How to Get Your Streaming Video to Stop Buffering So Darn Much

Did You Know? Alien hand syndrome is a rare but unsettling neurological disorder wherein a person’s hand moves and performs actions without them having conscious control over it—these actions appear completely independent of the will of the hand/arm’s owner and usually cause extreme distress in the patient. Geek Trivia The First Feature Film To Employ Stereo Sound Was? Citizen Kane → Fantasia → House of Wax → Snow White → Advertisement Download A to Z: Why Office 365 Download the free A to Z eBook to learn more about data security, employee productivity, IT Support and cost. Also, see how the competition measures up against Office 365. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. 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How to Pin Folders to the Windows Taskbar How to Take Good Sunset Photos How to Get Your Streaming Video to Stop Buffering So Darn Much How to Send Articles to Your Kindle for Later Reading with Tinderizer, Instapaper, or Pocket You Can Use Philips Hue Bulbs without a Hub How to Easily Play Classic DOS Games on Your Mac with Boxer You Can Drag and Drop Siri Image Results into Other Applications on Your Mac How to Replace the Emoji in Facebook Messenger with the iOS System Emoji How to Clear the Recent Documents List When You Exit Windows How to Delete Your Yahoo Mail Account How to Contact Customer Support and Actually Get a Human Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Storage Provisioning Storage Provisioning refers to the process of assigning storage capacity/resources to servers, computers, mobile devices, virtual machines, etc. as needed or required. How to Pin Folders to the Windows Taskbar Windows doesn’t allow you to pin folders directly to the taskbar. There is an easy workaround, though. All you have to do is create a new shortcut to a folder and then pin that shortcut to the taskbar. Read This Article → How to Take Good Sunset Photos Everyone, at some point, tries to take a photo of a spectacular sunset. But if your camera isn’t quite capturing the magic the way you see it in real life, here are a few tricks to keep in mind. Read This Article → How to Get Your Streaming Video to Stop Buffering So Darn Much Before you do anything, run a speed test to see how your internet is performing. Some connections are just too slow to play videos at high quality settings without buffering. Read This Article → How to Send Articles to Your Kindle for Later Reading with Tinderizer, Instapaper, or Pocket It’s so easy to find interesting things to read online, but it’s tricky to find the time to read them. Fortunately it’s a snap to send all those great articles to your Kindle so you can read them at a convenient time. Read This Article → You Can Use Philips Hue Bulbs without a Hub Philips Hue bulbs connect to a central hub that allows you to control your lights remotely from your smartphone. However, if you’re wanting to save a little bit of money and still want smart bulbs in your house, you can actually bypass the hub altogether and just use a Hue Dimmer Switch…you’ll just miss out on a few features. Read This Article → How to Easily Play Classic DOS Games on Your Mac with Boxer Plenty of Mac users grew up with DOS machines, and as such have fond memories of playing classic DOS games. Maybe you’ve even got some old CDs in a drawer somewhere. But your Mac won’t run old games like that out of the box. Read This Article → You Can Drag and Drop Siri Image Results into Other Applications on Your Mac There are some pretty cool things you can do with Siri in macOS Sierra, including search the web for images. But what if you want to use one of those images in an email, or other app? All you need is a drag and drop. Read This Article → How to Replace the Emoji in Facebook Messenger with the iOS System Emoji Facebook Messenger on iOS has its own set of emoji, different from the emoji you're used to seeing in standard iOS apps, such as Messages. If you don't like the look of the Messenger emoji, you can switch to iOS’ default emoji instead. Read This Article → How to Clear the Recent Documents List When You Exit Windows You never know when that “Recent Documents” jump list will come back to bite you. Maybe you share your user account with other people, or maybe you’re just really cautious. Your reasons are your own. We’re just here to show you how to make sure it clears every time you shut down. Read This Article → How to Delete Your Yahoo Mail Account With Yahoo suffering massive data breaches and selling itself to Verizon, you may want to delete that old Yahoo account. If you still have important data in your account, you can download much of it before you delete it, too. Read This Article → How to Contact Customer Support and Actually Get a Human Companies are making it harder and harder to actually get a human being who can help you solve a problem. Call them, and you’ll often end up in a phone tree, asked to enter number after number or speak your issue for an automated system. Read This Article → Advertisement Download A to Z: Why Office 365 Download the free A to Z eBook to learn more about data security, employee productivity, IT Support and cost. Also, see how the competition measures up against Office 365. Click here to download