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If you have made the jump from a previous version of Windows to Windows 8, you have surely noticed that many once routine tasks must now be performed differently than before. And that includes something as simple as installing a second hard drive in your Windows 8 PC.
In order for Windows 8 to recognize and make use of a newly installed second hard drive, the drive must first be initialized. Here’s how to do it: [Read more…]
Question from Miranda P.: Hi Rick. I just bought a Samsung Galaxy S4 and I love it, but the annoying clicking sound the keyboard makes when I’m typing is driving me crazy.
I’ve searched the menus from top to bottom and I can’t find a setting to disable the keyboards sounds. Can you please, please, please tell me how to do it?
Rick‘s answer: Indeed I can Miranda. The setting for turning off the key click sound on the Galaxy S4 is hidden under a set of nested menus. Here’s how to find it:
1 – Open the Settings screen, then scroll down and select Language and Input.
2 – Find Samsung keyboard and tap the gear-shaped icon.
3 – Tap Advanced.
4 – Uncheck Key-tap sound. Note: If you’d like to turn off the equally annoying Key-tap vibration, you can do that while you’re on this screen as well.
Here’s a screenshot: [Read more…]
I use the Internet a lot both for work and recreation, and I encounter numerous links throughout the course of a day that interest me for one reason or another. But instead clicking each link to open the underlying page, I simply hover my mouse pointer over the link and hold down the Shift key to display a small preview window.
How do I do it? By using a fantastic Chrome extension called CoolPreviews. [Read more…]
Facebook has added another option for regaining access to your account should you ever forget your password and not be able to reset it for some reason.
Now you can designate up to five of your Facebook Friends as “Trusted Contacts”, each of whom will receive a security code from Facebook on your behalf after you click on the “Forgot your password?” link.
After you collect the security codes from three of your five trusted friends, you can enter them on the Password Reset screen and then choose a new password. [Read more…]
Back in January I wrote a post about how Microsoft was beginning the gradual transition of Office from a suite of desktop applications to a suite of cloud based apps.
Now Adobe has announced that they plan to end the development of new features for the popular Adobe Creative Suite desktop software package altogether and transition as many Adobe software users as possible to the cloud as well.
The new cloud-based bundle of Adobe software will be aptly named Adobe Creative Cloud.
Beginning with the launch of Adobe Creative Cloud on June 17, Adobe Creative Suite will no longer be updated. You’ll have to subscribe to the Cloud version in order to continue upgrading to the latest and greatest Adobe products when they become available. All the bundled apps in the Adobe Cloud suite will bear the CC moniker instead of the now familiar CS.
The Adobe Creative Cloud suite will include all of the following: [Read more…]