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Mirroring your PC’s display on your TV is actually pretty simple. There are several ways to get it done—both wired and wireless—and which you choose just depends on your situation. The wired methods of mirroring your display are the most reliable, although you’ll need an HDMI cable and possibly an adapter for your computer. Wireless methods can work well, too—they just aren’t perfect. You may notice a bit of lag and sometimes a less-than-perfectly-crisp display....

You can make all of these edits on a smartphone using built-in tools, like Apple’s Photos app or Google Photos. There are, of course, more in-depth apps available for both hobbyists and professionals. Recover Details From Shadows and Highlights Highlights are the lightest areas of your image, while shadows are the darkest. If either of these are pure white or pure black, these areas are over- or underexposed. Fortunately, you can try and claw back some detail from these areas using the “Highlights” and “Shadows” sliders....

Your Smart TV Is Reporting What You Watch Automated content recognition isn’t the only tracking issue on TVs, but it’s one of the most startling. Here’s what the marketing industry doesn’t want you to know: Many TVs have “automated content recognition” technology that detects what you’re watching—even if you’re watching OTA TV or an old VHS tape—and informs marketers. When this feature is enabled—and it’s probably enabled by default, or after a prompt that really encourages you to enable it without explaining it properly—your smart TV will monitor your watching habits and home phone....

Though it’s the most affordable entry in Samsung’s sound bar sale, the HW-Q700B isn’t a low-quality audio setup. The sound bar comes with a wireless subwoofer and support for Dolby Atmos and DTS:X, ensuring a crackle- and distortion-free listening experience. Designed with 8 drivers and a 160-watt amplifier, the HW-Q700B focuses on crisper dialogue with a dedicated center channel and wide-range tweeters that produce a greater range of sound. The included wireless 6....

After all we’ve shown you about how useful Gmail can be, you may decide to check all your email accounts (Hotmail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, etc.) in Gmail. Luckily, Gmail can act as an email client and allow you to get email from other email accounts as long as they support POP access. Gmail’s Mail Fetcher feature downloads all your old emails from other email accounts as well as new emails and displays them alongside your Gmail messages in your inbox....

To add a new page anywhere in your Google Docs document, select an option from the Docs’ menu bar or use a keyboard shortcut. We’ll show you how to use both of these options in Docs on desktop and mobile. In Google Docs, you basically add a new page by inserting a page break. Anything written after this page break will appear on the new page. RELATED: How to Add, Show, and Remove Page and Section Breaks in Google Docs...

From the classic purple background to some created by users, there are a ton of different home screen themes you can set on your Roku device. You can personalize it to match your living room theme or favorite show. No matter what you choose, here’s how to easily change your Roku theme. Start by selecting the “Settings” option on the left-hand side of Roku’s Home screen. The third option down on the new menu is “Theme....

Microsoft released a “PC Health Check” app that, among other things, can tell you if your PC meets the system requirements to run Windows 11. Those system requirements can also be found on Microsoft’s website if you’re interested. To check if your Windows PC can run Windows 11, download the “PC Health Check” app. (Clicking that hyperlink will start the download immediately, and you can also find it linked to on Microsoft’s website....

The Sony PlayStation 5 DualSense controller can easily pair with your iPhone or iPad, and it’s fully compatible with many popular games. Here’s how to connect it to (and use it with) those Apple devices. Requirements To use DualSense with your iPhone or iPad, you’ll need to update to iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, or newer versions of the operating system. That also means that you’ll need an iPhone or iPad capable of running iOS or iPadOS 14 or later for this method to work....

Sometimes, it’s handy to copy the full path of a file or folder in Windows 10 to the clipboard. That way, you can paste the path into an open or upload dialog quickly without having to browse for it the file. Luckily, there’s an easy way to do it. Here’s how. Find the file or folder whose path you’d like to copy in File Explorer. Hold down Shift on your keyboard and right-click on it....

Your inbox can quickly get overwhelming. One way to better maintain your email account is to create folders (known as “labels” in Gmail) and organize your emails accordingly. Here’s how to create them in Gmail. As we mentioned above, Gmail uses a system known as labels—it doesn’t actually have folders. While there are some subtle differences between labels and the traditional folder (such as the ability to assign an email to multiple labels), the concept is pretty much the same....

There are plenty of reasons why you might need to download something using Chrome on Android. Maybe you found an image that you want to use as a wallpaper, or you need to download a PDF for work and you’re not near a computer. Whatever the case may be, it’s easy to do. Open the Chrome web browser on your Android phone or tablet and go to the webpage where you want to download a file....

If you use a Mac, you’ve probably configured your machine with System Preferences, which includes individual configuration sections called “preference panes.” But few people know that you can easily hide or even remove those panes. Here’s how to do it. How to Hide Built-In System Preference Panes You can’t permanently remove macOS’s built-in System Preference panes—and that’s probably a good thing—but you can hide them, which may come in handy if you’d like to simplify settings for computer novice such as a child or older relative....

Hide Played Games From Your Steam Profile Your Steam profile page normally lists all the games you’ve been playing and shows how many hours you’ve spent in all of them, focusing on what you’ve been playing in the last two weeks. Steam profiles used to be public by default, but Valve made them private by default. Still, you may have made it public to work with a third-party service that reads information from your Steam profile, like IsThereAnyDeal, which scans your wishlist for games and lets you know if they’re for sale on other game stores....

Here’s how music recognition features work: When you tell your iPhone to listen for a song, it uses its microphone to record the audio around you. That audio data is uploaded to a server and analyzed, matching it to a known song in a database. Ask Siri What Song Is Playing You can ask Siri what song is playing by saying something like “What’s that song?” or “What’s playing?”....

One of the first rules of cyber security is to always lock your PC before stepping away. While it may not be the quickest way to lock your Windows 10 PC, you can do it using the Command Prompt. Lock Your Windows 10 PC Using Command Prompt First, open the Command Prompt on your PC by opening the “Start” menu, typing “cmd” in the Windows Search bar, and then selecting “Command Prompt” from the search results....

Setting Microsoft Edge as your “default” browser means that the Android operating system will always use it when a browser is needed. For example, if you select a link in an email, it will be opened automatically in Edge. This makes it a lot easier to use. RELATED: How to Sync Microsoft Edge Tabs Across Devices First, open the Settings menu on your Android smartphone or tablet by swiping down from the top of the screen (once or twice depending on your device’s manufacturer) to open the notification shade....

Microsoft Excel becomes a powerhouse once you get into its expansive list of sorting options. Here we’ll cover its most straightforward option for sorting, a simple option that enables us to reorder data in specific columns. In your spreadsheet, highlight the row with the headings you want to sort. If you don’t want to sort all of the data, you can also just select those cells you need by highlighting them, or by holding Ctrl and clicking to choose multiple unconnected cells....

Update Animal Crossing on your Nintendo Switch Before the event can officially start, your Nintendo Switch must be connected to Wi-Fi to download the game’s new version 1.2.0 firmware. If the Nintendo Switch is connected to Wi-Fi, you’ll be prompted to update the game. If you missed the automatic update download, navigate to the Animal Crossing: New Horizons launcher on your Nintendo Switch home screen and then select Options by pressing the “+” button on your right Joy-Con controller....

How to Pin Instagram Comments on iPhone Pinning a comment on the Instagram app on iPhone is as simple as a swipe (just like deleting comments). RELATED: How to Delete a Comment on Instagram First, open the Instagram app and navigate to your own post where you want to pin the comment. You can only do this on your own posts. From there, tap the “Comments” button. Here, you’ll see all of the comments for the post....