Have you ever wanted to monitor who’s logging into your computer and when? On Professional editions of Windows, you can enable logon auditing to have Windows track which user accounts log in and when. The Audit logon events setting tracks both local logins and network logins. Each logon event specifies the user account that logged on and the time the login took place. You can also see when users logged off....
Photoshop and Illustrator are powerful, but not exactly intuitive. That goes double for their text tools. If you’re tired of seeing the wrong default font at the wrong time, here’s how to set it manually. Photoshop To set the default font choice in Photoshop, first open the program clean, or close all of your active projects if you’ve already got it open. You should have no windows open in the program itself, like this:...
Bluetooth speakers are so 2014. While they’re great on an individual portable basis, they only have an effective range of around 30 feet. Worse still, usually you can only control one Bluetooth speaker from one device at a time, and audio quality isn’t great over Bluetooth. That however, is where Sonos shines. Sonos is a smart speaker streaming system that lets you add speakers as you go, allowing you to fill every room in your house with music while controlling it from any computer, smartphone, or tablet....
Whether you’re in college sharing a dorm room, or just have roommates to make rent cheaper, here’s how to set up your smarthome devices so that they play nicely with multiple household members, as well other devices that your roommates might have. There once was a time where you wouldn’t even have to worry about this, because smarthome wasn’t really a big thing. But now, smarthome devices are becoming more mainstream, and many homes and apartments are filling with these nifty gadgets....
Microsoft Word will mark contractions like “I’m”, “don’t”, and “doesn’t”, as grammatical errors, showing that dashed line under them. For more casual documents, this can be annoying. In certain very formal workplaces, or under very formal style guides, contractions may be considered inappropriate and too informal. That’s why Microsoft Word has this option. But, if think contractions are fine—and they are, in most situations—you can tell Word not to bug you about them....
While the HomePod is great for music, it can also do some other neat things, like read your text messages to you. Be careful, though, as anyone within earshot can ask Siri to read your text messages from your phone. Here’s how to disable that feature. RELATED: How to Set Up the Apple HomePod During the setup process for your HomePod, you were asked to decide whether or not to enable the feature, called “Personal Requests”....
Go back to the ’80s, when Cheers first began, and follow bar-owner, Sam Malone, and his regulars. Cheer “Norm!” whenever George Wendt’s character walks through the door, and laugh along while Diane (Shelley Long) bickers with Sam. CBS CBS allows you to watch full-length episodes of Cheers for free. Unfortunately, unless you subscribe to All Access, you have to deal with a good number of ad breaks. Netflix For those with a Netflix subscription, you can stream the entire series....
You’re a grownup. You know how to use a computer and a phone. So when it’s time to show off some portion of your screen, don’t try to take a photo of it—that’s kid’s stuff, and it looks like junk anyway. Just about every modern operating system has some method of saving what’s on your screen, and most of them make it pretty easy. Keep this simple guide bookmarked for every method you’ll ever need....
Starting with iOS 11, Apple included a way to quickly disable Touch ID and Face ID on iOS. With Android P, Google is introducing a feature named “Lockdown Mode” that essentially does the same thing. Android P’s Lockdown Mode will disable all biometric and Smart Lock features, as well as all lock screen notifications. This is a sort of failsafe phone setting that you can enable when your need additional security....
Google’s Family Link service offers a bunch of handy features including location tracking. The nice thing about Family Link is the process is very transparent. The child’s device gets a notification when you’re tracking it. No one should be unknowingly tracked. RELATED: Disabling Location History Doesn’t Stop Google From Tracking Your Location First, open the “Family Link For Parents” app on your iPhone, iPad, or Android device. Your child needs to be using Android, but you can track them from any device....
Inserting Sparklines on your Spreadsheet You will find the Sparklines group located on the Insert tab. Select the cell or cells where you wish to display your Sparklines. Select the type of Sparkline you’d like to add to your spreadsheet. You’ll notice there are three types of Sparklines, Line, Column, and Win/Loss. We’ll select Line for our example. A Create Sparklines pops up and will prompt you to enter a Data Range you are using to create the Sparklines....
I have a pretty strong love-hate relationship with MoviePass. I’m the kind of guy who loves going to movie theaters—noise, ads, and all!—and will almost never turn down an opportunity to see something new. In other words, the idea of MoviePass is perfect for me. Even if you go to the theater less than I do, I could (and did!) still make the argument that it’s worthwhile. After less than a year of policy changes, growing pains, and poor communication, I just can’t recommend it to anyone else anymore....
The Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 9:40 AM on December 11, after sitting on top of the SLS rocket for launch and traveling around the Moon. The splashdown marks a successful end to the Artemis 1 mission, which was the first complete test for both the Orion capsule and the Space Launch System rocket. It was automated with no people on board, but it’s likely that the follow-up Artemis 2 mission will have a crew....
Nest has unveiled it’s latest addition to its smart thermostat lineup, known as the Nest Thermostat E. The original Nest Thermostat is still available and will continue to sell alongside the new model, but what does the Nest Thermostat E bring to the table? Here’s what you need to know. It’s $70 Cheaper The biggest kicker is that the Nest Thermostat E is only $169, which is $70 cheaper than the original Nest Thermostat....
Note: You may or may not wish to do some reorganizing with your bookmarks before-hand. Condensing the Bookmarks If your browser is anything like ours then it has not taken long to fill up your Bookmarks Toolbar. Accessing the drop-down section often throughout the day is not too fun. The bookmarks are the easiest part of your collection to condense. Right-click on each bookmark and select “Edit…” to open the Edit Bookmark Window....
Measurement Conversions When cooking or baking, it’s always nice to know what the conversions are for various measurements, like how many teaspoons are in a tablespoon or how many cups are in a gallon. Those are basic conversions that are common knowledge for a lot of people, but if you don’t spend a lot of time in the kitchen, you can ask Alexa for help. For example, you can say “Alexa, how many tablespoons are in a cup?...
Choosing the right video player is partly about the features it offers and partly about how it feels to use, and both are a bit subjective. The right choice is going to differ from person to person. Fortunately, there are lots of great free video players for Windows. The Built-in Option: Movies & TV Let’s start with the easy one. The Movies & TV app that comes with Windows 10 is a capable, if somewhat dull, video player....
There’s a direct correlation between how powerful your gaming computer is and which monitor is right for you. If your hardware isn’t powerful enough to run most games in 4K, you’re better off with a lower resolution monitor that will make the most of your setup and save you money. It’s also vital that you understand refresh rates, or how fast the screen updates per second. Measured in hertz (Hz), refresh rates start at around 60Hz on monitors designed for office use and can go all the way up to 360Hz on the most competitive gaming monitor....
Ever wish Kodi looked…different? Maybe you’re not a big fan of how the home page is laid out, or you wish the typography and color choices were more (or less!) subtle. However you wish Kodi looked, there’s probably a skin that’s right for you, and many of them can be customized to your liking. Best of all, installing them isn’t hard at all. RELATED: How to Customize Estuary, Kodi’s New Default Skin...
Disk Management is a utility found in Windows 10 and 11. It is used to initialize hard drives, create, resize, or delete partitions, change drive letters, and more. Find out five ways to open it here. The Computer Management Menu To access Disk Management through the Computer Management tool, click the Start button, type “Computer management” into the search bar, and hit Enter or click “Open.” Click “Storage” in the Computer Management window if it isn’t expanded, then click on “Disk Management....
