Facebook gives you two options here: You can temporarily Snooze someone’s posts for 30 days (to see if you would really miss their presence), or you can unfollow them to mute their posts permanently. Don’t worry; both changes are reversible. The person won’t be informed that you muted them, either. How to Mute Someone on Facebook The process of muting a person or a page is the same for Facebook’s website and mobile apps....
Understanding What Ransomware Does As the name suggests, ransomware takes your computer, or the information stored on it, hostage and demands a ransom for its safe return. Some particularly early Windows ransomware was known to restrict access to your machine entirely. However, a more common approach is to encrypt your data with a key that you don’t know. With your machine or data held hostage, demands are then made for payment to restore access....
Google Container Registry is a private storage service for Docker images, used to run containerized apps. It’s used to host images for deployment on other GCP container services, like Cloud Run and Kubernetes Engine. What Is Google Container Registry? When working with Docker images, you’ll often be pushing and pulling them from a container registry, used for storage and quick centralized access. The most popular registry is the official Docker Hub, which is public, but many cloud providers offer private container registries....
RELATED: How to Autofill Your Credit Card Number (Securely) Remove a Payment Method From Google Play on Desktop Start by opening your favorite web browser and heading to the Google Play site. There, log in to your Google account. After logging in, from Google Play’s left sidebar, select “Payment Methods.” On the “Payment Methods” page, beneath the current methods, click “Edit Payment Methods.” You will be taken to the Google Payments Center site....
Keep in mind that Snapchat does not allow you to download other users’ videos. You can only save your own videos from Snapchat to your phone’s video gallery. You can do this before and even after posting your video on the app. RELATED: Is Snapchat Really Deleting My Snaps? Save a Snapchat Video Before Posting It After filming and editing your video with Snapchat, you can save the video to your phone’s gallery even before posting it on the app....
Many of us rely on Windows Search to find files and launch programs, but searching for text within files is limited to specific file types by default. Here’s how you can expand your search to include other text-based files. We have shown you some advanced search operators using Windows Search before and even how to change which files are indexed and how to rebuild your search index. But what about searching for text inside of ....
Set the Default Printer on Windows 10 To make a printer the default on Windows 10, first, open the Settings app. Do this by pressing Windows+i keys together. In Settings, click “Devices.” On the “Devices” page, in the left sidebar, click “Printers & Scanners.” Scroll the “Printers & Scanners” page to the bottom. There, disable the “Let Windows Manage My Default Printer” option. If you keep this option enabled, Windows will not let you set the default printer....
When you’re tired and ready for bed, the last thing you want to do is drag yourself through the usual nighttime routine of turning off the lights, muting your phone, and setting an alarm. Use the “Bedtime” routine in the Google Home app to automate it! “Routines” are a feature built into the Google Assistant and Nest smart speakers and displays. They enable you to create a string of actions to be executed with a single command....
Firefox 74 has an official Facebook Container add-on that keeps the social media juggernaut from tracking your browsing activity around the web. It can automatically block any of Facebook’s trackers when outside of Facebook to boost your privacy online. How Firefox’s Facebook Container Works The Facebook Container works by isolating your Facebook activity into an entirely separate instance of your browser, which Firefox calls a container. When you install Facebook Container, the Firefox extension deletes your Facebook cookies, logs you out of the site, and closes any open Facebook tabs....
With the end of 2020, almost all of the most critically acclaimed movies of the year are available to watch at home. Here’s how you can stream the best-reviewed movies of 2020, according to review aggregation site Metacritic. Lovers Rock Play Video Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) released five feature films in 2020 under the Small Axe banner, all focused on a West Indian immigrant community in London from the 1960s through the 1980s....
What You’ll Need At its initial release in September 2020, Automatic AirPods switching requires one of the following headphones: AirPods Pro, AirPods (2nd generation), Powerbeats, Powerbeats Pro, or Solo Pro. Apple’s original 1st generation AirPods aren’t supported. It won’t work with third-party wireless headphones, either—but it will work with some of Apple’s wireless Beats headphones. You will also need the following software on your device: iOS 14 for iPhones, iPadOS 14 for iPads, and macOS 11....
Facebook displays captions on its videos to help you follow the content, but if you don’t need them, they can be annoying. Here’s how you can disable the captions on Facebook videos on desktop, iPhone, and iPad. Keep in mind that Facebook doesn’t sync your caption settings across your devices, which means if you turn off the captions on your desktop, your phone will still display them, and vice versa....
Plex has always been at the forefront of media sharing technology for the masses, and its new Watch Together feature makes it easier than ever to watch movies and TV with your friends and family around the world. Plex is providing this feature for free to everyone using the popular Plex media server, including those with free accounts. Watch Together is currently only available on Android, iPad, and iPhone devices, as well as Android TV and Apple TV....
Many Mac users spend their entire lives in the Terminal, but most of us only open it occasionally. Using a mouse to open a text-based interface feels weird, however. What if there was a way to always have the Terminal at the ready, triggered by a single keyboard shortcut? You can set this up yourself easily thanks to iTerm, an alternative to the default Terminal that’s customizable in all sorts of ways....
Hypervisors are what make virtual machines possible, and they aren’t just for servers anymore. You probably use one every day and don’t even know it. If you don’t use one now, you will in the near future. A hypervisor is software that exists outside of a guest operating system to intercept the commands sent to the computer hardware. The term “hypervisor” comes from the different levels of an operating systems kernel; it performs actions with more authority than the “supervisor” level, hence, hyper-visor....
Some people can finish 10 seasons of a TV show in a weekend, others can motor through a dozen books a week. If you relate to the latter, Kindle Unlimited is for you. Let’s take a look at what this service has to offer. A Streaming Service for Books Technically, there’s nothing “streaming” about Kindle Unlimited, but that’s a good way to understand the service. It’s essentially the Netflix or Spotify of books, an extension of the “Prime Reading” service that’s included with a Prime membership....
Canon’s new flagship mirrorless camera, the EOS R5, weighs just shy of 26 ounces and measures 5.43 x 3.84 x 3.46 inches. The company’s closest equivalent DSLR, the 5D Mark IV, weighs 31.4 ounces and measures 5.94 x 4.57 x 2.99 inches. While there’s definitely a difference and the R5 is lighter and smaller (in most dimensions), it’s not exactly night and day. Then, of course, you also have to add a lens....
My goal when writing that article was to interview researchers and doctors and address the real-world risks associated with our forthcoming 5G wireless networks. To that end, I spoke to a half dozen experts for background information. It quickly became clear to me that most of the concerns about 5G seemed to be based on little more than pseudoscience, speculation, and fear. While some people can argue that we still don’t know for 100% certain 5G is safe, I wanted to debunk the most egregiously false anti-5G claims....
What Are IP Addresses? Before we delve into the practicalities, let’s define what an IP address really is. In short, it’s a number that identifies a computer on a network. There are two types of addressing systems currently in use: IPv4 and IPv6. Furthermore, there are two categories of IP addresses. Private IP addresses are used to identify machines on a closed network. Your home Wi-Fi network, for example, is a private IP address....
Let’s face it: Mysterious bugs sometimes pop up on your iPhone. If you can’t fix them with an update, sometimes you can temporarily make them go away by restarting your device. This works for the iPad and Apple Watch, too. The Frustration of Software Bugs Here at How-To Geek, we’ve noticed strange problems on our iPhones from time to time. Sometimes elements on the screen become blurry when they’re not supposed to, taps on the screen don’t answer a phone call, or battery life is impacted by distant travel....
