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2 GB Free Google Drive Storage According to the Google Drive Blog, the search giant is celebrating Safer Internet Day which was held today. I hadn’t heard of Safer Internet Day either, but if you want more information about the campaign, check out the website here. The check is simple, just go through the sections and verify your recovery information, recent activity, account permissions, app passwords, and 2-Step Verification settings. After you do that (and hopefully everything checks out), you get you additional free space....

What is H.264? Also known as MPEG-4 AVC, H.264 is a video compression algorithm (codec). As a codec, it is designed to take large video files and compress them down in size while still maintaining quality that is visible to the human eyes and ears, and it does so quite well. You’ll see H.264 in use when you watch YouTube videos (although that is changing soon), iTunes movies, Blu-Ray, Flash videos, and really anything viewed with QuickTime....

New Site With A Groovy Logo First on the list is their new website, google.com/tv. The site is stylish and goes in-depth talking about all of the features and programs of the new service. Aside from that, Google has paired up with some big names in television broadcasting such as TNT, TBS, Cartoon Network, NBC, CNN, NBA, and HBO to offer on-demand shows. Wow, that was a lot of acronyms....

As groovy as the service was at launch, this week Google improved the service by adding a new feature that lets you find hotels based on travel time from a specific location. For example, let’s say you want to spend a long weekend in the worlds best city – Seattle (I know.. just stay with me on this one) and you have no plans to rent a car. Hotel Finder makes it simple to find a hotel within walking distance of a local attraction like the Seattle Space Needle....

An HomePod and HomePod mini Overview Here’s a brief look at both speakers from a hardware basis. HomePod The HomePod was introduced in June 2017 at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) and released nearly six months later in early 2018. Available in black and white, the rounded HomePod weighs 5.5 pounds and measures 6.8-by-5.6-inches. Inside is a system-on-a-chip A8 processor, seven tweeters and one woofer, and six microphones used for voice control and acoustic optimization....

There is a setting for this hidden inside the Google Home app. Here’s where to find the sound equalizer and adjust your tunes. Sound Equalizer on Google Home Although these screenshots have been taken on an Android device, the principle is very similar on an iOS device. There are actually two ways of finding the setting. Here we’ll stick to the quickest one. Start by opening the Google Home app....

I’ve received this question from several people, and the tabs are lost for various reasons in Firefox. Perhaps you don’t want the browser to remember your history, or you closed a pop-up window last – that’s what usually happens to me — it’s annoying! App Tab Initializer First, go to the App Tab Initializer add-on page. Click Add to Firefox, then Allow the install and click Install Now in the window that comes up....

To start out open a browser and head to the amazon music website and sign in to your account if you’re not already. Then click Settings in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. Next, you will see which plan you are currently enrolled in and the cost per month. Under the “Subscription Renewal,” section click on the “Cancel subscription” link. Next, you will be asked to give a reason why you want to cancel....

Hit the Menu key and tap System Settings. If you don’t see this option, look for the Settings app in the app drawer. Select Language & input from the list. Under Keyboard & Input methods, you should see a list of installed keyboards on your device. The default one is Android keyboard. If you have any other keyboard apps installed, it will show up on the bottom of the list....

Change Windows 11 Account Picture Note: You need to have an Administrator or Standard account to change a photo. Also, the steps for changing an account image are the same for local, and Microsoft accounts via Settings. To begin, click on the Start button and then click Settings. Alternately, you can use the keyboard shortcut Windows key + I to open the Settings app directly. Next, click on the Accounts option from the list on the left....

Remote Control Roku from Apple Watch To get started just install the Roku Remote app to your Apple Watch. If you’re running watchOS 6 or higher installing apps has become much easier. For more on that, check out our article on how to use the App Store on Apple Watch. Since it has iPhone compatibility when you install the Roku Remote app on your Apple Watch it installs on your iPhone, too....

Access Clipboard on Chromebook To launch the Clipboard Manager on a Chromebook, press the Search Key + V. Copy and Paste from Clipboard Manager on Chromebook For this example, I am going to copy and paste some content from the Chrome browser, pull up the Clipboard Manager, and paste it into a Google Doc. Here I copied some text from one of our articles about Star Trek. To copy text, highlight the section of text you want and use....

Copy Text From Image Ideally suited for scanning a receipt or perhaps a page in a book or magazine, the option is extremely simple to use. To get started: In the following example, Google Photos for the web detects text from an iPhone screenshot. From there, it automatically activates the stated feature. Meanwhile, in this example, Google Lens can read the text from a tiny sign within an image, then activate the “Copy Text From Image” feature....

With an Outlook business card signature (aka a vCard or .vcf file), your contact information is delivered along with your email in a tidy package that populates address book contacts more precisely and more completely. Plus, they give a professional look and feel to your business emails and win your points with any Outlook junkies that you’ll be corresponding with. In this groovy How-to, I’ll show you how to create professional-looking business card signatures in Outlook 2010 in just a few minutes....

We already showed you how to customize fonts in Outlook 2010, but things have changed quite a bit since then. So here’s how to find this little-known setting to customize the font for email titles, row headings, and the body of messages. Customize Outlook Reading Pane Fonts First, from the Ribbon, select the View tab and then Current View > View Settings. When the “Advanced View Settings” window comes up, there are two buttons to note that allow changing fonts — Other Settings and Conditional Formatting....

I just noticed it a few months back when I was setting up Google sync on my Android phone. Instead of names and telephone numbers, my phone address book was full of email; just plain emails with no other data associated with them! There is a setting on Android that makes the email-only contacts hide, but that only fixes the symptom, not the cause of this. The real culprit behind this is that Google automatically saves emails as contacts, and we’ll fix that below....

The menu normally isn’t even visible because in some of the latest versions of Android Google rightfully hid the menu from plain sight. We talked about how to enable the Developer Options menu in Android before when turning on USB debugging. But if USB debugging is no longer needed, it might be a good idea to disable the Developer Options menu and prevent a user from accidentally accessing them. I recently installed a custom ROM on an Android phone a friend who isn’t very tech-savvy, and I am quite certain that he would go snooping through these settings and break his phone, so it was a simple step to just disable them and prevent disaster....

Disable the Touchscreen on Devices Running Windows 10 To disable the touchscreen on your device, you’ll need to go into the old-school Control Panel. The easiest way to get there is to hit the Windows key and type: devmgr.msc and hit Enter. Or, choose the Best match result at the top of the search list. It’s also worth noting that you can open Device Manager by typing it into the search field in the Settings app, and it will open right up....

YouTube Autoplay When the video you’re watching ends, you’ll see the following “Up Next” message. Here you can click play to watch the following video or cancel – but you only have a few seconds to do it. This can be a very annoying feature since YouTube doesn’t always have the best suggestions I want to play. Often there will be something of interest in the recommendations, but I would instead select these on my own, and they’re usually not the next in line anyway....

RD Tabs from Avian Waves is an excellent RDP Client replacement. Best of all, it’s freeware (although I would recommend donating to the Author Timothy Carroll if you find yourself using it). Here are a few notes from Tim: Let’s take a look at a few Screen Shots: Above is the connection box to connect to a server/desktop. Notice the INFO button. Nice feature there which allows you to view and manage RDP session on the box....