Hidden Netflix Streaming Settings While you’re watching Netflix on your PC, hit Shift + Alt on your keyboard and left-click your mouse on the screen. That opens a diagnostics window that contains several playback options and settings you can tweak. Note: On a Mac, hit Shift + Option and left-click the mouse to get the same thing. For streaming issues, open the Stream Manager and select Manual Selection, and set the buffering rate that works best for your situation....

What Is It? Vantage focuses on making your schedule look cool. It doesn’t offer any features beyond visualization. It reads and syncs with the calendar data already on your iOS device. I have dozens of calendars from both iCloud and Google accounts, and Vantage read them just fine. The interface uses stacks and scrollers to let you see your day and multiple weeks at a time. Apple’s built-in calendar app does a terrible job of moving from day to day, so this is a nice upgrade....

Note: In typical Microsoft-style of renaming its products, they are technically referred to as Universal Windows Platform apps or UWP, but we’ll just go with Universal apps in this article. Values and Benefits of the Universal App Model For the past 25 years, Windows built its success on the WIN32 app model. Users have experienced tremendous value, from the many hundreds of thousands of apps, developed for the platform. Today, that model is slowly eroding because of the power of mobility, pioneered by smartphones over the past 10 years....

Today, Apple announced the new line of Macbook Pros. The big innovation: an OLED Touch Bar that replaces the row of function keys with an application dynamic set of soft keys. Plus, the MacBook Pros are thinner, lighter, and more powerful than ever before, as expected. But of course, in order to build some suspense, the event devoted the first 15 minutes or so to other topics. Rehashing the iPhone 7, Apple Watch 2, and iOS 10 Releases Before Apple CEO Tim Cook went into the main details of today’s event, he started off his presentation by focusing on accessibility....

What is 5G? The 5G band is the next generation of broadband connection being rolled out by wireless mobile carriers globally. It will replace the existing standard, 4G LTE. While carriers upgrade existing network equipment to 5G, it will live alongside your 4G mobile wireless service but will evolve over time to become a stand-alone network. At its full maturity, we will eventually see wireless network speeds at or above 10 Gbps....

What is a FICO Score? A FICO Score (aka credit score) is a three-digit number derived from your credit reports. Higher is better, a FICO Score is used by lenders to determine the risk of loaning you cash for things like credit cards, home mortgages, and car loans. Your FICO Score will impact how much a lender will loan you, the length of the loan as well as the interest rate....

Because of how it works, DNS has played a huge part in making the internet a global success story. Let’s explain what DNS is, how it works, and why it matters in greater detail. What is DNS? When you click on a link to groovyPost or type our domain name (groovyPost.com) into your web browser, the Domain Name System points it to our IP address. That’s the Domain Name System (DNS) in action....

A Brief History Before looking at fast charging, it’s important to note where we’ve been in terms of smartphone charging over the years. Until recently, most mobile devices relied on the 5 Watts charging standard and therefore shipped with 5W only adapters. Samsung was one of the first vendors to move beyond this, although others lagged for some time. Apple, for example, only switched to 18W adapters beginning with the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max....

The Blob folder functions as a separate location that stores the data for apps shared between each backup. For example perhaps you have three backups that have 20-30 apps in each. Each backup has a certain number of apps that are also found in the other backup. Clockwork Mod will take the duplicate apps and data to pool everything into the Blob folder. The result is that each individual backup will be much smaller in size, and the blob folder handles the heavy load....

iOS 13.4 and iPadOS 13.4 For iPhone and iPad, respectively, iOS 13.4 and iPadOS 13.4 includes new features for existing devices and the recently announced second-generation 11-inch iPad Pro and fourth-generation 12.9-inch iPad Pro. Mouse and TrackPad Support for iPadOS Announced alongside the new iPad Pro models, the trackPad support means you can now use a compatible mouse, trackpad, or Magic Keyboard with your tablet. By doing so, you can perform tasks like text selection, working with spreadsheets, and manipulating small objects much as you can do with a Mac....

WhatsApp Video Calling Coming to Android, iOS and Windows Phone Since its acquisition by Facebook in 2014, WhatsApp has continued working as an independent entity and grown to more than a billion global users. Over the past two years, Facebook has expanded its feature-set, adding voice calling, end to end encryption and desktop support. Adding Video to the platform was a natural next step for WhatsApp in order to stay relevant in the Skype, Facetime, and Snapchat age....

What gives? In all my research on the topic, I think the most credible explanation is this: When a packer gets a box that’s too big, they can flag it in the system and recommend a smaller box size. This will be reviewed and corrected going forward, but oftentimes, at least one of the items will go out in the incorrect box size. The system relies on humans to correct the error in the system....

Fiddle around in the settings as much as you want, but you won’t find an option to get rid of the Windows 10 hero image that appears on your login screen. Sure, it looks quite nice, but sooner or later it will be a bore. I thought I had found the solution though. Multiple developers out there have made third-party apps to change this screen to whatever you please — either an image or a solid color....

Windows 10 Update KB3093266 This update is cumulative and will only install previous updates you don’t have as explained by Microsoft on its Support Page: There is also an important note about this update. If you install a language pack after installing this update, you’ll need to reinstall the updates again. The company recommends that if you are planning on installing a language pack, that you do it now, before installing the update....

However, keep in mind that you’ll almost always see warnings or errors in the Windows Event Viewer. This is normal even on a perfectly functioning computer. You can ignore most of the warnings and errors by making sure you know what to look for. This guide will help you understand how to use the Windows 10 Event Viewer to troubleshoot issues on your system and quickly find their cause....

— Gabriel Aul (@GabeAul) October 29, 2015 If you’re a member of the Windows Insider program, you have a lot updating to do as Microsoft rolled out Windows 10 Mobile build 10581, too. Windows 10 Preview Build 10576 According to the blog post by Gabe Aul, there are some interesting new features in Microsoft Edge. You’ll be able to cast videos from YouTube, photos from Facebook, or music from Pandora....

This latest build adds some new features to Cortana, including reminders and support for several new languages. It also includes an updated logon experience. Windows 10 Redstone Build 14279 Here’s a glance at what Microsoft exec Gabe Aul says about the improvements in his blog post: Cortana in More Languages: “With this build, we are enabling Cortana for the Spanish (Mexico), Portuguese (Brazil) or French (Canada) languages!” It’s worth noting here that this is in addition to the 11 other regions and languages that Cortana already understands....

Windows 10 Build 17134 The dev team found a major bug in Build 17133 that had reliability issues and caused many systems to BSOD and decided to hold off on the release. The earlier detected bugs should be fixed with this new build, and it’s likely this will be the actual final version of Redstone 4 that rolls out to everyone. In a new blog post for Insiders, Dona Sarkar notes: “Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17134 (RS4) to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring....

Create Windows 10 Universal App Desktop Shortcuts Method 1: Drag & Drop from Start First we’ll take a look at the easiest way. Go to Start > All apps and find the app you want to create a desktop shortcut. Then just drag and drop it from the Start menu to the desktop. Method 2: Use File Explorer Another way to do it is via File Explorer. To do that, hit the keyboard shortcut Windows Key+R to bring up the Run dialog and type: shell:AppsFolder and hit Enter or click OK....

As a technical writer, I review a lot of PDFs. Technical manuals, engineering drawings, white papers, exhibits, schematics, print proofs—I produce, review, and edit thousands of pieces of digital paper on a weekly basis. When I’m in a corporate setting working for a company with a big budget, I get to use Adobe Acrobat Pro and BlueBeam Revu. These are both excellent tools, but they have two major drawbacks: they are really expensive, and they are kind of slow....