Wu is the founder and CEO of Pathrise, developer of an online mentorship and job placement platform for tech professionals. He was inspired to launch the company after seeing a lack of career services in the tech industry. “In terms of how we see the overall mission of Pathrise, I think it revolves around wanting to help people who aren’t getting access to networks or the behind-the-scenes playbook on how to succeed in the job search,” Wu told Lifewire in a phone interview....

How Many Devices Can Connect to a Router? Most home networks and public Wi-Fi hotspots function with a single wireless access point (a broadband router in the case of home networking). Conversely, business computer networks install multiple access points to expand their wireless network coverage to a larger physical area. Each access point has limits for the number of connections and the amount of network load it can handle. By integrating multiple access points into a larger network, the overall scale is increased....

If you wanted to start a blog back in the olden days, you’d have to buy a domain name, find web hosting, find a way to upload your work, then create an RSS feed so people could subscribe. Then came Blogger, which let you just write in a web browser and hit publish. That’s Outpost. It takes all the annoying parts out of making your own small media empire, so you can just make stuff....

In the US alone, sales during this year’s Prime Day are expected to total $6.17 billion. Shoppers snapped up everything from the possibly reasonable, like discounted TVs, to the more questionable, such as bitter apricot seeds. Not everything arriving in mailboxes will turn out to be a great bargain, observers say. “As someone with a closet full of items I’ve used once or not at all, I consider myself a reformed impulse buyer,” Cheryl Wagemann, a retail analyst, and editor at the shopping comparison site Finder, confessed in an email interview....

To help celebrate the season, Spotify has introduced a feature, only in testing for now, similar to Instagram’s Stories, which offers listeners a small message from some of their favorite artists. Experts believe that it could help make Spotify a more active social application and less of a passive app that people turn on and forget about. “I think Spotify should and is trying to make itself the go-to place to see stories from your favorite musical artists,” Amanda Clark, a digital media strategist for Charlene Shirk Public Relations, said via email....

Lack of access to computers, internet access, and tech training leaves many children at a lifelong disadvantage. Nonprofits are working to address this education inequality with programs ranging from training in game development to basic computer use. One example of this kind of program is a new pilot program in Georgia that will use game-development software to teach computer science. “So many students come from disadvantaged backgrounds that don’t have a chance to learn something like this,” Mete Akcaoglu, a professor of Georgia Southern University whose team received a grant for the program, said in a phone interview....

“With the tech giants fully backing the royalty-free Matter protocol, this may be the start of a dominant standard that can help deliver smart home device interoperability,” Daniel Walsh, the owner of the website Smart Home Perfected, wrote to Lifewire in an email. What is The Matter Protocol? According to the announcement, Matter is the unified IP-based connectivity protocol created by the Connectivity Standards Alliance (formerly known as the Zigbee Alliance) to provide secure Internet-of-Things ecosystems....

How to Access iPhone Files From a Windows PC When you plug an Android phone into your Windows PC, you can access its internal storage directly through the file explorer. If you try to do the same thing with your iPhone, you’ll find you only have limited access to iPhone internal storage via the Windows file explorer. You can use that method to retrieve photos from your iPhone, but nothing else....

Finding Your Own Friend Code Take note of your friend code so you can share it with others you want to add as friends by following these steps. Registering a New Friend You can add up to 100 friends on your Nintendo 3DS Friends List. You can also add a saying that your friends can see when they view your Friend Card — be clever, funny, inspired, or express your current mood here, just about anything (but don’t be rude)....

How to Create a Hulu Profile on Mac or PC You can add a profile to Hulu on your desktop or laptop by logging into the streaming service with a browser and following the steps below: How to Add a Hulu Profile on Smartphones, Roku, Apple TV and More Adding a profile to Hulu is easiest on a Mac or PC, but you can also do it on most handheld devices that support the streaming service....

How to Add Perspective and Dimension With Cast Shadows Like drop shadows, cast or perspective shadows add interest to elements on the page. They work to anchor elements on the page, tie components of a composition together, and add a touch of realism — even when used with unrealistic objects and clip art. Cast shadows add perspective and dimension. The first step is to identify an imaginary light source. Unless you are intentionally creating a fantasy world that breaks the rules of light and shadow, cast your shadows using a reasonably placed imaginary light source based on reality....

How Streaming Video and Buffering Work Streaming devices “buffer” video. This means they stream video ahead of what you are watching so it plays continuously. At least that’s the idea. When the video catches up to the point where the file has been streaming, there might be a delay. This means it will pause, and you’ll see a rotating arrow, spinning circle, or loading message on your TV screen. Once the video stream catches up, it plays again....

Back up or Copy Your Windows Mail Email Filtering Rules To create a copy of the filters you have set up in Windows Mail: Why Risk Losing Work You Can Save? If you carefully built a system of mail filters in Windows Live Mail, Windows Mail or Outlook Express that automatically sort and organize your incoming and outgoing messages, you certainly don’t want to lose these filters. If you back them up, you can transfer your Windows Mail or Outlook Express mail rules to another computer or restore them in case of data loss....

Block Pop-Up Ads in Google Chrome The process for blocking pop-up ads in the Google Chrome web browser is similar on Chrome on a Mac, PC, iOS device, or Android device. Block Pop-Ups in Chrome on a Mac or PC Block Pop-Ups in Chrome on iOS Devices Block Pop-Ups in Chrome on Android Devices Block Pop-Up Ads in Microsoft Edge These instructions apply only to the new Microsoft Edge Chromium-based browser on Windows....

How to Cancel Hulu on the Web The easiest way to cancel a Hulu subscription is through the Hulu website: Hulu works hard to keep you an active subscriber, so it will provide additional offers to keep you around. If you still want to cancel, select No, Cancel Subscription, and your Hulu subscription will end. How to Cancel Hulu on iPhone and Android While you can create a Hulu account on an iPhone, you can’t unsubscribe using an iPhone....

Can You Still Challenge Friends Through Game Center? Starting with iOS 10, some Game Center features were moved to the Settings app, where you can enable or disable them. The social networking aspects of Game Center have been dropped in favor of third-party app integration. The option to issue challenges to friends in Game Center still exists, but it’s limited. One of the cool features of the Game Center was the ability to challenge your friends to see who got the highest score....

Applying Color and Patterns to an Object with Photoshop To follow along, you’ll need a t-shirt image and a pattern. Know that Photoshop has a set of default patterns that you can choose from. You can also download patterns for use. Before making this shirt, I downloaded a free set of plaid patterns. To download this plaid pattern and other free patterns, and also learn how to install them for use in Photoshop, click on the below links....

See this public DNS servers list if you haven’t settled on an independent DNS server provider, any of which could perform better than the one assigned by your ISP. Change the DNS Server on Linksys Change the DNS servers on your Linksys router from the Setup menu. Most Linksys routers don’t require a restart for these DNS server changes to take effect, but if the router admin page asks you to, do it....

How to Change a Document Paper Size for Printing You can change a document paper size for a new file or for an existing one. Paper Size Limitations in Word For U.S. versions of Microsoft Word, the default paper size is 8.5 inches by 11 inches. While you probably print most of your letters, reports, and other documents on this size paper, changing the page size in Word to use a different-size paper is a straighforward task....

How to Change User Account Folder Name in Windows 10 Changing the name of your account in Windows 10 is relatively simple, but changing the name of the user folder is another matter entirely. Many applications and Windows settings rely on the user folder name as part of a pathway to required data for them to run correctly. Although it is possible to change the name of your folder in Windows 10, it can very easily break software or even make the entire user profile unusable....