Disable banner ads in Skype for Windows

Disable banner ads in Skype for Windows When you're talking with friends, family, or coworkers, the last thing you want to be annoyed by is an advertisement. Before the many updates to Skype post-Microsoft acquisition, simply disabling the promotions options in settings was enough to rid your conversations of unnecessary spam. However, a new banner ad has made its way...

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15 cool emojis coming to a phone near you

15 cool emojis coming to a phone near you The Vulcan salute is only one example of a new set of emojis coming from Unicode 7.0. Find out what other symbols are coming to your smartphone. They'll look different when you finally see them in iOS or Android.Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET Emoji keyboards are changing fast -- Apple last month introduced multi-racial emojis and...

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Turn your streamer remote into a universal remote

Turn your streamer remote into a universal remote Kickstarter project Sideclick adds a clip-on TV controller to your Apple TV, Fire TV or Roku remote. Sideclick adds TV-control buttons to your existing streamer remote.True Bloom LLC Everyone loves their Apple TVs, their Fire TVs, their Roku boxes. But using one inevitably means juggling two remotes: one for the streamer,...

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What you can do with the new MacBook's Force Touch trackpad

What you can do with the new MacBook's Force Touch trackpad Apple announced a new MacBook model that features an entirely new trackpad design. Learn what tricks hide below its surface. Apple announced a new MacBook at its Spring Forward event, a 12-inch model that sits between the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro lines. In addition to new internals -- a fifth-generation Intel...

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