How to Make Your Old iPhone Feel New Again

Quick Links Are you thinking of buying a new iPhone? Heres how to do that. Buy a New Case Take a look at your iPhones case for a moment. Benedek Alpar/Shutterstock.com Theres a good chance its the case you purchased when your iPhone was new. Its probably scratched, chipped, dented, disfigured, and polished shiny from your greasy hands. Inside the case is no doubt a nightmare of pocket fluff, food crumbs, hair, and dirt....

February 4, 2024 · 3 min · 615 words · Elizabeth Boyd

You Don't Need A New Webcam, You Need a Light

Before you rush off to buy a new webcam, though, you should try getting a light first. How Lights Affect Your Webcam The first thing to understand is that most webcams arebad. The limited resolution is an issue with webcams, but it’s not always the main problem. Corbin Davenport / How-To Geek The webcam’s hardware and software aren’t powerful enough to balance the picture. Whatwillmake a difference is fixing your lighting....

February 4, 2024 · 1 min · 200 words · Jodi Robles

3 Ways to Run an App as an Administrator on Windows 11 and 10

Well show you how to do just that. If you’re on Windows 10, right-click your pinned app and choose More > Run as Administrator. Youll see a User Account Control (UAC) prompt. Select “Yes.” Your app is now running as an admin. In the User Account Control prompt, select “Yes.” Its possible toopen those apps with admin rights from this box. To do that, fire up the Run dialog box by pressing Windows+R....

February 3, 2024 · 2 min · 234 words · Michael Duke

Has Your Email Account Been Hacked? Here's What to Do Next

Your email may have been hacked. Don’t worry; prompt action can help avoid risks to your finances, reputation, and credibility. Here’s what you gotta do. Hannah Stryker / How-To Geek To change your Gmail account password, you have toupdate the password for your Google account. Similarly, to alter the Outlook account password, you need tochange the password of your Microsoft account. Ensure you complete these steps before proceeding further. Jirsak/Shutterstock.com...

February 3, 2024 · 2 min · 223 words · John Martinez

How to Flush Your DNS Cache in Ubuntu

Quick Links Summary The domain name resolving service is enabled by default in Ubuntu. Thats fine, it performs a useful service. But its worth periodically flushing its buffers, especially if you get flaky connectivity. Hannah Stryker / How-To Geek What Is DNS Caching? Thedomain name system(DNS) service eats names and spits out numbers. Matching names to IP addresses is calledresolving. Lookups are very fast, but theyre not instantaneous. The answer is sent back from the cache....

February 3, 2024 · 2 min · 333 words · Lance Wood

How to Generate AI Images in ChatGPT With DALL-E

So, how does this work? What Is ChatGPT’s DALL-E Feature? While both DALL-E and ChatGPT use AI, the former focuses entirely on image generation. Katie Rees / How-To-Geek / DALL-E / ChatGPT From this information, DALL-E creates a range of media to fit the user’s preferences. There’s nothing wrong with using ChatGPT and DALL-E separately. To save money, it’s wise to use DALL-E within ChatGPT. DALL-E / Sydney Butler / How-To Geek...

February 3, 2024 · 1 min · 164 words · Michelle Smith

How to Watch the 2024 Super Bowl LVIII Without Cable

We’ll show you how to watch Super Bowl LVIII. What Channel Is the Super Bowl On? The 2024 Super Bowl LVIII will be broadcast on CBS in the United States. The 2025 Super Bowl will be broadcast on FOX. The simplest way to do that without messing around with streaming apps is with an OTA TV antenna. Most people have a local CBS affiliate within the range of a cheap antenna....

February 3, 2024 · 1 min · 167 words · Adam Scott

Amazon's "Rufus" Chatbot Will Convince You to Buy More Products

A small selection of Amazon customers can now interact with the “Rufus” AI chatbot. Rufus uses natural language to help you find, research, or compare products within the Amazon app. A staggered launch will bring Rufus to all Amazon customers over the coming weeks. Andrew Heinzman / How-To Geek Rufus will appear at the bottom of your screen when searching for items in the Amazon mobile app. Suggested follow-up questions will appear above your keyboard, and Rufus will link to any items it mentions....

February 2, 2024 · 2 min · 243 words · Tristan Schroeder

Google Assistant Driving Mode is Shutting Down

A ton ofGoogle Assistantfeatures will be discontinued this month. This is a big moment for longtime Android users. Years ago, you could run Android Auto on a smartphone screen. Google You didn’t need to connect your phone to a vehicle infotainment system. Most people knew that Android Auto for Phone Screens was on its way out. Its replacement, Google Assistant Driving Mode, was introduced way back in 2019. In any case, Google Assistant Driving Mode never got a lot of attention....

February 2, 2024 · 1 min · 131 words · Frank Allen

Google Bard Now Has Better AI and Image Generation

Bard is Google’s generative AI-powered chatbot, built as a competitor against Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT. Google is now rolling out image generation and an enhanced AI model to more Bard users. Thefull listis on Google’s support site. Google Bard / Imagen 2 Google is still touting the Gemini Pro language model in Bard as the best chatbot around. Bard still doesn’t have the most powerful Gemini Ultra model, though. Images created with Imagegen 2 also have invisible watermarks to help automated tools identify them as AI....

February 2, 2024 · 1 min · 89 words · Timothy Smith

Google Search Removes Its Cached Links Feature

Cached web pages are no longer offered in Google Search results. Websites are more reliable than they used to be, but cached links is still a valuable feature. Cached links have slowly disappeared from Search results, so this isn’t a sudden turn of events. Again, the death of cached links has been rumored for some time. If you better view old versions of websites, check out the Internet Archive’sWayback Machine....

February 2, 2024 · 1 min · 96 words · Alexander Davis

How to Remove Bluetooth Devices on Windows 11 and 10

Well show you how to use all these methods on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 PC. If your rig installed certain drivers, prefs wont remove them. In this case, use the rig Manager method below. Hannah Stryker / How-To Geek If you’re unsure what method to use, stick to this one. On Windows 11 Launch the controls app by pressing Windows+i. In the left sidebar, select “Bluetooth & Devices.”...

February 2, 2024 · 2 min · 333 words · Matthew Davis

How to Restore the Minimize and Maximize Buttons in Fedora

Quick Links Summary Fedoras GNOME desktop windows neither have minimize nor maximize buttons. Its counterproductive because it makes the Linux desktop even more alien to newcomers. Here are two different ways to get them back. Where Are the Standard Buttons? Lets clear this up, right out of the gate. It isnt Fedora’s fault. Fedora Linux gives you GNOME in its untouched fresh-from-the-box state. I likethe GNOME desktop. But those missing buttons confuse people....

February 2, 2024 · 2 min · 403 words · Marissa Hubbard