Using a password manager to keep all your complex and difficult-to-remember passwords is a great way to automate the sign in process while keeping your passwords safe. But if you don’t use one, you can easily find yourself locked out of your account and all your favorite Steam games. While you can’t really recover the same password you were using, you can get back into your account by resetting your password to something new....

Word provides default font formatting and paragraph formatting that is applied to content entered into new documents. However, you can change the paragraph formatting in the default Normal template for new documents as well as in existing documents. We’ll show how to do both. Change Paragraph Formatting in the Default Normal Template To change paragraph formatting for the current document and all new documents based on the default Normal template, create a new Word file or open an existing Word file....

If you want to set up source control for a project, but prefer not to host it on a service like GitHub, you can run your own git server on a VPS to store your code and act as a master repository for any collaborators. Why Run Your Own Server? With how many free hosted git providers there are, such as GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, it doesn’t make much sense to do it yourself....

Use Night Mode (If You Have It) Night Mode is available via the built-in iPhone Camera app. You can access it by tapping the icon on the Home screen, via the Control Center shortcut, or from the Lock screen. The feature automatically activates on supported models whenever a scene is dark enough. Currently, only the iPhone 11, 11 Pro, and 11 Pro Max support Night mode. You’ll know it’s active when you see the yellow Moon icon and the number of seconds it will take for an exposure....

Which of your hard drives is the fastest, and is it really as fast as the manufacturer promised? Whether you have a desktop PC or a server, Microsoft’s free Diskspd utility will stress test and benchmark your hard drives. NOTE: A previous version of this guide explained using Microsoft’s old “SQLIO” utility. However, Microsoft now only offers the “Diskspd” utility, which replaces SQLIO, so we’ve updated this guide with brand new instructions....

The biggest limiting factor for Android and iPhone cameras when it comes to astrophotography is the sensor and lens sizes. To overcome this, there are some software tricks that camera apps use. However, even with those tricks, you’ll need some tools to get truly impressive photos of space with a phone. RELATED: How Does “Night Mode” Work on Smartphone Cameras? Keep Steady As we’ll talk about later, the most important element for capturing the night sky is long exposure....

HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. It’s a high-end feature that allows for better color reproduction in any given scene. When HDR is enabled, your iPhone is able to record a wider gamut of colors, and more accurately balances the contrast of the frame’s darkest and lightest areas. On top of this, the iPhone’s HDR capability supports Dolby Vision, which helps the target screen make the most out of all the extra visual data....

The Apple Watch is packed with features that aren’t immediately visible at first glance. The music app on the watch immediately (and intuitively) controls the music app on your iPhone but it can also stand alone as its own Bluetooth-enabled iPod-like device. Read on as we show you how to link it to Bluetooth headphones and speakers. Why Do I Want To Do This? The Apple Watch is definitely intended to be an extension of your iPhone and not an outright replacement (yet that is) for your phone....

Spotlight search isn’t just for Macs. Powerful web and on-device search is just a quick swipe away from your iPhone or iPad’s home screen. It’s a convenient way to launch apps, search the web, perform calculations, and do lots more. Spotlight has been around for a while, but it just became much more powerful in iOS 9. It can now search content from all apps on your device — not just Apple’s own apps — and provides suggestions before you even search....

The YouTube mobile app has some built-in gestures to make it easier to use on a touch screen. One of the best gestures is the ability to double-tap the video with two fingers to skip chapters. Chapters divide a video—usually long videos—into sections. They’re indicated on the seek bar and listed in the video description. For a viewer, it’s easy to skip to the parts of the video that you want to watch....

Rooting your Android device gives you access to a wider variety of apps and a deeper access to the Android system. But some apps–like Google’s Android Pay–won’t work at all on a rooted device. Google uses something called SafetyNet to detect whether your device is rooted or not, and blocks access to those features. Google isn’t the only one, either–plenty of third-party apps also won’t work on rooted Android devices, although they may check for the presence of root in other ways....

The Surface Pro 9 may be thin, but there’s a lot tucked into the sleek design. Equipped with a 12th Gen Intel Core 17-1255U processor, this is Microsoft’s most powerful Surface Pro yet. Improve your productivity with 16GB RAM and a fast 256GB SSD capable of handling data-packed presentations, as well as resource-intensive photo and video editing software. Both RAM and SSD can be upgraded or downgraded, but the $200 off won’t apply to all configurations....

Although millions of people have already jumped on the Windows 10 wagon, there are still millions of upgraders waiting in the wings. If you want your upgrade to be as painless as possible read on as we highlight the best practices for upgrading your PC to Windows 10. Why Do I Want To Do This? We can say, without hesitation, that every headache we’ve ever had upgrading a modern computer to a new operating system has been the direct result of our own haste and failure to follow good upgrade practices....

Many modern smart TVs have support for the Chromecast-like DIAL protocol built in. You can cast videos to your TV from YouTube and Netflix — on your phone or computer — without getting a Chromecast. This works both with the YouTube and Netflix websites on your computer and with the YouTube and Netflix mobile apps on a smartphone or tablet. How DIAL Works Google’s Chromecast originally used a protocol known as DIAL, for “Discovery And Launch....

In the quest for ever-faster computers, Intel is constantly introducing new upgrades to its products to try and get a bit of extra cash out of enthusiasts and corporate customers. One of the company’s most dramatic introductions as of late has been its branded Optane memory, launched alongside the seventh generation of Core-series processors. Unfortunately, Optane as a technology and an implementation is quite confusing, even once you get past the basic requirements....

It’s happened to all of us. You step away from your computer and come back a few minutes later. While you were gone, your computer’s hard drive lights start flashing — but what exactly is it doing? It’s natural to be a bit suspicious. This is generally nothing to worry about. All normally configured Windows systems will do this regularly. Malware is always a possibility, of course. You can run an antimalware scan if you’re worried....

Windows 10 includes some flashy new features like Task View virtual desktops, Cortana, the Edge browser, a Start menu, and apps that run in windows. Here are some of the other, more overlooked improvements. If you’re upgrading from Windows 7, you’ll also discover many of the improvements from Windows 8 . This includes everything from the new file copy dialog and Task Manager with a startup manager to improved security....

Here’s the good news: the most easy-to-use dVPN out there, Mysterium, does a great job of cracking Netflix and potentially at much better prices than regular VPNs do. The bad news is that to use it you’ll need to purchase some crypto and figure out a bit how it all works before getting started. Using a dVPN for Netflix As we explain in our article on how to use decentralized VPNs, Mysterium is a great way to get started....

Under-Display Technology Nowadays, the front-facing camera is an integral part of any good smartphone. You can use it to take selfies, hop on video calls with friends, and unlock your phone through facial recognition. However, as phones have started moving towards thinner bezels and bigger displays, companies have experimented with ways to minimize the camera’s presence. One of the newest techniques is placing the camera underneath the display. It’s similar to in-display fingerprint scanning, which is now a common way of unlocking your phone....

Unless you have a particular website bookmarked as such or manually type in https with URLs, far too many websites still automatically default to http instead. How do you get your browser to automatically utilize https connections instead? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has some helpful suggestions for a security conscious 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....