Before you dive into Slack Connect, let’s take a deeper look at how it works, who can use it, and if it’s a free service. What is Slack Connect? Slack Connect gives you a terrific way to chat with clients, customers, vendors, and others who normally require a different application. So, if you’re used to communicating via email or some other chat tool, you can hang up those apps and use Slack....

After 21 years, it’s important to take a closer look at COPPA and decide whether it has proven successful. Unfortunately, the answer is largely a mixed bag — perhaps solely because of one single entity, YouTube. More About COPPA At the time of COPPA’s passage, very few websites had implemented privacy policies. At the same time, many of these same websites were beginning to collect personal information from their visitors....

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update 1709 Build 16299.371 While there are no new features with this update, there an extensive list of improvements and new fixes: Provides support to control usage of Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier (IBPB) within some AMD processors (CPUs) for mitigating CVE-2017-5715, Spectre Variant 2 when switching from user context to kernel context (See AMD Architecture Guidelines around Indirect Branch Control and AMD Security Updates for more details)....

Windows 10 Insider Build 16251 With phone-to-pc linking Android owners will be able to test a new “Microsoft Apps” application that links a phone to a PC. The link will enable new cross-device features which include the ability to share a link from a phone directly to a Windows 10 PC. This is the start of many features that will align Android and iOS to Windows 10. In the future, you’ll be able to directly share content to and from PCs and copy and paste between devices via a cloud-based clipboard....

This build isn’t as exciting as the last, but it does include a lot of fixes and performance improvements. If you’re testing Redstone on your Windows Phone, it’s worth noting that in addition to the retail models i.e. Lumia 550 or Lumia 950, there are some older models that will be capable of running it. Microsoft has a list of phones that support the Mobile Insider Preview. The company does state that the only exception is the Lumia 635....

The cool thing is that the familiar Control Panel and other traditional admin utilities are still available. However, Microsoft continues to move these so-called “classic utilities” into the Windows 10 Settings app. And some features and tools are being replaced. Take the classic “System” control panel, for example. Here’s a look at finding the classic utilities that you are used to. Use the Hidden Quick Access Menu If you were a Windows 8....

You don’t have to eat through 7 patties of beef to understand that Windows 7 is a big deal. Microsoft’s flagship product went on sale October 22nd and blew away its predecessor Vista. The actual difference is a staggering 234% increase over Vista, according to NPD Group’s market research. Even with the economy still on the rocks, aggressive sales promotions and pre-release discounts aided the Redmond giant in pushing out Windows 7 with major success....

If you have the SkyDrive desktop app installed on your Mac or PC, right click the icon on the Taskbar and select Go to SkyDrive.com. Select the file you want to share and click the Share link on the lower right side. Next enter the email of the recipient, a short message and click Get a Link. Now click on the rights you want the recipient to have – View Only, View and Edit or Make Public....

Give me the Hack details! First, the problem for Yahoo! and its customers is fairly large. 453,141 Yahoo Voice account passwords were also lost during the hack. Of which 342,481 are unique. These are accounts from different providers, although the majority are Yahoo accounts (135,599 of them). There are also 106,185 Gmail Accounts, Hotmail (54,393), AOL (24,677), as well as Comcast and MSN, a report by security company Sucuri says....

Here’s a little known but groovy trick that lets you send your friends a link to a specific spot in a YouTube video. While watching the video on YouTube, when you get to the spot you want to share, pause the video. Then right click where where the time indicator is and click Copy Video URL at Current Time. Now send off your link to your friends of colleagues or post it on a blog or forum....

Before we begin, note that any keyboard shortcuts are based on the US keyboard. They may not work the same in your keyboard layout. You can try shortcuts from one Office 365 app in another one, and it may work there too. There are hundreds of shortcuts, and we can’t list them all here. Let’s get going. You probably knew about these shortcuts… But did you know about these Word shortcuts?...

How to Get to Advanced Startup in Windows 8 Getting to Advanced Startup in Windows 8.x also allows you to boot into Safe Mode. Getting there can be somewhat annoying though. To get to Advanced Options (shown below) you need to hold down the Shift key, and at the same time click Restart from the power button. Use the Command Line Instead of going through all of those steps to get to Advanced Startup – use the command line!...

From the Start screen, use the keyboard shortcut Windows Key + C to bring up the Charms bar. Then click on Settings. Then select Tiles. Now click the switch to yes to Show Administrative Tools. The Administrative Tools tiles like Disk Defrag, Computer Management, Windows Firewall and more will now display on the Metro Start screen. To see them you’ll need to scroll the screen over to the right....

For example, adding items to the right-click Context menu. By default, there might not be the commands and other items you want. We’ve covered several articles on how to add or take things away from the Context Menu, here’s just a few of them: Add Copy and Move To Folder Commands to Context MenuAdd Print Directories to Context MenuAdd Dropbox to Context MenuHow to Add Any Program to Context Menu...

Then download the app which is just under 75MB in size. You can also easily add shows to your Watchlist and access them from the Xbox 360 or any other supported device. Comment Name * Email * Δ Save my name and email and send me emails as new comments are made to this post.

Price: Available now for pre-order at amazon.com Display: Seven-inch color display uses in-plane switching technology, 1024 x 768 display, capable of showing 18 million colors. Weight: 14.6 oz (for our international readers, that’s 413 grams) No System Requirements: The Kindle Fire Tablet requires no computer. Wifi Connectivity: The Kindle Fire tablet supports 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11g, 802.11n or the 802.1x standards. Support for WEP, WPA and WPA2 security is available. No support for ad-hoc (p20) Wifi as I noted above....

To find the version of iPhoto you have installed, click iPhoto » About iPhoto. The version you’re running will display. Here I’m running 8.1.2 – an upgrade is required. Open the Apple Mac Store and search for iPhoto. Because the upgrade is from version 8 it’s not free. Click Buy. Wait while iPhoto ‘11 installs. It will take several minutes – the download is 727MB. When the new version is done installing, relaunch iPhoto....

First tap and hold an app icon until they start to wiggle. Then drag an app to the other to create a folder and name it. Next, drag that folder into the dock. The folder you’re creating stays in the dock. Now scroll through your screens and drag the apps you want into that folder. Then you can move that folder to the home screen or keep it in the dock....

This was posted on YouTube by ooJLEoo. To learn what the differences between the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S really are – check out our groovy comparison chart. Watch the real iPhone 4S promotional video. Comment Name * Email * Δ Save my name and email and send me emails as new comments are made to this post.

Here’s a video of huge lines outside of an Apple retail store in Japan. Here’s a look at the line outside a retail store in Sydney, Australia. If you already have an iPhone 4, dealing with huge crowds to get the 4S may not be in your best interest. Check out our iPhone 4 and 4S comparison chart to help you decide. Good luck! Comment Name * Email *...