Chrome allows you to open tabs from your last browsing session when you open the browser. However, what if you want to save your current set of tabs to re-open at any time? Chrome doesn’t provide a way to do that natively, but there is an easy workaround using bookmarks. RELATED: How to Open Tabs from Your Last Session Whenever You Start Your Browser You could use an extension to do this, such as Session Buddy....
Word is a powerful application, but some of the configuration tools are not very intuitive. It’s easy enough to change the font for text in your current document, but that doesn’t change the default font that’s applied every time you create a new document. Changing the default font in Word is not obvious. We’ll show you an easy way to do this. Open an existing document or enter some text in a new document....
If you want to experience true virtual reality, with the ability to move around as you play, the HTC Vive is as good as it gets right now. Here’s everything you need to know about setting it up so you can get started playing. The Vive takes a bit of time to set up, and there are a lot of different components. But it’s actually quite easy, as long as you follow the instructions–and do a bit of planning before you start....
Google’s Picasa photo management tool is a really fantastic free tool for consumer photo organization but it has a really annoying habit: it snaps a picture of your entire desktop every time you press the Print Screen button. Let’s take a look at the effective (but very unintuitive) way to fix that. Why Do I Want To Do This? There’s two good reasons for disabling Picasa’s odd screenshot taking habits....
Recently, my laptop has been presenting me with Windows’ Touch Keyboard every time I open the lock screen…even though my laptop doesn’t have a touch screen. Having a similar issue? Here are some possible solutions. If You Can, Find and Uninstall the Culprit (or Stop It From Auto-Starting) If this started happening randomly, it’s likely because of a new app or driver you installed. I strongly suspect the culprit on my system was Air Display, but since it doesn’t properly uninstall on Windows 10, I couldn’t really confirm or fix the problem this way....
You can sync notes on your iPhone or iPad to your iCloud account, but did you know you can also sync notes with Gmail? You can add your Gmail account to the Notes app and access any notes added to that account on any computer–Mac or Windows. RELATED: How to Sync Contacts, Reminders, and More with iCloud First, if you haven’t already, you must add your Gmail account to your iOS device....
Is Touch ID on your iPhone or iPad not working as well as it used to? Does it take several tries to unlock your device? This could be the sign of a hardware problem, or it could be something far simpler and easily fixable. The Home button on your iOS device is a sensitive piece of technology. Far from simply allowing you to access your home screen, it also doubles as a powerful fingerprint scanner....
Creating a routine can be key to getting a good night’s sleep. The Google Clock app makes this easy with a set of “Bedtime” tools. We’ll show you how to set them up and catch some Z’s. The Bedtime tools are available in Google’s Clock app, which comes standard on many Android phones. The Clock app also features a Bedtime mode on phones with Google’s Digital Wellbeing suite. We’ll help you set that up, too!...
The agricultural revolution was a game changer in real life, and it’s a game changer in Minecraft. Today we’re looking at how you can maximize your mining efforts by establishing farms. You’ll get your pigs for nothing and your dinners for free! Early in your survival experience you’ll spend a lot of time scraping by just to survive. You’ll need to find a balance between hunting for food and mining for resources so you can keep cooking that food and replacing your tools....
The first thing you need to do is download AppleWin 1.14.0 This is a zip file so just go ahead and extract it where you like. I just put it on my desktop. Open the folder and double click on the AppleWin.exe icon to launch the emulator. To start the virtual machine click on the Apple button on the upper right side. Now the next thing we need to play Oregon Trail is the virtual floppy disks....
Blazor is a new web framework from Microsoft designed to compete with industry-leading platforms like React. Except, instead of using JavaScript, it runs on the .NET runtime, and allows developers to make interactive web apps with C# and HTML. What Is ASP.NET Even? If you’re coming from the world of JavaScript frameworks, you might be confused about Blazor’s relationship with ASP.NET. They’re both “web frameworks,” but Blazor is just one part of the ASP....
Surge protectors aren’t like diamonds. They have a definite lifespan. At some point, your surge protector will stop protecting your gear from power surges and become a dumb power strip. It’s difficult to tell exactly when a surge protector loses those protective powers and just functions as a power strip. But, if you’re still using an old surge protector you purchased ten years ago, it’s probably time to replace it....
Most of the time, our email arrives without problems or quirks, but why do some arrive with nonsensical strings of characters as headers? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a puzzled 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. Photo courtesy of Judith E. Bell (Flickr). The Question SuperUser reader dpdt wants to know why he received an email with a nonsensical header:...
Microsoft says Windows 10 will be “always up-to-date,” and they mean it. There’s no way to turn Windows Update off. Microsoft says feature updates will be tested on consumer devices before they’re rolled out to business PCs. With Windows 10, Windows becomes a lot more like Google Chrome or a web application — it will automatically update. But they’re forcing more than security updates, and Microsoft has a troubling track record with broken Windows updates recently....
Username and Server Nickname When you first register for Discord, you are asked to create a username. However, you can change your username at any time after registration. To change your username, click the gear icon next to your name and profile picture to access the Settings menu. Under User Settings > My Account, click “Edit,” and you’ll be asked to input your new username. Also, you can edit your nickname on each server that you’re a part of....
In all generations of Android devices—up to an including Marshmallow—operating system updates have essentially worked the same way: the update is downloaded, the phone reboots, and the update is applied. During this time, the phone is rendered useless, at least until the update has been fully installed. With Nougat’s new “Seamless Updates,” this model is a thing of the past. How Updates Have Changed in Android 7.0 Nougat Google has taken a page from their own Chrome OS for the new update method....
You’ve long been able to stream games from your PlayStation 4 to Android devices, but Sony recently released its Remote Play app for iOS. Here’s how to get it all set up—and what it’s like to use it. What is PS4 Remote Play? As the name suggests, PS4 Remote Play is a way to stream games directly from your PlayStation 4 to another device, remotely. It’s been available on Windows, Mac, and Android for a while now, but it just landed on iOS last week....
Do EVs Catch Fire More Often Than Gas Cars? Compared to how long gas cars have been around, there isn’t a ton of data on electric vehicle fires at the time of writing. But there is enough to make some determinations. AutoinsuranceEZ compared data from multiple sources to try and find an answer to the question of how often electric cars catch fire. Their sources were: National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) Recalls....
If you adjust the volume, brightness, or keyboard backlight on your Mac, it changes in one of sixteen stepped increments. Sometimes, however, you might want something a little more fine-grained. Using a simple keyboard modifier, you can actually adjust those settings in quarter-step increments, for a total of 64 steps. Let’s show you what we mean. In the following GIF, you see the normal volume indicator. Each time we tap the volume up or volume down buttons, it changes in the aforementioned 16-step increments....
By default, Windows 11 PCs go into a sleep mode after a certain period of time. If you’d like to adjust your PC’s sleep delay (or turn it off completely), it’s easy to do in Settings. Here’s how. Sleeping vs. Turning Off Your Screen In Windows 11, sleeping and turning off your screen are two different (but related) things. If you put your PC to sleep, it goes into a low-power mode that temporarily shuts off certain parts of the hardware to save power....
