Tips and Tricks

The use of Siri to perform tasks on your Google Home device was only possible after Apple released Siri Shortcuts in iOS 12. Actually, it was only possible for Google to add Siri Shortcuts to Google Assistant in November 2018. It's important for the timing that you use Siri to command Google Assistant, who can then command Google Home. Typically, …

Fatmawati Achmad Zaenuri / Shutterstock.com The commands rm and rmdir delete files and directories under Linux, Mac OS and other Unix-like operating systems. They are similar to the del and deltree commands in Windows and DOS. These commands are very powerful and have many options. It is important to know that files and directories deleted with rm and rmdir will …

Africa Studio / Shutterstock.com The April Fool was fun in the old days, but not anymore. It's a day of damnable jokes, fake press releases and bad jokes that break services like Gmail. Everyone should follow Microsoft's brave leadership and stop it. How the April Fool got worse The April Fools joke seems to be getting worse every year. And …

Evert F. Baumgardner Answer: Smells In 1965, the BBC played a small prank for the April Fools joke among its viewers. During a news segment, newscasters interviewed a professor who said he had created a way to airborne smells from the studio into the viewer's living room by breaking the smells into their component molecules and rebuilding the smells on …

1 Pay (or send money) Google Pay Send (formerly Google Wallet) is integrated with Gmail. Click on the dollar sign icon at the bottom of a message and you have the option to send money. Or select "Request money" to get someone to pay. You and the recipient need a Google Pay Send account with attached bank details. The Google …

The Apple Card will be released this summer. Screenshot by Katie Conner / CBS Interactive With the new Apple Card coming onto the market this summer it may be time to review your credit rating before you apply. You must be a well-qualified customer to be approved for the new credit card. Apple has not explained exactly what that means, …

Everyone loses data at some point in their lives. Your computer's hard drive may fail tomorrow, ransomware could hold your files hostage, or a software bug could erase your important files. If you do not back up your computer on a regular basis, you can lose those files forever. However, backups do not have to be hard or confusing. You've …

Phones are getting better at automatically backing up data, but unfortunately there is always the possibility that you lose your phone or fall into the water and lose everything. Fortunately, there are many ways to back up this data to make sure that even if something happens to your phone, you will not lose all the embarrassing photos of your …

NASA Answer: Neptune At a mighty 4.5 billion miles distance from the Sun, the planet Neptune takes its sweet time to orbit around the fiery center of our solar complete system. How long exactly? A Neptune year is close to an incredible 165 Earth years. Since its discovery in 1846, Neptune has completed only one orbit around the Sun and …

One of the coolest gaming features in Windows 10 is the Xbox app. It lets you remotely access your Xbox One console and stream games to a Windows 10 PC. This comes in handy when you're watching a boring movie on the living room TV that your Xbox One is connected to, but you prefer to play Metro Exodus or …