Tech Term Confusion: "Memory" Means RAM, Not Storage

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[The Atlantic] How to Insert the Current Month and Year in a Word Document That Automatically Updates You can easily add the current date and time to your Word documents, but what if you only want to add the month or month and year, but no date? It's easy to manually add a custom date field and we'll show you how. Read This Article → How to Change the Windows 10 Lock Screen Timeout By default, Windows 10’s lock screen times out and switches off your monitor after one minute. If you’d like it to stick around longer than that–say, if you have background picture you like looking at or you enjoy having Cortana handy–there’s a simple Registry hack that will add the setting to your power options. Read This Article → Tech Term Confusion: “Memory” Means RAM, Not Storage Some people say they have “a smartphone with 64 GB of memory”, but they don’t. Those people might have smartphones with 64 GB of disk space, or storage, but that’s different than memory. It’s time to clear up this tech term misconception. Read This Article → How to Install Microsoft PowerShell on Linux or OS X PowerShell is now open source, and available for Linux and Mac. You can download official packages from Microsoft for the 64-bit versions of Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04, CentOS 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, and Mac OS X 10.11. Read This Article → How to Stop Your Webcam From Freezing and Crashing on Windows 10 Windows 10’s Anniversary Update just broke millions of webcams. Microsoft supposedly has a fix coming in September, but there’s a registry hack you can use to fix the problem and get your webcam working properly today. Read This Article → How to View Your Ecobee3 Thermostat's Usage History Smart thermostats are known for their energy efficiency, but if you want to get an in-depth look at how much money they’ve saved you on your bills, the Ecobee3 lets you take a peek at all sorts of usage information. Read This Article → How to Enable Key Repeating in macOS As anyone who uses a Mac knows, entering special characters is really easy–you just hold down a letter. That’s great if you want to play Pokémon Go with your friends mañana, but not so much if you realllllllllllllllllly want to play now. Read This Article → How to Manually Update the Nexus Player with Google's Factory Images Flashing Google's Factory Images to a Nexus device is a pretty straightforward process, but it can be a little more daunting on Nexus Player since it doesn't technically have its own display. The good news is that the process isn't all that different from other Nexus devices. Read This Article → How to Automatically Correct Spelling and Typos When Using “cd” on Linux We're used to word processing programs telling us when we've misspelled a word, but what about when your fingers are flying through directories on the Linux command line? You can actually have your typos and misspellings automatically corrected, at least when using the cd command. Read This Article → How to Increase the Number of Jump List Items in Windows 10 In previous versions of Windows, you could change the number of recent items shown in jump lists with a simple option in taskbar properties. For whatever reason, Microsoft removed this ability in Windows 10. With a minor Registry hack, though, you can still bump that number up. Read This Article → How to Hold a Conference Call With Your iPhone Your iPhone allows you to call up to five people at once, making it easy to set up a quick conference call. The other people don’t need anything special–just any old cellular or landline telephone. Read This Article → Eight Advanced RetroArch Features that Make Retro Gaming Great Again RetroArch is the ultimate all-in-one emulator, compatible with every system you can imagine. From classic Nintendo consoles to arcade boxes and even the Playstation or Wii, RetroArch brings massive gaming collections under one roof. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Windows 10 Bible (FREE eBook!) A $32.99 Value Windows 10 Bible is one of the most thorough references on the market with complete coverage of Windows 10. Whether you're a beginner seeking guidance or a power-user looking for fresh tips and tricks, this book contains everything you could ever hope to know about the Windows operating system. Click here to download