Some Freeware Download Sites Are Cleaning Up Their Act

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[Quartz] How to Schedule or Delay Sending Email Messages in Outlook When you click Send on an email, it is typically sent immediately. But what if you want to send it at a later time? Outlook allows you delay the sending of a single message or all email messages. Read This Article → Insert Emoji Faster with iOS’ Text Replacement Shortcuts Emoji are fun to use, but if you’re like most people, you tend to use a few of them a lot more often than others. Instead of switching to the Emoji keyboard every time, why not set up a text replacement shortcut so that you can just type the Emoji you want to use? Read This Article → How to Factory Reset Your Xbox One Before you sell your Xbox One or pass it on to someone else, you should perform a factory reset. This wipes all your personal data. Whoever gets the Xbox One will have to go through the first-time setup process once again, signing in with their own Microsoft account. Read This Article → The Freeware Download Sites That Don’t Force Crapware On You It’s been more than a year since we drew attention to the crapware regularly foisted upon unsuspecting users by pretty much every big freeware site, including the venerable SourceForge. Since then, a few sites–including SourceForge themselves–have started cleaning up their act. Read This Article → How Do Web Servers Know if You Are Using Direct IP Address Access or Not? Usually, we just type in the address of a website we want to view, but would a web server actually “know” if we used the direct IP address instead? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a confused reader’s question. Read This Article → How to Automatically Turn Off Your Nest Thermostat When It's Cool Outside Warm weather is on its way, which means that air conditioning units are firing up. However, there are some days when the temperature actually drops to a pleasant level. Here’s how to make your Nest Thermostat automatically shut off whenever the outside temperature gets cooler. Read This Article → How to Create iPhone Reminders for When You Get In and Out of Your Car We all have those times when we have to remember something before we leave the house or return, but always seem to forget. With iOS, though, you set reminders that trigger whenever you get in or out of your car. Read This Article → How to Remap Your Xbox One Controller’s Buttons Microsoft’s Xbox One allows you to remap the buttons on its controller. This feature was originally introduced with Microsoft’s high-end Xbox One Elite controller, but it now works with standard Xbox One controllers as well. Read This Article → How to Open Your Optical Drive Using a Keyboard Shortcut in Windows Most optical disc drives require you to press a button on the front of the drive to open it. This button can be hard to find or get to on some machines. However, you can use a keyboard shortcut to open your optical drive. Read This Article → How to Hide Sensitive Notifications on Your Android Lock Screen When Google brought notifications to Android's lock screen, it was a game changer. Instant access to important and relevant data is one of the things that makes smartphones so prevalent and clutch in our lives. But when that data is personal, you don’t want it showing up on your lock screen for anyone to peer over and see. Fortunately, Google baked in a way to hide this sort of content. Read This Article → How to Stop Notifications from Interrupting Your iOS Games Notifications are handy when you want to know when a new email or message comes in. But the last time you want to be interrupted is in the middle of a winning streak in your favorite game. Read This Article → What Is the Microsoft .NET Framework, and Why Is It Installed on My PC? If you’ve been using Windows for very long at all, you’ve probably heard of Microsoft’s .NET, probably because an application asked you to install it, or you noticed it in your list of installed programs. Unless you’re a developer, you don’t need a lot of knowledge to make use of it. You just need it to work. But, since we geeks like knowing things, join us as we explore just what .NET is and why so many applications need it. Read This Article → Advertisement Download VirtualBox Essentials Guide In this eBook, we provide a compilation of VirtualBox tutorials that will help you get started with this virtualization platform. We cover a wide range of topics, from installing the software and performing a basic configuration, to cloning, exporting, importing, and removing virtual machines. With our straightforward tutorials, you will be able to get your own Virtual Machines up and running in minimum time. Click here to download