The Cause of the Bug When two iPhone users text each other, by default their messages are sent through iMessage, Apple’s free iPhone-to-iPhone messaging tool. You’ll know a text was sent using iMessage because your word balloon in the Messages app is blue. When one person in a conversation has an iPhone and the other person has another kind of phone, for example, an Android, traditional text messaging is used (represented by the green word balloon)....

Identifying the Problem When you connect a new MP3 player, and Windows doesn’t recognize it, check whether the MP3 player is compatible with the version of Windows installed on your computer. Find this information in the documentation that came with the MP3 player, or use the manufacturer’s website to look up your model. If the driver is compatible with your version of Windows, the problem is most likely the driver. If your MP3 player worked on an earlier version of Windows but won’t play on the recent version, the driver is almost certainly the culprit....

If you’re interested in an all-in-one timekeeping, smartwatch, and fitness tracking device, the Garmin Venu checks all of those boxes. This GPS smartwatch is loaded with fitness activity profiles, attractive wellness-tracking features like VO2 max and stress levels, can be synced up to your smartphone for notifications and texting back (if you have an Android phone), and works as a standalone music player. I used this watch over the course of a week as my daily watch and fitness-tracking accessory and was impressed by how it performed as a multifaceted smart/fitness watch....

What Are the Dates of the Next Game Developers Conference? The next GDC will take place from March 20-24, 2023. It will occur in San Francisco. GDC Registration Info There are various pass options (All Access, Audio-specific, Career Development, etc.), so visit the registration site to get more details. What Will Be Announced at GDC? Products and major industry announcements aren’t typical at GDC. The conference aims to exchange ideas and help all those involved in game creation connect through workshops and industry talks....

How to Personalize Your Facebook Username If your Facebook username is currently an unrecognizable string of numerals and special characters, personalize it by changing your account’s username to something recognizable, such as your name. Here’s how: Guidelines for New Usernames Facebook usernames must follow certain guidelines, including: The new username must be at least five characters long.Special characters are not allowed. Any mixture of the letters a through z, the numerals zero through 9, and periods is acceptable....

Advanced Commands for Google Search It’s easy to use these secret Google search operators with your regular search terms. You’ll see in the examples below that there are really just minor adjustments you need to make to dig deeper and find the stuff you’re really after. You can combine multiple Google Search operators to make use of more than one at once. Here’s an example where we’re requesting a definition, but we want the results to not only be restricted to just websites with the ORG top-level domain, but also to explicitly exclude any results from these two domains and URLs with a certain word: Below is another, where we’re looking for a PDF manual for a specific kind of router on Linksys’ website....

Halide is probably the best iPhone camera app that isn’t built into the iPhone. And every year when Apple announces new camera features, Halide’s developers build in support, and often bring similar features to older models. This year, the app adds a macro mode to all iPhones that have a Neural Engine. That is, any iPhone from 2017 onwards. It’s not as good as having a dedicated macro lens on a camera, but it’s pretty great....

Apple has been very clear that it plans to reshape how applications gather user data with iOS 14.5, and is now taking steps to put these new guidelines into practice. Multiple developers reportedly have begun to receive notices that their apps have been rejected from the app store because they don’t meet all of the new requirements. Because Apple is taking such control over data collection, experts say it could lead to major changes in how you get new apps....

Here’s How to Connect Your iPod to a PC You may already have iTunes installed on your PC. If not, download it from Apple—it’s free—and install it on your desktop or laptop computer. Your iPod came with a cable that has a USB connector at one end and a dock connector on the other. It probably came with a partial charge, but if not, charge the iPod before you connect it to your computer....

If you need a faster shutter speed, consider upgrading to a DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) camera, which offers shutter speeds that can exceed 1/1000th of a second. Advanced speeds are perfect for shooting some special effect photos, such as capturing the splash of a drop of water. Challenges and Tips Once you have your camera, making it shoot at its fastest shutter speed becomes a challenge. With most point-and-shoot cameras, the shutter speed is automatically set based on the shooting conditions....

Lane Centering is an important technology in relation to autonomous cars, as it can be paired with Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) to provide nearly hands-free driving in some limited situations as long as the driver remains vigilant and prepared to take complete control. How Does Lane Centering Work? In general terms, lane centering systems work by constantly monitoring the position of lane markings in relation to the position of a vehicle and then automatically taking corrective action if the vehicle deviates from the center of the lane....

Fujifilm’s new GFX100S is a 102 megapixel monster compared to Sony’s A7RIV, which packs “just” 61MP, and Nikon, Panasonic, and Canon’s cameras, with around 45MP. Mounting megapixel counts had been ditched in favor of bigger pixels and higher sensitivity, but now pixels are back. These cameras aren’t for most people, but if you’re in pursuit of quality above all else, then they’re your best bet. Still, even these high-end, high-cost cameras have their downsides....

Importance Markers Each email has an importance marker immediately to the left of the sender’s name in the Inbox list. It looks like a flag or arrow. When Gmail identifies a particular email as being important based on its criteria, the importance marker is yellow. When it is not recognized as being important, it is just the empty outline of the shape. At any time, you can click the importance marker and change its status manually....

A new essay argues that programs can be used to understand bot or spam behavior in email text sent by a machine posing as a human. The software can understand the internal structure of the email itself to identify patterns of spammers and the types of messages they send. “As machine learning improves, and especially as its grasp of language improves, phishing emails will become a thing of the past,” cybersecurity analyst Eric Florence told Lifewire in an email interview....

Google is bringing its Live Caption technology to any website with the new version of Chrome. The feature tries to turn any audio source on the web into text displayed on your screen. For some users, the captions are more than a convenience. “Many people with ADHD and other neuro divergences use captions in order to assist with processing language and information, myself included,” Catie Osborn, a TikTok user with more than 400,000 followers, said in an email interview....

Vollebak recently released its Titan collection, which includes a puffer jacket, trousers, and a hat. The clothes are made from space parachute fabric developed by NASA, military materials developed for the British Special Forces, and insulation made from recycled plastic bottles. “The lining of the Titan Puffer is one of the most technically innovative fabrics we’ve ever worked with: a super-strong but extremely lightweight polyamide that NASA spent 15 years developing for use in its space parachutes,” Steve Tidball, the CEO of Vollebak told Lifewire in an email interview....

Spain just passed a law that mandates a three-year warranty for all products and requires manufacturers to keep spare parts on hand for a decade. Germany already decrees a two-year warranty on all goods. This is obviously good news for consumers, but how might it change the way manufacturers design their gadgets? Or how retailers sell them? “The obvious impact of longer warranties is that consumers will need to buy products less often,” Rex Freiberger, CEO of Gadget Review, told Lifewire via email....

The move is most likely in conjunction with Apple’s push for app developers to make you aware of any tracking that happens when using their apps. You can still stop TikTok from tracking you outside of the app, but from now on, the way you use TikTok will determine what kind of ads you see on your “For You” page. This move takes the choice out of users’ hands, something that experts say never should happen....

Add Yahoo Mail to Outlook.com Follow these steps to set up Outlook.com to access your Yahoo Mail inbox. The message import process may take a while if you have a lot of Yahoo Mail messages. Because this occurs server to server, you can close your browser and turn off your computer. When the import is finished, your Yahoo Mail messages should appear on Outlook.com. Manage Your Connected Accounts If you want to make changes to your Yahoo Mail account, go to Settings > View all Outlook settings > Mail > Sync mail....

Prepare Your Yahoo Account Set up your Yahoo account so that it allows Outlook to connect. This initial step depends on whether you have two-step verification enabled on your Yahoo account. Two-Step Verification Enabled? Generate an App Password If your Yahoo account is secured with two-step verification, generate a third-party app password. You’ll use this in place of your Yahoo Mail sign-in password when you configure Outlook. No Two-Step Verification? If you don’t use two-step verification to secure your Yahoo Mail account (and you don’t want to enable it), set your account to allow email clients to access it using your Yahoo account sign-in password....