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The Google TV home screen is all about recommending movies and TV shows to watch. You’re going to see these recommendations every time you turn on your TV, so why not make them better? We’ll show you how to do that. While you can technically turn off Google TV’s home screen recommendations, you probably don’t want to because it oversimplifies the viewing experience. A better solution is to take some time to personalize the surfaced content, hopefully making the home screen more useful in the process....

If you’re switching to macOS from Windows, you might be confused about installing software. Sure, there’s the Mac App Store, but not everything is in there. If you look for apps outside the store, you’ll find different kinds of installers: DMG files with apps in them, PKG installers, and simple applications inside ZIP archives. It can seem overwhelming, but it’s relatively straightforward once you get the hang of it. Here’s how to install software on your Mac, from the App Store and beyond, and why all these different methods exist....

What is Bunny Day? In the Animal Crossing world, the Easter holiday is always celebrated as “Bunny Day” during the first several days of April. Bunny Day will officially launch on April 12, 2020, but the egg hunt begins on April 1, 2020. This event is led by a costume-clad bunny, Zipper T. Bunny, who will randomly appear around your island. By talking with them, they’ll fill you in on the details of the event....

RELATED: How to Copy URLs of All Open Tabs in Safari Use Handoff to Move Safari Tabs Handoff is Apple’s feature for seamlessly moving a task from one Apple device to another. It works for many apps, including Safari. First, ensure that Handoff is enabled on your devices. From there, launch the Safari browser and then open the website on the primary device. This can be your iPhone, iPad, or Mac....

The System Information provides a quick way get information about your system, but how you open it depends on what version of Windows you’re using. Here’s how to do it. Windows 7 or 10: Use the Start Menu If you’re using Windows 7 or 10, hit Start, type “system information” into the search box, and then select the result. The System Information window opens, giving you access to all kinds of great information about your PC’s hardware and software environment....

If you use an iPhone and see a telephone number in a note or on a website, you can often tap it directly to place a call. But if that special link doesn’t show up, you can also “Copy” the phone number and “Paste” it directly into the Phone app. Here’s how. First, locate the number you’d like to paste into the Phone app’s dialer. It could be in a note, on a web page, in a word processing document, or in any other app with text that you can select....

Before We Begin For the methods below to work, you’ll need to know the email address that’s associated with your Xbox account. If you don’t know this email address, you’ll need to recover your Microsoft account using Microsoft’s account recovery website first. If you haven’t set up two-factor authentication (2FA), you won’t be able to reset your password using the methods below either. Instead, you’ll have to recover your account in its entirety, also using Microsoft’s account recovery website....

Open the Power Menu Using the Side and Volume Keys The easiest way to access the Power Menu on your Samsung Galaxy S20 is by holding down the Side and Volume Down buttons simultaneously for several seconds. Once the Power Menu appears, tap the “Power Off” or “Restart” button. If you chose to turn your Galaxy S20 off, hold the Side button down for several seconds until you see the Samsung logo appear onscreen....

If you’re sending out your presentation instead of giving it in front of an audience, but you feel adding a vocal explanation would better help to deliver the message, record a voiceover narration. Here’s how to do it. Preparation Before you begin your PowerPoint narration, you’ll need to make sure you’ve made the proper preparations. Set Up Your Mic First, you’ll need a microphone. Most modern computers have a built-in microphone that gets the job done, but investing in a USB microphone will increase the audio quality of the narration by quite a bit....

Few iPhone privacy issues go deeper than access to your Contacts list, which exposes your private web of relationships to a third party, which can then compare the list to its records or potentially share it with others. Here’s how to see which apps can access your contacts and how to grant or revoke access as well. To get started, open “Settings” on your iPhone. In “Settings,” tap “Privacy.”...

If you’re a new Slack user and press the Up arrow key on your keyboard, the productivity app moves your highlighted focus to the message list. Here’s how you can change the Up arrow’s functionality to edit your last-sent message quickly. Start by launching the Slack client on your Windows 10 PC, Mac, or Linux computer, or opening the Slack web app in the browser of your choice. From there, click on your workspace’s name found in the top-left corner of the window....

For the purposes of this article, it doesn’t really matter whether you shoot with a dedicated DSLR or mirrorless camera, or with a smartphone. Many of the tips and tricks are the same, and both kinds of cameras have their own advantages and disadvantages for action photos. Whatever your moving subject and the gear you have to hand, we can help. Light, Camera, and Action When you take a photo, your camera records the light reflecting off everything in the scene in front of you....

By default, your iPhone (or iPad) lets apps check for new data in the background. It can reduce loading times when switching back to an app, but it also reduces battery life, takes a bit of cellular data, and could allow some apps to spy on you. Here’s how to turn “Background App Refresh” off. First, open the “Settings” app on your iPhone. In “Settings,” tap “General.” In “General,” tap “Background App Refresh....

It’s easy for set-top boxes to get loaded with dozens of streaming media apps. If you’re not using an app or game anymore, it’s a good idea to uninstall it to free up some storage space and potentially improve device performance. Here’s how to uninstall apps on Android TV. First, use the D-pad on your Android TV’s remote to select the “Apps” icon on the left side of the top home screen row....

How the dig Command Works People use the Linux dig command to query Domain Name System (DNS) servers. dig is an acronym for Domain Information Groper. With dig, you can query DNS servers for information regarding various DNS records, including host addresses, mail exchanges, name servers, and related information. It was intended to be a tool for diagnosing DNS issues. However, you can use it to poke around and learn more about DNS, which is one of the central systems that keep the internet routing traffic....

Steam lets you set your name to anything within its terms of service. This can make it difficult to find people—even if they’re already on your friends list. Find out who’s who by checking aliases in Steam. Steam will always keep a history of the various aliases that you might have used throughout your gaming career. You can check out what your aliases have been over time, in addition to being able to see the aliases of any Steam user, whether or not they’re on your friends list....

Siri, Google Assistant, Bixby, Cortana, Alexa, and now, Celia. Yes, there’s yet another voice assistant on the market thanks to Huawei. But what sets Celia apart from the competition, and what does it mean for the wider voice-assistant ecosystem? Hey, Celia Huawei first announced Celia in late March 2020. The feature was part of its EMUI 10.1 software, which debuted on its P40 Pro flagship phone running Android the following month....

What is 5G, and Can It Cause a Virus? 5G represents the fifth-generation of the wireless telecom technology that smartphones and other devices use for communication and connecting to the internet. As with 4G LTE, 3G, and everything before it, the wireless network is transmitted over radio waves, a non-harmful part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Most claims you will read online stems from the fact that radio waves are technically radiation....

Catch Up With an Old Friend Pandora officially launched all the way back in 2005. The concept of streaming music over the internet was still very new. Spotify wouldn’t launch for another five years. Pandora was an exciting new service at an exciting time on the internet. The big selling point of Pandora was a recommendation engine based on the “Music Genome Project.” Essentially, it classifies songs by a number of musical traits....

Cassettes and vinyl are cool again, so what about MiniDisc? Sony’s pint-sized digital format hit the market in 1992, but failed to make much of a splash until around a decade later. Despite ultimately losing market shares to flash-based MP3 players, MiniDisc has seen something of a revival. Transferring music from your computer to a MiniDisc recorder is also now easier than ever. What Is MiniDisc? Sony came up with the MiniDisc after the Digital Audio Tape (DAT) format failed to take off with consumers....