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Shutterstock/phloxii Bandwidth costs money, and streaming video out from CloudFront is very pricey. You can cut down on that cost by transcoding your videos beforehand with AWS’s Elastic Transcoder, which processes videos to cut down on file size. Bandwidth Costs Money Video files are fairly large as fair as media goes, compared to images and…

Need to change a setting on your Mac but don’t know where to find it? There are two fast and easy ways to locate the specific system preference you’d like to change. Here’s how. Search Within System Preferences The most in-depth way to find a setting on your Mac is by searching within the macOS…

Ruslan Sitarchuk Recently, Garmin suffered a multi-day outage in its sports-tracking service, which prevented users of the company’s sports and fitness devices from syncing with Gamin Connect. This outage was due to a ransomware attack, in which Garmin reportedly made the decision to pay the ransom to cyber-terrorists. If that doesn’t sit well with you…

Rating: 10/10 ? 1 – Absolute Hot Garbage 2 – Sorta Lukewarm Garbage 3 – Strongly Flawed Design 4 – Some Pros, Lots Of Cons 5 – Acceptably Imperfect 6 – Good Enough to Buy On Sale 7 – Great, But Not Best-In-Class 8 – Fantastic, with Some Footnotes 9 – Shut Up And Take…

OAuth gets rid of the need to store confidential user passwords on your server. Instead, the user trusts you to access their basic profile information from a service like Google, who handles the authentication for you. Third-Party Sign-on Frees You from Handling Passwords Third-party sign-on is an alternative to username/password authentication. You’ve definitely encountered this…

Windows 10 now lets you choose which sound output and input devices individual apps use. For example, you could have one app play audio through your headphones and another app play it through your speakers. This feature was added in Windows 10’s April 2018 Update. On Windows 7, this requires third-party apps like Audio Router…

Microsoft is working on two Windows 10 updates. The 21H1 update will debut in the first half of 2021 and includes bigger features that need significant testing. It will follow the 20H2 update this fall, which is focused on stability and polish. This article is up-to-date with the latest changes of of Windows 10 Insider build…

Josh Hendrickson Some of the very best VR headsets right now are Oculus branded, and we’d even argue that the Oculus Quest is THE VR headset to own. Facebook bought the Oculus company in early 2014, and now the social network is imposing its will on virtual reality fans. Eventually, you’ll have to log in…

Xbox Today Microsoft unveiled its new Xbox experience, promising faster load times and a more intuitive experience whether you play on a console, PC, or mobile device. The changes will start rolling out over the next few weeks, and will be welcomed given the console’s current user experience. Microsoft’s focus on an improved user experience…

Google Now that Work From Home is becoming the new normal, video conference from home is the new regular work meeting. But webcams are hard to come by, and so are decent microphones. What if you could use your smart display? If you’re a Zoom user, chances are now you can, whether it’s a Googe,…

By default, Microsoft Edge opens with a custom “New Tab” page full of content. Luckily, it’s easy to open the browser with a custom home page instead. You can also set the page that appears when you click a “home” icon on the toolbar, which is disabled by default. Here’s how to do both. Home…