What’s New on Kindle eReaders? The new Kindle eReaders interface isn’t exactly rewriting the book on navigation. However, it looks a bit more streamlined and modern than the previous interface, which was released in 2016. The Home and Library sections are getting a refresh with new filter and sort menus, a new collections view, and an interactive scroll bar. There’s also an option to swipe to the left to get access to 20 recently read books....

Are you afraid of the Mac command line? Learning a few simple commands can help you build your confidence and shed that fear. You might even discover that you enjoy working in a command-line environment! Use Terminal to Execute Commands Many of the shortcuts that you use in other apps will work here. You can open multiple tabs with Command+T or a new Terminal window with Command+N. Cut, copy, and paste all work as expected, and you can drag any file or folder into the Terminal window to immediately skip to that directory....

GamingOnLinux If you ever enjoy playing games, GamingOnLinux is a great resource of news on all things related to gaming on Linux and SteamOS. Subscribe to the website’s RSS feed and you’ll hear about new games coming to Linux, exciting updates to games with native Linux support, and the availability of non-Linux titles through Proton and Wine. Game reviews occasionally appear on their feed as well. If you’re a stats fanatic, GamingOnLinux also has a few pages crunching the numbers on Linux adoption among gamers and the devices they use....

Thankfully, the young girl was smart enough to know this was a terrible idea, and she didn’t perform the challenge as instructed by Alexa. Let this serve as a reminder that smart speakers and displays are gateways to the internet, and the information contained within them isn’t always curated by the companies that make them. As such, it’s smart to supervise your children while they use them. In the best-case scenario, they may get incorrect information....

Whether you have a Roku TV or a Roku player plugged into your TV’s HDMI port, you’ll see advertisements on your Roku’s home screen next to your streaming channels. That’s just part of the Roku experience. Roku Makes More Money From Ads Than Hardware You might think of Roku as a hardware company, but Roku makes a lot of money from advertising. Roku reported it made $740 million in ad revenue in 2019 alone....

This bit of information regarding what almost was comes from a conversation between Alice Newton Rex of Big Bets and Sandeep Paruchuri (Via Windows Central), a former Microsoft Project Manager. According to Paruchuri, “Ballmer had poor product taste.” Before leaving, he suggested a name for Microsoft’s virtual assistant. “He wanted the whole thing to be Microsoft branded. And then his parting gift was to try to name it Bingo. But we waited it out....

Originally, developer GSC GAME WORLD announced a metaverse filled with NFTs that players could buy and sell, including one that would put three people in the game as a “metahuman.” It sounded like a terrible idea, and gamers reacted accordingly. The Reddit thread on r/Games about the announcement had to be locked as the outrage became a little too much. However, that didn’t stop some intelligent comments from getting through....

SSID Basics The SSID, or Service Set Identifier, is the name assigned to a Wi-Fi network. It’s written out, typically, as an alphanumeric string. Maybe you’re still using the one that came pre-applied to your router, like TP-LINK_2058JE9 or maybe you swapped it out for something personal, like StevesHouse , or something funny, like WuTangLAN or FBI Surveillance Van. How Long Can a Wi-FI Network Name (SSID) Be? But how long, or short for that matter, can you make it?...

A drop-down list in a Microsoft Word document lets people select from a predefined items list. Adding this drop-down list is fairly easy, and we’ll show you how to do it. First, Enable the Developer Menu The option to add a drop-down list is located in Word’s Developer menu. This menu is hidden by default, so you’ll have to enable it before you can add a list. Start by opening Word on your Windows or Mac computer....

One way to avoid accidentally sending emails in Gmail is to get Gmail to show a final confirmation box before your email is sent. Luckily, Gmail’s Android app offers this option, and we’ll show you how to use it. The way this works is that you enable an option in Gmail on your Android phone. Then, when you compose a new email in the app and tap the send button, you get a box asking for your final confirmation before your email is sent....

The Apple Watch is, in its own right, a little tiny computer with data backup and security needs. Read on as we show you how to ensure your Apple Watch is backed up, wiped, and restored just like you’d do with your smartphone. Whether you want to ensure your watch is backed up to the minute this moment, you want to wipe it clean before a sale or passing it onto a family member, or you want to know how to restore a backup after resetting your watch and updating the Watch OS, we’re here to help....

There are many ways to make text stand out in your document. You can format the font in bold or italic or highlight the text using color. For another option, we’ll show you how to circle text in Microsoft Word. You may want to place a circle around text to emphasize it. But you might also want to use that circled text to enhance the appearance. Whatever your reason, circling text in Word takes only a couple of steps....

If you’re a Windows and Android user, you should be using Microsoft’s “Your Phone” app. It can do a lot of really useful things, including let you control the media playing on your phone from your PC. The first thing you will need to do is set up the Your Phone app on your Windows 10 or Windows 11 PC. The Your Phone app is pre-installed on Windows devices and you’ll need the companion app on your Android device....

A funnel chart is great for illustrating the gradual decrease of data that moves from one stage to another. With your data in hand, we’ll show you how to easily insert and customize a funnel chart in Microsoft Excel. As the name implies, a funnel chart has its largest section at the top. Each subsequent section is smaller than its predecessor. Seeing the largest gaps allows you to quickly identify stages in a process that can improve....

Want to wipe your Gmail inbox clean? Using Gmail’s bulk delete option, you can delete all emails from your Gmail account at once in just a few clicks. This works on the Gmail website and we’ll show you how to do it. If you use the Gmail app on an iPhone, iPad, or Android phone, you can’t delete all emails at once on your device. This means you will have to rely on the Gmail site to purge your inbox....

The Google Chrome browser has tons of great features, but many of them are not available by default. Chrome “flags” can enable experimental and beta features if you know where to find them. It’s surprisingly easy to do. Google will often put features behind flags before they are ready for prime time. Sometimes these features make their way to stable releases, but they can also disappear without warning. That’s the nature of using experimental and beta features....

There are many reasons why someone might want to hide an app—and Android has plenty of ways to do it. What if you want to do the opposite, though? Is it possible to find apps that have been hidden? Many home screen launchers and some specialized apps have the ability to hide stuff. This is the method most people will use, but all launchers work differently. Rather than focus on specific methods for hiding apps, we’ll show you how to find apps on any Android device....

Here are a few tips on how to look after your new OLED TV. How Do You Avoid OLED Burn-in? “Burn-in” is another name for permanent image retention, where a pattern gets stuck on the screen permanently. This is caused by uneven pixel wear, where organic compounds inside the panel wear out at a faster rate than those surrounding them. Permanent image retention is a cumulative process. This means that watching the same image for 1,000 hours straight will have the same effect as displaying that same image for an hour a day for 1,000 days....

While the chat messages are only server-side encrypted, voice and video calls in Telegram are end-to-end encrypted. RELATED: PSA: Telegram Chats Aren’t End-to-End Encrypted by Default Currently, Telegram only supports voice and video calls in one-on-one conversations. It has a separate Voice Chat feature where anyone in the Telegram group can drop in and talk. In this article, we will be focusing on making voice and video calls in private conversations....

It’s no secret that Google tracks your activity in its products, but you have some control over your information. This data can be automatically wiped clean, and it can be put behind a password to protect it from prying eyes. Your Google activity can be accessed at activity.google.com. This is where everything you do with Google products is recorded—unless you turn off tracking. Google Searches, Google Assistant commands, Google Maps locations, YouTube history—it’s all here....