With the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Microsoft included a simple way to see your Android phone’s notifications on your PC. It’s not as robust as some of the third-party options out there, but it’s extremely easy to set up, and even easier to use. RELATED: How to Send Text Messages From Your PC With Your Android Phone The best part about all of this is that there’s literally no set up on the PC side—everything is done on your phone (assuming you haven’t disabled Cortana in Windows 10—if you have, you’ll need to turn it back on)....

Apple Mail can suggest calendar events for you based on dates and times it scans in your messages. While this feature may seem really convenient for some, others may not want to use it all. Thankfully, there is a way to disable it. RELATED: How to Use Apple Mail Suggestions for Events and Contacts Contact and event suggestions are a recent addition to Apple Mail in El Capitan. Whenever you receive a message with an event or a person’s contact info, Mail will show you an option to add it to your calendar or address book, respectively....

Git hooks are bash scripts that run before or after Git commands, such as commits and pushes. They allow you to automate repetitive actions in your repository, as well as apply filters and checks to your Git workflow. What Are Git Hooks? Git hooks really are just bash scripts with a special name, in the .git/hooks/ folder. Git will automatically invoke these functions when performing certain tasks, allowing you to “hook” into the Git workflow to modify it with your own code....

The Task Manager in Windows 8 and 10 has been completely overhauled. It’s easier-to-use, slicker, and more feature-packed than ever. Windows 8 may be all about Metro, but the Task Manager and Windows Explorer are better than ever. The Task Manager now manages startup programs, shows your IP address, and displays slick resource usage graphs. The new color-coding highlights the processes using the most system resources, so you can see them at a glance....

Nintendo’s Wii U has apps for watching Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, and all kinds of other streaming video. But Nintendo doesn’t offer an app that will play media files from an external drive or media server. Here’s a little trick that will let you stream videos from your home network to your TV with your Wii U. This trick works thanks to the Wii U’s web browser, which includes support for streaming MP4 files....

When you get used to having access to an awesome (and often used) key on your keyboard, you are not going to be happy when a different keyboard is missing that particular key. So what do you do? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post helps a frustrated reader get satisfaction once again with a quick and easy keyboard shortcut. 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....

Finding Sources With the Researcher Tool One task you likely spend time on when creating your essay is research. Rather than jump back and forth between Word and your browser, you can use the built-in Researcher tool. RELATED: How to Use Researcher in Microsoft Word for Essays and Papers With it, you can find sources like scholarly articles, websites, images, and similar items you need for your paper. Then, add items, insert quotes, and cite the sources directly from Researcher....

Microsoft just announced Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22557 for the Dev channel, and it comes with a massive list of changes. One that caught our attention is the significant improvements to the Task Manager. The most obvious change you’ll notice about the Task Manager is that it matches Windows 11 overall design. Microsoft has made it blend in perfectly rather than sticking out like a sore thumb whenever you launch it....

What to Look For in a Robot Mop in 2022 Robot vacuums might be more popular, but robot mops have quickly become a staple of today’s smart homes. Allowing you to clean your laminate, vinyl, hardwood, or tile floors without lifting a finger, the appeal of robot mops is obvious. However, finding the best robot mop for your home isn’t an easy task. To help narrow down all the options, the first thing you’ll need to do is set a budget....

Which Models Will Work With Touch ID? Currently, the only M1 Macs are the MacBook Air (M1, 2020), MacBook Pro (13-inch, M1, 2020), iMac (24-inch, M1, 2021), and Mac mini (M1, 2020). If you have one of those, you’ll be able to take full advantage of the Magic Keyboard With Touch ID and all of its features. This applies to the Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and the Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and Numeric Keypad....

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 svchost.exe, dwm.exe, mDNSResponder.exe, conhost.exe, rundll32.exe, Adobe_Updater.exe, and many others. Don’t know what those services are? Better start reading! Ctfmon is the Microsoft process that controls Alternative User Input and the Office Language bar. It’s how you can control the computer via speech or a pen tablet, or using the onscreen keyboard inputs for asian languages....

HDTV displays and HD media content are labeled with the designation 1080p and 1080i, but what exactly does that designation mean and how does it impact your purchasing and watching decisions? 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 Avirk is curious about the designations he sees on HDTVs and their content as well as how it applies to computer screens....

When preparing to run some new cable for your computer, it pays to know what the limitations are so that you do not experience any problems afterwards. With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post provides some helpful knowledge to a confused 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. Photo courtesy of Dagny Mol (Flickr)....

Yield Farming Basics Anyone can yield farm, and it can be a productive means to generate income. Instead of just waiting for prices to increase, yield farmers earn yields by putting coins or tokens to work in DeFi apps (dApps). Farmers typically utilize decentralized exchanges (DEXs) to lend, borrow, or stake coins to earn interest. Types of Yield Farming Liquidity providers deposit their coins into a liquidity pool through a DEX....

When you first set up Windows 10, Microsoft is going to want to rush you through the process with “Express Settings”. We recommend taking a little time and stepping through the customized setup instead. This setup process has been in place since Windows 8, and it’s been our experience that most of the time users are going to just choose the easy way. There are, however, some really important privacy items you want to pay attention to....

We get a lot of questions here at How-To Geek about energy consumption and whether or not you should put your devices to sleep or unplug them. We’re here to tell you definitely: no, no you shouldn’t. Unconvinced? Read on. Sleeping, Powering Down, or Unplugging Devices Is Inconvenient When it comes to conserving energy with a host of modern devices like the Apple TV, Chromecasts, modems, routers, smarthome bridges, and the like not only are you not actually conserving all that much energy by turning them off or using the sleep functionality but you’re actually making the device more inconvenient to use and potentially insecure....

While most of us do not need to pack our external hard-drives with us everywhere we go, there are some people who may need to carry them wherever they travel. With that in mind, can noticeable differences in temperature have a negative impact on those hard-drives? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answers to a worried 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....

We’re collectively staying up later, sleeping less, and enduring a lower quality of sleep thanks to the abundance of electronic distractions and the accompanying bright screens. For your health and happiness, it’s time to do something about it. How Bright Light Wrecks Your Sleep In the modern world we do a lot of things to ourselves that, in the context of hundreds of thousands of years of human existence and adaptation, aren’t exactly optimum for our bodies....

If you hate seeing good electronic parts go to waste, then you likely look for ways to incorporate them into other devices or have them serve as accessories of some kind. With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post offers some helpful advice to a curious 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....

PC Wizard 2008 is a freeware utility that not only gives you analysis of your hardware and software, but what puts this one over the top is the ability to also run some simple benchmarks of your computer, including CPU, RAM, Hard Drive and more. Using PC Wizard 2008 First let’s take a look at some of the features available in PC Wizard 2008. When you open the application (it will take a moment to analyze the system) you are presented with a nice easy to navigate interface, with the hardware section displayed by default....