Whether you want more screen real estate, indulge in games, or to keep your laptop safe, here are the best laptop accessories and gadgets to buy. Best Laptop Accessories and Gadgets 1. Incase ICON backpack The Incase ICON backpack comes with enough storage space to fit your laptop, water bottle, pens, notebook, battery pack and more. The bag is composed of 100 percent nylon but has a sturdy frame, which holds steady even when it’s fully weighed down with all your gear....

The good news is that there are a number of excellent anonymous and private email providers. Many of them are also temporary mailboxes, which means you can’t use them as your primary email. However, when you need to get the word out without also giving away your identity or getting your message intercepted, you should look no further than one of these fine privacy-focused tools. Guerilla Mail Guerilla Mail isn’t the most attractive web tool out there, but it is one of the quickest ways to send and receive mail anonymously....

In this article, we’ll describe what an audio interface is, why you need one, and 6 of the best entry-level to professional-grade audio interfaces. What Is an Audio Interface and Why Do You Need One? An audio interface connects your microphone and instruments to your PC and converts the analog signals into a digital audio format that your computer software can recognize and interact with. This is why they’re also referred to as “converters”....

A hardware failure is beyond any simple fix, but the culprit is usually a configuration issue. A faulty Windows update, corrupted system files, or even overheating can trigger this error. Let’s go over all of these potential problems and their fixes. Fix 1: Update the Graphic Drivers The first thing to do when dealing with any sort of driver issue is to update the driver. Nine times out of ten, that does the job....

Rarely, however, the Avast Antivirus UI can fail to load in Windows 10. You may instead see an error message labeled “UI failed to load.” Or, you may also see other errors such as “Sorry, our screen didn’t load” and “Well, this is embarrassing.” The error might feature a Restart Services option, but selecting that often does nothing. The Avast UI generally experiences loading issues due to conflicts with Windows 10’s Remote Desktop Services....

This happened to me on a Windows 7 machine. Actually, I had created an image of Windows 7 and then restored that image to a different machine. When I booted up the machine, I kept getting this message every time and it was really annoying. You’ll probably only ever see this error if you tried to restore an image of Windows 7 to different hardware. In this article, I’ll mention a few possible solutions that hopefully will get rid of the message on startup....

There are many reasons the Gmail app crashes. Sometimes, the issue occurs due to an app update, a cache file error, or insufficient storage on your phone. In any case, you can try a few fixes yourself to potentially fix the app and bring it back to normal condition. Restart Your Phone to Fix Minor Gmail App Issues When the Gmail app crashes, the first thing you should do is restart your phone....

For some reason, your computer is not detecting your graphics card. These tips may hold the answer to finding out why. 1. Check the Monitor Connection The first and easiest fix is to check that your monitor connection is in order. Here’s what to do: You should also double-check that the monitor is in good working order if you aren’t sure. Checking the cable for damage is also prudent....

Cloud computing is the use of remote servers on the internet to store, manage and process data rather than a local server or personal computer. Cloud computing comes in three basic categories beginning with Software as a Service (SaaS) which reduces company expenditure by providing a cloud server with software already included. Platform as a Service (PaaS) lets developers build apps and collaborate on various projects without the need to purchase or maintain infrastructure....

The good news is that you can add a web browser to Roku and use it to surf the web straight from your computer. The better news is that there are more ways than ever before to do this, with the caveat that the feature is still somewhat limited. How to Add and Use a Roku Web Browser There are several ways to add and activate web browsers through Roku, whether you’re on a Mac or PC....

Each method offers a unique way to rename your files. For example, File Explorer helps you quickly rename files but with limited features. The Command Prompt provides a few more features but is not as easy to use. Use File Explorer To Batch Rename Files In Windows 10 If you’re only looking to basic rename files on your machine, you don’t need to install any apps. The built-in rename feature helps bulk rename files as well and you can use it from the context menu....

Neither Instagram nor Facebook will let you know when someone blocks you. There are third-party apps that will promise to solve that problem for you, but that rarely works. Truth is, finding out if someone blocked you on Instagram or Facebook takes some detective work. Here’s how to tell if someone blocked you and what you can do about it. How to Check If Someone Blocked You on Instagram On Instagram, you can try a couple of different techniques to find out whether someone blocked you....

A Crash Course on RAM Before we get into the details of how to check the type of RAM your computer is equipped with, it’s important to make sure we’re all on the same page. RAM or Random Access Memory is a special type of very fast computer storage. It’s different from your hard drive, which is relatively slow and non-volatile. That is, your hard drive doesn’t lose its data when the power is turned off....

Compromising the integrity of confidential client data or unknowingly sharing your credit card information with a hacker can cost you a ton of money and reputation. However, you can easily avoid this by protecting your Wi-Fi network with good security. If you want to keep your wireless network protected, you should use the best encryption standard, which is currently WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access). WPA3 has been released, but WPA2 is still the most common setting on most routers....

The Citrix Xen Server is a free enterprise-class server virtualization solution that is a direct competitor to VMware ESXi. Both are free and it’s actually quite hard to tell which one is better. Some people swear by VMware because of longer experience with virtualization technology while others say that Citrix has a better product. I’m not really sure, but in this post I’m going to talk about one feature that the VMware product does very well: converting a physical server into virtual server....

Besides the security flaw found in its Download Your Data feature, which leaked some users’ passwords, there are several other ways the platform poses a threat to your privacy. For instance, there’s the default setting that automatically tracks a user’s location, the update to their DM service that informed other users when you’re active and the last time you were active, plus sharing your in-app activity such as comments, likes and more with other users....

The good news is that you don’t have to throw out your Alexa in the name of privacy. You can delete your Alexa information. How to Delete Your Echo History You can go into the Alexa app and look at previous requests to the hardware, but it can be hard to know what else is heard and recorded. There are options for stopping the Echo from listening all the time, but those require unplugging the device or purchasing a peripheral accessory....

The good news is that you can not only clip on Twitch, but you can also download those clips for posterity. It doesn’t matter if you’re the one who made the original clip or not–you can use third-party tools as well as Twitch’s own features to download clips. How To Download Twitch Clips If you make clips of your favorite Twitch moments, you can find them in your Creator Dashboard....

For some reason, Windows 10 struggles to let you use your webcam across multiple apps. In most cases, when webcams think they are being used by an app, they will light up and won’t be usable in other apps. So let’s take a look at how we can identify which app is using our webcam so that we can stop it. How to Find Your Webcam Process in an App to Stop it To find our webcam, we’ll need to understand what the name is in the device manager....

A common reason you can’t download your files is that Chrome has experienced a minor glitch. Other causes include your computer being infected with malware, your antivirus blocking the file download, browser extensions causing various problems, and more. Quit and Reopen Chrome to Successfully Download Files When you first encounter the “Virus scan failed” error, close and reopen your Chrome browser to see if that fixes the issue. You can resolve most minor problems by simply restarting your browser....