Create Calendar Events Using Date and Time Taskbar Notification Click the Date and Time in your Taskbar Notification Area; this will display your calendar. At the bottom, you will see a new option to add events. Click the plus sign to add a new event; this will launch the calendar app. Enter your event details then click Done. Your calendar events for the day will show up in the Notification Area....
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First go to iCloud.com and sign in with your Apple ID. After signing in, click on Calendar. On the left hand side, you’ll see your calendars. Click the button next to the calendar name to display sharing options. Click to make your calendar accessible by anyone or privately with a select group. To share privately, type the name of a person in your address book you want to share it with....
iOS 13.3 for iPhone and iPadOS 13.3 for iPad The update for iPhone and iPad includes new Parental Controls features including Communication Limits in Screen Time. This lets you limit who and when and whom you’re kids can talk, text, and FaceTime with during certain hours. Parents have the option to block their kids from communicating with everyone except themselves after a set time of the day, for example. There are also improvements to the Apple News app which includes a new layout for Apple News+ stories from major newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal....
Mac OS 10.11 is El Capitan Continuing with Apple’s recent naming tradition, Mac OS X has location-based names rather than cats. El Capitan is a rock formation in Yosemite National park. Rather than the major changes in previous operating system announcements, MacOS 10.11 features more evolutionary changes. The update is free and should be available in the Fall. Any system that runs Yosemite can run El Capitan, according to Apple....
Did we mention that Ron also has a famously irreverent sense of humor that drew a huge number of fans to his columns and features while he was executive editor of PC Computing magazine? His writing has been described as both “lucid” (The New York Times) and “outrageous” (his wife). Ron will also be contributing off-beat news and software reviews. He has studied criticism at the O’Neill Critics Institute and at the National Endowment of Humanities, where he is one of 12 fellows in criticism, he’s been writing reviews of everything from art, movies and books to computers and software for 30 years....
What is Apple Pencil? First introduced in late 2015, Apple Pencil is a lineup of two wireless stylus pens created for select iPad and iPad Pro models. The first-generation model charges via a Lightning connector found inside its removable cap. At the same time, the second-generation device offers a magnetic connector that charges when attached to the side of a supported tablet. Both accessories provide pixel-perfect precision and tilt and pressure sensitivity, while the newer model offers a double-tap to change tools provided in supported apps....
By now most people have become accustomed to using browser tabs when surfing the internet. Tabs have become so standardized that many programs, mobile apps, and website all incorporate them as well. If you are one of those people who loves tabs, I have some great news for you! Detong Technology offers a groovy plug-in for the Windows version of Microsoft Office that brings tabs to Word, Excel, and Powerpoint; it’s called Office Tabs....
There’s a lot of tools available under the hood in Windows 7 and even newer utilities can be found in Windows 8 like Hyper-V (covered below), Storage Spaces, taskbar features in Windows 8.1 update 1, File Copy, and more. Here’s a look at some Windows utilities that are often overlooked. Create a Power Efficiency Report Think your laptop’s battery is running out of juice faster than it should? Windows allows you to run a power efficiency report so you know what is hogging the power, and it provides suggestions to optimize your laptop’s power performance....
The Chrome PDF viewer is clean, minimalistic, and smoking fast. I like it, a lot. Below is screenshot of what it looks like viewing the IRS W-4 tax form. Don’t have the beta edition of Chrome? Pick it up from the Chrome beta channel. Don’t forget that if you’ve ever installed the beta it will automatically update to the latest version, you don’t have to repeatedly upgrade unlike some other browser....
We’ve all seen it before, crapware packed into an installer for an otherwise great app. I think most people understand that sometimes this is a necessary evil to support starving app developers everywhere. But what if ads and junkware were included by the company hosting a download for the software and it was ambiguous if any of the funds even went to the developers at all? This is what I heard about the CNET Installer, an application that I had never tried before since I usually download directly from the developer....
No matter your business size, building and managing your social media presence is critical for reaching your customers. With over 1 billion active users, Instagram has become a serious player in the world of social media platforms. Getting exposure on Instagram means finding followers and getting them engaged in your brand through likes, comments and hopefully, follows. So how do you safely find influencers and get genuine users engaged? Combin is a tool for building and managing your Instagram presence....
Apple’s Latest Update for Apple TV brought a few new apps to the service. The one that caught this geek’s attention was Crunchyroll. It’s an app that gives users streams of several popular Japanese TV shows. Most of what’s available is animé. It’s what many folks Stateside call Japanese animation, or “Japanimation” if they aren’t familiar with it. I’m not what you’d call a huge animé fan, but that’s probably why I like this service so much....
How to disable automatic tag suggestions in photos of you on Facebook Step 1 Login to your Facebook profile, then Click the Account menu button at the top-right. From the drop-down menu, Select Privacy Settings. Step 2 On the next page Click the Customize settings button located near the bottom. Step 3 Scroll down the settings list page and next to “Suggest photos of me to friends” Click Edit Settings....
Popcornflix.com is a subsidiary of Screen Media Ventures and lets you watch free flicks on an iPad / iPhone, Roku and on its website. Here’s how to stream them to your Roku. Install the Popcornflix channel from the Channel Store on the Roku. After it’s installed, you can browse through the different categories of films available…similar to the interface for Netflix. A few of the more interesting categories are Bollywood (India’s version of Hollywood), Web Originals and Film-School-Originals....
Facebook will be publicly trading on the NASDAQ on May 18th or 19th under the “FB” ticker. Over 180,000,000 Class A common stock shares will be sold directly from Facebook, with an additional 157,415,352 shares available from private investors. This IPO price comes after Zuckerberg has been busy with spending a billion on Instagram, and over 500 million on patents from Microsoft. In other rumors Zuckerberg will remain in a key role at Facebook, however he may be appointing a new CEO....
This feature is welcome and perhaps overdue for Facebook’s mainline messaging app. WhatsApp and Instagram (both owned by Facebook), for example, already have encryption and multi-factor authentication. It’s about time that Facebook implemented this feature directly into Messenger, which more and more users are turning to for daily communications instead of text or email. Secret Conversations add one more compelling reason to use Messenger instead of SMS or other unencrypted methods....
Google continues to share the love with their Google Voice service by adding free calls through the service to Hawaii and Alaska. This service is an excellent upgrade as they previously only offered free calls to the continental US and Canada. Side note, you can also forward calls to your Google Voice number to Alaskan or Hawaiian phones for free. Free calling now to Hawaii and Alaska [Google Voice Blog] Comment Name * Email *...
Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect has been quite the success, but not just among console gamers. After realizing that you could connect the Kinect to your computer, thousands have swarmed to create their own homebrew Kinect applications. The interest in experimenting with the Kinect’s motion sensing technology is so strong that Microsoft officially announced an upcoming Kinect SDK within the new month or so. Want to see some examples of what you can do with the Kinect when it’s attached to a computer?...
