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Capturing Screenshots from Your Devices Windows There are multiple ways to capture a screenshot natively in Windows or using third-party tools. I use a mix of native functions in Windows and a third-party app. To capture the active screen in Windows, press the Print Screen button on your keyboard. If you just want to capture the active window, press Alt + Print Scrn. If you are using a laptop, you might not be able to use that command, try using Fn + Prt Scn....

Don Mattrick, the guy known as the public face of the Xbox brand at Microsoft’s press conferences, is leaving the company to become CEO of social game maker Zynga. The original report comes from website AllThingsD (via VentureBeat), and has since been confirmed. VentureBeat also noted that Zynga’s stock is slightly up, and Microsoft’s is slightly down, and now with an official announcement, it should be interesting to see what happens....

Note: In Windows 10, System Restore is turned off by default, but it’s easy to turn it on. For more, read our article: How to Enable and Create a System Restore Point in Windows 10. Delete All Old System Restore Points in Windows 10 Click Start and type: system restore and then select Create Restore Point from the results. Alternately, if you added This PC to your desktop, right-click and select Properties from the context menu....

A User Account Control pop-up, although there to protect you from malicious software (and people), can become quickly annoyed. This How-To will explain how to turn off or disable, User Account Control (UAC) pop-ups using an Administrator-level account on your Vista machine. 1. Click Start, Type secpol.msc in the search bar, and Press Enter. Your favorite User Account Control pop-up may appear, just Click Continue. 2. Once the Local Security Policy window is open, Click Local Policies, then Click Security Options....

Today, in its quest to target the profitable business market, Dropbox announced several new updates for its iOS users, including Scanning Documents into Dropbox and Creating Microsoft Office Docs from Dropbox. The app also changes the requirements for its camera upload function, requiring users to install the desktop app or upgrade to a Pro account. Scan Documents into Dropbox From the new Dropbox app, tap the plus button, then tap Scan documents....

Next up on the horizon in terms of tech-trending-to-the-mainstream: VPNs. A virtual private network, or VPN, is basically a proxy that prevents others from tracking which sites and services you access on the internet. And the reason we are talking about VPNs right now is because of a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution signed in April 2017 that rolled back a privacy rule created by the FCC last year. The FCC rule was supposed to regulate the ability of ISPs to collect your internet browsing data and sell it for marketing purposes....

Specifically, is Facebook listening to you through your microphone and then serving you up ads based on your conversations? The episode is excellent, and I highly recommend you listen to the whole thing. The hosts of the show think they come up with a definitive answer that matches Facebook’s official answer: No, absolutely not. But even then, they have trouble convincing people like you and me—and perhaps even themselves—that Facebook isn’t truly listening in....

Folder Size is a freeware program that aims to solve this by scanning a drive only when you request it. The program features a simple yet effective graphical user interface. It looks similar to Windows File Explorer and anyone used to Windows should be able to figure out how to use it right away. Best of all, it’s available in a portable version that doesn’t require installation. System space can be sorted by folders across the entire system....

Free to download is an Android game recently featured in the Google Play market. It’s called Radiant Defense, and over 10,000 user reviews give it an impressive 4.4 average rating. This Android game is a typical tower defense game where you set up automated turrets of various types to destroy an invading force that travels down a known path. While the mechanics are anything but unique, what makes Radiant Defense stand out is its combination of bright colors and a space theme....

Get Delete Icon Back in Gmail for Android Tap the menu button on the top right side of the app and then Settings. Now, go to General settings. Next, go to Archive & Delete Actions. You’ll be able to select whether you want to show the archive button, delete button, or both. I went with both, as it’s more convenient for me, but you can do whatever is comfortable for you....

Just recently Google released a free online in-browser games feature to their rapidly growing Google+ social network. In just a few days titles like “Edge World”, “Diamond Rush” and “Dragons of Atlantis” have been played thousands of times by thousands of people. To kick things off, Google also made a YouTube video advertising the new G+ feature in classic Google style: In addition to the titles you saw in the video, you will also get to play Angry Birds as well (that is, if you haven’t gotten bored from playing the Google Chrome Web Store version)....

Wikipedia presented only this dark page today in protest of anti-piracy bills. Several popular Internet sites voluntarily shut down today to protest bills in Congress that would give the government, guided by businesses, power to shut down sites that are alleged to be violating U.S. copyright laws. The bills–SOPA in the House and PIPA in the Senate–are backed primarily by MPAA, the legislative arm of the movie industry. It has a $100 million budget for lobbying, which is in the hands of former members of Congress, such as former Sen....

Though the available Building Maker locations have been slowly increasing because of the aerial photo coverage required of each city is quite extensive, there are a lot of cities already covered. Just recently Google has finished the imagery for the following locations: BloemfonteinCape TownDurbanJohannesburgNelspruitPhokengPolokwanePort ElizabethPretoria California (United States) OaklandBerkeleySan Francisco (extended coverage)Redwood city (extended coverage) Check out Google Building Maker to see all of the available locations and maybe even make some 3D models yourself!...

If you ask Google, the best thing about the new version is its speed. SunSpider benchmarks show a 305 percent improvement in JavaScript rendering time compared to the first version of Chrome. Here’s the chart below. Google Chrome 5 may be fast, but it’s some of the other new features that make it even much more appealing to try out. I think now with version 5 it’s finally ready to start competing with Firefox....

I had already read and implemented the new markup on my blog the day before (thanks to yoast) so I didn’t exactly see Matt’s post as BREAKING, however that being said, what Matt’s post did was start me thinking about some of the long-term implications of what Google can do once Authorship is identified for content on the Internet. Why is Authorship important? I think Google says it best in that blog post referred to by Matt: “Many of you create great content on the web, and we work hard to make that content discoverable on Google....

Setting Up and Using Gboard for iOS Gboard is a free download for iOS from the App Store. It requires iOS 9 or higher and works on iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Before you can use Gboard, you need to enable it as the default keyboard. Being new to virtual keyboards on iOS, I was a bit confused about how to switch from Word Flow then set Gboard as the default....

The customer data part is something Apple never did. The article says that Google would be willing to give out certain application buyers’ personal data. This would make it a lot easier for publishers to sell various products and services to customers. If the idea turns into something, Google would be able to help Android smartphone and tablet users get better access to important newspapers’ and magazines’ content, as well as help their publishers get money for these applications....

What You Will Need: To starting things off, let’s take a look at a groovyVideo I made which reviews the How-To steps below real-time. Following the video, I’ll review the steps in a typical step-by-step fashion as well. Photography Tips – Taking a photo of the sky: Do’s: Take several photos – Of the image you’re trying to capture. I usually will take a few dozen just to make sure I get the shot I’m looking for....

But then, I re-read the groovyPost we wrote up a few months back on how-to shorten the bookmarks to just a favicon with Firefox and tried it out with Google Chome. Yahoo! Good news: Simple remove the name from your bookmarks and it’ll just show the favicon, giving you even more room to add shortcuts. For me, all I need is the icon to remember where the bookmark takes me....

The operating system was poised as familiar on the interface level, but revolutionary in terms of performance enhancements and support for new features. As the two characters in this early 90s Windows 3.1 commercial quip: “So, you’ve used Microsoft?” “For as long as I’ve been using computers.” Today, Microsoft, of course, is looking to the future rather than the past, especially with the fast-paced releases of its current flagship OS, Windows 10....