You’ve probably heard stories of items being ordered on accident such as a 6-year-old who girl who ordered a $170 dollhouse and four pounds of sugar cookies. You can check out a news report of how that happened in the following video: Continue reading, and we will show you a couple of ways on how to help prevent the issue from happening to you. Turn Voice Purchasing Off It’s also worth mentioning that this creates a passcode for individual accounts and not each Alexa device....

During purchase the price difference won’t appear until you’ve completed the order. As seen in the screenshot below, the order was free because of at least $2 in other MP3 credit already on the account. Comment Name * Email * Δ Save my name and email and send me emails as new comments are made to this post.

What is Apple Pay? First introduced in 2014, Apple Pay is a mobile payment and digital wallet service that’s available to use on multiple devices, including iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and select Macs. To use Apple Pay, your bank or issuer must support it and the service must be available in your country. Apple Pay serves various functions, including making payments in stores and within apps, on the web in Safari, and person to person....

In the past we’ve covered a few alternatives such as SharePod and Foobar2000. But, now that we know that everyone despises iTunes, we’d like to hear what our groovy readers use instead. Do you have a favorite program or app for managing your iOS devices? Do you use several? Let us know in the comments section below! It sucks so I would love to have something else to use so looking forward to what the HIVE comes up with....

On Windows 8, according to Microsoft: Step 1 – Install Revo Uninstaller Chances are if you bought an HP, Dell, Gateway, Toshiba, or any other pre-manufactured computer, it will come completely loaded with un-needed, bloated, crapware. Crapware is defined as “Software that is near useless, slows down your system, and was installed only because the manufacturers receive payment for pre-loading it on all of their computers. Normally it is only the DEMO copy that will only allow you to do something interesting if you pay the software company another $30 for the “Premium Edition”....

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In this guide, we’ll walk through the basic steps that apply to most scenarios. Then, we’ll discuss some troubleshooting and alternate methods, in case the simple approach doesn’t work for you. Note: Once you master the steps to boot your computer from a USB or CD/DVD, you can use this to boot other operating systems or bootable live environments on your machine. BIOS vs. UEFI: What’s the Difference? Each computer, whether it’s a Dell, HP, Acer or even a custom-built system, is an island unto itself before Windows 10 (or some other operating system) starts....

Using the New Outlook Mail Is it worth it? For all the new functionality offered in the revamped service, there is still some kinks to work out. Search is one obvious area that needs more refinement. If you use Microsoft’s Outlook Web Mail service; offered as part of the company’s enterprise mail server, Exchange, you might notice how similar both OWA and Outlook Mail are. Well, that’s because both are based on the same platform, Office 365....

MergePDF In the example below, I have 11 PDF files which each make up 1 page of an 11-page document. This happens to me all the time when I scan documents on my printer. Sure, I have the document in electronic form now; however, it’s a pain to keep track of multiple files, plus it’s not very professional if I need to send the documents around. Let’s combine them. Tip: Before getting started, I recommend you rename your PDF files into a sequential format, as shown above....

Like many other Google services, you cannot customize the Google Navigation bar. While you can’t customize it by default, there’s an extension that will do the job — Big G Black Bar Sorter for Chrome. Go to the Big G Black Bar Sorter homepage (Link Below) on Chrome Web Store and install the extension. The extension requires users to give access to data on google.com’s website. Click the Add button to continue the installation....

Disable Animated GIFs Firefox Type: about:config in the address bar and hit Enter. If the “This might void your warranty message comes up, click that you’ll be careful. Next type: anim in the search box to find image.animation_mode. Double-click on image.animation_mode and type in none and click OK. Or, type one if you want the GIFs to play them once). Disable Animated GIFs Google Chrome Chrome is a bit different, so your best results are to use an extension....

The task is simple. Just follow these three easy steps for both Microsoft Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2003. Update 5/19/2010 – Outlook 2010 Users – Please see the latest update here: – How-to Disable Outlook 2010 Email Auto-Complete. On the Tools menu, click Options. 2. On the Preferences tab, click E-mail Options, and then click Advanced E-mail Options. 3. Clear the Suggest names while completing To, Cc, and Bcc fields check box....

Dropbox, one of my favorite free file sync and cloud backup services announced today that they have increased the referral bonus cap on free accounts from 10.25 gigs up to 16 gigs. The referral bonus for each person you get to sign up was also doubled to 500 meg. Pro accounts were also shown the love. Each referral now earns you 1 gig of free space up to a max of 32 gigs of free space....

Check out this timelapse video — shot at several locations in Finnish Lapland, created for visitfinland.com. You might never see this in real life! For this image, photogs used DSLR cameras with remote pan/tilt cameras and time-lapse features. Here is a great time-lapse showing Aurora Borealis in action. Aurora Borealis in Finnish Lapland 2011 from Flatlight Films on Vimeo. Comment Name * Email * Δ Save my name and email and send me emails as new comments are made to this post....

The program is called the AT&T Refer-A-Friend Program and it allows you to earn 5, $25 Gift Cards up to $125 a year. To begin, go to the Refer-A-Friend site and Click Register. Fill in the form and click Register. All passwords were not created equal so be sure to use a strong password. Confirm your registration information and click Confirm Once registered, you will be taken to a referral page where you can send out spam emails via the system or through social networks....

Film maker Scott DW teamed up with Halfbrick Studios — who also created Jetpack Joyride — to help create his awesome fan-made video, even creating his own dubstep track to be used in the video. As you’ll see in the video (below), the Fruit Ninja can be seen riding through a forest to meet up with his Sensei in order to help train him for the battle with endless fruit he’s about to experience....

Firefox for Windows 8 Touch Beta First download Firefox for Windows 8 Touch Beta. What’s interesting is you don’t install it from the Windows store, but instead download and install an executable file. And yes, that means you can’t get it on touch devices running Windows RT. Before installing it, make sure you have any other instance of Firefox that’s running closed. Otherwise you’ll see the message below. After Firefox is installed, you’ll see you still have the typical desktop version as well as a Firefox tile on the Windows 8....

I’ve written about devices running the new OS being available early next year, and while I can’t wait to use said devices, now we all have the possibility to give the new OS a test run. I remember the days when Android had an emulator and no smartphones on the market (oh, the good old days!). While I don’t think this will have such an impact, I see no reason why it can’t do well....

With Google Reader calling it quits, we’ve asked you about the feed readers you plan on switching to. While most of the answers quoted Feedly, Flipboard was also mentioned. And even if you’re not switching to it as your RSS reader and only using it to keep up with news, you might want to know how to reduce its data usage. Reduce Flipboard Data Use It’s pretty easy, actually. First, go to Flipboard’s Settings menu – it’s the gear icon on the bottom right side of the screen....

As a replacement for the search feature in Windows, try out Everything from Voidtools. It’s a simple, free utility that’s very powerful. It provides better search results than the built in Windows search. It’s also faster at returning results. A lot faster – virtually instant. The first time you search with Everything, it takes a few moments to index your drive, but after that all subsequent searches are blazingly fast....