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If you have trouble regularly getting a full night’s sleep, the new Bedtime feature in iOS 10 might just help. Set a wake up time and how many hours of sleep you need, and iOS offers bedtime reminders, more gentle alarms, and basic sleep tracking through the Health app. RELATED: What You Can Do With Your iPhone’s Health App To get started setting up your sleep routine, fire up your Clock app and tap the new “Bedtime” tab....

Steam’s In-Home Streaming is an awesome way to get the top-tier PC graphics you love, with the living room comfort of console gaming. If you’re experiencing less than stellar performance, though, here are a few tips to ensure your games run butter-smooth. RELATED: How to Use Steam In-Home Streaming All this assumes your games run smoothly on your host PC. If your main gaming PC isn’t running games smoothly, they won’t stream smoothly–that’s a given....

In today’s edition of Stupid Geek Tricks (where we show off little-known tricks to impress your non-geek friends), we’ll learn how to hide data in a text file that can’t be seen by anybody else unless they know the name of the secret compartment. Here’s How it Works Ever since Windows 2000, the NTFS file system in Windows has supported Alternate Data Streams, which allow you to store data “behind” a filename with the use of a stream name....

There’s a new trend in the world of instant messaging: letting other people see when you’ve read their message. I can see how this is helpful, but it’s also sometimes annoying—what if you read a message but can’t respond immediately? For many people, they feel like it makes them look rude, regardless of circumstance. RELATED: How to Stop Your WhatsApp Friends from Knowing You’ve Read Their Messages These notifications are called “read receipts”, and it’s not uncommon for users to want to disable them....

Anyone with kids has likely been in this situation: you’re waiting somewhere—in line, at a restaurant, at the doctor’s office, etc.—and your kid just isn’t having it. Darling little Susie is really showing what she’s got, so you do whatever you can to get her to chill out, which usually means pulling out the ol’ smartphone, loading up YouTube, and handing it over. RELATED: How to Pause, Clear, and Delete Videos from Your YouTube History...

The Raspberry Pi is a capable little microcomputer, but sometimes it needs a little nudge to muster enough power for what you need. Let’s dust off an old Pi and overclock it to better handle newer and more demanding applications. Why Overlock the Pi? RELATED: How to Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Cheap Plex Player with RasPlex The Pi platform has evolved pretty rapidly over the years, and the early models are getting a little long in the tooth compared to their descendants....

Instagram is changing. Gone is the simple filter app; in its place is one of the most popular social networks in the world. To support the needs of millions of users, Instagram has constantly innovated and added new features. In the latest update, you can now add multiple images to the same Instagram post. Let’s look at how. Open Instagram and click the plus sign to add a new photo....

Apple Pay’s incorporation into macOS Sierra makes it really easy to pay using the service on your Mac with your iPhone or iPad. But that doesn’t mean just because you can, you will, or will want to use Apple Pay in the future. RELATED: How to Shop with Apple Pay on macOS Sierra If you don’t use Apple Pay (or even if you do) and you don’t want websites to inquire as to whether you have the service set up on your iPhone, then you can turn off the ability for website to check....

The Track Changes feature in Word allows you to mark changes you make in a document so anyone else working on the document knows what changes you made. By default, these marks display on the printed document, but you can prevent them from showing. To turn off the Track Changes marks when you print the current document, click the “File” tab. On the backstage screen, click “Print” in the list of items on the left....

Your Apple TV can automatically turn your television on, switch to the right HDMI input, and even control the volume. Read on as we show you how to teach your Apple TV to control your TV. Why Do I Want To Do This? Several years ago a new HDMI-related control standard was introduced known as as HDMI-CEC. The CEC stands for Consumer Electronics Control and it allows HDMI-CEC compliant devices to use one of the wires in the HDMI cable as a communication relay to issue commands between the devices....

From ultrabooks to netbooks, computers are shedding their optical drives. If you still use an occasional CD or DVD, you don’t have to buy an external optical drive – you can share another computer’s optical drive over the network. The two computers must be on the same local network to share an optical drive. This requires using the Advanced Sharing settings in Windows – there’s no easy, HomeGroup-style way of doing this....

Taking Care of Your Cables The best way to stop your cables from breaking is to take proper care of them. In particular, always hold the cable by the plug when removing it from a device or USB port. Suddenly pulling a cable out without doing this will put pressure on the weakest part of the construction, where the cable joins the plug. In transport, loop your cables and keep them bound with a strap or clip where possible....

Android has had native screenshots for ages now, and seeing as that’s a pretty important feature, all of the Google-made accessories also support this functionality. While the setting is in an easy place on Android Wear, it’s well-hidden on Android Auto. Here’s how to find it. RELATED: How to Enable Developer Settings on Android Auto The first thing you’ll need to do is enable Developer Settings in the Android Auto app by tapping on the “Android Auto” text on the top 10 times....

DuckDuckGo Uses Apple Maps In 2018, Apple announced the MapKit JS, an API that allows app developers to embed Apple Maps into websites. DuckDuckGo took this framework and used it to build its own mapping tool. To access it, simply search for a place in DuckDuckGo, then click on the Maps filter at the top of the page, as you would with any other major search engine. You can also try searching for a place name and including “map” in your query....

If your Mac has multiple monitors, and you run Windows inside macOS using Parallels, you know how great a full-screen virtual machine on the second display can be. It’s almost like you’ve got two computers using the same mouse and keyboard: one running Windows, the other running macOS. RELATED: How to Seamlessly Run Windows Programs on Your Mac with Parallels But sometimes you only need Windows, meaning your second display isn’t doing anything for you....

Just hold down the Shift key and right-click on the desktop… And then you can choose “Open Command Window Here” from the menu. The great thing about this is that the current path is the desktop, which is convenient for manipulating files on the desktop. Of course you can always right-click on any folder icon in the system while holding down the shift key: Or inside any folder: The great thing about this trick is that it works when you are working on somebody else’s computer… it also would be an easy way to open a command prompt when using a CrossLoop session to remotely fix a computer....

Computer cleanup is the one thing you can do every day that will keep you flush with disk space and help you free up valuable system resources. Furthermore, actual physical cleanup, as in dusting, will allow your computer to literally breathe easier, and in turn prolong the life of your system. In this lesson we’re going to start by focusing on some of the simplest actions you can apply for immediate results....

Phone call scams are too common. But they’re easier to spot than you might think. If someone calls you and claims to be from the IRS, your bank, Microsoft, or any other company or government agency, it’s probably a scam. Companies and government agencies will almost never call you out of nowhere. The IRS Isn’t Calling You For Money Some scammers may call you and claim to be from the IRS....

Microsoft has revamped many of its internal apps to match both the design aesthetic and increased functionality in Windows 10, and what we’ve gotten in the new OneNote is no different. If you’re already a devoted customer of competing products like the Evernote desktop app, many of the features provided by Microsoft’s answer to quick note taking will already feel familiar. However, longtime users of the original OneNote may still need some tips on navigating the fresh design, which is why we’re here to help....

The Apple iPad is an amazing tablet, and to help you get the most out of it, we’ve put together a comprehensive list of every tip, trick, and tutorial for you. Read on for more. Note: This article was originally published earlier this year, but we’ve updated it with a real lot more content since then, so we’re republishing it for you. We’ll be keeping this page updated as we find more great articles, so you should bookmark this page for future reference....