On a PC, you can still play old games — which isn’t true for consoles. You may even find yourself actively buying these old games as they show up on great sales on Steam and elsewhere. Many old multiplayer PC games have long since shut down their Internet multiplayer services and only offer local area network (LAN) support. Other games may work over the Internet, but may require tedious port-forwarding....
When you have a large handful of devices connected to your network, it can be difficult to get the speeds you need to play online games or download media. However, with Google WiFi, you can prioritize a device to get the best speeds possible on an otherwise crowded network. RELATED: How to Use Quality of Service (QoS) to Get Faster Internet When You Really Need It Granted, you can do this on most traditional routers as well, but it’s certainly not as simple and easy as it is using Google WiFi....
There comes a time in nearly every computer user’s life when they need a file from their PC…and the PC isn’t nearby. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to remotely access your PC directly from your phone or tablet, making getting that missing file a piece of cake. While there are many options out there that allow this, we’re going to limit our focus to a couple of the easiest and most convenient....
You bought a TV show or movie on iTunes. You want to watch it on your Android phone, Plex media server, or basically anything not made by Apple. Why won’t it work? All iTunes video purchases are locked down by Fairplay, Apple’s digital rights management (DRM) scheme. This does nothing to prevent piracy, but sure makes life annoying for people willing to pay for movies and TV shows. So what is a non-pirate who wants to watch things supposed to do?...
Every digital photo on your iPhone has a resolution defined by the number of pixels in the image. The more pixels each images has, the more detail the photo can potentially store. If you’re running iOS 15 or higher, here’s how to see the size of an image (in pixel dimensions) in the Photos app on your iPhone. First, launch the Photos app. In the thumbnail view, tap the photo you want to find the resolution of....
Apache is a versatile web server which offers a full complement of supporting features, some of them via extensions. In this article, we’ll use the mod_proxy module to configure Apache in a reverse proxy role. While Apache might not be your first choice as a reverse proxy, with more modern alternatives like NGINX tending to steal attention, mod_proxy is useful for servers which are already running Apache and now need to route traffic to another service....
What Is a Text Message Scam? The tactics of a text message scam are virtually identical to those used in a standard email phishing scam. “Phishing” is when someone acts like a representative of a legitimate business or institution to steal personal information, like your credit card details, bank account information, or social security number. It normally starts with an email that seems legitimate. Within the body of the email, there’s a link to an “official” website that’s designed to trick you into giving away your login credentials, personal details, or money....
You’re meeting a friend downtown in a new city, and he asks you where you are. Be honest: you have no clue. Luckily, Google Maps can help you both out. This relatively new feature shows your location right on your friend’s map—and his on yours—even if you’re both moving around. And if you’ve got Google Maps open, it’s easy to start sharing your location, assuming the person you want to share locations with is also a Google Maps user....
Discord’s in-game overlay is an excellent tool for communicating with your friends while gaming. However, if you find that it interrupts your gaming sessions, you can turn it off for all of your games or just specific ones. Here’s how. RELATED: How to Enable and Customize Discord’s In-Game Overlay Disable the Discord Overlay for All Games To get rid of the Discord overlay for all your installed games, turn off an option in the app’s settings menu....
Do you regularly type the same long words, or even phrases? Complex emoticons, addresses, or even commonly misspelled words can be annoying to type, but macOS has a feature that can help. There are all kinds of ways you can customize your macOS keyboard, and setting up a good list of text substitutions is up there. If there are any long phrases you need to type regularly, you can set up shortcuts that instantly turn into the full phrase....
If you’ve made a mistake on your Windows 10 or Windows 11 PC and would like to go back a step, it’s easy to use the built-in “Undo” command. Similarly, you can sometimes also perform a “Redo” action to restore what you just undid. Here’s how to perform both actions. How to Undo and (Sometimes) Redo Using Your Keyboard Almost every Windows app supports at least a simple, one-step Undo....
Running background tasks on a schedule is a standard requirement of backend services. Getting setup used to be simple – you’d define your tasks in your server’s crontab and call it a day. Let’s look at how you can utilize cron while using Docker for deployment. Containerising your services increases developer productivity. Simultaneously, it can leave you wondering how traditional sysadmin concerns map to Docker concepts. You’ve got several options when using cron with Docker containers and we’ll explore them below in order of suitability....
Typing with a controller can be a huge pain. But if you’re not into hitting the directional buttons over and over to navigate through the keyboard on the PS4, there is a potentially faster way: gesture typing. RELATED: How to Control Your PlayStation 4 with Your Smartphone Using the built-in sensors in the DualShock 4, you can actually just move the controller around to input text. With enough practice, this can be quite a bit quicker than the “traditional” way of adding text....
In macOS Sierra and iOS 10, Apple added a new feature to Continuity called “Universal Clipboard”. Universal Clipboard allows you to copy something on your iPhone, and paste it on your Mac–or vice-versa–using iCloud. RELATED: The Best New Features in macOS Sierra (and How to Use Them) Universal clipboard isn’t an advanced feature. For example, you can only copy and paste one operation at a time, so anything currently in the clipboard will be overwritten when you copy something new....
Newer isn’t always better, and the wget command is proof. First released back in 1996, this application is still one of the best download managers on the planet. Whether you want to download a single file, an entire folder, or even mirror an entire website, wget lets you do it with just a few keystrokes. Of course, there’s a reason not everyone uses wget: it’s a command line application, and as such takes a bit of time for beginners to learn....
Google Chrome occasionally offers to save passwords as users type them into websites. Android owners can quickly access, delete, and export saved passwords through the mobile browser. Here’s how to view your saved passwords on your smartphone. View Saved Passwords Start by opening the “Chrome” browser on your smartphone. If the app isn’t located on your homescreen, you can swipe up to access your app drawer and launch Chrome from there....
Microsoft Editor is an AI-powered writing assistant and grammar checker from Microsoft, similar to Grammarly and other services. It’s already integrated in some Microsoft apps, like Word, but now it’s rolling out to all Outlook applications. Microsoft Editor was already available on the web versions of Word and Outlook (with a Microsoft 365 subscription), as well as Word for Windows. There’s also a browser extension for Chrome and Edge that adds Editor to text boxes in web pages, much like Grammarly’s extensions....
systemd: A Quick Recap Historically, the startup sequence in a Linux system was a replica of the initialization system that was introduced with System V Unix (SysV). The SysV init system adhered to the Unix philosophy. When people refer to the Unix philosophy, they usually reduce it to the well-known soundbite “Do one thing, and do it well.” And that thing was to start as the first process and then start other processes....
Some forms of tracking are obvious – for example, websites know who you are if you’re logged in. But how do tracking networks build up profiles of your browsing activity across multiple websites over time? Tracking is generally used by advertising networks to build up detailed profiles for pinpoint ad-targeting. If you’ve ever visited a business’ website and seen ads for that business on other websites later, you’ve seen it in action....
Over time, you’ve subscribed to all kinds of mailing lists and now your inbox is overrun with emails you don’t want anymore. The Mail app in iOS 10 has added a really easy way to unsubscribe from mailing lists. RELATED: How to Unsubscribe from Email Newsletters the Correct Way We all do it. We sign up for newsletters to get something free, or a chance to win something. These newsletters start to clog up your inbox, making it harder to find the important emails....
