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CC Photo Labs/Shutterstock Thanksgiving is over, so it’s officially appropriate to get into the holiday spirit! Nest is bringing a little extra cheer this year because holiday themes (including Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year’s Eve, and more) are now available on your Nest Hello Video Doorbell. It’s incredibly easy to activate them! The Nest Hello Video…

Khamosh Pathak The Notification Center on the Mac houses all your app notifications and widgets. You can use the Notification Center to interact with notifications or use widgets. Here’s how to view the Notification Center on Mac. How to View the Notification Center from the Menu Bar The Notification Center is part of the menu…

Shutterstock/Gustavo Frazao Ever wanted to spell check text files directly from the Linux command line? This article will get your setup and started with Aspell, the interactive spell checker. Start spell checking your text files, for free, today! What Is Aspell? GNU Aspell is an open source and free spell checker which can be installed…

Casper/Brooklinen/Purple Getting a good night’s sleep should be high on everyone’s list of priorities, but somehow, it always manages to elude us. Give your friends the gift of better sleep this holiday season with these swanky sleep gifts. Cozy Bedding When it comes to sleep, comfort is king! Investing in soft, high-quality bedding helps you…

vfhnb12/Shutterstock We all have a few chatty WhatsApp groups or contacts that we can’t block and don’t want to constantly keep a tab on. Thankfully, WhatsApp offers a middle ground for these and enables you to simply mute them forever. When you mute a contact or group on WhatsApp, you’re not notified of any new…

Girts Ragelis/Shutterstock.com Attention, employees of Review Geek: You are forbidden from reading this article. You absolutely may not play any of the following games during your assigned work hours. Especially during video meetings. I repeat: Do not play any of these fun, interesting, low-intensity games while your boss is trying to talk to you on…

Instead of forwarding several emails individually, you can send them all at once as attachments. You can do this with both Microsoft Outlook’s native desktop client and the online web app. Here’s how to forward emails as attachments in both. Before we begin, note that this feature isn’t available in the Outlook mobile app for…

I have a process where I need to copy all the images from a web page. I used to run this process with xmllint, which will process an XML or HTML file and print out the entries you specify. But when my server host provider upgraded their systems, they didn’t include xmllint. So I had…

Nintendo If your Nintendo Switch console is running System 11.0.0 or higher, you can now wirelessly transfer up to 10 screenshots and one video at a time to a smartphone or tablet with a QR code. Here’s how it works, and how to set it up. How Does It Work? When you share screenshots or…

Glorious As a lover of all things mechanical keyboard, I was impressed when Glorious unveiled its new GMMK Pro. This keyboard hits all the high points of the latest most luxurious custom designs—75% layout, rotary dial, switch-switching modular build, a super-satisfying gasket mount case, and compatibility with open-source GMK programming—and delivers them at a super-low…

Microsoft releases new versions of Windows 10 roughly every six months. However, not everyone gets them all at once. Some PCs remain stuck on older versions of Windows 10 for a year or more. Here’s how to check whether your PC is up-to-date. Why Windows 10 Updates So Slowly For example, AdDuplex’s report for November…

Hulu Back in May, Hulu began testing a Watch Party feature that lets you  watch the same movie or TV show with others without being in the same room. It’s similar to the feature introduced by Plex, Movies Anywhere, and Sling. Now, the company is rolling this out to everyone. And unlike during the testing…

Discovery If you love watching history and nature programming, we’ve got good news: Discovery’s new streaming service, Discovery+, is launching in the U.S. on January 4, 2021. It’ll be available on most major platforms with two plan options, one with ads and another that’s ad-free. But it’s also yet another service asking for your hard-earned…

Sonos It’s nearly impossible to buy a gadget nowadays that doesn’t have a microphone, this includes home entertainment gear. Well, Sonos is releasing a mic-free version of its Arc soundbar. It’s exclusive to Costco, unfortunately, but you do save $50 if you decide to buy this model. The bar shares the “SL” branding that Sonos…

LEGO Who said LEGO is just for little kids? The company’s focus on art posters just expanded, and this time it’s after Harry Potter fans. Now you can show off your favorite Hogwarts House with the new $119.99 LEGO Hogwarts Crest art posters, coming in January 2020. Much like the art posters that came before it, you…

Amazon/Microsoft, Nina design/Shutterstock.com One of Amazon’s daily deals is offering a one-year subscription to Microsoft 365 Family and a $50 gift card for Amazon for just $99.99. Normally, the Microsoft plan alone costs that much, so it’s like you’re getting a $50 gift for free, especially if you were planning on purchasing the Microsoft 365…

Apple By default, a Mac with Apple Silicon will always run the ARM version of a universal binary app if available. But sometimes, older plug-ins you rely on may not have been upgraded to support Apple Silicon yet. Luckily, it’s easy to force macOS to run the Intel version of an app through Rosetta instead. Here’s…

Google Shopping Need some help with your Christmas shopping? Google wants to help with its 2020 gift guide. The guide, which is compiled from Google Search data, shows the top 100 presents across 7 different categories, including technology, athletics, and wellness. It should help you find the best (or most popular) gifts for each person…

Google It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Or Kwanza. Or winter general. And if you’re like me and already put up the decorations, then you’ll be glad to hear that Nest Hello doorbells are in on the fun and added new chimes to go with the season. Best of all, they’re free! The…

Amazon A lot of us are trying to figure out how to have the holidays with our loved ones virtually, and realizing that the cameras on laptops and phones aren’t ideal for a big gathering. If you have a Fire TV Cube and a USB webcam handy, you can put them together and kitbash a…