H.265 is aimed at higher resolution displays including 8K/4K and gives superb picture quality with no hazy output. Here we will learn how to play H.265 videos on your favorite media player. As it turns out, very few of them directly support this format. However, with a few tweaks, you can run H.265 videos without any trouble. VLC If VLC is your favorite media player, then you’re in luck already....

When using Google Chrome to browse the Web or read a social networking site like Facebook or Google+, a feature that will let you preview links can really come in handy. If you’re looking for an easy way to preview a link before clicking on it, look no further. There’s a neat extension for Chrome that allows you to do just that. Install the SwitftPreview extension. Head over to the options page by right clicking on the SwiftPreview browser icon and selecting “options....

If time does not allow you to go through all of that, you can use the built-in Automator app on your Mac to create a service that can resize the images to specified values without having you go through any prompts whatsoever. That way you should be able to resize an image by just right-clicking on it and choosing your service. Your resized image will be available instantly. Quickly Resizing an Image on a Mac Launch Automator on your Mac by clicking on Launchpad in your dock and searching for and clicking on Automator....

Note: We will provide solutions to uninstall a third-party Windows program. These instructions will not apply to individual files that refuse to be deleted, such as pagefile.sys. Additionally, Windows built-in apps cannot be uninstalled the usual way; you will have to uninstall them from the Powershell. Are You Sure There Is No Option to Uninstall? Make sure there is no way to uninstall the program using the usual “Uninstall a program” section in the control panel....

Here we show how you can remove and organize Preferences Panes in macOS. Hide any macOS preference pane Although it’s not possible to permanently delete any of macOS’s built-in preference panes, it is possible to hide them: Launch the “System Preferences” application. In the toolbar, select “View -> Customize … ” A checkbox will now appear alongside every item in the System Preferences window. To hide a preference pane, deselect its accompanying checkbox....

If someone is truly your friend, more than likely you already have a birthday notification for them in iCal. Luckily, getting rid of Facebook’s birthday notifications in iCal is a quick and easy task. Here’s what you need to do: Open the iCal application. If you can’t see your calendars listed in the left hand column, click on the “Calendars” button at the top left corner to display them....

1. Restart Your Phone Restart your Android phone or iPhone to fix any temporary issue or bug that could be causing the profile picture to disappear. To restart your phone, simply turn it off and then turn it on again. If all goes well, the profile photo should be restored after the restart. Tip: learn how to hard reset your iPhone. 2. Check Profile Picture Privacy Settings WhatsApp offers a privacy setting that lets you decide who can see your profile picture....

I assume that you know all the advantages of having a rooted tablet, if not, a rooted one allows you to access a vast gallery of apps and games (especially the Android market) and enables you to install any app that requires access to the system files. Rooting also adds ability to modify the system files and even to replace them with other files. All these things posses the risk of getting phone damaged, so be careful while going through the processes as Make Tech Easier holds no responsibility if any damage happens to your device....

The challenge, however, is organizing information when it’s scattered all over the web. When you’re doing research that’s heavy on citations, simply bookmarking webpages may not be enough for you to track each source of information. A helpful Chrome extension called Citable addresses this challenge by enabling you to save a website’s link, along with your notes, to a Google Spreadsheet document. Installing and using Citable Upon installing the extension, you will find a quotation mark icon on the top-right corner of the browser....

MailShot for iPad has enough options to make it very versatile. It has a short tutorial to help you setup your first group. After naming your group, you can either add contacts from your address book, or import from your Mail app, your contacts list, or manually. If you import manually, there are fields to put in a name and an email, but experimenting with it, I found you can also copy and paste in a long list of names and emails from a previous list or email....

How to Access and Use iPhone’s Camera Timer The timer feature in the iPhone’s Camera app not only lets you set a countdown to take pictures but it also enables Burst mode automatically. So whenever you set a timer, Burst mode is activated and it captures 10 photos instead of one. You can keep all the 10 photos or select the best of them and delete the rest. Sadly, there is no way to stop iPhone from taking multiple pictures when the timer is on....

Setting up a computer for a senior requires a little thought. First, you have to set up the PC so it can run without much outside influence, which puts less responsibility on the senior to keep things ticking along. It also, hopefully, reduces the amount of phone calls you’ll get for tech support! Secondly, you can set up the operating system to be more friendly to those with accessibility issues....

Note: in this article we are using the Ring camera as a pet-monitoring camera. Register your Ring camera If your indoor camera is a new purchase, you’ll need to register it with your Ring application: Launch the Ring mobile app. In the upper-right corner, tap the hamburger icon. Select “Set Up A Device.” Select “Security Cams.” You can now scan the QR code or MAC ID that’s printed on your Ring indoor camera....

How Tab Resize works After installing the extension, you will spot the Tab Resize icon on the top right corner of the browser. Left click on this to choose the layout you want to apply on your tabs. The layouts are labelled as 1×2, 2×2 or 1×1, referring to the number of columns x number of rows. Ideally, the number of tabs you want to split should match the layout, otherwise a blank tab will open to fill in an area....

New to widgets in Windows 11? Give them a try and see how useful they can really be. Why Does It Matter? Microsoft has removed any official way to change the browser and search engine used by the features mentioned above, so looking in the settings or registry won’t help. By eliminating user choice and pushing its own services, Microsoft is making the user experience for Windows worse in the name of profit....

Sadly, YouTube is prone to the occasional bit of crashing, which for a lot of people has resulted in the dreaded BSoD (Blue Screen of Death) or garbled videos. Here’s how to stop this from happening. Go Through the Usual Checks The first thing to do before starting to make any more serious tweaks is to check that your video drivers are up to date, or even look up whether anyone else has reported issues with YouTube crashing on the driver version that you’re on....

Here is a quick and easy way to fix this: Open a terminal and add the repository: Next, type the following command: After the upgrade, you should be able to sync your iPhone/iPod Touch (with iOS 4) with Rhythmbox Source: Ubuntu Forums Image credit: karindalziel

Today we’ll be showing you how to sign up for the OS X Beta Seed Program and how to get ready for OS X Yosemite beta, the public beta version of which will most likely be available sometime this summer. The OS X Beta Seed Program was announced back in April, which allowed anybody with an Apple ID to try out pre-release OS X software for free. Not only did this step serve as an ideal opportunity for non-developers to see what’s new, but it also allows Apple to gather much more feedback from a wider audience, which in turn helps Apple make a better and more refined end user release....

The downside to Instant Apps is that not all apps on Google Play support it. If you want to see if the game your friend recommended is worth it, you might need to install it if it doesn’t have an Instant App version. Keep in mind that you will need to be running Android 6.0 or higher to be able to use Instant Apps. How to Enable Google Play Instant Apps You can’t use Google Play Instant if it’s not enabled on your Android device....

There are also users who feel uncomfortable with the notion of Google listening in on everything they say and keeping a record of it. Fortunately, the following simple steps can be used to disable Google Assistant. Turn On “OK Google” Voice Recognition Open your Android device and go to the Settings menu, which is the list of options the phone offers you to customize it. Scroll down the list of options until you see the section titled “Google....