Clear Out Your Old Podcasts If you visit Settings > General > Storage on your iPhone or iPad, you’ll see a breakdown of how your device is using available space. This includes categories like Apps, Photos, and Media. The system doesn’t distinguish between podcasts or offline music, it uses the same “Media” label for both. You can scroll down the list on this page to see which apps are using up your free space, including the Podcasts app....
Virtual machines allow you to run an operating system in an app window on your desktop that behaves like a full, separate computer. You can use them play around with different operating systems, run software your main operating system can’t, and try out apps in a safe, sandboxed environment. There are several good free virtual machine (VM) apps out there, which makes setting up a virtual machine something anybody can do....
CCleaner, the incredibly popular PC maintenance utility, has been hacked to include malware. Here’s how to tell if you were affected, and what you should do. RELATED: What Does CCleaner Do, and Should You Use It? The attack was described thusly by researchers at Cisco Talos: “the legitimate signed version of CCleaner 5.33. . .also contained a multi-stage malware payload that rode on top of the installation of CCleaner.” CCleaner’s parent company, Piriform (who was recently bought by terrible antivirus company Avast), acknowledged the issue shortly thereafter....
In 2021, Samsung finally made the switch to Google’s Wear OS platform for its Galaxy Watches. However, Samsung retained some of the features that are only available if you use a Samsung phone. Let’s take a closer look at those features. Health Features We’ll start with health features, which are a prominent part of the Galaxy Watch experience. There are a couple features that only work if you have a Samsung phone....
Microsoft released Windows XP, one of the most popular and enduring versions of Windows ever, on October 25, 2001. It brought a graphical refresh and much-needed stability to consumer Windows. We take a look back at what made it special. It Brought Windows NT to Consumers, Finally In the early 1990s, Microsoft began working on a next-generation operating system called Windows NT that would leave Microsoft’s MS-DOS-based roots behind. It incorporated a brand new kernel and other technologies that made it very stable and reliable....
iMessage isn’t just for texting your friends and family anymore. With Apple’s new Business Chat feature, you can now text businesses and brands with your questions right from iMessage. Here’s how it works. Business Chat is a way for you to easily connect with businesses without jumping through hoops on their website. Instead, you can text them through iMessage and ask your questions there. The feature was originally unveiled during WWDC 2017, but wasn’t released until recently as a new feature in iOS 11....
That’s right. Switching from physical to digital books doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy the benefits of a public library. The process of checking out books isn’t quite as simple as walking into a library and getting lost in the bookcases, but it does work well once you get past the initial setup. How does this differ from checking out physical books at a library? Well, actually, it’s quite similar....
If you’ve finally found your soulmate, you might want to cancel your Tinder Gold subscription. Regardless of how you subscribed, we’ll show you how to cancel using the Tinder website and Tinder mobile apps. Depending on whether you bought the subscription from Tinder itself, the Google Play Store, or the Apple App Store, you’ll need to use the relevant section below to cancel your Gold subscription. Cancel Tinder Gold If You Subscribed from Tinder Itself If you bought Tinder Gold from Tinder itself (by giving them your card details), this section will show you how to cancel your subscription from the Tinder site and the Tinder mobile app....
The new 2015-edition Apple TV features a brand new remote with a new battery system and a new way to charge it. Read how to check the remote’s battery level and charge it back up. What’s New With The 2015 Apple Remote Previous editions of the Apple TV remote were powered by coin-cell battery and would frequently go years without needing a replacement. This was largely on account of how limited the functionality of the old Apple TV remotes were and how little you did with them besides simply selecting media and playing it....
If you’re a Mac user who created the workbook in Numbers, you can convert it to an Excel file type before you send it. If you’re a Windows, Linux, or Chrome OS user who received a Numbers file, you can download it to the Excel format using iCloud. And if you’re somewhere in between, you can always fall back on an online file converter. Let’s take a look at all three methods....
Service accounts are special accounts that can be used by applications and servers to allow them access to your Google Cloud Platform resources. You can use them to manage access within your account, and for external applications. For example, if you need to give an app permission to write to a Cloud Storage bucket, you can create a service account, give that account permission to write to the bucket, and then pass authenticate using the private key for that service account....
When Google first released Google Now, it was celebrated by Android users across the board. When Now evolved into the Google Feed, however, this change was much less accepted. But the Feed is great if you just take the time to customize it. RELATED: How to Access Google Now on Devices with Google Assistant Before we talk about customizing your Feed, however, let’s first talk a little bit about what makes it different than Google Now—aside from just the name....
Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan protects system files and processes with a new feature named System Integrity Protection. SIP is a kernel-level feature that limits what the “root” account can do. This is a great security feature, and almost everyone — even “power users” and developers — should leave it enabled. But, if you really do need to modify system files, you can bypass it. What is System Integrity Protection?...
The idea behind “Spotlight” and Samsung’s system-wide search feature is to be able to find a variety of things on your device all from one place. That includes apps, contacts, settings, folders, and more. It’s an easy way to find something without jumping through apps and menus. RELATED: How to Use Spotlight Search on Your iPhone or iPad Samsung makes it super easy to perform a system-wide search from anywhere....
What Does “Rebuild the PS4 Database” Mean? When your Sony PlayStation 4 downloads data, whether it’s a new game or an update to an existing title, the console must sift through the downloaded data to find what it needs. A few big updates and game downloads can cause your console to slow down, as it has to sift through a lot of data. Much of this data isn’t relevant to the current operation, though....
Google has done a good job making a name for itself in the hardware game, and I’m not talking about the Pixel phones here—I’m talking about Chromecast and Google Home. Both devices are useful, affordable, and among the best at what they do. As if that weren’t enough, you can also get free schwag from Google just by owning one (or multiple) of these products. Here’s where you can find free movie rentals and other sweet deals just for owning a Chromecast, Android TV, or Google Home....
By default, the motion camera that comes with your Abode home security system is set at a lower resolution, but here’s how to up the resolution if you want a better-quality image out of the motion camera. RELATED: How to Install and Set Up the Abode Home Security System There are two different resolutions that you can choose between: 320×240 and 640×480. Granted, neither one will give you a fantastic image, but you at least want the best resolution you can get....
Packages are the applications that make your Synology NAS more than just a glorified network drive. Let’s look at how to install packages, remove them, and even how to add repositories to gain access to even more functionality. There are two ways to add packages to your Synology NAS. You can search for applications in the package manager’s respository directory (which, by default, contains just the official Synology repository but can be expanded with third party repositories) or you can manually load a package file onto your Synology NAS....
The Notification Center in iOS is split into two sections: your new notifications, and your History. Notifications for things that have happened since you last looked at your phone appear at the top. After that you’ve got all the older notifications that you’ve seen but haven’t done anything about; they appear under Earlier Today, Yesterday, and so on. By default, iOS doesn’t remove notifications from the Notification Center until you actually do something with them....
The macOS cursor isn’t tiny, but some people have trouble seeing it. If you’re one of them, you might want to make it bigger, and it’s not hard to do so. Head to System Preferences, which you can find by clicking the Apple logo at top-right, then clicking “System Preferences.” We want to open the Accessibility pane. Click “Display” in the left panel and you’ll find a “Cursor size” slider....
