How To Guides Archive
20 Mar 2015
How to Protect Your Android Device from Malware
How to Protect Your Android Device from Malware Part of keeping your Android device safe is learning to recognize questionable apps. Apply the same techniques that you use to identify rogue emails from bogus financial institutions, like pixelated, poorly rendering logos, spelling mistakes, and publisher names that don’t match the official spelling or wording —
20 Mar 2015
Build Your Own Simple Linux Banking Tool
Build Your Own Simple Linux Banking Tool In general, the numerous spreadsheet templates that are Microsoft Excel clones and load in OpenOffice and LibreOffice are digital versions of a paper-and-pen checkbook register. If you want a simple spreadsheet to enter deposit and withdrawal details to get a running account balance, these basic spreadsheet solutions are
20 Mar 2015
How to Speed Up a Sluggish Android Smartphone
How to Speed Up a Sluggish Android Smartphone If getting rid of superfluous apps on your smartphone doesn’t solve the problem, reinstalling factory stock software likely will. Like rehab — or the drunk tank — for our lethargic, wrong-side-of-the-tracks smartphone inhabitant, this operation may sound like a big deal and a lot of work, and
20 Mar 2015
How to Slim Down a Bloated Android Device
How to Slim Down a Bloated Android Device Determine where best to free up space. Take a look at the Pictures and Videos space used in particular. Look for the numerical value next to the descriptive label. Video and images, unlike music, often don’t need to be stored on the device and can be moved.
20 Mar 2015
How to Encrypt a Windows 8 PC Drive
How to Encrypt a Windows 8 PC Drive Windows 8.1 Pro includes built-in drive encryption tools. These tools work even if you don’t have a TPM chip. TPM, or Trusted Platform Module, is encryption-ready hardware. You’ll need a spare USB thumb drive, though. Encryption tools are hidden away in the depths of the machine, so
20 Mar 2015
How to Turbocharge Your iOS 8 Web-Surfing Experience
How to Turbocharge Your iOS 8 Web-Surfing Experience Think iOS 8 is just an expanded version of iOS 7? Take a closer look, and you might think again. For owners of iPhone models from the 4s to the 6 Plus, Apple has introduced not only improvements to familiar features but some altogether new — and
20 Mar 2015
How to Bring Out the Best of iOS 8’s Photography and Sharing Tricks
How to Bring Out the Best of iOS 8’s Photography and Sharing Tricks If you haven’t yet taken the iOS 8 plunge, you may not know what you’re missing. True, iOS 8 has the familiar iOS 7 look and feel, but it’s chock full of both new and improved features and functionality. And it’s free.
19 Mar 2015
Sony’s PlayStation Vue online TV service launched
Sony’s PlayStation Vue online TV service launched NEW YORK: Sony has launched its PlayStation Vue web video service in three cities, targeting customers looking for cheaper alternatives to cable with packages starting at $50. The web and cloud-based television service, which allows users to access live TV and on-demand video, has been in test mode
17 Mar 2015
Microsoft tries to thwart Google by investing in Cyanogen
Microsoft tries to thwart Google by investing in Cyanogen Windows Phone still hasn’t set the world on fire, so it seems Microsoft is investigating other ways to compete against Google and Apple in the mobile market. Reports are coming in that Microsoft will participate in a round of funding for Cyanogen, Inc. — the commercial enterprise
17 Mar 2015
Google announces Android 5.1 Lollipop, rolling out to Nexus devices today
Google announces Android 5.1 Lollipop, rolling out to Nexus devices today Google released Android 5.0 Lollipopback in November of 2014 with a complete UI revamp and a number of cool new features like Smart Lock and priority notifications. After an initial burst of device updates, things slowed to a crawl as a number of bugs