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How to Stream Xbox One Games to Your Windows PC

If you have your Xbox One hooked up to your living room TV, the amount of time you get to play games could be left up to the rest of the family. What happens when somebody wants to watch TV? Normally, you’d be left to wait your turn, but thanks to Xbox game streaming, there’s another way. All you need is a spare Windows 10 PC and a decent connection between your Xbox One and your router to be able to stream and play your Xbox One games while you sit at your PC. Here’s how to do it. Enable Xbox Game Streaming Before you… Read more

4 Best Tools to Check Disk Space on Your Mac

Running out of space on your Mac isn’t fun. Even worse, you often find out that you’re running out of space at the worst times. Sure, you can randomly start uninstalling apps, but it’s better to check your disk space and figure out which is taking up space in the first place. Actually figuring out what is taking up the most space isn’t as easy as you might think. Depending on what you’re trying to search, there are a fair number of tools that may solve your problem. Built-in macOS Tools There are a few tools to help you manage disk space built into macOS…. Read more

4 Best Tools to Check Disk Space on Your Mac

Running out of space on your Mac isn’t fun. Even worse, you often find out that you’re running out of space at the worst times. Sure, you can randomly start uninstalling apps, but it’s better to check your disk space and figure out which is taking up space in the first place. Actually figuring out what is taking up the most space isn’t as easy as you might think. Depending on what you’re trying to search, there are a fair number of tools that may solve your problem. Built-in macOS Tools There are a few tools to help you manage disk space built into macOS…. Read more

Big American Phone Providers Are Being Sued Over Your Location Data. Here’s Why You Should Be Concerned

At this point if the news that your phone company has been selling customer location data to bounty hunters surprises you, you may need to catch up on the last few years of privacy revelations. If you’re just generally suspicious of places that collect your data, congratulations on being right (again). AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon are currently being sued for selling customer location data to third parties known as data brokers, who then sell the data to other people with an interest in finding you – especially the “kinda-sorta” officials like bail bondsmen and bounty hunters. Related: Surprising News that Popular Apps Use Location… Read more

Glusterfs vs. Ceph: Which Wins the Storage War?

Storing data at scale isn’t like saving a file on your hard drive. It requires a software manager to keep track of all the bits that make up your company’s files. That’s where distributed storage management packages like Ceph and Gluster come into place. Ceph and Gluster are both systems used for managing distributed storage. Both are considered software-defined storage, meaning they’re largely hardware-agnostic. They organize the bits that make up your data using their own underlying infrastructure, which is what defines this choice: what underlying framework do you want supporting your data? That’s a decision you want to make based on the type of… Read more