Although there have been plenty of reports about YouTube not being profitable yet because of the costs required to host all the videos people upload, it is still helping make the parent company, Alphabet Inc.—the same parent company to Google—more money overall. Google only recently created its parent company called Alphabet—you might remember it making the news how they couldn’t […]
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What Is a VPN, and Why Might I Want One?
There’s much debate about the importance of a VPN when you’re connected to the internet. VPN stands for “Virtual Private Network,” and when you connect to the internet with a VPN, it means you are then browsing the internet with an encrypted connection and anonymously. To date VPNs have been mostly used for getting up to no good: don’t want […]
Check if Someone is Using My Wireless Network (WiFi)?
WiFi has made connecting devices to the internet a much more manageable task to the lay’ than in days of earlier technology—no longer do you need to have a wire coming through your wall and attached to the side of your devices just so that you can use this thing called “the internet.” WiFi is now almost everywhere: WiFi at […]
Watch Free Movies Online
We live in an age now where its no real secret that large numbers of people are streaming movies without having to pay a cent and usually by using torrents, but what not nearly as many people have cottoned on to yet is that there are actually some high-quality services out there backed by large corporations like Paramount Pictures that […]
Free Ways to Stream Torrents Without Waiting for Complete Downloading
Torrenting over the years has traditionally meant heading to a website that acts as the gateway to the torrent so you can then download them, and then you wait for the download to complete inside a torrent client such as BitTorrent. From there you stop the file from seeding and then shift it over to the desktop of your computer […]
Identify Fake Torrents Uploaded by Anti-Piracy Organizations
There haven’t been too many things in recent memory that have sparked as much as a moral debate than torrenting movies over the past few years. It’s gotten to a point now where most youngish people know how to do it, either by learning how to do it themselves or they’ve taken down notes from someone else who does and […]
Activate Windows 10
Each copy of Windows 10 needs to be activated on a computer before it will run. The activation is so that you can prove that your edition of Windows 10 is a genuine one and not stolen or already used/goes against the Microsoft license terms agreements, which is one copy of Windows per computer unless you have an Enterprise license. […]
How to Reset Notification Area Icons
All editions, versions, and builds of Windows 10 come with the same taskbar at the bottom of the computer’s display, and the right side of that taskbar is always filled with the system tray. Right next to the system tray is where your notification area is—those are the little icons that you can see to the left of the sound […]
How to Change Startup Page in Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Edge hasn’t yet grown to be as popular as Internet Explorer was before Windows 10 arrived, but it should be. Edge has managed to fix many of the problems that the older IE browser had. Edge is available across all devices that can run on the Windows 10 operating system: tablets, phones, laptops and desktop PCs. One of the […]
How to Install Chrome OS on any PC and Create a Chromebook
The average laptop user updates their device about once every five years—things are similar with desktop PCs, but people keep them a bit longer due to parts being easier to replace and laptops having limited chances to get in on some upgrades that would help them stay relevant in the future. Generally speaking, the five-year mark is about the time […]
How to Install Chrome OS from USB Drive on Any Computer
If you happen to go shopping for a new laptop one of the options that might tickle your fancy is a Chromebook. A Chromebook looks like a top end device when you see it on the shelf, but has a dramatically cut down operating system compared to most other laptops you’ll see there that runs Windows. The Chromebook’s are centered […]
Download Windows 10 ISO File
I want to install Windows 10 on a computer that doesn’t have it already available from the manufacturer’s disk or from a free Windows 10 upgrade that I missed out on. And I want to do it the legal and official way that Microsoft wants people to use. Resolution The Windows 10 ISO files aren’t easy to find online from […]
Repair Windows 10 Image using DISM
The DISM Cleanup image (Deployment Imaging and Servicing Management) tool is available for administrators to use if the Windows image develops a problem that can’t be fixed with a standard service. If you ever get faced with an issue that’s serviceable, DISM can overwrite the current files with new versions and fix the problem that way. You can use the […]
How to Delete a Note from Microsoft OneNote
The version of Microsoft OneNote that was put together to work with Windows 10 has seen many changes since older versions. You’ll now have a OneNote with design aesthetics and functionality that match what Windows developers were working toward with Windows 10. The end product of OneNote for Windows 10 is similar to the leaders in the one taking competition […]
Stop People from Seeing You Viewed Their LinkedIn Profile
I’ll be honest: I’ve never been a huge LinkedIn kind of a guy. I’ve now been working professionally for about six years and hadn’t bothered to create a profile until just the other week. I like to call myself the Editor-in-Chief online because that’s what everyone else in my position usually calls themselves, but I don’t really care if people […]
Enable Dark Mode on YouTube
Dark mode is just about everywhere, and YouTube is not an exception. Although the site does not offer an easy way to enable the feature (maybe they don’t want for everyone to see the mode), there exists a geeky way to enable the mode and to enjoy YouTube in the dark. The procedure for enabling dark mode requires you to […]
How to Get Shareware on Sale
Sometimes things ending in “ware” aren’t things you want to be anywhere near. For example, most people understand malware as a type of virus that is terrible news for your computer if you happen to have some. But if you ever wondered if there was a way of getting high-quality software for free, then you would need to look for […]
Open Local Group Policy Editor in Windows 10
If you only use your Windows 10 operating system at home, then you might not know anything about Group Policies. If your Windows 10 computer happens to be at work, then the likelihood if you or your administrator knowing about a Group Policy. The Local Group Policy Editor, otherwise known as just “gpedit.msc” for short, is a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in […]
How to Run Command Prompt as an Administrator
The Command Prompt is the command line that allows people to enter codes and execute commands. The Command Prompt in Windows 10 provides access to over 280 commands that anyone can run to perform a variety of tasks. The Command Prompt has been around since the very beginning in Windows, but to confuse things just a little, the earlier versions […]
Charge Phone When Laptop is Closed
It’s a lot more uncommon to find a person with a phone these days than it is to find someone without one. Sadly, there is still one big problem that we all face in our daily lives of living with a smartphone, and that is the battery. While battery technology is slowly progressing, almost everyone who owns a phone wishes […]
Save Gmail Emails as PDF
While your emails are safe and securely stored in the cloud for your Gmail account, sometimes you may wish to create their backups on your computer. Just to make sure nobody can access them and delete them from your account. One of the ways you can backup these emails is you can save them as PDFs on your computer. By […]
How to Fix KingRoot Not Working
KingRoot is by now one of the most popular rooting tools in the world. There are two main types of rooting tools that people use: one of them is Superuser or SuperSU that gets flashed from a custom recovery image and thus you need to have a custom recovery image installed on the device before rooting it that way it […]
Turn Off YouTube Subtitles
If you are anything like me and find yourself one day browsing YouTube and there are subtitles on the videos for no apparent reason, then you are going to want to get them off the screen. Maybe somebody before you wanted to watch a video with subtitles and forgot to turn them off again when they left, or maybe you […]
How to Install Portable Version of Vivaldi Web Browser
If you spend enough time on the web, you’ll start to realize that the world of web browsers is pretty serious business. We are often given web browsers shoved down our throat by the companies who create them. When I buy a device like the Microsoft Surface Book, it gives me the Microsoft Edge browser to use—along with a bunch […]
Set YouTube Videos to Repeat so They Play Again Automatically
Few websites offer as much entertainment as YouTube. It is one of the most popular websites in the world with around 300 hours of video footage uploaded every minute, just shy of five million videos watched very day, over nine hundred million unique views a month and about three and a quarter billion hours of video watched a month. YouTube […]
Turn Off YouTube Video Autoplay
Roughly a year ago now my television in my bedroom broke. Since I don’t live alone and the only other television in the house is often occupied, it meant it would be the end of my TV watching for the most part until I decided to get a new TV set. After about a month of going cold turkey on […]
How to Erase Data on Microsoft Surface Tablets Without Booting into Operating System
If you’re anything like me with regards to devices, you will have gotten lots of enjoyment out of the Microsoft Surface range of devices. One of my friends was heavily into wanting to be an owner of the original Microsoft Surface, and I researched it with her, and she ended up buying the Microsoft Surface Pro. I then later bought […]
How to Turn on New Mail Notification Banner so Opening Mail App is No Longer Required
One of the most useful changes we have seen to operating systems in recent years is having the chance to get notifications a lot easier. If we go back and think about Windows XP for a minute (released during August in 2001), it took my family a computer technician to help set up the email client that was built into […]
How to Turn on Outlook.com Offline Access
Nowadays, email clients are being used a lot more than ten years ago. It isn’t just a place where you delete a bunch of emails that you don’t remember signing up to and then viewing the occasional message from family and friends anymore. People are substituting reminders and notepads and electing to leave valuable information inside the email client so […]
How to Set Any Song for Alarm on iPad
If you are a music freak like me, I am sure you would have loaded plenty of great songs on your Apple iPad. The iPad’s Music Quality is so good that you can stop yourself from listening to music for hours. You can organize your favorite songs in the Music App on your Apple iPad, which comes preloaded by default. […]