Full-screen modern apps are a thing of the past. In Windows 10, your Windows apps will float on the desktop as normal resizable windows. The schizophrenic IE behavior is now gone. You no longer need to worry about which version of IE will open, and IE is being replaced by a new browser codenamed: Project Spartan. The Charms bar is gone in Windows 10 and is replaced by a much more useful notification center that you can pull up when you want it....

Today Microsoft released almost a dozen updates to its various operating systems including Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Server 2008. The updates/fixes include everything from 100+ game fixes/performance improvements to an update for the Windows Activation Service and Windows Media Player. Here’s the most notable: Update for Windows 7 (KB976264) – Fixes for ~100+ Games and ApplicationsUpdate for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB977716) – Fix for Windows 7 Media CenterUpdate for Windows 7 (KB976662) – IE8 Update fixing JSON interoperabilityUpdate for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB978632) – Windows 7 Media Center UpdateUpdate for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB976422) – Adds compatibility to Windows 7 to use SD (Security Digital) cards larger than 32 Gigs)Cumulative Update for Media Center for Windows 7 (KB977863)Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB978637) – Application Stability Update...

If you’re a YouTube junkie, you know about some of the annoyances on YouTube. Every user wishes they could change or disable, advertisements, autoplay options, and more. If you want to change it to your own preferences, give YouTube Options for Google Chrome a try. With YouTube Options for Chrome, you can disable advertisements, change screen resolution, disable comments, and much more. The extension also works with many other video hosting websites including Vimeo, DailyMotion, Metacafe, and others....

Microsoft Excel is the industry-standard spreadsheet application. Microsoft Excel 2016 is a vast cornucopia of tools that let you manipulate, organize, analyze, and format data in a spreadsheet. Although Excel has been the lifeblood of many a corporate office, research firm, and financial outfit, Excel can be equally as handy and powerful for everyday users. Whether you are a home user managing a household budget, a small business owner managing inventory or a school teacher taking daily attendance, Excel will make your life easier if you learn to use it....

These days recipes are mostly electronic, scattered across many different websites. So how do you keep all of your favorite recipes in all of these different forms organized? Using online recipe organizers of course! Why keep entire cookbooks when you only like a small batch of recipes in them? Why bookmark half a dozen websites when you can just export your favorites to your own personal digital recipe organizer? In this article, we’ll show you a list of cloud-based recipe organizers you can use to do just that....

Miss the days of Windows XP when you had easy access to the Run Line from the Start menu? Here’s a quick tip on how to get it on the Windows 7 Start Menu. First, right click the Start Menu and select Properties. Under the Start Menu Tab click Customize. Scroll down in the Customize window and check Run Command. Click the Start menu and you’ll see Run. Click on it to bring up the Run Line....

Choose Which Apps Send Notifications on Battery Power in Windows 10 If you want to continue receiving notifications while using Windows 10’s battery saver feature, you can. By default, the battery saver automatically disables background tasks prone to depleting battery life, such as fetching new mail, wallpaper slideshow themes, and notifications. But it doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Open Start > Settings > System > Battery and click Battery usage by app....

With the Picture Frame enabled, you can view a slide show of the photos on your iPad. Just click the icon in the lower right corner. The photo slideshow will start on your Lock Screen. Anyone can view them, even with the Passcode enabled. If you don’t want someone grabbing your device and viewing your private pictures, turn the Photo Frame feature off. Go to Settings » General » Passcode Lock....

Note: iOS 6 lets you set up what’s essentially a “white list” of calls that will come in when you’re in Do not Disturb mode. But this is a whole new feature that will let you block callers anytime! Block Unwanted Calls in iOS 7 Step by Step If you have unwanted calls from crazy exes or bill collectors that just won’t stop with those harassing phone calls, here’s what you do to stop them — when you update to iOS 7....

Grab your acoustic guitar and download WildChords to your iPad. You can use an electric too, but I found it best to not use distortion. First of all, tune up your guitar with the built in tuner. Then start your characters journey. As the journey starts, you’re given specific chords to play on your guitar. When your character reaches a certain spot in his journey, you play the chord. The built in microphone in the iPad picks up what you play....

By default, Bing is set to search for Any Time. So for instance here I’m searching for “Windows 8 blue leaked” and get several results. But if you want something more time specific, like the past 24 hours, a week, or a month ago, just hit the menu and select the time range. Here I selected results from the past 24 hours on Google Glass availability. Or here I switched to find out more about the Windows 8/RT Xbox Music App updates a week ago....

In an effort to reduce the amount of physical stuff I have, I had a thought: what If I could just take my Windows 10 laptop, remove the hard drive, and boot it on my Mac Mini? I’m not talking about installing Windows 10 on a Mac Using Boot Camp or installing a fresh Windows 10 VM on a Mac. What I wanted to do was plug my hard drive into my Mac, fire it up, and have it be like I’m sitting in front of my old laptop, but you know, not have to keep my old laptop around....

Pixar’s Luca to Premiere on Disney Plus Disney released a new trailer for Pixar’s new feature film that’s set to stream exclusively on its Disney Plus subscription service. The film streams to all subscribers beginning June 18th, 2021. It showcases “One incredible summer in the Italian seaside town of Portorosso that’s seen through the eyes of a sea monster named Luca. Here is the synopsis of the film according to Disney:...

Looking for an easy way to save time while while texting or writing emails on your mobile device? If you have a modern smartphone you probably spend an unnatural amount of time on it, so any little bit that we can cut out helps. That’s where automated punctuation comes in. Don’t Look, Double Tap At the end of sentence, rather than tapping the numbers button and tracking down the period, just double tap the space bar....

EasyDownloader is an app for Android that makes downloading Instagram content as easy as can be. It will also allow you to download videos and photos from Vine and Tumblr too. That doesn’t mean you should use it to download other people’s images and use them without permission; that might get you in trouble. You can, however, download images you want to keep for later viewing. EasyDownloader Start by downloading the app from the Google Play Store, here....

Of course, Facebook has more money than it knows what to do with, but not even Mark Zuckerberg gives up that kind of cash without some good reasons. This infographic, created by the clever folks at onlinembaprograms.org, explains some of the factors behind Instagram’s instant success. Follow the example of Instagram and we’re sure that in no time at all Zuckerberg will be knocking on your door. Via OnlineMBAPrograms.org Thanks!...

At any rate, it’s good practice to guard your email address almost as carefully as you guard your Social Security number. Many savvy web users go to great lengths, such as opening up alternate email accounts for email lists and newsletters or creating disposable email addresses using services like Spam Gourmet. But if you’re a Gmail user, there’s an easier and more flexible way to control the flow of spam and tenuously opt-in junk email into your inbox....

How to Search a Web Page using the Find Menus in iOS and Android Apple’s Safari for iOS provides multiple methods for performing a search on a web page; they don’t make it very obvious, but it’s right in front of you. First, load the web page, tap the address bar, then type the word you are looking for. A sheet with word suggestions will pop up. At the bottom of the list will be a section called On This Page with the option to Find your word....

Firefox 57 has been in development for 6 months and is aimed at reclaiming losses to Google over the years, which has become the favorite of most users worldwide. But Chrome has been experiencing a bit of dislike among users who describe it begrudgingly as a memory hog; an issue Mozilla focuses on with the new multi-process architecture, which chops up background activities run by the browser in each tab and on the web pages....

Now that the week is coming to an end, it’s time to kick back, relax, and do some science! Well, simple science that is –let’s not get into anything too crazy. While some engineers are kicking back and playing the guitar, you could be building a motor using 3 simple ingredients; 1 AA Battery, a small neodymium magnet, and a short piece of copper wire. Want to learn how? Check out the video below!...