It’s common advice to put a case on your phone as soon as you get it. However, there are tons of different cases out there. Some are more effective than others. You should know that any ‘ol case isn’t going to save your phone from untimely damage. So Many Options Cases come in many different designs, colors, and materials. Some look great but don’t offer much protection, and the opposite can be true as well....
It’s understandable to assume a “lifetime” subscription means you’ll get access to the service for the rest of your life. Unfortunately, that is rarely the case. There’s often a lot of fine print with these “lifetime” subscriptions, and you can end up with access for a lot shorter than expected. RELATED: The Best Services to Cancel Unwanted Subscriptions and Negotiate Bills Who Goes First: You or the Service? The big question with a lifetime subscription is: Whose life are we actually talking about here?...
The kid-friendly reader also has a 2-year worry-free guarantee, so you don’t need to worry about your kids breaking the reader. The reader is built to be free of distractions, which will let kids keep their noses in the books and out of other stuff. Of course, there are also parental features that allow parents to view reading progress, add books to their child’s library, and more. The Kindle Paperwhite Kids is based on the Kindle Paperwhite....
What G-Sync and FreeSync Do FreeSync and G-Sync are examples of variable refresh rate technologies. They are not the only options since you may also find monitors that support HDMI VRR, but in the PC market where DisplayPort rules the roost, it’s barely worth mentioning. AMD developed FreeSync. However, the technology is free to use by any display manufacturer, and there are no royalties to pay to AMD. However, to get FreeSync certification, the monitor must meet certain minimum standards....
RELATED: How Does the Internet Work? Is Facebook.com Down? According to Down Detector, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus VR, all owned by Facebook, started suffering from outages at around 11:40 am ET. For its part, WhatsApp acknowledged the issue on Twitter. It said it was “working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible.” The social network had to take to Twitter, a rival social network, to say, “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products....
Here’s a quick, small tip for iPhone and iPad owners that is easy to miss. When you bring up the Spotlight search screen, you can expand Siri Suggestions and get an extra row of results. Here’s how. First, swipe downward with one finger in the middle of your iPhone or iPad’s home screen to bring up Spotlight search. When Spotlight pops up, you’ll see “Siri Suggestions” listed just below the search bar (unless you previously turned them off)....
More Than Just a Filter Photographic Styles integrate directly into Apple’s image processing pipeline, which means the feature isn’t the same as applying a filter or tweaking a photo later in the editing process. Instead, a style can be selected before you shoot to enhance particular characteristics in the scene. As an example, two of Apple’s four default styles are “rich contrast” which accentuates darker details, and “vibrant” for colors that pop....
The Status Bar in Microsoft Excel allows you to quickly see the average, sum, or count of selected cells. But what’s better than viewing those values is being able to use them. Here’s how copy directly from the Status Bar. Choose Your Status Bar Calculations Because you can customize the elements that appear in the Excel Status Bar, you’ll need to confirm that those you want to view and copy are selected....
Use the “Apps” Menu to Uninstall an App Your Fire TV Stick has a menu called “Apps” that lets you quickly view and launch your installed apps. You can use this menu to remove your apps as well. To start, on your Fire TV Stick’s remote, press and hold down the Home button. Then, in the menu that opens, choose “Apps.” On the “Your Apps & Games” page, highlight the app you want to delete....
Signal, the secure encrypted messenger app, doesn’t offer an app for Chromebooks. The Android version won’t run on Chromebooks, either—but, by using the Chrome OS Linux subsystem, you can easily install and use Signal. Here’s how. Privacy from the Ground up The source code of the protocol has been reviewed by an independent team from the German CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, the Swiss ETH Zurich University, Cisco, and the Canadian University of Waterloo....
If you’re stuck in a group chat on an iPhone, it’s possible to leave the group if everyone is using iPhones (or Apple Messages) to communicate. Here’s how to do it—and tips on what to do if you’re stuck in an SMS group text instead. How to Leave a Group Messages Chat on iPhone First, open the Messages app on your iPhone. To leave a group chat, everyone involved in the conversation thread will need to be using the Messages app an Apple device (which uses Apple’s iMessage network)....
Give your eyes a break from reading text on Microsoft Teams. Instead, you can make the Teams app read those messages aloud to you on Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android. Here’s how. How Does Immersive Reader Work? You can listen to a long message aloud using the Immersive Reader feature in the Microsoft Teams app. The natural language text-to-speech engine powers it to let you hear the messages in a non-robotic voice....
What Is IPD, and Why Does It Matter for VR? There are two main reasons that IPD matters in VR. Most VR headsets offer some way to adjust the lenses of the headset to suit different IPD. The lenses can either be moved closer together or further apart, or a software adjustment can be made to simulate a shifting focal point. The first reason IPD matters is that it’s best for the optimal focal point of the lens to align directly with your pupils....
By default, you need to make two clicks to open a link in a Google Sheets spreadsheet. Using a workaround, you can make it so that the link opens with a single click. We’ll show you how to do this. How This Works This workaround publishes your Google Sheets spreadsheet as a web page. You then single-click the links on this web page to open them. Google gives you a unique URL for your published web page....
Interrupting a speaker or presentation in a Microsoft Teams meeting can break the conversation’s flow. So how about you use the raise-hand feature when you want to speak or ask a question? It notifies everyone on the call when you raise your hand virtually. During a Microsoft Teams meeting call, the raise-hand feature in Microsoft Teams prevents people from interrupting others. It’s available on all platforms, so find yours below to get started....
Interrupting a speaker can break the conversation or webinar flow. To avoid that, you can use the virtual “Raise hand” feature to ask a question or share something without disturbing anyone. That notifies the host and co-hosts to manage your turn to speak during the interaction. RELATED: How to Raise Your Hand in Google Meet Here’s how you can use the “Raise Hand” feature in Zoom on a desktop, web, and mobile....
“Oh no, I shouldn’t have sent that email.” This has happened to all of us at least once. The good news is that you can unsend or recall an email in Microsoft Outlook. To help you prevent this scenario in the future, we’ll explain how to unsend an email and how to delay emails so you can review them. Use Undo Send in Outlook for the Web You can cancel the sending of an email in Outlook for the web with a click....
Restore YouTube Dislikes With a Browser Extension You can restore dislikes on YouTube in just a few clicks with a browser extension imaginatively called Return YouTube Dislike. Currently, the extension can be installed on Firefox, Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera, and Brave as a native application. Firefox and Chrome use their own native versions of the app, while the other listed browsers are all compatible with the Chrome version. Some browsers like Edge may require that you allow extensions from other stores before you can do this....
To get specific food recommendations while searching in Google Maps, you can configure your dietary requirements in the app. We’ll show you how to do that on your iPhone, iPad, and Android phone. In the Google Maps app on your phone, you can set various diet options, including alcohol-free, gluten-free, halal, kosher, vegan, and vegetarian. Then, when you look for food places, Google Maps will only show the locations that serve food according to your dietary requirements....
In Windows 11, taskbar icons can include tiny red notification badges that show the number of unread messages in an app. By default, this might be disabled. Here’s how to turn icon notification badges on. First, open Windows Settings. You can use a link in the Quick Settings menu or press Windows+i on your keyboard, or you might find it pinned to the Start menu. When Settings opens, select “Personalization” in the sidebar, and then click “Taskbar....
