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External Hard Drives: Cheap, Spacious, and Slow While HDDs offer the best bang for your buck when it comes to capacity, read/write speeds for hard disk drives typically top out at 200MB/sec, with the fastest (internal) drives on UserBenchmark measuring 198MB/sec real-world sequential write speed. Most drives will be USB 3.0 or better at this stage, which offers a maximum speed of around 640MB/sec, which is plenty fast enough for the drive’s internal abilities....

But some remasters have caused critics to cry foul, igniting a debate around technical capability and artistic intent. What Are the Benefits of HDR? Before we consider whether the term “fake HDR” is even warranted, it’s important to understand what HDR video is. As its name implies, high-dynamic-range video has an increased dynamic range compared to standard-dynamic-range (SDR) content. Dynamic range is the amount of information visible in an image or video between the brightest highlights and the deepest shadows....

Microsoft wants to make managing your finances easier. Money in Excel allows you to connect your financial, bank, and credit card accounts, view transactions, and budget your money. We’ll help you get started! What Is Money in Excel? Money is a dynamic template and add-in for Excel that you can download and start using in just a few minutes. It provides all-inclusive financial management in an application you already use daily....

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is one of the best photo editing apps available. Its sliders are often the easiest way to make complex edits to your images. Some sliders, like “Exposure” and “Contrast,” are pretty self-explanatory. Others, like “Clarity” and “Texture,” are a little harder to understand. When you first try them out, the Clarity and Texture sliders can seem pretty similar. Both add contrast, sharpness, and, well, texture to your image....

The one thing you should avoid is buying them an actual Android phone or tablet. They either already have the one they want or will want to pick out a new one themselves. However, you can add some peripherals to the mix and make their Android devices work even better. RELATED: 25 Gifts Your Techy Friends Actually Want in 2022 A Great Pair of Wireless Earbuds There’s a good chance the Android fan in your life has a phone without a headphone jack....

Functions in Excel aren’t just for numbers and calculations. You can use functions when working with text too. Here are several helpful Microsoft Excel text functions. Whether you want to change the letter case, find text within another string, substitute old text with something new, or combine text from multiple cells, there’s a function here for you. RELATED: 12 Basic Excel Functions Everybody Should Know Convert the Letter Case: UPPER, LOWER, and PROPER You may want your text to contain all uppercase or all lowercase letters....

In a nutshell, most cars manufactured within the last few years support both Android Auto and Apple CarPlay. Typically, you connect your compatible phone to the car’s in-dash infotainment system. It then mirrors your phone’s GPS navigation, entertainment apps, and more. The head unit just serves as a touch-capable display. If you own a device with Android 9 Pie or later, you have to download and install the Android Auto app from Google Play....

Using Bitwarden vs. KeePass The most striking difference between Bitwarden and KeePass is the interface. Both interfaces are a lot less slick than those of commercial password managers like LastPass and 1Password, however. KeePass takes this to an extreme with a desktop application interface that’s straight from the ’90s. That’s no huge surprise, as it’s been around since 2003. KeePass is a much more classic desktop application for “power users.” For example, its menus are rather jargon-filled compared to modern paid password managers....

What Is a Cleaner App? Cleaner apps promise to help you create free space, speed up the day-to-day operation of your Mac, protect your privacy, and even remove malware. You should know that you can do many of these things yourself using macOS or free third-party tools, and that some cleaner apps make inflated promises. These apps are often advertised using language like “optimize” and “boost” to describe their effect on your system....

Unbeknownst to many people, it’s not a requirement that you purchase a game directly from Valve in order to use it with their Steam gaming platform—and, in fact, it’s often advantageous to purchase your game from a third party retailer. Let’s take a look at how to get your third party games into your Steam account. Why (and Where to) Shop Outside of the Steam Store The click-and-done purchase process on Steam is, obviously, very, very convenient, but it doesn’t always yield the best prices....

If you use Safari on a Mac and would like for your browsing history to stay private but don’t want to always think about having to turn it on, there’s a way to open a new private browsing window every time you launch Safari. Here’s how. What Is Private Browsing in Safari? Private Browsing is a mode where Safari doesn’t save your browsing history, AutoFill information, changes to cookies, recent searches, and download history between sessions....

Google Chrome opens with a “New Tab” page by default, but it’s easy to open the browser with a custom startup page instead. You can also set the page that appears when you click an optional “Home” icon on your toolbar. Here’s how to do both. How to Enable the Home Button and Set Your Home Page in Chrome By default, Google Chrome hides the traditional toolbar “Home” button. If you’d like to enable the home button and define which site it points to—your “Home Page”—we’ll need to open Settings....

Why Clean Your Headphones? Whether you have over-the-ear or in-ear headphones, you should clean them regularly for both hygiene and maintenance reasons. This is especially true if you use your headphones while you exercise, as so many of us do. Sweat can build up and make the ear cups smell bad. Ear wax can clog drivers and reduce not only volume, but also sound clarity. Then there’s all the dirt you can’t see like bacteria and other microbes that might make you sick....

Save as Video in iOS 13 and Above iOS 13 introduced a new option in the Photos app called “Save As Video,” which allows you to save a Live Photo as a video with just one tap—no third-party app necessary. To do this, open a Live Photo in the Photos app, and then tap the Share button. In the Share pane, tap “Save as Video.” Now, the Photos app creates a new video next to the Live Photo....

You’re sure you have the app on your iPhone, but its nowhere to be found. Did it end up buried in one of your home screen pages? Was it lost in a folder? Did you accidentally delete it? No matter how it went missing, you can find it with this simple trick. To locate the missing app, swipe right on your iPhone or iPad from the home screen to reveal the Spotlight search box....

When you write a new formula in Microsoft Excel, half the battle is finding the correct function to use. Luckily, Excel provides a way for you to quickly locate the function you need for your situation. Access the Insert Function Tool Open your spreadsheet in Excel and select a cell. If you plan to insert the function once you find it, selecting the cell gives you a head start. You can then open the Insert Function feature one of two ways....

Sometimes, you might need some boilerplate or filler text in a Word document. One solution is to head over to a lorem ipsum or dummy text generator to create that text. Alternatively, you can create the text yourself directly in Word. Generate Random Text with the Rand Formula If you want to use random (yet coherent) text as filler content in your Word document, you can use the random content generation formula provided by Word....

Microsoft now offers an official way to set Bing’s beautiful homepage photos as your desktop background. Every single day, the tool will automatically grab a new high-resolution image from Bing and set it as your desktop wallpaper. To get wallpapers from the Bing homepage each day, you’ll need to download the official Bing Wallpaper application from Microsoft’s website. Run the downloaded application to install it, and be sure to uncheck “Set Bing as my homepage” and “Set Bing as my default search provider” if you don’t want to set Bing as your new homepage and default search engine in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge....

What You Need to Know About Windows 10’s Bash Shell RELATED: Everything You Can Do With Windows 10’s New Bash Shell How Windows Subsystem for Linux 1 (WSL1) Works Windows 10 offers a full Windows Subsystem intended for Linux (WSL) for running Linux software. This isn’t a virtual machine, a container, or Linux software compiled for Windows (like Cygwin). It’s based on Microsoft’s abandoned Project Astoria work for running Android apps on Windows....

First, in order to do this, you’ll need an app called “Tap, Tap.” It’s not available to download from the Google Play Store, but it can be easily sideloaded on any Android 7.0+ device. Before we proceed, follow our guide for getting Tap, Tap installed and ready to go. RELATED: How to Perform Actions by Tapping the Back of Your Android Phone Now that you have Tap, Tap set up, we can configure the Google Assistant gesture....