Even as smart TVs become a home staple, there’s still something to be said about streaming from your computer to your television. For Mac users who wish to connect to a larger screen, it’s not as straightforward as it should be. However, it’s not impossible either, as a wireless connection between both devices is easily accomplished. AirPlay The most popular and best option for wirelessly streaming a Mac computer to a television is unquestionably AirPlay....

Introduction iGlue is a free to use web service that adds an interesting feature to all webpages – annotation. While annotating webpages has been around for quite some time, iGlue tackles the issue in a unique way: it aims to use webpage annotation to add a useful layer of information to all webpages. The tool automatically detects important words such as names of people and places on a webpage and then highlights them....

But that is not its only ability. There are other features that will make your song playing via iTunes more enjoyable. The shortcuts Imagine this situation: You are in the middle of your work and the tune in the background is changing into that song that you’ve got bored with and you want to skip it. Or your most favorite song has reached the end and you want to listen to it again....

Here is how you can install the modern apps on an external drive and even move the already installed apps to the drive or partition of your choice. Install Modern Apps on an External Drive Installing modern apps in a separate partition or on an external drive is not hard. To start, insert the external drive and make sure that it is detected in the File Explorer. After that, click on the Notifications icon and then select the option “All Settings....

Pentium Gold? Intel’s Pentium Gold CPUs aren’t as special as the name makes them sound. Essentially, Intel just decided to start calling their Pentium processors based on Kaby Lake “Pentium Gold.” It’s purely marketing. That doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re not good CPUs. They’re just roughly the equivalent of previous Pentium generations. But What’s Kaby Lake? If you’re not already familiar, Kaby Lake is the code name for the 14nm architecture that followed its Skylake CPUs....

Performance Apple has promised that they worked on performance issues, even on older devices, to make them faster. Also being promised are smoother animations. I’ve been using iOS 12 now for 12 hours on both my devices. I can say I haven’t had any slow moments. That said, I have not sat back and thought, “Wow, that’s so much faster!” But I also haven’t had to wait. Screen Time This feature is already working on the apps....

They’re both available on Linux, but which one should you use? And more importantly, is Chromium a suitable alternative to Chrome? This article will attempt to answer that question. The case for Chromium on Linux Chromium looks exactly like Google Chrome on the surface. Like Chrome, the only real differences are what the browser has under the hood. Chromium doesn’t come with a lot of the things that Chrome ships with (video codecs and other things)....

A larger screen has often been a signature of the more recent versions of the more popular Android smartphones. Of the top 5 Android phones listed for 2016, the LG V10 screen size is 5.7″, the LG G4 5.5″, the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 5.7″, the Samsung Galaxy S7 5.1″, and the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge 5.1″. Some people complained that the iPhone screens were too small, and Apple seemed like they were trying to compete when they abandoned their smaller screen-size phones and adopted larger screens for the iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6S, and 6S Plus....

Kill allows you to end the process behind an application simply by clicking on the application Window. Think of it like having the power to terminate in the tip of your finger. When you load up Kill and left click on a window, Windows attempts to close it as though you had simply clicked the close button. This will cause the program to close in its normal way, often prompting you to save your work....

For a limited time only, get an extra 3 months when you sign up with ExpressVPN for only $6.67/mo. Get this special VPN deal. Acknowledge That Most VPN Providers Will Log Your Traffic If you’re up to something that you really don’t want anyone to find out about, even if they attempt to audit your VPN provider for your info, you have to understand that most of the time your traffic is being logged....

WindowShade X is a small software (3.3MB) with plenty of great and useful features that allow you to manage your application windows more efficiently and quickly. Before WindowShade X When working with multiple windows on a Mac, you have a couple of options. Expose is by far, in my opinion, the most useful native application on a Mac for accessing multiple windows fast. Spaces groups open windows into separate work areas....

Here’s a walkthrough of the new features of macOS Sierra. OS X is Now Called macOS Up until now Apple’s OS for their Macs has been called OS X, but things have changed. From now on it will be called macOS, and Sierra is the name of the version of the OS that the company has launched this year. The new name matches with the company’s other OSes – watchOS, tvOS, and iOS....

Set Google as Default Search Engine for Start Menu Since Windows 10 has no options to change the default search engine or the browser when searching from the Start menu, we need to force it. To do that we are going to use a free and open-source software called Search Deflector. Using it, you can redirect all the searches to your favorite search engine in your favorite browser. You are no longer tied to using Bing and Edge....

Computer Cooling Explained The reason why the CPU on the device you’re reading this from isn’t currently experiencing a Chernobyl-style meltdown is because of the magic of thermal transfer. The transistors on your CPU generate a boatload of heat, and that heat has to go somewhere. If it all stays in one place, it accumulates and makes the chip experience a catastrophic failure. CPU coolers make use of thermal conductivity to dissipate the heat away from the chip as quickly as possible....

Luckily, there are two different wireless technologies that work in different ways to make these quick, secure transfers possible. These are NFC and Bluetooth. NFC and Bluetooth both make connections between two devices over short ranges. They provide reliable communication between those devices to transfer data. Beyond that, they are very different. NFC NFC is the abbreviation for Near Field Communication. It is a wireless touch technology that pairs two devices quickly without the physical pairing process....

Installation As with previous Kubuntu versions, you can install it from the desktop of the running live CD. The interface for the installation now follows KDE 4’s Oxygen Air theme and has new graphical representations of several options. Booting and Login Booting is faster than ever, and the new KDE Air theme login window is the default. KDE 4.3 If you have been following my weekly posts, you already know about many of the features new in KDE 4....

While browsing the web, all you need to do is to tap and hold on the Back button. This will popup a window showing you the history of your previously accessed site. Scroll down the list and select the site you want to return to. Another method that you can use is to tap on the URL bar. You can then tab on the “history” tab to reveal the list of site that you have previously accessed....

In your browser, paste the following URL: At the end of the URL, append the content you want to embed. For example, for a QR code with a URL link: or a QR code with text: and this is what you will see: Simple and fast! Image credit: Where is the QR code…?

Quickly Switch Audio Output or Input on macOS Make sure you can see the small speaker icon in the menu bar. If you do not see the speaker icon, navigate to “System Preferences -> Sound.” Click on the Output tab, and then tick the checkbox next to “Show volume in menu bar.” Hold down the Alt/Option key on your keyboard. Click on the speaker in the status bar. You should see a list of available audio outputs listed....

Have you ever deleted an important file by accident or maybe before you should have (thinking you didn’t need it anymore)? More than likely, you have. Luckily, EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is one that can come to the rescue when you get carried away deleting files. EaseUS Data Recovery is available for Windows and Mac. Here we’ll be looking at the Windows version (on a Windows 10 computer) to see just how quick and easy it is to recover lost files....