What Are Telegram Channels? Telegram channels are different from Telegram groups, though they do appear to be similar. For instance, Telegram groups can have up to 200,000 users, and they can be open to the public. Channels, on the other hand, are specifically designed for broadcasting messages to a large audience. Unlike groups, they are not designed for conversations. You can have an unlimited number of subscribers to a public or private channel....

What Does “iPhone Unavailable” Mean? The “iPhone Unavailable” black screen appears after too many wrong passcode attempts. It’s meant to protect against brute force attacks, where someone who is trying to gain access to your iPhone tries as many passcodes as possible in an attempt to force their way in. In most cases, you will see a timer beneath the message informing you of how long you need to wait before your iPhone becomes available again....

If Microsoft Teams is getting on your nerves in Windows 11—popping up when you log in, always running in the background, or launching when you click the “Chat” taskbar icon—here’s how to get rid of it. Why Does Microsoft Want Me To Use Teams? Teams is Microsoft’s collaboration and chat app. It supports audio and video calls, text-based chat, group chat, and synchronizing schedules, among other features. Teams is a competitor to services such as Zoom, Google Chat, and Slack, and can be considered a replacement for Skype, another Microsoft Product....

Just because you have a spreadsheet full of data doesn’t mean you want to see it all at once. You can hide columns in Microsoft Excel that you don’t need at the moment. Then simply unhide them when you’re ready. Hide Columns in Microsoft Excel Hiding columns in Excel is super easy. And, you can select the columns you want to hide in a few different ways. To select a single column, click the column header....

If you have data sets that you want to compare or show a trend over time, create a bar graph. In Google Sheets, you can make a bar chart and customize it most any way you like. RELATED: How to Make a Bar Chart in Microsoft Excel Make a Bar Chart in Google Sheets Select the data for the chart by dragging your cursor through the range of cells. Then, go to Insert in the menu and select “Chart....

Whether you communicate with others a little or a lot in Google Chat, having quick access to your most important conversations is key. For this, you can pin conversations in Google Chat on the web, in Gmail online, and in the mobile app. Pin Conversations in Google Chat or Gmail Online If you use Google Chat online or have it enabled in the sidebar for your online Gmail account, you can easily pin a conversation or a room....

When you’re researching online, you might come across multiple pages you want to refer back to later. Instead of leaving them open and wasting precious resources, you can use the following methods to save your Chrome tabs. Bookmark Multiple Tabs on Chrome Creating a bookmark in Chrome is pretty straightforward, but what if you want to create bookmarks for all the open tabs in your Chrome window? RELATED: How to Create, View, and Edit Bookmarks in Google Chrome...

When results appear, look in the sidebar on the left side of the screen. Locate the “Department” section and click one of the departments that applies most to what you’re looking for. This step is necessary to further narrow down results. For example, here we searched for headphones, so we picked “Electronics” as the department.

When you’re looking for specific content within a document that contains a lot of text, finding what you’re looking for can be difficult, at best. Luckily, Google Docs provides a feature to quickly search for text on desktop and mobile. Search for Words in Google Docs on Desktop Searching for text, as the name implies, allows you to quickly locate text within a document. Google Docs takes it one step further and even allows you to replace that text with other text using the Find and Replace feature....

Apple’s “Find My” service not only helps you keep track of your devices, but it can also help friends and relatives keep track of your location too—if you let them. If you’ve recently switched iPhones or have multiple devices, it’s important to set a single device as your personal location. Here’s how to do it on iPhone or iPad. First, decide which Apple device (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) you want to represent your personal location....

If you click an email link in Windows 11 and the wrong email client pops up, you can easily change the default email app. All it takes is a quick trip to Windows Settings. Here’s how to do it. First, open the Settings app by pressing Windows+i on your keyboard. Or you can right-click the Start button in your taskbar and select “Settings.” When Settings opens, click “Apps” in the sidebar, and then select “Default Apps....

The Kernel and System Calls As smart as they might be, computer programs can’t do everything for themselves. They need to make requests to have certain functions performed for them. These requests go to the Linux kernel. Typically, there’s a library or other software interface that the program calls, and the library then makes the appropriate request—called a system call—to the kernel. Being able to see the system calls that a program has made and what the responses were can help you understand the inner workings of programs that interest you or that you have written....

Want to see someone’s Instagram posts without creating or logging in to an Instagram account? While your options are limited, there are some ways of viewing Instagram posts without an account. We’ll show you what those are. RELATED: How to View Instagram’s Chronological Feed Limitations of Using Instagram Without an Account One way to access someone’s Instagram posts without logging in to an account is to use Instagram in a desktop web browser....

12th Gen Intel Core i9-12900K Reviews Whenever there’s a big leap forward in processors, it’s always exciting to see what the reviewers think after they put it to the test. In the case of the $589 12th Gen Intel Core i9-12900K, the critics have been very kind to it. Make sure to read our guide to processor reviews to make sure you understand what you’re looking at. There’s a lot of jargon used in the reviews that follow, so make sure you understand everything before you dig in....

With this Meta name and brand, Facebook won’t be required to use the metaverse tools and ideas that Mark Zuckerberg and the company have. “Right now, our brand is so tightly linked to one product,” he said. “But over time, I hope we are seen as a metaverse company,” Zuckerberg said during his presentation. “To reflect who we are and the future we hope to build, I’m proud to share that our company is now Meta,” Zuckerberg explained....

Microsoft Edge is undeniably a very solid browser. It has many of the same features as Google Chrome, even a few clever unique features of its own. So why is Microsoft hell-bent on making people hate it? It’s no secret that Microsoft frequently uses Windows to push its own products. The latest tactic is pop-ups that appear when you visit the Chrome download page. Google does something similar, but it can only use web prompts....

The Stalemate in Linux Gaming It’s September 2021, and the year of the Linux desktop still isn’t here. If it were, game studios would be scrambling to get their games ported to Linux, while Microsoft and Apple cry out in repentance for their closed-source and monopolistic wrongdoings. But they’re not. Statcounter reports that the global market share of Linux users isn’t budging from around 1%, indicating the realization of that dream remains out of sight....

RELATED: The Best Webcams of 2022 Much like a laptop, you won’t need a dedicated webcam if you have this monitor. Instead, the webcam is integrated. It also comes with a built-in microphone and speakers, so it really has all the hardware you need to attend virtual meetings. And who doesn’t want to attend more meetings? RELATED: The Best Laptops of 2022 “With many adjusting to long-term hybrid work and learning environments, Samsung introduces its first webcam monitor to make life easier for those often on video calls or multitasking,” said Mark Quiroz, Vice President of Marketing for the Display Division at Samsung....

Digital photo collages are a great way to showcase a few of your favorite, related photos. Sure, you could manually create your own using photo editing software, but specialized apps that automatically handle resizing photos to fit in a predesigned template make it much easier. Here are some of our favorite free options. Google Photos We’ll start with Google Photos since it’s an app so many people are already using....

Captain Phillips Play Video Tom Hanks gives one of his best performances as the title character in fact-based thriller Captain Phillips. Director Paul Greengrass tells the true story of an American container ship hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia. Barkhad Abdi makes a striking debut as the leader of the pirates, with a mix of menace and desperation. Greengrass brings clear-eyed immediacy to the tense stand-off, and Hanks makes Captain Phillips a model of cool competence, until the weight of his ordeal comes crashing down on him in a brilliant final scene....