At the end of the day, do you shut down your computer or use some variation of Hibernate and Sleep Mode? In making this decision what usually comes to mind is what will happen the next time you get on the computer. While sleep is incredibly fast, it drains a small amount of power. Hibernate, while similar to sleep, is seldom used because of the amount of time it takes to start....

Windows 10 Preview Build 17661 The process of taking screenshots in this build has been improved to a more modern experience. You can now take a shot and easily annotate the shot as needed with the Screen Sketch utility. Sharing a screenshot is easier now, too. In today’s article, Dona Sarkar and Brandon LeBlanc note: “WIN + Shift + S will now bring up a snipping toolbar – snip a rectangle, something a bit more freeform, or full screen and it will go straight to your clipboard....

Note: Microsoft previously called these “Office Apps”. We covered some helpful Bing Office Apps that help you get more out of Office 2013. But the company has renamed them “Office Add-ins” and the following list covered here work with Office 2013 or later.10 Microsoft Office Add-insGrammarlyThe built-in grammar engine in Microsoft Office isn’t as powerful, and it seems. If you’re an author of professional documents or just want to improve your writing, Grammarly can make a positive impact on your grammar and spelling....

As everyone knows by now, Microsoft scrapped the traditional Start menu in Windows 8 for the new Start screen. If you’re a system admin, you want an easy way to get to the system tools like Command Prompt, Control Panel, and Disk Management – not Pictures and Weather apps. Here’s how to easily pull up a menu of power user options from the Start screen or Desktop in Windows 8....

Using the Over App for iOS Over is a free download (includes in-app purchases) from the App Store. After launching, click the close button if you are prompted to choose a bundle. You can choose from a collection of daily artwork or start a new project from scratch. There are premium templates you can also download, but we will focus on the free stuff for this article. If you have used Over before, you can pick up from an existing project, start a new one, or swipe down, then choose a photo from your library or free artwork to get started....

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!...

You can use basic steps like ensuring it’s plugged in and charged to do a hardware reset when your Chromebook won’t turn on. Sometimes it’s something simple or a possible issue with the Chromebook itself at worse. Before you panic, however, let’s look at some fixes you can try if your Chromebook doesn’t turn on. 1. Check Your Power If there is foreign material obstructing the power cord or battery, removing it will help get your Chromebook running....

Does Bumble Have Read Receipts? Many dating apps and similar messaging apps have read receipts, notifying each other when your message was delivered and opened. This is a good feature because it gives you a hint of how to continue chatting with this person without saying anything. For example, often times, if you see you were left on read, it’s a good sign that person does not want to continue the conversation....

This is a good question since some may be inclined to use the information/text that the ChatGPT AI generates. Does ChatGPT Plagiarize? To put it shortly, yes, ChatGPT does plagiarize text. As to why ChatGPT cannot come up with original information is because the AI language model can only create content based on what is entered into the program. This is especially apparent and true if the input provided is copied from a different source, which means that you will get out what you put into the system....

To answer these questions, we need to lay some facts down first: Grindr privacy policy is governed solely by the law of the State of California, USA. You may use Grindr outside California and even outside the USA, but you are not protected against your local laws. This means that if you use Grindr in locations with anti-gay policies, you are at risk of being punished by your local laws if found out Your private data are shared with Grindr’s partners and advertisers, even though you could opt out of sharing some of these data You cannot display other users’ profile data on an external display or in a public setting....

If I Block Someone, Can They See That I Viewed Their Linkedin Profile No. If you block someone and you navigate to their LinkedIn profile to view their information, if you view their profile, your name and profile information will not show up on their page. They will see that someone anonymously viewed their profile. The same instance would be if someone had blocked you and that person had attempted to be your profile as well....

Why Cybersecurity Monitoring Matters These days, data breaches are like natural disasters. In the steady drumbeat of ominous news, it’s easy to lose track of each personal information leak, hacked password database, and cybersecurity compromise. It’s even more difficult to fully grasp the scope and impact of each information security event. How many accounts were really affected? Who did the hacking? Was my information stolen? Is this the same hack we heard about last week, or is it something new?...

What you might not know is that there is a hidden, even more powerful way to close pesky processes in Windows 10: the taskkill command. The advanced task kill command gives you more control as you end processes and even works on tasks that refuse to close even after killing them in Task Manager. Oh, and we’ll be running this from the command line, so get your fingers ready....

Open the Windows 8 Charms Bar The Windows 8 Charms menu replaces many of the options found in the Windows 7 Start Menu. Nevertheless, this is an important menu for navigating through Windows 8. Here are four different methods to bring it up quickly. The most reliable way to open the Charms menu on a laptop is using the keyboard. The other three methods involve pointing the mouse or swiping a touch screen....

The new Screen Sketch was first introduced with Redstone 5 Build 17661 and will be available with Windows 10 1809 — which, at the time of this writing, is expected to roll out this fall. If you launch the Snipping Tool, you’ll see the following message letting you know it will be removed and consolidated into the new Snip & Sketch tool. Screenshots with Windows 10 Snip & Sketch To take a screenshot, launch the Screen Sketch app and click the New button or hit Ctrl + N....

Before going into the question of how to accept message requests on Facebook without replying, we need first to explain how a message request works and explore the different settings you can make in order to control how and from whom you receive message requests on Facebook. You can control who you get message requests from. When you take advantage of this setting, you go a long way toward eliminating the need to want to accept message requests without replying....

You can also manipulate the dates by adding or subtracting from them. For example, if you want to know how to add months to a date in Excel, you can use a function called EDATE to do it. You can also use basic addition or subtraction to add or remove days from your date. If you want to add months to a date in Excel (or remove them), follow the steps below....

The Story – I Could Have Used This Plugin Years Ago So about my cushy CTO job… The title didn’t mean much, since my entire job was to glean “inspiration” from video game wardrobes by playing them all day. Plus, I got all the non-GMO vegan gummy bears I could eat. But that all ended one fateful day when I received an email from my buddy in accounting. It was a mass email: I really didn’t feel like going because I knew my ex would be there, so I made up a random excuse and fired it off....

Video Screencast Step 1 – Downloading Action(s) First of all, you need to download Action(s). (Note: You need to have java installed in order for this to work). Get started by going to app.jbbres.com. From there you can read some useful information about the program in addition to downloading it. To begin your download, press the red button on the right side of the screen and follow all the steps to complete the install....

It goes like this, you activate two-factor authentication and receive a recovery code. It’s absolutely necessary to keep this code. Write it down, save it in a document, whatever you do with it, keep it in a secure location. It’s important will become relevant soon. Once you’ve activated two-factor authentication, every single time you log into Snapchat from a separate device, it’ll send a password to you, known as your verification code....