RELATED: How to Update Apps and Games on Android What Is Google Play Services? Google Play Services is an app on Android, which is mainly used to update Google and other apps on your phone. This app provides core functionality to your installed apps so they can function. It also makes your offline searches faster and enhances your gaming experience. Check out our guide on what Google Play services is to learn more about it....

There’s a utility called Alien that converts packages from one format to the other. This doesn’t always mean that an rpm will work on your system, though. You will need to install some prerequisite software packages in order to install alien, however. These packages include gcc and make. Run this command to install alien and other necessary packages: To convert a package from rpm to debian format, use this command syntax....

Nikkei first reported that Intel is raising prices on many of its products later this year, including processors, Wi-Fi cards, and other hardware. According the report, Intel has already informed its customers (PC manufacturers) about the price changes. Higher component costs almost always mean the finished product has a higher price, so it’s possible many laptop and desktop computers will be more expensive this coming holiday season. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to avoid higher prices by purchasing a computer that uses another company’s processors....

Setting Iron & Chrome Up for Incognito Mode Auto Start For our example, we are using the program shortcuts for Iron Browser. The same method is used for both programs. Locate the shortcut(s) for Iron (and/or Chrome) and right click on them. Select “Properties”. Once you have clicked through, you will see the “Properties” window with the “Shortcut” tab displayed. In the address area for “Target:” you will need to add the following command to the end of the target path making certain to leave a single space in between the final quote mark and the incognito command....

To set this option, go to the Options page (linked off the Now Playing button) and look at the first tab, which should be “Player”. You’ll see a textbox titled “Start the mini Player for file names that contain this text”. The default value in this field is “voiceatt.wav”, obviously designed to use the mini mode for voicemail attachments. If you want to make all mp3 files open in the mini player, just type ....

“To reduce the Xbox carbon footprint and help Microsoft achieve its commitment of being carbon negative by 2030, we’re working on improvements to our console hardware, introducing more ways to improve energy efficiency through software updates, and reducing the environmental impact of cloud gaming through hardware and software updates,” said Microsoft in a blog post. Microsoft is actually making some hardware changes to the Xbox Series X and Series S consoles that won’t alter performance but will make them more environmentally friendly....

I have never been able to do a complete switch to Linux as my main OS because of some of the issues that go along with it. Last week I decided to give it another go. No dual boot system this time either I thought. Anytime I have tried that in the past, I would always end up booting the Windows partition out of pure geek laziness. There are a plethora of Distro’s available now, but I decided to go with Ubuntu....

Interesting to note is that while Spotify continues to dominate, the latest numbers are actually a drop from 33% in 2020, which is a small but noticeable decrease. In Q2 2019, Spotify had 34% of the market, so the drop has been happening for a couple of years now. According to Midia Research, there are a total of 523.9 million total music streaming subscribers in Q2 2021. If that number is accurate, that means Spotify had about 162....

There are two big Windows 3.1 clones of Wordle—Windle, and WinQuest. They’re both designed with the Minesweeper and Chip’s Challenge look and feel, so if you have fond memories of playing those games from the Microsoft Entertainment Pack back in the day, you can get the Wordle gameplay in that style. Even if you’re not running Windows 3.1 on your PC, you can play these games on a virtual machine or with DOSBox....

Yes, a Myth Myths are stories (or narratives) that are often foundational to a society’s beliefs. The myth of online privacy is like that: Privacy feels foundational in our society. To the extent we accept we don’t have privacy online, it feels like something we’ve lost—something that we can perhaps recover with the right software tweaks, behaviors, or perhaps regulations. When you think about it, the myth of online privacy is even beneficial to those industries that benefit from the lack of it....

Interestingly, the vulnerability, which is called CVE-2021-30970, was detailed by the Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team in an intense blog post. Microsoft alerted Apple through the Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) via Microsoft Security Vulnerability Research (MSVR) on July 15, 2021. Apple then fixed it on December 13, 2021. “Microsoft security researchers continue to monitor the threat landscape to discover new vulnerabilities and attacker techniques that could affect macOS and other non-Windows devices,” said Microsoft....

This setting is an easy one to change, thankfully, and combined with a nice OS X theme can really have a nice effect. To change this setting, use Alt+F2 to bring up the Run Application dialog, and type in gconf-editor to launch the Gnome Configuration Editor. Once in the editor, find the following key: On the right hand side of the screen you should see an option called button_layout....

The powercfg utility can be used on the command line to change power configuration settings, including the monitor timeout, which is what we’ll use here. The command syntax: This will change the monitor setting to stay on for 120 minutes while on AC power. You can use -dc at the end to change the setting for when you are on battery power.

Installation Installation is pretty straight forward and easy following the install wizard. During installation make sure to check for the most recent updates for the detection database. This is always a great feature in security software so you’re sure to have everything up to date right away. Another feature to enable during installation is to have SuperAntiSpyware keep an eye on the homepage for Internet Explorer so something shady doesn’t hijack it....

This isn’t really a hack, it’s just a useful setting tweak that hadn’t occurred to me before, so I figured I’d write it up for everybody. Now you can see at a glance that one of the items is from your task list, and the others are emails that were flagged for followup: Adding the Icon Column to the To-Do List View Just right-click on the column list and choose Custom…...

Enable Streaming To start streaming media from your Windows 7 machine you’ll need to turn it on by opening Media Player and under the Library section click on Stream then click Turn on media streaming. Now just click the button to turn on media streaming. Alternately you can bypass WMP and open Control Panel \ All Control Panel Items \ Network and Sharing Center \ Media streaming options then click on the button to turn on media streaming and press OK....

What Is Transmit Power? While there’s undoubtedly an entire doctoral program and then some worth of information about radio transmission power and everything that goes along with it to share, in service of getting to the useful day-to-day stuff, we’ll keep it brief here. The transmit power of your Wi-Fi router is like a volume knob on a stereo. Much like sound energy is measured in decibels (dB), Wi-Fi radio energy is measured similarly with decibel milliwatts (dBm)....

The Elements of Electricity It’s tough to talk about ohms without mentioning the other elements of electricity. So, before we dive deeper into ohms, let’s take a look at all the elements of an electrical signal as it applies to audio. There are four key elements to electricity: volts, amps, ohms, and watts. Voltage is the potential power of the signal, while amps measure the current, which you can think of as the rate at which that voltage flows....

But you can’t pick just any old phone case. Not all cases offer the same level of protection, and if you buy a case that doesn’t work with your lifestyle, you may end up with a broken Pixel. One of the essential features to look for in a case is a shock absorption mechanism. Whether it’s air cushions on the corners or the use of shock-absorbent material like TPU or silicone, it will absorb and disperse the shock of an impact rather than passing it on your phone and damaging it....