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Word processing programs have rulers that help you position elements in your documents, such as text, graphics, and tables. LibreOffice displays the horizontal ruler by default and has a vertical ruler available for display. We’ll show you how to show and hide both rulers. Hiding the rulers gives you a bit more space for working on your document, which is useful if you’re using a small screen. When you’re not using the rulers, you can easily hide them, and then show them again when needed....

Windows 10’s built-in Game DVR feature helps you record your gameplay, capture screenshots, and share them online. But it can interfere with your game’s performance, too. Background recording requires some of your GPU power, and some gamers will want all the GPU power they can get. RELATED: How to Record PC Gameplay With Windows 10’s Game DVR and Game Bar The “Game DVR” feature is the background service associated with the Game Bar....

If you started to enter data in a vertical arrangement (columns) and then decided it would be better in a horizontal one (rows), Excel has you covered. We’ll look at three ways to transpose data in Excel. The Static Method In this method, you can quickly and easily transpose data from a column to a row (or vice versa), but it has one critical drawback: It’s not dynamic. When you change a figure in the vertical column, for example, it won’t automatically change it in the horizontal one....

Docker containers are meant to be disposable and easily replaced. When a new version of a container’s base image is released, you should pull the new image and start a new container instance. Here’s how to manage image updates across your container fleet. Pulling New Images The basic way of applying an image update is to pull the new image, destroy running containers based on the old version, and then start new containers in their place....

Plex can automatically label your media and apply artwork to it, but sometimes there’s no substitute for your hand-picked movie and TV show artwork. Thankfully, you can easily use your own media assets with your Plex collection. By default, Plex uses a tool known as a scraper to “scrape” the metadata for your media files from online databases like TheTVDB and The Movie Database. The scraper basically says “Okay, based on the name of this folder and/or file we’re pretty confident that this movie file is “The Labyrinth” from 1986, so we’ll download the metadata for that!...

If you use Netflix long enough, you just might get the feeling that you’ve seen every category they have to offer, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth. By tapping into Netflix’s unpublished “secret” category system, you can browse Netflix in a whole new way and find some pretty cool content in the process. After a spell of heavy Netflix it starts to feel like you’ve seen it all....

Questions to Ask Before Buying a VR Headset Answering a few simple questions before you invest in a headset (be it cheap or pricey) will help you decide whether or not VR is for you. It will also guide you in which direction to go in. Ask yourself how much interest you have in the medium. VR games are their own unique experiences, and while many “flat” games get VR ports, the best VR games are designed from the ground up for virtual reality....

Three of the biggest names in the smarthome hub world are SmartThings, Wink, and Insteon, all of which offer a consumer-friendly hub that allows users to connect all sorts of smarthome devices together and manage them in one place. But which one should you buy? Here are some things to know about the two hubs and which one might be best for you. RELATED: How to Set Up the Wink Hub (and Start Adding Devices)...

Coverage One of the first things to look for in a mesh router is coverage, as you’re likely upgrading because your single router can’t send Wi-Fi throughout your home. Every manufacturer mentions a range that its mesh router can cover. While this range represents a best-case scenario and likely won’t have quite that far of a reach, it can give you a decent idea about what to expect. If you’re unsure about the coverage, you can always start with a two-pack mesh networking kit and add more nodes if needed....

Relation-ship On the internet, a “ship” is often an abbreviated slang word for “relationship,” and it generally refers to a romantic relationship between two fictional characters. For example, if you’re currently watching Titanic, you might say, “There’s a ship developing between Jack and Rose.” “Ship” is also commonly used as a verb to show your support for a particular romantic pairing. For example, if you enjoy the chemistry of the leads in Titanic, you could say, “I ship Jack and Rose....

What Is Bitmoji? In 2007, a company named Bitstrips created a web app that allowed you to create comic strips with personalized avatars. It became very popular on Facebook and other social media sites. Seven years later, Bitstrips launched a spin-off app called “Bitmoji.” While Bitstrips were more involved comic strips, Bitmoji took the idea to an even simpler concept. You could now create stickers with your personalized avatar and share them on social media and in messaging apps....

Picking Parts for Your PC Build The biggest decisions come down to what you want to use your PC for, which brand of CPU you want, and—if you’re gaming—the type of discrete GPU you need. In a way, building a PC on a budget is kind of like doing a salary cap draft in fantasy sports. You get the best value for top performers that you can, then make up the rest of your team with the remainder of your budget....

Microsoft’s Windows XP started using the NTFS file system by default for its internal drives back in 2001. It’s now 17 years later, so why are USB flash drives, SD cards, and other removable drives still using FAT32? This isn’t a mistake manufacturers are making. While you can format these drives with a different file system like NTFS, you’ll probably want to leave them formatted with FAT32. The Problems With FAT32 (or Why Microsoft Created NTFS) Microsoft created NTFS to improve on FAT32 in a variety of different ways....

4K Smartphones Exist To be clear, 4K smartphones exist and have been around for years. The Sony Xperia Z5 Premium in 2015 was the first 4K smartphone you could buy. Sony’s flagship Xperia phones have featured 4K screens since, but other phone makers haven’t followed suit. In a world where marketers love to boast bigger numbers as an easy way to market their new phone as being better than the competition, it seems an easy win to simply pump more pixels into the screen and call it a day....

Apple AirPods Pro (2nd Generation) For $199.99 ($49.01 Off) Over years of development and iteration, Apple has perfected the wireless earbuds formula with fantastic options for all types of consumers. This week, the latest Apple AirPods Pro (2nd Gen) are back down to their Black Friday sales price of $199.99 ($49.01). For the cash, you get a pair of brand-new buds with enhanced noise cancelation for quieting the world around you, personalized spatial audio that immerses you in whatever you’re listening to, wireless charging capabilities for ultimate convenience, and 33% better battery life than the previous version....

Apple had us all excited for SharePlay on iOS 15, iPadOS 15, tvOS 15, and macOS Monterey, but the company has just announced that the feature won’t be ready to launch the new versions of its operating systems. In a statement to How-To Geek, Apple said, “SharePlay has been disabled for use in the developer beta 6 versions of iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and tvOS 15, and will be disabled in the upcoming beta 6 release of macOS Monterey....

In case you aren’t sure what we mean… hit the Shift key five times fast. Yeah, annoying. It’s a helpful accessibility feature for some people, but it’s really irritating for the rest of us. Disable Sticky or Filter Keys If you didn’t click on the “Go to the Ease of Access Center” link, you can simply navigate in Control Panel to the Ease of Access center, and find the link for “Make the keyboard easier to use”....

HDMI Cables HDMI stands for High Definition Multimedia Interface, and it’s the most common type of digital audiovisual cable. The standard first appeared on products in 2003 and has been revised many times since, increasing bandwidth to enable higher resolutions and refresh rates. HDMI is the go-to cable for connecting components (including PCs) to a standard television. An HDMI cable carries both video and audio plus CEC data (to control other connected devices) and Ethernet in some applications....

Google Assistant, originally a Pixel-exclusive feature, has now made its way to pretty much all Android devices. As a result, it’s harder to actually get to Now, since the default action has been hijacked by Assistant. RELATED: How to Customize Your Google Assistant Daily Briefing If you’re anything like me, however, you still use Google Now a lot. Fortunately, there are a handful of ways to easily get back to Now—all without interfering with Assistant....

The Quick Launch bar, which was removed in Windows 7, can be added back to the Taskbar in Windows 7, 8, and 10. You can also add any programs you want to the Quick Launch bar and we’ll show you how. RELATED: How to Bring Back the Quick Launch Bar in Windows 7, 8, or 10 We’re going to show you how to add programs to the Quick Launch bar in Windows 10 using an option on the Send To menu to send a shortcut to the Quick Launch bar....