Posts

To get to this utility, open up Control Panel, and type in partition into the search box.. you’ll immediately see the link show up: If you are in Windows 8 or 8.1 you’ll need to use the Start Screen search. If you are in Windows 10, just use the Start Menu or the Control Panel search. Either way, the same thing will come up. How to Shrink a Partition In the Disk Management screen, just right-click on the partition that you want to shrink, and select “Shrink Volume” from the menu....

Another factor that determines exactly how much you can carry in your wallet is the form factor. We’ve already mentioned folio cases that wrap around the entire device, but there are also minimalist wallet cases for those who want something as light as possible and rugged cases for those looking for maximum protection. What you’ll want in this regard will be dependent on what you like most! Wireless charging compatibility is another to look into when buying a wallet case, although your options will be more limited....

Curious about alternatives to the Google Play Store (formerly the Android Market) for reading app reviews and downloading content? Read on as we explore some of the alternatives. Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of Android Enthusiasts—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites. The Question Android Enthusiasts reader Captain Toad is curious about alternatives to the Google Play Store (aka Android Market):...

When a person is just getting into computers, there is a lot of new vocabulary to learn and sometimes it can all get a bit confusing. Take the terms BIOS and Firmware, for instance, do they mean the same thing or are they different? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post comes to the rescue to help a confused reader with terminology. 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....

It may not qualify into the three L’s of real estate, but Austin-based Icon Technology secured a $57.2 million contract to develop the technology to print 3D homes for the moon. This wouldn’t involve 3D printing the homes on Earth and then strapping them to a rocket like when you see a small house on a flatbed truck. Instead, ICON would use locally available Lunar dirt and rock — or regolith, as geologists like to say — and mine the materials using robotics to help create powdery Moon structures that resemble futuristic igloos....

The first thing you’ll notice is the redesigned shape with shorter stems: The new third-generation AirPods look more like Apple’s higher-end AirPods Pro than the second-generation AirPods. Many features found in the AirPods Pro have been added to third-generation AirPods. You’ll get spatial audio with dynamic head tracking, adaptive EQ, and “force sensor controls,” meaning you can press or long-press a button rather than just tapping your finger on an AirPod....

DashClock allows you to see notifications and status information at a glance, turning your Android lock screen’s clock into a dashboard. It’s a big improvement over the lock screen widgets included in Android 4.2. With DashClock, you can see all the status information you care about on your phone’s lock screen. DashClock supports extensions, so you can add almost anything to the DashClock widget. Note: DashClock replaces the lock screen’s clock widget on Android 4....

Google rebranded its Google Pay contactless payments app into Google Wallet, now encompassing several things, including loyalty passes, digital keys and, of course, credit and debit cards. Now, Wallet is becoming available in 12 more countries. The Wallet rebrand is landing in a handful of new countries, bringing the total up to 57 countries. The service is now arriving for users in Argentina, Cyprus, Georgia, Kyrgyztan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Malaysia, Mexico, Slovenia, Thailand, and Vietnam....

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 Royi Namir needs to settle a dispute with a colleague: How indeed? Let’s dig in and get to the bottom of this friendly dispute. “How do software programs (i.e. hwmonitor) determine the temperature of the hard drive?” I said that there must be a thermometer inside the HDD and the data (via SMART) is passed as regular info to the soft which wants that info ....

If you are writing a batch file and you don’t want to continue until somebody presses a key, you can do it really easy with the timeout command. For instance, using the following on the command prompt will pause the terminal for 10 seconds unless you press a key: Whereas this command will pause the terminal for 30 seconds whether you press a key or not: And this one will pause forever until you press a key:

You’ve created several signatures that you use for various types of emails. Then, you get a new machine and have to set up Windows and all your programs again. However, you can easily preserve your signatures in Outlook and restore them to the new machine. Signatures are not stored in the .pst file Outlook uses for email messages. They are stored in the following location: There is an easy way to open this location from within Outlook....

VirtualBox can boot virtual machines from USB flash drives, allowing you to boot a live Linux system or install an operating system from a bootable USB device. This option is well-hidden. As this option isn’t exposed in the interface and requires some digging, it may not always work perfectly. It worked fine with Ubuntu 14.04 on a Windows host, but don’t be surprised if you encounter problems with some configurations....

We’re going to assume that most How-To Geek writers know how to delete the history, cookies, and cache in Mobile Safari, but just in case you don’t know, here is how to do it. Open up the Settings app and find Safari in the left-hand list, and then scroll down the right side until you find the “Clear History and Website Data” button. You’ll be prompted to verify that you really want to do this, and it will point out that this is also going to delete the history from other devices using your iCloud account to sync Safari....

Cloud storage services are constantly vying for attention, and the inclusion of SkyDrive in Windows 8.1 is indicative of the importance Microsoft places on it. But not everyone is so enamored with the service and would rather that it wasn’t so hard-baked into the OS. Using Group Policy Editor or the Registry Editor, it can be disabled. It is slightly strange — and annoying — to find that there is no easy, built-in way to disable SkyDrive integration....

If you have an Android phone, you might have an upgraded version of text messaging called “RCS.” This is a massive upgrade over SMS, but it does come with some baggage. Here’s how to deregister your number from RCS. When switching from a device or messaging app that supports RCS to one that does not, you may experience issues with messages not being sent to the new device or app....

In a previous tutorial we took WorldEdit for a spin, a fantastic in-game editor that lets you perform advanced changes to the Minecraft landscape while playing the game. Today we’re looking at MCEdit a powerful external editor used to edit the Minecraft world outside the game just like you’d edit a photo or 3D model. Why Use MCEdit? While editing the map using an in-game tool like WorldEdit is really fun as it gives you an immediate feedback on process and feels like playing Minecraft with god-like powers, it does have limitations....

Windows 8.1 allows Windows to work better on high-DPI displays. As part of this, the way Windows deals with mice has changed. Games that don’t read raw mouse data may end up with laggy, freezing, or stuttering mouse movement. This problem seems to primarily affect users with high-DPI or high-polling rate mice — in other words, gaming mice. Microsoft has only released a partial fix, but there’s a way to fix this problem in any affected game....

Google Chrome itself can create captions for any video or audio-only content playing in the web browser. It works in the same way as Live Caption on Google Pixel phones. At the time of this writing, the feature is only available in English. To enable Live Caption, open Google Chrome on your Windows 10, Mac, or Linux computer and then click the three-dot menu icon in the top-right of the window....

Thanks to the recently introduced Chromecast “guest mode” there’s more than one way to give guests access to your Chromecast. Read on as we highlight the different ways you can accomplish the same end: getting everyone in the room sharing their favorite videos. We reviewed the Google Chromecast last year and the principal selling point was (and remains) how easy it is to sling content from your mobile devices to your TV (as well as allowing your guests to do the same)....

The PlayStation VR lets gamers take on new challenges in new worlds, but the first challenge is getting the thing set up. It’s more cumbersome than challenging, but don’t worry! We’re here to lend a hand. First, Some Requirements Sony recommends a play space of 10 ft. x 10 ft. An area of 6 ft. x 6 ft. might suffice, but results aren’t guaranteed. You might be able to trick your PSVR into working in a smaller space by angling the PlayStation Camera slightly downward—more on that later....