions of IE on the same computer, but some versions cannot be run at the same time. However, we will show you a way around this limitation that allows you to run Internet Explorer 7, 8, and 9 at the same time in Windows. Microsoft has created some custom Windows VHD files to allow web designers to test their websites in Internet Explorer 7, 8, and 9 for free....

In case you hadn’t noticed recently, paying for stuff with your phone is becoming a pretty big deal. If you have an Android phone or Apple iPhone and a bank account, then you already have everything you need to pay with a tap. There’s a lot of discussion that swirls around mobile payments. Is it safe? How does it work? And, how do you set it up? These are all good questions....

How Are Disney+ Accounts Being Hacked? Disney told Variety it’s seen “no evidence of a security breach” on its servers and that only a “small percentage” of its over 10 million users have had their login details compromised and leaked. But, if Disney’s servers haven’t been compromised, how are there thousands of hacked accounts? Once again, the culprit appears to be password reuse. If you reuse the same password on multiple websites, your login details have probably already leaked from another site....