How To Export Your Google Keep Notes And Attachments

To use it, visit the Google Takeout page and log in with the Google account associated with Keep. Click “Deselect All” if you just want to download your Keep data, and not files from any of the other Google services. In the “Products” list, scroll down and select the checkbox next to “Keep.” In the “Multiple formats” option, you can see in which format Google extracts your Keep notes....

December 19, 2022 · 2 min · 315 words · Isaac Garcia

How To Free Up Storage Space On Your Google Account The Ultimate Guide

Google accounts now use a shared pool of storage. Every account gets 15 GB of free space, which is shared across your Gmail, Google Drive, and Google+ Photos. But certain types of files don’t count towards your storage quota. Luckily, the shared pool of storage means that there’s now no point in using hacks that allow you to store personal files in Gmail. You can now take advantage of all your Gmail space for files and photos....

December 19, 2022 · 7 min · 1425 words · Wesley Moore

How To Kill Processes From The Linux Terminal

What is a Process? Running programs like your web browser, background processes associated with your desktop environment, and Linux system services are all processes. You can lump processes into two groups: Foreground processes are ones that have been started or launched by a user. They may be in a terminal window, or they may be a graphical application. Background processes are all of the processes that are started automatically and don’t have any interaction with users....

December 19, 2022 · 6 min · 1087 words · Lea Hill

How To Log Out Of Facebook Messenger On Your Android Device

Ever since Facebook decided to force people to use Facebook Messenger to send and receive messages through Facebook, many people are not happy. If you’ve decided to install it and log in, you probably discovered that there’s no way to log out. Facebook Messenger may be the easiest way to stay in contact with your friends on Facebook, but you may not want it active all the time. Unfortunately, there is no log out button or option on the interface like there is on Facebook....

December 19, 2022 · 3 min · 494 words · Russell Curry

How To Open The Full Contact Editing Window In Outlook 2013

By default, when you double-click on a contact in Outlook 2013, the new Contact Card displays for that contact. The Contact Card doesn’t contain all the fields from the full contact editing window that opens when you create a new contact. The Contact Card also displays by default when you search for a contact. The new Contact Card displays information about the selected contact regardless of where it is stored....

December 19, 2022 · 5 min · 937 words · John Marquis

How To Prolong The Life Of Your Hard Drive

In this guide we will show you how to get the most life possible out of your hard drive. All hard drives will inevitably go bad; we have seen them last for 10+ years and we have seen them dead on arrival. So, what factors play into the life of a hard drive? Read on to find out… The Most Common Causes Other than simply getting lucky with the hard drive you order, the most commonly accepted causes for early hard drive failure are heat and physical trauma....

December 19, 2022 · 6 min · 1208 words · Odessa Torres

How To Recover Accidentally Deleted Files On Your Windows Pc Thumb Drive Or Sd Card

If you have accidentally deleted files from your Windows computer or from an external USB drive, memory card, or other external storage device, there’s an easy way to recover those files using a free program. UndeleteMyFiles Pro is a freeware program that allows you to recover deleted files quickly and easily and restore them to a specified location. You can also use the program to search for deleted media files and restore them....

December 19, 2022 · 4 min · 825 words · Willie Sanders

How To Run Android Apps And Games On Your Windows Desktop With Bluestacks

If there’s an Android application you really love and wish you could run on your computer, now you can: there’s a dead simple way to run Android apps on your PC or Mac without the fuss of moonlighting as an Android developer. What Is BlueStacks? Let’s say there’s a mobile game you really love and want to play it on your PC with a bigger screen and a more comfortable interface....

December 19, 2022 · 7 min · 1479 words · Nicole Guillory

How To Safely Share Your Smartphone Computer Or Tablet With A Guest

All modern smartphone, tablet, and desktop operating systems offer secure ways to give a guest access to your computer. Lock them to a specific app or give them restricted access to your PC. Forget looking over their shoulder! Just using a profile switcher like the one in Chrome isn’t the best way to do this, although it does at least give your guest their own browsing session — assuming they don’t switch back to yours with a few clicks....

December 19, 2022 · 6 min · 1138 words · Willie Brown

How To Save A Web Page As A Pdf In Google Chrome

Sometimes, you’d like to grab a “hard copy” of a website in Google Chrome, but you don’t necessarily want to print it out on paper. In that case, it’s easy to save a website to a PDF file on Windows 10, Mac, Chrome OS, and Linux. First, open Chrome and navigate to the web page you’d like to save to a PDF. Once you’re on the right page, locate the vertical ellipsis button (three dots aligned vertically) in the upper-right corner of the window and click on it....

December 19, 2022 · 2 min · 313 words · Marta Ellison

How To Use Internet Explorer Mode In Edge

If you’re browsing with Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 or 11 and you visit a site that needs Internet Explorer to work properly, you’re in luck. Edge includes an “Internet Explorer mode” for compatibility. Here’s how to use it. First, open Edge. In the upper-right corner of any window, click the ellipses button (three dots) and select “Settings” in the menu that appears. When the Settings tab opens, expand the window until you see the Settings sidebar....

December 19, 2022 · 2 min · 380 words · Micaela Carter

How To Watch Tv Online For Free

Streaming Services Are Getting Pricey If you hate paying for TV, then you’ve probably calculated the yearly price of services like Netflix or Hulu. As it turns out, a subscription to Netflix and Hulu will cost you more than $200 a year, and additional services will only bring that number higher. Luckily, you don’t have to pay for Netflix or Hulu to get your online TV fix. There are plenty of ways to watch TV online for free, and some of them will make you wonder why anybody pays $12....

December 19, 2022 · 5 min · 986 words · Connie Mattingly

Htg Reviews The Blazing Fast Lacie External Ssd Thunderbolt Usb 3.0

If you need really fast external storage for your laptop, you might be interested to know that you can buy an external solid state drive that connects over USB 3.0 or Thunderbolt… and it is crazy fast. We had to buy one for the office, so we’re reviewing it for you today. RELATED: USB 2.0 vs. USB 3.0: Should You Upgrade Your Flash Drives? The first question you might ask yourself is the same one a reader posed to me when I mentioned the purchase on Twitter: What reason would you possibly have to need a hard drive this fast?...

December 19, 2022 · 5 min · 940 words · Jose Blalock

Is The Png Format Lossless Since It Has A Compression Parameter

The PNG format is supposed to be a lossless format, but when you save an image as a PNG file, you are asked to choose a compression level. Does this mean that the PNG format is actually not lossless after all? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post helps clear up the confusion for a curious reader. 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....

December 19, 2022 · 3 min · 432 words · Raymond Fitzgerald

Is Windows Update Broken 5 Broken Updates Microsoft Released In 2013

What happened to Windows Update in 2013? Quality control seems to be suffering as Microsoft scrambles to update their software faster than ever. They’ve released quite a few buggy and broken Windows Updates this year. Microsoft capped off a year of shaky quality control by releasing a broken firmware update for their Surface Pro 2 hardware and promptly going on vacation, leaving the problem unfixed for over a month. It’s been a rough year....

December 19, 2022 · 5 min · 1002 words · Harris Peace

Mac Os X Isn T Safe Anymore The Crapware Malware Epidemic Has Begun

OS X users like to make fun of Windows users as the only ones that have a malware problem. But that’s simply not true anymore, and the problem has increased dramatically in the last few months. Join us as we expose the truth about what’s really going on, and hopefully warn people about the impending doom. Since it is actually Unix under the hood, OS X has some native protection against the worst types of viruses....

December 19, 2022 · 13 min · 2614 words · Lucile Fogg

Make The Windows 8.1 Start Button Key Open The All Apps View

Windows 8.1 has the new Start Screen, but what if you don’t want to bother with it, and prefer seeing the list of applications installed on your computer instead? Thankfully, you can easily change this setting in the Taskbar Properties. You can either right-click on the Taskbar and choose Properties, or you can search using Windows 8’s built-in search engine. Either one should open the right screen. Once you have that screen open, check the option for “Show the Apps view automatically when I go to Start”....

December 19, 2022 · 1 min · 170 words · Lynn Nelson

No Disabling Ipv6 Probably Won T Speed Up Your Internet Connection

Windows, Linux, and other operating systems all have built-in support for IPv6, and it’s enabled by default. According to a myth going around, this IPv6 support is slowing down your connection and disabling it will speed things up. This myth originally had a grain of truth to it — Firefox 3 handled IPv6 poorly on some computers, especially Linux systems. However, this myth isn’t true — and we even did a benchmark to test it out....

December 19, 2022 · 4 min · 787 words · Lillian Harris

Restore The Classic Apps Based New Tab Page In Google Chrome

A recent update to Google Chrome resulted in a completely revamped version of the new tab page, one that has not gone over well with many people. If you want to get the ‘classic’ apps-based new tab page back, then Vishal Gupta from the Tweaking with Vishal blog came up with a quick and simple way to do it. All it takes is a quick bit of tweaking and a restart to get the ‘classic’ new tab page back....

December 19, 2022 · 1 min · 161 words · Samantha Brooks

The Best Gaming Laptop Of 2022

However, having the option to play all your favorite games wherever you go can’t be understated—and the convenience of gaming laptops continues to make them one of the most popular products for PC gaming. Unfortunately, shopping for a gaming laptop isn’t nearly as easy as gaming on one. Hundreds of models have flooded the market over the past few years, and there’s no shortage of marketing jargon to cut through before you can start comparing different models....

December 19, 2022 · 8 min · 1703 words · Vincent Lesneski