Anthony Heddings
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NVIDIA’s RTX 3000 Series GPUs: Here’s What’s New
On September 1st 2020, NVIDIA revealed its new lineup of gaming GPUs: the RTX 3000 series, based on their Ampere architecture. We’ll discuss what’s new, the AI-powered software that comes with it, and all the details that make this generation really awesome. → Read More
How to Sideload Apps and Games on Your Oculus Quest
The Oculus Quest is a standalone VR headset that can render games and apps without a desktop PC. You normally install games and apps via the Oculus Store, but you can also sideload unofficial apps using a PC. → Read More
How to Overclock Your Computer’s RAM
RAM often comes from the factory with a lower speed than the silicon is capable of. With a few minutes in your BIOS and a bit of testing, you can get your memory to run faster than the manufacturer’s specifications. → Read More
How to Write an AutoHotkey Script
AutoHotkey is a fantastic but complicated piece of software. It was initially intended to rebind custom hotkeys to different actions but is now a full Windows automation suite. → Read More
How to Watch Netflix in 4K on a Mac
Watching 4K Netflix on a Mac is unnecessarily complicated. It’s not currently supported in macOS, so you’ll need to run Windows on your Mac—and even then you’ll still be limited to the Edge browser. But it can be done. → Read More
How to Add or Remove Your Phone Number in Messages or FaceTime
If you have an iPhone and a Mac or iPad, you can link your phone number to your iCloud account to send and receive calls and messages from the same number on both devices. → Read More
How to Make and Answer Phone Calls on Your Mac
If your phone and computer are both parts of the Apple ecosystem, you can easily answer phone calls to your iPhone on your Mac by connecting your number to iCloud. Here’s how to set it all up. → Read More
Why Can’t You Use a TV as a Monitor?
Televisions and computer monitors are similar and use mostly the same technology to drive the panels. You can usually use a TV with your computer, but they’re made for a different market and aren’t the same as monitors. → Read More
How to Charge your iPhone With the New MacBook Pro
On the latest MacBook Pros, Apple has replaced all of the ports with USB-C connections. This makes it more complicated to charge your phone, as you can no longer use your Lightning-to-USB cable with your MacBook. → Read More
How to Turn Your Mac’s Caps Lock into an Extra Modifier Key
Unless you’re prone to yelling on the Internet, you probably don’t use Caps Lock for much. That’s weird since it’s right next to a bunch of useful modifier keys. Here’s how to make Caps Lock as handy as the others. → Read More
How to Close the macOS Terminal Automatically When a Process Exits
If you’re a fan of shell scripts in macOS, you’ve probably noticed how running one will leave you with a useless Terminal window after it’s completed. You can fix this from the Terminal settings. → Read More
How Much Internet Speed Do You Really Need?
Internet service providers always want to sell you a faster connection. But forget marketing: How much speed do you really need? The answer is more complicated than you might expect. Higher speed tiers aren’t always worth the money. → Read More
How to Play Wii U Games on Your PC With Cemu
Cemu—the Nintendo Wii U emulator—is now a mature program with good performance on most systems. If you’d like to play Wii U games on your PC with all the benefits of an emulator, Cemu is the way to go. → Read More
How to Remove Duplicate Songs From iTunes
If you do a lot of downloading outside the iTunes store, songs in your library can get jumbled up, leaving you with duplicate albums. If you’d like to know whether you’ve downloaded something twice, it’s easy to tell in iTunes. → Read More
How to Subscribe to Calendars on Mac
There’s an open standard for calendars called the iCalendar specification that lets programs like the Calendar app on macOS subscribe to online calendars and auto-update. Most calendar apps will support this format, including Google Calendar. → Read More
How to List All Applications on a Mac
MacOS applications are installed a bit differently than Windows. Since they’re almost always single .app files, you can move them around your hard drive much easier. Here’s how to track down the ones you lost. → Read More
How to Hack Your Wii U to Run Homebrew Games and Apps
Homebrew allows your Wii U to run apps Nintendo didn’t intend for you to run. This includes emulators, custom games, and mods. You can even install backup copies of your games on a hard drive and run them from there. → Read More
How to Create or Delete Mailboxes in Mail on Mac
The Mail app for macOS has the useful feature of user-created mailboxes that function as bins into which you can sort your mail. They are easy to create and work with, and you can make as many as you’d like. → Read More
How to Add People and Companies to Contacts on Mac
While the Contacts app on macOS is good at being your phone book, it’s also useful for keeping track of detailed personal info and connections. Here’s how to add someone new to your list. → Read More
How to Set Up and Use iMessage on a Mac
iMessage is a built-in messaging app for everyone in Apple’s ecosystem. From your Mac, you can message all your iPhone-using friends, and—if you have an iPhone as well—send and receive regular SMS messages with Android users. → Read More