If you don’t use a password manager, those complex passwords can be hard to remember. If you’ve forgotten the password for your Microsoft account—which might be an account at outlook.com, live.com, hotmail.com, or even skype.com—you can’t really recover that same password, but it’s easy enough to recover your account by resetting your password to something new. Recover Your Microsoft Account Password In your web browser, head to the Microsoft Account page, and then click “Sign In” in the top right corner....

Your Data Is Safe Renaming directories is something we all need to do from time to time. We might create a directory and misspell its name, and we want to put it right. Often, the purpose of a directory changes over time or through the life of a project, and you want to adjust the name to reflect its new use. Perhaps you’ve decompressed an archive file and it’s created a directory tree with the directory names in uppercase and you’d like them in lowercase....

Mechanical keyboards are generally touchier than their counterparts, and occasionally a switch will falter. Here’s how to replace it without ditching the keyboard. It takes some tools and a little know-how, but you can absolutely do it. To take out a switch and install a new one, you’ll need to be able to open the keyboard itself to access the printed circuit board, de-solder the malfunctioning switch with a soldering iron and pump, remove the switch and insert a new one, and finally, solder the new switch into place....

Spotify makes it easy to sing along to a song by displaying the song lyrics on the app. We’ll show you how to reveal these lyrics in Spotify on the web, desktop, and mobile phones. Song lyrics are available in multiple languages on this streaming service. However, not all songs have their lyrics available. Additionally, keep in mind that Spotify rolls out features slowly. It’s possible the song lyrics feature hasn’t reached your account yet....

Forgetting to sign out of Gmail on an unknown computer can be a huge privacy risk. Luckily, it’s easy to sign out—from a device that you no longer have access to. Here are four ways to sign out of Gmail. How to Sign out of Gmail on the Web When you’re done using your Gmail or Google account, always remember to log out of the account if you’re on a shared computer....

Play Video First, open the Google Home app on your iPhone, iPad, or Android device. Find your second-gen Nest Hub in the list of devices and select it. Tap the gear icon in the top-right corner to open its Settings menu. Next, select “Sleep Sensing.” At the time of writing, this feature is in “Preview.” There’s a chance that Google might charge a premium to use sleep tracking in the future....

Sharing an email address is risky; it might lead to getting spam. To prevent that, a feature called “Hide My Email” on iCloud+ allows you to create a unique email address for each site, forwarding those messages to your regular email account. Here’s how to use it on iPhone and iPad. What You’ll Need To use the “Hide My Email” feature, you need an iCloud+ or Apple One subscription. (Even the $0....

What Did Intel Accidently Reveal? The tweet, which was since deleted and reuploaded without the offending image, shows the text “80G PHY Technology” and “USB 80G is targeted to support the existing USB-C ecosystem.” The first line is the bandwidth mentioned above increase. The second line indicates that Intel is aiming to keep the USB-C connector with higher bandwidth. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard about Thunderbolt 5 offering double the bandwidth of its predecessor....

Judge Rules on Apple Versus Epic Fortnite Case As first reported by The Verge, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers issued a ruling in the ongoing Apple versus Epic case. She issued a permanent injunction that says Apple is “permanently restrained and enjoined from prohibiting developers from including in their apps and their metadata buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms.” That means that developers, such as Epic, can direct people to in-app payment methods outside of the App Store, thus preventing Apple from taking 30% of the transaction....

The laptop was posted on Twitter by the ever-reliable Evan Blass (@evleaks), and it shows off a laptop with a design that’s like nothing we’ve seen before. Rather than the layout used by the ASUS ZenBook Duo, where the second screen is above the keyboard, this Lenovo laptop puts a screen next to the keyboard and touchpad. In addition to the large screen next to the keyboard, there’s a traditional touchpad below it that’ll let you use this as a more conventional laptop....

Wired connections, which use Ethernet cables, are generally faster and have lower latency than Wi-Fi connections. But, just as modern Wi-Fi hardware has advanced, modern Ethernet cables are capable of communicating at faster speeds. RELATED: Upgrade Your Wireless Router to Get Faster Speeds and More Reliable Wi-Fi For a typical home network, this isn’t a really big deal, since your Internet connection is the bottleneck. If you’re getting, for example, 90 Mbps download speeds from your ISP, the Ethernet cables in your home won’t make a bit of difference for your Internet speeds—you’ll still only be getting 90 Mbps....

If you used the Internet in the ’90s, you probably remember GeoCities. This popular web-hosting service was active in the U.S. from 1994-09 (and until 2019 in Japan). It hosted tens of millions of personal websites at its peak. What Was GeoCities? In the mid-1990s, the World Wide Web (as it was called at the time) was a new frontier. Ordinary people could publish any kind of information—no matter how niche—for worldwide consumption....

What Is Tesla Bot? Mr. Musk rolled out the Tesla Bot announcement at the Tesla AI Day event on August 19, 2021, using a human model wearing an outfit to resemble what Tesla Bot will look like. The details are, understandably, vague since this is a prototype the company is working on. However, Musk did say that it was a bipedal humanoid robot standing five feet and eight inches tall, weighing 125 pounds....

The Calendar Action From the calendar and email services list, choose the ones that you want to link by pressing the plus icon beside them. Then, follow the instructions on the screen to link each service. Once they’re linked, you can use the Calendar action for Alexa Routines. There are three options when using the Calendar action: Today’s Calendar: Alexa will read out everything on today’s calendar. Tomorrow’s Calendar: Alexa will read out everything on tomorrow’s calendar....

RELATED: The Best Halloween Movies on Netflix in 2022 Bedknobs and Broomsticks Play Video Conceived as a sort of companion piece to Disney hit Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks comes from the same director and has songs by the same songwriting team, but it’s a stranger, more psychedelic supernatural story. Set during World War II, it stars Angela Lansbury as an aspiring witch who takes in a trio of children fleeing the London Blitz....

Of course, the image quality will be a top priority no matter what printer you pick. Good photo printers will use a combination of inks, either bottled or in cartridges, to produce their images. The best ones use 10 to 12 different inks to get high detail reproduction—even the budget photo printer on this list uses five inks. You’ll want to avoid the run-of-the-mill home printers with one black and white and one color cartridge, as they won’t be able to capture the detail you’d want in a good photography print....

The Best Tech Gifts for Readers Reading isn’t a particularly tech-heavy thing to do, and in fact, it’s something often done to get away from electronics. Many find it easier to get lost in a hardback instead of an eReader, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t wonderful tech gifts for reading aficionados. Some of the most fantastic gifts we’ve found for readers aren’t even for digital reading! We’ve put together a list of the most exciting gift ideas we could find, all of which will make the reader in your life very happy....

Starting with the mouse, the bundle comes a DeathAdder V2, one of the company’s mid-range options. By itself, Razer sells the DeathAdder V2 for $70, so even the mouse alone makes this bundle worth snagging. The bundle comes with a Blackshark V2 X for the headset, which also sells for $60 on its own. Finally, there’s the big mouse mat, which is the Gigantus V2 Medium. This normally retails for $10....

Of Course! OFC is an abbreviated internet acronym for “of course.” It’s used in online chats as a shorthand when you don’t want to type the entire phrase. You can also use OFC in tweets, Youtube comments, or other social media posts. You can write this abbreviation in both lowercase and uppercase; however, the lowercase “ofc” is significantly more common in text messages. OFC is often used to reiterate that something is obviously true....

What Is a 403 Forbidden Error? The 403 Forbidden Error happens when the web page (or another resource) that you’re trying to open in your web browser is a resource that you’re not allowed to access. It’s called a 403 error because that’s the HTTP status code that the webserver uses to describe that kind of error. You usually get this error for one of two reasons. The first is that the owners of the webserver have properly set up access permissions and that you’re really not allowed access to the resource....