Back Up and Delete Your Old Data It’s obviously not a great idea to sell a device with all of your personal information stored on it. The first thing you’ll need to do is get rid of all of that data and reset your Mac back to factory settings, to protect yourself and also make it easier to set up as a new computer. You’ll probably want to keep a copy of your data somehow....
Facebook Pages are a great way to promote your business, a cause, or just your hobby. Unlike Groups, which are more of a community feature, Facebook Pages work mostly like a regular Facebook Profile. You can use them to share posts, photos, videos, and whatever else you want. You can also send and receive messages. It’s basically just a profile but for something that’s not human. The biggest difference is that any number of people can Like and Follow the page....
Start With a Smart Garage Door Opener Unless you have a carport, it’s very likely your garage has a garage door, and thankfully there’s no shortage of options to make your garage door opener smart. And that’s good too because you’ll get a lot of peace of mind when you switch to a smart opener. If you can’t remember if you closed the garage door, for instance, you’ll be able to pull out your phone and check....
Thanks to Google Sheets’ ability to create new lines within a single cell, you can prevent your cell’s content from overflowing. Your extra cell content is put on a new line, and here are two ways to make that happen in your spreadsheets. RELATED: How to Start a New Line in a Cell in Microsoft Excel Use a New Line Within a Cell in Google Sheets A quick way to enter a new line within a cell is by using a Google Sheets keyboard shortcut....
Dedicated vs. Shared Hosting Dedicated hosting is when you rent out an entire rack of a server—or, often, a portion of that rack’s resources. You’ll often be given detailed specifications about what exactly you’re buying, and you’ll generally be paying a bit extra compared to shared hosting. Shared hosting runs multiple instances of a game server across multiple server racks, allowing the hosting provider to save money and provide a low price....
Whether you want to fix issues or save battery, it’s easy to turn off your iPhone 14. You can do this using your phone’s physical buttons or an option in the Settings app. We’ll show you how to use both methods. RELATED: 8 Tips for Saving Battery Life on Your iPhone Use Buttons to Turn Off an iPhone 14 One way to shut down your iPhone 14 is to use the hardware buttons on your phone....
The History of less Everything in Linux–and Unix—has a history, no pun intended. The less program is based on the more program, which was initially released in 1978 in version 3.0 of the Berkeley Software Distribution Unix (3.0BSD). more allowed you to progressively page through a text file, displaying a screenful of text at a time. Necessity being the mother of invention, it was the inability of early versions of more to scroll backward through a file that prompted Mark Nudelman to develop less and to overcome that specific problem....
To discover some details about the people logged on to a Linux or Unix-like computer, many system administrators would likely turn to the finger command. Which is all well and good, but on many systems finger will be absent. It isn’t installed by default. You may well run across a system where this command is unavailable. Instead of installing finger—assuming you have permission to do so—you can use pinky, a lightweight and modern version of finger....
If you want to watch live TV on your Apple TV—cable or antenna—it’s relatively easy to set up and get going. The great thing about streaming set-top boxes is that almost everything you need for watching content is available in one place…except for live television. You can download a network’s respective app to watch a live stream of their channel, but you usually need a cable subscription in order to do that, which negates the whole point of cord cutting in the first place....
If you have a Wink Hub but still find yourself manually controlling your home, then you aren’t getting the full capabilities out of your smart devices. Introduce If This Then That (IFTTT) to your Wink Hub to automate your home. The Wink Hub is incredibly versatile thanks to its support for everything from fans to locks. But it can’t talk to everything everywhere and it only has so much intelligence....
Photography isn’t just a technical pastime; it’s an art. While it’s important to understand how to control your camera, it should be so you can capture the kind of photos you want, rather than so you can take boring, if technically correct, photos. Here is a technically perfect, awful photo. It’s well exposed, there are good shadow and highlight details, the colors are accurate, and it’s thoroughly and completely boring....
As part of Microsoft’s push towards cloud and mobile apps, they’ve invested in several cloud-only additions to the old familiar Office apps. One of these is Flow, a trigger-based system for creating automated workflows. What Does Flow Do? If you’re the kind of person who reads How-To Geek regularly, you’re probably aware of the drive for personal productivity that’s been raging for pretty much the whole millennium. Flow is Microsoft’s attempt at giving you the kind of automation for notifications, alerts, data gathering, and communication that will help you spend less time on boring but necessary admin work and more time on interesting (and productive) things....
Microsoft will stop supporting Windows 7 with security updates on January 14, 2020. It’s like Windows XP all over again—but much worse. Many more people are sticking with Windows 7 than stuck with XP. Windows 7 Usage Is Still High If you’re still using Windows 7, you’re not alone. According to Net Market Share, 35.63% of Windows users are still using Windows 7 as of December 2018. Windows 10 has 52....
Smarthomes are easier to put together than ever. While they’re still not a necessity, what they are useful for is solving annoying problems around your home. No More House Shouting Intercoms are normally annoying and difficult to install in a home, require wiring and sometimes making holes in the wall. But with an Echo or Home in different rooms, you can use either the Echo’s Announce or Google Home’s Broadcast feature....
Do You Need a RAM Upgrade? There are certain scenarios in which upgrading the RAM is obviously a good idea. A computer for everyday uses, like web browsing, streaming videos, running Microsoft Office, and playing a game or two, should have at least 8 GB of RAM, in our opinion. That might come as a surprise, considering many mid- and low-end PCs come with 4 GB. However, they aren’t very responsive and tend to slow down as soon as a background process or three start running....
Convenience for (Nearly) Everyone When you install smart lights, plugs, thermostats, and more, you add a great deal of convenience to your home. It isn’t that you’re incapable of getting off the couch and flipping a light switch, it’s that you’ve given yourself the option of not heading to the light switch. We all accept a certain level of convenience in our lives. People generally don’t need electricity and light switches....
Four years after its release, we’re all still using Windows 10. But that’s not really true: The version of Windows 10 we’re using today has seen four years of improvements. It’s packed with shiny new features and clever under-the-hood optimizations. More Control Over Windows Update With every major update to Windows 10, Microsoft has given everyone more and more control of updates. This is a major pain point in Windows 10, and Microsoft has made it better....
The year is 2018, and telecommuting is at an all-time high. Working from home has never been easier and the benefits—both for employees and employers—are vast. There’s just one problem: Google Maps is annoying. See, here’s the thing. Google Maps isn’t really annoying as a whole, but one aspect of it is irritating to anyone who works from home: the inability to specify that you don’t have to leave your house to go to work....
How Do Torrents Work? An internet download involves receiving data from a remote server. Aside from the initial request you send out to get the file, most downloads are a one-way street. You receive the data from a central server, and you don’t have to send out something from your server. Loading up web pages, watching videos online, and downloading games on Steam all work in this way. However, if too many IP addresses download from the same server at the same time, it may get clogged and cause a dip in download speed....
Once you activate Find My for your AirPods, you can locate your AirPods on a map (and your case too if it’s holding your AirPods), find your AirPods’ last known location, play a sound on your AirPods, and enable Lost Mode to engage Apple’s huge finding network to locate your lost AirPods. RELATED: What Is Apple’s Find My Network? Step 1: Enable Find My on Your iPhone The first thing to do is turn on Find My on your iPhone....
