The Thanksgiving holidays meant a slow week for gaming news. The first wave of turkey and stuffing is gone, and it’s time to enjoy leftovers or shop for deals on the busiest shopping day of the year Black Friday. Wii U Arrives with Issues out of the Box The biggest news of the week, of course is the launch of Nintendo’s newest console, the Wii U. It’s the successor to their popular Wii....

Find Time Spent Editing Microsoft Word Documents The total Editing time keeps track of how long you have the document open, not when it’s actively edited. Keep this in mind as you begin paying more attention to it. You can find the editing time on a document in multiple ways. For Word on Windows, click the File Menu > Info tab in Backstage. Under the Properties column, it will list the “Total Editing Time....

The keyboard shortcut is: Windows Key + Shift + Left/Right Arrow This shortcut will instantly transfer windows from one screen to another while maintaining window size and relative position. This timesaver is just another quick tip that I use every day. I hope it helps out anyone else who uses two monitors on a Windows computer. Nice find Austin It does involve, first, having to copy whatever text you want easy and repeated access to but it is a Godsend....

Recognizing the wild success of its brand, Rovio Mobile just announced Angry Birds has now moved onto another platform – The Google Chrome Web Store! – Wow… Angry Birds on the browser. Now that is groovy! Earlier we talked about the importance around having your own App Store with great content so this is a huge win for the Google App Store. Oh, and since you can only play Angry Birds on the Chrome browser, I’m sure this won’t hurt further defections over to Chrome either especially with the recent release of the new ChromeBook....

This app has a number of uses, but from the name alone, it isn’t clear. If you want to know more, we’ll explain what Android System WebView is below and whether it’s safe to remove or disable it. What is Android System WebView? The Android System WebView app is an Android system app that allows other apps to display web content. In effect, it offers a smaller version of the Google Chrome for Android web browser that other apps can use to show web pages and other web content without switching to another app....

Introducing ATSC 3.0 The new transmission standard for over-the-air channels has been in development for many years with the first limited tests ongoing in Phoenix, Arizona, Dallas, Texas, Baltimore, Maryland, East Lansing, Michigan, Raleigh, North Carolina, and Santa Barbara, California. Promising better reception, 4K HDR video support, Dolby Atmos and DTS-X support, on-demand video, and more, ATSC 3.0 is being spearheaded by broadcast television station groups as well as public broadcasters....

These communities range from movie enthusiasts to programmers. Here, I’m going to introduce you to what exactly you can do in discord, the community based around it, and how to get yourself into a community you find interesting. Discord Basics To start off, I’m going to be covering a few basic things you need to know about Discord. The first section “Joining Discord” will cover how to download discord and set up your profile....

Although backlight bleeding can occur on any LCD type, it most affects vertical alignment (VA) displays. This LCD type offers the best contrast and image depth versus IPS (in-plane switching) and TN (twisted nematic) displays. Without voltage, the liquid crystals found in a VA display remain perpendicular to the substrate, which creates a black display between crossed polarizers. However, with voltage applied, the liquid crystals shift to a tilted position, allowing light to pass through to create a gray-scale display that depends on the amount of tilt generated by the electric field....

What is Apple Arcade? First announced in March, Apple Arcade is a video game subscription service without ads or in-app purchases. The games are new and exclusive to the service, and they come from some of the biggest names in mobile gaming, including Sega, Lego, Snowman, and many more. At launch, around 50 gaming titles will be available with many more launching in the coming weeks. Before the end of 2019, the service will have about 100 titles and growing....

So, what are these great new features? We’ve done a lot of deep dives into the new features of Windows 8, so I’ll just recap the features I find most compelling. Storage Spaces. With Windows 8, my large 3TB drives are recognized as a single drive partition. But what’s even more groovy is Storage Spaces will consolidate multiple physical drives into one logical drive and automatically handle data redundancy. This makes file storage on each of my PCs safer....

Windows 10 Insider Preview Builds Expiration Error Message Unlike commercial builds of Windows 10 released to market, fit for production use, Insider Builds are purposely time bombed. A time bomb does not necessarily affect product activation since commercial builds can switch to the Insider channel at any time and start testing future releases. The expiration possibly exists for security reasons, since Microsoft does not issue updates and patches for the older preview build once it is commercially released....

But now the fun really starts, in just 20 days on July 29th we’ll all be running Windows 10, Right? Not exactly. In fact, a lot of you won’t even upgrade at all – certainly businesses won’t be in on day one. And you as a home user simply might not care to either. To Upgrade to Windows 10 or Not on Day One? I get this question a lot....

This is a much bigger leap in build numbers compared to new builds earlier this year. The new number doesn’t reflect that this build has major advancements. The reason for the build number increase is because the company is aligning the build numbers between PC and mobile. The number was artificially increased to have the build numbers of Windows 10 for PC coincide with Windows 10 Mobile codebase. At this point in its development, we still aren’t going to see any new noticeable features in this new build....

Windows 10 Insider Build 14257 According to Gabe Aul: He also notes that the team is seeing several bugs, including some reported by Insiders via the Feedback app. Here’s a look at some of the fixes in this latest build: The issue of periodic app crashes or other memory related app errors due to a memory management change has been resolved. If you were having issues launching the Git client for Windows, you should now be able to launch it in this build....

Most people just tolerate this annoyance, since eventually, the Start menu will begin working again. However, you don’t have to tolerate it any longer. Use the following tips to get the Start menu working quickly for you again. Windows 10 Start Menu Not Opening: Why It Happens There are two main behaviors that can start happening with the Windows 10 Start menu. It either won’t open at all, or it takes more than 5 seconds to finally open....

If you’re using the built-in Mail app on Windows 11, you may sometimes experience problems with it. For example, it might not launch, it might not be syncing your mail, and have other issues. No matter the problem, you might experience Windows 11 Mail not working. If so, here are seven fixes you can use to get it back up and running. Restart Your PC One of the troubleshooting steps you should try is restarting Windows 11....

Windows 11 has rightly been the biggest story to come out of Microsoft this year. However, Windows 365 is also a big deal, although it probably won’t affect nearly as many users. However, after finally being released into the wild, the “hybrid Windows for a hybrid world” has given up its secrets. Or rather, Microsoft is finally answering the questions many of us had when it was first announced....

From the Metro start screen, hover the mouse pointer in the lower right corner, and click the magnifying glass icon. The icons on the Metro start screen are minimized. Right click any of the existing groups. A green checkmark appears in the upper right corner of the group. A menu bar appears at the bottom too, click Name Group. Now name the group whatever you want it to be called....

Update: This article has been updated to reflect changes in Windows 8.1 update 1. Shutdown, Restart, or Sleep Windows 8 I’ll start with the main thing, shutting down Windows 8, Restarting, or putting it to sleep. Bring up the Charms bar by hovering your mouse in the lower right corner, or simply use the keyboard shortcut Windows Key + I. Or if you have a Surface RT or other touchscreen running Windows 8 or Windows RT, swipe from the right side of the screen to the left....

Why are My Files Recoverable After I Delete Them? The “delete” operation in Windows only removes bits of information from files so they appear deleted in OS. It is easy to retrieve those files using recovery software. Deleting files just marks the space the file takes up on your drive as reusable. So, until that space is overwritten, the file is recoverable by a data recovery program, like Recuva for example....