When you organize a meeting, it’s probably your responsibility to take notes. Whether you plan to share those notes or just keep them as a reference, be prepared to capture them. Google Docs gives you a convenient way to start. With a few clicks, you can select the upcoming meeting and have the details with sections for notes and action items all set. Then when the meeting starts, you’re a step ahead....
What Are the General Causes of Low FPS? A decline in the FPS is a result of your laptop not getting enough resources or power to run a program. To fix this problem, you must first identify the issue’s root cause. It’s probably a consequence of one or more of the following factors. Power Issues: The laptop may not be plugged in properly or is in battery mode. When running on battery mode, laptops tend to optimize the battery life so it compromises on the system’s speed including the frame rate....
If you want to put text in front of an image in Google Slides, you may want to increase the transparency of that image to make the text easier to read. You can do it in just a few clicks. How to Adjust Image Transparency in Google Slides To get started, open your Google Slides presentation and navigate to the slide that contains the image you want to make transparent....
Copy Your Games to Save Time and Data When giving someone a new Xbox One, we recommend installing games for them first. Whether it’s a Christmas morning surprise for your kids or a birthday gift for your spouse, their games will be ready to play immediately. When you play an Xbox game for the first time, the console immediately rips most of the disc to the hard drive. Your Xbox then downloads everything else it needs to play the game....
If you use an iOS device then you know it’s a pretty complete system and works very well. But, you may have had problems opening compressed zip files, so we’ll talk today about how to best handle zip files on your iPhone or iPad. Apple’s iOS actually has had support, albeit limited, for zip files since iOS 7 but it only works with Messages and Mail. For example, you’re chatting with a friend and they attach a zipped file full of their vacation pics....
Whether you’re cutting out the boring parts of your vacation video or getting a hilarious scene for an animated GIF, Avidemux provides a quick and easy way to cut clips from any video file. It’s overkill to use a full-featured video editing program if you just want to cut a few clips from a video file. Even programs that are designed to be small can have confusing interfaces when dealing with video....
When you double-click a photo in the Windows file browser, you can use the arrow keys to quickly browse every photo that folder. Open a photo in Preview on macOS, however, and pressing the arrow keys does nothing. This makes it hard to have a quick slideshow. Sure, you can quickly make a slideshow with Photos, but only for photos you’ve imported there. And you can press Spacebar to look at images in Quick Look, but there’s no way to do a full screen slide show with that....
Google Chrome has a very useful feature that most people probably don’t know about – You can quickly set per-site permissions and disable plugins, Javascript, images, and more with only a single click. So the next time you’re on a web site (including this one), just click the little icon next to the URL in the address bar, and you’ll see a menu pop out like this. You can then change settings for anything you’d like – you can even enable Popups, although that’s something you probably don’t want to do....
Local media servers have gone out of style. Microsoft no longer makes Windows Home Server and is phasing out Windows Media Center. But there are still great solutions if you want to run a home media server and stream to all your devices. Sure, you could just connect a PC to your TV, but these provide convenient interfaces across all your devices. That means apps for TV streaming boxes, smartphones, tablets, and web-based interfaces for everything else....
Ubuntu’s installer offers an easy “Use LVM” checkbox. The description says it enables Logical Volume Management so you can take snapshots and more easily resize your hard disk partitions — here’s how to do that. LVM is a technology that’s similar to RAID arrays or Storage Spaces on Windows in some ways. While this technology is particularly useful on servers, it can be used on desktop PCs, too. Should You Use LVM With Your New Ubuntu Installation?...
Regshot is a great utility that you can use to compare the amount of registry entries that have been changed during an installation or a change in your system settings. While most PC users will never really need to do this, it is a great tool for troubleshooting and monitoring your registry. The Regshot Project Regshot is an open-source (LGPL) project hosted on SourceForge. It was designed and registered in January of 2001 by M....
It’s really sad, but Oracle started bundling crapware like the Ask “app” even for Mac OS X users now. If you’re forced to use Java, luckily they do have an option to disable this, so the next time you need to update Java you won’t be presented with a crapware ad. If you’re a Minecraft user and you’re running Windows, the installer doesn’t require Java to be installed anymore. We’re hoping the same thing happens for OS X soon, but for now as far as we’re aware the installer requires Java....
Facebook users may have noticed a recent change to its mobile app. When you click on a link, it now opens in Facebook, instead of your preferred, default browser. This is really annoying; here’s how to change it back on Android. Facebook claims “links open faster” but they do not. Perhaps on slower devices they seem to open faster because you’re no longer switching from one app to another, but webpages, particularly complex, image and ad-heavy ones, take significantly longer to load than they do in Chrome....
Tablet sales growth is declining, and Apple is selling fewer iPads every quarter. PC sales are improving. Ever-larger smartphones make great consumption devices. Microsoft has even realized Windows should be a desktop operating system, because PCs aren’t going anywhere. Tablets used to seem like the future. Everyone would abandon laptops and desktops — or, at least, everyone would have a smartphone, a tablet, and a PC. But tablets are now looking more like a niche product....
There’s so much stuff on the Internet, we hardly have time to read most of it. Suffice to say, it can be a distraction. That’s why we’ve rounded up some of the best ways you can save webpages to read later. We have to say, the Internet is perhaps the most effective time-waster ever devised by humans, and all that wasted time can equal hundreds of hours of lost productivity....
The “Smart Lock” feature on Chrome OS allows you to pair your Chromebook with your Android phone, automatically unlocking it when the phone is nearby and unlocked. Android 5.0 also has its own “Smart Lock” features, which allow you to automatically unlock your Android phone in a specific location or when a certain Bluetooth device is nearby. What You’ll Need RELATED: Use Smart Lock in Android 5.0 and Never Unlock Your Phone at Home Again...
What exactly is preventing you (or anyone else) from changing their IP address and causing all sorts of headaches for ISPs and other Internet users? Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites. The Question SuperUser reader Whitemage is curious about what’s preventing him from wantonly changing his IP address and causing trouble: Two things to investigate here, why can’t we just go around changing our addresses, and is the assignment process as wasteful as it seems?...
With so much concern about government surveillance, corporate espionage, and everyday identity theft, it may seem surprising that so few people use encrypted email messages. Try using encrypted email and you’ll find it to be difficult and complicated to use. Encrypted emails are a headache to deal with. You may be able to deal with the complexity, but the people you want to communicate with also have to handle it....
Google Docs doesn’t have the cluttered ribbon full of features you’ll find in Microsoft Office, but it does have quite a few useful tricks up its sleeve. You may never find these features unless you go looking for them. Google’s web-based office suite has matured over the years and now offers everything from offline access to third-party add-on support. It’s still an easy-to-use office suite that works everywhere with excellent real-time collaboration features....
Nautilus contains some pre-defined bookmarks that provide quick and easy access to some common folders, such as Music and Pictures, as well as devices such as USB flash drives and network locations. You can add custom bookmarks to quickly access folders you use often. The default bookmarks in Nautilus reside in the left pane as Places (locations on your hard drive), Devices, and Network. Our own custom bookmarks are added to a Bookmarks section in the left pane....
