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Windows 10 includes the ability to stream your Xbox One games to the Xbox app on your PC. It’s a pretty cool feature that we’ll talk more about today. If you own an Xbox One, you may not realize that you can stream your games to your Windows 10 PC without any additional software or hardware. All you need is your gaming console and your desktop or laptop. The Xbox app should already be installed, so streaming should take just a few short minutes to get it up and running....

The Caps Lock key is outdated and mostly useless. Most people will only ever trigger it accidentally. Google replaced the Caps Lock key with a Search key on its Chromebooks, and you can do the same thing on Windows. There are ways to do this sort of thing with AutoHotkey, but we’ll show you how to do it without needing any third-party software running in the background. If this doesn’t sound useful to you and you just want to get rid of your Caps Lock key, you could disable the Caps Lock key entirely....

Screen Time tracks how much you’ve used your iPhone or iPad. It also lets you schedule times when you shouldn’t be using apps or set maximum amounts of time you’d want to use specific types of apps, like games. You can use Screen Time as a parental control feature with your child’s iPhone or iPad, too. This feature is new in iOS 12, which Apple will likely release in Fall, 2018....

Google Assistant can do a lot of stuff, but most of it is contained within the Google ecosystem. “Shortcuts” is a feature that allows Assistant to break free and work with third-party apps as well. Introduced in October of 2020, “Shortcuts” brings support for many popular apps to Google Assistant. This means that you can use your voice to perform actions in these apps. Here are a few examples of what you can do with it:...

System Restore is a Windows feature that can help fix certain types of crashes and other computer problems. Here’s how it works, how to set it up, and how to use it when things go awry. We’re going to be using Windows 11 in this article, but System Restore has been around a long time — and works pretty much the same way in each version of Windows. The instructions here are good for Windows 7, 8, 10, and 11, and you’ll encounter only minor differences throughout the process....

Valve’s SteamOS is a living-room operating system you can install yourself, but it will start shipping on Steam Machines later this year. While SteamOS is intended as a living-room operating system, it actually has a full Linux desktop. The desktop underneath the slick Steam interface is a standard GNOME desktop built on top of Debian Linux. If you’ve used Linux before, it should look very familiar. Accessing the Linux Desktop The Linux desktop is installed by default, but it’s hidden to protect typical users from accidentally stumbling into the Linux desktop on their televisions....

Launchers. They’re not exactly in short supply in Google Play. While there are many to choose from, each with a slightly different approach to things, they all tend to work in the same general way. The same cannot be said of Trigger, which makes it possible to put your device’s touchscreen to the best possible use by using gestures to launch apps, access settings and more. This is not the first time a gesture launcher has been developed to help ease the chore of getting programs up and running....

Mobile Safari is a really great browser — it’s fast, easy to use, and has most of the features you might want. What it doesn’t have, however, is a good way to view the source code of a page. For the vast majority of people, viewing the source code of a page on their phone or tablet probably isn’t the highest thing on their list, but for anybody who is curious about how sites are doing things, or for programmers, it can be pretty useful....

The collision could have been dangerous, not to mention inconvenient, considering how long it takes to exit a space station and exchange insurance information. “This evening, the International Space Station’s Progress 81 thrusters fired for 5 minutes, 5 seconds in a Pre-Determined Debris Avoidance Maneuver (PDAM) to provide the complex an extra measure of distance away from the predicted track of a fragment of Russian Cosmos 1408 debris,” NASA said in its usual style of a totally easy to read statement....

RELATED: Ten Awesome Holiday Action Movies (That Aren’t ‘Die Hard’) Arthur Christmas Play Video Santa Claus’ neglected son gets the chance to redeem himself in the charming Arthur Christmas. Animation studio Aardman switches up its typical stop-motion style for CGI, but Arthur Christmas is just as creative and distinctive as the company’s Wallace & Gromit movies, with similarly wry, winning humor. Lovable loser Arthur goes on a quest to deliver a missing present on Christmas Eve, in the process proving why he and not his smarmy older brother is truly deserving of taking up the Santa mantle....

Wearables were everywhere at CES 2015, which is no surprise — even “normal people” are already walking around with activity-tracking bands. An avalanche of wearable products is coming your way. The term “wearable” is a buzzword, sure. But it’s a simple one — it just means wearable technology. Thanks to the march of technology, such products are becoming easier to create. Wearables 101 RELATED: No, It’s Not Always Recording: What You Need to Know About Google Glass...

Display Pictures DP means “display picture” or, less commonly, “display photo.” It’s the image representing you on a social network or any website. This acronym is widely used on Twitter, but it can also crop up anywhere on the internet or even in real-life conversations. For instance, you might say, “My DP looks so bad,” to your friend who’s standing right next to you. You can also use “DP” as a verb about a picture you’re going to turn into your photo....

What Is an SSH Agent? Your public SSH key is like your username or identity, and you can share it with everybody. Your private SSH key is like a password, and is saved locally on your computer. But, this is like storing your passwords on a sticky note—anyone can view them if they have access to it. So, for security, SSH will ask you for a passphrase when you generate your keys (hopefully you didn’t skip that step) and it will use that passphrase to encrypt and decrypt your private key....

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 MarcusJ is curious about the tar format and why we’re still using it after all these years: That’s a perfectly reasonable question; so much has changed in the computing world in the last thirty years but we’re still using the tar format. What’s the story?...

Apple’s macOS Catalina arrives today, October 7. This free upgrade lets you use your iPad as a second display, draw with an Apple Pencil in Mac apps, and run more iPad apps on your Mac. Catalina is compatible with most Mac models released after 2012. If yours ran macOS 10.14 Mojave, it will almost certainly run Catalina. Dropping Support for 32-Bit Apps Apple has warned for years that 32-bit app support is going away, and this will happen when macOS Catalina arrives....

Since its first release, Windows 11 has received a steady stream of minor updates. Now, though, Microsoft has launched the first massive update for the operating system that changes the game with lots of new features and tweaks. How To Get The Latest Version of Windows 11 Before we jump into what you’ll get with Windows 11’s first major update, you probably want to know how to get it. If you already have Windows 11 installed, you simply need to go to Windows Update and click “Check for Update....

Having a single black pixel glaring at you when viewing certain background colors can be a bit frustrating and puzzling at the same time. Is it just stuck or is it dead? 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. Photo courtesy of Daniel Mogford (Flickr)....

For those of us who didn’t grow up with smartphones, typing on a touch keyboard can feel awfully slow. But there are tricks you can use to speed up typing on a touch keyboard, just like a physical one. These tips apply to any smartphone with a touch keyboard, from iPhones and Android phones to Windows phones and BlackBerries. They all work in a fairly similar way. Two Thumbs or One Index Finger First thing’s first: Find a good way to position your fingers for typing, one that works for you....

Summer heatwaves are a hazardous time to be a computer, game console, smartphone, or gadget that produces heat. Here are seven tips that will help your electronics survive the hottest weather. Why Do Electronics Generate Heat? Before we get to the tips, let’s take a moment to consider why gadgets generate heat in the first place—and why it’s bad for them. Computers and other electronics generate heat because when electricity flows through any conductor—including the semiconductor material in computer chips—some of the electrons collide with atoms or impurities in the material, creating resistance....

How to Watch Apple’s March Event Apple makes it incredibly easy to watch any of its events. When the event is getting ready to start, you simply need to visit Apple.com, and the stream will be right there on the home page. If you want to watch Apple’s big event on your television, you can use the Apple TV app on any platform that has it available. Or you can go to YouTube, as Apple is streaming it there....