Many modern wireless routers are already dual-band, and now router companies are launching tri-band routers. But will they actually speed up your Wi-Fi? Dual-Band Routers Explained RELATED: Upgrade Your Wireless Router to Get Faster Speeds and More Reliable Wi-Fi Dual-band technology is fairly common when you start looking for modern 802.11ac routers. Modern 802.11ac Wi-Fi uses the faster and less-cluttered 5 GHz spectrum. Older Wi-Fi technologies like 802.11n and earlier use the slower and more-cluttered 2....

We’ve recently been hearing about tracking cookies and laws in the European Union forcing websites to explain their use of cookies to their visitors. If you’re wondering what cookies are and what all the fuss is about, you’re not alone. Cookies are an important browser feature – if you disable cookies, you’ll find yourself unable to log into websites. While cookies have important, good uses, they also have more questionable uses....

The VESA Mount Standard Makes It Easy The Flat Display Mounting Interface (FDMI), also known as the VESA Mounting Interface Standard (MIS), is a standardized mounting format that makes it easier to buy the right mount for your TV or monitor. This allows you to mount the display on a wall so that it takes up less space, or on a movable arm for better ergonomics. The system was implemented by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) in 1997 and has evolved to keep up with the changing nature of displays....

What Is an Audio Interface? The term “audio interface” may sound technical and intimidating, but it’s essentially an extra powerful version of a computer sound card. It has two main functions: record audio signals into your computer and play audio from your computer. Okay, it gets slightly more complicated, but this is effectively all an audio interface is. The vast majority of audio interfaces are external these days, connecting to your computer the same way you’d connect any other peripherals....

So how do you use it and can it live up to the hype? What Is Spatial Audio? Spatial audio is a new way of experiencing audio that uses a combination of sensors and gyroscopes in your headphones alongside a source of surround sound audio to construct a virtual 3D space. If you move your head while listening to standard stereo audio, the sound moves with you. With spatial audio, the channels stay where they are as if you’re standing in a surround sound booth with speakers all around you....

If you’ve noticed that Google Maps is running sluggish or crashing often on your computer, it might be time to test out Google’s own “Lite” version of the service to see if it’s a better match for your machine’s specs. The modification to the main Maps layout can be found in the bottom right-hand corner of your browser window, highlighted by a lightning icon. To turn Lite mode either on or off, simply flip this switch, and a prompt will confirm whether or not the process was successful....

A factory reset of your iPhone erases all of your content and settings, reverting it to a like-new state. However, there are a few extra steps you should take if you plan to get rid of your iPhone. What Does a Factory Reset Do? As the name implies, a factory reset wipes everything from your phone and takes it back to the way it was when you first got it—you know, like it’s straight from the factory....

Streaming services can easily stuff their libraries with junk to pump up their numbers. This is why it’s easy to get lost scrolling through titles looking for something worthwhile to watch. We wanted to find out which service has the best movies. RELATED: The Big 6 Streaming Video Services—What Does Each One Offer? The Research The first thing we need to do is decide how to determine what makes a movie “good....

While you expect to have an IPv4 address assigned to your location, you may be surprised to find an IPv6 address assigned to you as well. Why would both types be assigned to you at the same time though? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious 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....

The Roku Channel, which is freely accessible on all Roku devices (as well as Android and iPhone/iPad), already has many “live” channels — most of which are looping livestreams of a certain show or genre, like Hell’s Kitchen and Love Nature. There are a few news channels too, including ABC News Live and WeatherNation, and now Roku is partnering with NBCUniversal to add some local NBC stations to the list....

After more than a decade as a fervent PC gamer, I purchased a PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Wii U last year, eager to try the current crop of consoles. The last console I seriously used was a Nintendo 64. A lot has changed since then. One of the biggest arguments for consoles vs PCs is the “plug and play” nature of consoles. Unlike PCs, console gamers claim, you don’t have to spend a ton of time configuring the system and making sure everything is running properly–you just throw in the disc and play....

Trying new things is always fun, especially when it comes to tech. Getting hands and eyes on new features before they become mainstays is even more exciting. Not only that, but it also helps software builders gauge interest for new features before they make them permanent. Samsung gets this, so on the international versions of the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, it included a new feature called “Galaxy Labs.”...

When you have a rather new laptop, the last thing you want to experience is a problem with the battery. But what do you do if it happens? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post offers up some advice for a frustrated reader. 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. Image courtesy of Intel Free Press (Flickr)....

When you create a document, do you consider its structure? Similar to Microsoft Word, Google Docs provides page and section breaks. These tools help you space out your content by inserting pages and creating sections. If you’re new to using page and section breaks in Google Docs, we’ll walk you through the basics. We’ll explain how to insert them, hide or show section breaks, and remove breaks that you no longer need....

Microsoft Word comes with a long list of fonts to choose from, but depending on what your goal with the document is, you may want to use a font that’s not on the list. Good news—installing fonts is easy. Download the Font Files Before you can add a font in Word, you’ll need to download the font file. When you download a font from an online resource, they’re usually downloaded as a ZIP file, which you’ll need to unzip....

Bulleted lists are standard fare in PowerPoint presentations, and sometimes you want to tweak those bullets to look just right. PowerPoint gives you a fair amount of control by letting you align and adjust the text after a bullet point. Here’s how. Aligning the Bulleted Text Horizontally in Its Text Box First, open your PowerPoint presentation and go to the slide that contains the bulleted text. Highlight the text on the bullet you want to adjust....

To see your orders, open your account and view “Your Orders” from the proceeding screen. You can already see there are a couple of “Order Actions” on this screen, but you can see all your previous order history in one list by clicking the “Your Orders” button. You may have to sign in at the next screen. At the top of the “Your Orders” screen, you will see four categories, and you will be able to select the timeframe in which you view past orders....

Déjà Dup is a simple — yet powerful — backup tool included with Ubuntu. It offers the power of rsync with incremental backups, encryption, scheduling, and support for remote services. With Déjà Dup, you can quickly revert files to previous versions or restore missing files from a file manager window. It’s a graphical frontend to Duplicity, which itself uses rsync. It offers the power of rsync with a simple interface....

When you turn your Mac on, do you notice the blurred image behind the login screen? By default it’s a blurred version of Sierra’s iconic wallpaper, or a blurred version of your current wallpaper. Have you ever wished this image wasn’t blurred? Or that it was different than your default wallpaper? As it turns out, the user can control what shows up here, but it takes a few steps. Here’s how to configure this image to look exactly the way you want it to....

With its modern handsets, Samsung has done a lot to remove the “ugly” stigma that has been attached to its Touchwiz user interface since…well, the dawn of Touchwiz. But if you still don’t like it, you can change it. Touchwiz is generally cleaner and less intrusive across the board, but it still may not cater to everyone’s individual taste. That’s why the company introduced the Theme Store with the Galaxy S6 and has since brought it to the S6 Edge, Edge+, Note 5, S7, and S7 Edge....