If a slight bump to your desk is enough to wake up your sleeping PC, it’s likely your mouse doing the waking. Here’s how to prevent that from happening. RELATED: How to Prevent Your Computer From Waking Up Accidentally By default, moving your mouse is one of the reasons your PC wakes up from sleep mode. The trouble is that you barely have to touch the mouse at all to make it register....
Chrome OS has long been more than “just a browser.” Since it essentially requires an active internet connection for most activity, web apps are the backbone of the Chrome OS ecosystem—but did you know that you can actually turn any page into a its own web app, launchable from the taskbar? Here’s how. Chrome, and by extension Chrome OS, already have a bookmarks bar that offers super quick access to specific websites with the click of a button....
Searching through emails for attachments can be time-consuming and annoying. Thankfully, Microsoft has a “File” view in Outlook Online that makes it easy to find any document you’re looking for. Here’s how it works. Microsoft Outlook has traditionally been an amalgam of email, calendar, people, and tasks, but that leaves out a key component: data. If you use the Outlook desktop client, then you have powerful search options to plug that gap....
Getting Started With Sticky Notes If you’ve searched the Desktop Gadget Gallery for the Sticky Notes gadget from Windows Vista, you don’t have to search any more. The Vista Gadget has been replaced in Windows 7 by the Sticky Notes application. You’ll find it under Accessories in the start menu, or just type Sticky Notes in the Start Menu search. Sticky Notes are great for jotting down some quick text you need to remember, like an address you receive over the phone or the items you need to pick up from the store on the way home....
Green Came First A January 2022 article in the Wall Street Journal made the common mistake of thinking that, at some point, Apple decided to purposely label text messages from Android users with green bubbles (instead of blue) to promote a sense of group exclusivity for iMessage users. While the difference in text message color bubbles may have a social effect today, the green/blue divide didn’t originate this way. When the iPhone launched in 2007, it included a Messages app that could send and receive industry-standard SMS text messages....
So here’s how it works… you’ll have to start off with hitting the Ctrl+T hotkey to open a new blank tab: Then just hit the Ctrl+Z hotkey, and just like that, the last URL from the last tab you were on will be sitting in your address bar. You’ll notice in the above screenshot that the last tab was HTG, and the below screenshot was taken with Lifehacker as the last open tab....
If there are Control Panel apps you use all the time, why not make accessing them quicker? Just pin the Control Panel to your taskbar or Start menu and then pin individual apps to its jump list. While writing up articles on customizing your taskbar and pinning folders to the taskbar, it occurred to me that in all these years of using Windows, I’d never bothered to pin the Control Panel....
The Big Sick Play Video Comedian and actor Kumail Nanjiani and writer Emily V. Gordon draw on their real-life relationship for the romantic dramedy The Big Sick. Nanjiani plays a fictionalized version of himself, a struggling comedian who starts dating Emily (Zoe Kazan) just before she’s struck by a mysterious illness and falls into a coma. Kumail has to deal with Emily’s worried parents while also sorting out his own feelings for Emily and handling pressures from his traditional Pakistani family....
How Does Cloud Gaming Work? Cloud gaming allows you to use just about any device with an internet connection to stream gameplay over the internet. This means that the game doesn’t run locally on your device (for example, a smartphone) but instead runs remotely in the cloud. You’ll need some method of controlling the game connected to your device of choice. This could be a gamepad or console controller linked to your smartphone, or it could be a more traditional PC gaming control scheme of a keyboard and mouse....
If you have a compatible phone, Google’s Daydream is arguably the best cheap way to access VR. It’s also the most intuitive solution that doesn’t require shelling out hundreds of dollars, thanks to the convenience of a compatible controller. RELATED: How to Set Up and Use Google Daydream View with Your Android Phone Unfortunately, issues can always arise, and there’s a fairly common one with Daydream View: the controller won’t update properly....
Most PCs—whether you buy or build them—have at least one unused drive bay. Why not make use of them? Despite the fact that I’ve had a DVD-RW drive in my PC since I built it, I can’t recall a single time that I used it to read a disc. Now that the bulk of computer games, software, and even operating systems themselves have transitioned to download services, the optical drive is something of a niche, like the floppy drive before it....
You have a brand new high-capacity flash drive that can store more than the hard drive of your first three computers combined, but when you go to copy a large file it denies you. What gives? Read on as we show you how to solve your flash drive frustrations. We can certainly understand your frustration: here you were all ready to copy the files and then it just ground to a halt with a relatively cryptic message....
If you are new to using Linux, then many of the commands and variations thereof may seem a bit confusing. Take the “echo” command, for example. Why do people use it when installing software? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a new Linux user’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....
We all know that Windows is the most malware-ridden platform out there, but why is that? Windows is the most popular desktop operating system, but that isn’t the only reason – past decisions made Windows a fertile breeding ground for viruses and other malware. We’ve previously explained why everyone should be using an antivirus on Windows, but we’ve also advised that Linux doesn’t need an antivirus. We covered some of the reasons why an antivirus is and isn’t necessary on each platform, but now we’ll look at how we got here....
What Are Diskless Servers? Diskless servers, also called RAM-only servers, are servers that don’t have a hard disk that they can store files on. They exist purely to reroute connections—which is the only thing VPNs are supposed to do, anyway—and cannot store information for the long term. We say “long term” here because diskless servers do store some information, but they do so only in their random access memory, or RAM, hence the term “RAM-only....
According to Variety, starting December 21, 2021, Hulu With Live TV will cost $70 per month, which is a $5 jump over the $65. However, it’s not just a price increase for the sake of a price increase, as the company now includes Disney+ and ESPN+ with the subscription. Of course, no one wants to pay more, but at least Hulu is giving its subscribers something for their money....
That appears to be the first question asked when presented with any quandary. Communication problems? Put it in space. Overpopulation issues? Try a moon colony. Too much garbage? Shoot it into the sun. It wouldn’t be surprising if, in the future when space travel is more common, a guy responded to his girlfriend breaking up with him by saying, “What if we try this relationship in zero gravity? It could spice things up....
Digital book readers usually fall into one of two categories: ones with black-and-white screens with weeks of battery life, and models with regular LCD screens that aren’t much different from regular tablets. However, more eReaders with color E Ink screens are on the way. E Ink, the company that designs the digital ink displays used in countless eReaders and other devices, has started mass production of the E Ink Gallery 3 display technology....
Whether you are in it just for a bit of geeky fun, or are seriously wanting to know the answer, how do you find out the IP address for a website? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post looks at the answer, and how to know if more than one website is bound to the same IP address. 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....
Graphs and charts give you an easy way to display data at a glance. But what if you want to focus on a particular part of your chart? By applying a filter to an Excel chart, you can emphasize specific data. With Microsoft Excel on Windows, you can quickly filter your chart data using a handy button. Excel on Mac doesn’t currently offer this feature, but you can still apply a filter to the data which updates the chart....
