The reasons for a Wi-Fi printer not working are plentiful, as are the solutions. We’ve listed all the big ones for you here. The Obvious Stuff You should always have handy the driver package to the Wi-Fi printer in question. Download the correct driver from the official website, and leave it sitting in a folder you’ll remember just in case you need it. These packages don’t always require you to uninstall and install your Wi-Fi printer again but instead can be used to help your PC re-discover the printer, assign it the correct port and so on....

Why You Should Get Windows RT If you’ve had a tablet running on Windows before, you’re obviously familiar with its inferior battery life compared to the battery life of other world-class tablets like the Samsung Galaxy Tab and the Apple iPad. These tablets could run for 8 hours in most circumstances, and trumped the tablets that Microsoft has designed. To circumvent this issue, Microsoft had to take out the big guns and finally make an operating system that runs on low power which doesn’t demand a bulky device that pulls a ton of juice through its circuits....

It’s Facebook’s turn with their Messenger Day feature. It’s a slideshow of your favorite images, videos or both that you can share with others. You can either share it with all your friends or selected friends. How to Access Messenger Day To access Messenger Day, all you have to do is open the Messenger app, and on the top left corner, is a camera icon with the words “Add to your day” below it....

Sapiens is a application launcher that allows you to access all your applications using mouse gestures. Rather than setting up a bunch of shortcut keys or a series of mouse gestures, you only need to know how to draw circle with your mouse. The main difference between Sapiens and your dock is that Sapiens comes with artificial intelligence. It learns from you and predicts the applications you will likely need and offers a visualization of this prediction in an intuitive way....

Take a little time today and spend time improving your tech habits so that 2020 can run more smoothly for you. 1. Having weak passwords and password reuse It is already 2020, and we are still having weak and bad passwords issue. Having a weak, easily guessed password is bad on so many levels. Not only is it easy to crack and put your own privacy/security at risk, if one of your accounts gets compromised, all your accounts that use the same email/password combination will be at risk too....

Even if it’s just a sentence a day, it’s a good way to remember things you learn, record your life, and track your progress. If you’re like me, though, it’s too easy to forget to log in to a website and too annoying to type things out on mobile, so you need an app right there on your desktop, reducing the steps between you and your journal entry to “click on the app and type....

1. The Classic Snake Game If you are fond of playing classic games, then you would be glad to know that your Mac is preloaded with a few such games. Although it requires a bit of digging deeper, the games actually provide you the plot that you had on your older smartphones (or just phones?). To launch the game, fire-up Terminal on your Mac, type in “emacs” (without quotes) and hit Enter....

1. UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin A good backup plugin is important to any site, but it is even more important for a business site. There are numerous WordPress backup plugins, and UpdraftPlus is one of the best plugins for an easy and safe backup. 2. Jetpack Jetpack is one of the most versatile WordPress plugins. It’s a plugin by the authors of WordPress themselves and offers a lot. The list of its features is really long, but let’s just say it offers functionality for traffic and SEO, security and backup, content creation, community and discussion....

Let the music roll! Here are the best music player apps for Android. 1. Neutron Music Player It’s not the cheapest music player app out there at $6, but a five-day evaluation version means you can give Neutron a good go before committing to the purchase. It has a unique audio engine which can play back almost all audio formats – including FLAC – in its bespoke 32-bit/64-bit engine....

Other than its basic functionality, Pidgin also has a plugin system that allows its users to activate plugins to extend its functionality. Today we’re taking a look at 10 of the best plugins to power up your Pidgin. 1. Facebook Chat The default installation of Pidgin does not support Facebook chat at the moment, but with this Facebookchat plugin, you can now see who has logged in to Facebook, chat with them, and even update your Facebook status, all within your Pidgin....

1. Code with Chris This channel was started by Chris Ching, a former iOS developer who took his love of educating his team and created CodeWithChris.com. His goal is to teach others how to create iOS apps. He started the YouTube channel Code With Chris in 2013, and it now has over 400K subscribers. His videos allow the viewers to code along with him from start to finish as he builds and submits apps to the Apple App Store....

1. Farnam Street Helping you make the most out of your brain to learn faster and smarter. Pros: Articles are organized by topic for quick accessSubscribe to a free weekly newsletterHas an interesting podcast as well Cons: Some content and features are only for paying membersSite itself is very minimal design-wise Farnam Street is well-known for content designed to help you learn faster, think better, improve decision making, and teach you how to use your brain better....

1. Filter Messages Using Categories Messages are automatically classified as Personal, Transactions, OTPs (one-time passwords), or Offers in the Messages app. The categories are listed just below the search bar for quicker access. Tap on a category to see the messages associated with it. This is useful when you want to find a specific type of message without having to go through the entire conversation list. To enable or disable this feature, press the three-dot icon and select “Settings → Messages organization....

1. Strawpoll If you want to ask a single question without special gimmicks, look no further than Strawpoll. This service specializes in one thing and one thing only: creating a single question with different options. Strawpoll was once the king of creating polls on the streaming website Twitch, due to its simplicity and speed. Now, Twitch has its own polling feature; however, Strawpoll is still as useful as it ever was....

What is CUDA, and what is a CUDA core? Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) is a feature in most newer Nvidia graphics cards that allows the computer to use a part of the GPU (or even the complete GPU) as an “assistant” to the processor. GPUs pack much more muscle than computers, but their architecture has historically been more optimized for calculating drawing distances and polygons (which is why they’re slapped onto graphics cards in the first place)....

Despite being designed to make our lives easier, the evolution of consumer technology has reached a point in which it’s become disorienting. There are so many things to consider, especially when the technology is fresh. Perhaps it is time we looked at what we should be thinking about before jumping in to purchase new things with our dollars, yen, euros, or whatever currency we use to get ourselves coffee to fuel the day....

Unfriend vs. Unfollow vs. Block Usually, there are signs that someone has unfriended you, unfollowed you, or blocked you on Facebook, like not seeing updates or not being able to find his/her profile on Facebook. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that he/she has unfriended you. You could have been blocked or simply unfollowed. Learn the differences below: Unfriend: when someone unfriends you on Facebook, you will be removed from their friend list, and they from yours....

A disk space analyzer offers a visual representation of how large each directory is. This makes it easier to spot what eats up your disk space and potentially delete unwanted stuff. There are a lot of such utilities, and they all basically do the same thing. But since visual representation is the most important difference between them, images will help you decide what you like most. Find out some of the best disk space analyzer tools for Windows 10....

Warning: The convenience offered by smart security gadgets might seem enticing, but they can also be used against you. If a door can be remotely controlled or if a security system is based in the cloud, then this also means that it could get hacked if proper security measures are not taken. Don’t get lured by the security claims made by these gadgets and leave your whole house’s security solely on them....

1: Windows 8.1 Backup No Longer Creates Windows 7-Style Images This is a bit of a downer, but perhaps not really that bad of an ordeal for those who don’t want to take another look at downgrading their systems to Windows 7. You cannot create the old-style backups that Windows 7 had in its control panel. Microsoft decided to do away with the whole old system. Windows 8.1 still allows you to import Windows 7 images, but it won’t let you create new ones....