How to Avoid Fake and Scammy Amazon Sellers

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It even appears in File Explorer’s sidebar. Microsoft is clearly trying to promote Paint 3D and Windows 10’s other new 3D features, but you can hide the folder if you don’t like it—you just need to dig into the registry. Read This Article → How to Enable or Disable “Now Playing” on the Pixel 2 The Google Pixel 2 and 2 XL bring a lot of cool new features to Android users, including an awesome Now Playing utility that actively listens for music in your environment and displays the current track on the ambient display. Read This Article → How to Disable Handoff on Your iPhone and Mac Handoff is a really great feature of iOS and macOS if you're the only person who uses your devices. It lets you seamlessly move from doing something on your Mac to doing it on your iPhone, and vice versa. Read This Article → How to Avoid Fake and Scammy Amazon Sellers Amazon is one of the biggest direct-to-consumer marketplaces on the planet. And not just of its own goods and services: though the company operates huge warehouses all over the world, it also lets smaller companies sell harder-to-find items on its marketplace, including individual sellers of new and used items. But with a relatively wide-open policy towards third party sellers, a few with less than noble intentions are sure to slip through the cracks. Here’s how to spot them. Read This Article → Which Amazon Echo Should I Buy? Echo vs. Dot vs. Show vs. Plus and More The Amazon Echo started off as a simple device, but now there are more than nine different Echo products out in the wild and on Amazon’s virtual shelves. So what’s the difference between them all, and which one should you buy? Read This Article → How to Enable the Apple TV’s Dark Mode, Manually or Automatically When it’s after dark and the lights are out, the last thing you want is to be blinded by the bright white of your Apple TV’s home screen when your movie ends. Here’s how to enable dark mode on the Apple TV to make your late-night TV escapades more enjoyable. Read This Article → What’s the Difference Between APFS, Mac OS Extended (HFS+), and ExFAT? So you’re using Disk Utility to partition your new hard drive when you’re presented with a choice of potential file systems. The list is longer than you’d think, with terms like “APFS (Case-sensitive)” and “Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)” to choose from. Read This Article → How to Send a Steam Digital Gift Card in Any Amount Valve just added digital gift cards to Steam, allowing you to send money directly to a friend’s Steam Wallet. You can also use the same trick we used adding Steam Wallet funds to send almost any amount—not just the preset values. Read This Article → How to Enable Color Filters to Read the Screen More Clearly on Windows 10 Windows 10 now includes color filters, an accessibility feature that changes the color of everything on your screen. They apply at the system level and work the same way as Night Light, so they work with any application. Filters can turn your screen black and white, invert colors, help with light sensitivity, and make colors easier to distinguish for those with color blindness. Read This Article → How to Connect to a VPN on a Chromebook While not necessary for everyone, VPNs can be a crucial tool for online safety—especially if you use public Wi-Fi a lot. There are tons of one-click solutions out there that make it really easy to hit a toggle and activate a VPN, but for the most robust options, manual setup is key. Here’s how to do it on Chrome OS. Read This Article → How to Switch Your iPhone to “Mono” Audio (So You Can Wear One Earbud) The overwhelming majority of audio you listen to uses stereophonic (or stereo) sound. This means there are at least two separate audio channels: one for the right speaker, and one for the left. Each channel may play something slightly different, giving the illusion of directional sound like you experience in everyday life. Read This Article → Eight Alternatives to the Raspberry Pi The Raspberry Pi, a tiny, low-powered, inexpensive system-on-a-chip computer, has become famous as the preferred tool of DIY gadget builders and tinkerers. But thanks to its explosive success, it’s no longer the only choice on the market for cheap all-in-one gadgetry and development. If you can’t get your hands on a Pi, or you want to try something else, give these alternatives a look. Read This Article → Advertisement Turn Your PC Into a Wi-Fi Hotspot the Easy Way Connectify Hotspot is great if you're at a hotel that charges per device, or if you're on a plane and you connect your laptop but don't want to pay more to connect your phone. If you pay for the Pro version you can even use your PC as a Wi-Fi repeater or a wired router, or share a tethered connection off your phone. Click here to download