The goals of the Local Cooling project include cutting energy costs and reduction of greenhouse emissions, and the utility shows detailed results of how much power you’ve saved before and after installing the software. They have a goal of creating a community of 100,000,000 PC users who want to help reduce CO2 gas emissions. After downloading the application you will be prompted to create an account so you can share and compare your power consumption with the other members of LocalCooling....

Hideaki Nishino, Senior Vice President, Platform Experience, posted on the PlayStation Blog showing off the new headset and its controllers and it’s a fascinating design. He called out the circular structure, saying, “You’ll notice the PS VR2 headset has a similar shape as the PS VR2 Sense controller, taking on a matching ‘orb’ look. The circular orb shape represents the 360-degree view that players feel when they enter the virtual reality world, so this shape captures it nicely....

What Was FLoC? Before we dive into “Topics,” let’s talk about what they’re replacing. Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) was a method for advertisers to track user data in Chrome without cookies. FLoC enables “behavioral targeting” without cookies. When you visit a website in Chrome, your browser history is assigned an identifier that puts you in a group with other people who have similar browsing history. These groups were called “cohorts....

Turns out there is a really easy way to mount your box.net account. Go to Places \ Connect to Server: You will be presented with this dialog: For the User Name, enter your own username. Don’t use my username. For Server, enter www.box.net/dav You can put whatever you want for the “Name to use for connection” textbox. That is the name that will appear on the desktop icon: Double-click the icon, and you will be presented with an authentication dialog box asking you to login:...

I’ve created a registry hack to add the registry editor as another option in the Control Panel in any version of Windows. Usage in Windows 7 or Vista After installation you’ll need to choose System and Maintenance in the control panel. And you’ll see the new Registry Editor item at the bottom of the list: Perhaps most useful, it’s now available through the start menu search box. Usage in Windows XP...

When you work with tables in Word, formatting the text inside is just as important as the rest of the text in your document. If you want a uniform look, we’ll show you how to center text in a table, either horizontally or vertically. Center Table Text Horizontally in Word There’s more than one way to center the text in your table horizontally. So you can use whichever is best for you....

Some Android apps include the ability to change languages in their own settings. Starting in Android 13, this can be done from the system settings, but only if the app supports language selection. We’ll show you how it works on Samsung Galaxy and Pixel devices. RELATED: 10 Hidden Android 13 Features You Might Have Missed Change Language for Apps on Samsung Galaxy First, swipe down once from the top of the screen and tap the gear icon to open the Settings....

Delete an iCloud Calendar on Your iPhone If you are looking to remove an iCloud calendar, you can use your iPhone’s Calendar app itself to do so. To start, launch the Calendar app on your iPhone. At the bottom of the app, tap “Calendars.” On the “Calendars” screen, next to the calendar you want to delete, tap the “i” option. You will land on an “Edit Calendar” page. Here, at the bottom, tap “Delete Calendar....

Adobe Photoshop makes it extremely easy to add a border around your text in an image. You can outline your text with the choice of color, position, and size. Here’s how to do just that on your desktop. RELATED: How to Put Borders Around Images in Microsoft Word Add a Border Around Text in Photoshop In Photoshop, you can add a border around your text in both your existing and new images....

Summer brings many activities that people love. Going to the beach, backyard cookouts, outdoor concerts, 5Ks, and more. What do these things have in common? Lots of sun. We’ll show you how to use tech to avoid the dreaded sunburns. Of course, the sun isn’t only damaging in the summer. You can still get a sunburn in the dead of winter. There are a few key things to watch for and tech you can use to help to make sure your time in the sun isn’t regretted the next day....

What Is the wc Command? The wc command is a small application. It’s one of the core Linux utilities, so there is no need to install it. It’ll already be on your Linux computer. You can describe what it does in a very few words. It counts the lines, words, and bytes in a file or selection of files and prints the result in a terminal window. It can also take its input from the STDIN stream, meaning the text you want it to process can be piped into it....

GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3080 GPU For $769.99 ($230 Off) It’s no longer impossible to get your hands on a powerful GPU, as long a you know where to look. For a limited time, you can pick up this GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3080 for $769.99 ($230 off). This graphics card features three fans for optimal cooling, 10GB GDDR6X 320-bit memory for fast performance, and video output that supports both DisplayPort and HDMI....

Google Pixel 6 Pro For $799 ($100 Off) Google’s Pixel 6 Pro is one of the hottest Android phones on the market, and you can get one in your hands for an all-time-low price of $799 ($100 off). This handset features a premium design, powerful triple-lens camera system, and it comes with Pixel-first features like Call Screen, Hold For Me, and Magic Eraser. It even earned our coveted Editor’s Choice badge, which you can read about in our official review here....

To install this file manager, you can either use the built-in Add/Remove applications dialog or use the command line. Just type in PCMan into the search box, and change the drop-down to “All Open Source applications” and you’ll see it in the list. Or you can much more quickly install it with apt-get: Once it’s installed, you can find it under System Tools \ PCMan File Manager And there we are… you can see that it has a decent amount of options, although not quite as many as Nautilus does....

Smart glasses are nothing new, but they are still too expensive or impractical for most people to use. Lenovo’s new glasses might be different… whenever they become available to purchase. The Lenovo Glasses T1, announced today, aims to be a “wearable private display for on-the-go content consumption.” Unlike Google Glass, Microsoft HoloLens, and other augmented-reality headsets, the T1 is just an external display for other devices — it’s not a standalone computer....

Instead of the default like this: We can remove those buttons, giving us more space: Add or Remove Buttons Instead of removing the entire bar, you can simply add or remove the buttons from the bar by right-clicking on it, choosing Customize Command Bar and then Add or Remove Commands. From here you can limit the buttons to only the ones you want… do you ever really use the Help button?...

With older versions of Windows and still through XP I tend to be a graphical minimalist geek. I would always use the most minimal graphics effects possible. Now that I have finally moved to Vista I have gone to the other extreme. I don’t have the worlds most powerful system but definitely great for running Vista. An AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200+ CPU, 4GB of DDR2 SDRAM, and now the NVIDIA GeFORCE 8600 GTS graphics card....

The Problem: Your Games Are Scattered Everywhere Not every gamer will have this problem, but it’s incredibly common. Back when the only way to get your hands on PC games was to purchase them through Steam or buy a physical copy at your local retailer, it wasn’t too difficult to keep track of what you had. Further, back then in the veritable stone ages of game downloading and online platforms, console storefronts were underwhelming or didn’t even exist....

Look ma, no display settings! To resolve this deliberate oversight, open up regedit.exe using the start menu search box, and then browse down to the following registry key: Once you are there, you will see a number of items in the right-hand pane. Make a backup of that key with the export function, and then delete away. desk.cpl is the Display Settings wizard, and ncpa.cpl is the network connections folder....

“As we rely more on videos to stay connected and entertained, we know that a tablet’s most compelling feature is its large screen and portability,” said TM Roh, President & Head of MX Business at Samsung Electronics. “We built on years of innovation in mobile experiences to refine the Galaxy Tab S8 series, and to push the boundaries of what’s possible on a tablet with the first Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra....