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How to Use Single Sign-on Fire TV To get started, make sure you have the latest update on your Fire TV device. Your Fire TV should be updated in the background automatically, but you can double-check for the latest version by heading to Settings > Device > About > System Updates. Now, sign in to one of the supported TV Everywhere apps with your TV provider credentials. If you don’t see your provider on the list of the biggest providers, choose the “View All Providers” button to get a list of hundreds more....

I’ve talked about Android’s fragmentation a number of times, and the company’s latest charts show devices that have accessed the Google Play Store over a period of two weeks is growing. There are still devices going as far back as Android 1.5 – Cupcake. But they only account for 0.2% of the devices accessing the store (a similar figure – 0.5% – for Donut, a.k.a. Android 1.6). Compared to the 14-day period ending on July 2nd (it was close to 11% then), it has now grown to close to 16%....

Despite some minor concerns, Apple Arcade is perhaps the iPhone maker’s most value-packed product to date and I expect it to grow significantly in the coming months and years. Priced at just $4.99 per month, or $49.99 per year, the video game subscription service costs about as much as one console game per year. For this, you receive a library of exclusive content with new gaming titles added each week....

Personally, 2GB per month is a far cry from the amount of data I consume every month on my iPhone. I imagine that in the case of an iPad, it will go even quicker since it has the larger screen and the primarily use is for VoIP, video, images, music, and other media. If you take a look at our groovy article on internet connection speed, it can give you a good idea of just how little 2GB per month is....

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch Debuts Tuesday To celebrate Star Wars Day, Disney plus is dropping Star Wars: The Bad Batch on Tuesday. It follows the elite and experimental clones of the Bad Batch (first introduced in “The Clone Wars”) as they find their way in a rapidly changing galaxy in the immediate aftermath of the Clone War. Members of Bad Batch—a unique squad of clones who vary genetically from their brothers in the Clone Army—each possess a singular exceptional skill that makes them extraordinarily effective soldiers and a formidable crew....

The power settings are located deep in the OS. You can get to them either by digging into Control Panel or the new Settings app in Windows 10. Depending on the power profile you pick, it adjusts different aspects of your system, such as screen brightness or apps and processes that run in the background. Windows 10 Creators Update does make getting to the power settings easier. For instance, you can right-click the battery icon on the system tray to get direct links to power options....

During the week of the giveaway we received some great comments and even a video so it’s now my pleasure to announce the winners! The top two winners were handpicked for their groovy comments on the giveaway page, the other 3 were chosen at random from the Twitter/Facebook/Comments feed. Winners from our Comments! Winners from our Twitter and Facebook Feed! We had a lot of really great comments, stories and tweets but unfortunately, I only have 5 licenses to give away this time....

To get started, open the Croppola homepage and click the Select Files to Upload button. You can upload a single file or multiple files that need cropping. Select the file you want to upload to Croppola and it will begin the upload process. Now, select the aspect ratio you want to use from list of options. By default, it automatically crops the photos keeping the most important parts. Another option is square crop which is great for avatars or images for Instagram and other similar sites....

Installation Cross-platform – Works on Linux, Mac OSX, and WindowsRequires Adobe Air 2.0 or higher Installing DestroyTwitter isn’t as conventional as your typical program, but that’s because it runs on AIR. If you don’t have Adobe AIR installed, grab it from the above link. Setup is straight-forward and easy. Once you’ve installed AIR, grab the latest download of DestroyTwitter from their official website. Installation requires extracting a zip folder and running an Adobe AIR setup file, and that’s all....

After this feature was turned on, a lot of users found their Google Calendar’s to be cluttered up with several Event Invitations. If you don’t need to see all of these Event invite notifications — disable it. Open your Google Calendar and click the Options (gear) menu and select Settings. Scroll down to Automatically Add Invitations to My Calendar and select No, Only Show Invitations to Which I Have Responded....

Today, though, users online loudly complained they were last to know — and that the company had hours to better prepare them for a forced password change. DreamHost is advising all customers to change shell/FTP passwords, a move that has website owners in an uproar. WordPress also Tweeted all DreamHost users are urged to change their passwords asap. As these types of attacks are happening more and more often to companies, it’s incredibly important to make sure you have strong passwords and change them regularly....

Introduction As its name suggests, ATK lets you easily kill apps running in the background on Android devices. You can kill or start apps, add them to an ignore list and more. When you start your phone, Android starts up apps and processes that can hog the device’s resources, and as a result, your phone responds slowly and eats up valuable battery power. Using Advanced Task Killer First install Advanced Task Killer from Google Play....

How to Automatically Map Your Contacts’ Addresses in Outlook 1. Open your Microsoft Outlook address book and Open one of your Contacts (be sure to pick one with a valid address.) 2. At the top of the contact window Click Map. 3. Bing maps will appear in your web browser and automatically map your contact’s address. From here you can easily get directions or even look up more information, such as reviews (if available....

For example, this morning my JAVA Client from Sun Microsystems notified me a security update was available. I always pay close attention to security updates especially if they impact my browser. Since the JAVA JRE provides JAVA services for IE and Firefox, I approved the prompt to go download and install the latest copy of the SUN JAVA Client. And that’s when Sun started peddling software. Once the JAVA security update began, I was presented with the option to install the Yahoo!...

Let’s say you’ve uploaded an image right after taking it, but then decided it needs some more work, such as cropping or an added filter. Since the image is already up on the social service and friends are checking it out, you don’t want to take it down, edit, and re-upload it. But you can easily do it straight from the Google+ app with its image editor. Google+ Image Editor Launch the app on your mobile device and find the post containing the image you uploaded and tap the image....

Note: This requires you to tweak the registry and since it’s a technical preview and you don’t have it installed on your production computer, you might as well have some fun. Hidden Windows 10 Calendar and Clock Adding the feature requires an easy registry tweak. Start by going to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell and create a new DWORD (32-bit). Name it UseWin32ClockExperience as shown below and then close out of Registry Editor....

Google Sky, originally developed for use in Google Earth, has since been ported to a web app – so now you can view the starry sky without installing any software at all. A quick visit to http://www.google.com/sky/ will take you straight to your portal for browsing the universe, or at least that which we have available. There are multiple sets of imagery available on Google Sky, but the real jewel here is the Hubble Showcase....

The app was developed together with online gaming operator Gamesys, and as I mentioned, will only be available to users 18 years and older in the UK starting today. Apparently regulations in the UK allow online gambling vs. the USA being one of the most restrictive nations in this respect. The App, called Bingo & Slots Friendzy, began to appear today. Additional games like slot machines will be added to it soon....

Note: Below is how to determine how long your PC has been up and running if it’s running Windows 7 or below. If you are running Windows 10, make sure to read our article: How Long Has Your Windows 10 PC Been Up and Running? Determine Windows 7 Uptime On Windows 7 or Vista, right-click an empty area on the taskbar and click Start Task Manager. Alternately, click Start and type: taskmgr....