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The Burn Bar is how Apple Fitness+ adds a community aspect to its workouts. It compares your calorie burn to other people who’ve also done the workout and tells you how you stack up. But sometimes you won’t see the Burn Bar. What gives? What the Burn Bar Shows First, let’s quickly recap what the Burn Bar actually shows. It compares how many calories you’ve burned in the past two minutes of your workout (and at the end, the average for the whole workout) to people who are roughly the same age, weight, and gender (so newbies aren’t compared to elite athletes)....

RELATED: 5 Awesome PC Accessories to Buy in 2022 A Portable Monitor When you need to interact with your Pi’s operating system, you might just connect it to a monitor from your existing workstation or maybe even to an available TV. That isn’t always convenient, though, especially when it means diving into an absolute jungle of cables or losing access to the PC you were using for project instructions. That’s where an affordable and portable monitor can be a huge convenience....

It always seems like there are never enough outlets around and electronics never have a long enough cord, which is when surge protectors and extension cords come in handy. Can they be used with each other, though? What You Need to Know About Surge Protectors and Extension Cords Before we get into the nitty gritty of plugging stuff into other stuff, it’s important to first know a little about surge protectors and extension cords....

Google’s New Nest Cameras Google announced a few different Nest cameras, but the one that has us the most intrigued is the Google Nest Cam (battery). It comes with almost all of the same features as the wired camera (it can’t record 24/7 video, though), but it runs on battery. As far as battery life goes, Google says the Nest Camera will get about 1.5 months of battery life in a busy location with about 20-25 recorded events per day....

How Apple Silicon Handles RAM In case you haven’t already heard the news, Apple announced a new slate of Macs in November 2020. The new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac Mini models are using an ARM-based processor custom-designed by Apple called the M1. This change was long expected and is the culmination of Apple’s decade spent designing ARM-based processors for the iPhone and iPad. The M1 is a system on a chip (SoC), which means that there’s not just a CPU inside the processor, but also other key components, including the GPU, I/O controllers, Apple’s Neural Engine for AI tasks, and, most importantly for our purposes, the physical RAM is part of that same package....

DNA Tests For the Masses Since before the rise of at-home DNA testing, family tree tracing has long been a popular activity, both for professional genealogists and armchair ancestry enthusiasts at home. Researchers leaned on microfiche machines and public records, sleuthing the old-fashioned way. In the earliest days of the desktop computer, when pundits had trouble envisioning uses for a PC beyond cataloging recipes, genealogy software was there, helping enthusiasts draw trees using manually curated data fed into it....

If you need to use a particular app on your Mac frequently, it’s easy to add it to your Dock. Once there, your favorite app is only one click away at any time. Here’s how to do it. Method 1: Drag Application Icon to Dock The easiest way to add an app to the Dock is to drag its icon there from Finder, which is the file management app for the Mac....

Once you add a caption to a photo or a video, it is indexed by the Photos app, and you can search for the keywords later. While the Photos app has an automatic search engine for photos, it’s not very specific or reliable. Using captions, you can take control of the photos you know you might like to search through later. The Photos app automatically groups the same captions, so you can use this feature as a makeshift tagging system....

With iOS 14 and higher, you can add widgets right to the home screen. Home screen widgets are quite versatile, and you can see your reminders, calendar, and yes, even photos, right on your home screen. RELATED: How to Add and Remove Widgets from the Home Screen on iPhone Apple has a built-in Photos widget that shows random photos from your photo library. But if you have 20,000 photos in your iCloud Photos, this isn’t going to be that useful....

A feature on your iPhone or iPad called “App Tracking Transparency” allows you to ask apps not to track you across the internet for advertising and data brokering purposes. Here’s how to use it. Why Am I Being Tracked? To get the most out of their advertising budgets, advertisers want their ads to be seen by customers who will buy the product or service they are offering. That way, they don’t spend money advertising to the wrong audience....

To get started, open the Facebook page in your favorite browser (at the time of writing, we weren’t able to access the option in the Facebook mobile app). We’ll be using the new Facebook interface to guide you through the process. After opening the Facebook Page, click the “Page Settings” button in the bottom-left corner of the page. Here, click the “Edit Page Info” button from the sidebar. You’ll now spot the “Name” option in the General section....

The ECG app on the Apple Watch Series 4 and later lets you check your heart for a condition called atrial fibrillation (AFib), where it beats irregularly. It works like an electrocardiogram (an ECG) you’d find in a doctor’s office. Because of how medical devices are regulated worldwide, the ECG app isn’t available everywhere. And where it is available, updates between versions can take varying amounts of time, depending on where you are....

Depending on where you live, air quality can be a daily concern. Wildfires, pollen, and pollution can affect the air quality in your area. Here’s how to check the Air Quality Index on your Android phone or tablet. There are plenty of apps and services out there for checking your local Air Quality Index. iPhones and iPad can check with Apple Maps. It’s not quite that simple for Android devices, but there are still ways to do it quickly and easily....

Windows 10 lets you decide how long the screen will stay on when the PC is plugged in and when it’s running off the battery. Of course, if you’re using a desktop PC, you won’t see the option for battery power. RELATED: How to Stop Windows 10 From Turning Off Your Screen First, click the Start Menu and select the gear icon to open the Settings. (You can also open the Settings window by pressing Windows+i on your keyboard....

There are several different ways you can lock your Windows 10 PC like the Windows key+L keyboard shortcut. If your Windows key is broken but you still want a quick way to lock your PC, create a desktop shortcut. First, right-click anywhere on the Desktop and a menu will appear. Here, hover your cursor over the “New” option and then select “Shortcut” from the submenu. Once selected, the “Create Shortcut” window will appear....

How to Create a Widget Stack While the Smart Stack widget is pretty intelligent about showing you different kinds of widgets at various times during the day, you can control the process more if you create a widget stack. The terms “Smart Stack” and “widget stack” are interchangeable. Just like Smart Stacks, widget stacks also have the Auto Rotate feature enabled by default. You can add more widgets to a Smart Stack, as well....

With Microsoft PowerPoint speaker notes, you have your talking points handy during your presentation. But if you decide to remove those notes, it can be a tedious task. We’ll show you how to remove the presentation notes all at once. How to Remove PowerPoint Presenter Notes As a reminder, you can delete individual speaker notes easily. Open the presentation notes using the Notes button in the PowerPoint status bar or by clicking “Notes” in the ribbon on the View tab....

Every key on your keyboard has a corresponding key scan code that tells Windows how to handle each keystroke. While you can’t turn off the Insert key by default, you can tell Windows to replace it with a null character in the Windows Registry. Disable the Insert Key with SharpKeys SharpKeys is free software you can use to edit the specific Registry entry for you. It uses a graphical interface to remap keys on the keyboard....

When you first set up your Ecobee smart thermostat, Apple’s HomeKit isn’t automatically enabled. However, if you have an iPhone and want to use Siri to control your thermostat—or integrate it with other HomeKit products—here’s how to enable HomeKit on the Ecobee thermostat. RELATED: How to Install and Set Up the Ecobee Smart Thermostat The Ecobee4 and Ecobee3 Lite both support HomeKit, but you have to manually enable it if you want it to work with the thermostat....

Spotlight is a powerful tool, offering instant search through everything on your Mac. But sometimes you’d rather keep some files private. Or maybe you’re just tired of seeing configuration files in the results. In either case, it’s easy to hide a folder and its contents from Spotlight search. Here’s how. First, click the Apple icon in the upper-left corner of the screen and select “System Preferences” from the menu that appears....