Microsoft announced a couple of new features for Windows 10 relating to authentication. One of them is called Windows Hello, which will allow users to sign into the OS with their face, their iris or their fingerprints, if their hardware device has the right requirements.

Rhapsody has announced a partnership with Twitter to allow users to share full songs from the music service using Twitter Cards.

The full Rhapsody catalog, some 34 million songs, is available for sharing. Users will be able to listen to a song from Rhapsody without leaving the Twitter app. Selecting the song from a Tweet will bring up a Twitter card with album art and a play/pause button. Sharing a song is a simple matter of tapping a few buttons, according to Rhapsody:

Using Twitter’s audio card technology, every Rhapsody member can now easily share songs with their followers directly from the Rhapsody app. While listening to music on Rhapsody, simply tap the Twitter icon, add comments and hashtags, and share the full-length song. Friends and followers will see the Rhapsody audio card in their Twitter stream and can press the play button to hear the song that inspired the Tweet.

This feature is expected to launch at some point today. You can download the Rhapsody app for iPhone and iPad from the App Store now, and a subscription to the service will run you $9.99.

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Complete guide to the Apple TV, Apple’s iOS-powered, 1080p streaming set top box.

While rumors of a new Apple TV continue to make the rounds, the current Apple TV has just seen a price drop to $69 an exclusive agreement signed for HBO Now in the U.S. It also lets you stream all sorts of content — including iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, MLB, NHL, and much, much more — to your HDTV, even if you don’t have an iPhone or iPad in-hand. If you do, it lets you AirPlay video and even mirror the screen of your iPhone, iPad, or Mac straight to the big screen. There’s a lot more you can do as well. Here’s our complete guide!

How to set up and start using your new Apple TV

Because the Apple TV is relatively inexpensive — only $99 in the U.S. — and provides a ton of video and audio streaming capability, including direct lines in iTunes and even AirPlay from iOS devices, it’s an incredibly easy purchase to justify. It’s also an incredibly easy device to set up. If you’re having any trouble, however, here are the step-by-step directions.

• How to automatically set up your Apple TV using an iPhone or iPad
• How to manually set up your Apple TV using the hardware remote

How to use VoiceOver on your Apple TV

If you have an Apple TV but find it difficult or impossible to see and navigate the menu system VoiceOver is there to help. An accessibility option meant to help those with visual challenges, VoiceOver “speaks” the controls to you, letting you hear what you can’t see. You can even set up shortcuts to turn VoiceOver on and off with just two taps.

• How to use VoiceOver on your Apple TV

How to pair an Apple remote with your Apple TV

Apple’s hardware remote is a small, convenient aluminum stick with absolutely indiscriminate infrared (IR) blasting. If you only have one Apple TV in the vicinity, that’s not a problem. If you have multiple Apple TVs, however, or if you have older Macs running Front Row, you’ll want to lock the remote a specific device. Luckily, it’s easy to do!

• How to pair an Apple remote with your Apple TV

How to use shortcuts on your Apple TV remote

Ever been stuck deep down inside Netflix on the Apple TV and wished there was a way to instantly jump all the way back to the main Home screen? Ever been frustrated by fast forward going too slow or too fast and wished you could simply skip chapter by chapter instead? Ever had Home screen icons disappear or services say they’re not available and wished you could reboot with only a couple of clicks? Well, you can! The little aluminum remote that comes with the Apple TV might not seem like much but there are a lot of options hidden behind those buttons. Here are some of the best!

• How to use shortcuts on your Apple TV remote

How to access the chapter menu on the Apple TV

If you want to skip forward or rewind to a certain scene on your Apple TV, scrubbing through with the standard fast forward and rewind controls can be daunting, especially if you’re going back or forward more than just a few seconds. When you want to skip through a significant amount of time, the chapter menu is the best option and can be brought up in one button click.

• How to access the chapter menu on the Apple TV

How to control your Apple TV with the Remote app for iPhone or iPad

Apple’s Remote app lets you control the Apple TV with your iPhone or iPad over Wi-Fi. Not only does that give you a backup if you ever lose the aluminum hardware remote that comes with the Apple TV, but it also lets you maintain control even if you’re not in line-of-sight, makes navigating large amounts of content — including Home Sharing libraries — easier, and thanks to the virtual keyboard, makes search term and password entry a breeze. Here’s how it works!

(Come April, you’ll be able to control your Apple TV with an Apple Watch as well!

• How to control your Apple TV with the Remote app for iPhone or iPad

How to pair a Bluetooth keyboard with your Apple TV

While navigating and selecting with the Apple TV remote control works fine, trying to enter a search term or a password is tedious and frustrating. The Remote app can help ease the pain, but nothing beats a real keyboard when it comes to typing. Luckily, Apple makes it possible to pair a Bluetooth keyboard with your Apple TV so that you never have to struggle again!

• How to pair a Bluetooth keyboard with your Apple TV

How to hide channels on your Apple TV main menu

The Apple TV interface is overflowing with channel icons and it can make finding your favorites, the ones you actually want to watch, into a chore. So, what if you want Netflix and HBO Go but not NBA or MLB, or vice versa? Easy! You can hide channel icons right from the main menu, or toggle them on or off right from settings!

• How to hide channels on your Apple TV main menu

How to AirPlay video from your iPhone or iPad to your Apple TV

AirPlay lets you wirelessly beam whatever you’re watching on your iPhone or iPad to your Apple TV, even videos in App Store apps like YouTube and Netflix. Any app that’s incorporated Apple’s AirPlay media button will work. All that’s required are a few taps!

• How to AirPlay video from your iPhone or iPad to your Apple TV

How to use Control Center to AirPlay videos to your Apple TV

Ever wish you could take a video from your iPhone or iPad and watch it on your big screen TV? Well, with AirPlay and an Apple TV you can! Many apps have built-in AirPlay buttons but, sadly, they’re often in different shapes, sizes, and places. Luckily, Control Center has an AirPlay button as well. That makes it easy to find and easy to use!

• How to use Control Center to AirPlay videos to your Apple TV

How to use AirPlay to mirror your iPhone or iPad screen to your Apple TV

AirPlay Mirroring lets you wirelessly beam whatever you’re viewing on your iPhone or iPad to your Apple TV. Whether you’re using a dumb network TV app that doesn’t include built-in AirPlay or just want to game on your big screen HDTV, AirPlay Mirroring lets you share almost anything and everything in just a few taps.

• How to use AirPlay to mirror your iPhone or iPad screen to your Apple TV

How to use AirPlay to mirror your Mac screen to your Apple TV

While iTunes can send media directly from your Mac to your Apple TV, you can also mirror your entire display. It’s especially useful for things like family FaceTime and company presentations. What’s more, it’s easy to do!

• How to AirPlay Mirror your Mac to your Apple TV

How to watch iTunes Extras on your Apple TV

iTunes Extras are like DVD to Blu-ray movies extras that play right inside iTunes on the Mac or Windows, and on your Apple TV. They can include director’s commentary, deleted scenes, bonus scenes, making-of documentaries, and other features. Not every movie has iTunes Extras, but for those that do, here’s how to find and enjoy them!

• How to watch iTunes Extras on your Apple TV

How to use Home Sharing to access your iTunes library on your Apple TV

Home Sharing is a great way to stream content from your Mac right to your Apple TV. It lets you quickly and easily get anything from the iTunes library on your desktop to the HDTV without it having to be on Apple’s servers, like iTunes in the Cloud, or you having to be at your computer, like AirPlay. It’s an older feature, more pull than push, but for home movies, personal video collections, ripped CDs, and more, it still works great. Here’s how!

• How to use Home Sharing to access your iTunes library on your Apple TV

How to manually check for software updates on an Apple TV

When there’s an update available for the Apple TV you’ll get a popup notification telling you about it. However, you might be in a hurry to watch a movie, listen to music, or do something else when it happens, and you may not want to stop and do the update right then and there. Luckily, you can check for and apply Apple TV software updates at any time. Here’s how!

• How to manually check for software updates on an Apple TV

How to fix a glitchy Apple TV by restoring it to factory settings

If you’re having problems with your Apple TV, if Wi-Fi or connectivity is buggy, if it keeps failing to connect or update, if the channels just don’t work the way they’re supposed to, then restoring it to factory settings can give you a fresh start. Sure, it’s the nuclear option but it will also solve most problems, most of the time. If you’re suffering, a factory restore is one of your last, best hopes for salvation!

• How to fix a problematic Apple TV by restoring it to factory settings

How to fix a bricked Apple TV by restoring it with iTunes

Like any device, from time to time an Apple TV can give you problems. In most cases a restart, reset all settings, or restore to factory settings will fix the problem. If you’re Apple TV is totally non-responsive — or bricked — the only way to fix it is a full restore using iTunes. Here’s how!

• How to fix a bricked Apple TV by restoring it with iTunes

How to get more help with your Apple TV

If you need any additional help or have specific questions check out our Apple TV Forum!

Note: Originally published April 2014. Updated March 17, 2014.

Ever need to figure out what time it is in some other corner of the world? Just ask Siri!

Time zones can be confusing. While the Clock app for iPhone and iPad lets you add all the locations you want to monitor current times, it’s way easier to just ask Siri. As long as you know the location, Siri can tell you the current time and how far ahead or behind they are from your current location.

How to check times in other parts of the world with Siri

1. Press and hold your Home button to activate Siri.
2. Say something like “What time is it in Berlin, Germany?” — just substitute the location you want to know about.
3. Siri will quickly tell you what the local time and how much of a different it is from your current location.

A few folks have been noticing that the MixRadio app for Windows 8.1 appears to have been removed from the Windows Store. This is absolutely the case, but before any “sky is falling” reactions have chance to manifest, it’s not permanent. The app will return, and it’s down to payments and accounts that it had to be removed at all.

It is finally possible to send message in Hangouts using Google Now voice commands.

Gone are the days of having to pick up your phone and actually type a message to your friends on Hangouts; now you can simply use Google Now to send it. All you have to do is launch Google Now then say “send a Hangouts message.” It will then ask who you want to send to and what you want the message to say, then confirm that you want to send it.

Tinkerplay, a new free app from Autodesk, hopes to make 3D printing and designing a little more fun.

3D printing is becoming more and more popular, and Russell Holly from Android Central has been having quite a good time with it, but designing and printing isn’t for everyone. The folks at Autodesk have just released a new app for Android, iOS and even Windows Phone that they hope will make the experience much easier.

Google’s Chromecast streaming video dongle can now be controled by some users with their TV remote thanks to a recent firmware update.

While Google did not announce this new feature officially, it has been discovered by many Chromecast owners who later posted their findings to sites like Reddit.