Microsoft Outlook uses vCalendar files to exchange information about meetings and appointments with others in your home or organization. With vCalendar files, you can easily schedule appointments with others even if they’re not using Outlook as their primary calendar. What Is a VCS File? A vCalendar file, which has the .vcs file extension, lets you exchange calendar events with other people. You can save an Outlook calendar event inside a VCS file and send it to someone to share those event details—even if the recipient is outside your organization. Some other email applications support VCS files, too, so this also works to exchange files with people who don’t use Outlook. How to Create vCalendar Files Click the “Outlook Calendar” icon in the bottom left of the screen to open your calendar. Right-click any date on the calendar and select “New Appointment” to create a new entry. Add the appointment information, including the date, time, and any pertinent details. … [Read more...] about How to Use vCalendar Files in Outlook
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How to Back Up Ubuntu the Easy Way with Déjà Dup
Déjà Dup is a simple — yet powerful — backup tool included with Ubuntu. It offers the power of rsync with incremental backups, encryption, scheduling, and support for remote services. With Déjà Dup, you can quickly revert files to previous versions or restore missing files from a file manager window. It’s a graphical frontend to Duplicity, which itself uses rsync . It offers the power of rsync with a simple interface. Getting Started Déjà Dup is located in the System Settings window, which you can access from the gear-shaped menu on the panel. You’ll find it named “Backup” in the System group of icons. You can also launch it by searching for “Backup” from the Dash. Setup Déjà Dup’s main screen summarizes your backup settings. By default, Déjà Dup backs up your Home directory, ignoring the Trash and Downloads folders. It puts the backup in your Ubuntu One account. If you want to enable automatic backups, don’t do it yet – customize your backup settings … [Read more...] about How to Back Up Ubuntu the Easy Way with Déjà Dup
How to Find Other Versions of a Website Image in Google Chrome
If you’re browsing the web with Google Chrome and you discover a website image that you’d like to see other sizes of (or perhaps research its origins), Chrome makes it easy to do a quick reverse image search with just a right-click. Here’s how to do it. First, open Google Chrome and navigate to a web page that includes an image you’d like to investigate. Right-click the image and select “Search Google for image” in the menu that appears. You’ll automatically be taken to Google’s image search page to perform a reverse image search using the image you selected as the source—no uploading or URL pasting required. To find other sizes of the image, locate the “Find other sizes of this image” header beside the image thumbnail and click one of the choices. In our example, we clicked “All sizes.” After that, you’ll see a screen full of thumbnails of the image from other websites that host images similar to the one you searched for. On this page, you can click through the … [Read more...] about How to Find Other Versions of a Website Image in Google Chrome
What Is Google Discover, and How Do I View It on My Phone?
In a world stuffed full of articles and stories, it can be hard to find the stuff that really interests you . As the name implies, Google Discover is one solution to this problem, and you probably already have it. A Brief History of Google Discover Google Discover’s origins go back to 2012 when it was called “Google Now.” The idea of “Google Now” was to give you information throughout the day without your input. In other words, Google would do the Google Searches for you. Google Now could show you boarding passes, upcoming sporting events, calendar events, tracking numbers, and much more. Slowly, Google stripped down the product and moved many of these features to Google Assistant’s “ Snapshot .” Eventually, it was trimmed down to mostly articles from around the web, and it became referred to simply as the “ Google Feed .” In 2018, Google officially announced a new name and look for it, and that’s the Google Discover we have today. RELATED: What Is the … [Read more...] about What Is Google Discover, and How Do I View It on My Phone?
What to Expect from the Internet in China
If you’re on your way to China or are simply the curious kind, you may want to find out what lies beyond the Great Firewall. While a heavily censored internet looks a lot like our own, it manages to seem a little off in some subtle and not-so-subtle ways. What Makes the Internet in China Different? Unlike, for example, the United States or European countries, China has placed its internet behind a strict screen of censorship dubbed the Great Firewall. It’s a highly sophisticated system that can block connections from Chinese IP addresses to ones that are considered harmful to the Chinese public. This includes adult entertainment and gambling sites as well as those featuring particularly violent content. Most striking of all, though, is that so few foreign media sites are accessible to people in the People’s Republic. The Chinese Communist Party tightly controls information flow and prefers that its people not read sources that haven’t been vetted by the regime. That being said, … [Read more...] about What to Expect from the Internet in China
14 Special Google Searches That Show Instant Answers
Google can do more than display lists of websites – Google will give you quick answers to many special searches. While Google isn’t quite as advanced as Wolfram Alpha , it has quite a few tricks up its sleeve. We’ve also covered searching Google like a pro by learning the Google search operators – if you want to master Google, be sure to learn those. Calculator You can use Google as a calculator – just type in a quick calculation and Google will provide an answer. Google now offers a clickable calculator tool when you search for a calculation, so you can use Google like you’d use a calculator application on your desktop or smartphone. Unit Conversions Google can also convert between a variety of units. Just type a search in the form X unit to unit . For example, 40 degrees f to c converts 40 degrees Fahrenheit to Celsius. As with the calculator, the unit conversion tool is clickable. You can also combine unit conversations and math. For example, the … [Read more...] about 14 Special Google Searches That Show Instant Answers