It Saves Money, But LEDs Make It Hardly Worth It Let us be perfectly clear right out of the gate: If you turn off a device in your home that uses electricity, no matter how big or small the device, you will, of course, save money. It doesn’t matter if the device is a giant power-hungry gaming PC or a tiny night light in the bathroom—if it isn’t using electricity, then naturally, you aren’t paying for that electricity....
The Shipping Insurance Scam Facebook Marketplace is primarily a platform for local sales. Think of it as the classifieds section in a local newspaper, particularly when it comes to peer-to-peer sales. When selling a high-value item, it’s best to only entertain offers from local buyers who are willing to meet in person. One reason for this is the increasing prevalence of the shipping insurance scam. Scammers will pose as legitimate buyers who will pay a lot of money (often quoting $100 or more) for shipping via a service like UPS....
A Well-Protected Smartphone Even if you want to spend some time off-grid, away from social media and constant work emails, it’s still a good idea to pack your smartphone. Whether you’re traveling by car, hanging out at a campsite, or walking up a mountain; your iPhone or Android smartphone can be invaluable in an emergency. The best way to be prepared for any eventuality is to ensure that your smartphone is protected from the elements....
As you learn more about domain names and how the system works, you may find yourself wondering if domain names have both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses. With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answers to a curious readers questions. 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 thierry ehrmann (Flickr)....
In short, we think ExpressVPN is the better choice as it’s faster and easier to use, but it has major downside: It’s pretty pricey. NordVPN picks up the slack, offering great value on its multi-year plans. NordVPN is a little more customizable, too. ExpressVPN vs. NordVPN Features Let’s start with features. Overall, NordVPN offers more different features, while the ExpressVPN experience is a lot less customizable. That said, ExpressVPN is a slightly more effective VPN....
Emoji are great and everybody is using them nowadays, having become an integral part of how people express themselves in text messages, but one might notice that some emoji don’t represent how everyone looks. RELATED: How to Use Emoji on Your Smartphone or PC Many emoji represent people – faces, hands, arms – and it’s fair to say, they’re largely Simpsons-esque. While the skin tone of your emoji may not phase you in the slightest, others may wish their skin tone was more accurately represented....
OneDrive provides 15 GB of free cloud space for you to store photos, music, documents, and other files. These files can be synced among multiple devices such as smart phones, tablets, and PCs. However, you may not want to download all your content to certain devices. If your PC has limited hard drive space, you may want to only sync certain folders from your OneDrive account. This is easily accomplished....
When organizing your Home screens on your iPhone or iPad, you’ve probably noticed that a default name is given to each folder when you create it. iOS won’t let you delete the name and leave it blank, but there is a trick to getting around this problem. When you create a folder on your iPhone or iPad, iOS gives the folder a default name based on the type of apps in the folder....
If you sign your emails the same way most of the time, you can create signatures in Outlook that you can attach to your emails. Easily create a signature for business emails and a different one for personal emails. To create a new signature, open Outlook and click the File tab. Click Options in the menu list on the left side of the Account Information screen. On the Outlook Options dialog box, click Mail in the list of options on the left side of the dialog box....
We know how hard it is to remember passwords and other sensitive information. The temptation to write it down is great, but that is never recommended. Luckily, if you use OS X, you can create secure notes, and you only need to remember one password. Secure Notes are little more than text files with a password protecting them. They reside in your Keychain and you can have as many as you want....
If you are running Windows 8, hit the Windows key and L at the same time. What do you see? It should be the lock screen complete with the date, time and weather. What format do the date and time take? It’s almost certainly the same as the clock in your taskbar – if you have opted to use 24 hour clock format, it will be used in both places....
If you are a fan of tweaking your system and disabling services, you might find that over time your Windows Services list becomes large and unwieldy. It’s easy enough to remove a Windows service using the Command Prompt. RELATED: Should You Disable Windows Services to Speed Up Your PC? A big warning, though. When you delete a service, it’s gone—and services can be a real pain to get back. We really don’t recommend deleting services at all, unless you’re dealing with a very particular situation like cleaning up after a program uninstalled improperly or rooting out a malware infestation....
When you’re in voice chat with friends on Steam, your microphone can pick up all sorts of unwanted background noise. Always remember that you can use the push-to-talk setting to mute your mic until you’re ready to speak. While push-to-talk setting used to be located under the Steam Settings menu, it has found a new home in the Friends List Settings menu. To access this menu, launch the Steam app on your computer and then open your friends list by clicking the “Friends & Chat” icon in the bottom right of the Steam app....
If an app on your Apple Watch stops responding, or you just want to fully quit an app, there is a way to force the app to quit rather than rebooting the entire watch. The procedure is pretty simple. While you’re in the app you want to quit, press and hold the side button. The screen or powering off your watch displays. Press and hold the side button again. You are returned briefly to the app, and then to the Home screen of your watch....
Apple’s hidden photos method isn’t foolproof. Anyone can go to the “Albums” tab and find the “Hidden” section under “Utilities.” Starting with iOS 14 and iPadOS 14, though, Apple allows you to hide the “Hidden” album, as well. This can be done in the Settings app. To get started, open the “Settings” app on your iPhone or iPad and tap “Photos.” Scroll down and toggle-Off the “Hidden Album” option to disable this feature....
If you use a worksheet in your Excel workbook to hold values or formulas referenced on other worksheets, you may not want that worksheet visible on the tab bar at the bottom of the Excel window. The good news is you can easily hide worksheets in Excel. You can even hide an entire workbook, although we’re not sure why you would want to do that. However, we’ll show you how to hide worksheets and workbooks and show them again....
Ubuntu 16.04 is the first version to include the new replacement software app, GNOME Software–and it already has a show-stopping bug. Currently, in Ubuntu 16.04, it is not possible to install third-party applications using the Software app. This misstep is only temporary as Canonical is already hard at work on solving the problem. In the meantime though, here are some ways to install those DEB files without the Software app....
If you’re like me, you probably woke up one morning after installing Spotify on your phone or computer to a bunch of people making fun of you for listening to the Frozen soundtrack, but how did everyone know what I was jamming to when no one else was looking? As not many people are aware, by default Spotify contains several sharing settings that will automatically post any activity on your account not only to your Facebook wall, but also to a feed that lives in the Spotify client itself....
It happens to the best of us. You’re minding your own business and then bam–somebody adds you to a group Facebook chat for planning the office potluck, spamming your inbox with constant nofications. Here’s how to put a lid on them. If you don’t frequently use the group chat function on Facebook, it likely surprised you how fast being added to one becomes a nuisance. When there are a many (if not dozens) of people included in the group chat if each person sends only a few messages to the group a day that’s still dozens and dozens of notifications chiming on your computer or popping up on your phone....
Do you always have a lot of tabs open in your browser? If your browser has crashed on you, or if you just want to keep those tabs open next time you start your computer, don’t panic. There is a solution. We’ll show you how to have each of the five major browsers open all the tabs from your last browsing session whenever you open the browser, so you always pick up right where you left off....
