The streaming service announced in a letter to shareholders that it would be monetizing password sharing starting in early 2023. If you currently borrow a friend’s Netflix account, the company wants you to either move to a subscription of your own or pay for using your friend’s subscription. Whenever this system does roll out, the person sharing their account will be able to set up a “sub-account” for you for an extra fee, which will work with its own separate login....

Installation & Setup When you begin installation you can choose Standard or Custom. The only extra things you can change with a Custom install is the installation directory, Shortcuts, and Start menu folder. Most users should be fine with the Standard Install. After installation Thunderbird starts up and you can select what you want to use it as the default client for. If you don’t want to see this message every time you launch it, then uncheck the box Always perform this check when starting Thunderbird....

Getting Started: First, make sure you have Kindle for PC (link below) installed on your computer. Kindle for PC lets you easily read eBooks downloaded from the Kindle Store, but it doesn’t have any way to add other eBooks directly from the program. To add eBooks, you can sometimes download and double-click on the books, and they will open in Kindle for PC and be automatically added to the library....

Before For our example we chose an article that had embedded links, bold section headers, and varying sizes of text. The “Context Menu” only offers a single “Copy Command” and there is no doubt that the formatting will also be copied. Here is how the text copied from our example article looked after being pasted into Microsoft Word. It is easy to see the intact links, bold formatting, and multiple text sizes....

If an external drive that is included in your drive pool becomes unplugged or loses power, you might see the following error under Home Network Health when opening the WHS Console. To fix the issue verify the drive has power and is plugged in correctly and click Repair. The wizard launches and you’ll need to agree that you may lose data during the repair of the backup database. In this example it was a simple problem where an external drive became unplugged from the server…so you can close out of the wizard....

XBMC is free and open source software that is released for Windows, OS X, Linux, AppleTV, and as a live image that can be run directly from a CD/USB drive or installed to turn an extra computer into a true HTPC appliance. XBMC gives you the functionality of many media streamers currently on the market but in a free DIY package that you can customize and use however you’d like....

California Governor Gavin Newsom has passed Senate Bill 1398, which sets out new rules for how autonomous driving features are advertised in the state. It requires any “dealer or manufacturer that sells any new passenger vehicle that is equipped with a partial driving automation feature” to accurately describe the “functions and limitations of those features.” The law is mostly aimed at Tesla, which often promotes Autopilot as a complete self-driving solution....

For artistic readers, Photoshop offers digital painting options few other painting or photomanipulation programs can equal. Whether you want to draw for a living, or simply want to paint for fun, learning the painterly side of Photoshop is very rewarding. If you’ve always wanted to make digital art, but haven’t ever taken the time to learn Photoshop, this primer will help you get started laying down digital paint quickly and easily....

Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD: The Technicalities Both Blu-ray and HD-DVD technologies were developed independently, although both aimed at the same goal: storing content for the new HD generation of televisions. From a user’s point of view, both formats are pretty similar. You put a disc into a player, and then an HD movie plays. Under the hood, numerous differences exist, most of which aren’t big enough to warrant discussion. For example, the Dolby Digital audio bitrate for Blu-ray is 640 Kbps, while HD-DVD’s number is 504 Kbps....

What Makes It Better? If you can’t tell from the acronym “QUIC,” HTTP/3 is much faster. HTTP is just part of the OSI model, which powers the internet as we know it. Each layer of the model serves a different purpose, with high-level APIs like HTTP sitting at the very top (the application layer), all the way down to the physical wires and connections that plug into routers: But there’s a bottleneck in this model—and despite the new name, the HTTP standard itself isn’t the problem....

Here’s Why Old TVs Were So Staticky To understand why old television sets had the power to make the hair lift right off your head if you leaned in close, turned your cat into a spikey-haired mess if they walked by and rubbed the screen, and granted you the power to zap people (or yourself) with a single touch, we need to dig into how those old CRT behemoths worked....

We’ve entered the tail end of 2022, which means it’s now time for a new major update to Windows 11. The long-awaited Windows 11 2022 Update (also known as 22H2) has finally arrived, and it will soon hit your PC. Microsoft has released its 22H2 update to all users after a lengthy Insider testing period. The update comes with several improvements and changes, both in terms of looks and functionality....

This deal popped up back in October, and Paramount+ has brought it back for the holiday season, but without a free Fire TV Stick this time. New and former subscribers (but not current subscribers) can get the “Essential” plan for $24.99 for the first year, which includes all the usual streaming content, NFL on CBS live, some soccer content like the Champions League, live CBS news channels, and some ads....

Note: The extension creator has noted that animation may appear jerky or fail to work on some extension-heavy Firefox profiles. Blank Tabs and Tabs with Active Content For our first example we opened a blank tab. As you can see here our cursor is still where the new tab button was while our blank tab is “growing” into existence. Note: The Fade in option was not activated during our tests but is very easy to activate (see Options below)....

Protecting your computer with an antivirus solution is par for the course when you’re dealing with a Windows PC, but unfortunately it slows you down at the same time. Here’s how to improve your performance, at least a little bit. We’re not going to sit here and tell you to go without antivirus, since that would be irresponsible. What we’re going to do today is explain how you can exclude certain folders with write-heavy operations to speed up your PC without putting yourself into extra danger....

In an earnings call, Qualcomm’s CEO, Cristiano Amon, said that “we expect to see an inflection point in Windows on Snapdragon PCs in 2024 based on a significant number of design wins to date.” Snapdragon chipsets keep getting better at running Windows, and more OEMs are signing up to use the chips on their computers, so Qualcomm believes users will finally start being seriously interested in Snapdragon PCs as an alternative to Intel/AMD-powered PCs in a couple of years....

Using Jumplist Launcher Jumplist Launcher doesn’t require installation and you can run it directly from your hard drive or a flash drive and launch the executable. After launching it you’re presented with a configuration dialog screen to begin setting up your jump lists. You can create different Groups and name them to suite your needs. You can browse to program and file directories, but the easiest way I’ve found is to drag shortcuts into Jumplist Launcher....

Microsoft’s new Education Labs has recently released the new Chemistry Add-in for Word 2007 and 2010. This free download adds support for entering and editing chemistry symbols, diagrams, and formulas using the standard XML based Chemical Markup Language. You can convert any chemical name, such as benzene, or formula, such as H2O, into a chemical diagram, standard name, or formula. Whether you’re a professional chemist, just taking chemistry in school, or simply curious about the makeup of Citric Acid, this add-in is an exciting way to bring chemistry to your computer....

Setting Up an Account Signing up for an account only takes a few moments…you can sign up the traditional way (username, password, etc). Or if preferred you can use one of the following services to set up an account at Diigo (link below). Once you have completed the sign up process you will be prompted to activate your account using the e-mail sent to you. Clicking on the link provided to you in the e-mail will activate the account and take you directly to your library page....

The quality of your microphone is something you can’t hide when publishing audio-based content. While mics built directly into laptops and webcams can sound weak and tinny, dedicated microphones like the Blue Yeti Nano provide crisp tones with beefy bass worthy of a formal broadcast. They’re also extremely versatile. The Blue Yeti Nano comes with a stand that’s easy to set up on a desk — perfect for showing off its iconic build, which harkens back to classic microphones of yesteryear....