How to See What Web Sites Your Computer Is Secretly Connecting To

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How to Make Your NVIDIA SHIELD or Controller Blink When it Hears "OK Google" NVIDIA’s SHIELD is the first Android TV box to get the Google Assistant, and you can already do some cool thing with it—like use it with the TV turned off. If you’d like a visual notification that it heard you, though, there’s a hidden tweak for that, too. Read This Article → How to Save Spotify Music Offline (and Stop Using Mobile Data) While audio streaming is nowhere near as hungry as video streaming, you can still burn through your data cap pretty quickly if you listen to a lot of music. And if you happen to be roaming at the time, you can easily rack up a several hundred dollar phone bill just by listening to a playlist or two on Spotify. Read This Article → How to See What Web Sites Your Computer Is Secretly Connecting To Your PC makes lots of Internet connections in a day’s business, and not all of them are necessarily sites you’re aware connections are happening with. While some of these connections are harmless, there is always a chance that you have some malware, spyware, or adware using your Internet connection in the background without your knowledge. Here’s how to see what’s going on under the hood. Read This Article → How to Set Up Alexa Routines to Control Multiple Smarthome Devices at Once It’s great to control your smart house with your voice, but it’s even better when you can say one command and have multiple things happen at once. Here’s how to set up Routines to use with Alexa and your Echo devices. Read This Article → How to Block Tweets Over 140 Characters (If You Really Must) After over a decade of staunchly restricting users to 140 characters in each message, Twitter just flipped the switch and enabled 280 characters in most supported languages. And not everyone is happy. Read This Article → How to Manage All Your Mac’s Saved Passwords With Keychain Access Your Mac stores all kinds of passwords. It’s saved the passwords for your Wi-Fi networks, the ones used by your applications, and even the ones you save in Safari. You might be wondering where those passwords are stored, and whether you can look at them. Read This Article → How to Hide Sensitive Notifications From Your iPhone’s Lock Screen In iOS 11, your iPhone gives you much more control over notifications. You can designate certain apps as “sensitive”, so that it hides the content of notifications while your phone is locked, only letting you see the full preview when you use Touch ID or Face ID to unlock your iPhone. This works in every single app on your phone, unlike in iOS 10 and before. Read This Article → How to Make Your NVIDIA SHIELD Listen for “OK Google”, Even When the TV is Off Recently, NVIDIA's SHIELD became the first Android TV device to get access to OK Google and the Google Assistant. The thing is, you really need the TV to be on in order to really make the most of it—but a new setting will still let you use it even when the screen is off. Read This Article → How to Enable an Equalizer for Spotify on iOS and Android An equalizer (or EQ) is a filter that adjusts the loudness of specific audio frequencies when you're listening to music. Some equalizers will boost bass, while others will reduce bass and boost the high end. Different equalizer settings will work better or worse on different kinds of music. Read This Article → The Best Online Tools to Help You Build Your Next PC Building your own desktop isn’t as difficult as it looks—it’s often called “LEGO for adults.” And while that phrase might be a bit condescending (adults can enjoy LEGOs too, ya jerks), it’s not wrong. Even so, the sheer breadth of choices, options, and compatibility issues can be intimidating, especially for a first-time builder. Here’s a collection of online tools to help you make sure that process goes as smoothly as possible. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Free eBook: Office 365 For Dummies If you want to get your head in the cloud and get up to speed on the features in Office 365, you've come to the right place. Inside, you'll learn step by step how to use email, take advantage of SharePoint Online for collaboration, communicate with team members using Skype for Business, get work done with the latest version of Office Online, and how to make a plan for effectively migrating your company to Office 365. Click here to download