Instagram’s Story feature is great, but like with all Story features, it’s easy to let muscle memory take over and accidentally share a photo with everyone who follows you rather than the person you meant to send it to. I’ve made this mistake more than once. Most of the time, all that anyone will see is a weirdly out of context photo, but sometimes, things can be a bit more sensitive....
When your iPhone won’t turn on, there could be several different issues causing this problem. If you have an iPhone that won’t power up properly or is glitched and stuck, we’ll show you what you can do about it. Recap: How to Turn on an iPhone Before you worry that your iPhone is broken, it’s a good idea to familiarize yourself with how to turn it on. While that may seem silly, the method is not completely obvious, and the procedure varies slightly between different iPhone models:...
Update: This bug was fixed in patches Microsoft released on April 14, 2020. Run Windows Update to fix the problem on your PC. What You Need to Know Microsoft announced this security hole on March 23, 2020. Microsoft says it is “aware of limited targeted attacks” that use flaws in the Adobe Type Manager Library. “There are multiple ways an attacker could exploit the vulnerability, such as convincing a user to open a specially crafted document or viewing it in the Windows Preview pane,” according to Microsoft’s security advisory....
Windows 10’s October 2020 Update (20H2) was released on October 20, 2020—kind of. As usual, Microsoft is slowly rolling out the update to small numbers of PCs at a time, letting people choose to install it and see how it works on their PCs. If you’re not in a rush, we recommend you wait until Windows Update automatically offers the update to your PC. This ensures the update is as stable as possible before you get it....
Live Wallpapers are one of iOS’s neat if underused, features. It’s fun—and very Harry Potteresque—to have a bit of motion on your lock screen. But setting any old live photo isn’t going to give you great results: here’s how to make sure you’ve got a good one to use for wallpaper. How to Set a Live Wallpaper To set a live photo as your wallpaper, go to Settings > Wallpaper > Choose a New Wallpaper and then select your Live Photos album....
To permanently add music controls for web playback to your Chromebook’s bottom row of apps and quick settings, you’ll need to play any media in the Chrome browser first. This can be anything from a YouTube video to a song on Spotify’s web application. While the music or video is playing, click the status area in the bottom-right corner of your Chromebook’s screen. In the following menu that pops up, you’ll find a widget to control the media playback of the audio or video that you have playing in Chrome....
Virtual desktops are a handy way to juggle multiple workspaces in Windows 10. There are several ways to quickly switch between virtual desktops, including several lesser-known keyboard shortcuts—we’ll cover them all below. Keyboard Shortcuts to Switch Between Virtual Desktops To quickly switch between virtual desktops in Windows 10 with a keyboard shortcut, press Windows+Ctrl+Left Arrow to switch to a lower-numbered desktop or Windows+Ctrl+Right Arrow for a higher-numbered one. If there’s a virtual desktop established in the “direction” in which you specify with the arrow keys, the workspace will switch instantly to it....
rm: Short for Remorse? It’s all too easy to use the rm command and find yourself staring at a terminal window with a deepening sense of regret. One small mistake with wildcards, and you can wipe out a lot more than you intended to. The default Linux file system, ext4 uses inodes to hold data about each file and an inode table to keep track of the inodes. The inode contains metadata about the file, such as its name, who owns it, what the permissions are, and so on....
There so much happening on Facebook that it can feel a little overwhelming. What if you miss a post and you can’t find it later? Thankfully, Facebook has a bookmarking feature to help you keep track of things and save them for later. Like Twitter, Facebook allows you to save things to access later. You can save shared links, posts, photos, videos, and even pages and events. These things can all be organized into “Collections....
Sending hands-free messages is a handy feature of Google Assistant, but it doesn’t have to be limited to just text messages. You can also send audio messages to your contacts. We’ll show you how it works. If you have Google Nest or Home speakers, it’s possible to broadcast audio messages throughout your home. Strangely, if you try to use that feature to send a message to a person, it will only send a text....
Microsoft’s “Your Phone” is a powerful app that allows your Windows PC and Android device to work better together. It can also sync notifications between devices and transfer files. In this guide, we’ll show you how it can send and receive text messages. To use the Your Phone app on Windows and Android, there are a few requirements you must meet. You must have a(n): Windows 10 April 2018 Update or later....
The Google Home app allows you to create different “routines” for performing multiple actions with a single Google Assistant command. These can be very helpful for turning off everything at bedtime, staying on task during the workday, and more. The Home & Away Routines work differently, though. They’re triggered by your presence in your home. You can set up actions to run when you (or someone else) leaves and returns....
Whether it’s because you need to work offline or you just prefer working from your file system, syncing files from Microsoft Teams to your hard drive is quick and easy. Here’s how to do it. In order to sync your Microsoft Teams files, you need to have OneDrive installed. If you’re already logged in to Teams with a Microsoft account—even with a free account—then you’ll already have OneDrive access, even if you don’t use it....
If you’ve ever wondered how to record your computer screen and then turn it into an animated GIF, then wonder no more. Here’s everything you need to know about creating GIF screencasts on Windows and Mac. GIFs go back about as long as the Internet has been popular. The format itself isn’t necessarily the best for sharing moving images, with more efficient formats on the horizon like GIFV, but the renaissance of animated images has led to dozens of GIF sites and a whole crop of specialized apps that let you create and share all sorts of animated GIFs....
Once logged in you’ll see an iTunes-esque interface with suggested music and so on, as seen below, with a toolbar off to the right hand side. There, you’ll find a subsection of the “Actions” menu labeled “Upload (Drag & drop here)” and “Upload (Select Music)”. Once the upload process has started, you can click on the button again to view the progress of the upload. The music is immediately accessible too (no scanning or analysis required)....
What We Mean When We Say “Always Listening” Smart speakers (and mobile devices, when they have features like “Hey Siri” or “Hey Google” enabled) aren’t “always listening” in the way you might think. They’re always listening for the voice command that activates them. However, they’re not always recording you. They only record and upload audio when they hear that voice command. Of course, sometimes they hear the voice command incorrectly. A smart speaker, smartphone, or smart watch might think it hears “Hey Siri,” “Hey Google,” or “Alexa” and start listening, uploading something you really didn’t intend for it to hear....
Adobe has been adding machine-learning and AI-powered features to Photoshop and Photoshop Lightroom. In March 2021, Adobe added “Super Resolution“—a way to enhance missing details in lower resolution files. Here’s how to use it. What Does Super Resolution Do? Super Resolution uses Adobe’s AI platform, Adobe Sensei, to double the horizontal and vertical resolution of an image. It quadruples the number of pixels so, in effect, it takes a 12-megapixel photo and turns it into a 48-megapixel photo....
What Are pushd and popd? One of the innovations Bill Joy incorporated in his 1978 C Shell was the concept of a directory stack and the means to manipulate it: pushd and popd. Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, the directory stack, pushd, and popd were soon incorporated into other shells (like Bash) and even other operating systems. The concept of the stack is a simple one. Items are placed on the stack one at a time, with the most recently added item always occupying the top position....
tmux vs. screen Both the tmux and GNU screen commands are terminal multiplexers. They allow you to have multiple windows within a single terminal window, and to jump back and forth between them. A window can be divided into panes, each of which gives you an independent command line. You can also detach a session and it becomes a headless entity running in the background—you can even close the terminal window that launched it....
But that’s not all. The three companies are also continuing discussions around advertisement revenue sharing once the streaming service’s future ad-supported version of HBO Max launches sometime in 2021. One workaround for Roku owners that many have suggested is to sign up for HBO Max through Hulu. Unfortunately, despite your account showing that you have access to Max, you’ll only be able to stream content found in HBO Go or Now....
