Discord also includes excellent integration with other services, including YouTube, Reddit, and Spotify. Here we’ll take a look at the latter and show you how to play Spotify on Discord. We’ve shown you how to add friends to Spotify, and this method lets you share Spotify music with your friends on Discord. How to Play Spotify on Discord Note: To get the full benefits from this feature, you’ll need a Premium account....

Managing Google Cloud Printers Important Update: Starting December 2020 this service is no longer available. For more, take a look at Google’s print from Chrome page. You can set up a Cloud Ready Printer. These are offered by several companies and have the Google Cloud Print Ready logo on them. If you have a Cloud Ready printer, it’s much easier to set up. Another cool thing is you can print to virtually any FedEx Office from your Chromebook, PC, smartphone, or tablet....

However, there are times when you’ll have a playlist you no longer want or ones you accidentally delete. The good news is that if you delete a playlist accidentally or simply want it back, you can get it. If you’ve deleted a Spotify playlist, you can recover them using the steps below. How to Recover Deleted Spotify Playlists You might not know this, but Spotify will save deleted playlists for 90 days....

All of a sudden, the font for Google websites turned bold in Firefox. Pretty much all Google sites were affected, including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google search…etc. It was strange because I didn’t modify a thing, and it just happened. Although I found the solution, it wasn’t easy, so rather than keep it to myself, below I’ll explain what happened and how I fixed it. First off, here’s what it looks like when you get hit with this strange font bug....

We’ve already shown you how to schedule an out-of-office message in Teams, which is useful for vacations or business trips. So here, we’ll walk through setting a current status message and all the options to go with it. Set Your Current Status in Microsoft Teams You can set a simple status for yourself in teams like Available, Busy, or Do Not Disturb. Click your profile icon on the top right....

Switching Between 32-bit Windows 10 to 64-bit Is My Computer 64-bit Capable? Before you can start migrating to 64-bit, you need to find out if your system is capable. If you’re already running a 32-bit version of Windows 8 or later on your system, you can find out by doing the following: Press Windows key + X to bring up the hidden quick access menu and select System. Look under System > System type, and there it will list whether the processor is x64 based or not....

Note: This How-to only applies to YouTube accounts that were pre-existing before being connected to a Google account. If you log in to YouTube using a Google account you will not see the option to unlink it. Step 1 First of all, you will want to go to YouTube.com and sign in to it with your Google account, as seen below. Step 2 After logging in, on the top right side of the page, click the arrow next to your username and, in the menu that pops below, click Account....

The feature isn’t new—Nearby Sharing was introduced in Windows 10 version 1803 back in 2018. Windows 11 builds on this feature, making it easier to send items to different devices across your network. You might find it useful to share files from your PC to your laptop, for instance. If you want to use Nearby Sharing on your Windows 11 PC, here’s what you’ll need to do. Use Nearby Sharing on Windows 11 To use this feature, both devices need both Bluetooth and Nearby Sharing features enabled....

Multiple Format Playback with VLC The killer feature of VLC is the ability to play files that iOS or the Mac doesn’t natively support media with file types like AVI files. Unfortunately, the AVI files wouldn’t always play the audio for me. That’s a known bug that should be fixed in a later update to the app. Other files like MKV and MP4 worked just fine. Play Files Off On Your Local Network The files don’t have to be in public folders, VLC lets you save login credentials....

Here’s how to watch Twitch on your Roku. How to Watch Twitch on Roku One option you have (for now) is using a private Roku channel called Twoku. This gives you access to Twitch streams without relying on an official app. It’s not perfect (there are bugs, and the app is updated rarely) but it remains the best option to watch Twitch on Roku. As with any private channel, Roku can also block or remove it at any time without notice....

Windows Essentials 2012 Microsoft recently released Windows Essentials 2012 for Windows 7 and it includes support for Windows 8. The software suite has been renamed and some new features have been added to Movie Maker and Photo Gallery. Here’s a look at installing the package on Windows 8 and what’s offered. You don’t have to install everything, even though it’s recommended. To select only what you want, click Choose the Programs you Want to Install....

1Password: Subscription or Stand-Alone? If you’re on the subscription plan, you’re upgraded. Nothing more you need to do. That’s the beauty of a subscription. I debated about switching to subscription. The advantages are primarily automatic upgrades to the latest version. They also do the syncing for you with the service. The service gives you more control if something goes wrong and gives you access to your passwords on other devices....

What Is It? Instead of using a guitar or a piano to make music, this app lets you add a petal to a lily pad. You get to adjust the sound each lily makes. The app doesn’t limit you to just one lily, you can make several and play them together. At least for me, I didn’t find it all that interesting at first, but after playing with it a little, it grew on me....

Released to the public on 19 June 2011, the service has evolved over time, constantly introducing new features to excite, reward, and motivate its users. Such features include Streaks, points, stories, treasure chests, and outfits. The most popular, and perhaps important of these features is the Duolingo Streak. The Streak is a thing of pride for Duolingo users as it shows off your dedication, consistency and competency in your language learning journey....

Microsoft and LinkedIn Announces Acquisition of Professional Network Microsoft’s vision for both companies is to harness the value of LinkedIn’s professional social network to bring value to end-users using popular services such as Office 365. If approved later this year, LinkedIn would be Microsoft’s biggest acquisition to date. Microsoft has made some interesting purchases over the years. Recent acquisitions include the developers of smartphone keyboard, Swift, and Xarmin developer tools....

As is usually the case with cumulative updates, there are no new features, but this will bump your build to 18362.145. Here is a look at what’s included in the update. KB 4497935 for Windows 10 1903 May 20198 Update Here is the list of bug fixes and other improvements contained in this latest cumulative update: Addresses an issue that may prevent Custom URI Schemes for Application Protocol handlers from starting the corresponding application for local intranet and trusted sites on Internet Explorer....

All other older versions of Windows 10 will receive patches today, too. The only version not getting fixes is version 1511. Here’s a look at what you will get. KB4517389 for Windows 10 1903 May 2019 Update As is usually the case for cumulative updates, there are no new features to report. But today’s update will bump your build to version 18362.418 and includes the following fixes and improvements:...

Windows 10 Build 21390 There are no major new features to report, but this build does contain the following changes and improvements: As part of our ongoing iconography improvements, Task Manager and MSI installers now have new Fluent icons.You can now set Windows Terminal Preview as your default terminal emulator on Windows – please see this blog post for details. This requires Windows Terminal Preview version 1.9 (or higher). And here is the list of fixes in this release:...

Windows 11 Preview Build 22458 One of the changes and improvements is that a sign-in options link has been added to the Start menu. We added a link to the sign-in options under the power menu on Start. (Note: this change first appeared in Build 22454 last week but we’re documenting it here this week as it was missed.) [ADDED 9/16] This build includes a change that aligns the enforcement of the Windows 11 system requirements on Virtual Machines (VMs) to be the same as it is for physical PCs....

Recently I built a new x64 or 64 Bit Windows Server 2008 machine. I wanted to install the new Virtual Machine Manager 2008; however, I needed a way to mount the ISO image because it was an ISO. A few months back, I wrote a tutorial on mounting ISO Images for Vista and XP using Virtual Clone Drive. Unfortunately, Virtual Clone Drive doesn’t support 64-bit. So, after digging around a bit, I found a Free software package that works on both Server 2008 and 64-bit/x64 machines – MagicISO....