If you’d like to keep track of your body weight over time, Apple’s Health app on the iPhone makes it easy. Here’s how to enter your weight and view your records. How to Locate Weight Data in the Health App It’s easy to keep track of your weight in the Health app, but by default, the category might be a little hard to find. To find it, first, open the Health app on your iPhone....
If you’re tired of your Windows 10 or 11 PC’s screen automatically getting brighter or dimmer, it’s easy to turn off. All it takes is a quick trip to Settings. Here’s how to do it. Understanding Windows Automatic Brightness Before we get started, it’s important to know that automatic (or adaptive) brightness only applies to Windows devices with built-in screens such as laptops, tablets, and all-in-one desktop PCs. If you use an external monitor, you probably won’t see controls for adaptive brightness in Settings....
Nintendo’s Splatoon 2 translates the squad-based, first-person shooter into a nonviolent game that’s suitable for a younger audience. But the game displays drawings (called “posts”) created by other players. Luckily, there are two ways you can turn these off. What Is a Player Post in Splatoon 2? Splatoon 2 is an updated version of Splatoon, which first launched for the Wii U in 2015. The Wii U included a touch screen with a stylus and encouraged players to share drawings via a now-defunct online service called Miiverse....
Gmail sets itself apart with its smart email features. But if you don’t like Gmail’s auto-complete or auto-reply suggestions, you can turn them off. Here’s how to disable Smart Reply and Smart Compose. What Are Smart Reply and Smart Compose? The Smart Reply feature in Gmail shows you three quick replies at the bottom of an email. The Smart Compose feature gives you predictive text suggestions right as you’re typing an email....
Your Mac has a quick hotkey that will open an emoji picker in any app. You can quickly insert an emoji anywhere on macOS—in a messaging app, in an email, or even in a document you’re editing. Here’s how to use it. First, open the app you’d like to insert the emoji into. Click on any text input area, and when you see a cursor, press Control+Command+Space. An emoji panel will pop up....
If you shared a Google Docs document with someone, but you no longer want them to have access to that document, you can remove them by simply adjusting the sharing settings. Here’s how. Remove Someone From a Google Doc on Desktop There are two ways you can share a Google Docs document—by link-sharing or by adding someone to a document using their email. You can unshare a Google Doc no matter which method was originally used to share it, but the steps are a bit different for each....
Alexa’s Live Translation service performs well. During testing sessions, we spit rapid-fire phrases in English, Spanish, French, and Brazilian Portuguese, which Alexa was accurately able to translate within seconds of hearing them. Live Translation feels smooth and free of choppiness and unintended phrases. This is especially true with end-of-sentence breaks, which Alexa has become better at addressing over time. Supported Languages on Live Translation As of this writing in June 2021, Alexa supports six languages: English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese....
Microsoft’s Your Phone app is preinstalled on many Windows 10 lap- and desktops. It can also mirror notifications from your Android device, send and receive text messages on your PC, and sync photos. The latter is handy if you’d rather skip a cloud-storage service and don’t want to connect your phone to your PC with a cable. To use the Your Phone app on Windows and Android: Your computer must have the Windows 10 April 2018 Update or later installed....
In Windows 11, there’s a new widgets button on the taskbar that opens a menu with quick access to weather, traffic, news, sports scores, and more. Here’s how it works. What Is a Widget, Anyway? In computer software, a widget is usually a small graphical app designed for quickly referencing information such as weather, sports scores, and news. Widgets are often (but not always) presented separately from regular apps in an operating system, sometimes on their own screen or in their own sidebar or menu....
Intel’s New Arc GPU Brand Is Coming Intel’s GPU devices were initially called “DG2,” but they’ve received the official Arc branding from Intel. The first GPUs in the Arc line have a brand new code name now, as Intel refers to them as “Alchemist.” The company says it plans to ship its first batch of Alchemist products by the end of March 2022, so we’ll be waiting for some time before we can get our hands on these chips to see how they compare to NVIDIA and AMD’s offerings....
Thankfully, if a similar phishing email ends up in your inbox, there are a couple of easy ways to identify it as spam. RELATED: What Should You Do If You Receive a Phishing Email? But before we dig into this particular phishing attack, know that we DO NOT recommend you open any email that you suspect to be spam or click on links found within the message. Instead, immediately report the email, mark it as spam, and delete the message....
This is pretty cool: Windows 11 allows you to change the look of your touch keyboard—the virtual, on-screen keyboard that lets you type on touchscreen PCs and tablets. Here’s a look at some of the themes and how to do it. How to Change Your Virtual Keyboard Theme in Windows 11 Windows 11 makes it easy to customize the theme of your touch keyboard. To do so, open Settings (press Windows+i) and navigate to Personalization > Touch Keyboard....
Speaking on what the new chip brings to the table, Alex Katouzian, senior vice president and general manager of mobile, compute, and infrastructure, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., said, “It delivers connectivity, photography, AI, gaming, sound, and security experiences never before available in a smartphone.” Specifically, the chip comes with a 4th gen Snapdragon X65 5G Modem-RF System, which delivers 10 Gigabit download speeds. Qualcomm says it’s the first mobile chip to reach these download speeds....
Who doesn’t love a nice trip down memory lane? You can do just that with Microsoft’s interesting new virtual Xbox museum. Not only does it take you through Xbox’s history, but it’ll also let you revisit your own gaming stats and accomplishments. While a lot of the museum is focused on the good stuff, Microsoft isn’t afraid to remind us of some of the less pleasant parts of Xbox’s history....
To further complicate matters, many manufacturers have launched gamepads inspired by previous generations of Nintendo consoles. Take a quick look at any reputable retailer, and you’ll see Switch gamepads that look like iconic controllers for GameCube, N64, SNES, and NES. Toss in the availability of fighting sticks, racing wheels, and other auxiliary peripherals, and it’s easy to get overwhelmed by your options. The best way to narrow down your Nintendo Switch controller search is to determine which type of gamepad best fits your playstyle....
First, materials are important. For turntables on the lower end of the price spectrum, you can expect an aluminum platter (which the record sits on) and tonearm (which holds the stylus on the record). You’ll also find a few plastic parts on lower-end models. As you increase your budget, you’ll see the materials change. Starting around $400 or $500, you’ll begin to see carbon fiber tonearms and stainless-steel or acrylic platters....
If you transfer photos from an iPhone or iPad to a Windows PC, you might see some files with the extension “AAE” stored along with the images. We’ll explain this mysterious file type and what you should do with them. What Are AAE Files? AAE files are a special type of file that the Apple Photos app uses to keep track of changes that you make to your photos....
Dying of Laughter Despite it being two capital letters, XD is not an acronym or slang term. The letters don’t mean anything. However, if you turn your head to the left, you’ll figure out that it’s a text emoticon that forms the shape of someone smiling with an X for eyes. People usually interpret this emoticon as someone laughing with their eyes squinted. Alternatively, you can imagine it as an animated face with an X for eyes, like a visual metaphor for “dying of laughter....
Black Crush Means a Loss of Shadow Detail Black crush refers to the loss of fidelity in especially dark areas of an image. The term might apply in both the photography and video spheres but is most commonly used to describe the loss of shadow detail in moving images like movies and games. You might not immediately notice black crush until you see the “correct” image displayed alongside it (for example, on a different display that’s been correctly calibrated)....
What is a 502 Bad Gateway Error? A 502 Bad Gateway Error means that the web server you’ve connected to is acting as a proxy for relaying information from another server, but it has gotten a bad response from that other server. It’s called a 502 error because that’s the HTTP status code that the webserver uses to describe that kind of error. These bad responses could be due to a number of different causes....
