One thing you’ll notice once you start getting acclimated to Windows 10, is the fact you can pin virtually any location or item to the Start menu. On top of being renamed, Microsoft’s Groove Music has a new design and improved features in Windows 10. We showed you how to transfer your iTunes playlists to Groove Music, and now we’ll take a look at pinning your favorite playlists to the Start menu....

PlayReady PC Runtime v2.3 for Windows 8 Consumer Preview According to Microsoft: Download the 64-bit VersionDownload the 32-bit Version Windows 8 Consumer Preview Product Guide for Business According to Microsoft: If you’re an IT professional at a business, check out the Windows 8 Consumer Preview Product Guide for Business. Excerpt Provided by Microsoft Comment Name * Email * Δ Save my name and email and send me emails as new comments are made to this post....

Now with the introduction of Windows Phone 8.1, anyone can project their phone’s screen to an external display via USB or Miracast. Here’s how. Project Windows Phone 8.1 to PC First install the Project My Screen app from the Microsoft Download Center to your PC. After it’s installed you’ll find it in the Apps section of the Start screen where you can pin it to your Taskbar for easier access....

Setup To add a sender to the VIP Mail list on iPhone and iPad, click on an email from the person or organization. From there: VIP status also shows up on Mail for Mac and when using Mail on iCloud.com, if applicable. In the following example, emails from UPS now have VIP status. A gold star icon denotes each. Folder Once you assign VIP status, you can find all related emails in the VIP Mail folder....

What Is It? This app is your basic puzzle match game. Rotate the triangles until the two corners match. As the game progresses, there are more triangles and trickier combinations. The levels play quickly, and no instructions are needed. Who Is It Good For? This game’s great for everyone. Eventually, you solve the puzzle through trial and error; no penalty for guessing. Compared to other iOS games, this one’s kinda boring There aren’t many visual or audio effects....

The camera on both iOS and Android has improved by leaps and bounds since smartphones first came out. Today, you can take professional-quality photos with a smartphone, and nobody would be any the wiser. But if you’re looking for something a bit different on your iPhone, here are five alternative iOS camera apps you could try. Alternative iOS Camera Apps To Make Your Photos A Bit More Interesting Here they are, in no particular order or preference…...

Unfortunately, Facebook is also a major target for scammers, hackers, and con-artists. These criminals are regularly looking for security holes in your Facebook profile. Their goals range from gathering personal information about you, spamming you with malicious links, or trying to hack your Facebook account. Regardless of their goals, there are specific Facebook security settings you can lock down to make sure it’s as difficult as possible for nefarious individuals to cause you trouble....

What is Wikipedia? Wikipedia is the largest and most popular general reference site on the web. Owned and operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, the site (and its many subsites) is available in over 300 languages through various platforms, including a long list of mobile apps. Perhaps what has kept Wikipedia so popular for nearly 20 years of existence is its continued reliance on a community of volunteer contributors or so-called Wikipedians....

So, the other week, it shocked me when I heard on the Reply All podcast that a hacker had successfully phished someone using 2-step Gmail verification. This was in the episode entitled What Kind of Idiot Gets Phished? It’s a great episode, so I won’t spoil it for you by telling who the “idiot” was, but I will tell you some of the tricks they used. 1. Look alike domain names The hacker had permission from the show’s producers to try to hack the staff....

With Xbox Gold, you get the Games with Gold program that gives you three to four free games each month. Plus, Xbox Game Pass is an incredible value for $9.99/month and gives you access to over a hundred premiere games. However, you still need to download those huge files. Games you download for Xbox One are enormous. The average size of a game is 35 GB or more. Since the Xbox One is essentially a PC and runs Windows 10, you don’t have to purchase an official Xbox expansion drive....

To begin, let me explain what Adobe Lightroom is, and what it’s not as well as who it is for, and for whom it is not. What can I use Adobe Lightroom for? In a nutshell, Lightroom is an asset management, photo development, and output software tool. What does all that mean? Keeping it simple, Lightroom has five different modules each with a specific intended function: First is the Library module The Library module is where you catalog all your photos and group them into directories and collections for easy file management....

Launched with little fanfare in October 2019, the AirPods Pro is the truly wireless earbuds Apple should have released four years ago. Currently, priced at under $250, the AirPods Pro earbuds are $90 more than the regular model, but the extras are worth the price of admission. Featuring noise cancellation, a customizable fit, sweat and water resistance, and much more, the AirPods Pro earbuds are impressive. Here are the features you’re going to love the best....

In addition to the improved 1920×1200 1080p display with over 2 million pixels, the company says the new tablet will be 30% faster. It has a new 1.8 GHz quad-core processor with 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage. It also includes a micro-SD slot that allows you to expand storage up to 256 GB. The company is touting 10 hours of battery life, too. Another new addition to the OS is a new personalized page called “For You” that can be accessed from the home screen....

Now, it’s important to keep in mind, that, at the time of this writing, the app is new and limited and is only available to users in the Insider Program. It only supports Android devices with the ability to share photos from your phone to PC. But the company is promising several more features are coming. The plan in the works is to allow users to send and receive calls and SMS texts between devices, share web pages and documents between devices, iPhone support, and more....

What Is It? We’ve covered Angry Birds Space before, and this is the latest version. Just in case you don’t know about the Angry Birds franchise, a variety of cartoon birds hurl themselves at pigs to destroy them. It’s a bit violent when you think about it, but it’s all in good fun. Please don’t confuse this with the classic Muppets Pigs in Space. The pigs are the villains in this game!...

15 Years of OS X The Steve Jobs biopic, released in 2015, exaggerated his transition from Apple. The film’s interpretation of the NeXT creation was Steve’s long-term strategy to get back into Apple one day. Watching early demos of the NeXT Step operating system and NeXT Cube never suggested this. Instead, Steve saw this as the next evolution of client computing, object-oriented programming, networking, and image manipulation. NeXT never became the next big thing in computing, but parts of it revolutionized the industry....

The iPad Mini Not to be outdone by the Kindle Fire and Google Nexus 7, Apple is attempting to enter into the 7-inch category of tablets. However, it faces quite a few challenges, including a higher price tag. The iPad Mini starts at $330 for the 16GB version and only goes up from there. This brings it close to twice the cost of its Android counterparts after tax. The Mini also doesn’t feature any other new tech, as it is comprised mostly of the same parts found in the old iPad 2....

Who Can Download iOS 10.1? Customers running iPhone 5 or later, iPad 4th generation and later and iPod touch 6th generation and later can install the update. It won’t allow you to begin the install unless you have 50% or more battery life remaining. On my iPhone 6 Plus (yes, I’ve not yet upgraded to an iPhone 7 yet…), the download was a little over 200 megabytes. The download and install took exactly 17 minutes....

Note: Keep in mind this is beta software, so if you install it, expect some bugs. First, make sure you’re running the latest version of OS X Lion — 10.7.3. Messages will not install unless you have the latest version installed. Next download the free Messages Beta. After you’ve downloaded the Messages beta, run through the installer. Messages requires a restart of your Mac to complete the install. After the restart, you’ll find the icon in the dock....

New Apple TV Channels With the addition of the AOL and ABC news channels, you’ll have even more video content for free, but it is ad-supported. Both channels will provide original programs, some live and on-demand news feeds, and live hourly updates. The ABC News channel will offer highlight of ACB New shows like Good Morning America, and Nightline too. But don’t confuse this with WatchABC which was added several months ago – for that you will need a cable subscription....