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Make using Disney+ a bit easier to navigate on your computer by integrating some keyboard shortcuts into your viewing experience. These shortcuts help make selecting movies as well as playing and pausing your shows quicker and more efficient. Although the keyboard shortcuts for Disney+ are few and far between, they’re still rather helpful once you’ve started your movie. After you’ve selected what you’re watching and you’ve hit play, there are a few simple keyboard shortcuts you can use while the show is playing....

GOG.com now has a refund policy that lets you refund games you’ve purchased within 30 days, no matter how long you’ve played them. This broad new policy is much more generous than GOG’s biggest competitors like Steam and the Epic Games Store. How to Return a GOG Game To return a game, even if you’ve downloaded, installed, and played it, start by submitting a request form. You can access the forms by directing any web browser to “support....

First, head over to Facebook’s website using your Windows 10, Mac, or Linux desktop browser and sign in to your account. Next, click the arrow in the top-right corner of the social network to reveal a dropdown menu, then select “Settings & Privacy.” Navigate to “Settings.” Select “Privacy” from the column on the left. Scroll down toward the bottom of the page, and under the “How people can find and contact you” section, you’ll find an option called “Do you want search engines outside of Facebook to link to your Profile?...

Not everyone likes having to enter a password every time they need to sign in to their computer. Windows 10 lets you get rid of the password without too much hassle (just like Windows 11). Here’s how. Why You Probably Shouldn’t Do This There are several caveats you should be aware of before you even consider using the techniques we cover in this article. You must be using a local account for the password removal trick to work....

MacBook displays normally run at a scaled resolution, which uses the additional pixels of higher resolution monitors to improve the clarity of text on screen while keeping everything at the same size. However, this leads to the display essentially being “zoomed in” with everything much bigger than it should be. If the display runs at its native, non-scaled resolution, you’ll have a lot more space to work with, which may be good for those who are trying to squeeze every inch of workspace out of a smaller MacBook....

Sometimes it’s best to create a text message while you’re thinking of it. But what if you don’t want to actually send it until later? Here, we’ll show you how to send a scheduled text message on iPhone at whatever time you prefer. Can You Schedule a Text on iPhone? You might be wondering, did Apple introduce a feature to send delayed text messages on iPhone and you missed it?...

The iOS App Store includes a feature that lets you gift apps to other users. You can even add a personalized message and schedule the gift to be delivered on a specific date if you want. Here’s how. To gift an app, open the App Store and search for the app you want to send. In the search results, tap the app’s name or icon—don’t tap on the price of the app (that will buy it on your account)....

iRobot has a few different models of Roomba vacuums, but the Wi-Fi connected Roombas are definitely some of the most convenient. You can start or schedule cleaning jobs from your phone, ring your Roomba from your phone if you can’t find it, and even start cleaning using Alexa or Google Assistant. If you just got a Wi-Fi capable Roomba, here’s how to set yours up. RELATED: Should You Buy a Robot Vacuum Cleaner?...

To get to the Motion Sense menu where all of the available features are located, you’re going first to need to head into the Settings menu. To do this, swipe down twice on your homescreen and then tap on the gear icon. Alternatively, swipe up on the homescreen and select the “Settings” app from the app drawer. From the Settings menu, scroll down and tap on the “System” option....

How to Update Your Apple AirPods and AirPods Pro Before we jump into checking your AirPods’ firmware version, let’s take a second to discuss what’s required before your Apple earbuds will update themselves. First, your AirPods need to be in the charging case. Second, the charging case needs to be attached to power. This can be done with the included Lightning cable or on a Qi charger (where applicable). Lastly, your AirPods need to be near your paired iPhone or iPad....

Ever forget whether you turned off or unplugged your curling iron and had it nag at you? It’s a common occurrence in my household, but it’s a problem you can easily solve with a cheap smart plug. Maybe for you, it’s not the curling iron that you keep forgetting to turn off. Perhaps it’s your iron, space heater, or just a simple fan. Leaving appliances and devices turned on and left unattended wastes electricity, but more importantly, it can be dangerous....

Many Internet service providers are now giving their customers combined devices that function as both a modem and a wireless router. With these devices, you don’t have to buy a router — but you can, if you like. While separate routers can be more powerful, configurable, and feature-filled, that isn’t necessarily a good thing for everyone. Whether you should get a separate router or not depends on what trade-offs you want to make....

Comic books as a medium seem tailor-made for tablets, even if the timeline doesn’t precisely add up. But there are a surprising amount of comic reading applications meant for old-fashioned desktop machines, too. This stuff comes in handy for gadgets that blur the lines, like the Microsoft Surface, or for someone who’s amassed a large collection of DRM-free comic book files. MComix: Windows, Linux If you’re looking for a simple, easy-to-use comic reader with enough features to give you some extra bells and whistles, MComix should probably be your first stop....

Discord rocks a sleek, minimalist design, at least compared to alternatives like Teamspeak and Skype. Many of the most useful features aren’t apparent until you dig into the settings and turn them on. Manage Notifications by Server If you use Discord a lot, you’re probably overwhelmed with notifications from all your servers. You can mute a server, but this mutes everything—including @ mentions. However, if you right-click a server and choose “Notification Settings,” you’re presented with a window where you can customize the settings....

If you’re looking to send eCards to your friends and family, there are hundreds of websites from which to choose. We’ve done the hard work and scouted the best sites with a widest range of eCards for birthdays, holidays, and other special occasions. It’s important to know that some of these websites let you download the cards to your computer or phone while other websites send the eCards on your behalf—once you enter the recipient’s email address....

Encryption Basics Let’s start with the basics. Encryption is, essentially, a way to take information and scramble it, so it looks like gibberish. You can then decrypt that encrypted information—but only if you know how. The method of encrypting and decrypting is known as a “cipher,” and it usually relies on a piece of information known as a “key.” For example, when you visit a website encrypted with HTTPS and sign in with a password or provide a credit card number, that private data is sent over the internet in a scrambled (encrypted) form....

RELATED: What Is Matter, and How Will It Transform Smart Homes? The World Today: Half a Dozen Incompatible Standards If you’re out shopping for smart home products right now, you have a seemingly endless sea of choices to pick through. Even if you’ve already settled on just buying smart bulbs, you still have to make more decisions and ask more questions. Should you get a Wi-Fi, Z-Wave, or ZigBee bulb?...

For those who are new to learning about computers, the BIOS may seem a bit ‘mysterious’ to some individuals, and generate questions like “Where, and how, is the BIOS stored on my computer?” Today’s SuperUser Q&A looks at the answer to these 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 Richard Masoner / Cyclelicious (Flickr)....

Hosting a website out of your home is generally a bad idea. You certainly can, and if you’re just having fun learning to build a site, you won’t run into many issues. But if you’re serious about starting a business, it’s best to look for online hosting. Here we’ll explain the exact reasons why, and the benefits of having someone else manage it for you. It’s a Security Risk Running a server on your home network is a huge security risk, as hosting it at your house exposes your public IP address to the world....

This week saw a lot of Samsung news (as usual), with more details about the Galaxy Fold starting to trickle out. Xiaomi also showed off its 100w charger that can juice a 4,000 mAh battery in just 17 minutes. And more! Samsung News: Watching the Fold Fold Let’s start with the Samsung stuff this week, shall we? Samsung showed off how it tested the Galaxy Fold’s seam durability. It can fold 200,000 times....