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In yet another bid to get your attention while browsing Facebook on your mobile device, Facebook now has videos set to automatically play the audio in your news feed. Here’s how to turn that annoying new “feature” off. RELATED: How to Stop Facebook Videos from Auto-Playing Last year, Facebook rolled out a similar feature that automatically plays videos without you clicking on them. Thankfully, you can disable it, but now they’re back with another update that automatically plays videos with the volume on....

Kodi is still one of the most powerful media center applications around, and it works on everything from powerful media PCs to small Raspberry Pis. But if you have multiple TVs in your house, wouldn’t it be nice if they all stayed in sync? By default, if you have multiple Kodi machines, they won’t recognize each other. Episodes you watched on one TV won’t show as “watched” on another. Wouldn’t it be nice, though, if your bedroom Kodi box knew what you watched in the living room, and vice-versa?...

Twitter’s mobile apps make it very easy to share your location without really meaning to. Let’s look at how to know when Twitter is sharing your location, and how to stop it. Here’s the new Tweet screen. Right now, I’m composing a new Tweet, and Twitter has attached my location: “Fingal, Ireland”. The reason my location is attached right now is that at some point in the past I shared my location on Twitter, and it’s now shared it for every Tweet since then....

When you disconnect your accounts from each other, your accounts do not get modified or deleted. You simply lose the ability to post from one platform to the other and stop getting other shared experiences. Later, if you want, you can always resync your accounts. RELATED: How to Remove Third-Party Facebook Apps From Your Account Unsync Facebook and Instagram Accounts on Desktop On your Windows, Mac, Linux, or Chromebook computer, use the Instagram website to unlink your accounts....

Chromebooks are great for simplicity, but that also means their features are a bit limited. Not all video calling services support Chrome OS. But one that works really well on Chromebooks is Google Duo. We’ll show you how it works. Google actually has two video calling services: Meet and Duo. Google Meet is geared more toward work-related conference calls, while Duo is intended for personal use. Both work well on Chromebooks, but we’ll be talking about Duo....

If you’ve previously added or removed the some of the “special” icons like Computer, User, and Control Panel to the desktop—or just want to know how to add them in Windows 10—here’s how to do it. Windows includes several desktop icons for system elements like the Recycle Bin, Computer (renamed to “This PC” in Windows 8 and 10), Control Panel, Network, and your user folder. Depending on your setup, some of these icons may have been included by default on your Windows 7 or 8 desktop....

You have a shiny new Chromebook and you want to make the most of it. Good! Despite popular belief, Chromebooks are in fact excellent productivity machines—especially once you find the proper tools for the job at hand. RELATED: Chromebooks Are More than “Just a Browser” We’re going to break this down into different categories to help make it easier to find what you’re looking for. The one thing to note here is that Android apps are placed throughout the various categories where they make the most sense, but we also include a section at the end for Android apps that don’t fall into any one specific category....

Technology is expensive. We geeks love to shower ourselves with new gadgets, but it’s awfully costly. There are a lot of ways to save money on your tech addiction, but none of them beat buying used. Why Buying Used Is Awesome I’m always looking for ways to save money. I’m rarely satisfied with a simple coupon or sale; I want insane deals. If it isn’t insane, I just don’t feel victorious....

Once upon a time, you had to really keep an eye on your Android phone to make sure the battery wasn’t being depleted prematurely. Manually toggling connections, constantly adjusting brightness, and the like are basically all things of the past now—but there are still things you can do to maximize your handset’s battery life. RELATED: How Android’s “Doze” Improves Your Battery Life, and How to Tweak It Before we get into the how, however, let’s talk about how far Android has come....

Look, I’m not trying to start a war here, but hear me out: Chromebooks are awesome. In fact, I prefer mine to my Windows PC for nearly every use. Why? Because I think it’s a better system. Let’s talk about why. Chromebooks Start Up (and Update) Instantly When it comes down to it, no one likes to wait. And I’d argue that most users become even more impatient when it comes to using their computers—that 30 second wait for your computer to start up seems like an eternity....

Qi Is Just a Wireless Charging Standard Qi (pronounced “chee”) is a standard for wireless energy transmission. It’s a format that’s maintained by the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), and it aims to standardize wireless charging across all devices in the same way that the USB or Bluetooth standards have standardized data transmission across all devices. But why does wireless charging need to be standardized? Well, without a standard like Qi, wireless charging would be a serious pain in the ass....

Apple’s iPad line has gotten pretty hefty, between the 12.9-inch and 10.5-inch iPad Pro, the (blandly named) iPad, and the iPad Mini 4. They range from $329 all the way up to $1279. So what’s the difference between all these models? Let’s take a look. What’s the Same? Before diving into the nitty gritty, let’s consider what’s broadly the same. They’re all iPads running Apple’s iOS operating system. The vast majority of apps will run smoothly on all four models (though some games may not run smoothly or even be available for the iPad Mini 4)....

A Bit About Safety Ethernet cabling — usually CAT 5e, CAT 6, or CAT 6a in April 2022 — isn’t high voltage, and shouldn’t be attached anything that can push a lot of current, either. That means it isn’t really dangerous in and of itself, if used as-intended. That said, there are some precautions you should always take while working around the AC power lines in your home, or putting holes in the structural components of your house, including when you’re installing Ethernet cables....

Long-time Android power users will be all too familiar with the “clear cache” option in recovery, but thanks to some recent changes to how Android works, the cache partition is a thing of the past. Here’s why. Traditionally, Android would download an update, store it on the cache partition, and then apply it to the system partition when the device was rebooted. This process takes a little bit of time, then the OS has to “optimize” after the reboot is complete in order to clean up the installation....

Windows 10’s Redstone 5 update has a “Sets” feature that adds tabs to almost every window on your desktop. But it also changes how Alt+Tab works, since those tabs appear in the normal Alt+Tab switcher you use to switch between windows. You can disable this, if you like, to make Alt+Tab work more like it used to. Redstone 5 is currently available in Insider Preview form, and will be released in the Fall of 2018 under a different name that presumably won’t have anything to do with dogs....

RELATED: What Is LiDAR, and How Will It Work on the iPhone? What Does the LiDAR Scanner Do? LiDAR stands for Light Detection And Ranging, but it may also be commonly referred to as “3D laser scanning” or some variation thereon. The technology works by bouncing light waves at surfaces and measuring the reaction time to determine the shape and distance of objects in the area. Think of it like RADAR (RAdio Detection And Ranging) but for light waves....

Your wireless router has a variety of useful options you can configure. These are practically hidden—you wouldn’t know these features exist unless you were digging through your router’s configuration pages. But they’re worth knowing about. Bear in mind that different routers have different options. You may not have all the options listed here on your own router. The options will also be in different places with different names. RELATED: What’s the Difference Between a Modem and a Router?...

Cord cutting—ditching cable or satellite TV and watching stuff online instead—is great. It’s also not for everyone. Cable TV is expensive, which is why millions of people are opting to stop paying for it every month and subscribe to various online streaming services instead. People often save money doing this, and for most tech savvy people, we highly recommend it. Having said that, it’s not for everyone. There are a few reasons that cord cutting might not be for you—here’s a few to think about....

Can You Flamethrower Driveway Snow Away? Heat is the enemy of snow, and applying a whole lot of it at once will get the job done. In fact, in a roundabout—and absolutely ridiculous—way, you’re using the sun to melt the snow when you use a flamethrower. Flamethrowers use fossil fuels, a dense energy source created by ancient organic matter that is compressed and concentrated over millions of years in the earth’s crust....

There’s a fairly simple registry hack you can do to make Windows look in a different folder, but if you want to get rid of Blue Lace 16 you’ll also have to delete it manually. (The standard warnings about registry editing apply here) With a name like “Bliss” you would think I would be less tired of seeing this: Change Wallpaper Folder Open up regedit.exe using the start menu Run box, and then navigate down to the following key:...