What Are Coaxial Cables? Coaxial cables are used to transmit video signals. Therefore, if you have an over-the-air antenna, you’ll need a coaxial cable to deliver the signal to your TV. Coaxial cables have a copper conductor surrounded by non-conductive insulation. This is enclosed by shielding that protects the signal against any potential electromagnetic interference emitted by other devices. Finally, the cable is wrapped in a durable plastic jacket. Types of Coaxial Cables There are three different types of coaxial cables that are most often used to transmit video signals: RG59, RG6 and RG11....

Don’t forget: all these tips are handy for accessing other characters, like the en dash and various other characters. How to Type an Em Dash on Windows Windows has a few ways to type an em dash. The best-known method is to use what is known as an alt code. Hold down the Alt key and type 0 + 1 + 5 + 1, then release the Alt key. While this is the fastest method to type an em dash, not everyone wants to remember a combination of numbers to type a character....

Hard Disk Partitions You probably know that you can split your hard disk into several partitions. The question is, how does the OS know the partition structure of the hard disk? That information has to come from some where. This is where MBR (Master Boot Record) and GPT (Guid Partition Table) come into play. While both are architecturally different, both play the same role in governing and provide information for the partitions in the hard disk....

Services If you have just moved to a new place, chances are you do not know where you can find some of the common services/businesses. The Graph Search helps you find such services by just typing in a few commands. Such commands are: The command above lists out all of the dentists who have their offices located in New York City. It will only show those offices that have registered themselves with Facebook....

To understand Linux, you have to go back to the birth of Unix. In 1969, Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, a couple of programmers at Bell Labs wanted to continue their research into operating systems. Bell Labs had been participating in the Multics, a research project that included MIT and GE, to create an operating system that would provide an information utility. The idea was a lot like what’s now called “cloud computing,” but in the 1960s it was the operating system equivalent of Duke Nukem Forever, with development proceeding slowly....

You can also visit our guide to the best Black Friday deals for more fantastic offers throughout the week. The Fitbit Versa 4 is a fitness-oriented smartwatch that is compatible with both iOS and Android devices. The device offers a wide range of fitness tracking tools, including a Daily Readiness Score, GPS, the workout intensity map, Active Zone Minutes, all-day activity tracking, 24/7 heart rate tracking and more than 40 exercise modes....

Why the Change? Microsoft Cortana Becomes an App Cortana is no longer married to the taskbar. Instead, Cortana is a regular app. This means you’ll open and interact with Cortana just like you would other apps. You’ll even get updates via the Microsoft Store instead of Windows Update. You’ll be able to update Cortana without having to install full system feature updates, too. Search Already Separate A common question users have been asking is how they can search for files....

It’s available to grab for £129.99, which provides you with a handy £65 price cut on the headset’s £194.99 price. If you aren’t after a new headset but the prospect of Black Friday bargains still appeals to you, then head on down to our best Black Friday deals article where the Trusted experts have rounded up the biggest reductions on all manner of tech for you to take a closer look at....

A Media Server Unless you want to be completely dependent upon streaming services for your content, you’ll need a computer to host your own media files. These will include DVDs and Blu-Rays you’ve ripped as well as content that might have … “fallen of a truck.” We’re not here to judge. You can purchase an NAS, or network-attached storage. Something like a Synology Diskstation is guaranteed to work on the network but is a little expensive....

Air fryers are reliably big sellers around Black Friday and other similar online deal events, but they don’t tend to come much cheaper than this. Head over to Argos right now and you’ll find the Tower T17079 for just £30, which is a big saving on an RRP of £50. This is an air fryer with a 3 litre capacity, which makes it ideal for small households. That’s especially so with compact dimensions of 30....

As part of its Cyber Week sale, affordablemobiles is offering a Galaxy Z Flip 4 with absolutely no upfront cost for £34 a month. Not only are you saving £183 over buying it off contract, but you’re also getting 100GB of 5G data to use every month – plus unlimited minutes and texts. That’s an absolutely fantastic saving, we must say. If you’re on the hunt for other deals, there are still a number of best Cyber Monday and Black Friday deals live....

Don’t forget to visit our live blog too for all of the best Black Friday deals as we report on them. The Denon DHT-S216 is a soundbar powered by two down-firing subwoofers, two midrange drivers and two one-inch tweeters. Denon has also packed in some advanced psychoacoustic algorithms courtesy of DTS Virtual:X to create an immersive 3D audio experience in your living room. You can listen to sound from your TV or connect to your smartphone or tablet using Bluetooth and play music through your favourite streaming service....

And the Award Goes To The beginning of the year can mean only one thing in Hollywood. Awards season has arrived. To that end, Netflix makes it easy to discover Oscar-nominated hits and winners available on its service. Visit this section and find nominated content by popularity, trending and a variety of other categories. This is definitely a hidden gem that has something for everyone. Where else can you watch Lord of the Rings, Driving Miss Daisy and Ralph Breaks the Internet?...

But when you lock your computer the display or monitor won’t turn itself off. By default, Windows only turns off the screen if your computer is idle for a set time. You can easily modify those settings from the Windows Control Panel. However, if you want to automatically turn off the screen when you lock the computer and save the environment and money, read on. Turn Off Monitor Automatically When You Lock Windows To automatically turn off the monitor when you lock your computer, you can either use the AutoHotKey script or a stand-alone program....

F-Droid is an application run by Droid Ltd. It was founded by Ciaran E Gultnieks, a British computer programmer, back in 2010. Since then, the app has hosted over 4000 free and open-source applications. The applications come in a wide variety, including health, education, security, and more. Let us dive into how to install F-Droid and use it to install free and open-source Android apps. How to Install F-Droid It is pretty obvious that a marketplace app like this won’t be available in Google Play Store, as it is its direct competitor....

When you sign up for Seafile, you will be given 5GB of free online storage space. There doesn’t seem to have a premium plan for bigger storage space though. Getting Started The usage is pretty simple, but quite different from Dropbox or Owncloud. To get started, sign up for an account over at Seafile. Once you are logged in, click on the “New Library” button. Enter a name and description for this library and decide if you want to encrypt this library....

What Is SIMBL? SIMBL (a.k.a. Simple Bundle Loader and Smart Input Manager Bundle Loader) is the basis for mySIMBL. It allows developers to make modifications to programs written in Cocoa without access to the source code. Originally, SIMBL was used to modify Apple’s Safari browser (once known as PithHelmet), which didn’t have an extension infrastructure until 2010. Today, SIMBL is a platform for modifying how programs run on your Mac. It can inject changes into other applications, allowing you to change how applications look and run....

The Google-owned navigation app is currently testing a dangerous roads feature, which would warn drivers of areas where there have been crashes and accidents. So, if there’s a particularly dangerous curve for example, Waze users can make other users aware. As a result, the roads are coloured in red for that stretch of road will appear in red, so drivers know to use a little more caution. The “history of crashes” feature has been spotted by the Israeli blog Geektime (via Android Police) and will be optional for users, once it has rolled out to all....

This makes fighting malware very important. Everyone seems to have their own opinion on the best way to fight it, so we asked our writers, “What are your best tips for fighting malware? Our Best Tips All of our writers agree that the best way to fight malware is to browse safely. This means not clicking suspicious links and not downloading files from less-than-reputable sources. Mahesh suggests that if a file gets downloaded automatically, delete it right away without opening it....

Since the time of the earliest computer worms, like the Morris Worm in 1988, these little parasites have been infecting computers and networks around the world. But what are computer worms, and why should we pay attention to them? What Are Computer Worms? Computer worms are similar to real parasites because they can duplicate themselves across as many hosts as possible. Yet, they do it without causing much damage to the systems they are feeding off....