In other industries, this sort of advertising would be laughed at. That’s what’s happening with cell phone contracts. The Hard Data Let’s take a look at now much these free phones actually cost. You’d pay $80 per month. Over two years, that’s a difference of $360 that you’d save on a contract. But there’s no option for a contract – you have to buy the phone for full-price up-front. But $650 phones are cheaper than you may think....

The Ruby language has a very simple control structure that is easy to read and follow. The following sample will print “The variable is 10” if var is equal to 10. Otherwise it will print “The variable is Not 10”. print “The variable is " + (var == 10 ? “10” : “Not 10”)

How do you find out or check to see if someone has successfully compromised your account? so that get into my e-mail, etc.)? Is there an easy way for Erel to find out if someone has been logging into his account? The Task Category you will be looking for will be “Logon”. You will have a bunch of system logins. What you will be looking for: Event ID 4624 (successful logons)....

However, you may want that extra layer of protection. you’ve got the option to easily turn on the confirmation for deleting files. To begin, press Ctrl + Alt + T to open a Terminal window. Then, key in the following command at the prompt and press Enter. gedit ~/.bashrc This opens the bashrc file in the text editor gedit. Enter the following line in the Alias definitions section: alias rm=rm I...

You’re on your own after this point – no more security updates for Windows XP! The Windows XP End of Support pop-up will appear once per month, starting March 8. What Does End of Support Mean? Microsoft has supported Windows XP with security updates for 13 years. This helps ensure your gear is as secure as possible. After the end of support date,Microsoft will no longer be patching security holes in Windows XP....

Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answers to one reader’s partitioning dilemma. Screenshot courtesy ofLuis M. Gallardo D.(Flickr). My hard drive is 1 TB in size. Is there a way to split 09stephenb’s 1 TB hard-drive into more than 4 primary partitions? If so, then just how far could you ‘go’ with the number of partitions? The Answer SuperUser contributors gronostaj and Daniel B have the answer for us. In some cases, your GPT can be completely destroyed if software does not support it....

People are upset they’re being recorded by Google. You’ll probably run into someone wearing Google Glass one of these days. This isn’t true at all. Google Glass is not always recording you, even when it’s on. It’s not physically possible for Google Glass to be constantly recording. This would drain too much battery power. If Google Glass were always recording, it would only run for about 30 minutes before needing a recharge....

Photo courtesy ofAntonio Nicolas Pina(Flickr). The new router will be a gift for a friend. Is there a limit on the number of devices that can be connected concurrently to a router? The Answer SuperUser contributors D. Kasipovic and Daniel B have the answer for us. is NAT enabled, QoS, VPN, access control, is wireless open or password protected, etc. I think the amount of traffic that devices create is also an important factor to the limit....

Quick Links More isn’t always better. Depending on your needs, this might just be the case with the free version of Microsoft 365. you might even share your documents and workbooks with others to take advantage ofMicrosoft 365’s real-time collaboration. The best part is that the Microsoft 365 apps for iOS and Android are also completely free. you could even use them offline and collaborate with others on the go....

What you might be unaware of is that you’re free to customize the items in this menu. Go ahead, right click a file and choose Send To from the menu. Sounds like a good one to delete. You could just drag a shortcut to Notepad into this folder, or create a new shortcut.

Microsoft’s Office Online recently gained real-time coauthoring features, so it may also be worth a look. Like most Google services, it’s a free program you access in your web internet tool. Files you create in Google Docs are saved to Google Drive and associated with your Google account. Google controls the document and can give other people access to it. To use Google Docs for collaboration, head to theGoogle Drive websiteand sign in with your Google account....

The Yoga 2 Pro represents Lenovos effort to take full advantage of Windows 8s touch-centric Metro interface. It is a far cry from the chunky, black Thinkpads Lenovo has typically produced. The Yoga 2 Pro is thusly named because it does poses (modes). These modes all have uses, though the value of all but laptop mode, is fairly specific. Its a pragmatic approach considering Windows 8 is trying to be everything to all devices....

Let’s say you have a bunch of files that need backed up - who doesn’t these days? With big files, and especially transferring files over the internet, that is a big deal. The above command would send your files to another computer with an IP address of 10.1.1.1. If you’re using the switch, you’ll definitely want to use this one as well. That is, unless you like to convert bytes to megabytes on the fly....