Plex is a popular service for hosting your own server of media content (or using someone else’s) and streaming it to all your devices. Plex got its start on HTPCs, and now it’s returning to them with a brand new app. Home Theater Personal Computers, or HTPCs for short, are computers connected to a TV and intended to function as media centers/streaming devices. They’ve become less popular over the years as dedicated streaming devices (like Chromecasts and Roku players) have caught on, which is why Plex was planning on discontinuing the aging Plex Media Player TV application....

Android 7.0 Nougat is finally here, and Nexus users will start getting the updates very soon. Here are the coolest features in the latest version of Android. Right now, the update should be rolling out to the Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, and Nexus 9, as well as the Nexus Player, Pixel C and General Mobile 4G. We’ve been using the preview since it first came out, and we’ll be discussing how to use some of its best features in greater detail soon, but for now, here’s a taste of the best things in Android 7....

This isn’t Pine64’s first foray into the tablet market. The original PineTab was released in early 2020 at an affordable $99+ price point, and received mixed reviews from buyers, mostly related to software issues with the various Linux distributions available. Unfortunately, the company struggled to keep it in stock among the various COVID-induced supply chain problems. Pine64 said in a blog post, “by the time production of the PineTab became viable again we felt that the original design could and indeed should be improved on....

What Are Sockets? Sockets are a direct connection between two processes. Imagine if you wanted to call your friend down the road; you could place a call have it routed up through your telephone company and back down to their house, or you could run a wire directly to their house and cut out the middleman. The latter is obviously impractical in real life, but in the world of Unix it’s very common to establish these direct connections between programs....

RELATED: What Is This Process and Why Is It Running on My PC? This article is part of our ongoing series explaining various processes found in Task Manager, like dwm.exe, ctfmon.exe, mDNSResponder.exe, conhost.exe, rundll32.exe, Adobe_Updater.exe, and many others. Don’t know what those services are? Better start reading! There’s a scheduled tasks feature built into Windows for this type of thing… the java update scheduler is obviously not being used for critical updates since it’s only scheduled to check once each month....

You are no doubt reading this article because you’ve noticed the mDNSResponder.exe process running in Task Manager, you don’t remember installing it, and it doesn’t show up in the Add/Remove programs in Control Panel. So what is it, and how do we get rid of it? RELATED: What Is This Process and Why Is It Running on My PC? This article is part of our ongoing series explaining various processes found in Task Manager, like dwm....

Is Higher Pixel Density Always Better? Pixel density refers directly to the number of pixels in a given area. Pixel density is generally measured in pixels-per-inch (PPI) on account of screen sizes also being sold in inches, but pixels-per-centimeter (PPCM) is sometimes used, too. The higher the pixel density, the harder it is to distinguish individual pixels with the naked eye. Some devices have a much higher pixel density than others, for example, the iPhone 12 has a pixel density of 460ppi, which means that for every square inch of the display there are 460 pixels....

If you have two awesome dual-monitor computers and want to easily switch back and forth between them using a single keyboard and mouse, then what is the best way to go about it? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post provides some great suggestions for a reader’s heavenly hardware setup. 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 New In iOS 15.1? The main selling point of this update is SharePlay. With it, you’ll be able to call friends and loved ones and watch movies, TV, or listen to music together, with everything remaining perfectly in sync. That means you won’t have to worry about one friend ending up ahead of the rest of the group while you try to watch videos or listen to music together....

We love our cloud storage, and we use Dropbox or OneDrive for almost all our cloud storage needs. Both these have a problem however, they’ve got a hankering for system memory and if left unattended, can bring even the beefiest systems to their knees. Let us paint you a scenario. We have a brand new PC decked out with a fast Intel CPU, the latest graphics card, and most importantly, 16 GB of RAM....

Sony’s PlayStation 4 has voice commands, just like the Xbox One. They’re just not as heavily advertised. PS4 voice commands work with a standard headset, so you don’t need any special hardware–unlike the Xbox One, which requires a Kinect for voice control. The PlayStation 4 doesn’t offer as many commands as the Xbox One does. However, voice commands were improved somewhat with PlayStation firmware update 2.00, released back in October 2014....

Microsoft and Google may have put the kibosh on Intel’s planned “Dual OS” PCs—devices with both Windows and Android on them—but that doesn’t mean you have to give up your dream of Android and Windows on the same machine. You can run Android apps and even the Android operating system on your current PC. This allows you to use Android’s ecosystem of touch-based apps on touch-enabled Windows laptops and tablets, so it does make some sense....

If you’ve been gaming long enough, you may remember queueing for hours at a store to pick up a hotly-anticipated video game you’ve reserved. Today, buying a game at launch—or, even worse, pre-ordering it—may actually be the worst time to do it. Digital Games Are in Infinite Supply Pre-ordering a game made sense at a time when no one knew how many copies would sell and there was a real chance that you simply could not find a copy of a game until more copies could be pressed, shipped, and placed on shelves....

What Exactly Constitutes a Linux Phone? First, let’s make a technical caveat. Both iPhones and Android phones are, in a way, Linux phones, or at least related to Linux. Google built its Android operating system on top of AOSP, which is an open-source project based on the Linux kernel—the foundation of all Linux distributions. AOSP’s code is free and available for anyone to modify and use for their own purposes. The version of Android you use on your phone, however, is closed-source....

Dish’s 5G network has been live for a few months as “Project Genesis,” which is available in 120 cities across the United States. The network uses wireless spectrum acquired from T-Mobile and Sprint when the two companies merged in 2020. Dish has a long way to go before it has as many cell towers as other major networks, so Dish has roaming agreements with AT&T and T-Mobile — meaning people subscribed to Genesis can connect to their towers when a Dish tower isn’t nearby....

What’s the Point of a Dedicated Sound Card? Companies like longtime sound-card manufacturer, Creative, and PC hardware manufacturers, Asus and EVGA, still make dedicated sound-card hardware. But who’s buying them? Are they worth the investment? Do you still need a sound card in your PC, despite the built-in audio? The answer depends on what “need” means to you. The thing about the audio hardware built into modern motherboards is it’s good....

Are you looking for a quick bit of good fun to “impress” your less computer-savvy family and friends with? Then you need Hacker Typer. Hacker Typer lets you produce awesome looking “1337 code” with just a few keystrokes. When you visit Hacker Typer you can select how your screen will appear and set the typing speed using the options available on the start screen. Click on Hack when you are ready to begin....

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 Question SuperUser reader Louis wants to know how to enable Silverlight in Google Chrome version 42 and later: How do you enable Silverlight in Google Chrome version 42 and later? There is nothing wrong with my installation, I just have to use Internet Explorer for Silverlight-based viewing....

When designing your own forms in Microsoft Word, you may occasionally encounter problems in knowing how to create the particular sections or features that you need. With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post has some helpful solutions for a reader’s Microsoft Word woes. 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. Photo courtesy of Phil Parker (Flickr)....

We’re used to word processing programs telling us when we’ve misspelled a word, but what about when your fingers are flying through directories on the Linux command line? You can actually have your typos and misspellings automatically corrected, at least when using the cd command. We’ll show you how to add a simple command to the .bashrc file that will check what you type into the cd command for transposed characters, missing characters, and too many characters....