The “Contacts” app is probably one of the most neglected apps on your Android phone. Email, SMS, and phone apps use your contacts, so it’s important to routinely clean them up. We’ll show you how to combine duplicates. What’s a “duplicate contact?” You can easily end up with two instances of the same person, one with a phone number and one with an email address. The good news is you don’t have to find these duplicates yourself....
Roku devices recently gained a “screen mirroring” feature. With a few clicks or taps, you can mirror a Windows 8.1 or Android screen to your Roku. It works a bit like Apple’s AirPlay or Google’s Chromecast screen-mirroring. This works along with the Miracast open standard that’s built into Windows 8.1 PCs, Android phones and tablets, and Windows phones. It won’t work with Macs, iPhones, iPads, Chromebooks, or Linux PCs....
Docker automatically aggregates container standard output and error streams (stdout/stderr) into log feeds which are retained by the Docker daemon. You can easily monitor logs to understand what’s going on in your containers. The logs contain the output you’d see in your terminal when attached to a container in interactive mode (-it). Logs will only be available if the foreground process in your container actually emits some output. You should make sure your containers log errors to stderr so Docker commands are able to expose them....
Download Mozilla Thunderbird Our favorite app for opening an MBOX file is the open-source Mozilla Thunderbird application. We performed the steps here with Mozilla Thunderbird version 78, which was the current version as of January 15, 2021. To get started, download Mozilla Thunderbird and install it. It’s available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Launch Thunderbird and Set Up an Account If you’re not already using Mozilla Thunderbird, you’ll see a “Set Up Your Existing Email Address” dialog box the first time you open it....
Foreshadow, also known as L1 Terminal Fault, is another problem with speculative execution in Intel’s processors. It lets malicious software break into secure areas that even the Spectre and Meltdown flaws couldn’t crack. What is Foreshadow? Specifically, Foreshadow attacks Intel’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX) feature. This is built into Intel chips to let programs create secure “enclaves” that can’t be accessed, even by other programs on the computer. Even if malware were on the computer, it couldn’t access the secure enclave—in theory....
How to Turn Off App Notifications on Apple Watch Starting with watchOS 5, Apple Watch gained the ability to quiet and disable notifications right from the Notification Center. The Deliver Quietly feature works the same as on your iPhone. When enabled, your Apple Watch won’t buzz or vibrate, but you’ll find the notifications when you visit the Notification Center. If you’re the kind of person who wants only a subset of notifications (perhaps only the really important ones) on your Apple Watch, you can also disable the notifications for an app....
The Office Key is a new key that you’ll find on Microsoft keyboards. It lets you quickly launch apps like Word, but you can remap it with AutoHotkey to act as an extra modifier key or disable the app shortcuts altogether. What Is The Office Key? You’ll find this key on new Microsoft keyboards released after October 15th. You may have also heard of the dedicated emoji key Microsoft added along with it; both keys slot in where the right Windows key and menu key used to be, in between Right Alt and Right Control:...
If you use Google Sheets to collaborate with others, you can prevent people from typing the wrong data in your spreadsheet’s cells. Data validation stops users from inserting anything other than properly-formatted data within specific ranges. Here’s how to use it. How to Use Data Validation in Google Sheets Fire up your browser, head to the Google Sheets homepage, open a spreadsheet, and highlight the range you want to restrict....
Why a Locally-Controlled Smarthome? Cloud-powered smarthomes are feature-rich and include some niceties, but they do come with disadvantages. Second, if the company cloud that drives your smarthome tech closes up shop or abandons the smarthome category, your devices will no longer work. This very thing happened with the Lowe’s Iris and Revolv hubs. Likewise, Best Buy recently announced it’s shutting down the Insignia smarthome line. So, Insignia smart plugs, cameras, and light switches will stop functioning....
If your Android phone is your alarm clock, you can make it a lot smarter. Google’s Clock app now has Google Assistant-powered routines that can control your smarthome or play audio of choice when you wake up in the morning. Get Routines Without A Google Home Perhaps the most significant problem with alarms is that they are easy to snooze—multiple times. And before you know it, you’re running late, skipping breakfast, and hoping for a string of green lights so you won’t be late for work for the fifth day this week....
Many people on Twitch stream as a hobby. If you’re thinking about going full-time, though, you’ll need to raise some cash. Setting up donations on Twitch is one way you can do it! Along with Twitch’s built-in subscription service, some streamers can accept donations using the platform’s built-in currency (Bits), which is purchased with real money. If you don’t want Twitch taking a cut of your donations, or you’re unable to accept subscriptions or Bits, you’ll need to look at other methods....
However, there’s more to sharing your document than just a button click. Depending on what you’re sharing and with whom, you should take a moment to consider the sharing permissions. Should others have the ability to edit the document? Do you want them to be able to add comments? Or should the document be view-only? Let’s walk through how to share your documents and the permission options. Set Up Sharing With Specific People Google keeps things consistent when it comes to sharing in all three applications....
Developers of PC games, you’re getting kind of sloppy. Game installations have ballooned into drive-filling behemoths. Maybe 10 gigabytes for Far Cry 3 doesn’t sound like too much…until you add 67 gigabytes for the new DOOM, and 80 freakin’ gigabytes for Shadow of War. Pretty soon, even the most capacious drives start to feel a little snug. RELATED: How to Save Space on Storage-Starved PCs With Windows 10’s “CompactOS”...
The Daytona 500 is the biggest race of the Nascar season and it shows who is the cream of the crop in this sport. With names to watch like Jimmy Johnson and Ryan Newman, this race will show who is the best out of the bunch. If you’re a cord-cutter, then you may be looking for a service to use to watch this race. These services allow you to catch the big race from the first lap to the checkered flag....
Google has expanded Smart Compose from Pixel phones to most other Android smartphones. And while it can be handy, it can also be annoying if the suggestions are off. If you don’t like it, turning it off is a simple process. Smart Compose Will Finish Your Sentence For You Smart Compose shouldn’t be confused with Smart Reply. Smart Reply will examine the email you have received and suggests quick replies that would be appropriate....
The Steam client (not Windows itself) supports the DualSense controller. So, before you start, download and install Steam or update it to the latest version on your computer. Pair Your PS5 Controller to a Windows 10 PC Pairing the DualSense controller with a Windows 10 PC is possible using a USB cable or Bluetooth. Connecting the controller to your PC wirelessly is easy, but the controller’s Bluetooth connectivity is not up to the mark....
When you set up Time Machine, your Mac wants to use an entire external drive exclusively for backups. Here’s how you can get around that and use a Time Machine drive both for backups and file storage. Using a 2 TB external drive for Time Machine backups of a Mac with a 128 GB solid-state drive doesn’t make much sense. Better to put that external drive to use storing video files and other data you might need....
That small inconvenience aside, you can still do all the great things with Alexa on the Fire TV that you can do with the Echo. You can ask about the weather, call up Prime streaming music, add items to your shopping list, check the news, see how your favorite team is doing, and more. One might easily argue, even, that despite the hassle of pressing the button and needing to have the television attached to the Fire TV on during operation, that the on-screen displays more than make up for the inconvenience....
Should you need to find the middle value in a set of data in your spreadsheet without having to do it manually, Google Sheets has a function that does it instantly for you. Here’s how to use the MEDIAN function. Fire up Google Sheets and open a spreadsheet with datasets for which you want to find the median. Click on an empty cell and type =MEDIAN(, [, …]) into the cell or the formula entry field, replacing and with the values or ranges to consider for calculating....
The yes Command The yes command is one of the simplest commands in Linux and other Unix-like operating systems like macOS. And by simple, we mean simple in its use and its initial implementation. The source code for the original version—released in System 7 Unix and authored by Ken Thompson—amounts to a mere six lines of code. But don’t write it off for being a simple little command. It can be used in some interesting and useful ways....
