What Do You Mean? WDYM stands for “what do you mean?” It’s an acronym used in online chats and social media websites to ask someone to explain a message you don’t understand. It is less commonly spelled as “WYM” or “what you mean?” Like other acronyms that gained popularity in the age of direct messaging, people usually write it in the lowercase “wdym” instead of the uppercase. For example, if your friend tells you, “Did you do the homework yet?...
A smart crib can save a new parent from losing around two hours of sleep every night for the first year of their newborn’s life. How do smart cribs keep infants sleeping soundly, and are they worth the price? Bassinet vs. Convertible Bassinet When shopping for a bed for a newborn, you generally have two options: a bassinet, which is suitable for a child up to five months of age, or a convertible bassinet, which turns into a crib after your child has grown out of the bassinet....
Did you know that your web browser is automatically downloading and using fonts that aren’t installed on your system? Web fonts help the pages you browse every day look better. Here’s what they are and how they work. Desktop Fonts vs. Web Fonts We all use fonts every day. Some of them come with your operating system, some come from applications like the Adobe Creative Suite or Microsoft Office, and some are ones that you download or purchase and install yourself....
Lossless Audio Preserves Detail In order to save disk space and bandwidth, music files are often compressed. MP3 was one of the first compressed formats to take off, with AAC/MP4 being the dominant format used today. When a file is compressed it is effectively squeezed down into a smaller file size. To do this, some data must be discarded. When data is discarded, audio quality suffers. You can hear this most clearly in the high and low end of a recording, for example, the crash of a cymbal....
It’s finally possible to run Android apps on Windows PCs. But why bother? If you’re skeptical about Android apps in Windows 11, we’ll explain why you should give it a try. Technically, Windows 11 is not the first time Android apps have been able to run on Windows. Emulators like BlueStacks have made it possible for years, but Windows 11 makes the experience, well, good. That doesn’t mean you know what to do with it, though....
Windows 11 has received a steady slew of updates for Windows Insiders on the Dev and Beta channels. Now a near-final version of the OS is available on the Release Preview channel. That means you can get a version of Windows 11 that’s close to what we’ll see on October 5. However, we’re less than two weeks away from the final release of Windows 11. If you’ve gone this long without testing the preview builds of the operating system, you’re better off waiting until the final release, as it will receive some more minor fixes and tweaks that’ll make using it more pleasant....
Why Is Microsoft Dropping Passwords? As mentioned, we’re moving towards a passwordless future, and Microsoft is embracing that by letting you access your account through the Microsoft Authenticator app, Windows Hello, a security key, SMS verification, or email verification code. RELATED: The Tech Industry Wants to Kill the Password. Or Does It? All consumer users can get rid of them and lock their accounts down without worrying about their passwords being stolen....
Mozilla is getting ready to release Firefox 95. While the list of new features won’t exactly set the browser world on fire, the security upgrade the browser is receiving is nothing short of impressive The browser now includes a novel sandboxing technology called RLBox, which will significantly improve the security offered by the browser. What is RLBox Sandboxing? Basically, RLBox uses WebAssembly to isolate potentially-buggy code. The browser isolates five different modules called Graphite, Hunspell, Ogg, Expat, and Woff2....
The ability to copy and paste is a basic and simple function of any Android smartphone or tablet. However, if you want to take it to the next level, take full advantage of the clipboard feature to find everything you’ve copied. Let’s get started. Like many things in Android, the clipboard feature works differently depending on your device’s skin and Android version. Samsung and LG phones have their own built-in clipboards....
By default, Safari on Mac blocks pop-up windows from appearing. If you need to allow pop-ups for certain websites, it’s easy to make the change in Safari Preferences. Here’s how. First, open Safari on your Mac and browse to the website that includes the pop-ups that you want to allow. In the menu bar, click “Safari,” and select “Preferences” from the menu that appears. In the preferences window of Safari 14 and up, click the “Websites” tab, and then scroll down to the bottom of the sidebar and select “Pop-up Windows....
Don’t like the default font that Google Slides uses for your favorite theme? You can change the default font by updating the font style in the Master slide. We’ll show you how. How to Set a New Default Font in Google Slides To get started, launch your browser of choice and open a Google Slides presentation. Once you’ve opened the presentation, click “Slide” in the header menu. Next, click “Edit Theme” near the bottom of the drop-down menu....
It’s nice to be able to control smart home gadgets from your phone, but you don’t want to be fumbling around with apps to turn on a light. Samsung Galaxy devices make this super easy, we’ll show you how. Android 11 introduced a new power menu with access to smart home device controls, but Samsung put these controls in the Quick Settings instead—which Google adopted in Android 12. The controls are always just a swipe down from the top of the screen away....
If you find yourself creating the same outline of a presentation over and over again, you can save yourself the effort by using a template. Here’s how to create custom-made templates in Google Slides. Although Google Slides does offer a wide range of templates to choose from for free accounts, they don’t all cater to the needs of everyone. To create a custom template that you can reuse multiple times over, you’ll have to use this little workaround to generate them....
If your Windows 11 PC has a working Internet connection (through Ethernet, a cellular modem, Wi-Fi, or otherwise), you can share that connection as a mobile hotspot wirelessly through Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. Here’s how to set it up. First, open Windows Settings by pressing Windows+i on your keyboard. Or you can open Start and search for “Settings,” then click its icon. In Settings, click “Network & Internet” in the sidebar, then click “Mobile Hotspot” (ignore the on/off switch for now)....
To get started, open the Photos app on your iPhone or iPad and navigate to the photo that you want to crop. In the top-right corner, tap the “Edit” button. You’re now in the photo editing view. In the bottom toolbar, tap the Crop button (It looks like a box with arrows around it.). The image will be surrounded by a white frame. Swipe in from any edge to crop the image....
How to Remove Websites from Safari History Safari will record any websites you visit unless you use Private Browsing. Once a website is in your history it will appear in the URL bar when you start typing a related term. There are all sorts of reasons you may want to prune specific websites, and it’s easy to do so. Open Safari and tap on the “Bookmarks” icon at the bottom of the screen (it looks like an open book)....
Using iCloud Drive, your Mac can sync the data in your Desktop and Documents folders between all your Apple devices. It’s handy, but it takes up iCloud storage space and might have privacy implications. If you’ve previously enabled this feature, here’s how to turn it off. To disable this feature, you’ll need to visit System Preferences. On your Mac, click the Apple icon in the top-left corner of the screen and choose “System Preferences” from the menu that appears....
Using Microsoft Excel macros, you can run a prerecorded set of steps to automate many of your repetitive tasks. You’ll have to turn on the feature before you can use it. We’ll show you how to activate macros on a per-spreadsheet basis as well as for all spreadsheets in Excel. Be Smart When Enabling Macros Enabling macros is not always safe and you should only use them when you’re sure of the source of your spreadsheets....
If you have data in a spreadsheet that you want to review quickly, having differences highlighted automatically can save you time. You might not realize it, but Microsoft Excel has a built-in feature for easily displaying row differences. Once you locate the differing data, you can also apply formatting to keep those differences highlighted. Then, get to work on updating, correcting, or analyzing the data in your spreadsheet. Find Row Differences in Excel The first step in locating differences in your data is to select the cells....
We’ve been having a lot of fun playing with the new Oculus Go VR headset, but the battery life is terrible, and not just when you’re using it. The battery drains in a few hours just sitting there! Here’s how to get better battery life out of your Oculus Go. When we mean the battery dies while it’s sitting there, that’s literally what we mean. You take off the headset, put it on your desk, and come back a few hours later or the next day, and the battery is either fully drained or it’s dead....
