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IPS Monitors Finally Hit 1 ms Latency Formerly, if you wanted an ultra-low-latency monitor, you had to buy a TN panel. Most monitors came in one of three display panel types: TN, IPS, and VA. Each type had pros and cons. TN panels were favored for their ultra-low, one-millisecond response time. This creates very little perceivable lag between the keyboard and display, which reduces ghosting and motion blur. The only problem is TN panels have ghastly viewing angles and less-than-ideal color reproduction....

Best Buy’s New Totaltech Subscription Even though the PlayStation 5 has been out for some time, you still can’t walk into your favorite retailer and buy one. You need to get creative if you want to take one home. However, Best Buy is looking to make it easier with its new Totaltech program. RELATED: PlayStation 5 vs. Xbox Series X: Which Should You Buy? Basically, for $200 per year, you can get access to many benefits....

Separating Fact from Fiction Technology always plays a role in TV narrative-spinning, and this is one of the most endemic tropes, appearing everywhere from CSI to Star Trek. Play Video Predictably, fiction is always a lot more exciting than fact. Ultimately, pictures are information, with each pixel representing a singular piece of datum. While it’s possible to forensically adjust images to make certain elements clearer, you can’t extract something from nothing....

Why Battery Life Gets Worse Over Time You may have noticed that battery life gets worse if you use a phone for a long time. This is due to the “health” of the battery. As batteries age, they lose some of their capacity and won’t last as long on a charge. A brand new battery will have battery health of around 100%. This means you’re getting the full potential of the battery capacity....

A Google Sheets spreadsheet doesn’t have a visible header or footer until you decide to print. If you want to add headers and footers to a Google Sheets spreadsheet, you’ll have to use the printer settings menu—here’s how. To begin, open the Google Sheets spreadsheet that contains your data. At the top, click File > Print to view the printer settings menu for your document. In the “Print Settings” menu, you can customize the layout and design of your spreadsheet to make it suitable for printing....

When you’re presenting a PowerPoint presentation, it can be easy to lose track of what slide you’re currently on—especially if it’s a large one. To help, you can add slide numbers in PowerPoint to know your position. You could, of course, add slide numbers manually to each of your slides using text boxes. This isn’t an option we’d recommend because any changes you make (for instance, by adding new slides) would require you to update your slide numbers manually, too....

Since macOS 10.12 Sierra, Apple has included a way to automatically remove items from your Trash after 30 days, which can free up disk space and reduce mental clutter. Enabling it is easy, but the option takes some digging to find. Here’s the quickest way to turn it on. First, switch to “Finder” by clicking on the Mac desktop. In the menu bar at the top of the screen, click the “Finder” menu, and select “Preferences....

Dark mode, first introduced in iOS 13, offers a dark theme that’s easier on your eyes, especially at night. If you’d like your iPhone to automatically switch to Dark mode at sunset, it’s as easy as visiting the Settings app. Here’s how to set it up. First, open “Settings” by tapping the gear icon. In “Settings,” tap “Display & Brightness.” Under the “Appearance” section where you can choose between Light and Dark modes, tap the switch beside “Automatic” to turn it on....

Do you get a lot of “Scam Likely” calls on your phone? T-Mobile flags these scam calls so you can ignore them, but wouldn’t it be great if you could block them in the first place? Now, you can. T-Mobile customers can easily enable scam call blocking through T-Mobile’s Scam Shield app for iPhone and Android. The app has various other features, too—you can enable caller ID, view blocked calls, and automatically send certain types of calls (like telemarketing, political, survey, and charity calls) to voicemail....

Saving files in Microsoft Office is a pretty painless process, but you can make it even quicker by changing the default save location to your preferred folder. Here’s how to do it on Windows 10. How to Make Your PC the Default Save Location When you save a new document for the first time in Office 365 or Office 2019, Office asks where you want to save it. By default, Office suggests you save documents to Microsoft OneDrive online....

If you’d like to add some personal graphical flair to your Mac—or prevent burn-in on an OLED, plasma, or CRT display—macOS lets you select from a number of attractive screen savers. Here’s how to set it up. How Do Screen Savers Work? Some types of monitors and TV sets you might have hooked to your Mac can suffer from burn-in, which means certain areas of the screen will degrade in image quality over time if they continuously display the same static image....

Check Signal’s Status Website for Official Updates Head to the project’s official Signal Status website (status.signal.org) to see the latest details about any outage. During the Signal outage on January 15, 2021, the Signal Foundation was keeping this page updated with the latest information about the problem: Millions and millions of new people downloading and using Signal, overwhelming the servers and requiring deployment of additional hardware. Head to Downdetector for User Reports If Signal’s status website doesn’t say there’s a problem—or isn’t loading—you should look at the SIgnal page on Downdetector....

An SSH client allows you to connect to a remote computer running an SSH server. The Secure Shell (SSH) protocol is often used for remote terminal connections, allowing you to access a text-mode terminal on a remote computer as if you were sitting of it. It can also be used for SSH tunneling, SCP file transfers, and other things. Windows RELATED: 5 Cool Things You Can Do With an SSH Server...

RELATED: What Is an MP4 File (and How Do I Open One)? The Graphical Method: VLC Media Player To convert your MOV video to MP4 format using a graphical option, look no further than the free and open-source VLC Media Player. This app helps you play as well as convert most media formats on your computers. To perform your conversion with this app, first, download and launch VLC Media Player on your computer....

You can think of a personalized newsletter as a digital magazine tailored to your interests. It lets you read articles and other content from your favorite sources all in one place. So instead of incessantly checking out every new update that lands on your phone or online feed, you can catch up on everything at a specified time in the day with an email digest. There are several services to create your own personalized newsletters such as Feedly and Blogtrottr....

Did you know you can customize your Gmail address and make it easier to read? It can also help you track who sends you messages. We’ll walk you through the process. Add Periods to Your Email Address You can place a period (.) between any of the characters in your email address username. Gmail doesn’t acknowledge it as a character in the username; it completely ignores it. It can be helpful to use this character in long, multiple-word email addresses....

If you’re leaving Gmail for something better, or you simply want to retire an old account, it’s easy to delete your Gmail account and all its data. We’ll show you how to do just that. RELATED: How to Delete Your Old Online Accounts (and Why You Should) Want to Keep Your Other Google Services? If you want to get rid of your Gmail account, but you’d like to retain access to Google’s other services, like Maps and Drive, then Google offers the option to delete just your Gmail service....

Like many other modern applications, Microsoft Teams offers a dark mode. It works in all versions of Teams, including the Windows, Mac, web, iPhone, iPad, and Android apps. Here’s how to turn on dark mode—and how to get light mode back if you prefer that. Activate Dark Mode in Microsoft Teams for Windows, Mac, and Web The steps to enable dark mode in Microsoft Teams on desktop and the web are the same....

You can sign a PDF document from your phone, tablet, or any other computer and email it off to someone. But some organizations still don’t accept documents via email — you may need to fax documents instead. No, you can’t use your smartphone’s phone connection as a fax machine or dial-up modem. You’ll need to rely on an app or third-party service that does the faxing for you, just as you would sending the occasional fax from your PC....

Beginning with the October 2020 update, Windows 10 defaults to a light theme that prevents you from setting an accent color for your Start menu, taskbar, and action center. You may see the option grayed out in Settings. Here’s how to get the option back. By default, you can’t set accent colors on the Start menu and taskbar in Windows 10 unless you have your appearance set to dark mode....