VMware normally creates “growable” disks, which start small and grow over time as you add data. However, you can also create “preallocated” disks that start at their maximum size. If you want to compact a disk later, you’ll need to convert it from preallocated to growable. Or, you may want to convert a disk from growable to preallocated for maximum performance. RELATED: Beginner Geek: How to Create and Use Virtual Machines...
One of the best things about MacBooks are the many trackpad gestures you can use. You can quickly look something up, zoom in and out, change desktops, and so much more. If you’re a power user, however, there’s probably more than a few unsupported things you wish your trackpad could do with a quick gesture: launch a particular application, say, or instantly arrange your windows a certain way. BetterTouchTool ($6 with a 45-day free trial) is the ultimate Mac tool for customizing the trackpad, not to mention all of your other input devices: the keyboard, the Magic Mouse, even the Touch Bar....
Apple’s macOS Mojave has new “Quick Actions” that you can use to rotate images, sign PDFs, and perform other tasks on files—right from the Finder. You can create your own Quick Actions using Automator, too Quick Actions appear in the Finder’s preview pane and in the contextual menu that appears when you Control-click or right-click a file. They can also appear on the MacBook Touch Bar. Launch Finder and Create a Contextual Workflow Open the Automator application included with your Mac to get started....
Snapchat’s Story feature is a great way to share what’s going on in your life right now with your friends. The problem is, because it’s integrated with Snapchat’s regular messaging, it’s very easy to accidentally post a Snap to your story that was meant for someone specific. Obviously, that can get embarrassing, fast…not that I’d know. RELATED: What Is Snapchat? In case it happens, let’s look at how to delete a Snap you’ve accidentally posted to your Story....
Of course, this is Android we’re talking about, so the process is going to vary depending on your specific model. That being said, you should be able to follow along loosely and find the necessary settings on your phone or tablet. RELATED: What Are Android Skins? How to Disable Haptic Feedback on a Google Pixel First, swipe down from the top of the screen twice to expand the Quick Settings, then tap the gear icon to open the Settings....
Xbox One games can be massive in size, and take hours to download. Rather than waiting for games to download when you’re ready to play them, you can remotely start game downloads on your Xbox One from a smartphone or web browser. They’ll automatically download to your Xbox and be ready when you get home, so you can play them instantly. This only works with digital games. If you have a physical game, you have to insert it into your Xbox One’s disc drive before the console will begin installing it and downloading any necessary updates....
If you’re going on vacation and will be away from home for any significant amount of time, it might be a good idea to enable Vacation Mode on your Schlage Connect smart lock. Here’s how it works and how to turn it on. RELATED: How to Create and Manage User Codes for the Schlage Connect Smart Lock Since you’ll be gone and no one will need to enter your house, Vacation Mode essentially disables the keypad on the Schlage Connect, disabling all key codes that would normally unlock your door....
If you have Netgear’s Arlo Pro camera system, the fully wireless capabilities are no doubt treating you well. However, there might be some other features that you’re missing out on. RELATED: Should You Buy a Battery-Powered Wi-Fi Cam? The Arlo Pro system does require a central hub that plugs into your router, but besides that, all cameras that you have set up can be completely wireless, since they run on battery power and use Wi-Fi for data transmission....
Because this is a system functionality, the process of installing a keyboard on the iPhone and the iPad is not as simple as just installing the app. In fact, it’s a bit convoluted. Before we get there, you’ll need to start out by downloading a third-party keyboard from the App Store. Here are some of our recommendations: Gboard: A current all-rounder keyboard from Google. Any feature that you can think of is probably in the Gboard app....
Once a major release of iOS comes out, the benefits of being the on the beta release channel diminish significantly–here’s how to get off the beta tester train and get back to regular old public releases. Why Switch Back? RELATED: What’s New in iOS 12, Arriving Today, September 17 Leading up a major iOS update (like the iOS 12 update with a lot of performance-enhancing features, it’s a lot of fun to jump on the beta testing bandwagon....
If you let someone use your computer, they could gain access to your saved passwords, read your email, access all your files, and more. Instead of looking over their shoulder, just use your operating system’s guest account feature. Guest accounts are found on all desktop operating systems—from Windows and Mac to Ubuntu, Chrome OS, and other Linux distributions. The Guest account isn’t enabled by default on Windows, so you have to go out of your way to use it....
iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and higher have iMessage features specific to group chats. You can mention a contact in an iMessage group chat, and that person will be notified, even if he or she has disabled alerts for the group chat. Mentioning someone to get their attention isn’t new. You’re probably used to mentioning people on Twitter, WhatsApp, or Slack. However, the way mentions work in iMessage is a bit different....
If you use your iPhone a lot at night, even the Night Shift feature can’t stop your screen from burning your eyes. Luckily, there’s a way to reduce the brightness of the screen even more than the lowest possible setting. RELATED: How to Enable Night Shift On Your iPhone for Easy Nighttime Reading You might think that reducing the screen brightness too much will make the screen so dim that you can’t even see it....
Someone logged into your Twitter account, and that someone isn’t you. They’re probably a spammer hoping to inundate your followers with junk, or maybe a “hacker” (in a very loose sense) being paid to follow other accounts. It’s just possible that they’re intentionally targeting you and hoping to make you look bad. Whatever the circumstance, you want to kick them off your account on the double. Here’s how. Step One: Keep An Eye on Your Email Twitter’s no stranger to hijacking attempts, so the company has a few internal triggers to detect unusual behavior....
It’s never fun when a hard drive dies, but Synology at least makes it pretty easy to replace a dead drive in your NAS. You can get back up and running without much fuss. Here’s how to do it. RELATED: What to Do When Your Hard Drive Fails If you’re in this current situation, hopefully you’re running a RAID setup so that you didn’t lose any data. If so, that’s one less thing to worry about....
The sudo Command The sudo command stands for “substitute user do.” It lets an authorized person execute a command as though they were another user. It can take command line parameters, one of which is the name of the user you wish to have the command executed as. The most common way sudo is used is to omit the command line options and use the default action. This effectively executes the command as the root user....
Windows 10 automatically performs system maintenance tasks like security scanning and disk optimization on a schedule. By default, Windows runs these tasks every day at 2 AM and wakes up your PC to do it if it’s sleeping. The Automatic Maintenance feature was added in Windows 8, so you’ll see the same options on a Windows 8 PC. What Is Automatic Maintenance? Starting with Windows 8, Windows uses a new “Automatic Maintenance” feature to perform system maintenance tasks....
Third-party tools like SteamDB will “estimate” the value of your Steam account based on how much the games you own are currently being sold for. We’re not using those tools here. Instead, we’ll show you how to see exactly how much money you’ve spent on Steam—down to the cent—without any third-party tools. To find this information, open Steam and click Help > Steam Support. Click “My Account” on the Steam Support page....
You can’t add this face directly on your Watch, so you’ll need to use your iPhone instead. Here’s how it works. How Portrait Watch Faces Work The new Portraits watch face is a bit like the existing Photos watch face that’s been a mainstay of the Apple wearable experience since launch. Think of it as a digital photo frame that also happens to tell the time, with a rotation of up to 24 photos....
Jira is a popular issue tracking product commonly used to facilitate agile software development. It comes with support for Atlassian’s own source control, BitBucket, which links issues directly to commits, but you can enable the same support for Gitlab as well. What Does The Integration Do? Basically, the Jira integration for Gitlab allows you to link Jira issues to Git commits. Whenever changes are pushed to Gitlab, it will check if any Jira issues are mentioned in the commit message or description, and add a comment to the issue....
