You’ll need to keep learning for the rest of your life in order to keep up. You may even have to change careers multiple times over the course of your life. Unfortunately, for most people who work, dropping everything to go back to school is not a viable option. The good news is that you no longer have to put your life on hold (or empty your bank account) to get a college-level education....

In case you’re struggling to come up with a perfect Valentine’s Day gift idea, or on the contrary – can’t choose from a great variety of options – we’re here to help you pick the best nerdy Valentine gift for the technophile in your life. This gift guide includes tech gifts for various budgets and purposes. We’ll start with the cheaper options and move up to the more expensive gadgets so that you can find the perfect gift for your favorite nerd, no matter how big or small your budget is....

If you are too busy, your calendar can run amok. That’s a sign for you to step off the pedal and lessen your schedule stress. The following are a few Google Calendar tips to organize Google Calendar so that it saves you time. Change The View To Something That Works For You Google Calendar allows you to choose a view at a press of a key. You can zoom into a day or zoom out to get an idea of the year....

If you want to widen your options to learn, look at these lesser known international Massive Open Online Course providers who host free online courses. The benefit is that you can keep learning new subjects in your pajamas from anywhere in the world and at any age. You can even complete an entire college level course online. Acumen Academy Courses: 30Curriculum: Social changeCost: Free and Paid Certification: Yes (A certificate of completion)...

If your device’s integrated storage isn’t adequate to store all your media files like your photos, videos, games, music and more, it probably has a microSD slot to allow you to expand storage to your liking. For this reason, manufacturers now produce microSD cards with more storage capacity and faster data transfer speeds. If you’re in the market for the best microSD card to buy for your device, you’ll quickly discover that they’re not all created equal....

Getting good quality instruction and having constructive practice are both crucial to becoming competent. The good news is that it’s never been easier to get access to quality guitar lessons and information online. Some of these resources are free and some will cost a few dollars, but it’s all available from the comfort of your own home. We’ve narrowed down the list to 5 sites and apps to learn to play the guitar and become a guitar god....

While some games are meant to be enjoyed on your own like an old classic Tetris or a highly addictive Angry Birds, others are built for two or more players. If you’re looking to combine all of those things – find a game that’s highly addictive, an all time favorite, and one that you can play with friends – try playing Scrabble online with your friends or family. Before Playing Scrabble Online Winning at Scrabble requires luck, strategic thinking, and a good vocabulary....

There can be a few different reasons for this issue on Discord. We’ll go over every possible reason why your Discord invites aren’t working, as well as how to fix them. Reason 1: Your Discord Invite Expired You’ve received an invitation link, but instead of landing on the right server’s page, you see a message that the invite’s invalid. The most common reason for this is that the Discord invite has passed its expiration date....

While mobile gadgets are getting a bad rap for making us lazier, they can also be used to save us from our unhealthy customs. Let’s take a look at health tracker apps you can use on your smartphone to monitor your health. Instant Heart Rate ($4.99 – iOS/Android) How often do you get your heart pumping throughout the day? Or a better question — when’s the last time your heart raced?...

While that might be a fine way to spend a few years accumulating student debt, it turns out the world is full of talented creatives who freely share their knowledge online via YouTube photography and videography lessons. 1. Potato Jet Gene Nagata’s channel is inexplicably known as Potato Jet, but the real purpose of his channel is the exploration of cinematography and the camera technology behind it. If you need to learn about cameras from consumer to professional units, this is the channel for you....

A few decades back, you’d have to walk around with a pocket dictionary to help you with simple translations. However, if you lost your copy or forgot to pack it, you’d probably struggle talking to people who don’t speak your language, or find your way around. Today though, you can still read books on the language you’d like to learn, take online classes, watch YouTube videos, or even listen to audio CDs....

In this guide, we’ll show you how to make an image transparent using some built-in methods and third-party apps on different programs including Paint, PowerPoint and Google Slides. 1. In Microsoft Paint 3D Microsoft Paint is a refresh of the age-old Microsoft Paint and it’s included for free with Windows 10. You can use Paint 3D for simple drawing needs including making an image transparent. Note: If you don’t like the result of the image, you can use Adobe Photoshop to create transparent backgrounds and layer images for great effect....

Using Word’s built in cover page feature, you can add a professional looking cover page to any document. The cover page feature in Word is certainly not going to turn poor writing into a winner. However, using this feature, you can add some flair to your documents to make them stand out and look more like they came from a professional than an amateur. This is particularly important for those running a home office and students, both of whom must often turn over their work for someone else to judge....

Learn how to enable and use the integration features of an XP Mode Virtual Machine. Why Enable XP Mode Integration? An XP Mode Virtual Machine uses your physical computer’s resources to run a fully licensed copy of Windows XP right from within Windows 7 Professional. Part of your computer’s RAM, processing power, and other components are used by the Virtual Machine to allow XP to run. Using XP Mode’s integration features, you can also share other resources such as drives, audio, and printers to increase the functionality of XP running in the Virtual Machine....

The strange thing is that the copy still works for me, but I have to keep clicking OK to remove the error message. After some reading and playing around on my own, I’ve learned that this error can happen for all kinds of reasons and there are a number of fixes you can try to troubleshoot the error. For the most part, you’ll see this error in Microsoft Excel and Word, especially when you are trying to copy any kind of data....

In addition, since it’s a hidden folder , if someone doesn’t know it exists, they may never bother to look for it especially if you hide it deep in the operating system directories. It doesn’t really matter if it’s easy to un-hide. Again, only use this method if what you are trying to hide is from your parents and not the police. So first of all, if you have a folder you want to hide, don’t create the folder in some obvious place such as My Documents, but instead put it in a location that someone would typically not inside....

As there are so many people who want a website but lack coding skills, a lot of services have cropped up over the years for non-technical people to design and launch their own websites. The following are nine of the best online services for creating your own basic web presence even if you have no coding skills at all. About.me When you sign up for an About.me account, you get your own URL on the About....

Windows 7, 8, 10 and Mac OS X all have built in wizards that help you calibrate your monitor so that it’s not too bright or too dark. For me, my monitors were always super bright and I starting using a third-party program called f.lux that adjusts the color of the monitor during the night. Once I calibrated my monitors, I didn’t need to use f.lux as often, even at night....

You can select the ad topics that interest you while deselecting those that do not. You can also allow ads from certain advertisers and hide others. Until and unless the company goes with an ad-free model, why not at least control the kinds of ads that display as your posting, liking, or following on Facebook. Access Your Facebook Ad Preferences Whether you use the Facebook website or mobile app, you can access and change your ad preferences....

Investing in Google Themes really allows your personality to shine. Quickly spruce up your Chrome theme with varying colors and characters to add to the homepage, new tab background, search bar and bookmarks tab. There’s bound to be a Chrome theme that suits you best. How To Change Your Chrome Theme So, how exactly do you go about downloading and adding a Chrome theme? Well, first thing’s first, you’ll need to visit the Chrome Web Store....