How to Find Duplicate Songs in Your Music or iTunes Library Whether you’re still using iTunes (macOS Mojave and earlier) or you’ve upgraded to the Music app, the instructions are similar. To see all the songs in your music library, including duplicates, you need to be in the right viewing mode. You should now see a list of tracks that iTunes has identified as duplicates. Browse the list to locate and delete the tracks you do not want....
Unlike most other delivery services that compete with DoorDash, Grubhub is almost identical. So choosing between the two comes down to your specific preferences. Other factors like where you live, what your favorite restaurants are, and what features you prefer also come into play. Overall Findings If you’re trying to decide between Grubhub or DoorDash, the choice won’t be an easy one. In most respects, the two services match up neck and neck in every category....
If you forget your passcode and enter the wrong one six times, your iPhone will tell you it has been disabled. Depending on your settings, entering the wrong passcode too many times could cause your iPhone to delete all its data. You don’t want that! Whether you’ve gotten this message or know you’ve forgotten your iPhone passcode, follow these steps to regain access to your iPhone. Fix a Forgotten Passcode By Erasing Your iPhone There’s only one way to fix it when you forget your iPhone passcode....
This utility provides basic, but still useful information on various hardware components. Free PC Audit also includes information on installed software and even active processes. Free PC Audit Basics Free PC Audit gathers system information on both hardware and software, each separated into their own categories and then further divided into subcategories. Some of the sub-categories include information on the operating system, disk drives, monitor, network, CPU, user accounts, motherboard, startup items, running processes, RAM, and installed software....
Qualcomm has unveiled a new Snapdragon AR2 Gen 1 platform that’s built with slim AR glasses in mind. The company hopes to trim down the form factor of current AR and mixed reality headsets like the bulky Meta Quest Pro. Experts say manufacturers must overcome a steep dork factor before AR glasses go mainstream. “The AR glasses must be untethered, lightweight, comfortable, and attractive enough for users to wear throughout the day yet powerful enough to deliver exceptional and valuable experiences,” Jason Yim, the CEO of Trigger XR, a mixed reality agency, told Lifewire in an email interview....
Smart Canvas is a collaboration tool within Google Workspace with various new features that Google said will roll out throughout the rest of this year. Javier Soltero, the general manager and vice president of Google Workspace, said during Google I/O that Smart Canvas would “bring the voices and faces of your team directly into the collaboration experience.” “As smart canvas drives the next era of collaboration in Google Workspace, we remain committed to providing a solution that’s flexible, helpful, and that fuels innovation for organizations in every industry,” Google wrote in its blog post announcing the feature....
Chromebooks sit in a precarious position in the laptop marketplace. Chrome OS might be able to handle the needs of a lot of users, but they can’t handle every task a Windows or Mac OS laptop can. Chromebooks have also been priced appropriately for most of their history, consistently finding themselves in the sub-$500 range. Here’s Google’s problem, though. It wants everyone to see Chromebooks as beautiful, capable devices, so it has taken matters into its own hands in the past few years and started creating its own devices....
Two-factor authentication (2FA) adds a huge layer of safety to your logins, but only if it’s switched on. By the end of 2021, Google plans to switch over 150 million Google users, and force 2 million YouTubers to enable the setting. 2FA has been available through Google for years, but in 2018, only 10% of accounts were using it. People just don’t seem to bother with anything that isn’t on by default....
Various conditions can affect the TTFF, including the environment and whether the GPS device is inside or outside. GPS navigators need to be mostly free of obstructions between the device antenna and the orbital satellites. A GPS must have three sets of data before it can provide accurate position: GPS satellite signals, almanac data, and ephemeris data. TTFF Conditions There are usually three categories that TTFF is split up into:...
How to Host a Disney Plus Watch Party Here’s how to watch Disney Plus with friends in just a few short taps or clicks. Join and Watch Disney Plus in a Party Joining a GroupWatch party is even easier than hosting it. All you need to do is make sure you have Disney Plus account, and if you’re on a mobile device or console, have the app installed. If you’re on a PC, you can instead use the browser to GroupWatch with your friends and family....
Bluetooth in a Camcorder Bluetooth is a wireless technology that is very common in mobile phones and digital music players, usually as a means to wirelessly send music or voice calls from the device to a headset or earphones. In fact, many current cellphones no longer offer the auxiliary ports needed for wired connections, relying completely on Bluetooth for connection to external devices. Bluetooth performs well over short ranges between 10 and 30 feet or so....
Overall Findings The above findings, as well as those in the below sections, are largely hypothetical. In practice, if you’re new to HBO streaming services, you’ll almost certainly need to go with HBO Max (but, as shown in the Final Verdict below, this isn’t a bad thing). HBO Go was discontinued as a standalone service in July 2020, instead re-branded to simply “HBO.” The only way you can use the HBO app (previously HBO Go) now is if you were an existing customer, and/or you’re using a device or service provider that doesn’t support HBO Max yet....
The Federal Communications Commission recently has started pushing for users to provide information about their internet data speeds, even going so far as to release an app that you can use to measure your home internet connection. Much of this move, experts say, is fueled by the FCC’s desperate attempts to provide more open and transparent information about the current broadband performance throughout the United States. “The FCC has resorted to crowdsourcing broadband speed data out of complete desperation,” Tom Paton, founder of BroadbandSavvy, told Lifewire in an email....
A new AI tool could allow scientists to more accurately forecast Arctic sea ice months into the future. IceNet is almost 95% accurate in predicting whether sea ice will be present two months ahead, researchers say. It’s one of a growing number of uses for AI in predicting climate change. “AI has significantly improved the efficiency of running complex climate models that historically have been computationally intensive,” Daniel Intolubbe-Chmil, an analyst at Harbor Research,, told Lifewire in an email interview....
The Google project called Play a Kandinsky lets you hear what Kandinsky might have heard as he looked at color. The interactive tool enables you to experience his abstract 1925 masterpiece Yellow Red Blue through sound by clicking around the artwork to listen to a seven-movement composition that travels through colors and moods as Kandinsky described them. “Google has taught an artificial neural network the correspondence of colors and shapes to sounds and emotions,” Sergey Burukin, head of decision intelligence at web development company Greenice, said in an email interview....
AirTags are Apple’s hotly anticipated tracker tiles, little tags that will show up in the Find My app on your phone, letting you find lost keys or keep your checked luggage safe. But are AirTags private? Might they leak private information and let other people find you? Probably not. “I will use them if they’re not too expensive,” iOS app developer Graham Bower told Lifewire via direct message. “It can’t be worse than an Apple Watch....
Streaming services often cater more towards pop and other genres than classical music, but Apple recently announced it has acquired Primephonic, a classical music streaming service that offers innovative features. Experts say the move could bring more options to classical music listeners. “Apple is aware of the consumer demands for classical music, and Apple has publicly stated that they are committed to providing dedicated features specific to classical music,” Brandon Elliott, a music professor at Moorpark College, told Lifewire in an email interview....
Block Known Contacts When you block a contact on WhatsApp, you stop receiving messages, calls, or status updates from them. The blocked user won’t be able to view your status updates or other information. Block a Contact on WhatsApp for iPhone Block a Contact on WhatsApp for Android Block an Unknown Number Blocking an unknown number is a simple process, as well. Block an Unknown Number on WhatsApp for iPhone If this is the first time a phone number has contacted you, open the chat and tap Block > Block....
Twitter and T.co Twitter limits tweets to fewer than 280 characters. In the past, users relied on link-shortening websites to shorten URLs before posting to Twitter. These ensured that URLs did not take up much space within a tweet. Before long, Twitter introduced its own link shortener—t.co—to minimize character counts. When you paste a URL into the tweet field in Twitter, it is altered by the t.co service to 23 characters, no matter the length of the original URL....
Toys like the new VTech KidiZoom PrintCam look awesome. Kids can snap photos and see the results right away. But can they understand how it works? Inside, it’s just another opaque computer, like the one you’re using to read this article. Almost all toys and gadgets are computerized, and while we and our kids might become adept at using them, we cannot understand them. “Today’s kids are born with tech, but that doesn’t mean they are naturally tech savvier,” Mark Coster, owner and editor of STEM Toy Expert, told Lifewire via email....
