If you need a helping hand managing your server, make someone an admin on your Discord server. Doing so allows that user to perform all administrative tasks, like moderating discussions and creating channels. Here’s how to do that. To grant someone admin privileges, you’ll first create an admin role and then assign it to your user. You must be the server admin or owner to be able to do this....
If you’ve heard one thing about Windows 8.1, you’ve probably heard Microsoft is bringing back the Start button. Windows 8.1 includes many features that should have been included with Windows 8, and it can feel much less awkward on a desktop PC. Many of these options aren’t enabled by default, so you’ll have to enable them yourself. Windows 8.1 also isn’t a complete reversal from Windows 8. Microsoft is trying to meet us desktop users halfway — but only halfway....
The basic idea of a snapshot is that you setup your virtual machine exactly how you want it, take a snapshot, and then you can make any changes you want. You could even install something awful, because it doesn’t matter – all you have to do is roll back the snapshot, and your virtual machine will be exactly how it was before. It’s the perfect way to do a bunch of testing and figure things out, without breaking your setup....
There are many sensors on your smartphone, and two that present some privacy concerns are the camera and microphone. You don’t want apps to be accessing these without your knowledge. We’ll show you how to see which apps have access. It’s important to routinely check up on app permissions. We’ve shown you how to see an indicator when an app is accessing your camera or microphone, but now, we’ll show you how to see a list of all the apps that can access these sensors....
A cheap power strip might protect equipment from power surges, but it does nothing to help when the power goes out and your system comes to a halting crash. For that, you’ll want a battery backup, also known as an uninterruptible power supply (or UPS). Editor’s Note: Don’t want to read everything? You can’t go wrong with this CyberPower1500VA model for $140 or less. It’s the one that we use here at the How-To Geek office, and while you can get something slightly cheaper if you shop around, you do get what you pay for and the cost difference isn’t much....
In June 2014, Microsoft raised the amount of storage you get with a free OneDrive account to 15GB, from 7GB. Now that you have all this free online storage, why not use it? I use Ubuntu, not Windows, you say. No worries. There is a solution. The solution is to install a tool called “OneDrive-D.” This tool is free, but it’s not available in the Ubuntu Software Center. We will show you how to install OneDrive-D and use it to connect to your OneDrive account and sync your content....
Have you ever wished you could just drag and drop a couple files from your computer to your tablet, phone, or laptop? With Filedrop you can, and best of all it’s really easy to use. Apple users already know the convenience of Airdrop, which allows you basically set up an ad-hoc network to wirelessly share photos, videos, documents, and other content with nearby Apple users. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work with Windows or Android, which means you have to resort to “old fashioned” ways of transferring files, such as over a cloud service or a USB thumbdrive....
Thanks to light sensors, your iPhone can automatically adjust the display brightness to match the ambient lighting. If you prefer manual controls, it’s possible to turn off Auto-Brightness, but Apple put the option in an unusual place. Strangely, the iPhone and iPad’s automatic brightness option is not in the “Display & Brightness” settings like you’d expect. You’ll find the “True Tone” toggle, but nothing for Auto-Brightness. The good news is it’s not hard to find, you just need to look somewhere else....
If you have installed Linux on its own partition in a dual-boot configuration, there’s usually no easy uninstaller that will remove it for you. Instead, you’ll likely need to delete its partitions and repair the Windows boot loader on your own. RELATED: 5 Ways To Try Out and Install Ubuntu On Your Computer How you uninstall Linux depends on how you’ve installed it. If you installed Linux as your only operating system, you’ll have to reinstall Windows over Linux to get your Windows system back....
MCEdit is a powerful third party program for editing Minecraft maps. MCEdit has many tools and filters for editing and building, and can speed up the building of large or complex Minecraft creations. Installing and Launching MCEdit MCEdit can be downloaded from their website or compiled from source from their Github repository. MCEdit Unified is the version that supports 1.8+, which is what most Minecraft players are playing on....
Have a Fire TV or Fire TV Stick you’re not getting much use out of? Now’s the time to dust them off and turn them into a cheap, compact Plex device. The Fire TV and Fire TV Stick have long seemed like a powerful tool in want of something to do. The Fire TV and Fire TV Stick have pretty decent hardware (especially for the time of their release) but it’s far too difficult to get local video files on your Fire TV without resorting to using an Android developer kit and some tricks to install third-party apps like Kodi Media Center....
If you want to include an image in Excel, like a company logo or product photo, you can add the image using the Insert tab. But, to keep the image within a particular cell, use the IMAGE function instead. With this handy function, you add the URL for the image, optionally include alternative text, and choose how you want the image sized within the cell. About the IMAGE Function The syntax for the function is IMAGE(url, alt_text, sizing, height, width) where only the first argument is required....
How traceroute Works When you appreciate how traceroute works, it makes understanding the results much easier. The more complicated the route a network packet has to take to reach its destination, the harder it is to pinpoint where any slowdowns might be occurring. A small organization’s local area network (LAN) might be relatively simple. It’ll probably have at least one server and a router or two. The complexity increases on a wide area network (WAN) that communicates between different locations or via the internet....
Is shutdown.exe necessary when shutting Windows down, or is it just part of what is used to shut Windows down? Are other files and/or processes used instead? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. 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 Mukul Kumar wants to know if shutdown....
There was a time when Macs and PCs were very different, but they’re now basically the same. Open a MacBook up and you’ll find the same hardware you’d find in a PC Ultrabook. The time for dividing computers into “PCs” and “Macs” is over. With more and more people are using mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, Mac OS X is just another PC operating system alongside Windows and Linux....
Wine serves as a bridge between Windows and Unix based systems. Though there are numerous ways of getting Windows applications to run on a Mac, this is the classic and most convenient route. It creates a wrapper, allowing you to run apps from within. Here is how you can run Windows apps on a Mac using Wine. What’s a Wrapper? Basically, a wrapper takes a Windows app and simulates the environment it needs inside a package that the host OS can understand....
Do you need to convert meters to feet often? Or, quickly find out how the US dollar currently compares to the Euro? We have collected many convenient options for quickly and easily doing unit and currency conversions, both online and offline. XE XE is the world’s favorite provider of online Internet foreign exchange tools and services. Independent rankings consistently confirm that more people – and websites – use their wide variety of currency tools than any others....
Minecraft is and, for the foreseeable future, will remain one of the most popular video games among children. Behind all those millions upon millions of downloads are more than a few curious parents; read on as we help clear up some misconceptions and give curious parents a crash course in the game. We’ve written extensively about Minecraft here at How-To Geek, but not everyone is interested in taking an in-depth look at Minecraft as a potential player....
The rollout of 5G networks in the United States has been slow-moving, especially for Verizon and AT&T. However, Verizon is now testing a new network feature that should improve coverage in some areas. Even though you might think of 5G as a single technology or feature, there are three main implementations that provide wildly different experiences. Millimeter-wave 5G (also known as mmWave) can offer gigabit-like speeds, but only works at short ranges, so mmWave coverage is only common in busy downtown areas or large public venues....
The Basics of Encryption Encryption is a security process that alters readable data to make it unreadable. It takes plaintext, data readable by humans, and transforms it into ciphertext, which is unreadable by humans or machines. Only someone with the correct decryption key can convert the data back into plaintext and view it in its unscrambled form. Anyone else, who perhaps managed to intercept the data, would see only gibberish....
