DSLR cameras still have the advantage of longer battery life than their mirrorless counterparts, and later models can shoot impressive video almost on par with a mirrorless SLR. You also get the advantage of a larger used market, and a wider variety of branded or third-party options to choose from with a DSLR. So what should you look for in a DSLR? For first-timers looking to get into photography, this can be a challenging question....
There’s one font that is almost universally reviled. Just the sight of it causes people to cringe in disgust. You know exactly what font I’m talking about (even if you ignore the title.) Why does everyone hate Comic Sans? Comic Sans is one of those fonts that seem to have been around forever. It’s as iconic as Times New Roman and Arial in the font world. Who created Comic Sans?...
It’s in your car, home theater system, phone, and audio player but it doesn’t have an instruction manual. It’s an equalizer, and with a little know-how you can tweak your audio and fall in love with it all over again. Equalizing What? Equalizers are software or hardware filters that adjust the loudness of specific frequencies. As with all sound engineering, the basis is on the human ear. Certain frequencies are louder than others to our ears, despite having the same or even more energy behind it....
RAW Photos Redux When you take a photo with a digital camera, it doesn’t see the world as a JPG. Instead, the sensor “sees” heaps more data about the light levels and colors in the scene than it can possibly record as a single compressed image file. If your smartphone or camera is set to shoot JPGs, however, when you click that shutter button, it processes all that data down to a small image file that you can send to your friends or post on Instagram, and it throws away everything that it didn’t need....
The Wire HBO is responsible for the creation of some of the grittiest and hardest-hitting crime dramas the small screen can handle. Perhaps the grittiest of them all is The Wire, a show set in Baltimore, Md. and inspired by the very real experiences of David Simon, who spent 12 years writing for the Baltimore Sun City Desk. The show follows a Baltimore task force, the criminals they pursue, and the good and bad guys on both sides....
How to Use Your Media Keys on Websites Using your media keys should be simple: Just press them. For example, if you’re playing a YouTube video and it’s hidden in a background tab somewhere, you can press the Play/Pause key on your keyboard to pause it and press the key again to resume it. It’s that simple. If you’re listening to a playlist on a music-streaming website like Spotify, the Next and Previous keys will likely skip back and forward in the playlist, just as they would in a desktop music application like iTunes....
The Settings app is a hub for almost all of Windows 10’s settings, and you’ll probably find yourself accessing it pretty frequently. Luckily, there’s more than one way to open the Settings app—from several different locations. Use a Keyboard Shortcut Windows 10 is packed full of keyboard shortcuts to help you streamline your workflow, so it should come as no surprise that there’s a keyboard shortcut to open the Settings menu....
A Brief Refresher on Apple Silicon The M-series of Apple Silicon system-on-a-chip processors represent Apple’s move to distance itself from Intel architecture CPUs in its Macintosh computers, moving into ARM-based chips used with its iPhone and iPad lines. Along the way, Apple has also brought the M1 to certain iPad models as well. Apple first released Apple Silicon chips for the Mac in November 2020 with the M1. In 2021, Apple introduced the faster M1 Pro and M1 Max chips....
What You Need to Know In some cases, the Surface Laptop keyboard may stop responding entirely. We recently encountered this problem on a Surface Laptop 4, but we’ve seen reports that it can also occur on Microsoft’s other laptops, from the original Surface Laptop to the Surface Laptop 2 and 3. On our Surface Laptop, the keyboard wasn’t working but the touchpad was. Worse yet, the problem persisted even after rebooting the Surface Laptop, which is the usual fix for strange Windows PC problems....
Apple Watch users who are using Series 4 or newer and are running watchOS 7 or higher have access to a lot of different watch faces, all of which can be customized with different styles, colors, and complications. Love complications? Add the Infograph watch face, with support for eight different complications. All about the style? Try the beautiful California or the Typography watch face. If you like to keep things digital, you can’t go wrong with the Infograph Modular....
Instagram has a huge library of music clips that you can add to any Stories, just like you add a sticker or poll to an Instagram Story. To get started, open the Instagram app on your iPhone or Android smartphone, and swipe in from the left edge to go to the Instagram Stories interface. Now, create your Story. This can be anything you like. It can be a text post, a Boomerang, or something fun created using AR Effects....
Apple Music has been available to the public for just about a month now, and so far the service looks like it will only continue to pick up steam as more non-streaming iPhone owners convert. But what do you do if you want to merge your current collection of indie hits, self-recorded tracks, and underground songs into Apple’s growing streaming archive? Thankfully, the process of importing your own music into the Apple Music library is easy, and works both from the iTunes desktop client, and any music you have stored or recorded on your mobile iOS device....
Usually, you boot your computer from its main hard drive, which contains your operating system (like Windows). But occasionally, you may need to boot from a CD, DVD, or USB drive—say, if you’re running a recovery program, or testing out a new operating system like Linux. In order to do this, you need to tell your computer’s BIOS to load the operating system from a different place than usual. You can do this in two ways: By changing the boot order in the BIOS or UEFI firmware (so it attempts to boot from CD or USB every time), or by accessing a boot menu on startup (so it’ll only boot from CD or USB that one time)....
Apple is abandoning support for old 32-bit applications across the board. iOS 11 won’t support 32-bit apps, and now macOS High Sierra will be the “last macOS release to support 32-bit apps without compromises”. Here’s how to check your Mac for apps that will stop working in the future. When 32-Bit Apps Are Going Away RELATED: How to Check Your iPhone or iPad for 32-Bit Apps That Won’t Run on iOS 11...
You can already see what’s changed in a file by reviewing the revision history in a Google Docs file, but now you can also do the same to two separate documents. Here’s how to use the Compare Documents tool. In a web browser, fire up the Google Docs home page and open up an already-existing document you want to compare. Once the document loads, click Tools > Compare Documents to start running the comparison tool....
First, launch Control Center on your iPhone using one of the two methods listed here: iPhone X or newer: Swipe down from the top-right edge of the screen. iPhone SE and iPhone 8 or earlier: Swipe up from the bottom edge of the screen. When Control Center appears on your screen, tap and hold the flashlight icon. (Your exact arrangement of Control Center icons will vary depending on how you have customized it....
You can remove a downloaded book from your Kindle device, or you can choose to permanently delete a title from your Kindle Library. Once a book is deleted permanently, it is removed from your account and requires a new purchase if you want to access it again. Delete Books or Documents from Your Kindle You can remove a downloaded book or delete a book permanently from your Kindle e-book reader....
Sending videos to a Chromecast-enabled device can be handy, but not everyone wants this feature. In fact, it can be a big annoyance and cause issues. We’ll show you how to remove the Chromecast button from the Google Chrome web browser. The “Google Cast” icon will appear on videos in Google Chrome if you have a Chromecast-enabled device on the same network as your computer browser. If that device isn’t yours, you may never want to accidentally cast to it....
If you want to display data, images, or objects in your document, you can use a table. We’ll show you just how easy it is to insert a table in Google Docs and edit it to your liking. The great thing about using a table in Google Docs is that it gives you a structured way to display items. You may have data that would fit best in a table or a variety of images that you want to display neatly....
If you’re having trouble comfortably reading text that is either too small or too big on a website in Google Chrome, there’s a quick way to change text size without diving into Settings. Here’s how. The Answer Is Zoom Chrome includes a feature called Zoom that allows you to quickly make text and images bigger or smaller on any website. You can zoom a web page from anywhere between 25% and 500% of its usual size....
