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Do Your AirPods Support Automatic Switching? Not all models of AirPods (or Beats) support automatic device switching. You must be using the AirPods Pro, second or third-generation AirPods, AirPods Max headphones, Powerbeats or Powerbeats Pro earbuds, or the Beats Solo Pro headphones for this to work. You can find out which version of AirPods you have by connecting them to your iPhone or iPad (manually if you have to) then navigating to Settings > Bluetooth and tapping the “i” button next to your AirPods....

What Are Smart Christmas Lights? Smart Christmas lights, like plain old smart lights in general, come in two flavors. First, there are light strands that can be controlled by an app and are limited to just basic color changes, not unlike the bargain smart bulbs on the market. The slightly fancier versions might include a few color change modes or scenes as a trick up their sleeve, but that’s about it....

Here’s how a CryptoBlackmail scam starts: A criminal contacts you over email or snail mail and insists they have evidence you cheated on your wife, there’s an assassin after you, or there’s a webcam video of you watching pornography. To make the problem go away, the criminal asks for a few thousand dollars in Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency. But you should never respond or pay up. All the criminals have are empty threats, and they’re just trying to trick you....

Professional Users Are Already Beyond 32GB Before we get into whether the 32GB RAM level is the new sweet spot for regular users, you should know that for professionals working in high-end content creation, or any serious number crunching, 32GB of RAM is firmly in the rearview mirror. It’s not unusual for mobile workstation laptops to ship with 64GB of RAM, and workstation desktops often have CPUs and motherboards with maximum RAM capacities over a terabyte!...

Luna is Free For Prime Members You don’t need to sign up for the Luna free trial, which requires you to cancel before it ends. Instead, between now and September 15, 2021, you can use your existing Prime account to enjoy these games. Some games included in this plan are Death Squared, Super Mega Baseball, and Overcooked, all quite enjoyable no matter your age. There’s a total of 35 games, so it’s not a bad value for the price....

If you’re looking to quickly change the case of the text in a slide of your PowerPoint presentation, Microsoft Office provides a couple of quick and easy ways to do so—and several different text case styles to choose from. Here’s how. Change the Case of Text Using the Ribbon Open the PowerPoint presentation and navigate to the slide that contains the text you want to change the case of. Once there, highlight the text by clicking and dragging your cursor over the text....

Google Assistant has a voice that has become somewhat iconic over the years. People hear it and associate it with Google. However, you don’t have to use this voice. There are several others to choose from. Since its launch in 2016, Google Assistant has had two default voices. The one most people recognize is from a voice actor named Antonia Flynn. At the time of writing, there are 11 voices in total available to you....

Here’s who’s eligible, according to the settlement’s official website: If that applies to you, you can head to the settlement website and submit a claim either online or via the mail. You will need the serial number of the affected iPhone, but there’s a form on the website that will let you look it up with information like the Apple ID, name, and address you used on the iPhone....

You can only open Publisher files (.pub) with Microsoft Publisher. If you want to share the file with others who may not have Publisher, or if want to prevent the file from being edited, you should convert it to PDF. To convert the Publisher file to PDF, first open the file you want to convert. Once open, click the “File” tab in Publisher’s ribbon. Next, click “Export” in the left-hand pane....

Conditional Formulas in Acrobat We’ve previously covered the basics of automatic calculations in Adobe Acrobat. Conditional formulas let you go beyond the basics, creating more complex formulas in a PDF. RELATED: How to Create PDF Forms with Calculations in Adobe Acrobat If you use formulas in Excel or Google Sheets, you likely already know what conditional formulas are. Also called logical formulas, they display a particular value or activate a calculation if a certain condition is met, such as if a number is negative or if a score is above the passing grade....

Want to make your straight text curved without much hassle? If so, Adobe Photoshop has the exact feature you need. You can use it to curve your text in your specified bend level, and we’ll show you how to make use of it. RELATED: How to Make Letters Curve in Microsoft Word Make Curved Text in Photoshop To curve text in Photoshop, you basically apply the warp text effect to your text layer and choose a curve option....

Color Highlighting Color highlighting makes things easier to read. It can make details pop, so you don’t skim past and miss them. Most modern editors support syntax highlighting, which uses color to identify and differentiate between different elements of a programming language. Reserved words, variables, strings, and numbers are all colorized to make it easier to visually parse a page or function of code. Having this feature in the Linux man pages would be extremely helpful....

The Arch Linux Catch-22 Arch Linux is a lean, mean Linux distribution. Most people consider it the premier rolling-release distribution. Instead of new releases once or twice a year it has frequent, smaller updates that keep your computer current. Arch arrives completely unadulterated. There’s no bloat from unwanted packages. There are no distribution-specific tweaks or management tools. It’s just plain old vanilla Linux. For some, that’s an attractive proposition. You choose, step by detailed step, how you want your computer set up....

We’ll start with the Android app. Download the “Link to Windows” app from the Google Play Store on your Android phone or tablet. Select Samsung Galaxy devices already have this app installed. Open the app and tap “Link Your Phone and PC” to begin. Next, open the Phone Link app on your Windows 10 PC and click “Get Started.” On the next screen, select “I have the Link to Windows app already” and click “Pair With QR Code....

If you want to discourage others from making edits to your Microsoft PowerPoint presentation or let them know the file you sent is the final version, you can do so by making it read-only. Here’s how it’s done. Open the presentation that you want to make read-only, then click the “File” tab. Next, in the left-hand pane, select “Info.” You’ll now see a “Protect Presentation” section, which lets you (to an extent) protect against any editing of your presentation....

There are actually two methods you can use to power off or restart the Galaxy S22 series. This also applies to older Samsung Galaxy devices. We’ll start with the simple method that doesn’t require any configuration. Open the Power Menu From Quick Settings First, swipe down from the top of the screen twice to reveal the full quick settings panel. Next, tap the power icon in the top right....

Finding something specific within a long or complex web page can be frustrating, like finding a needle in a haystack. Luckily, there’s an easy way to perform an in-page search using an almost universal keyboard shortcut. Here’s how. To search quickly within a web page (“Find In Page”), first open the page you’d like to search in your favorite web browser. Press Ctrl+F (on Windows PC, Chromebook, or Linux system), or Command+F (on a Mac) on the keyboard....

If you’re using a third-party Bluetooth keyboard, the keyboard layout may be different from the iPad’s official Smart Keyboard, the new Magic Keyboard case for iPad, or even your Apple Magic Keyboard. For instance, both the Smart Keyboard and the Magic Keyboard cases for iPad have a Globe key for switching between keyboards, but they don’t have an Escape key. Apple’s external Magic Keyboard and third-party keyboards do have an Escape key, but doesn’t have the Globe key....

Google Chrome extensions that say “Installed by Enterprise Policy” do not let you uninstall them because they install with elevated permissions. If you’re part of an Enterprise or business, your administrator installed these. If you aren’t part of such an organization, here’s how to remove them. What Does “Installed by Enterprise Policy” Mean? When a Google Chrome extension says that it’s “Installed by Enterprise Policy,” “Installed by Your Administrator,” or “Managed by Your Organization,” all it means is that when the extension is installed, it was done so with elevated permissions and can’t be removed in the standard way....

MicroK8s is a lightweight single-package Kubernetes distribution developed by Canonical, best known for the Ubuntu operating system. MicroK8s follows upstream Kubernetes releases and focuses on providing an effortless installation and management experience. Here’s how to get started running your own cluster. Installation MicroK8s is available on Linux, Windows, and macOS. A graphical Windows installer is offered on the project’s website. macOS users should use Brew while Linux users are served by snaps....