What Is Facebook S Messenger Day

Oh look, another Facebook app—this time Messenger—is adding its own version of Snapchat’s popular Stories feature, where photos you post to a feed get automatically deleted after 24 hours. Facebook did a good job adding Stories to Instagram, but they’re potentially a less natural fit for some of their other apps. So, let’s look at what Facebook “Messenger Day” is and what it does if, for some strange reason, you need another Snapchat clone in your life....

November 6, 2022 · 3 min · 446 words · Tara Eytcheson

What Is Pcie 5.0 And Why Does It Matter

With the release of Intel’s Alder Lake CPUs, and the looming release of AMD’s 7000 Ryzen CPUs, PCIe 5.0 hardware is finally a reality. But what is PCIe 5.0, and should you rush out to buy a PCIe 5.0 motherboard? What Is PCIe? PCIe is shorthand for Peripheral Component Interconnect Express. PCIe is a standard that allows peripheral devices to attach to the motherboard and communicate with your central processing unit (CPU)....

November 6, 2022 · 6 min · 1161 words · Maria Stackhouse

What Is The Difference Between Scaling And Screen Resolution In Windows

If you are trying to get your monitor or laptop screen set up for the best, or most comfortable viewing, you may find yourself wondering which adjustments are the best ones to make and how they can affect each other. With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a confused reader’s question. 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....

November 6, 2022 · 2 min · 359 words · Beth Pacheco

What You Need To Know About Nvidia Optimus

Laptop manufacturers have a choice — they can include onboard graphics for better battery life or discrete graphics hardware for better gaming performance. But wouldn’t it be great if a laptop could have both and intelligently switch between them? That’s what NVIDIA’s Optimus does. New laptops that come with NVIDIA graphics hardware generally include Intel’s onboard graphics solution, too. The laptop switches between each on-the-fly. Image Credit: Masaru Kamikura on Flickr...

November 6, 2022 · 3 min · 513 words · Cecil Baker

Where Is My Iphone Or Ipad Backup On A Pc Or Mac

Although we all wish automated backups ran perfectly, you sometimes have to find files manually to restore a backup on your iPhone or iPad. If you want to restore an iPhone or iPad backup via the conventional method of a local backup (and your computer knows where those backups are), you can use iTunes for Windows or macOS 10.14 or earlier. If your Mac runs macOS 10.15 or later, you can also restore via Finder....

November 6, 2022 · 5 min · 914 words · Donald Thresher

Your Amazon Wish List Is Public By Default. Here S How To Make It Private

How to Make Your Wish Lists Private On this page, click “List settings” in the top right corner. Next to your Wish List (or any list you want to edit), click the drop down under Privacy and click Private. You can also choose Shared if you want to only share the list with certain people. How to Hide Everything From Your Profile Click “Profile” under Ordering and shopping preferences. You can go directly to your profile by clicking this link....

November 6, 2022 · 1 min · 202 words · Ruth Adams

Everything You Need To Know About Using Homegroups In Windows

Windows HomeGroups are great for setting up quick and easy sharing on home and small business networks. Here’s what you need to know to use them. Update: Microsoft removed the HomeGroup feature from Windows 10 in the April 2018 update. You can still use HomeGroups if you’re using Windows 7 or 8, but they won’t be accessible by computers running Windows 10 (at least with the latest updates) unless you also set up traditional file sharing....

November 5, 2022 · 5 min · 965 words · Jeff Parker

How Can I Keep Passwords Invisible When Running A Command As An Ssh Argument

Keeping our passwords well secured is something that we all need to take seriously, but what do you do if a particular program or app displays your password in plain sight as you are typing it? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the solution to a frustrated reader’s password problem. 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....

November 5, 2022 · 2 min · 216 words · James Ontiveros

How To Add Remove And Rearrange Apps On The Apple Watch S Dock

The Apple Watch’s watchOS 3 includes a Dock feature, which allows you to access frequently used apps by pressing the long side button. You can easily add, remove, and rearrange apps on the Dock to better suit your needs. To add an app to the Dock on the Watch, you first need to open the app, then open the Dock and swipe to “Recent”. Wait a few seconds and then tap “Keep in Dock” when it appears below the recently used app....

November 5, 2022 · 2 min · 275 words · Louise Pendleton

How To Automate Your Favorite Apps With Ifttt

If This Then That (IFTTT) is an online service that can connect all sorts of different products and services together, so you can automate just about anything your heart desires. Whenever someone tags you on Facebook, send that photo to Dropbox. Get an email when a new item appears on Craigslist matching your search terms. You can do almost anything. An IFTTT “applet”—as they’re called—consists of a trigger and an action....

November 5, 2022 · 4 min · 668 words · Linda Harrell

How To Automatically Turn Your Hue Lights Off When You Leave The House

It happens to the best of us: you leave the house, drive away, and realize you left the lights on. With Hue, you don’t need to worry about that anymore: you can set your lights to turn off automatically whenever you leave the house (and turn them on automatically when you return home). Hue does this using a feature called geofencing, which is a fancy term that describes a virtual fence surrounding a specific location....

November 5, 2022 · 3 min · 443 words · Leonard Lawyer

How To Change The Priority Of Wireless Networks In Windows 8 Or 10

Windows automatically connects you to wireless networks you’ve connected to in the past. If you’re near multiple networks you’ve previously connected to, Windows uses a priority system to choose a Wi-Fi network. Windows 7 included a graphical tool to manage your wireless network priority. On Windows 8 and 10, though, you can only manage this from the Command Prompt. How to See the Priority of Your Wireless Networks Windows 10 shows the priority of your wireless networks in the Settings window....

November 5, 2022 · 2 min · 393 words · Daniel Walling

How To Clean Old Yellowed Plastic On Retro Computers And Game Systems

Ever notice how your old gadgets have turned an ugly yellow color since you bought them? Old Macs, Commodores, Nintendo systems, and other machines look dreadful 30 years later—but there is a way to brighten them up again. Why Old Plastic Turns Yellow (and How You Can Make It White Again) This yellowing happens thanks to a flame retardant called bromine in those old ABS plastics. When exposed to UV light, those bromine molecules can destabilize and leech through to the surface, causing the plastic to turn yellow (or even brown if left long enough)....

November 5, 2022 · 11 min · 2247 words · Vinita Wainwright

How To Clean Up Your Messy Windows Context Menu

If you’ve ever found yourself right-clicking on something and wondering where all that junk came from, you’re not alone. Want to get rid of the cruft you don’t use, and add some actually useful items to the context menu? You can. Windows includes a bunch of options in that context menu by default, and that list grows as you install more apps. It sometimes seems like every app is fighting for a piece of your context menu and most of us don’t even use half of them....

November 5, 2022 · 11 min · 2282 words · Sean Hendricks

How To Control System Settings With Siri In Macos Sierra

The inclusion of Siri on macOS Sierra means you can now do all sorts of things with your voice that once required typing and clicking. You can even control system settings. RELATED: How to Configure, Use, and Disable Siri in macOS Sierra Say you’re using a standard USB keyboard with your Mac and it doesn’t have special function keys. You can use Siri to control and mute the volume, increase or decrease brightness, enable or disable Bluetooth, and even turn off Wi-Fi....

November 5, 2022 · 2 min · 367 words · Marguerite Devore

How To Control Third Party Ios Apps With Siri

A behind the scenes feature in iOS 10, SiriKit, makes it easy for you to control and use your favorite apps with Siri–if you know where to look. Let’s set this new voice control up and take it for a spin. How It Works and What You Need iOS 10 ushered in a framework for integrating their apps into Apple’s voice assistant, Siri. Historically, the only things you could control with Siri via voice commands were Apple apps and HomeKit accessories integrated into the HomeKit system....

November 5, 2022 · 5 min · 876 words · Aaron Geer

How To Copy Or Move A Spreadsheet In Google Sheets

Need to move some data around? When you have a spreadsheet that you want to move to a different workbook or copy to a new one, Google Sheets has you covered. Here’s how to do it. If you’ve moved or copied sheets in Microsoft Excel, then you’ll be glad to know you use the same types of actions in Google Sheets. However, Google Sheets is a bit more limited when it comes to the options....

November 5, 2022 · 3 min · 613 words · Anna Carroll

How To Delete Handwritten Messages From The Recent List In Ios 10 Messages

When you send a handwritten message in the Messages app on your iPhone, it’s added to the recent list of messages so you can use it again. However, if you don’t want certain messages stored in the list, or don’t want to see them at all, there is a way to delete them. RELATED: How to Send Handwritten and Digital Touch Messages in iOS 10 Handwritten messages you’ve sent show up on the Apps tab in Messages, providing a quick way to send common messages....

November 5, 2022 · 2 min · 407 words · Viola Kilpatrick

How To Download Recordings From Your Netgear Arlo Cameras

Netgear’s Arlo camera system automatically records video whenever motion is detected, and you can view those video recordings in the Arlo app. But you can also download recordings directly to your phone so that you can share or view it however you’d like. RELATED: How to Set Up the Netgear Arlo Pro Camera System Netgear keeps Arlo camera recordings for up to seven days if you don’t pay for a subscription plan, which is usually more than enough time to watch them before they disappear....

November 5, 2022 · 2 min · 311 words · Lorna Williams

How To Enable The Experimental Ribbon Interface In Libreoffice

If you love Microsoft’s “Ribbon” interface but prefer the free and open source LibreOffice, you can get the best of both worlds…if you’re willing to put up with an experimental feature. While not officially an alternative to the Ribbon, LibreOffice’s “Notebookbar” bears an uncanny resemblance, and it’s a big improvement on LibreOffice’s old-timey toolbars. Ten years ago, Microsoft revamped their Office suite with the Ribbon, replacing a row of uniform icons with tabs full of labelled features of varying sizes....

November 5, 2022 · 3 min · 540 words · Callie Storm