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Book rights, and especially eBook rights, can be messy. UK publishers can’t just start selling books in the US, and vice versa. For most modern books by big authors, you’ll see the hardback and eBook versions being published at pretty much the same time around the world. For older books that were released before eBooks were a big deal, and for smaller authors with publishing deals, however, you’ll regularly find that the eBook version is available in some countries and not others....

By default, Safari on iPhone and iPad displays a list of Favorites when you open a new window or tab. With a simple change in Settings, you can swap that list with another folder of bookmarks. Here’s how to set it up. First, open Settings on your iPhone or iPad. In “Settings,” tap “Safari.” In “Safari” settings, tap “Favorites.” In the list that appears, choose another folder. (If no other folders are present in the list, you can create a new folder in Safari by tapping the “Bookmarks” button, selecting “Edit,” then tapping the “New Folder” button....

Each Network Adapter Has its Own MAC Address Here’s a basic refresher: A network adapter is a device in your PC that connects to a network—either through Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or another method. In some PCs, a network adapter is a separate card installed in a machine, and in others, it’s built into the hardware. Even so, Windows still considers each adapter as a separate device. Before locating your MAC address, it’s important to know that different network adapters have their own unique MAC addresses....

Windows 10’s setup and upgrade process sometimes fails and says your PC “can’t be upgraded” but “no action is needed.” Windows knows the problem, but Microsoft hides the details from you. Here’s how to identify and fix the problem yourself. How to See “What Needs Your Attention” Microsoft should provide more descriptive error messages. The message we saw while attempting to upgrade to Windows 10’s May 2019 Update with Microsoft’s Update Assistant was:...

Composer is the PHP community’s go-to dependency manager. It simplifies installing, updating and using third-party packages. Packages can be hosted by public and private repositories, with most popular projects publishing to Packagist. Installing Composer Composer is a community effort which isn’t bundled with PHP. It’s distributed as a PHP PHAR archive from getcomposer.org. Some Linux distributions do include Composer in their software repositories but installing in this way usually delivers an outdated version....

Privacy by Design Signal is published by the Signal Foundation and Signal Messenger LLC. These two not-for-profit organizations—based in Mountain View, California—were founded by Matthew Rosenfeld (aka ‘Moxie Marlinspike’) and Brian Acton. Together they continue the work started at Open Whisper Systems, one of Rosenfeld’s earlier start-ups. The Signal application is free and open source. Anyone can review the source code. The source code for the Signal Messenging Protocol (SMP) was reviewed by a joint team from the German CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, the Swiss ETH Zurich University, Cisco, and the Canadian University of Waterloo....

Sometimes, you want to include the data on an Excel spreadsheet in a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. There are a couple of ways to do this, depending on whether or not you want to maintain a connection with the source Excel sheet. Let’s take a look. What’s the Difference Between Linking and Embedding? You actually have three options for including a spreadsheet in a PowerPoint presentation. The first is by simply copying that data from the spreadsheet, and then pasting it into the target document....

A tally graph is a table of tally marks to present the frequency in which something occurred. Microsoft Excel has a large number of built-in chart types available, but it does not have a tally graph option. Fortunately, this can be created using Excel formulas. For this example, we want to create a tally graph to visualize the votes received by each person on a list. Create the Tally system A tally graph is normally presented as four lines followed by a diagonal strikethrough line for the fifth tally....

Should you need a YouTube video on a continuous loop, a few methods can help you keep repeating a video without having to start it over manually. Here’s how to do it. Use the Right-Click Context Menu Fire up YouTube in your browser and select a video you want to loop. Right-click anywhere on the video to bring up the context menu and click the “Loop” button. If you right-click again, you’ll see a checkmark next to “Loop,” signifying that the video will repeat when it reaches the end....

Microsoft says the classic “System” properties Control Panel has been removed from Windows 10. As of the October 2020 Update (20H2), there’s no way to access it—or is there? Here’s a hidden command that opens the System Control Panel. To run the command, press Windows+R to open the Run dialog. Copy-paste the following command into the Run dialog and press Enter: The System Control Panel will pop right up in all its former glory!...

Today we will take a look at how to print out blank calendars from within Outlook without showing your regular calendar items… the trick is to create a new blank calendar to use just for printing. Create the Blank Calendar From the File New menu choose Folder, and then give the folder a useful name like “Blank Calendars”, making sure to change the Folder Contains drop-down to “Calendar Items”....

If your Windows PC is throwing an error message at you before it even begins to load Windows, it’s possible that the boot sector on your system partition is damaged, corrupted, or has missing files. Here’s how to troubleshoot those problems. What Are the Boot Sector and Master Boot Record? RELATED: What’s the Difference Between GPT and MBR When Partitioning a Drive? The boot sector is a small section at the beginning of a hard drive that gets created whenever you format the drive....

If you recently bought a new PC or just want to switch to Firefox from another browser, like Microsoft Edge or Chrome, you can easily set it as the default. Follow the steps below to set Mozilla Firefox as your default browser on Windows 10. First, download and install Firefox for Windows. If it isn’t installed on your device, you won’t be able to set it as the default browser....

If you have a portable device like a laptop or tablet, you get to decide how the screen acts while on battery or plugged in. Desktops only have the plugged-in option. The screen timeout length can be anywhere from two minutes to five hours. First, click the Start Menu and select the gear icon to open the Settings. (You can also open the window by pressing Windows+i.) Next, select “System” from the Settings window....

Imagine being immersed in an engaging emotional gaming experience—only to have the moment ruined by an obnoxiously loud achievement notification using a short pun to spoil what just happened. Instead, disable Xbox notifications so they don’t interrupt your gaming experience. While some notifications can be useful, you can quickly customize which pop-ups appear, where they appear, and how long they stay on the screen. To access these settings, press the Xbox button in the center of your controller, and navigate to the cog icon on the far right of the Xbox menu....

Your Apple Watch is a great workout tracker. But, unfortunately, context awareness is not its strongest suit. The Workout app’s notifications for starting and ending workouts based on your movement are a hit or miss at best. Here’s how to disable them. By default, your Apple Watch sends you a notification to start a workout when you’re running, walking, swimming, on the elliptical, or on the rowing machine. It will also send a notification to end the workout if the Apple Watch thinks that you have finished....

Depending on how you use Google Chrome, you may have 20 tabs open at a time, or you can’t stand using more than 5. If you fall in the first group, Tab Groups can be useful, and they work on Android, too. Tab Groups were added to Google Chrome on the desktop in May of 2020. The feature is available on Android phones and tablets as well, and it works similarly....

First, swipe down from the top of your iPhone SE’s screen to access the notification center. Instead of long-pressing or hard-pressing the notification, swipe left on the notification. Tap “View” to see the notification in detail and find any quick options. You’ll see any notification actions offered by the app along with a richer preview. This is the same thing that appears with a long-press or hard-press on another iPhone....

What Makes ProtonMail and Tutanota Different? ProtonMail and Tutanota are two secure email providers that emphasize security and privacy above all else. This includes supporting end-to-end encryption to make interception nearly impossible, protecting your identity by not keeping logs or requiring tons of personal information at sign-up, and providing secure methods for communicating with people who are using “regular” email providers like Gmail or Outlook. This heightened security comes at the cost of convenience and features....

No Stranger to Controversy When systemd was introduced in 2010, the Linux community split into three camps. Some thought it was an improvement, and others thought it was a flawed design that didn’t adhere to the Unix philosophy. And some didn’t care one way or the other. The backlash from the opposers was loud, heated, and, in some cases, almost fanatical. Lennart Poettering, a software engineer at Red Hat and co-developer of systemd, even received death threats....