How Much Energy? The amount of electricity it’s using is probably minimal. But it gives me the anxiety to see that USB audio interface with its flashing light, indicating that it’s powered-on but can’t connect to my computer. If this laptop were somewhere other than my basement—say in the family room or a dorm room—I can see how a tabletop full of dumb flashing USB devices could be even more annoying....
Bugmenot used to be a pretty useful solution, as it provides usernames and passwords to a lot of websites. But it hasn’t seemed to be working for me lately. So, looking for an alternative, I discovered Share Your Pass. It has categories of sites you can find logins for. All you have to do is to search for the site you want to get a log in for. Once you’ve found it, click to see the username....
What is LinkedIn Marketing? The Microsoft website offers various marketing tools for businesses to generate leads, improve brand awareness, create relationships and partnerships, share content, make new connections, find new employees, and more. Why Use LinkedIn? There are 660 million users around the globe who use LinkedIn. That’s 660 million reasons to focuses at least some of your marketing resources on the website. Top Tips to Using LinkedIn Marketing for Your Business To grow your business in the new year and beyond, consider these important tips....
With Windows 10, that’s no longer the case. You can view PDFs natively in Windows 10 and a whole host of third-party alternatives. Adobe no longer has its monopoly on the PDF format it brought into this world. So, using Adobe Reader is certainly no longer a requirement. But there may be some cases when you still want to. The fact of the matter is that more and more programs support PDFs....
Jumping right to the end — everything is fine. You don’t need to worry about SgrmBroker.exe. The System Guard Runtime Monitor Broker (SgrmBroker.exe) is a service created by Microsoft and built into the core OS as of Windows 10 version 1709. What is SgrmBroker.exe? System Guard Runtime Monitor Broker (SgrmBroker) is a Windows Service running and part of the Windows Defender System Guard. It can be easily mistaken for the RuntimeBroker that handles universal apps, however, they are different processes and both safe....
What’s a Noob? The term noob is slang to describe someone who’s a novice or newcomer or inexperienced in a profession or activity. In more recent years, it has been used to describe someone new to computers or internet activities such as online gaming. Like similar words like newbie, newb, nub, or n00bs, noob can have derogatory connotations, depending on the context. Most times, however, noob is used for descriptive purposes without any value judgment....
New Features in iOS Version 9.3 The most touted new feature to iOS 9.3 is Night Shift. It reduces the amount of blue light exposure from your devices screen at night. I would describe Night Shift more as a health benefit focused on minimizing the adverse impact of your iPhone or iPad screen brightness when sleeping. When enabled, Night Shift will modify the iPhone screen brightness to a warmer, yellowish hue that makes it easier on your eyes at night....
BRB The term means “be right back,” of course. It’s typically used on social networking sites like WhatsApp, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, Messages, and Instagram. The person sending this internet abbreviation tells the audience they’re coming back soon to continue a conversation. The quick leave could be to get some food or drink, answer the door, chat with someone else, or simply to put down their device for a few minutes. In some circles, BRB is directly a bathroom break....
Ray Soneira makes a good point: Tablet computers are essentially large portable displays. In this very hot, ultra-competitive category, an outstanding display is the single best way for manufacturers to make their tablets stand out, says Dr. Soneira, the president of Displaymate Technologies and easily the country’s foremost expert on video displays. “On the flip side,” he says, “cutting corners, costs and quality for the display is a serious mistake because it results in sub-standard image for everything that runs on the tablet....
The good news is that Bloomberg sources report a white version of the iPhone 4, Apple’s most advanced smartphone to date, will supposedly be available in a couple of weeks. This will certainly make a lot of people happy. A white Apple device has a certain amount of charm, even if it’s the same device, all in all. Still, I can think of a few people who will jump and buy one in the first few minutes, even if they own a black one, too… (my wife…....
Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) is still new on the market, and one of the greatest features offered is the ability to pin websites to the taskbar. When a website is pinned, the browser then treats it as if it were a separate application. Certainly, Microsoft’s marketing department has done a superb job promoting the feature, they even partnered up with sites for promotional offers. We’ve shown you how to pin websites to the taskbar with both IE9 and Chrome, but despite Microsoft’s attempts -Chrome does it better....
Windows 10 Cumulative Update KB3116908 As always you can wait for it to install automatically, or get it manually by going to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update. A restart is required and, if you have notifications enabled, you should see it pop up on your screen. You can always schedule the restart for a time that works best for you. For more on that, read our guide on how to schedule Windows 10 Update restarts....
At the time of this writing, this feature only available to Windows Insiders running the preview version of Windows 10, currently on Build 14342. However, when the Anniversary Update is released to everyone this summer, you’ll have access to it. Here’s a look at how to enable it and what you can expect. Enable Cortana on Windows 10 Lock Screen Launch Cortana and click on the Settings logo on the left panel....
There are no new features in the release but it does bring quality improvements and security fixes to Windows 10. Windows 10 Update KB3140768 According to the Windows 10 Update History page, this latest cumulative update includes the following: Improved support for Bluetooth, wearables, and apps accessing contacts.Improved reliability in app installation and Narrator.Improved performance for hibernation, content entry in apps, and downloading and installing updates.Fixed issue that didn’t allow login to an Xbox from a PC running Windows 10....
It’s not a user friendly method either. You’ll need to run some Command line magic using BCDEdit tool. It’s a tool included in Windows to store and define boot applications and settings. First, from the Metro Start screen type: cmd into the Search box. Right click cmd.exe and select Run As Administrator from the bottom bar. The Command Prompt comes up. Type: bcdedit/enum /v and hit Enter. This give you info about the Windows Boot Manager and Windows Boot Loader....
IE 11 Always Show Address Bar and Tabs Launch IE 11 and go to Settings > Options and under the Appearance section turn on “Always show address bar and tabs”. That’s all there is to it. now when you’re using the modern version of IE 11, the address bar and tabs will always be displayed. In Windows 8 the amount of tabs you could have open was limited, but now you can virtually have as many open as you want....
Take a look for yourself by looking through the registry. Just run Regedit (type regedit in the Windows Explorer path bar, for example). Then navigate to: (phew, that was a long one!) and you’ll get what you can see in the screenshot below. Looking back to Windows 7, they also had six versions however only three were widely available on retail channels – Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate. On the other hand, Microsoft said, quoted by PCMag, that it has yet to decide how many flavors the new OS there will be, and, being that were still quite a few months ahead of the release, there is still time for MS to simplify things a bit (please) like its competition (Apple…)....
Hulu allows you to watch tons of the latest shows from various TV networks the day after they air live. It also includes a collection of classic TV shows as well as movies from major studios. You can create individual user accounts for your entire family, including a kids profile for your young ones. Of course, Hulu is available on virtually every streaming set-top box, stick, or smart tv as well as your computer, mobile device via an app or browser....
There are a few ways you can use this tool—as well as open it. If you want to speed up your workflow, here are six different ways you can open Disk Management in Windows 11. 1. Search for Disk Management To avoid clicking through menus, you can search for Disk Management and open it directly. To open Disk Management using the search bar in the Start menu, use the following steps:...
Samsung has received no less than 9 million preorders for the device and they keep on coming, according to Reuters, citing the Korea Economic Daily, which found this out from a Samsung official. The report also says that Samsung is using its full capacity, making five million Galaxy S III a month. Hopefully, it will manage to keep up with the demand and everyone will be able to get their much coveted device as soon as possible....
