Smartphones are designed to be easy to use, but not all sizes are created equal. Fonts may be difficult to read, colors difficult to distinguish, or sounds difficult to hear. You may have problems with tapping and double-tapping icons and… Continue Reading
You may be a bit confused when you are prompted to reset the root password for your MySQL installation. If you come from the Windows world, you may not be familiar with the term “root” at all. For Unix users… Continue Reading
Android Lollipop (5.0) has added many useful features, but have you tried them all? If you’ve updated your phone to this version of Android, you’ve probably noticed the most obvious interface and navigation changes, but have you tried Smart Lock… Continue Reading
Watching your Mac screen suddenly distort, freeze, or refuse to turn on is never a welcome event. Unlike other Mac problems, you can’t slow down the resolution of a misbehaving screen; must be fixed immediately. If you’re lucky, the glitch… Continue Reading
It’s incredibly frustrating when burned DVDs won’t play. You’ve burned data to disc and put it in your DVD player only to see an error or find that nothing works. There can be several reasons why a recorded DVD cannot… Continue Reading
Long documents can be difficult to navigate in Google Docs. It’s fine to scroll through two or three pages of a document, but if your document has dozens or even hundreds of pages, you might spend too much time going… Continue Reading
Focus Assist is a core setting on Windows 10 PCs and tablets that allows users to control the frequency and type of toast notifications they receive. Focus Assist can be switched on and off relatively quickly and there are three… Continue Reading
An especially frustrating way for your computer to not start is when you run into a problem during the Windows startup process, but have nothing to do: no blue screen of death or other error message. Maybe Windows 7 hangs… Continue Reading
Siri is the personal voice assistant software built into iPhone 4S. For all the excitement over her dry sense of humor, Siri is a very hands-on assistant who’s strongest at the everyday tasks you’re most likely to use regularly (especially… Continue Reading
With the introduction of OS X Lion, Apple made fundamental changes to the way OS X is sold and distributed. Installation DVDs are history; OS X is now available as a download from the Mac App Store. With the removal… Continue Reading