How to Enable Microsoft's Precision Touchpad Drivers on Your Laptop

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Page Fault and Page Fault Error) is an error that is the result of a corruption of virtual memory, shortage of free disk space, shortage of physical memory (RAM), etc. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. Designing a Better Antarctic Base for Science The largest community on Antarctica is set for a series of radical upgrades to its decaying infrastructure. [The Atlantic] What Kodak Said About Digital Photography in 1975 Kodak wasn't exactly enthusiastic about the industry-changing breakthrough. [Petapixel] If Bill Gates really thinks ctrl-alt-del was a mistake, he should have fixed it himself You can't pin the blame for this one on IBM. [ArsTechnica] The future is radio: why fan favorite Futurama moved to audio-only As the animated comedy briefly reincarnates as an old-fashioned radio play, showrunner David X Cohen talks about what the future of the future might be [The Guardian] How to See Twitter Notifications For Mentions, But Not Likes or Retweets If you’ve ever posted a highly-favorited tweet or been part of a popular thread, you’ve probably known the mild annoyance of having your phone overflow with dozens of notifications for retweets and favorites. If this behavior is affecting your enjoyment of Twitter (you social media wizard, you), you’ll probably want to restrict those notifications. Read This Article → How to Set Your Preferred Autofill Manager in Android Oreo One of the best new features in Android Oreo is the system-wide autofill service. Basically, if you store passwords and form data in Chrome, this information now syncs across the system for use in apps and the like. Read This Article → How to Set Up a Facebook Page Facebook Pages are a great way to promote your business, a cause, or just your hobby. Unlike Groups, which are more of a community feature, Facebook Pages work mostly like a regular Facebook Profile. You can use them to share posts, photos, videos, and whatever else you want. You can also send and receive messages. It's basically just a profile but for something that's not human. The biggest difference is that any number of people can Like and Follow the page. Read This Article → How to Enable Microsoft’s Precision Touchpad Drivers on Your Laptop Microsoft has been trying to improve the touchpad experience on Windows 10 laptops. Laptops with “Precision Touchpads” are optimized by Microsoft, support standard gestures, and can be configured from the Settings app. Unfortunately, PC manufacturers can opt out of using Precision Touchpads. Now, there’s a way to install Precision Touchpad drivers even on laptops that don’t ship with them. Read This Article → How to Automatically Enable Do Not Disturb on Your iPhone While Driving A new feature in iOS 11, “Do Not Disturb While Driving” figures out if you’re driving or not and toggles Do Not Disturb accordingly. Here’s how to enable the feature. Read This Article → How to Automatically Open Articles in Safari’s Reader Mode Every Mac user should ditch Chrome for Safari, and Safari 11 makes one of its best features even better. Reader Mode, which shows you only the article you want to read without any sidebars ads, or other clutter, can now be set to open automatically on specific websites. This is perfect if there’s a site with content you love, but design choices you absolutely despise. Read This Article → How To Adjust Mouse Settings in Windows The old Windows properties window has been around for a long time. In Windows 8 and 10, it probably would have been a good idea to move some of those settings into the new Settings app, but of course that didn’t happen. To get anything useful done, you’ll need to dive into the good old-fashioned Control Panel. Read This Article → How to Fix the "Screen Overlay Detected" Error on Android Starting with Android Marshmallow, there's a curious error that sometimes shows its face, but it can be hard to decipher what's causing it. The "screen overlay detected" error won't allow certain apps to launch, which makes it a real nuisance. Read This Article → How to Post Panoramas to Instagram Now that you can post multiple photos at once to Instagram, people are starting to take advantage of the feature. If you crop a large panorama seamlessly, you can post the different segments as multiple photos and get a swipeable panorama. Read This Article → How to Use Android's Built-In Tethering When Your Carrier Blocks It Tethering your phone's internet connection, which allows users to share their phone's data connection with other devices, is really useful if you're out and about with no Wi-Fi, but some carriers block the feature from your phone. If you get an error message when you try to tether—something like "Account not set up for tethering"—here's a fix. Read This Article → Advertisement Unblock Content the Easy Way with StrongVPN You're just trying to check out a website and they've locked you out because it's blocked in your country. It's ridiculous, but luckily you can get around the restrictions with StrongVPN.— and unlock any website you want. Of course, they also have a money-back guarantee if it doesn't work for you. Download StrongVPN to Unlock Content Today