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Zotac has launched new entries of its ZBOX C series of compact computers, and this time, they’re coming with Intel’s 12th gen P-series CPUs. These are laptop chips, mind you, but they’re still coming with up to 12 cores and 16 threads in the highest-end options. These PCs are completely fanless, but the chassis still has plenty of ventilation holes to let air in and heat out. The cases themselves are pretty tiny at 204 x 129 x 68mm (8″ x 5....

Most people know that .exe files are potentially dangerous, but that isn’t the only file extension to beware of on Windows. There are a variety of other potentially dangerous file extensions – more than you might expect. So Why Would I Want to Know Which Files are Dangerous? It’s important to know which file extensions are potentially dangerous when deciding whether a file attached to an email or downloaded from the web is safe to open....

If you’ve been using your Mac for a while, you’ve probably accumulated a lot of shortcuts in your Dock, which can make finding things difficult. Adding a blank space or two is a great way to organize apps into groups. A blank space on the Dock is just that: nothing. When you click on it, it won’t do or launch anything. They just let you scan your eye along your icons so you’ll be able to better make out your applications....

Automation is always a good thing, and we’ve looked at various ways in which you can automate tasks on your Android. AutoMagic takes a different approach to things, making it possible to create flow charts that are used to trigger actions based on various conditions. While this is a premium app that can be purchased from Google Play there’s also an evaluation version that can be downloaded for ten days’ of testing from the app website....

The Mini Toolbar and Live Preview are features in Word introduced in Word 2007 and continued in Word 2010 and 2013. They can be useful for quick formatting and to preview possible formats. However, if these features annoy you, they are easy to disable. The Mini Toolbar in Word 2013 pops up when you select text in a document and provides quick access to formatting tools. Live Preview allows you to preview how a specific feature, such as style sets, will affect your document as you hover over the different choices for that feature....

Manny Pacquiao returns to the ring Saturday, July 20 at 9:00 PM Eastern Time (US) to face off against undefeated Super WBA Welterweight Champion Keith Thurman in Las Vegas. Here’s how to watch. How to Watch the Fight Live in the United States In the US, the fight is available online exclusively through Fox PPV for a price of $74.99. Coverage of the title fight begins at 9:00 PM Eastern Time (US)....

In this edition of Geek School, we look at formatting, filtering and comparing objects in the Pipeline. Be sure to read the previous articles in the series: Learn How to Automate Windows with PowerShell Learning to Use Cmdlets in PowerShell Learning How to Use Objects in PowerShell And stay tuned for the rest of the series all week. Default Formatting When I first started out with PowerShell, I thought everything was magic, but the truth is it just takes a little bit of time to understand what is going on underneath the hood....

What Merger? Warner Bros. has gone through many different mergers and sales since it was founded in 1923, and AT&T purchased the company in 2018 (which was challenged by the U.S. Justice Department at the time). Under AT&T’s umbrella, the company became WarnerMedia and launched the HBO Max streaming service. Warner also owns HBO, CNN, DC Films, New Line Cinema, and other studios and channels. However, just three years later, AT&T started plans to sell WarnerMedia to Discovery — owner of the Discovery+ streaming service, HGTV, the Food Network, and Animal Planet, to name a few properties....

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could print from any of your devices (desktops, phones, tablets) to any of your printers, at any time? Read on as we explore Google Cloud Print, a fantastic way to enable printing on all your devices big and small. Why Do I Want to Do This? The best workflow and computer tweaks make your life easier, and that’s certainly true of setting up Google Cloud Print....

You don’t just want an article or an individual image, you want the whole web site. What’s the easiest way to siphon it all? 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. Image available as wallpaper at GoodFon. The Question SuperUser reader Joe has a simple request: Every page, no exception. Joe’s on a mission....

Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) is a security technology that will help patch up one of the Internet’s weak points. We’re lucky SOPA didn’t pass, because SOPA would have made DNSSEC illegal. DNSSEC adds critical security to a place where the Internet doesn’t really have any. The domain name system (DNS) works well, but there’s no verification at any point in the process, which leaves holes open for attackers....

Having a monitor with a very high resolution is awesome, but what do you do when Google Chrome and Internet Explorer refuse to make appropriate use of all that resolution real-estate? Today’s SuperUser Q&A has some possible solutions to one reader’s resolution dilemma. 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 curtis needs help to make his browsers use the full resolution of his monitor:...

Sharing of a family computer works out well most of the time, but what happens if someone shuts the computer down via their account while you still have work documents open in yours? Is there a way to prevent other accounts from shutting the computer down? 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 Robith Nuriel Haq wants to know how to prevent other users on his computer from shutting it down:...

Introduced in iOS 16, Apple Maps finally gained the feature that had been present in Google Maps for many years. Apple’s implementation is similar, and it can include over 10 stops. Let’s get started. RELATED: What’s New in iOS 16 for iPhone First, open the Maps app on your iPhone and find the end destination of your trip. Tap the driving icon to bring up directions. Next, tap the “Add Stop” button in the direction list....

If you frequently find yourself with dozens of forgotten open Safari tabs on your iPhone or iPad, then it can be annoying to sort through them or manually close them later. Luckily, Safari can automatically close tabs after a certain period of time. Here’s how to set it up. First, open Settings. Scroll down until you see “Safari” and tap it. In Safari settings, swipe down until you see the “Tabs” section, then tap “Close Tabs....

Snapchat’s Story feature is so popular it’s been ripped off time and time again by Facebook. It’s a great way to share what’s going on in your life in a disposable way. The problem is, sometimes there are one or two people you don’t necessarily want seeing everything you post. Maybe it’s your mother, or an annoying ex. Whatever the case, here’s how to block specific people from your Snapchat Story....

Once you’ve added multiple watch faces, you don’t need to go back into the customization menu to add or change the watch face (say, from Infograph to Typography). RELATED: How to Add a Watch Face on Apple Watch All it takes is a swipe. Quite literally. First, lift your Apple Watch so that the screen becomes active. Now, swipe from the left or right edge of the Apple Watch screen all the way to the other edge to quickly change the watch face....

Any parent will know that giving their children access to the internet is a double-edged sword. Access to the world’s biggest free library is invaluable, but there are plenty of unpleasant corners of the web that young eyes are best shielded from. If you’re using Windows 8, Family Safety can be used to lock down your kids’ accounts. We have looked at how parental controls can be used in Windows 7 as well as how to monitor and control computer usage , but Family Safety can be used to not only monitor, but also place finely tuned restrictions on what can be done in a particular user account....

Manual data entry can be time-consuming and error prone. But if you take a few minutes to create a data entry form in Microsoft Excel, you can improve the process and reduce the risk of mistakes like missing data. Add the Form Option To use the Form option in Excel, you’ll need to add it to either the Quick Access toolbar or ribbon. The simplest of the two is the Quick Access toolbar....

Are you looking to de-Google, or maybe you’re just switching to a new account? If don’t need Google’s services anymore, you can delete your Google account for good. We’ll show you how to do just this. RELATED: How to Delete Your Gmail Account Without Deleting Your Google Account What Happens When You Delete Your Google Account When you delete your Google account, you lose access to all your content stored in your account....