Flight prices change all the time. If you buy a flight at the right time, you could save yourself hundreds of dollars. Here’s how to use Kayak’s price alerts to get the best deals. Creating Flight Alerts from the Website Head to Kayak.com and, if you don’t already have one, create an account. If you do have one, sign in. You need an account so that Kayak can actually send you the alerts....
Google replaced the Caps Lock key with a search button on Chromebooks long ago, but if you plug an external keyboard up to a Chromebook and hit the Caps button, guess what happens? Caps. That’s what happens. Fortunately, you can easily change this. RELATED: How to Remap the Search Key on Your Chromebook Personally, the search key on my Chromebooks is an integral part of the way I use the operating system—it’s how I quickly launch apps and Google searches....
“Hey man, do you have Dan’s number? I need to give him a shout about a thing.” (Stupid Jerry, he never saves numbers to his phone.) You could look it up and just type it in a message…or you could share Dan’s full contact card, to make it easier on Jerry. Sharing contact cards is actually the easiest way to handle situations like that—there’s no hassle of looking the number up, trying to remember it while you type it in (or jumping back and forth between apps to get it right), and then sending it....
If you use Messages on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, then you probably know how quickly you can become overrun with message notifications, especially if you’re part of a group message. Thankfully, there’s an easy way to mute specific messages so you’re not disturbed. Messages is great, especially if you use it in conjunction with text forwarding on your Mac or iPad. It’s especially useful for group messages. If you and your friends or family all use an iPhone, then everyone can chat freely and message will be grouped together and you can reply to everyone as a group....
Fake Android apps in the Play Store are a problem. People create listings designed to look exactly like popular apps, often using the same icon and name, to trick you into downloading it—then bombarding you with ads (or worse, malware). This issue has been especially prominent lately. A fake version of WhatsApp was downloaded by more than one million people last year, and just this week Reddit’s /r/android community found a fake version of the popular SwiftKey keyboard and an ad-riddled version of VLC on the Play Store....
If you aren’t familiar, here’s the obnoxious social network spamming feature from Paper.li, who have some sort of service that’s a combination of a personal Twitter newspaper and a spam-generating machine. For the Love of FSM, Make It Stop! According to their stop mentions page, all you have to do is tweet out a response to @NewsCrier like this: You can just to to the page, click the Tweet button....
Google provides no way to automatically sync contacts between two different Google accounts. Instead, you’ll have to perform a manual two-step process where you export your contacts from one account to a comma-separated values (CSV) file, then import contacts from that file into your second account. Here’s how to get it done. Step One: Export Contacts from Your First Google Account The first step in transferring your contacts is to export them from the account where they reside....
Twitter threads are the worst. Don’t make them. …is advice I myself don’t listen to. Neither do you. There’s nothing you can say in a Twitter thread that can’t be said better in a blog post, but something about getting feedback for individual sentences is intoxicating, and just too compelling for us to not do it. This is great for the person creating the tweet storm, but Twitter is a terrible user interface for actually reading long strings of text....
The Alexa app for your phone manages voice commands for Echo devices that have a built-in smart hub. It can do this even if it isn’t connected to the internet with the Local Voice Control feature. So far, Echo Plus (1st Generation and 2nd Generation) and Echo Show (2nd Generation) support Local Voice Control. RELATED: How to Connect Alexa to Wi-Fi That being said, there are a few things that you need to know before getting started:...
Google recently released an ARC Welder Chrome app, which allows you to run Android apps if you’re on Chrome OS, or using the Chrome web browser. ARC or App Runtime for Chrome is in beta and so you should expect bugs. Also, you simply can’t install apps from the Google Play Store. You need an Android application package or APK, or an Android application that has been stored in a ZIP file....
Your computer’s “clipboard” is where content that you cut or copy is temporarily stored. Microsoft Office has its own clipboard, however, that’s more powerful. The Windows clipboard only stores the last item you copied. However, the Office clipboard stores up to 24 text and graphical items from Office documents and other programs. You can paste the items into any Office document in any order, which can be really useful when working on a large document....
It was a long journey for iOS and iPadOS devices to get picture-in-picture for YouTube. The feature started out as an experiment for Premium subscribers in August 2021. A few months later, the experiment ended. In July 2022, Google started rolling it out for real. Non-Premium Members: Everyone in the U. S. can use picture-in-picture in the YouTube app regardless of whether they have a Premium subscription or not. PiP only works with non-music videos....
Samsung just announced what will undoubtedly be the most popular Android smartphone for the year: the Galaxy S9. Like its predecessor, it’s available in two variants with the S9 and the S9+. Let’s talk about ’em. What’s New in the Galaxy S9 and S9+? At first blush, you’d be forgiven for thinking these are the same phones as Samsung’s last-generation flagships—because they look very similar to last year’s S8. Very....
If you’re still stuck in the dinosaur ages with your Apple TV 3, you might be curious about upgrading to the latest and greatest—the Apple TV 4 or 4K. But depending on how you use the set-top box, it might not be necessary. The Apple TV received a major overhaul at the tail end of 2015 with the release of the Apple TV 4, which included an App Store, an all-new Siri-enabled remote, and the ability to play all sorts of games....
What Makes the Best Free Cloud Storage? We’ve put together our picks in no particular order: all of them have something going for them, from Google Drive’s excellent suite of tools to Sync.com’s security features. In each case, we’ll go over what the allotment of free storage is and what extras there are on offer. You may notice that Dropbox is missing from our list, this is because it only offers 2GB of free storage, which isn’t a whole lot....
While all phone cases provide some form of protection for your device, they don’t offer the same degree or type of protection. You need to carefully choose a case that strikes the right balance between look, feel, and functionality. Think about how and where you use your phone and match that with the most appropriate case. The first choice you’ll have to make is what material you want for the case....
Another year, another Pixel event…and another round of confusing “Only on Verizon” ad campaigns. But here’s the thing: the Pixel 2 can be used on any major carrier in the US. So what’s with this “exclusive” junk? RELATED: Is It Worth Upgrading to the Pixel 2? The Pixel 2 is not exclusive to Verizon. In fact, it’s one of the few phones out there that can actually be used on any carrier (including many MVNOs)—Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Project Fi, Cricket Wireless, MetroPCS, US Cellular…you get the idea....
Samsung is probably best known for its smartphones, TVs, and other appliances, but the company also sells some of the best laptops. Now you can get one of its 2-in-1 ultrabooks for just $599.99, a sizeable discount from the original $949.99 MSRP. The Samsung Galaxy Book2 360 has a 2-in-1 design, so you can flip the screen around to use the laptop in “tent” mode or as a large tablet....
Ever wish web apps behaved more like real apps? Progressive Web Apps are a new technology that’s aiming to make that happen. The Short Version: What Are Progressive Web Apps? Here’s the quick summary: Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and other companies are working on a new, modern web application standard. Even Apple is following along and implementing support for it. These applications are web apps, but they behave more like native apps....
You may have pins on the back of your hard drive that nothing is connected to. These pins are called jumpers, and are used to enable specific types of settings. They’re not used so much with modern hard drives, except in some special circumstances. If you’re under a certain age, or you just haven’t been into computer hardware for long, you’ve probably never heard of hard drive jumpers. The jumper pins are similar to the pins on the I/O plate on a motherboard....
