MacBooks are known for their excellent battery life, but we always want more. This is especially important if you have an older MacBook with a more power-hungry CPU and mechanical hard drive, but everyone can benefit from these tips. We’ve also covered how to squeeze more battery life out of a Windows laptop. Many of our tips are the same for every type of laptop, but how you go about using them is different....
Some Windows tablets have as little as 32 GB of internal storage, and future ones may only have 16 GB! This is extremely cramped for a large Windows system, so you’ll want to make the most of the little space available to you. Luckily, most Windows 8.1 tablets have a Micro SD card slot or USB port. You can add removable storage to expand your tablet’s storage, so you have more options than you do on an iPad or Nexus tablet....
Android users have been a spoiled bunch when it comes to device notifications. iPhone and iPad users had to wait until 2011 to see a notification center appear on their devices. It works pretty well though it handles things much differently than its Google counterpart. We’ve spent quite a bit of time lately discussing notifications, specifically managing them on Android 5 Lollipop, and also how to tame Facebook’s myriad ways of interrupting you....
If you’ve created a signature with an image, links, text formatting, or special characters, the signature will not look the same in plain text formatted emails as it does in HTML format. As the name suggests, Plain Text does not support any type of formatting. For example, if you include an image in your signature, as shown below, the plain text version will be blank. Active links in HTML signatures will be converted to just the text of the link in plain text emails....
Printing a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel can be challenging if you have a lot of data. To cut down on the paper and keep your data together, you can print your sheet on one page instead of multiple pages. How to Print a Spreadsheet on One Page in Excel While the setup is the same, getting to the settings differs slightly between Excel on Windows versus Mac. RELATED: What’s the Difference Between Microsoft Office for Windows and macOS?...
Basic Tips for Clear Audio Recording Before you dig into software features, you should follow some basic best practices for clearer audio recording. Here are a few quick tips: Wear Headphones: If your microphone is picking up noise from your speakers, put on headphones to eliminate the echo. Use a Dedicated Microphone or Headset: Many laptops have pretty low-quality built-in microphones. Sure, they work, but that’s about all that can be said for them....
The Unity launcher is the vertical bar with icons on the left side of your Ubuntu desktop. It allows you to easily launch programs and to access workspaces, removable devices, and the trash bin. Initially, the Unity launcher icons are fairly large. However, if you work on a smaller screen, you may want to decrease the size of the icons. Or, you may want to increase the size of the icons to make them easier to click if you have a large screen or multiple screens....
This tutorial demonstrates how to set up a system service that launches when you start your system. To launch a graphical program when you sign in, use your desktop’s startup manager instead. Running Programs at Startup Sometimes the software you install on your computer hooks itself into the Linux startup process, so that the program is automatically launched each time the computer is started. You can easily achieve this same behavior with your own programs and scripts, or in fact any other program that is on your computer....
Up until 20 years ago, thanks to typewriters, it was common to see sentences written with two spaces the period. At long last, Microsoft Word has started marking double spaces as an error by default. If you’re a two-spacer who hates this idea, here’s how to prevent it from happening. Microsoft has confirmed that it will start marking double spaces as a typo, so if you’re keen on the two-space side of the argument, you’ll soon find out that your righteous two spaces after a period are suddenly sullied by a red dotted line....
By default, Ubuntu is configured to always prompt you with a confirmation dialog box with two choices when you want to shut down or restart your computer. The same thing happens when you log out of your account or lock your session. The confirmation dialog box for restart/shutdown is a safeguard meant to prevent you from accidentally shutting down or restarting your computer. If you’re in a hurry, however, you may tell Ubuntu to shut down and walk away, forgetting about the confirmation dialog box and leaving the computer on....
If you’re using a password manager and it’s not the cloud-based LastPass, it’s probably KeePass. KeePass is a completely open-source password manager that stores all your sensitive data locally. However, this means that it isn’t quite as well-integrated as other solutions. Want LastPass-style browser integration, the ability to synchronize your passwords and have them everywhere, and an app to access your passwords on your phone? You’ll have to string together your own system....
Have you ever had a need to connect to multiple machines of multiple types (RDP,SSH,VNC & more) simultaneously? Have you found that retyping the credentials is a pain? Take the HTG tour of mRemoteNG. Image by Louish Pixel. What is mRemoteNG? Simply put, mRemote is a “remote connection aggregator”. That is, it handles the management of connection details, such as: credentials, hostname/IP, and type (I.E. RDP, SSH and so on), among others (I....
You regularly back up your Mac with Time Machine, but how do you know that it’s working? RELATED: What’s the Best Way to Back Up My Computer? There are a few ways to check. If you back up over the network, a built-in tool lets you verify that your that your backup isn’t corrupt. If your back up to a local USB, that tool won’t work, but there are other ways you can peek inside your backups and make sure that everything is working....
The company posted on Twitter about the change, saying, “New Name. Same Mission.” It also changed the name of the Twitter account to @MetaQuestVR, fully letting everyone know that the Oculus brand is gone and Meta is here to stay. — Meta Quest (@MetaQuestVR) January 26, 2022 This comes shortly after Meta became the name of the company that owns Facebook and the former Oculus. It’s a significant shift in terms of the company name, and it seems that it’s trying to remind everyone about the brand change by shifting the name of its VR headset....
While once considered a novelty item by many tech enthusiasts, Chromebooks have broken out of the “just a browser” mold and become legitimate laptops. They’re full-featured, lightweight machines that can do everything most users need them to do. Best of all, they’re more secure and often more affordable than the competition. Because they’ve gained such popularity, there are a ton of Chromebooks to choose from at this point. There’s no shortage of choices, from the meager, bargain store devices to the ultra high-end premium segment....
Google Now’s Reminders feature is powerful. You can set reminders for specific times, events like TV shows, and even have reminders go off when you visit specific locations. Time-based reminders can be recurring, popping up on a schedule. These features are all available in Google Now for Android as well as the Google search app on iPhone and iPad. Reminders sync between your devices and should hopefully be available on the desktop when Chrome gains Google Now integration....
“I Don’t Care” IDC stands for “I don’t care.” It’s used in text and chat to convey to someone that you don’t care about them, something they said, or the subject of the conversation. When addressed directly toward someone, it’s considered a fairly rude way to respond. Alternatively, it could just be used as a shorthand for “I don’t care” in a sentence, such as “idc about the weather, it’s not a long drive anyway....
The Best of Two Worlds As the name suggests, QD-OLED is a hybrid display technology that takes the elements of OLED and combines them with quantum dots. Samsung has developed it intending to produce a display that keeps the benefits of OLED technology while removing one of its major drawbacks. Over the last several years, OLED TVs have successfully established themselves as the leader in picture quality by offering perfect blacks, near-infinite contrast ratio, and wide viewing angles....
While most of us are content to go with the ‘tried and true’ process of installing the executable files for our favorite software, is it really necessary to do so? Could we actually extract those same executable files rather than install them, and run them the same as their stand-alone cousins? 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....
It’s hard to wrap our minds around all these Internet catastrophes as they occur, and just as we thought the Internet was secure again after Heartbleed and Shellshock threatened to “end life as we know it,” out comes POODLE. Don’t get too worked up because it is not as menacing as it sounds. The truth is that it is an issue to be concerned with, but there are simple steps you can take to safeguard yourself....
