How to Set Up Whole-House Audio on the Cheap with Google Chromecast

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[BBC] How to Use Notepad to Create a Dated Log or Journal File Notepad has been the standard text editor included in Windows for many years, allowing you to create and edit plain text files. But, did you know you can also use Notepad to keep a dated log or journal? It's very easy and we'll show you how. Read This Article → How to Change the Location of Internet Explorer’s Download Folder By default, when you download something using Internet Explorer, it gets saved the main Downloads folder for your user account. If you’d rather save your files somewhere else, you can change the default save folder. Here’s how to do it. Read This Article → How to Convert a Google Docs Document to Microsoft Office Format Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and other Google apps save documents in Google’s own file formats by default. But you can download these documents to your hard drive as Microsoft Office files, whether you just want one document or your entire Google Docs library. Read This Article → How to Set Up Whole-House Audio on the Cheap with Google Chromecast Whole-house audio solutions are expensive, and often difficult to set up. Today we’re going to take you from a no-house audio system to a whole-house audio system in matter of minutes with the Google Chromecast Audio. Read This Article → How to Track Flights and Find Hotels Using the Amazon Echo The Amazon Echo’s feature set keeps growing constantly, and this time around, the voice-activated virtual assistant has added support for Kayak, allowing you to track flights, find hotels, and much more using just your voice. Read This Article → How to Use Safari's “Reading List” to Save Articles for Later We’re fond of any app that will allow you to save a webpage to read later, and there are many ways to do it. If you use an Apple device, however, you don’t need anything other than Safari. Read This Article → How to Type Ampersands (&) in Excel’s Headers and Footers Have you tried to type an ampersand (&) in a header or footer in Excel and seen it disappear on your printed worksheet? There's a special trick to typing ampersands in headers and footers in Excel so you don't lose them. Read This Article → How to Use the DirectX Diagnostic in Windows DirectX is a collection of APIs used in Windows for multimedia and video programs, and is especially important to gamers. The DirectX Diagnostic Tool displays a wealth of information about DirectX, and also lets you perform basic diagnostic tests on the DirectX system. If you want to check what version of DirectX you’re running–or even output a file full of diagnostic information for troubleshooting–here’s how to do it. Read This Article → How to Use Zsh (or Another Shell) in Windows 10 The Bash shell arriving with Windows 10’s Anniversary Update is deceptive. It’s not just Bash–it’s a compatibility layer for running Linux software on Windows. You can use it to run Zsh or whatever other shell you prefer. Read This Article → Six Things Android Could Do Better Android has come a long way over the last several years. What was once an ugly, sluggish operating system is now a refined, widely-used, excellent mobile OS. While it's not for everyone, it's hard to deny or ignore what Google has done with Android. But it isn’t perfect—there are things that could simply be done better. Here are six areas where Android as a whole still needs to improve. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Microsoft Office 2016 -- Free Reference Card Kit This Microsoft Office 2016 reference kits includes 5 individual reference cards providing shortcuts, tips, and tricks for the most popular office productivity suite in the world. Click here to download