The new AirPods Pro sound better than the originals, and noise cancellation has seen a massive upgrade. They’re easier to charge, easier to use, and if you lose them, they’re easier to find than ever before. While these are quite obviously a step forward from their predecessors, plenty of competition has come to the field since the release of the original AirPods Pro. These might be a worthy successor to the original, but are they better than the competition?...

After Microsoft announced Windows 11, several publications raised the alarm that the new OS would make millions of PCs obsolete. Luckily, you can keep using your current PC hardware safely with Windows 10 for at least four more years. Here’s why. By 2025, Your Current PC Will Be at Least Four Years Old Microsoft has set the end date of Windows 10 support to October 14, 2025. After that point, Windows 10 will no longer receive new security updates from Microsoft, and Windows 10 will be considered “end-of-life” (commercially dead)....

Check Your Device’s Free Space A lack of free disk space is going to cause download problems, regardless of which device you’re using. While most devices will check for adequate disk space before starting the transfer, some don’t, and your download will fail for seemingly no reason. Performing a full restart can often free up some space as the system deletes temporary files and performs housekeeping in the background. Otherwise, learn how to create free space on Windows, macOS, Android, or an iPhone....

Dropbox’s New Collaboration Features Dropbox started as a cloud storage service. In fact, it’s one of the services that put cloud storage on the map. But with users looking for more from their apps, Dropbox is adding a bunch of new tools that make remote collaboration more enjoyable. First, a new feature called Dropbox Capture allows you to record your screen, create GIFs, and take screenshots. Dropbox Capture is in beta right now for personal and business plans, so you can give it a try and see if it’s worthy of replacing your current screen capture tool....

RELATED: Unicode 14.0 Arrives With Troll and Low Battery Emoji When someone reacts to a text message on iPhone, other iPhone users see a symbol on the message letting them know there’s been a reaction. Android users, on the other hand, actually see a text message that looks like this: It creates rather ugly message threads when lots of people are using these reactions in a group chat. Thankfully, according to 9To5Google, there are hints in the beta version 10....

How Expensive Are Microsoft’s Plans? The initial Windows 365 announcement left us with lots of questions. Now, the biggest of those questions has been answered since we know how much it’ll cost. But there’s a huge difference between $20 and $162 per user per month, so what exactly are you paying for? It’s pretty simple: the price is determined by the number of virtual cores, amount of RAM, and quantity of storage each person needs for their virtual Windows machine....

Why Adjust Exposure With Range Masks? Say you’ve got a photo where the highlights are perfectly exposed, but you’ve lost detail in the shadows. You could just raise the exposure slider, but that might blow out your highlights. Adjusting the shadow slider could also work, but it may flatten the contrast in your image if you have to crank it too high. Targeting the shadows with a range mask instead can allow you to raise those shadows without disturbing the rest of the image....

Snapchat is already a go-to social network for millennials and teens, and its reach is now growing. You can share your life in auto-disappearing photos, without the fear of one bad photo coming back to haunt you in a job interview a few years later. But most of the time, the photos are less incriminating, and more mementos a fun night out. When that happens, you don’t want them vanishing into the ether....

If you use Windows 11 on a tablet or touch-screen computer, you might rely on the touch keyboard to enter text. But did you know you can give this virtual keyboard a fresh new look with a colorful theme? Here’s how. First, open Windows Settings. To do so quickly, press Windows+i on your keyboard. Or, you can right-click the Start button and select “Settings” from the menu. In Windows Settings, select the “Personalization” sidebar item, and then click “Touch Keyboard....

Microsoft Edge is a great alternative to Google Chrome on Windows and Mac. If you’d like to preserve your privacy after browsing, here’s how to clear your browsing history in Microsoft Edge. First, open the Microsoft Edge browser to get started. Next, click the three-dot menu button from the toolbar. Choose the “Settings” option. Alternatively, you can use the Command+Comma(,) keyboard shortcut. Go to the “Privacy, Search, and Services” section from the sidebar....

Adobe Photoshop on Mac and Windows offers several different ways to copy image layers between documents so you don’t need to recreate your hard work from scratch. Here’s how to do it. How to Copy Layers by Drag-and-Drop The easiest way to copy a layer from one Photoshop document to another is to drag and drop it between documents. Start by launching both your documents in Photoshop. Notice that each document has its own tab in the Photoshop interface....

Starting with Safari 15, Apple’s browser now has a hidden feature that lets you copy all the web addresses (URLs) from dozens of open tabs. Here’s how you can copy links from multiple tabs at once on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad. What You’ll Need Apple added the new “Copy Links” feature with Safari 15 to export URLs from open tabs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. To use Safari 15, you’ll need to be running iOS 15 or iPadOS 15 (or higher) on your iPhone and iPad, respectively....

Windows has the built-in ability to function as VPN server using the point-to-point tunneling protocol (PPTP), although this option is somewhat hidden. Here’s how to find it and set up your VPN server. RELATED: What Is a VPN, and Why Would I Need One? Setting up a VPN server could be useful for connecting to your home network on the road, playing LAN games with someone, or securing your web browsing on a public Wi-Fi connection — a few of the many reasons you might want to use a VPN....

If you leave your Chromebook sitting around where it could potentially be used by others—but you don’t want them to—it’s easy to disable guest browsing in Google’s Chrome OS so that only registered accounts can use the device. Here’s how to do it. First, open the Launcher by clicking the small circle button in the lower-left corner of the screen. Then expand the launcher window with the caret up arrow near the top....

If you have an audio output device connected to your Windows 11 PC—such as speakers, headphones, or a headset—that you don’t want to output sound to, you can disable it in Settings without having to uninstall it in Windows. Here’s how. First, you’ll need to open the sound options in Windows Settings. To do so, press Windows+i on your keyboard and navigate to System > Sound. Or, you can right-click the speaker icon in your taskbar and select “Sound Settings....

There are two methods for entering text with your voice on a Chrome OS device. Both utilize the onscreen keyboard, but if you’re using a physical keyboard, there are some extra steps to get to it. RELATED: How to Type with Your Voice on Android On a Chromebook with a Physical Keyboard We’ll start with the physical keyboard method. This applies to using a Chromebook as a laptop or with an external keyboard connected....

Animal Crossing: New Horizons has rolled out yet another seasonal event, and this time players can craft various DIY fall-themed recipes using acorns and pine cones. Here’s how to join the fun, happening between September and November 2020. Find Acorns and Pine Cones Isabelle will inform you of the new seasonal event in her morning announcement. She will allude to how you can participate in the new festivities—shaking trees. The event is available in September, October, and November in the Northern Hemisphere or March, April, and May for those in the Southern Hemisphere....

Automatically highlighting data in your spreadsheets makes reviewing your most useful data points a cinch. So if you want to view your top- or bottom-ranked values, conditional formatting in Microsoft Excel can make that data pop. Maybe you use Excel to track your sales team’s numbers, your students’ grades, your store location sales, or your family of website’s traffic. You can make informed decisions by seeing which rank at the top of the group or which fall to the bottom....

What’s that song playing right now? At one point, your best bet was to hope your friend knew—or try to listen to the lyrics and search for them. Now, you can just have your phone, tablet, or PC listen to it. This is all built into modern operating systems. Shazam was the app that really brought song identification to the masses, and it’s still available on modern smartphones and tablets....

Looking for a way to speed up form creation in Google Forms? You can import questions from other forms you’ve created to save time. This is a great way to reuse questions and make a form in minutes. You can easily make a copy of a form you’ve created in Google Forms and then edit it to fit. But you may have only one or two questions that you want to reuse....