How to Install Ubuntu's Awesome New "Snap" Packages

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Goals automatically finds free time in your calendar and schedules recurring events to help you achieve your goals. Here’s how to get it all set up. Read This Article → How to Share Your iPhone Without People Snooping Around Phones are private, full of personal data and messages. Guided Access allows you to share your iPhone with someone without being able to access that data–allowing them to look at photos, place a phone call, or play a game while your stuff stays hidden. Read This Article → How to Install and Manage Snap Packages on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS introduced “Snap” packages, which are a great new way of installing apps. Snaps require different terminal commands–apt-get and dpkg will only allow you to install .deb packages the old way, not Snaps. Read This Article → How to Control Your Kodi Media Center with an Amazon Echo Remote controls are so 1950. 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Read This Article → How to Create a Copy of an Excel Worksheet Without Formulas Say you've created an Excel workbook you need to distribute, but you can't reveal the formulas you used in that workbook. We'll show you an easy trick that allows you to copy a worksheet to another workbook and quickly remove the formulas, so only the results show. Read This Article → How to Check the Activation Lock Status of an iOS Device Starting with iOS 7, Apple introduced a feature named Activation Lock for iOS devices. When you sign in with an iCloud account and enable the “Find My” feature, the phone becomes tied to your iCloud account. If you’re buying or selling a device, you’ll want to ensure that the Activation Lock is disabled so that it can then be activated by the new user. Read This Article → What Is Apple’s Game Center, and Should You Use It? If you use an Apple product like a Mac, iPhone, or iPad, then you may have noticed the “Game Center” app…but probably never opened it. Today we want to talk about what the Game Center is, and whether you’re missing anything. Read This Article → What’s New in Windows 10’s Anniversary Update, Coming This Summer Windows 10's next big update, dubbed the "Anniversary Update", comes out this summer, and we’re starting to see some features in the Insider Preview builds today. Here’s what’s been announced so far, along with a few goodies we’ve discovered in the first and second previews. Read This Article → Advertisement Exploiting Web-Based Applications - FREE Video Training Course In this course, we will teach you the top exploits including Cross-site Scripting, Cross-site Request Forgery, and more! You'll get real world examples including a Netflix case study along with the mitigation techniques to prevent these attacks. Build skills you can use today and are in demand by top employers. Click here to download