Unhiding all the rows in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is as easy as pressing a keyboard shortcut or using a button on the ribbon. We’ll show you how. How to Unhide All Rows in Excel With a Shortcut To show hidden rows in your spreadsheet, launch your spreadsheet with Microsoft Excel. Then, access the worksheet in which you have the hidden content. Select your entire worksheet by pressing Ctrl+A (Windows) or Command+A (Mac)....
Thanks to Apple’s HomeKit home automation system and the versatility of Siri, you can now control your home lighting with nothing but your voice. Read on as we demonstrate this using Philips Hue. In order to control your smart home lighting you need a handful of things. First and foremost, you need an iOS device that both runs Siri and is updated to at least iOS 8.1 or above for HomeKit support....
Most of our readers are familiar with Windows 7, but just how knowledgeable are you? Could you pass a Microsoft certification test? In our new Geek School series, we’re going to try and teach you about technology in a more in-depth fashion – starting with Windows 7, but we’re not stopping there. Be sure to check out the other articles in the series (so far) Upgrades and Migrations Configuring Devices Managing Disks...
When we visit a website using our favorite browser, we usually just type in the basic part of the URL and ‘arrive’ at the desired location without any problems. But have we reached a point where we can start omitting ‘www’ from the URLs for all websites now, or is it still necessary to add it in? 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....
Broadly speaking, the answer is “yes.” While buying secondhand graphics cards from Bitcoin miners carries a few inherent risks, they’re not really greater than the risks of buying used parts in the first place. Let’s break it down. A GPU Is Not a Car It’s tempting to think of electronic components as having a shelf life, and that after a certain amount of use it’s dangerous to keep them without replacement....
Windows 8.1 Update 1 offers some crucial improvements for mouse and keyboard users. Windows will now automatically detect whether your computer has a touch screen and do the right thing. It also provides better mouse and keyboard support in “Store apps.” Microsoft’s latest free update for Windows 8 and will be available to everyone on April 8, 2014. As long as you’re running Windows 8.1, it will arrive via Windows Update like any other update for Windows 8....
While most of us here prefer Google, Windows Live does have one great feature that Gmail doesn’t yet provide: a single-use security code that lets you login on a public computer without having your password stolen. Here’s how it works. The security code actually works by hooking up your cell phone number into your account, and then signing in with a single-use security code sent to your phone as a text message—it only works once, so even if there’s a keylogger on the public computer it won’t matter....
Your Mac’s Services menu can be very useful. The Services menu has become a hidden feature used mostly be power-users, but it’s very easy to use. It’s a bit like the Share features on Android or iOS. The Services menu is present in practically every application on your Mac, although it is easy to miss. Applications you install can add quick actions to this menu. Services 101 To use a service in an application, click the current application’s name on the menu bar at the top of your Mac’s screen and point to Services....
Most of the time we rarely spare a thought for deleted files outside of knowing they are now out of our way, but what actually happens to those files when we delete them? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answers to a curious reader’s questions about the deletion process. 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....
What Is Xbox Cloud Gaming? RELATED: Microsoft Just Unveiled Its New Xbox Experience, and It Looks Much Better Xbox Game Pass works by running the game in the cloud, using Microsoft’s own high-end hardware, and streaming the results to your device pre-rendered and ready to go. This allows a modest Android phone to render even graphically intensive games like The Witcher without issue. Video game streaming is nothing like streaming to an audience like you would on YouTube or Twitch—it’s a tool to make playing games on portable devices, your Android device and tablet, much easier....
Keen: Playful Console Magic on the PC The first Commander Keen game, Invasion of the Vorticons, is split into three episodes designed for PCs with MS-DOS. In the first episode, you play as Billy Blaze (aka Commander Keen), a kid who must travel to Mars to repel an invasion of dog-like aliens called Vorticons. The aliens have dismantled your ship and scattered its parts across the planet. Your job is to retrieve those parts so you can get back home....
Computers need cooling to remove the heat their components generate during use. If you’re building your own PC — especially if you’re overclocking it — you’ll need to think about how you’ll cool it. Heat build-up can actually damage your computer’s hardware or cause it to become unstable. Modern PCs may shut down and refuse to operate if they reach a potentially unsafe level of heat. Heat Sinks RELATED: Don’t Be Intimidated: Building Your Own Computer is Easier Than You’d Think...
Getting Started Log into your Gmail account an go to your settings page. Under the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab make sure POP is enabled. You can choose to enable POP access for all new mail that arrives from now on, or for all mail in your Gmail account. On the second option, we suggest you chose keep Gmail’s copy in the Inbox so you can still access your emails on the Gmail server....
“Black Friday Edition” TVs As the popularity of Black Friday has risen to astronomical levels, retailers and manufacturers have had to go to more extreme lengths to compete. One way in which they do this is by manufacturing specific models for Black Friday. This strategy can be used on a variety of products, but TVs are ripe for it, and it’s been going on for years. The idea is to produce a television that appears to be a certain model but is actually very slightly different....
If there is one thing we are all tired of, it is being constantly tracked and spied on while we are browsing the Internet. With this in mind, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been hard at work on an extension for Firefox and Chrome that helps put an end to the unwanted attention so that you can browse in peace. Once you install the extension, you will see a ‘first run’ page displayed with an explanation of how the extension works....
Whether on laptops, desktops, or even game consoles, we’ve all heard the whir of the system fans in the background. How exactly do all these little cooling fans know when to spin up, down, and otherwise moderate the amount of air they’re moving? 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 darkAsPitch wonders:...
Google consistently puts out new improvements for its Google TV OS (which is found on the Chromecast with Google TV). The latest improvement comes through a partnership with Pluto TV, a popular free linear streaming service. Instead of on-demand video content, Pluto TV functions more like traditional cable. When you download the Pluto TV app on your Google TV-toting device, you’ll see more than 300 free live TV channels on the Live tab and Free Live TV recommendations in the For you tab....
Microsoft just released a new version of Outlook for Mac, although this one is only available to Office 365 customers. Since the first thing most geeks will want to do is add their Gmail account, here are the quick instructions on how to do that. Once you launch New Outlook for Mac the first time, you’ll be prompted to login with your Office 365 account to validate your license. After you do that, however, you are presented with a blank Outlook Window....
Mobile browser tabs aren’t super visible, which makes it easy to have dozens of tabs open on your phone. It can be annoying to sift through these tabs and close them. We’ll show you how to automatically close old tabs on Android. It’s very easy for browsers on Android to end up with a bunch of tabs open. Some links will open in new tabs without you realizing it. Apps will take you to the browser then leave the tab behind when you return....
Update: Instagram’s Easter Egg is now available on both iPhone and Android devices. Unfortunately, at the time of writing, it doesn’t appear as though the Easter Egg is available on Android. First, go to the App Store and check for app updates. Then, open the Instagram app on your iPhone or Android smartphone and then tap the Profile icon in the bottom-right corner. Here, tap the hamburger Menu icon found in the top-right corner....
