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Whatever happened to the digital wallet? We’ve been hearing that smartphones are on the verge of replacing our credit cards and eliminating our physical wallets for years, but it never seems to happen. Much of the technology to make digital wallets possible is here today, at least for some phones and at some businesses. However, digital wallets just aren’t catching on — at least in most countries. The Technology is Here — For Some Phones at Some Businesses Contactless payment terminals have been gradually rolling out for use with newer credit cards....

Industry-Leading GPU Power Finally, GeForce NOW’s RTX 3080 and Priority tiers come with ray-tracing capabilities, a feature that’s only currently supported on Xbox Cloud Gaming. It’s Got the Games Performance alone is enough to put GeForce NOW ahead of the pack, but it also boasts the largest game library available in the cloud. As of May 2022, GeForce NOW officially supports more than 1,300 titles with 118 of them available to play for free....

Whether it is due to a disability or just a personal preference, sometimes you need to squeeze some unique functionality out of your keyboard. But how do you go about it though? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to help a reader in need. 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 James (SuperUser)....

Ethernet Over USB Most modern laptops don’t come with dedicated Ethernet ports anymore — they’re simply too bulky to fit into the slim devices we’ve grown accustomed to. They primarily rely on modern Wi-Fi networks for their connectivity. However, there are plenty of reasons to want a wired connection. Most notably, wired connections tend to be more stable, and they’re usually faster. Luckily, there are a huge number of adapters available that let you connect an Ethernet cable to a USB port....

Do you want to attach an entire folder to an email instead of individual files? If so, you’ll have to first turn your folder into a ZIP file, as email services don’t allow attaching folders to email. Here’s what to do. RELATED: Everything You Need to Know About Zip Files Attach a Folder to an Email on Desktop On most desktop computers, it’s easy to make a ZIP file. Check out our guides on details on compressing your folder into a ZIP folder on Windows 10, Windows 11, Mac, and Linux, whichever your preferred desktop is....

If you are a one man development team, you probably don’t really have the need for a full blown version control system, yet creating source code backups for each released version is undoubtedly important. By leveraging the power of post-build events and a simple batch script, you can easily add the ability to have Visual Studio automatically create a source code backup for each release code build. How it works Our solution is simple: whenever a successful build event occurs, we have a batch script run which creates a compressed archive (optionally tagged and timestamped) of all files in the respective Visual Studio project folder....

Photos are some of the most important files people want to keep safe. Storing them in the cloud is nice, but you might also want the peace of mind of having your pictures stored locally. Luckily, it’s easy enough to copy your Mac’s Photos library to an external drive. This guide assumes you’re using the actual “Photos” app on your Mac, the default if you’ve used iCloud Photo Stream or imported from your iPhone....

By default, Mozilla Firefox opens with a special page called “Firefox Home,” but you might prefer a different web page. If you want Firefox to open up a custom home page instead, follow these simple steps. First, open Firefox. In any window, click the hamburger icon (three horizontal lines), and select “Options” on a Windows or Linux machine. On a Mac, select “Preferences.” In the Options or Preferences tab, click “Home” and look for the “New Windows And Tabs” section....

Long-running Docker containers can rapidly accumulate a large number of log lines. These consume storage capacity and reduce performance when accessing and filtering the data. While Docker includes integrated tools for viewing the logs, there’s no built-in mechanism for cleaning them up. In this article you’ll learn how to clear up the logs of running Docker containers, without restarting or replacing them. You’ll also see some techniques for more efficiently handling large logs while retaining old data....

Windows normally installs itself to a single partition on your hard drive. However, you can split your hard drive into several different partitions and store your data files separately from your system files. This can be particularly useful when it comes time to upgrade or reinstall Windows — you can perform a clean install, wiping away your personal files from the main drive and leaving the secondary drive as-is with your personal files....

The Auto-Complete feature in Outlook 2013 automatically fills in names and email addresses for you when entering them in the To or Cc fields. Based on the characters you start to enter, Outlook displays a list of possible choices that match what you’ve entered. You can then either click the desired email address from the list or press Enter to insert the email address in the list. The Auto-Complete feature can save you time if you compose a lot of emails and have a lot of contacts in your address book....

After years of being on people’s wish lists, Netflix has finally started rolling its most oft-desired feature: the ability to download movies and shows for offline viewing. This option is available in the Netflix apps for iOS, Android, and Windows 10. RELATED: How to Keep Netflix from Using All Your Phone’s Data This means a couple of things: you can watch Netflix on the go without eating up your data cap, and you can watch your favorite shows or movies while on a plane or subway with no data connection....

We recently explained why you should be using IMAP instead of POP3 for your email. If you still have old POP3 emails stored offline, you don’t have to abandon them — import your POP3 emails into an IMAP account. We’re using the free Mozilla Thunderbird email client for this. If you use Microsoft Outlook for your email, you can do this in a similar way. Add the IMAP account and drag-and-drop your POP3 emails to it....

Chromebooks are supposed to have amazing, all-day battery life — but not all of them do. Follow these tips to squeeze more battery life out of your Chromebook. The same basic principles apply whether you’re trying to boost a Windows laptop’s battery life or squeeze more time out of a MacBook. But every operating system has its own way of doing these things. Decrease the Display Brightness When you want to make any type of mobile device last longer on battery — whether it’s a laptop, tablet, or smartphone — the first thing to do is decrease its display brightness....

The Basics For this guide, we’ll be installing a Nest Hello. Every video doorbell is different, but they share most of the same basic similarities. You’ll need a screwdriver, a drill, pliers, and to shut power off if you are installing a wired doorbell. Some video doorbells can ring your home’s chime, so you may need to find your chime box too. You can pay a professional to install the doorbell for you, of course—but we’ll show you how to do it yourself....

Are you looking for a cheap and easy way to beat the heat? Then this portable air conditioner DIY project just might be what you are looking for! See how easy it is to make in today’s video from YouTube channel HouseholdHacker. $8 Homemade Air Conditioner – Works Flawlessly! [YouTube]

First, open the Settings app on your iPhone by tapping the gear icon. In Settings, tap “Notifications.” In Notifications, select “Announce Notifications.” In Announce Notifications settings, tap the switch beside “Announce Notifications” to switch it off. Siri announcing notifications has now been completely disabled. Alternately, you leave “Announce Notifications” enabled and fine-tune which apps you’d like Siri to announce notifications for using the “Announce Notifications From” section on the “Announce Notifications” page....

The Dock comes in handy as a Mac application launcher, but sometimes it’s too big or too small. Luckily, there are two ways to resize the Dock on your Mac—including one easy way that many people don’t know about. Here’s how to quickly resize your Dock in macOS. How to Quickly Resize the Dock Using the Mouse Pointer First, here’s the quick-and-easy way to resize your Dock. While viewing your desktop, hover your mouse pointer over the vertical divider in your Dock, which is located between the app icons area and the file shortcuts and Trash area....

If you’re a heavy user of Apple’s Notes app on your iPhone, you’ve probably noticed a slightly weird behavior: unlike almost every other app, if you take a photo in Notes, it isn’t saved to the Photos app. I’d guess this is so photos of things like shopping lists don’t clog up your Camera Roll, but if you use Notes as more of a journal than a to-do list, you might want any photos you take while writing a note to get saved....

Some wireless keyboards come with small dongles to plug in; some can only be set up over Bluetooth, a short-range wireless protocol that involves pairing devices together. To set up a Bluetooth keyboard or mouse, you’ll need to pair it with your Mac. If you’re setting up a different Bluetooth device, like Bluetooth headphones, the setup is mostly the same. If you have an iMac and don’t have your Bluetooth keyboard set up by default, or if your trackpad and keyboard are broken on your Macbook, you’ll need a wired keyboard or mouse to set up a Bluetooth keyboard, as you can’t set one up without at least one input device....