RELATED: Dark Mode Isn’t Better For You, But We Love It Anyway How to Switch to Dark Mode in Snapchat for iPhone To activate dark mode in Snapchat, first, open the Snapchat app on your iPhone. At the top-left corner of the app, tap the user icon. On the user page, from the top-right corner, select the “Settings” option (a gear icon). On the “Settings” page, at the bottom of the “My Account” section, tap “App Appearance....
Apple is working on a new file system known as the Apple File System. APFS will probably become the default file system on macOS and iOS in 2017, but it’s available as prerelease software on macOS Sierra. This new file system isn’t done yet, so we don’t recommend you do this for any reason other than experimentation. Don’t store your only copies of any important data on an APFS drive....
We all have our favorite podcasts, but we don’t always have time to listen to them. You can however, speed up your podcasts to 1.5x or 2x speed and breeze through them expeditiously. The Podcasts app that comes with your iOS devices actually lets you increase the playback speed of any title by 1.5x or 2x. Alternatively, if you feel a podcast plays too quickly or you aren’t catching everything they say, you can slow things down to 0....
Instagram has never made it a priority to help users upload images from their computers, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be done. We’ve got a clever and completely safe workaround that will have you uploading content from your computer in no time. Why (and How) to Upload From Your Computer If you’re snapping photos on your phone and sharing them immediately with friends, this probably isn’t of much interest to you, as you’re using the Instagram workflow exactly how Instagram intends you to use it....
Many devices—like Wi-Fi cams—get power by being plugged into a nearby outlet through USB. But if you want to place that device somewhere where an outlet isn’t nearby, you can use existing ethernet drops (or run ethernet yourself) to power the camera using a handy adapter. RELATED: How to Set Up the Nest Cam Keep in mind that some devices will already come with ethernet built in, which is used to both power the camera and connect it to your local network or the internet....
Have you ever wished that instead of having to manually login to a server in order to see the system log, the events would simply come to you? How-To Geek goes into how to setup a syslog collector. Overview Syslog is used on a variety of server/devices to give system information to the system administrator. Out it’s Wiki entry: In order to tap that information, one could: Syslog can be used for computer system management and security auditing as well as generalized informational, analysis, and debugging messages....
If you’ve worked with too many documents in which others have used spaces to align text and images, you know it can be very time consuming to manually remove the extra spaces from the beginning and end of each line. Word does not provide a straightforward way to remove extra spaces on lines. You’ve probably been manually deleting the spaces by repeatedly pressing the delete or backspace keys. However, we’ll show you a quick and easy way to remove the extra spaces from multiple lines at once, saving you time....
Before you can enable the text message functionality, you will have to pair your Android smartphone with your Chromebook. For this, you need to be running Android 5.1 or higher on your handset, and at least Chrome OS 71 on your computer. Also, make sure both devices are signed in to the same Google account. On your Chromebook, click the “Status” tab in the bottom-right corner and select the “Gear” icon to open the “Settings” menu....
Windows makes it possible to change the welcome screens that appear when you start your computer to just about any image you want to use. It’s easy to do in Windows 8 and 10, but fairly well-hidden in Windows 7. In Windows 8 and 10, you actually see two different screens at sign in. The first is the lock screen—the one you have to click or swipe to get out of the way so you can sign in....
If you’re a fan of organizing your contacts list–like, say ditching your duplicates or grouping contacts for a cleaner list–you’ll be happy to know that iOS 10 now lets you change the default action on those blue quick connect buttons on a contact’s page. RELATED: How to Clean Up Duplicate Contacts on Your iPhone Change the Default Action of the Blue Connect Button on a Contact Page When you’re looking at a contact’s page, you’ll see four blue buttons under the contact’s name for quickly connecting with them by message, phone, video, or email....
Mesh Wi-Fi networking is all the rage lately, and even Google has gotten in on the fun. Here’s how to set up Google WiFi in order to get rid of dead spots at all corners of your house or apartment. RELATED: What Are Mesh Wi-Fi Systems, and How Do They Work? If you’re not familiar with what mesh Wi-Fi is and how it works, we have an explainer that can get you caught up....
Sometimes, you want the world to watch you play games. Sometimes you want to just play alone. And those times, it seems like no sooner than you get into the main screen of your favorite game, boom: here come the invites, messages, and all the other stuff you don’t want to deal with. You just want to game in peace! RELATED: How to Broadcast Your PlayStation 4 Gaming Session on Twitch, YouTube, or Dailymotion...
Android TV is an excellent product for anyone who wants to expand their current living room setup—it makes easy work of streaming most content, has a slew of games (that are actually worth playing), and is relatively inexpensive. But what happens when an app you want on your TV isn’t available for your device? Go to Settings > Security & Restrictions Toggle the “Unknown Sources” setting to on Install ES File Explorer from the Play Store Use ES File Explorer to sideload APK files...
Wondering why your Roku looks…different? Roku occasionally changes the background for its millions of users, something they call a “featured theme.” Sometimes this is fun! For example, here’s a change they’ve made on firework-ready holidays in the past: RELATED: How to Remove the Fandango Movie and TV Stores From the Roku Home Screen Nothing to complain about here! But Roku also has a history of using this feature to advertise movies and TV shows, which you might not be as thrilled about that (especially if you’ve already removed the Fandango store from your Roku....
When you right-click on any web page in Safari on Mac, it doesn’t reveal the Show Page Source and Inspect Element buttons. To see these, you need to enable the Develop menu—we’ll show you how to do that. Once you’ve enabled the Develop menu, right-clicking a blank space on any website will reveal the Inspect Element and Show Page Source buttons. These allow you to take a look at the source code of any website, which is useful for things like downloading images from websites and debugging code or finding out what it looks like behind any site (for website designers)....
If you have smart lights like Philips Hue, you can turn them off automatically when you leave to save power. However, if you also have a Nest thermostat, it’s handier (and more effective) to turn off your lights whenever your thermostat enters Away mode. We’ve covered how to automatically turn off your smart lights when you leave the house. That technique uses a feature called geofencing to determine when you’ve left your home....
How to Access Control Center You use a gesture to access the Control Center, but which gesture you use depends on which device you have. This is because Apple ditched the Home button on its most recent iPhone and iPad models. To access Control Center on an iPhone X or newer (without a Home button) or iPad running iOS 12 or later, swipe down from the bottom right corner of the screen...
Tired of keeping that tab open just to watch a video? In macOS sierra, you can pop out a video for picture-in-picture (PiP) viewing, floating them in any corner of your desktop while you continue to work on stuff. Picture-in-picture only works with Safari, and it may not work with all video streaming sites. Let’s dig right in and show you how it’s done. Here is a video we want to play picture-in-picture on the popular site Vimeo....
If this is your first time here, you should check out our list of 175 Windows 7 Tweaks, Tips, and How-To Articles Our Recommendation If you want something that’s going to work really well, and is totally free, you should check out the free Microsoft Security Essentials anti-virus solution, which isn’t going to slow down your PC. Week in Geek: The Microsoft Security Essentials is Excellent Edition Microsoft Security Essentials is a Free Antivirus Utility...
HDMI 2.1: The All-Rounder High Definition Multimedia Interface, or HDMI, is the most common display interface today. It’s used in televisions to connect games consoles and Blu-ray players. It provides a stable digital signal that can be hot-swapped (unplugged and plugged in without turning devices off) at will. HDMI 2.1 is the latest standard adopted by device manufacturers, supporting a throughput of 48 Gbps. That’s enough to drive a 10K display at 60 frames per second in full 10-bit color....
