Audible is awesome. For $15 a month, you get your choice of any audiobook in the collection; for $23 a month, you get two books. But what happens if you download a book by accident or waste a credit on one that sounds like it’s being narrated by Gilbert Gottfried huffing helium? Well, the good news is that if you’re not happy for any reason, you can return your Audible purchases....
RELATED: What is Apple Music and How Does It Work? How to Share Apple Music Playlists Sharing Apple Music playlists differs slightly between mobile devices and computers, so we’ve got the steps for each below. It’s important to note that anyone you share a playlist with will also need an Apple Music subscription to listen to your shared playlist. If they use Spotify instead, you can follow our guide to transfer the playlist to Spotify and share the playlist that way....
Microsoft Teams makes it easy to share your desktop or mobile device’s screen in your online meetings. You can even choose between sharing your device’s entire screen or just a specific app window. Here’s how. RELATED: What Is Microsoft Teams, and Is It Right for My Business? How to Screen Share in Microsoft Teams on Desktop On a Windows, Mac, Linux, or Chromebook computer, you can use Teams web version or the app to share your screen in a meeting....
How to Get a Library Card Online If you already have a library card, you don’t need to do this—just visit your local library’s website and check out the free resources they have available. The same library card you use to borrow books in person will give you online access. You can also use an app like Libby to find and borrow e-books with a library card. If you don’t yet have a library card, the exact process for signing up online depends on your local library....
Whether you have a laptop with an integrated camera or a webcam that plug in via USB, you can use the applications included modern operating systems to easily take photos and record videos. With Windows 10, this is now built into Windows and no longer requires third-party applications. This sounds simple, but it’s actually been difficult in the past. To do this on Windows 7, you’ll need to either hunt down a third-party application or dig through your Start menu and look for a manufacturer-provided utility that will be different on different PCs....
Windows 10 includes a tool called the Game Bar, and it has some cool features you might not know about. You can control Spotify while gaming without having to switch out of full-screen mode. It’s super handy. Without the Game Bar, controlling Spotify while gaming can feel jarring because you’re probably playing your game in full-screen mode. If at any time you want to adjust playback, you have to press Alt+Tab to do so....
Thanks to the shift in movie release patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly all of the 2021 Golden Globes Best Picture nominees are available to watch at home in advance of the ceremony on February 28, 2021. The drama The Father, starring Anthony Hopkins as an elderly man with dementia and Olivia Colman as his daughter, is the only nominee not yet available to stream. Mank Play Video Director David Fincher’s first feature film since 2014’s Gone Girl is based on a screenplay that Fincher’s father Jack wrote nearly 20 years ago....
Meet the RTX 3000 Series GPUs NVIDIA’s main announcement was its shiny new GPUs, all built on a custom 8 nm manufacturing process, and all bringing in major speedups in both rasterization and ray-tracing performance. On the low end of the lineup, there’s the RTX 3070, which comes in at $499. It is a bit expensive for the cheapest card unveiled by NVIDIA at the initial announcement, but it’s an absolute steal once you learn that it beats out the existing RTX 2080 Ti, a top of the line card which regularly retailed for over $1400....
Always investigate the authenticity and authority of any app or website that claims to provide COVID-19 information. Many of these will let anyone self-report data and publish their own articles without fact-checking. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) The Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) website has a lot of excellent information about the coronavirus pandemic. It’s the primary federal agency tasked with safeguarding public health in the U.S. You’ll find everything from general information and U....
RELATED: The Best TV Shows on Netflix in 2022 Ozark Play Video Marty Byrde, a financial advisor caught in a money-laundering business, has to move his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks. He has to continue his side business in the local town to pay back the drug boss that’s on his back. Ozark follows Byrde and his family as they try to exchange this money without the locals noticing....
First of all, it’s important to note that most modern printers tend to have a built-in scanner. This allows the printer to also function as a copier, scanner, and even sometimes a fax machine. These are called All-In-One printers, or AIO for short. Remember that not all printers are AIOs, so if you are looking for that sort of functionality, be sure to check before you buy. The second thing is whether you want to go for inkjet or laserjet, the two main printing technologies that exist....
Take image resolution, for example. Many built-in webcams found in laptops still use a resolution of 720p. That sounds like a bad thing considering the image quality of TVs and monitors, but most people don’t have the sort of internet connection speed to stream high-quality video. On the other hand, if you want to use a webcam to make a local recording, a higher resolution can make a significant difference to the crispness of the picture....
In other words: If a chat app offers end-to-end encryption, for example, only you and the person you’re chatting with will be able to read the contents of your messages. In this scenario, not even the company operating the chat app can see what you’re saying. Encryption Basics First, let’s start with the basics of encryption. Encryption is a way of scrambling (encrypting) data so that it can’t be read by everyone....
It’s not uncommon for Google to update the user interface of its Android apps—including the Play Store. A change made in early 2021 puts many of the menu items you might want to access in a much less obvious spot. We’ll show you where to look. In April 2021, Google began rolling out a slight redesign to the Play Store on Android. Similar to other Google apps, the main menu was moved from the three-line “hamburger” button previously found in the top-left corner to the user’s profile icon located in the search bar....
Google Photos is arguably the company’s best product. It’s chock full of powerful, fun, and super convenient features to make your life easier. We’ll show you some of the best features in Google Photos for Android, iPhone, and the web. Automatically Share Photos Sharing photos is one of the main reasons to take photos, so why not make it as easy as possible? As part of its “Partner Sharing” features, Google Photos includes the ability to automatically share certain photos....
Play Video Amidst a torrent of indecipherable technobabble (He’s burned through the firewall! This is DOD Level 9 encryption!), the pair begin to fight back. Eventually, they end up typing simultaneously on the same keyboard. It is—for lack of a better term—ludicrous. Take a Seat. We’re Hacking Those scenes epitomize everything wrong with how hacking is portrayed in the world of TV and film. Incursions into distant computer systems take place in a matter of moments, accompanied by a variety of meaningless green text and random popups....
How Auto-HDR Works HDR video is a step forward for display technology. It uses a wider range of colors and bright highlights to create a more realistic, natural-looking image. There are a handful of competing HDR formats, but the Xbox Series X and S use HDR10 by default. (Dolby Vision support will arrive at some point in the future.) To display HDR video, you also need a TV that supports it....
You’ll Find App Library on Your Last Home Page If you’re tired of browsing through non-stop Home screen pages, Apple has some good news for you in the form of the new App Library. Rolling out in the fall of 2020 with iOS 14, the App Library will automatically be added to your iPhone, whether you want to use it or not. You can continue using your Home screens just as they are....
It’s often a good idea to let your Mac sleep after a period of time when you’re not using it, but the way recent versions of macOS present sleep-mode options in System Preferences feels counter-intuitive. Here’s how to sort it out. First, a Note about Sleeping Mac Laptops Mac laptops automatically sleep when you close the lid to conserve battery life. Unfortunately, there is no setting in System Preferences to change this....
Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could see exactly where your Wi-Fi coverage was hot, cold, and somewhere in between? Stop guesstimating where you might need better Wi-Fi coverage and see exactly where with today’s Wi-Fi heatmap tutorial. Why Do I Want to Do This? You have a home or small office wireless network. You want to see exactly what the quality of coverage your Wi-Fi access point provides (and whether you should move it, add another access point, or otherwise tweak your network)....
