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Change Your Ring Account’s Password If you’re worried that your password has been stolen, has been used elsewhere, or hasn’t been changed in quite some time, the first thing you should do is change your login information. We recommend you download a password manager and use it to generate a random and secure password for your account. When you’re ready to change your Ring account’s password, you can do so from the company’s website or the mobile app on Android, iPhone, or iPad....

Collaborating on files is one of the best features in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. However, when you complete the document, you might need to limit someone else’s permissions before you can finalize and close it. When you finalize a document, it means the last edit has been made and there’s nothing left to add. So, when you’re collaborating with others, you might want to prevent them from making any additional revisions to the final product....

If you’re planning on doing a reinstall of Windows but can’t find your product key, you’re in luck because it’s stored in the Windows Registry. It’s just not easy to find, and it’s impossible to read without some help. Luckily, we’re here to help. Where Windows Hides the Product Key As you can see in the screenshot above, the product ID is stored in the registry but is in a binary format that can’t be read by humans unless you are some sort of Cylon....

The Bookmarks Bar in Google Chrome is more than just a place to store random pages for you to read later; it’s a highly functional and versatile feature that doesn’t get enough credit. Here’s how you can organize, beautify, and create bookmarklets to use it to its full potential. Enable the Bookmarks Bar If you haven’t already, to get the most out of the bookmarks bar, you’ll have to enable it first....

Each server on the internet has a public-facing IP address. This is either directly assigned to the server, or assigned to a router that sends traffic to that server. IP addresses give us a clue about where that server is located in the world. We can get this geolocation data through two open APIs, provided by ipinfo.co and IP Vigilante and use it to see the city, state, and country associated with a server or other remote system....

Opening a Word document as read-only helps prevent unintentional changes you make to the document from being saved. Read-Only mode does not allow you to make any changes to the document, preventing you from inadvertently saving changes. We will show you how to open any Word document as read-only. The “Recent” list displays on the backstage screen when you first open Word. Click the “Open Other Documents” link at the bottom of the “Recent” list....

Using sleep is easy. On the command line type sleep, a space, a number, and then press Enter. The cursor will disappear for five seconds and then return. What happened? Using sleep on the command line instructs Bash to suspend processing for the duration you provided. In our example this was five seconds. We can pass durations to sleep in days, hours, and minutes, as well as in seconds. To do this include a suffix of either d, h, m, or s with the duration....

Google Sheets lets you remove duplicates from your document with methods ranging from a simple integrated function to a custom script. While you can do the same in Excel, Sheets offers more diverse ways to remove duplicates in your spreadsheet. RELATED: How to Remove Duplicate Rows in Excel Remove Duplicates Using Data Cleanup One of the quickest ways to remove duplicates in Google Sheets is using the Data Cleanup tool....

Anyone with physical access to your PlayStation 4 can just grab the controller, turn it on, and start playing–at least by default. You can restrict access to your PlayStation 4 so people can’t play your games, mess with your save files, and make online purchases without your permission. Just enabling passcode lock isn’t good enough. You’ll also want to prevent people from creating new profiles using the built-in parental controls or people can use your PlayStation 4 by creating a new profile when they turn it on....

Docker containers let you quickly spin up new applications without polluting your system with dependencies. A MySQL database is a common requirement for web-based software. Here’s how to get a new MySQL instance running in Docker in only a few minutes. Getting Started The official MySQL image on Docker Hub provides everything needed to get started. Images are available for MySQL versions 5.6, 5.7 and 8.0. Specify the one you want to use as the image tag:...

Installing Curl and JQ We’re going to use curl to fetch the JSON feed from Reddit and jq to parse the JSON data and extract the fields we want from the results. Install these two dependencies using apt-get on Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions. On other Linux distributions, use your distribution’s package management tool instead. Fetch Some JSON Data from Reddit Let’s see what the data feed looks like. Use curl to fetch the latest posts from the MildlyInteresting subreddit:...

Chromebooks and Chromeboxes are intended to be easy-to-use computers, but that simplicity can lead to confusion. Taking screenshots is one feature that isn’t super well explained, and there are several different ways to do it in Chrome OS. We’ll show you all of them. Chrome OS 89 introduced a screenshot and screen recorder tool for Chromebooks and Chromeboxes. Before this, you had to know specific keyboard shortcuts—which still work—to take a screenshot....

If you live your life in both Android and iOS, you’ll have an easier time if you use Google services. Almost all of Google’s apps are present on iOS, but the same isn’t true if you want to use Apple’s services on Android. Case in point: There’s not a great way to sync your iCloud calendar to Android, but there’s an easy way to at least see your calendar....

PowerPoint allows you to embed videos directly in your presentation. However, if you share the presentation, you might discover the embedded video no longer works. Here’s how to send your presentation with the embedded video still intact. The issue here is that the embedded video doesn’t actually become a part of your slideshow. When you embed a video in PowerPoint, you’re simply telling PowerPoint the location of the media on your computer....

In the past, if you ever wanted to tweet the animated Live Photo captured by your iPhone or iPad, you had to convert the image to a GIF. That’s now a thing of the past, as Twitter will do the conversion for you automatically! Capture a Live Photo on Your iPhone or iPad Before you can tweet a Live Photo, you’re going to need to enable the Live Photo feature within the iPhone’s or iPad’s camera app and then snap an image....

The next time you’re on your way to meet a friend, or if you want your parents to know how long it will take to get home, just use this Live ETA feature in the Maps app. Once it’s enabled, the app will share your live location and your estimated arrival time with your contact. Make sure you’re running iOS 13.1 or higher on your iPhone and launch the Maps app....

Google Sheets lets you sort your spreadsheets as well as the contents within those spreadsheets by date. You can use Sheets’ built-in functions to do that, and we’ll show you how. Sort Your Data by Date in Google Sheets To sort a dataset in your spreadsheet using the date column, use Google Sheets’s sort ranging options. First, in your spreadsheet, select the entire dataset you want to sort. Include the column headers in your selection, but exclude the index column if you have one....

Here at How-To Geek we usually recommend you shoot RAW format images instead of JPEGs because you capture a lot more information about whatever scene you’re shooting. Let’s look at how to make the most of the RAW format. Camera RAW is an uncompressed file format that is capable of storing a lot more image data than JPEGs or other compressed file formats. If your camera’s sensor can capture it, it will get stored in the RAW file....

Port Knocking Is a “Secret Knock” In the 1920s, when prohibition was in full swing, if you wanted to get into a speakeasy, you had to know the secret knock and tap it out correctly to get inside. Port knocking is a modern equivalent. If you want people to have access to services on your computer but don’t want to open your firewall to the internet, you can use port knocking....

The Linux find Command The Linux find command is powerful and flexible. It can search for files and directories using a whole raft of different criteria, not just filenames. For example, it can search for empty files, executable files, or files owned by a particular user. It can find and list files by their accessed or modified times, you can use regex patterns, it is recursive by default, and it works with pseudo-files like named pipes (FIFO buffers)....