While this phone is mid-range in most aspects, there is one in which it rivals even the most high-end competitors. The Nord N300 5G features the company’s signature fast-charging components and ships with a 33W wired charger and a 5,000 mAh capacity battery. The phone refills 30 to 40 percent of its battery with just 20 minutes of charging. The other notable spec here is the price. This smartphone costs just $228 while still delivering the aforementioned quick-charging capabilities....

Perfect timing: The new add-on fits in well with all the Zoom conferencing we’re seeing these days as kids and adults work and go to school online. How to access: Whoever hosts the Zoom meeting will need to have at least an Otter for Teams subscription and a minimum of three $20 seat licenses. There’s also a free two month trial if you enter the code “OTTER_RELIEF” at checkout. Recorded bliss: Once activated, Otter will transcribe what everyone says, even if they’re using a headset or external mic....

Photos might look like a simple image-viewing app, but dig in and you’ll find powerful organizing and editing tools. You may think you need Lightroom, but Photos probably has everything you need, and you don’t have to pay a monthly subscription to use it. For high-volume batch edits and deep camera integration, Lightroom wins. But for pretty much everything else, you’ll find Apple’s Photos app to be surprisingly capable....

Free online image editors generally fall into two camps. There are more basic applications that apply global adjustments to photos and more advanced applications that replicate much of the functionality found in full-blown image editing applications, allowing for more precise editing of specific areas of a photo. Photoshop Express Editor falls into the first camp but offers plenty of power to allow the production of impressive results. Highlights of Photoshop Express Editor As you’d expect from Adobe, Photoshop Express Editor is a very well presented online image editor with a good range of features....

Gone biking: When you now look up biking directions, Google Maps will show you walking directions to local bikeshares, turn-by-turn cycling directions to the nearest bikeshare, and, most importantly, bike availability. Best of all, Maps will also provide links to the relevant app to book and unlock the shared bike, rather than you hastily downloading the app when you get there. Perfect path: Of course, a bike ride is no good without a decent route, and Maps will now keep routes up to date to give you both a smooth ride and to prepare you for what’s to come....

The Plantronics Backbeat Pro 5100 true wireless earbuds are a lot more than just earbuds—they are earbuds that aim to put call quality top of their list. These aren’t the best sounding earbuds around, nor are they the most stylish. But from a brand like Plantronics, that has staked its claim on the Bluetooth headset market, you’re likely looking at the on-board microphones as a marquis feature. The call quality really was superb on these earbuds, with a couple of caveats I’ll get into later in the review....

How to Use PlayStation Plus to Play PS2 and PS3 Games Through Your PS4 The PlayStation 4 disc drive and hardware can’t read PS2 or PS3 discs, so the easiest way to access your favorite old games is to use a PlayStation Plus Extra or Deluxe membership. The Extra tier provides access to the Game Catalog, which includes some PS4 titles. The more expensive Deluxe tier also includes the Classics Catalog, which has older titles....

We have used Photoshop Elements 2.0 throughout this tutorial, though it can also be done in Photoshop. You may also be able to follow along using other photo editing software with some slight modifications to the steps. Right-click and save the picture below to your computer and then continue to the next page. Getting a Better Sky Photo You’ll also need to save the image above to your computer. Open both images in either Photoshop or Photoshop Elements and begin the tutorial....

Methods to Pause a PowerPoint Slideshow Use any of these methods to pause a presentation in progress: Press the B key to pause the show and display a black screen, so there are no other distractions on screen. To remember this shortcut, note that B stands for black. Press the W key to pause the show and displays a white screen. The W stands for white. If the slideshow has been set with automatic timings, right-click the current slide as the show is running and choose Pause from the shortcut menu....

Seagate is a well-known name in the world of external hard drives, and the Seagate Backup Plus Hub is one of the brand’s desktop HDDs. With large capacities of between 4TB and 10TB, cross-platform compatibility, and dual functionality as both a data hub and a recharging station, the Seagate Backup Plus Hub should be a valuable addition to any home office. I tested the 6TB version of the Backup Plus Hub for a week to see if its design, performance, and features make it a worthwhile investment....

How to Set Up an Email Signature in AOL Follow these steps set up or change your email signature in AOL Mail: What Is an Email Signature? The signature at the end of your email can be a valuable tool in marketing your business, building your brand, promoting your blog, or providing contact information. Email signatures usually contain your name, essential contact information, perhaps a link, and sometimes a witty quote, social media icons, poetry, or ASCII art....

Basic stations are great if all you need is the temperature and humidity. The more complicated personal weather stations can provide tons of data to sift through and even provide weather forecasts personalized to your exact location. What Is a Personal Weather Station? A personal weather station is a set of instruments and sensors that you can install at your home to receive accurate and timely information about the weather....

Before now, whenever you tapped an email link on your Apple device, it would launch in Mail, even if you used a different mail app like Gmail. Worse, whenever you’d use the share sheet to email something from within another app, you’d get the standard iOS Mail window. So, even if you never used the built-in Mail app, you had to configure it, just to use the share feature. That’s all in the past—now you can set an email app to take over everything....

Here’s a list of some of the more interesting Sirius XM personalities. Sirius/XM Satellite Radio Personalities Howard Stern: Stern has been broadcasting on Sirius XM Radio since 2006 after spending 20 years at WXRK in New York City. He’s called himself the “King of All Media.” Sirius NFL/88: Check in here for live NFL games in season and broadcasts from all teams’ training camps during the preseason. Mojo Nixon: The psychobilly musician no longer records and it’s been years since he’s played live, but he hosts a variety of shows on Sirius: “The Loon in the Afternoon” on Channel 60, and “Mojo Nixon’s Manifold Destiny” on Channel 90....

How to Make Pictures Smaller for Online Use When you place your photos on the web or send them by email, the smaller you can get them, the better, to make the most efficient use of bandwidth and storage space. There are three things you can do to make your pictures smaller for sharing online: Since pixels-per-inch and dots-per-inch are only relevant to print size and quality, for digital photos for the web, you need only look at pixel dimensions....

What Is an SO File? A file with the .SO file extension is a shared library file. They contain information that can be used by one or more programs to offload resources so that the application(s) calling the SO file doesn’t have to actually provide the file. For example, one SO file might contain information and functions on how to quickly search through the whole computer. Several programs can then call upon that file to use that feature in their own respective programs....

It’s an impressive lineup, featuring some standout first-party and third-party titles, as detailed in an official PlayStation blog post. First-party titles include Demon’s Souls (PS5), Marvel’s Spiderman: Miles Morales (PS4/PS5), and Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut (PS4/PS5.) Third-party standouts include Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (PS4/PS5), Red Dead Redemption 2 (PS4), and NBA 2K22 (PS4/PS5.) All told, there will be around 70 recently-released titles available to play when the service launches in June....

What Is an SZN File? A file with the SZN file extension is a HiCAD 3D CAD file. It’s used by the computer-aided design software called HiCAD to store 2D or 3D drawings. How to Open an SZN File SZN files can be opened with ISD Group’s HiCAD. The program isn’t free to use, but there is a demo you can download that should also provide the same support for these files....

To access a pen, crayon, or oil paint brush, upgrade to the premium version, which also offers additional color palettes, drawings, and gradients. Colorfy Plus costs $7.99 for a month or $39.99 for one year. A free seven-day trial is also available. You can get all the premium features for $1 per month or $10 per year. The premium subscription also includes backup to Dropbox or Box, a collection of backgrounds, graphs and diagrams, and PDF import....

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