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So you got a shiny new Android phone. You changed the wallpaper, bought a case that you like, arranged your home screens…you know, made it yours. Then someone calls. Why on earth are you still using a stock ringtone? Get that out of here—it’s time to not only make it look like yours, but sound like it too. Making ringtones for your Android phone is actually pretty easy, and there are a few different ways to do it: on the desktop, on the web, and directly from the phone....

People often joke that certain places are worlds unto themselves. With this clever photo editing trick, you can take a panoramic photo of a place and turn it into a miniature planet–be it a panorama of a city, botanical garden, or marina, you can make it a world unto itself. Composite by author, based on photos by Dominic Alves, Craig Conley, and Luis Argerich. Why Do I Want to Do This?...

All mainstream desktop operating systems include powerful search features. They all offer the ability to create a “saved search,” which functions as a virtual folder. The saved search folder appears to contain the files that match your search. You could use this to display all documents, images, music, or video files on your hard drive in a single folder, sorted by how new they are. The possibilities are endless....

If you need a quick and easy way to print photos on your Mac, look no further than the Photos app, which comes bundled with macOS. It allows you to print single or multiple photos at custom paper sizes. Here’s how to do it. What You’ll Need To keep this guide simple, we’re going to assume that you have a Mac with Mac OS X 10.10.3 or later (the first release to include the Photos app) and a working photo printer you’ve already configured to work with your Mac....

If you open a lot of programs at one time in Windows, your desktop can get quite chaotic and messy. One of those many windows may be displaying private data, and it’s easy to lose track of it and accidentally leave it visible. If you leave your workstation or need to show something to your boss or co-worker, wouldn’t it be helpful if you can protect and hide specific windows displaying private information?...

You don’t need Microsoft Office to put together a professional-looking resume. Google Docs is completely free and offers a variety of resume templates, so you can focus on highlighting your skills instead of fiddling with formatting. While Microsoft has their own Office Online (formerly Office Web Apps) solution, it offers very limited templates and no resume template. You’d have to do the formatting work yourself. Google Docs is the easiest, quickest option here....

The nmcli Command The nmcli command isn’t new, it was released in 2010. Together with the ip command, it replaces the venerable—but deprecated— ifconfig. Old habits die hard, and many sysadmins still use ifconfig. They already know how to use it, there’s no learning curve, and they just need to get the job done. So why learn yet another tool? Well, eventually, ifconfig will be dropped by the distributions so it’s a change that is coming, like it or not....

The Growl notification system is something that will be familiar to Mac users, but it is something that is also available for Windows. It is an incredibly versatile tool that can be used to monitor system and program notifications in a variety of ways, including remotely. Growl can be used in conjunction with various add-ons to field notifications for web sites, applications and events. There is a range of plugins available that can be used to add support for a number of different applications and utilities....

What You Need to Know Before You Begin RAM is quite a bit more complex than CPU or GPU overclocking, where you’re merely cranking a dial and praying your fancy all-in-one watercooler doesn’t turn your system into a space heater. With RAM, there are many knobs to turn, but it’s also much safer because they don’t produce much heat. This does have real-world benefits. Every program you use stores its working data in RAM before loading it into the CPU’s internal cache, and programs that use a lot of it can churn through RAM like butter....

Print from iPhone or iPad Using AirPrint AirPrint is Apple’s easy-to-use wireless printing protocol. It requires next to no setup, provided your printer is powered on and connected to the same wireless network as the iPhone or iPad you’re trying to print from. Many printers now come with AirPrint as standard, especially since we increasingly use our mobile devices for all manner of tasks. If you’re not sure if your printer has AirPrint, you can try printing anyway and see what happens....

By default, Word doesn’t allow you to quickly select sentences using the keyboard. However, you can add keyboard shortcuts for some “hidden” commands available in Word that allow you to select entire sentences and jump through a document a sentence at a time. To add keyboard shortcuts that allow you to select entire sentences or move through your document a sentence at a time, right-click on the ribbon and select “Customize the Ribbon…” from the popup menu....

RELATED: How to Backup and Restore Emails in Microsoft Outlook Retrieve Deleted Yahoo Emails From Deleted Items on Desktop When an email is deleted, Yahoo moves it to the “Deleted Items” folder instead of permanently removing it. It’s possible your deleted email is still available in this folder, and if so, you can restore it back to your inbox. To do that, first, launch a web browser on your device and open Yahoo Mail....

RELATED: Here’s What Happens When You Install the Top 10 Download.com Apps The funny thing is that we were writing about how to remove the almost identical BoBrowser malware, and after removing that, the ShopperPro malware took over the computer almost instantly. It was literally hiding in the wings waiting for its chance to strike. This is why we recommend running Malwarebytes after uninstalling any badware, because there’s almost always something else hiding....

We’ve previously written about hosting your own FTP server, but data is transferred in cleartext, making it unsuitable for confidential file transfers. In this guide we’ll go over the secure version of FTP – SFTP, and why it makes for an excellent way of transferring files to other people across the internet. RELATED: Configuring FileZilla Server for FTPS on Windows Server Why SFTP? Geeks run into this problem all the time: You have a file that’s just too big to transfer over email or instant messenger....

Cloud storage isn’t just for your own personal files. You can use it to easily share files without any hassle. Share files back-and-forth with your friends and colleagues, or make them available to the entire Internet. Shared files can automatically sync to each person’s computer, or you can access them via the web or mobile app. It’s a more convenient way to share files than emailing them back and forth....

If you use the Windows Administrative tools often, it’s helpful to have quicker access to them. We’ve shown you how to add them to the Start menu in Windows 7. Here’s how to add them to the Modern UI screen in Windows 8. If you’re on the Desktop, move the mouse to the extreme, lower, left corner of the screen and click the Start screen button that pops up. You can also press the Windows key to quickly access the Modern UI screen....

Painting is one of those home improvement activities that we’ve all done at least once, and while it’s relatively easy to do, storing the leftover paint afterward can become somewhat of a fine art. RELATED: Seven Low-Cost Home Improvements That Make a Huge Difference In other words, there’s a big chance that you aren’t storing paint correctly, and since leftover paint is so common, you probably have a lot of it....

Apple just released new versions of iOS, HomePod, and tvOS that support AirPlay 2, a huge upgrade that lets you play music from your iPhone on multiple devices in multiple rooms. Here’s how it all works. We’ve been testing this feature out at HTG HQ and we’re really impressed. We were playing music on a HomePod and an Apple TV playing through a TV’s speakers at the same time and everything stayed in perfect sync....

Virtual desktops are hardly a new concept. They’ve been around for quite some time, especially on various Linux distributions, and now more recently, they’ve been added to Windows 10. Apple’s own take on virtual desktops Spaces, has been around since the introduction of Snow Leopard in 2009, and in the latest OS X release, Yosemite, we find it alive and well. Out of the box, Spaces works great but it can be so much better with a few simple keyboard shortcuts....

Like any newcomer in the gaming world, the Ouya microconsole has a slew of lovestruck fans and an equal (if not greater) number of detractors. What’s the story behind the tiny game platform and is it worth your time and money? Read on as we review the quirky little Android-powered game machine. Where Did The Ouya Come From? Before we dive into talking about the Ouya’s capabilities and gaming experience, let’s first take a look at exactly where the little device came from (as it’s impossible to separate the device from the hype and KickStarter campaign that put it on the map)....