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Google may own Waze, but that doesn’t mean its own Maps product and Waze are the same. In fact, the two still fight for dominance over your navigation needs. So which one is better? Turns out, it depends. To keep things simple, we’re going to break this down into three categories: navigation, finding stuff, and other features. Any navigation app should be simple and just work, because the last think you need to worry about when getting around in unfamiliar territory is fiddling with the app that’s supposed to be taking you to where you’re going....

Everyone’s talking about the internet and whether, or how, it should be regulated. But not enough people know how the internet actually works—or what exactly the internet is. What Is the Internet, Exactly? RELATED: What Is Net Neutrality? You probably have your own “local area network” at home, and it’s made up of all the devices connected to your router, which connects to the internet. The word “internet” refers to a worldwide system of “interconnected computer networks”....

Use an Inexpensive USB Ethernet Adapter In addition to HDMI and component inputs, most modern TVs have USB ports that allow you to connect storage devices. This allows you to play video files from a hard drive or memory stick and in some cases record free-to-air and satellite programming directly to USB. But these same ports can also be used to add additional functionality to your TV, like gigabit networking with a USB-to-Ethernet adapter....

RELATED: Wi-Fi vs. Ethernet: How Much Better Is a Wired Connection? Add Ports With an Ethernet Switch You can add more ports to your router using an Ethernet switch. Think of these like power-bank extensions: they plug into an existing Ethernet port on your router, but they add a range of additional ports depending on what you go for. The more you spend, the more ports you get (higher speed switches also tend to cost more)....

Sideheads (where a document’s subheads appear out to the side of the text) and pull quotes are really just two specific uses for text boxes in Microsoft Word. Here’s how to set them up. Text boxes let you position small bits of text exactly where you want them in a Word document. Most often, people use them for one of two purposes. The first is creating a sidehead, a subheading that’s placed out to the left of the main body of the document instead of inline with the text....

There are two ways to block a YouTube channel: Block a channel so it can’t comment on your videos or block a channel so you don’t see its videos in your feed. We’ll show you how to do both. Block a YouTube Channel So That You Don’t See Its Videos in Your Feed The first YouTube block type is where you block a channel so that you don’t see video recommendations from that channel in your YouTube feed anymore....

Software like DVD Flick is great for burning video to DVDs, but Windows 7 actually includes built-in DVD burning software. Strangely, it’s the last time the company did so—while Windows 8 and Windows 10 can play back DVD movies, they can’t create them with a DVD burner without tools from third parties. Perhaps Microsoft didn’t want to pay the software licensing fees necessary to keep the tool in later versions, or perhaps the rise of all-digital media simply removed the necessity....

By default, when you start Outlook, the inbox of the first email account you added is automatically opened. However, that may not be the email folder you use most. You can choose a different folder in that account or in a different account when Outlook opens. Maybe you created a rule to move email from a specific person or company into a folder and you want to access that folder automatically when you open Outlook....

If you have a PDF file that you would like to convert to a PowerPoint presentation, you can download a program to quickly do the work for you, or you can use one of the many available online converters. Convert a PDF File to PowerPoint Using Adobe Acrobat DC Adobe Acrobat has a couple of different software options for handling PDF files to choose from—Acrobat Standard DC and Acrobat Pro DC....

Windows 10 introduced the Quick Access view to File Explorer. Whenever you open a File Explorer window, you’ll see a list of frequent folders and recently accessed files, as well as show frequent folders under the Quick Access item in the navigation pane. But you can disable all that if you don’t want to see it. Quick Access works something like the old “Favorites” list in previous versions of Windows, letting you pin your favorite folders for easy access....

If you use the Twitter app on iPhone or Android and you’re tired of hearing cute sound effects when you do certain tasks (such as refreshing your feed), it’s easy to turn those sound effects off. Here’s how to do it. First, open the Twitter app on your device. Next, tap the hamburger icon (on iPhone) or your profile picture (on Android) in the upper-left corner of the screen....

Microsoft removed Windows Media Center from Windows 10, and there’s no official way to get it back. While there are great alternatives like Kodi, which can play and record live TV, the community has made Windows Media Center functional on Windows 10. This isn’t an official trick. As far as Microsoft is concerned, you can just keep using Windows 7 or 8.1 if you want Windows Media Center, although that’s becoming more and more difficult....

Photoshop is the biggest name in image editing, but it has a reputation as a complicated and difficult app to use. While it’s certainly feature packed, it’s nowhere near as difficult to get the hang of as it first appears. Let’s look at how to learn Photoshop without getting stuck in the weeds. Decide What You Want to Use Photoshop For While Photoshop is a single app, it’s a versatile one....

The Notification Center in macOS Big Sur or newer allows you to dismiss a single notification or clear all notifications from a single app. There’s also a hidden feature for clearing all notifications that only shows up when you have more than three app notifications and you can expand the Notification Center. RELATED: How to Use Control Center on Mac To open the Notification Center, click the Date and Time button from the menu bar (next to the Control Center)....

If you don’t use a password manager, those complex passwords can be pretty hard to remember. If you’ve forgotten your LinkedIn password, there’s no need to worry, you can’t really recover that same password, but you can recover your account by resetting the password to something new. And it only takes a couple of minutes. Head on over to the LinkedIn website, and then click the “Forgot Password” link located beside the “Sign In” button....

Reader Ted wrote in with this tip, which solved his problem of playing ripped music files in either Windows Media Player or Media Monkey. Step 1: Uninstall Windows Media Player Open up Control Panel and type “windows features” into the search box, and then click on Turn Windows features on or off. Go down to Media Features –> Windows Media Player Step 2: Reboot That is all. Step 3: Turn Windows Media Player Back On Head back into Windows Features on or off, and check the box again....

Modern mobile browsers allow you to reopen tabs you’ve recently closed, just like desktop browsers do. In Apple’s Safari browser for iPhone and iPad, the feature is a bit hidden—but it’s there. You can also reopen closed tabs in Google Chrome and other third-party browsers on an iPhone or iPad. Safari on iPhone RELATED: How to Restore Recently Closed Tabs in Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Edge...

Is your image too big or too small to fit your needs? Using Adobe Photoshop on Mac or Windows, it’s easy to resize a photo quickly and precisely. Here’s how to do it. To get started, open Photoshop on Mac or Windows PC and load the image that you’d like to resize. In the Photoshop menu bar, click “Image,” and then select “Image Size” from the menu that appears....

Android 8.0, affectionately and officially known as “Oreo,” changes a lot of things in Google’s mobile operating system. But the most obvious is a switch from a general dark theme in the interface to blinding white on the Quick Settings menu on the notification bar. If you’re tired of looking at all those fully-lit pixels on your phone, there’s a way to theme the interface with some new tools—no root required....

Data Saver mode on Android helps save your mobile internet data. Data Saver mode ensures apps and services only use background data when on Wi-Fi. However, if you have an unlimited data plan, Data Saver isn’t necessary. Learn how to turn it off using this guide. RELATED: Google’s “Lite” Android Apps Can Save Data and Battery Turn Off Data Saver Mode on Samsung Phones To disable Data Saver mode and allow your apps to use data even in the background, first launch Settings on your Samsung Galaxy phone....