First, download GOG Galaxy 2.0 from the official website and install it on Windows or macOS. Once the GOG Galaxy client is up and running, click on the cog icon in the top left. Hover your mouse over “Add Games & Friends” and select “Connect platforms”. Here, you can select from a list of integrations with the most popular PC gaming platforms, including Xbox Live, Epic Games Store, Origin, PlayStation Network, Steam, and Uplay....
Ubuntu and most other Linux distributions now use the GRUB2 boot loader. You can change its settings to select a default operating system, set a background image, and choose how long GRUB counts down before automatically booting the default OS. We configured GRUB2 on Ubuntu 14.04 here, but the process should be similar for other Linux distributions. You may have customized the original GRUB’s settings by editing its menu.lst file in the past, but the process is now different....
No need to leave a headphone cord dangling across your living room floor: you can easily pair wireless Bluetooth headphones with your Apple TV. Why Would I Want To Do This? While the reasons someone might want to link a pair of wireless headphones to their TV are varied, there’s generally two primary reasons why you might do so. RELATED: How to Add Bluetooth Headphones to Your HDTV First, you want to watch TV without keeping everyone up....
Excel has built-in features that you can use to display your calibration data and calculate a line-of-best-fit. This can be helpful when you are writing a chemistry lab report or programming a correction factor into a piece of equipment. In this article, we’ll look at how to use Excel to create a chart, plot a linear calibration curve, display the calibration curve’s formula, and then set up simple formulas with the SLOPE and INTERCEPT functions to use the calibration equation in Excel....
With all the great gadgets and geeky toys ‘n trinkets that fall into the small-enough-for-a-stocking category, there’s no need to limit yourself to boring stocking stuffers. Read on as we showcase some great items to tuck in all those stockings hung on the mantle with care. While what constitutes a stocking stuffer varies from household to household, we’ve opted to stick with two traditional traditional measures. All our stocking stuffers actually fit in a stocking and they’re all relatively inexpensive ($25 or less)....
Although you probably strive to format your Word document as you compose it, there may be a time when you need to rearrange items. This is common if you use images, objects, and for this guide, tables. If you find that your table would work better in a different spot in your document, we’ll show you a couple of ways to move it. Once you change its location, you may need to make adjustments to the text around it as well....
Windows 8 awkwardly forces the Start menu programs list into a flat “All Apps” list. Many programs haven’t been properly updated for this new reality and fill your All Apps list with useless shortcuts to help files, websites, and uninstallers. On Windows 8.1, you’ll be able to have the Start button open the All Apps list directly, so having a nicely organized All Apps list will be very helpful. The list pulls its shortcuts from the traditional Start menu folders....
We have found the free AppLocker utility to be the best option for locking down your apps. It’s a simple menu bar app that lets you password-protect apps using a password. You can protect one app for free, but you’ll have to pay $9.99 to upgrade and unlock the limit and enable support for Touch ID and Bluetooth unlocking. RELATED: How to Add More Touch ID Fingers to Your Mac...
If you’ve copied text from another document and it’s not formatted the way you want, or it has some strange or mixed up formatting, you can easily remove all the formatting from the text and return the text to the default style. To do this, select the text from which you want to remove the formatting and click Clear All Formatting in the Font section of the Home tab. The text returns to the default Normal style....
Since ProtonMail is a secure email service that prioritizes privacy and security, resetting your password is a bit different from “regular” webmail providers like Gmail. You can do it, but here’s what you need to know. Before You Reset Your Password ProtonMail has two password modes: single-password mode and two-password mode. If you haven’t enabled two-password mode, you don’t need to worry about this, as you’ll be using the default single-password mode....
There are so many apps out there for Android devices, many of them free, that you can’t help installing a bunch of them. However, you might discover you don’t like some of them, or you’re starting to run out of room on your device. Uninstalling apps is easy on Android devices. We will show you three simple methods for uninstalling apps in Android. RELATED: How to Uninstall Android Apps From Your Smartphone or Tablet...
Recently an email has been making the rounds, scaring people like my mom by claiming that the flashlight app on their smartphone is stealing their information and sending it to China. This, of course, isn’t exactly true, and for the iPhone’s built-in flashlight, is patently false. In case you don’t feel like scrolling down, you should note that despite the fact that the news report showed a lot of stock footage of iPhones and the iPhone flashlight, there is absolutely no reason to worry if you have an iPhone and you are using the built-in iPhone flashlight....
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS will “form the basis of the first commercially available Ubuntu tablets,” according to Canonical. We installed Ubuntu Touch 14.04 on our own hardware to see what those tablets will be like. We don’t recommend installing this yourself, as it’s still not a polished, complete experience. We’re using “Ubuntu Touch” as shorthand here — apparently this project’s new name is “Ubuntu For Devices.” The Welcome Screen RELATED: 5 Things You Need to Know About Ubuntu 14....
Sometimes you have an older but still very useful computer and are faced with a dilemma, should you upgrade it or simply hold out until you can buy a new one? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post discusses the dilemma in order to help a reader make a decision. 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....
Google’s stock Android often gets a free ride from Android geeks who flock to Nexus and Google Play Edition devices, avoiding devices running Samsung’s TouchWiz, HTC’s Sense, and other manufacturer skins. But stock Android isn’t perfect. Stock Android isn’t perfect. It has some big weak spots that are remedied by other versions of Android, both ones created by Android and ones created by the Android community. Multi-App Multitasking Android’s multitasking is mostly useful for having multiple applications running in the background....
RELATED: The 10 Best Action Movies to Stream for Free in 2022 Boss Level Play Video Hulu original Boss Level explores the popular time-loop genre in an action-movie context. B-movie stalwart Frank Grillo stars as a grizzled former military operative who finds himself getting killed over and over again by a colorful assortment of assassins, only to restart his day every time he dies. Director Joe Carnahan structures the movie like an old-school video game as the main character fights his way up to the big boss (played by Mel Gibson), quipping all the way....
As a smartwatch essentially acts as a companion to your smartphone, compatibility between two devices becomes very important. Fortunately for you, most smartwatches, except the Apple Watch, play well with Android phones. That said, some watches provide better integration with phones from their manufacturer. So ensure that you are not missing out on a crucial feature because it’s exclusive to phones from a particular company. Beyond that, you have to consider your needs and use case....
Do you regularly erase your browsing data, run CCleaner, or use another temporary-file cleaning tool? You’re probably clearing your browser cache, and it’s slowing down your browsing. The cache contains local copies of bits of websites. Your browser loads these bits from your hard drive when you visit a website that requires them, speeding things up and saving download bandwidth. Why Your Browser Creates a Cache RELATED: Why Is My Browser Storing So Much Private Data?...
What Is a Vlog? The term “vlog” comes from “video blog” or “video log,” and that’s exactly what it is. A vlog is simply a blog where the medium is a video instead of written words. Of course, “blog” isn’t much more descriptive than “vlog.” Both of these terms are fairly open-ended. Blogs and vlogs encompass a variety of different things, and that’s part of the point. Someone could run a fashion blog and write about makeup and clothes....
If you’re new to OS X, or even if you’re not and you’re simply used to pinning everything to the Dock, you might have wondered what Launchpad is, what it does, and how to use it. Launchpad, for lack of a better comparison, can be thought of as the OS X equivalent of the iOS home screen, which is how you launch iOS apps. Indeed, that’s exactly what Launchpad is, an app launcher and like its iOS equivalent, it is similar in appearance and function....
