Why Your LinkedIn Profile is Important There are various reasons to maintain a LinkedIn profile. On a general level, the profile gives you an active forum to summarize your career milestones and accomplishments for everyone to see. It’s also a great way to maintain contact with business associates for networking purposes. Sounds great, no? I’d argue that most LinkedIn account holders don’t use the service this way, at least regularly. Instead, it’s a tool that gets used during job hunting, and only then does someone’s profile get a substantial update....

Twonky Beam App First download the free Twonky app on your tablet or smartphone: Twonky Beam for AndroidTwonky Beam for iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch Use Twonky Beam to Stream Video to Xbox 360 Unlike using Twonky to beam video to the Roku, you don’t need to install a specific app on the Xbox 360. Just power on your Xbox console and launch the app on your device. For this example I’m using a Nexus 7 running the latest version of Android, but the process is similar on an iPhone or iPad....

she was beautiful… she shattered my heart… Aye… she’s a wicked one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uelHwf8o7_U :) Well… I’ll have to admit, depending on what the Apple store says tomorrow, Android might have a new customer. When does the Samsung Galaxy hit the US? But its a great change to get a Samsung Galaxy S. Or did you have a Samsung Galaxy S next to the Iphone? Because the Samsung Galaxy S is so strong and such a big Iphone killer :-p it can kick Iphones in the butt....

With all the presents we’re getting around Christmas and the upcoming year of 2011, Microsoft has decided to surprise us too. Microsoft’s seventh retail store is opening this week in Bellevue. Aside from just purchasing Microsoft products, you will be able to test most of them, play some Kinect, talk to an expert or attend everyday activities such as special training courses and classes on basic things to do and how-tos about your PC....

Engineers and science researchers in the UK say they’ve got a way to make “a better plastic.” A practically perfect plastic. A stronger, more flexible plastic that will be widely available quickly. Plastic is ubiquitous in household, business and industrial materials. Revolutionize plastic and you revolutionize tech. The ramifications are huge if this so-called “recipe” does as promised. Photo credit: Ethan Hein / Creative Commons. a polymer opb.org University of Leeds and Durham University researchers say the breakthrough was, of all things, a computational 3D math model....

A few days ago, BGR connected the dots on some Facebook rumors and came to the conclusion that the social media giant will soon be rolling out 15-second auto-play video ads on your Facebook news feed. Currently, sponsored content is confined to the sidebars and is not invasive in the same way those blaring car commercials on TV are. But Facebook’s forthcoming monetization strategy may change all that. In short, as BGR said: “Using Facebook is about to get a lot more annoying....

The reason you would want to do this is if you have the “Hey Cortana” feature enabled. Cortana, like digital assistants on other platforms, can do a lot of things for you such as create reminders, open apps or settings, provide sports scores and weather forecasts, and a lot more. In fact, Cortana gets more capabilities through updates on a regular basis. And the better Cortana understands you, the smarter it gets....

Manage and Install Windows 10 Store Fonts Staring with Windows 10 Build 17083, you are able to manage fonts in Settings and download more from the Microsoft Store. Head to Settings > Personalization > Fonts and there you will find an updated fonts control panel. Here you can browse and search through the currently installed fonts. It provides a preview of the look of each font family – including built-in color capabilities....

Update: This article was originally written for Office 2010. For modern versions of Office 2016 or higher or Office 365 check out our updated auto recover article. The apps may look different but the basic idea is the same. Save Document Dialog If you don’t save your file or your app crashes, you’ll be able to recover it later using the default Auto-Save features of Office 2010. Note that at the time of this writing, this feature only works for the following Office 2010 Applications:...

Private Video Messaging in Vine Using the new private messaging feature on Vine is easy. These screenshots are taken in the Vine Android app, but things are not too different in the iOS app. Start by sliding your finger from the left to the right side of your Vine screen. Or you can also tap the new dedicated button. In the next screen that appears, tap the button that looks like a camera to start recording your message....

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What is Microsoft Visio? Microsoft Visio can be used to create simple or complicated diagrams. It offers a wide variety of built-in shapes, objects, and stencils to work with. You can also make your own shapes and import them if you’re willing to do all that extra work. The driving idea behind Visio is to make diagramming as easy as possible for the user. I think Visio is on the right track for that....

Personal Capital, our favorite free online finance tool, offers two main financial products. First, there’s the core product, an online personal dashboard that’s open to anyone and includes free investment tools and analyzers. The company also offers a wealth management product for clients with balances of $100,000 or more. For this, the company charges a maximum of 0.89 percent per year for assets under its management. Whether you’re first starting with investing or are a seasoned trader looking to take your portfolio in a new direction, Personal Capital has something for everyone, as you’ll learn below....

What exactly is wmpnetwk.exe? When Microsoft introduced Windows Media Player 10, they also introduced network media sharing. The process then lingered on and is included with Windows Media Center as well. This feature includes sharing videos and music to your Xbox 360, other computers, and some mobile devices. But, none of the network sharing will work without something to host it. This where wmpnetwk.exe comes in, it literally is the service that “Shares Windows Media Player libraries to other networked players and media devices using Universal Plug and Play....

In Windows 10, Microsoft has continued to improve the Settings app by adding new settings and refining others. The Anniversary Update saw the most improvements and the Creators Update takes it even further. Not only are there more options to customize Windows 10, but new categories make it easier to find and access settings; and even more are coming in the next revision called the Fall Creators Update. In this article, we take a step back and review some of the significant changes over the past two years....

So, what are these great new features? We’ve done a lot of deep dives into the new features of Windows 8, so I’ll just recap the features I find most compelling. Storage Spaces. With Windows 8, my large 3TB drives are recognized as a single drive partition. But what’s even more groovy is Storage Spaces will consolidate multiple physical drives into one logical drive and automatically handle data redundancy. This makes file storage on each of my PCs safer....

Unlike the first Windows 10 for phones build, this version includes almost every Lumia model, except for two: Lumia 930 and Lumia Icon. You can find the full list of phones that are supported in our article here. We actually found out about today’s launch on Wednesday when Microsoft’s Gabe Aul made the announcement on Windows Weekly. Windows 10 for Phones Update Features I haven’t had much time to play with it, since the rollout took so long today, but I can show you some screen grabs of some of the new features that you can expect....

It’s also worth noting that this week Microsoft announced that Windows 10 is now running on 300 million active devices. Windows 10 Free Upgrade Ends July 29th, 2016 If you already upgraded to Windows 10, you don’t have to worry. Microsoft is planning a major free upgrade to Windows 10 this summer called the Anniversary Update. The Anniversary Update includes significant improvements to inking, support for extensions in the Microsoft Edge web browser, Bash Command Line Tools for IT Professionals and further refinements to the Windows 10 user interface....

According to the leader of the Insider program, Dona Sarkar: She also notes there are nearly 1,800 fixes compared to the last build 14372. There is also a new extension for Microsoft Edge – Evernote Web Clipper. So if you’re an Evernote user, you should be happy with that news. Windows 10 Preview Build 14376 The following are the known issues for PC according to Dona: Clicking on networks or VPN connections in the network flyout on the taskbar doesn’t launch the network settings page like it should....

Use the Windows 10 Start Menu This is the most obvious way to access the power options for your Windows 10 device. Hit the Windows key and then click or tap the power button and choose Shutdown, Restart, or put it to Sleep…but wait…where is my Hibernate option? The Hibernate option isn’t turned on by default, so you need to enable it in Power Options for it to show up on the list....