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It’s that shop-til-you-drop time of year again, and retailers have already spent most of November with teaser sales and ads for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Here’s how to score the best deals and avoid getting ripped off. Make a List (and Do Your Research) Before You Start We feel that it’s necessary to point this out right away. Most retailers mark things up earlier in the year so that they can mark them down on Black Friday and convince you to buy them....

When you print in Microsoft Word, you can print the whole document, the current page, or a range of pages. But what if you have a document with multiple sections, each of which has its own page numbering? There’s a nifty little trick you can use to specify a range of pages in a particular section, or across multiple sections. Let’s take a look. In Word, switch to the “File” menu and then click the “Print” command....

If your workflow is populated with a lot of repetitive actions, then it never hurts to look for ways to improve and streamline your workflow. Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has some helpful suggestions for a reader seeking to improve his workflow. 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. Screenshot courtesy of Matt Joyce (Flickr)....

There’s been a lot of friction about the Start screen in Windows 8. The default setup in Windows 10 is to show the Start menu instead of the Start screen. However, you can easily choose to use the Start screen instead of the Start menu. By default, the Start button brings up the Start menu with application tiles added, as shown below. To show the Start screen instead of the Start menu, right-click the Taskbar and select “Properties” from the popup menu....

Roku’s software is a popular standard for “smart” HDTVs, especially among budget manufacturers. If you want your homescreen to be more organized, you can apply custom names and icons to your input device. Here’s how. Previously, televisions running Roku software from manufacturers like TCL, RCA, Sharp, Insignia, and other low-cost brands could only select from pre-installed input names, like “Satellite” or “Antenna TV.” I had my Nintendo Switch set up on the “Wii” input, a name for a machine that’s over a decade old, and my Steam Link was simply labelled as “Game Console....

Restarting your iPhone 14 allows you to troubleshoot issues, bring certain changes into effect, or simply get a fresh start. Plus, restarting is easy—you can use your phone’s hardware buttons, a Settings option, or an on-screen menu. We’ll show you how. RELATED: How to Fix Crashing Apps on an iPhone or iPad Use Buttons to Restart an iPhone 14 The most common way to reboot an iPhone 14 is to use your phone’s buttons....

It’s great to control your smart house with your voice, but it’s even better when you can say one command and have multiple things happen at once. Here’s how to set up Routines to use with Alexa and your Echo devices. Before this, if you wanted to turn on your lights and the space heater, you would have to give Alexa two separate commands. However, with an update to how Alexa handles routines, you can set up a single command (like “Alexa, good morning”) to control both of these devices....

We’ve recently showed you how to manage startup applications in Ubuntu 14.04, just like you can in Windows. However, when you access the Startup Applications Preferences tool not all startup applications are listed. Some are hidden. We’ll show you how to reveal these hidden applications. For example, these are the startup applications we see when we open the Startup Applications Preferences tool. To show the hidden startup applications, press Ctrl + Alt + T to open the Terminal window....

App extensions allow you to extend iOS’s Share menu with any service you like, add browser actions to Safari or Chrome, use custom photo-editing tools in the Photos app, and integrate cloud storage services with any app. Extensions are included along with apps, so just install an associated app to get its extension. You probably already have extensions for your favorite apps installed — they’re just disabled by default....

Windows 8.1 integrates OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) everywhere, even on the desktop. You may want to save all your personal files to OneDrive so they’ll be accessible everywhere, but Windows doesn’t always save to OneDrive by default. We’ll walk you through setting things up so you can more easily save to OneDrive and won’t accidentally save your important files to your local storage. These tips could also be used to save files to Dropbox, Google Drive, or another cloud storage service....

Launching the Camera App You can get to the camera app quickly from the Lock screen by waking your iPhone and then swiping from right to left. You don’t have to unlock your iPhone. If you have a model with Face ID and no home button, you can also long press the Camera icon at the bottom right. When your iPhone is unlocked, the quickest way to launch the camera app is in Control Center....

Valve’s Steam Link is a great way for PC gamers to stream games onto their TV. While the Steam Link hardware is no more, it’s easy to get going with the Steam Link app on Android! The Steam Link app is available now on the Google Play Store, and you can install it on Android phones, Chromebooks with Android app support, and televisions or set-top boxes running Android TV. For now, Steam Link isn’t available on iOS, and there’s no telling if it ever will be....

Smart home gadgets aren’t just smart lightbulbs. You can make pretty much any part of your house smart these days, even things as simple as wall plugs. If you want to get one of the best smart plugs, this amazing Kasa option is cheaper than ever during this sale. The Kasa Smart Wi-Fi Plug Mini is currently available for $8, a step down from its usual $10 price point. This means that you can make an outlet in your house smart for the price of a cheeseburger, making it a deal that’s hard to pass on if you’re looking into getting started on the smart home ecosystem....

There are numerous modern apps that are a built into Windows 8 and they are featured prominently on the Start screen. It may well be the case that you don’t want to use them because they just aren’t apps you’re interested in, or it may be that you have found a better alternative. You can right click a tile and selecting the uninstall option, but if you want to remove multiple apps at once you can do so with a PowerShell Script....

What Is a VPN Protocol? In short, a protocol is a set of rules that govern how devices within a network communicate with each other. When you connect to the internet, for example, you’re using the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) to let your computer talk to the site you’re accessing. A VPN protocol is a specific type of protocol meant for—you guessed it—VPNs. A protocol can include all kinds of information....

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 Diogo wants to know why the ping command treats the localhost and the local IP address differently when, on the surface, they appear to be the same thing: Obviously there is a difference of some sort, but what exactly is going on when you switch between the two?...

While they’re never the snappiest devices, if your Kindle is feeling sluggish—or freezing altogether—we’re here to help. Let’s look at some troubleshooting tips. Check to See If You’re Downloading Anything Kindles are underpowered devices compared to…well, everything else. You just don’t need that much processing power to handle eBooks, and most of the time, that’s fine. But, if your Kindle is doing anything in the background, it will probably start running slowly....

Genie in a Bottle Game Genie is the brand name for a series of video game enhancement devices developed by Codemasters and sold by Galoob in the U.S. The first Game Genie model worked with the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System and launched in the summer of 1991 for about $50. Game Genie devices for the Super NES, Game Boy, Sega Genesis, and Game Gear followed. Like a genie of legend, the Game Genie made your wishes come true....

What Is Wi-Fi 7? How Fast Is It? Wi-Fi 7 is a new specification for Wi-Fi devices currently in the works. It’s based on the draft 802.11be standard, published in May 2021, that has not yet been finalized or approved by the FCC. The most show-stopping feature of Wi-Fi 7 is that it might make wired Ethernet connections obsolete for a certain class of both home users and professionals—the first live demonstration of the standard in early 2022 showcased some mind-blowing speeds....

Last year, DuckDuckGo launched a private beta of a new service it dubbed “Email Protection.” While it looks like it’s not ready for primetime just yet, the beta has been extended into a public, open one that everyone can apply to. The whole shtick of the DuckDuckGo search engine is that, unlike Google, it doesn’t track you in any way. Email Protection wants to bring that same exact principle to your email....