Game Ready Driver Prompts If you’re the proud owner of an NVIDIA GeForce GTX graphics card, it’s worth downloading the NVIDIA GeForce Experience app. While it’s not a requirement to play games on your PC, it can enhance your gaming experience. One of the main benefits of GeForce Experience is its Game Ready Drivers feature. You can manually search for driver updates, or you can set the software to automatically notify you of them....
Windows 10 has now had multiple automatic updates that accidentally deleted people’s files. Buggy updates have caused problems with hardware drivers, too. Microsoft highlights the importance of having good backups and being prepared for anything. Buggy Updates Aren’t the Only Danger Okay, we’re giving Windows 10 a hard time here. But it’s far from the only thing that can delete your files. For example: The solid-state drive, or hard disk in your computer, could die, taking your files with it....
Want to try out Ubuntu, but not sure where to start? There are lots of ways to try out Ubuntu – you can even install it on Windows and uninstall it from your Control Panel if you don’t like it. Ubuntu can be booted from a USB or CD drive and used without installation, installed under Windows with no partitioning required, run in a window on your Windows desktop, or installed alongside Windows on your computer....
Using Software to Improve Your Smartphone Camera Computational photography is a broad term for loads of different techniques that use software to enhance or extend the capabilities of a digital camera. Crucially, computational photography starts with a photo and ends with something that still looks like a photo (even if it could never be taken with a regular camera.) How Traditional Photography Works Before going any deeper, let’s quickly go over what happens when you take a photo with an old film camera....
What Is $PATH on Linux, and How Does It Work? When you type a command in a terminal window and press Enter, you kick off quite a lot of activity before your command is even executed. Bash is the default shell on most Linux distributions. It interprets the line of text you entered and identifies the command names intermingled with the parameters, pipes, redirections, and whatever else is there. It then locates the executable binaries for those commands and launches them with the parameters you supplied....
Google’s Gmail service supports configurable signatures, which it will attach to each email you send. You could add your name, job title, social media details, phone number, or anything else you want to your signature. There are two types of signatures: web signatures sent from Gmail on the desktop, and mobile signatures sent from Gmail on your phone. Adding a Signature to Gmail on the Web To add a signature on the Gmail website, open Gmail, and click the “Settings” icon on the top right....
While Instagram lets you use nine different fonts in your stories, you’re stuck with a single boring sans serif for your profile details, regular post captions, and comments. Here’s how you can side-step the limitations and spice things up. How Custom Instagram Fonts Work Instagram uses the font Proxima Nova for small text like comments and captions. There’s no way to change that, but you can kind of get around it....
When you connect a device to an Android phone or tablet, the device model name is what you see. While this is a good identifier usually, it can sometimes not be the most helpful. We’ll show you how to customize the name. The process of changing the Bluetooth name is simple, but it can vary depending on which Android device you have. In general, you’ll be looking in the “Connected Devices” section of the Settings menu....
Is the sound coming from your Windows 11 PC’s speakers or headphones too loud or too quiet? It’s easy to adjust your volume output easily using several different techniques. Here’s how. Change System Volume With Quick Settings The quickest way to adjust sound volume within Windows 11 is by using the Quick Settings menu. To do so, click the Quick Settings button in your taskbar (a hidden button located on top of the Wi-Fi, Speaker, and/or Battery icons) in the far-right corner....
Got a PNG image file you need to convert to PDF? If so, use Windows 10 or 11’s built-in PDF printer to make a PDF out of your PNG images. We’ll show you how to do that on your PC. RELATED: How to Convert a Microsoft Word Document to a PDF How PNG to PDF Conversion Works on Windows 11 and 10 Both Windows 10 and 11 have a virtual PDF printer....
The iPhone’s Clock app can only turn off or delete a single alarm at a time. But, if you have a lot of alarms and want to delete them all—or just turn off all alarms at once—Siri’s got you covered. How to Delete All Alarms Ask Siri to take care of this for you. On a modern iPhone that’s always listening for “Hey Siri,” just say “Hey Siri, delete all my alarms” out loud....
Google Chrome shows media controls when something is being cast on your Wi-Fi network. If you’re not the one doing the casting, this can be a little annoying, especially since you’re able to control someone else’s music or video playback without their permission. Thankfully, you can turn it off. The Chromecast media controls appear next to the extensions in the top right of the Chrome desktop browser on Windows 10, Mac, and Linux....
By default, anyone can see your iPhone or iPad Notification Center while your device is locked by swiping upward on the lock screen. There, they can see an overview of your recent notifications. Luckily, it’s easy to turn it off while locked. Here’s how. To get started, open the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad. In Settings, locate “Face ID & Passcode” (for devices with Face ID) or “Touch ID & Passcode” (for devices with a home button) and tap it....
With your Apple Pencil paired with your iPad, open the “Settings” app. If you’re not sure if your Apple Pencil is connected, either magnetically attach it to the side of your iPad (second-gen Pencil) or plug it into the Lightning port (first-gen Pencil). Next, scroll down and select the “Apple Pencil” option from the left-hand pane. Finally, tap on the “Scribble” toggle to turn off the feature. You will find the option near the bottom of the “Apple Pencil” submenu....
Chrome OS is preparing a feature called “Phone Hub” that links your Android device to your Chromebook. While we wait for the feature to become stable, you can try it out right now. The idea behind Chrome OS’ “Phone Hub” is similar to Microsoft’s “Your Phone” app for Windows 10. You can use it to get notifications from your phone on your Chromebook, control the Android device, and continue scrolling through Chrome tabs that were open on your smartphone....
If you’ve had a smartphone for any reasonable amount of time, you’ve probably installed and uninstalled more apps than you care to remember. Here’s how to access a list of all the apps you’ve installed on your Android phone(s) over time. This feature is built into the Google Play Store, so you can actually take a peek at the entire list from any device logged in to your Google account....
Find Your Facebook Memories on Desktop To access your Memories on desktop, first, launch a web browser on your computer and open Facebook. Then, sign in to your account if you haven’t already. After signing in, from Facebook’s left sidebar, select “Memories.” If you don’t find this option, choose Menu > Memories instead. When the “Memories” page opens, you’ll see all your posts from this day in the past. Facebook allows you to control what Memories you see and when you get notifications for them....
Tired of your still desktop background? You can liven things up by setting a live wallpaper or animated desktop background. Unfortunately, there’s no native way to do this in Windows 11, but there’s a handy third-party app you can use. Download Lively Wallpaper From the Microsoft Store You can set a live desktop background in Windows 11, but to do so, you’ll need to use a third-party application. RELATED: How to Remove Viruses and Malware on Your Windows PC...
The Windows taskbar is great for quickly accessing frequently used applications on your computer. However, some users prefer to hide it in order to save screen space. Here’s how to hide the taskbar on Windows 10. Automatically Hide the Taskbar in Settings To automatically hide your taskbar, right-click anywhere on your PC’s desktop and select “Personalize” from the pop-up menu. The “Settings” window will appear. In the left-hand pane, select “Taskbar....
When you want to enhance the appearance or improve the readability of your document, you might consider adding a line within the text. While inserting a horizontal line in Microsoft Word might be intuitive, adding a vertical line is not. There are a handful of ways to insert a vertical line in your Word document. The placement of the line may determine which option you use, so let’s look at your options....
