But did you know there’s a Safe Mode for Microsoft Office as well? In fact, this feature has been around since Office 2003 and is helpful if you’re trying to fix an Office program when an add-in or some other program is conflicting with it and causing it to crash. Behind the scenes, Office already has an Automated Safe Mode that detects a problem when you launch an Office program and it will fix or isolate the problem so it can start up successfully....

In our Tungle.me review posted last November, we deemed the hassle-free scheduling service highly groovy. The thing that we liked about it most was its laidback attitude that allows it to go with the flow in just about every platform and setting. There’s no signups required, and it plays incredibly well with virtually every other calendar service, including its would-be competitors, Google Calendars, Facebook Events, iCal and Lotus Notes. It even looks and works great on a mobile platform—currently it has snazzy apps for iOS and BlackBerry OS....

Twist and match the natural resources presented in Twisty Hollow to make everything from sloppy joes burgers, to groovy hand knitted sweaters, to houses. And, you must learn to become very quick in the process – the people of the Hollow are an impatient and very important bunch. From the Developers at Arkadium: Twisty Hollow Highlights: 50 unique levels full of wacky surprisesSolve the demands of a crowd of quirky customers, from ghosts to beaversExplore an imaginative story enriched by visuals that feel like paperYou will be challenged by a cast of unbelievable characters, from insolent Robomoles, to a menacing bear with a delicate manicureUnique controls built for touch screens from the ground upUniversal app you can play on your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touchUnlock achievements with Game CenterFull Retina display supportUniversal app you can play on your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch...

Alexa Support for Prime Photos on Fire TV You can ask Alexa to display your photos from various albums (“Alexa, show my wedding photos album”), photos from a certain date, a particular location, or specific items. The mobile app has a facial recognition feature that finds pictures of the same person throughout your photo library and groups them together. That means you can ask Alexa to show pictures of specific family members or friends....

Block a Program From Internet Access via Windows Firewall If you’re not sure which programs are accessing the internet, one easy way to find out is to open up Windows Resource Monitor. This can be done by searching for “resmon” in the start menu, or typing “resmon” into the Run Box (Windows Key + R). In this example, I noticed that the Everything app had networking activity and I’m going to block it to make sure it doesn’t send any data away from my PC....

Google has been a busy bee this week with multiple service and feature releases. Of the many releases seen this week, each and every service is free, and they are all designed with end users in mind. The updates include free DNS, a feather “lite” version of YouTube, a dictionary, a homepage performance upgrade, and a translated language website search. Here’s a brief preview of this week’s Google releases. Google Free DNS Yesterday Google announced their new service, Google Public Domain Name System (DNS)....

This “protocol” is the method computers use to transmit information across the internet. It requires every device on the network to have its unique identifier. This way, when you type a URL into a browser, that browser can determine what device on the internet contains the information (web page) you want. This unique identifier is an IP Address. What is an IP Address? The two IP address standards are IPv4 and IPv6....

Big data refers to a virtual ocean of information from a variety of sources, analyzed and filtered in such a way as to develop meaningful and actionable results. The process of converting “big data” into meaningful results can appear complicated and difficult. However, once you understand what big data is and how it works, understanding how to make it meaningful doesn’t seem so complicated. What is Big Data? When you hear people talk about “big data”, it’s usually with a lot of hand waving and big words....

Bullying that takes place over these forums involves negative and harmful content about someone. The harm can also be indirect, such as sharing information about someone that is embarrassing. It’s all in an effort to publicly humiliate them. The worse forms of cyberbullying include illegal activities like stalking or threatening someone with physical harm. What is Cyberbullying and Why is it So Bad? All forms of cyberbullying have one main goal....

As previously noted, iCloud is Apple’s cloud storage and cloud computing service. The only difference until now between a free iCloud account that everyone gets when purchasing an Apple device and paid iCloud plans was cloud storage. However, with the introduction of iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey, three new features have arrived for paying users. Besides the iCloud Private Relay, there’s Hide My Email, custom email domains, and HomeKit Secure Video for those with supported equipment....

Before you dive into Slack Connect, let’s take a deeper look at how it works, who can use it, and if it’s a free service. What is Slack Connect? Slack Connect gives you a terrific way to chat with clients, customers, vendors, and others who normally require a different application. So, if you’re used to communicating via email or some other chat tool, you can hang up those apps and use Slack....

Before Your Lose Your Device Create a Passcode Depending on the model you have, the instructions may differ slightly. On my Kindle, I go to Settings > Device Options > Device Passcode. But whether you have the Kindle PaperWhite or a Kindle Fire HD, make sure you have a passcode enabled. Here’s how to create a passcode on the Fire HD. Your Contact Information Put your contact information on the outside of the device....

After 21 years, it’s important to take a closer look at COPPA and decide whether it has proven successful. Unfortunately, the answer is largely a mixed bag — perhaps solely because of one single entity, YouTube. More About COPPA At the time of COPPA’s passage, very few websites had implemented privacy policies. At the same time, many of these same websites were beginning to collect personal information from their visitors....

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update 1709 Build 16299.371 While there are no new features with this update, there an extensive list of improvements and new fixes: Provides support to control usage of Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier (IBPB) within some AMD processors (CPUs) for mitigating CVE-2017-5715, Spectre Variant 2 when switching from user context to kernel context (See AMD Architecture Guidelines around Indirect Branch Control and AMD Security Updates for more details)....

Windows 10 Insider Build 16251 With phone-to-pc linking Android owners will be able to test a new “Microsoft Apps” application that links a phone to a PC. The link will enable new cross-device features which include the ability to share a link from a phone directly to a Windows 10 PC. This is the start of many features that will align Android and iOS to Windows 10. In the future, you’ll be able to directly share content to and from PCs and copy and paste between devices via a cloud-based clipboard....

This build isn’t as exciting as the last, but it does include a lot of fixes and performance improvements. If you’re testing Redstone on your Windows Phone, it’s worth noting that in addition to the retail models i.e. Lumia 550 or Lumia 950, there are some older models that will be capable of running it. Microsoft has a list of phones that support the Mobile Insider Preview. The company does state that the only exception is the Lumia 635....

The cool thing is that the familiar Control Panel and other traditional admin utilities are still available. However, Microsoft continues to move these so-called “classic utilities” into the Windows 10 Settings app. And some features and tools are being replaced. Take the classic “System” control panel, for example. Here’s a look at finding the classic utilities that you are used to. Use the Hidden Quick Access Menu If you were a Windows 8....

You don’t have to eat through 7 patties of beef to understand that Windows 7 is a big deal. Microsoft’s flagship product went on sale October 22nd and blew away its predecessor Vista. The actual difference is a staggering 234% increase over Vista, according to NPD Group’s market research. Even with the economy still on the rocks, aggressive sales promotions and pre-release discounts aided the Redmond giant in pushing out Windows 7 with major success....

If you have the SkyDrive desktop app installed on your Mac or PC, right click the icon on the Taskbar and select Go to SkyDrive.com. Select the file you want to share and click the Share link on the lower right side. Next enter the email of the recipient, a short message and click Get a Link. Now click on the rights you want the recipient to have – View Only, View and Edit or Make Public....

Give me the Hack details! First, the problem for Yahoo! and its customers is fairly large. 453,141 Yahoo Voice account passwords were also lost during the hack. Of which 342,481 are unique. These are accounts from different providers, although the majority are Yahoo accounts (135,599 of them). There are also 106,185 Gmail Accounts, Hotmail (54,393), AOL (24,677), as well as Comcast and MSN, a report by security company Sucuri says....