Valve’s SteamOS is a living-room gaming operating system based on desktop Linux. It’s currently in beta, but you can install it yourself on almost any computer thanks to Ye Olde SteamOSe, a modification of the SteamOS installer. Important Note: We tested this ourselves, but we’re using an unofficial modification of a beta operating system here. Before doing this, ensure you have back ups. You do this at your own risk — you could run into problems....
If you have multiple emails you need to forward to someone, you don’t have to forward each one separately or create a new email and attach each one. There is an easy method to forward multiple email messages to a single recipient as one message. Open Outlook and select multiple email messages in your Inbox the same way you would select files in Windows Explorer, using the Shift and Ctrl keys....
Reddit is terrible, but some individual subreddits are great. If you’d like to keep track of particular communities, but never want to open reddit dot com in a tab ever again, RSS feeds can get the job done. Reddit offers RSS feeds for basically every page you can open, allowing you to subscribe to them with the RSS reader of your choice or even integrate things with other services. And getting started couldn’t be easier....
Steam’s offline mode is notoriously problematic. To ensure it will work properly, you should perform a series of steps while online. If you don’t, Steam is supposed to prompt you for offline mode – but this doesn’t always work properly. If Steam’s offline mode isn’t working at all, you may still be in luck – some Steam games don’t use Steam’s DRM at all and can be launched manually....
These features don’t send everything you say to a central server. They just analyze the sound nearby until they notice you’ve said the activation phrase, and then they kick into action. iPhone & iPad RELATED: Learn How to Use Siri, the Handy iPhone Assistant Google added this feature to Android first, but Apple has followed — well, tentatively. There’s no way to have Siri on your iPhone or iPad always listening for your voice — Apple’s devices just don’t have the low-power audio processing chip they need for this feature....
As a photographer, you’ll want to control your camera remotely on occasion. For example, if you’re shooting landscapes by the sea and don’t want to get your feet wet, taking a group portrait you’re also in, playing around with self-portraits, or making a timelapse, remote control is essential. Let’s explore some of the different options. Use a Remote Shutter Release A remote shutter release is the simplest way to control your camera remotely, and you can find both wired and wireless models....
Standard “tethering” involves connecting your phone, tablet, or other device to your smartphone, sharing your smartphone’s mobile data connection with your other devices. But you may sometimes want to get your iPhone or iPad online via your PC or Mac. This is most useful when you’re in an area with low signal strength — perhaps if you don’t have a Wi-Fi signal and only have an Ethernet connection available to you....
If you really want to dig into the Android system, you may find that some apps require root access. Rooting has become less necessary over the years, but it’s still useful if you want to run certain types of apps. Here’s the most widely supported method for rooting your device, and why you might want to. This post was originally published in 2012. It has since been updated to focus on the most widely supported rooting method instead of a collection of one-click apps....
How to Set Up Your Scanner If you haven’t already, begin by connecting your scanner to your computer or your network. If you’re not familiar with how to do that, read about how to add a printer on Windows 10 or Windows 11 first — even though they’re different kinds of devices, the process is basically the same. Most scanners can be controlled with special software from the manufacturer, or using the universal applications provided with Windows....
If you want to make sure that a particular device is always available through your firewall, you can assign it to be a DMZ host in your Wi-Fi router. Here’s how to do it on Verizon FIOS. Note: You shouldn’t do this normally unless you know what you’re doing, because it’s bypassing the firewall. But if you are setting up an internal Wi-Fi network, you can set the new router to be the DMZ host....
Google TV devices (including the Chromecast with Google TV) have access to Android apps and games specifically made for TVs. If you want an app that doesn’t appear in the Play Store on the TV, you can “sideload” it. We’ll show you how to do it. Apps and games that haven’t been specifically enabled for TVs won’t show up in the Play Store on your Google TV device. However, that doesn’t mean that they won’t work on the TV....
We recently showed you how to turn your Raspberry Pi into a 24/7 BitTorrent box to save on your power bill and keep your tracker ratios golden. Now we’re back to show you how to add in Usenet access to round out the build as a comprehensive downloading box. Why Do I Want to Do This? As we highlighted in How to Turn a Raspberry Pi into an Always-On BitTorrent Box, the primary reason for shifting your download activities to a Raspberry Pi unit is the enormous power savings....
When it comes time to turn off a Windows 10 PC, you might not know the best way to do it. But there’s more than one way to shut down your computer, and we’ll show you six different methods that do the trick. RELATED: How to Turn On a Windows 11 or Windows 10 PC Press a Physical Power Button Perhaps the easiest way to turn off your Windows PC is by pushing its physical power button....
When typing on an Android device, your spelling is checked automatically and replacement words are suggested. If you don’t select a word in the list of suggestions, a default word is used to replace what the system thinks is a misspelled word. However, what if the word is not misspelled? The auto-correction feature in Android can be useful at times, but it may also be a hindrance. It’s easy to adjust the aggressiveness of the feature or to turn it completely off, and we’ll show you how on a Nexus 7, which runs a stock Android system, using the standard Google keyboard....
If you’re a fan of Google Lens, you now have another avenue for accessing the feature in iOS, because it’s now included in the Google Search app on the iPhone. Here’s how to use it. Google Lens is a neat little feature that can identify real-world objects, like signs, buildings, books, plants, and more using your phone’s camera. And it gives you more information about the object. It’s available in the Google Photos app, but if you don’t use Google Photos, you can now access Google Lens in the regular Google Search app....
Most of the time we review serious stuff here at How-To Geek: cutting-edge routers, streaming video solutions, and other distinctly unwhimsical hardware. Now and then we review something that’s fun for the sake of fun like the Romo, a quirky little robot that’s terribly difficult not to love. What Is The Romo? The Romo is a programmable telepresence robot. The unit itself doesn’t actually contain any sort of electronic brain but instead uses an iPhone or iPod touch as both a visual indicator, a physical interface, and the brains behind its robotic antics....
You have most likely heard of services, such as Dropbox, which are used to keep files in sync across multiple machines. However, what if you want to perform this operation on a single machine? That is, keep files which have the same file name in sync across the machine such that when one of the files changes, they are all updated. This functionality can be quite useful, especially for developers or system administrators where duplication of files is sometimes required....
Have you ever needed to know what a remote device thinks the value of a metric is? HTG explains what the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is and how can you use it to monitor network devices. Image by istargazer Overview The Simple Network Management protocol (SNMP) was created to give a common protocol foundation that network administrators can expect their device’s manufacturers will use to expose different aspects of the product....
Which Is Better for Privacy? Let’s address the elephant in the room: In 2021, ExpressVPN was acquired by Kape Technologies, a conglomerate that owns several other VPNs as well as VPN review sites. Kape has a history that seems opposed to privacy: Its founders made their original fortune through ad injection and also have ties to the Israeli intelligence community. The company has distanced itself from all of this, however, in several statements....
Microsoft’s Windows Store is a mess. It’s full of apps that exist only to scam people and take their money. Why doesn’t Microsoft care that their flagship app store is such a cesspool? It’s now been more than two years since Windows 8 was released, and this has been a problem the entire time, and it is getting worse. If Microsoft was trying to offer a safe app store to Windows users, they’ve failed....
