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It’s common sense that everyone should be using a good password manager (we hope, at least). It’s also worth noting that password managers h...

No spectators will be allowed in person to watch the ball drop in New York City’s Times Square to mark the transition from 2020 to 2021. Tha...

The Chromecast with Google TV blends the concepts of Chromecast dongles and Android TV devices. That means they have both “Ambient Mode” and...

What could be better than a Nintendo Switch? How about the Starlight Nintendo Switch Gaming Station, which is specially designed to be used...

RAM is important when it comes to how well your computer runs. Chromebooks require less RAM than other computers running Windows 10 or macOS...

A new Apple Watch comes preloaded with a couple of watch faces. There’s also a huge collection of additional watch faces, ranging from styli...

A Gantt chart is a bar chart that shows the schedule of a project. Thankfully, Microsoft PowerPoint provides several Gantt chart templates f...

The PlayStation 5’s (PS5) user interface places the power options within a hidden menu, making them somewhat difficult to find. We’ll explai...

If you use a Mac, you’ve probably configured your machine with System Preferences, which includes individual configuration sections called “...

At this point, the set top box market has settled on three major choices—or rather, two major choices and a dark horse. For most consumers w...

Many times a returned property from an object in PowerShell may not be ideally named, or the value is not quite in the necessary format. For...

If your computer runs Windows 10 and you also have an Android phone, you should probably be using Microsoft’s Your Phone app. You can do a l...

You might not realize it, but every time you purchase a new desktop CPU, you also get a ticket for a giveaway called the “silicon lottery.”...

LG is already known for its impressive OLED TVs, and now it’s adding multiple new models to its LCD TV line. The models use Mini LED technol...

Private mode in Mozilla Firefox keeps your local browsing history private. But, by default, Firefox turns off extensions while browsing priv...

T-Mobile and Sprint merged to become one company in April of 2020, but Sprint’s legacy network still exists to support old devices. That may...

Devices such as the Chromecast with Google TV can display a Google Photos slideshow as the screen saver. If you’d like to use your TV as a g...

With so many people stuck at home for most of 2020, TV series captured more of the popular imagination than ever. Here’s how you can stream...

Playing PC games on your TV is all the rage these days, with services like Luna and Stadia offering an easy entry to cloud gaming. But if yo...

The Apple Watch has a honeycomb-style app screen. While it’s efficient, you might have trouble finding the right app on the small screen. Sw...

Thanks to smartphones, it’s no longer necessary to stick your credit card into a grimy machine to pay for gas. There are a couple of differe...

In many programming languages, there is the concept of scope. Defined as what variables and functions are available in what context. An exam...

Need to figure out a color quickly? Using Microsoft’s free PowerToys utility for Windows 10, you can instantly bring up a color picker with...

When you drop hundreds on a brand new console, either for yourself or your kids, dropping another load of money on games isn’t exactly appea...

Your Mac hijacking your cursor and asking you to wait around is never welcome. People call it different things, including the spinning wheel...