Sometimes, you don’t need to open an image in a photo editor–you just want to make sure which file is which. Instead of opening each file, you can preview each one in Ubuntu’s file manager program, Nautilus, without opening them. We’ll show you how to install and use an add-in for Nautilus, called GNOME Sushi, that will allow you to preview image files, text files, PDF files, LibreOffice files, and even media files by pressing the spacebar....

Windows 7 gives the ability to quickly pull up a calendar from the taskbar by clicking on the time. What you may not know is that you can also quickly jump to dates in different months and years. In order to see the options for jumping straight to a month, year, or decade all you have to do is click on the banner that indicates your current view. Your view will cycle from month to year to decade but will stop at the decade view....

The Hue Dimmer Switch is a great way to add physical controls to your Hue lighting system but it’s a bit rudimentary. Thanks to a handy little app, however, you can teach the Hue Dimmer Switch a bunch of new tricks—like setting any scene with the click of a button. RELATED: How to Set Up Your Philips Hue Lights What You’ll Need To follow along with this tutorial, you’ll need a handful of things, most of which you likely have already if you’re interested in doing something like this....

If you haven’t used IFTTT before, check out our guide to getting started for info on how to create an account and connect apps and services. Then, come back here to create the necessary applet. Start by heading to IFTTT’s home page and click “My Applets” at the top of the page. Next, click on “New Applet”. Click on “This” highlighted in blue. Type in “Alexa” in the search box or scroll down and find it in the list of products and services below that....

Super Mario Run is a really simple game, until you try to complete all if the extra coin challenges—all of a sudden those easy levels become tough when you’re trying to get all the pink, purple, or black coins instead of just running through. If you miss a jump early in the level, you’ve got to do the whole thing over again, which means you need to die three times to start from the beginning of the level....

One of the many good things about Gmail is the ability to search your emails by date. You can find emails received after or before a specific date, find emails newer or older than certain days, and so on. We’ll show you how. You can search Gmail by date on both your desktop and mobile devices. On desktop, you will use the Gmail site. On mobile, you will use the official Gmail app....

In addition to facial recognition and some other nice features introduced in iOS 10, your Photos app also now lets you search for specific objects–from trees to animals to facial expressions–in your photos. Here’s how it works. RELATED: How to Add Names to the “Recognized Faces” List in the iOS 10 Photos App In iOS 10, the Photos app now scans your photos behind the scenes against a database of searchable objects and labels your photos accordingly....

You may already be familiar with Microsoft Word’s built-in spelling and grammar checker, flagging incorrect spelling and (sometimes) bad grammar. If you’re reviewing a document that’s riddled with errors, you can use these keyboard shortcuts to speed up the process. What the Spelling and Grammar Checker Can and Can’t Do Word’s spelling and grammar checker is enabled by default. When a word is misspelled, Word flags it with a wavy, red underline....

What Is SSH? SSH, often typed all in lower case, stands for Secure Shell. It allows you to remotely connect to a server or system from another device using encrypted communications. The primary benefit of SSH is the encryption itself. With less secure remote login protocols, such as FTP, everything is sent in plain text. A hacker can sniff out those communications and log things like usernames and passwords. Since SSH is encrypted, that’s no longer possible....

Facebook’s desktop website is getting a visual overhaul that almost everyone can access. Update to this brand new, less cluttered design with the click of a button. But don’t worry, if you don’t like the change, you switch back to the classic interface if you want to keep the social media you know. How to Enable Facebook’s New Interface Head on over to Facebook’s desktop website on your computer and log in to your account....

Whether you want to document a family holiday or aspire to shoot for National Geographic, there are some simple things you can do to take better travel photos. What Makes a Good Travel Photo A good travel photo is about a place or event, or even a small aspect of a place or event like the people or the food. It captures the feeling the photographer had when they were there....

The Model Number of Every AirPods Type The first thing you’ll want to know is which model number goes with which generation of AirPods. While there are differences between each generation, the difference in appearance between each generation of AirPods may not be that noticeable to some. Matching the model number of the AirPods model to the ones you own is the easiest way to tell which model you have....

Generally, your phone won’t try to connect to 5G if there’s not a solid connection. It will fall back to 4G LTE and even 3G if need be. However, if you feel like 5G is having a negative impact on your device, you can simply disable it, preventing the phone from even scanning for it. RELATED: What Is 5G, and How Fast Is It? Let’s get started. First, swipe down from the top of the screen and tap the gear icon to open the Settings menu....

One of iOS’ little annoyances is its need to pop up a notification every time it discovers a new Wi-Fi network. Here’s how to turn that off. Head to the Settings app and select “Wi-Fi.” Turn off the “Ask to Join Networks” option. And that’s all you have to do. Your iPhone will no longer harass you about random Wi-Fi networks. If you do want to connect to a new Wi-Fi network, just head back into the Wi-Fi settings and select it from the list of nearby networks....

Siri is finally on the Mac, but unlike the iPhone version, you can’t launch the virtual assistant with your voice. Sure, there are dock and menu bar icons to click, and you can set a keyboard shortcut, but you can’t just say “Hey Siri” to start giving commands. Except, with this little trick, you can. We’ve shown you how to control your Mac with your voice, and if you’ve already set that up you can launch Siri with “Start Siri,” a new dictation command added to macOS Sierra....

Logitech’s newest mice and keyboards have an interesting additional feature called Flow. Flow lets you use a mouse and keyboard across multiple PCs, very much like Synergy or Mouse Without Borders, but with a much simpler setup process. Logitech Flow isn’t a separate program—you’ll have to dive into the configuration application in order to set everything up. What You’ll Need For this process, you’ll need: Two or more PCs, running either Windows or macOS....

While Discord is a great platform for voice communication, you might not be able to (or want to) speak with your own voice. To get around the problem, you can use Discord’s built-in text-to-speech (TTS) feature. You can use text-to-speech on your own Discord server, or on another server with a text-to-speech enabled channel. These steps only work for Discord users on Windows or Mac, as Discord’s text-to-speech capabilities are unavailable to Android, iPhone, or iPad users....

A Kodi-based home theater PC is great for watching your ripped or downloaded videos, but even if you’ve cut cable from your life, there’s still a time and place for live TV–like sports. Not to mention recording shows onto a DVR. Here’s how to watch and record live TV from Kodi on Windows. What You’ll Need In order to watch live TV on a Windows PC, you’ll need a TV tuner to hook up to your antenna or cable box....

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim remains a milestone game more than five years after its initial release. And since it doesn’t look like we’re getting another entry in Bethesda’s RPG series for a while longer (no, Elder Scrolls Online doesn’t count), even the most dedicated Skyrim player might be looking for ways to get some new life out of the original game. Fortunately, modders have been making vanilla Skyrim better since the game came out....

Doing stuff on a Mac is supposed to be so easy and intuitive, that it’s surprising when something isn’t. There are several ways to “hide” stuff on a Mac, but only one of them really works well enough for us to recommend. It’s not even about hiding stuff so others can’t see it. Sometimes you may simply want to hide something because you want to declutter your system. For example, if you move your Windows documents to the cloud, you will notice that many applications will often use your Documents folder for saving....