The first thing to consider is which wireless standards a Wi-Fi adapter is designed to work with. If you have a Wi-Fi 6 router, it makes sense to get a Wi-Fi adapter that also supports Wi-Fi 6. A Wi-Fi adapter that only supports up to Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) will work, but it won’t take full advantage of the newer and faster wireless standard. Additionally, Beamforming and MIMO (Multi-input, Multi-output) are designed to improve wireless networking performance....
The Most Common Types of Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks At its core, a Denial of Service attack is typically performed by flooding a server—say, the server of a web site—so much that it’s unable to provide its services to legitimate users. There are a few ways this can be performed, the most common being TCP flooding attacks and DNS amplification attacks. TCP Flooding Attacks RELATED: What’s the Difference Between TCP and UDP?...
Most of the time, none of us willingly performs an action that will literally break our operating systems and force us to reinstall them. But what if such an action could easily occur even by accident on the user’s part? 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....
What’s the Deal With Tax-Free Holidays? Various states have tax holidays, periods of time where eligible purchases are exempt from the state sales tax. While there are a variety of types of tax holidays—Mississippi has a tax holiday for hunting gear before hunting season, and Florida has a tax holiday for hurricane preparedness gear—the most widespread use of tax holidays centers on back-to-school shopping. Across the United States, 18 states offer tax holidays specifically intended to lower the financial burden of returning to school in the fall....
One of the big things that makes Stardew Valley such a magical gaming experience is discovering everything for yourself, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some spoiler-free tips and tricks to help you get started. For the unfamiliar, Stardew Valley is an incredibly popular indie role playing game in which you inherit your grandfather’s farm (and all the subsequent adventures that arise from that). The game serves as a spiritual successor to the Harvest Moon RPG farming game franchise (and, even better, remedies many of the frustrating aspects of the Harvest Moon games in the process)....
The Apple TV remote is a simple piece of gadgetry, but it packs a punch considering that each button can do multiple things. Here are some Apple TV remote tips and tricks that you should know in order to take your Apple TV game to the next level. A Quick Tour of the Apple TV Remote Before we dive deep into all the cool stuff that you can do with your Apple TV remote, it’s probably a good idea to look at what all the buttons are....
Remote printing doesn’t have to be hard, whether you want to print to a printer down the hall or half-way around the world. We’ll cover some simple ways you can print without being directly connected to your printer. We’re going to focus on the easiest options here. We’re won’t cover setting up the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) or JetDirect and allowing it through your firewall or complicated Windows networking configurations, as these are options best-suited for the IT Professional....
When it comes to taking care of the batteries in our laptops, it can be a bit of a trick at times, like how high and low we should allow the charge and discharge levels to be, for example. With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a concerned 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....
In this article, you’ll learn to distinguish the key differences between Developers and Operators, then the ways in which they overlap. It’s useful to appreciate their individual characteristics despite the trend of combining the two. This will help you work out which area to specialize in and understand the perspective of the “other side.” The Developer Role Development is the older and more visible role. People working in this field write code that creates functioning software....
ExpressVPN sent out a Tweet following the deal’s announcement, and as you might expect, the company seemed happy. “We are delighted to share we will be joining Kape, a London Stock Exchange-listed company, to form the global leader in digital privacy,” the tweet said. Of course, for a sum of $936 million, why wouldn’t the company be happy? Thank you to everyone who has supported us in building a more private, secure, and open internet over last 10 years....
There are few things as frustrating as turning your computer on and having it take forever to fully load up, so how do you find out which programs are slowing everything down? With that goal in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post has an easy solution for a curious reader’s 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....
If you find yourself typing the same email addresses, phrases, or sentences over and over again, stop—there’s an easier way! By adding a quick text shortcut to your Android phone’s personal dictionary, you can type a full sentence with just a few letters. You may not be able to think of certain things you type repeatedly, but if you pay a bit of attention, you’ll definitely find some patterns. Text shortcuts can be super beneficial in a variety of situations:...
If you don’t want certain people to view your LinkedIn profile, you can block them. It’s easy to block someone on LinkedIn and you can do it on both desktop and mobile. Here’s how. RELATED: Fake LinkedIn Profiles Are Impossible to Detect What Happens When You Block a User on LinkedIn? When you block someone, they can’t view your LinkedIn profile anymore. You can have up to 1400 members blocked at any given time....
Apple’s been trying to kill the numbered function keys for a long time—the labels F1, F2, and so on have long been pushed to the corner bottom-right corner of keys in favor of function-specific icons. And with the Touch Bar, Apple took their vendetta even further. You might think that Apple finally removed the F keys once and for all. If you actually use the function keys, the idea might piss you off....
Google Chrome is a very good browser, but it’s not the only one. Microsoft Edge is good and has a few advantages over Chrome. Mozilla Firefox is a classic and it’s still going strong. Samsung’s Internet Browser is available on non-Samsung devices and is surprisingly nice as well. You have options. Many Android browsers will ask you to set them as the default when you first open the app. If you missed that option or you just want to change things up, you can change your browser app in a few taps....
Excel uses the same date format as your computer’s system settings. You may want to change the format of the dates, though, to make it more accessible for users in other regions, or to make your data more compact. Change the Date Format To get started, open the Excel spreadsheet that contains the dates you want to reformat. Select the cells that hold each date by clicking and dragging your mouse over them....
The Search box to the right of the address bar in Firefox allows you to quickly search the web without opening a search engine website on a tab. Yahoo is now the default search engine when you install Firefox, but that’s easily changed. We’ll show you how to change the default search engine for the Search box and address bar using Google as an example, but you can choose whichever search engine you like....
To make it easier for people to find your Facebook profile, change your username so your profile link is easy to remember. We’ll show you how to do this on Facebook’s desktop site, as the mobile app doesn’t allow you to change it. In case you’re unaware, your username is the text string that appears after Facebook.com, the URL and takes people to your profile. For example, if your username is maheshm , your Facebook profile URL is:...
Bluetooth headphones are the future. The iPhone 7 dumped the headphone jack and, with USB-C becoming more popular, other manufacturers are likely to follow suit. And sure, the main advantage is that they get wires out of your way—but there’s another, often unrealized, benefit in a feature called “Multipoint”. What Is Multipoint? Wired headphones can only connect to one device at a time. Plug them into your computer, and you can only use them on your computer, until you unplug them and plug them into something else....
Dead hard drives are stressful. Your files might be gone forever, which is bad enough, but you also can’t use your Mac until you install a new one. If you’re working on a deadline, that’s a problem. Which is why you should have a bootable backup. With the right software you can make an external copy of your macOS system that gives you temporary access to everything: your programs, your documents, and everything else....
