The Control Center serves as a space-saving measure for the Mac menu bar. Features like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are now found in the Control Center. But if you miss them and would prefer to access them in the menu bar, it’s easy to pin any Control Center item to the menu bar (take a look at the last section to find out more). How to Use Control Center on Mac Mac users who are running macOS Big Sur and higher can access Control Center....
One of Outlook’s most useful and least-understood options is Follow Up, the program’s email reminder tool. If you struggle to remember to answer emails after they’re no longer on the front page of your inbox, this tool is for you. Follow Up reminds you about emails on a date of your choosing and adds them to your Outlook task list. When you’ve dealt with the reminder and mark them as completed, they disappear from your task list....
JSON is one of the most commonly used data serialization formats. It’s grown from its origins within JavaScript (JSON means JavaScript Object Notation) to become the format of choice for many web APIs and configuration systems. PHP ships with built-in JSON support. Historically, the features were provided as a separate extension. The 2020 launch of PHP 8.0 converted JSON into a permanently active extension which cannot be removed. Reading JSON Data To parse JSON data, use the json_decode() function....
Answer Starting with the basics, every forklift is outfitted with an accelerator and a brake pedal for maximum control. The Inching Brake is the name given to the third pedal. It performs two distinct functions. First, it works as a brake, and then it disengages the transmission, enabling the engine speed to be increased or decreased without damaging the forklift’s drivetrain. As a result, it is reasonable to inquire as to what the three pedals on a forklift are....
PC cleaning apps are digital snake oil. The web is full of ads for applications that want to “clean your PC” and “make it feel like new.” Don’t pull out your credit card — these apps are terrible and you don’t need them. If you do want to “clean your PC,” you can do it for free. Windows includes built-in PC cleaning tools that can do almost all of what the average PC cleaning app will do for you....
RELATED: How to Clean and Disinfect All Your Gadgets The Apple Method Apple recommends you use a “soft, dry, lint-free cloth” to clean your AirPods, and a “dry cotton swab” (or Q-tip) to clean any gunk out of the speaker mesh. The instructions remind you that AirPods and AirPods Pro aren’t waterproof, (AirPods Pro are merely water-resistant to a certain degree). The reality is a bit different. Gunk gets trapped inside your AirPods and will continue to accumulate against the speaker mesh....
The Side Button Started Out With a Friends Feature When the Apple Watch first came out in 2015, the Side button had an entirely different purpose. It was supposed to be a one-click method for you to send your heartbeats to your friends. It’s not surprising that this didn’t work out. Play Video Pressing the Side button on the Apple Watch brought up the Friends screen. This screen contained your contacts who also had the Apple Watch....
A Kanban board is used for visualizing task flow from beginning to end. At its simplest, it contains three columns called “To-Do”, “Doing”, and “Done”. To start, you put your tasks in the “To-Do” column, move them to the “Doing” column while you’re working on them, and then finally move them to the “Done” column when you’ve finished the task. Kanban boards provide a visual representation of process management. In other words, they let you see how your tasks are progressing....
Creating Thinner Mini LED TVs Modern LCD TVs rely on LED backlighting to illuminate the display stack. These LEDs are covered with lenses to spread the light and get wider coverage. But to make sure the backlight is distributed evenly across the display, there is a space between the backlight plane and the display’s diffuser plate. This space is called optical distance. The optical distance can vary between LCD TVs, from 10mm to 25mm, depending on the size of a LED and the type of lens....
These days, more and more people turn to their phones for GPS and music in their car. And why wouldn’t they? Google Maps is way better than whatever lame system is built into your vehicle. Enter Android Auto: the best of what your phone offers, but built in to the head unit of your dash. RELATED: What Is Apple CarPlay, and Is It Better Than Just Using a Phone in Your Car?...
If you’re troubleshooting your Mac, you’ve probably seen this advice before: reset your NVRAM. Some forum denizens talk about this as a cure-all solution to Mac instabilities, but what is NVRAM? And what problems can it actually solve? What Is NVRAM? Let’s start by explaining what, exactly, NVRAM does. If you mute your Mac’s volume, then restart it, you won’t hear the iconic startup sound. How does your Mac pull that off?...
Google released Chrome 88 to the stable channel on January 19, 2021. The new browser version includes some cool changes, including an improved dark theme for Windows 10 and the beginning of less intrusive permission prompts. Here are the highlights. Better Dark Theme Support on Windows 10 Chrome has supported Windows 10’s system-wide dark theme for a while, but Chrome 88 makes it a little better. Dark Theme now applies to scroll bars on many of Chrome’s internal pages....
The brand new release of Ubuntu 21.04, the Hirsute Hippo, was released on April 22, 2021. It’s an interim release of the popular Linux distribution, with only nine months of support from Canonical. So is it worth upgrading to? The Hirsute Hippo The Hirsute Hippo hit the streets (or mud holes) on April 22, 2021. Either way, the latest version of the enormously popular Ubuntu Linux distribution from Canonical is available for download....
What Does Zoom Actually Mean? What is zoom, and what does it mean to have a 5x or 10x? In terms of optical physics, not a lot because there’s no such thing as zoom. Lens magnification (how much a lens magnifies distant objects) is a function of its focal length and the resulting field of view. A lens with a longer focal length (relative to the size of the image sensor) has a smaller field of view....
Please note this isn’t intended to be a deep dive, but, rather, an introduction to common terminology for budding CPU geeks. Start with the Silicon More than 10 years ago, Intel shared the basics of how it creates its processors, from raw materials to the finished product. We’ll use this process as a basic framework as we look at the key component of a CPU: the die. The first thing a CPU needs is silicon....
A server boost will result in new features for your Discord server that you wouldn’t get with the basic, free version. Every server boost has an expiration date, though. Here’s what you should expect. What Is a Server Boost? In Discord, a server boost is a feature that provides your server with many different perks. This makes the server more enjoyable for the members of the server community. A server boost costs $4....
Malware That Chats on Telegram Telegram was the most downloaded app, with over 63 million installations in January of 2021, according to Sensor Tower. Telegram chats aren’t end-to-end encrypted like Signal chats, and now, Telegram has another problem: malware. Software company Check Point recently discovered that bad actors are using Telegram as a communication channel for a malware program called ToxicEye. It turns out that some of Telegram’s features can be used by attackers to communicate with their malware more easily than through web-based tools....
Why a PC GamePad Was Remarkable Despite the Nintendo mania that’s raged in the U.S. since at least 1988 (thanks to the blockbuster success of the NES), it was several years before for the first console-style gamepad made its way to IBM PC compatibles. British Columbia-based Advanced Gravis Computer Technology (then known for its PC joysticks) took the first step with its four-button Gravis PC GamePad. At the time of the GamePad’s release, the best-selling genres of PC games skewed toward non-action, like RPGs, adventure games, flight simulators, and strategy games....
Kerning refers to the adjustment of space between two characters, generally used to improve the visual aesthetics of text. You can change the kerning in Microsoft Word in just a few steps. Here’s how. Why You Would Want to Adjust Kerning Each font has its own default kerning. Some fonts work better than others when considering the space between certain letters. Take the word “VASE,” for example. Depending on the font type you’re using, the V and A may fit nicely together…...
PDFs are great for sharing your work. There are free PDF readers available for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android, and PDF file retain their formatting no matter where they’re displayed. Best of all, you can quickly create PDFs from other documents in Windows using tools you already have. Creating a PDF in Windows is extremely easy, whether you’re building one out of word documents, web pages, images, or whatever else you have....
