How to Share Your Apple Watch Face The best way to share your Apple Watch face is by using the Watch app on your iPhone. Keep in mind that you need to have iOS 14 or later installed on your iPhone, and watchOS 7 or later installed on your Watch for this to work. Launch the Watch app on your iPhone, and tap on the face you would like to share....
Make Sure You’re Comfortable Sharing Your Location Sharing your location from a smart device is something that you should only do if you absolutely trust the person you are sharing with. Sharing your location using the methods outlined in this article will allow someone to track you in near real-time. This is a highly effective method of keeping track of someone, and vastly superior to using a passive Bluetooth tracker like Apple’s AirTags....
By default, the Nest Cam has a status light on the front that’s fairly subtle, but can still be distracting depending on how you use the camera. Here’s how to turn it off. RELATED: How to Dim the Blinding Glare of Your Gadgets’ LED Lights Those tiny LED lights on all of your electronics are kind of annoying, and there are ways to cover them up or at least dim them so they’re less harsh....
Your Mac can function as a wireless hotspot, allowing you to connect your other devices to it and share its Internet connection. It’s just like tethering to your phone. This is most useful if your Mac is connected to a wired network interface via Ethernet. You can connect your wireless devices to your Mac and share the wired Internet connection with them—almost as if your Mac were a wireless router....
Although Apple has a bad reputation for playing nice with the other kids, some services, like Apple Music, are nicely cross platform. You can even set it up on your Sonos smart speaker. Here’s how. Getting Ready To get started with Apple Music on a Sonos, you need a few things in place first: A Sonos speaker that’s set up and connected to your Wi-Fi network. An Apple Music account and the Apple Music app installed on your smartphone....
fd versus find: What’s the Difference? The fd command isn’t meant to replace the traditional find command, which has been on Linux, well, forever. Instead, fd tries to satisfy the majority of common uses of find in a more straightforward way—and, it’s often eight or nine times faster than find. You can see some of its benchmarks on the project’s GitHub repository page. fd has a colorized output, similar to that of some ls modes....
Linux is full of commands that can look like solutions in search of problems. The strings command definitely falls into that camp. Just what is its purpose? Is there a point to a command that lists the printable strings from within a binary file? Let’s take a step backward. Binary files—such as program files—may contain strings of human-readable text. But how do you get to see them? If you use cat or less you are likely to end up with a hung terminal window....
The Sub Mini is a product for a very specific audience, as it’s Sonos-only. Whether you’re using a soundbar like the Beam Gen 2 or Arc, or you’re looking to add more rumble to your whole home audio setup, this subwoofer pairs with most, but not all, Sonos products. While it’s much more affordable than the third-generation Sonos Sub, the Sub Mini is still pricier than most similarly sized soundbars....
We’ve collected links to some sites where you can download wallpapers for your PC or your phone. Not all the wallpapers are free, but there are plenty of free ones to provide a variety of cool backgrounds. Desktop Nexus Desktop Nexus is a community for high-quality wallpapers that allows members to interact, sharing real-time feedback with artists or photographers. You can subscribe to their RSS feeds to get notified when a new wallpaper is uploaded to one of your favorite categories....
I love NBA basketball. Every year, I get really excited around the beginning of September because I know tip-off is approaching. This year, I also had to figure out how I’m going to watch the Bulls (lose almost every game) with a combination of streaming packages. That’s fun. And slightly depressing. Fortunately, you can benefit from my hours of research—I’ve done pretty much all the legwork for every streaming package, so you can pick which one works best for you....
In June 2020, Apple announced its intention to move away from Intel for the Mac lineup. The M1 is the first ARM-based custom system-on-chip (SoC) designed from the ground up by Apple. Here’s what you need to know about Apple’s custom silicon. What Is the M1 Chip? The M1 is Apple’s first custom silicon system on a chip for use in its Mac computer lineup. Since 2006, all Macs have shipped with Intel chips....
The Origins of COBOL Grace Hopper was a phenomenon. She earned a doctorate in mathematics from Yale, was a professor at Vassar, and left the U.S. Navy with the rank of rear admiral. Her contributions to the field of computing can be judged by the number of foundations and programs that have been created in her memory. The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center named its Cray XE6 supercomputer after her....
The Steam Deck Is a PC! The Steam Deck is fundamentally just a PC. It uses standard PC hardware and runs standard PC operating systems like Linux and Windows—we’ll get to the software in a moment. Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais revealed hardware specifications to IGN. Every Steam Deck uses the AMD Zen 2 CPU and RDNA 2 GPU architecture, and they all come with 16GB of RAM. And of course, it has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth....
Windows 11’s 2022 update is here. This first update, also known as 22H2, was once codenamed “Sun Valley 2” during development. With Windows 11, Microsoft has moved to a yearly release cycle for major updates, leaving behind Windows 10’s frantic twice-per-year schedule. What You Need to Know This update’s final name is the 2022 Update, and Microsoft released it on September 20, 2022. Its name during development was 22H2 as it was released in the second half of 2022....
The Land Before Passwords In the early 1980s, IBM PC-compatible computers were largely single-task, single-user machines that ran MS-DOS, which didn’t include built-in password protection. Anyone who sat down in front of your PC could boot it up and access all your data. Just like PCs today, PCs back then sometimes ran server software or intensive tasks that could take a long time to complete. If you had to step away, you didn’t want someone to come along and press a key to interrupt the process....
The Echo uses the flashing colors to alert you of different things, depending on the color. Since the regular Echo and the Echo Dot don’t have a screen, this is the only way they can let you know visually that something’s going on—otherwise Alexa would have to just keep yelling stuff at you until you got annoyed, and that just wouldn’t work. Each Echo Device Has Slightly Different Light Positions The regular Echo and the Echo Dot are basically the same device, just in different sizes....
How Exposure Works in Photography In photography, exposure is how dark or light a photo is. A natural-looking photograph—or, at least, one that appears as the photographer intended—is said to be correctly exposed. However, one that’s too dark is underexposed, and one that’s too bright is overexposed. Exposure is controlled by the shutter speed, aperture, and ISO settings on a camera. You don’t have to stress about these, though (unless you want to) because your smartphone takes care of it all....
Inventory Trackers Aren’t Always Accurate Even at the best of times, you can’t necessarily count on a store’s website having an accurate, up-to-the-minute inventory of everything in the store. Retail stores probably won’t send you a notification when they get toilet paper in stock at your local store. So why do so many stores have a “Notify Me” button? We’ll explain. “Out of Stock” Versus “Sold Out” Some websites are saying that you can get alert notifications pushed to your smartphone from major retailers when essential items are restocked....
Considering the historic nature of this release, we thought it might be fun to take a look back at the PowerBook 540c. Let’s compare it to the new iPad Pro and see how far Apple’s portable technology has come. Revisiting the PowerBook 500 Series In May 1994, Apple unveiled the first four models in the PowerBook 500 series: the 520, 520c, 540, and 540c. The 520 machines sported 25 MHz processors, while the 540 models’ CPUs ran at 33 MHz....
If you want the most accurate color reproduction for your Apple TV, you should try the built-in Color Balance feature. As long as you have a compatible iPhone, you can use this feature to improve your viewing experience without messing with your TV’s settings. Apple TV’s color balance feature requires you to point your iPhone’s front camera at the TV so it can identify ways to improve the set-top box’s video output....
