Windows 10 will be released on July 29, 2015. Microsoft is already advertising it to Windows 7 and 8.1 users using a system tray pop-up. This is a free upgrade, and will probably be a good one for Windows 7 and 8 users alike. RELATED: Where to Download Windows 10, 8.1, and 7 ISOs Legally Microsoft wants to get all recent Windows machines on the same operating system, providing a standardized Windows platform and pushing the “universal apps” offered by the Windows Store....

When you begin learning about IP addresses and how they work, it can feel a bit overwhelming at times. So what do you do? You start by searching and asking questions! Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answers to a curious reader’s 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. Screenshot courtesy of Linux Screenshots (Flickr)....

Wireless internet connections are far more prevalent than they used to be, but there are still times when you may find that you are stuck using a wired connection and want to use it wirelessly — for instance, at a hotel with only wired internet but you want to get your tablet online. Note: we’ve looked at how to turn your laptop into a wireless access point before, but the previous method involved some command line work, whereas what we’re doing today uses a simple GUI application called Virtual Router Plus....

Apple’s prepackaged tool for audio editing and song writing isn’t hard to operate, even with minimal experience with music composition. Garageband is surprisingly powerful for being so lightweight, and can be used for everything from simple audio editing to a full songwriter’s studio. Note: this is a guide for Garageband on OS X. The app for iOS is similar, but lacks many features present in the desktop version. Installing and Launching Garageband Many Macs ship with Garageband as part of the iLife package, but in case you don’t have it, it’s free in the Mac App Store....

The Start menu in Windows 10 is a blend of the old menu found in Windows 7 and the oft-reviled Start screen in Windows 8. The result is something more useful to desktop and tablet users alike. Here’s a basic primer on what you need to know. It’s probably fair to say, the Start screen in Windows 8 was more or less a disaster in terms of usability and user acceptance....

People talk about their online accounts being “hacked,” but how exactly does this hacking happen? The reality is that accounts are hacked in fairly simple ways — attackers don’t use black magic. Knowledge is power. Understanding how accounts are actually compromised can help you secure your accounts and prevent your passwords from being “hacked” in the first place. Reusing Passwords, Especially Leaked Ones Many people — maybe even most people — reuse passwords for different accounts....

We can all agree that faster download speeds are preferable and would assume that a VPN might slow things down a bit, but what if the opposite happens and your VPN actually increases the speed? With that in mind, 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....

If you’re writing a document that includes images, you may want to add annotations to those images to clarify what they represent. You can add callouts to your images to point out particular parts of the image and add text to describe those parts. We will show you how to annotate an image directly in Word so you don’t have to use a third-party program. First, insert an image into your document....

If you’re using Word, Excel, or PowerPoint 2016 and you often share your files with people using older versions, it can get tedious to select the option for saving files in the old format every time. Here’s how to change the default file format for the Save dialog. We’ll use Excel as an example of changing this setting, but it works the same way in Word and PowerPoint. To begin, open an existing Office file or create a new one....

By default, when you download something using Mozilla Firefox, that download gets saved to the main Downloads folder for your user account. If you’d rather Firefox save your download files somewhere else, it’s easy to change the default save folder location. Here’s how to do it. In Firefox, click the “Open menu” button on the right side of the toolbar and then click “Settings” in the drop-down menu. On the “General” page, look for the settings in the “Files and Applications” section....

While we like our Sonos player for its excellent functionality and usability across an abundance of devices, it unfortunately is missing an official Apple Watch app, which would really round things out. As we’ve discovered thus far, Sonos is really easy to set up on Windows, OS X, iOS, and Android. Similarly, you can add a plethora of streaming services to round out your music listening experience. When it comes to the Apple Watch however, you have to look elsewhere to join the Sonos party....

Your iPhone’s Raise to Listen feature lets you record or listen to an audio message just by raising the phone to your face. It can be handy, but it can also be pretty annoying–especially if you don’t use audio messages and you’re sick of accidentally recording them. Here’s how to turn it off. RELATED: Use Voice Dictation to Save Time on Android, iPhone, and iPad The Raise to Listen feature can be a little quirky....

It’s All About Meta Move In March of 2022, Meta announced that Move (its internal fitness tracker) would be getting external app support. The Move app had only been accessible from within the headset itself, so if you wanted to see your VR exercise stats, you had to use the headset. If you wear your Apple Watch during a VR session, it will still track your activity based on your heart rate, movement, and other data it has access to....

Graphs and charts are useful visuals for displaying data. They allow you or your audience to see things like a summary, patterns, or trends at glance. Here’s how to make a chart, commonly referred to as a graph, in Microsoft Excel. How to Create a Graph or Chart in Excel Excel offers many types of graphs from funnel charts to bar graphs to waterfall charts. You can review recommended charts for your data selection or choose a specific type....

With the “Speak Screen” feature in iOS, you can have your device read whatever’s on the screen to you just by swiping two fingers down from the top of the page. It can read just about anything, from settings pages to web sites to ebooks. While it’s obviously useful if you have some form of visual impairment, it can also be really handy when you want to catch up on your reading but don’t want your eyes glued to a screen....

If you’re concerned about protecting your email in Outlook from prying eyes, especially if you share a computer with others, you can protect the email in each Outlook account, as well as the calendar items, tasks, etc. by setting a password on each Outlook data (.pst) file. RELATED: How to Create a New Local User Account in Windows 10 There are a couple of things you should know about protecting your email in Outlook....

If you use the LibreOffice suite of programs, you’ll be happy to learn about Open365. Just as LibreOffice is the free, open source alternative to Microsoft Office, Open365 is the free counterpart to the cloud-based Office 365. Open365, currently in beta, works a lot like Office 365. it allows you to edit documents, such as .docx, .xlsx, or .pptx, but you can also upload media files to your Open365 account....

Being able to share documents so as to collaborate is an invaluable, understated ability in today’s office applications. Apple’s iWork office suite is no different, which includes the ability to share not only from OS X but iCloud as well. Today we will be discussing how to share iWork document including Pages, Numbers, and Keynote files. One of the nice things about being able to share iWork documents is that you don’t have to use OS X to do so....

Apple just opened iOS up a little bit. It’s now possible to sideload open-source apps — emulators, for example — onto an iPhone or iPad without paying $99 per year for a developer license. But the doors have just opened a crack. iOS still doesn’t offer the full sideloading support Windows 10 and Android do without jailbreaking. But you can now install open-source apps like the GBA4iOS emulator, even if Apple won’t allow them on the App Store....

HBO Max Like Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon will debut its episodes on HBO Max ($9.99+ per month) at the same time that they first air on the HBO cable channel. New episodes will be available to stream on Sundays at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT, starting August 21, 2022. The 10-episode first season about war within the powerful Targaryen family will premiere with one episode weekly, so viewers who prefer binge-watching will have to wait until the entire season has been released....