Now as you make your way out to the stores, I figured I would send out a fun and friendly reminder to please be safe, kind and considerate. After all, it would sure be a dumb way to die getting trampled at a Best Buy or Walmart just to save a few bucks. Remember — if the deal looks too good to be true, look behind you! A catchy and mildly disturbing tune isn’t it....
So, that’s exactly what we’re going to do! Please feel free to tell me what it is you like most about groovyPost.com and what type of articles you want to see here. News? How-To Tutorials? Software Reviews? Or??? Feel free to vote for your favorite topic and if I missed one, put in the ‘Other’ field! You should also feel free to drop a note in the comments if you want to express some additional thoughts as well....
Important: Before attempting any major upgrade, make sure all of your important data is backed up first. If something goes wrong (and it certainly could with this type of upgrade) you’re not going to be able to recover it. Upgrade from Windows 7 to 10 for Free Before trying the upgrade make sure to update all hardware drivers and the BIOS or firmware on your PC. Also, remember you’re current Windows 7 PC needs to have a valid and activated license....
Have you ever wondered how some website track your visit if you have cookies disabled? Sites like the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal that are behind partial paywalls have built-in systems that track both your internet protocol (IP) address and your web browsers meta data. When used in combination this information can often isolate a single computer on a network. This meta data lets these big sites show limited previews to one person on a local network, without blocking preview access to everyone on the same IP....
Hover Zoom in Action As an extension, there’s no real interface for Hover Zoom. After installing it from the Google Chrome Web Store, it begins working right away. Just let your mouse linger over an image or link and—hooray! Here it is on some other websites: Reddit: On Google+: Settings and Options Once Hover Zoom is installed, you’ll forget it’s even there. But there are some worthwhile options that you can access by Right-clicking the Hover Zoom icon in your omnibar and choosing Options....
Apps for COVID-19 testing tend to fall into one of two broad categories, although there are many overlaps. The first provides coronavirus information and includes self-diagnostic tools. These types of apps ask up to 10 questions relating to your current health conditions. The app offers suggestions based on the responses. Contact tracing apps, by contrast, identify persons who may have come into contact with an infected person. By tracing the connections of infected individuals, then testing them for infection, public health officials hope to reduce further infections in the population....
Let me give you an example, you’re engrossed in a movie and suddenly you an annoying alert sound from Skype, or email client, heck, or even Windows alert sounds itself. Sure, you could just leave those programs off, or turn off their alert sounds, but creating sound profiles is a better way. SoundVolumeView allows you to create sound profiles that are specific to what you’re doing at the time. You can create a profile in which no other sounds are allowed, except the music coming through your audio player such as Foobar....
The idea, which is funded through the UK Government’s National Cyber Security Programme, has been brought to our attention by Sue, one of our groovyPost Premium members. If you didn’t already know, being a member comes with a seat at the editors’ round table, among other great benefits, which you can check out here. Cyber Street The website, which you can access here, provides a plethora of useful resources, meant to keep you safe online....
With Dashboard for Google Chrome, users can easily take notes and perform different calculations without opening any other application. To get started, go to the Dashboard for Chrome Page on Google Web Store click on Add To Chrome button to install the extension. Click on the Install button when asked for confirmation. Once installed, you will receive a confirmation message as shown below. Clicking on Dashboard for Chrome icon will open a pop-up with compact calculator and a notepad right inside Google chrome....
Manually Download Bing Homepage Image Navigate to Bing.com (these instructions use Chrome). View the page source (CTRL+U in Chrome). Search for the words “hpWall.download”. Copy the first argument for hpWall.download to your clipboard. It’ll be a bunch of random letters and numbers. Type the following into your address bar: http://www.bing.com/hpwp/ Don’t press enter just yet. Now, paste the argument from the hpWall.download function into the URL. It’ll look like this:...
Having a local backup of your files allows you to access them if you lose your internet or data connection, or if you want to move to a different online service. Back-Up All Dropbox Files Log in to your Dropbox account and hit Ctrl + A on your keyboard to select all files. Then click the Download button that appears at the top. All of your content will download as a single, easy-to-move zip file....
Just like its line of Kindle Fire tablets, the phone will run a heavily customized and forked version of Android which the company is calling Fire OS 3.5. The Fire Phone’s body is made of aluminum with anodized button. The screen is a 4.7-inch IPS LSCD HD display at 720p and 315 ppi. Under the hood is a 2.2GHz Quad-core Snapdragon 800 CPU, 2GB of RAM and the graphics are powered by an Adreno 330 Graphics Processor....
1. CutePDF CutePDF is hands down the most popular free document creator, and for good reason. To use it, all you have to do is print a document to the CutePDF Writer, just like you would to an actual printer. What you get is a clean, simple document. No bloatware, no registration, no nag screens. I like it. Austin does, too. He wrote up a nice tutorial on how to Convert Any Document, Image, Or Website into a PDF, which shows step by steps for installing and using using it....
Update: If you skipped Windows 8 and upgraded directly to Windows 10, you saved yourself a lot of problems, so good on ya! The same power options exist on it as well. Make sure to check out our article on how to enable Hibernate on Windows 10 and our guide on how to shutdown, restart, hibernate, or sleep Windows 10. Enable Hibernate in Windows 7 First click Start and Type: power options in the search box and hit Enter....
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What is YouTube Red? YouTube Red is a subscription service ($9.99/month) that offers access to all videos ad-free. It comes with other perks as well. It lets you download videos for offline viewing or listening. A lot of people listen to their music via YouTube. The offline viewing and listening support background play so you can keep the music going while using other apps or while on the go. To download, tap the down arrow icon on the screen and then choose the quality you want to download it at....
Create Your Own PayPal.Me Address Getting your custom link is easy. To set up your address, head to https://www.paypal.me/. Enter a unique handle and the service will check if the name is already in use. If it’s ready to go, sign into your PayPal account. That’s it; you are now set up. Now you can post your link on your website, share with friends on Facebook, Twitter, text it, or share it in an email....
Make Google Chrome Read Text Aloud to You Go to the Read Aloud extension page on the Chrome Web Store and click the Add to Chrome button. Next, verify you want to install the extension by clicking the Add Extension button. Now, open any website and highlight the text you want Google Chrome to read. Right-click on the highlighted text and click on the “Read aloud selected text” option from the menu that comes up....
So, Should I Buy a Google Home? Wondering if you should purchase a Google Home device? I say…maybe. If you are more invested in the Google ecosystem — Android mobile, Chromecast, Nest, etc., it might make makes sense to go with Google. Right now, Google Home comes with a free 6-month subscription to YouTube Red. And, being that Google also owns Nest, But… And… It’s only a matter of time before Apple releases its Siri-powered voice-activated speaker....
Last Friday despite problems and concerns, the Chinese government in Beijing granted Google a renewal for its Internet content provider license. China is currently the world’s largest single market of Internet users due to its overwhelming population. Without the license Google would be no longer able to operate in China, so it’s a pretty big deal. The most recent conflict was over Google’s decision to cease censoring search results – as per the Chinese government’s demands....
