How to find your Wi-Fi password in Windows 8.1

How to find your Wi-Fi password in Windows 8.1 Good news! Reverse password lookups are totally possible. Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET This happens to me often, especially when I'm visiting relatives' houses: My computer knows the Wi-Fi password from when I last connected to the network -- two years ago -- but I've completely forgotten it, though my mother is about 65...

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Five ways to lower your smartphone data consumption

Five ways to lower your smartphone data consumption Which apps and services are the worst offenders when it comes to chewing through your data plan? Data usage on a smartphone.James Martin/CNET In the early days of cell phones, it was all about the minutes -- voice minutes, that is, because people used their phones to call each other. (Weird, right?) You had...

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Turn your iOS burst photos into videos, animated GIFs

Turn your iOS burst photos into videos, animated GIFs If you find yourself taking a lot of burst photos on your iOS device, Burstio is an app you're sure to find useful. Burstio app iconJason Cipriani/CNET My favorite kind of apps aren't entire platforms or services. Instead, they're much simpler apps that fill a hole in the feature set of an operating system. For example,...

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