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There may come a time when you want to sell your Apple TV or give it to someone else. Or maybe a failed system update ended up bricking the device. In any event, it’s good to know how to factory reset your Apple TV. RELATED: How to Set Up and Configure Your Apple TV There are two ways to factory reset an Apple TV. The first method is by just going into the settings on the Apple TV and resetting it, which assumes you’re able to boot the device up and click through the menus....

DON’T YOU HATE IT WHEN YOU ACCIDENTALLY HIT CAPS LOCK? Ahem. Sorry. Let me try that again. Don’t you hate it when you accidentally hit Caps Lock? If you’re not completely paying attention, you might write an entire paragraph before you realize your mistake. You can easily change the case of text in Microsoft Word, but if you were writing in your browser or some other editor, you might think it’s time to re-write everything....

You plug your iPhone into your computer, ready to sync and…nothing. The little icon doesn’t show up in iTunes’ toolbar, and you’re flummoxed. Here are a few possible solutions. RELATED: How to Never Use iTunes With Your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch You can use an iPhone or iPad without ever touching iTunes, but it isn’t always easy. iTunes sucks on Windows, but it’s still useful for the occasional backup or software update when iOS is being frustrating....

For example, when I try to preview a PDF in Outlook, I get the message “This file cannot be previewed because of an error with the following previewer: PDF Preview Handler for Vista”. Fix PDF Previews the Easy Way Just download the Adobe Reader preview handler x64 fixer by Leo Davidson, click the Apply Fix button… And you can immediately begin previewing PDF files again. Yay! Download the Adobe PDF Preview Fixer from pretentiousname....

McAfee, like most other modern antivirus programs, doesn’t stay out of your way. It installs browser extensions and shows various alert messages you might not want to see. If McAfee came with your PC, you may regularly see messages that your subscription is expired. Here’s how to get rid of that noise. RELATED: What’s the Best Antivirus for Windows 10 and 11? (Is Microsoft Defender Good Enough?) The below steps were performed with McAfee LiveSafe, but should be similar with other McAfee editions of McAfee’s antivirus software....

Firefox is a great browser, but if you’ve ever eyed all those great Chrome extensions, you may have been tempted to switch. You don’t have to. Chrome Store Foxified is a Firefox extension that lets you install extensions from the Chrome Web Store. Update: As of 2018, the Chrome Store Foxified extension’s developer is no longer supporting this extension. Unfortunately, it’s no longer available for download. Opera extensions work too!...

Windows 10’s Settings app now lets you disable the programs that automatically run when you sign in to your computer. This same functionality was previously hidden in Windows 10’s Task Manager, and was hidden under MS Config in previous versions. To manage your startup programs, head to Settings > Apps > Startup. This feature was added in Windows 10’s April 2018 Update. If you don’t see the Startup option in your Settings app, you haven’t installed the update yet....

Over time, your iPhone’s Camera Roll has probably filled up, making it harder to find images. You can solve this problem by organizing your favorite photos into albums. Here’s how to do it. Creating Albums and Adding Photos The “Albums” tab in the iOS Photos app has all your albums. iOS creates some albums for you automatically—the Selfies and Slo-Mo albums, for example. Some apps, like WhatsApp or Instagram, also create their own album for photos you take using those apps....

If you want to give the illusion that you’re home when you’re really on vacation, your Phillips Hue smart bulbs now have a “presence mimicking” feature that makes crafting the illusion dead simple. RELATED: The Best Experimental Features In Philips Hue’s New Labs Section Historically, it was a wee bit of a pain to configure your Hue lights to mimic a whole house presence. Early on you had to either rely on third party workarounds or laboriously create your own list of timers for all your different lights....

If you work on websites, you’ll occasionally need to reset your computer’s DNS cache, particularly after editing records or changing hosts. While flushing the DNS cache on Windows is easy with a dedicated command, Mac users have to use a bit of a workaround. Clear Your DNS Cache on Your Mac To clear your DNS cache on your Mac, open the Terminal, which you can find in Applications > Utilities or by searching with Spotlight, and then run the following command:...

Feel like you forgot to log out of Gmail on your friend’s computer? Google makes it easy to see all the devices—laptop, phone, tablet, and otherwise—logged into your Google account. You can view both a list of IP addresses that have accessed it, and a list of devices that have actively used your account in the last 28 days. These aren’t necessarily complete lists. Google only shows devices that have recently accessed your account, not every device that may have access....

Windows 10 now lets you choose which sound output and input devices individual apps use. For example, you could have one app play audio through your headphones and another app play it through your speakers. This feature was added in Windows 10’s April 2018 Update. On Windows 7, this requires third-party apps like Audio Router or CheVolume if the application in question doesn’t have its own sound device selection options....

On the majority of devices, audio is separated between the two speakers—this is called “stereo.” If you’re hard of hearing in one ear, or listen in an environment not conducive to clogging both ears with sound, you can easily switch your Chromebook to “mono” mode so the same audio comes from both speakers. RELATED: How to Switch Your Android Phone to “Mono” (So You Can Wear One Earbud) Making this switch will allow you hear the same thing in both earbuds instead of panned audio, where some comes from one side and the rest from the other to create a more immersive environment....

Sometimes you just have to stop and take some screenshots while gaming, because modern games are overwhelmingly beautiful. And when you get the perfect shot, you want to show people. Or maybe those people are in it! Here’s how to tag people in screenshots when you share them directly from your PlayStation 4. RELATED: How to Take Screenshots and Record Videos on a PlayStation 4 First off, if you’re not sure how to take a screenshot, we have you covered....

Google has the official Street View map for iPhone and Android, but in the sections below, we’ll use the Google Maps app as it’s usually already installed on most phones and offers the same street view. RELATED: How to Time Travel in Google Street View Access Google’s Street View on Mobile To check out Google’s street view on your iPhone, iPad, or Android phone, use the free Google Maps app on your phone....

If you keep a regular eye on your credit report, you’ll notice when identity thieves open accounts in your name and when errors are listed that might cause you problems in the future. Here’s how to do it for free. US law entitles you to a free yearly credit report directly from each agency, but you’ll have to go elsewhere if you want to get your credit report more frequently....

Prefer using YouTube’s desktop site on mobile? If so, we’ll show you how to use the platform’s desktop site in Safari on iPhone and Chrome on Android, as well as in Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge. You’ll use your mobile web browser’s built-in options to load YouTube’s desktop site. There’s no need to download or install any third-party apps. View YouTube’s Desktop Site in Safari on iPhone Safari allows you to view Facebook and any other sites in their desktop mode in just a few steps....

Nothing is perfectly secure, and we’ll never eliminate every vulnerability out there. But we shouldn’t be seeing as many sloppy mistakes as we’ve seen from HP, Apple, Intel, and Microsoft in 2017. Please, PC manufacturers: Spend time on the boring work to make our PCs secure. We need security more than we need shiny new features. Apple Left a Gaping Hole in macOS, and Did a Bad Job Patching It If this were any other year, people would be holding Apple’s Macs up as an alternative to the PC chaos....

Alexa can already handle a lot of voice commands for playing music. She can find music by artist name, song title, playlist title, Pandora-style “stations,” and now curated playlists designed for certain activities. The whole point of all of these commands is so that you don’t have to learn the right syntax or tech-y commands. You just ask Alexa for some music and it gives you the kind of music you want....

RELATED: The Best Halloween Movies on Netflix in 2022 Black Swan Play Video Just like dressing up for Halloween, Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan is all about the act of becoming someone else. Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis play rival ballet dancers, both vying for the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. Portman’s Nina may be losing her grip on reality, and Kunis’ Lily may just be a figment of Nina’s imagination, or they may be the same person....