Make a Call With Skype The Skype interface offers access to your contacts, calls, and other features. What You Need to Run Skype on Your iPad and iPhone You’ll need to go to the App Store and download the Skype app on your iPhone or iPad. You’ll also need a free Skype account, which you can register for on the Skype website. Skype is tied to your Microsoft account login, so if you have a Microsoft account, you have a Skype username and password....
How to Use Snapchat on Your PC Snapchat has rolled out a web version of its platform, but it currently comes with a catch: It’s not currently available on all browsers; you can only use Chrome or Microsoft Edge. To access Snapchat in a browser, navigate to https://web.snapchat.com and sign in with the email address and password you use to sign in to the mobile app. What Can I Do With Snapchat on the Web?...
Use SSL With an Email Account in Apple Mail Unless you use encryption, email messages travel around the world in plain text, meaning anyone who intercepts them can read their contents. There is a way to at least partially secure the connection from you to your mail server. Here’s how to enable SSL encryption for an email account in macOS Mail: SSL can slightly reduce performance because all communication with the server will be encrypted....
How to Launch the Chrome Task Manager One of the features of Google Chrome is its multiprocess architecture, which allows tabs to run as separate processes. Occasionally, Chrome lags or acts strangely or a webpage freezes, but you don’t know which tab is the culprit. This is where the Chrome Task Manager comes in handy. Chrome Task Manager not only displays the CPU, memory, and network usage of each open tab and plug-in, it also allows you to kill individual processes with a click of the mouse, similar to the Windows Task Manager or macOS Activity Monitor....
How to Open the Control Panel on the iPad The control panel has moved around a bit in the last few updates, but you access it by swiping down from the top-right corner of the screen on any page. On the lock screen that appears after you wake up your iPad, but before you unlock it, a horizontal line is visible in that corner, under the clock and battery indicators....
How to Use the Minecraft Teleport Command With the Tp command in Minecraft, you can teleport anyone or anything anywhere. If you’re playing the Java version, you can even teleport between the Overworld and the Nether. Use the Tp cheat the same way you use any other Minecraft cheat: How Coordinates Work in Minecraft When you enter coordinates in Minecraft, you need to provide three variables: X, Y, and Z:...
Does Zoom Have Video Filters? Yes. While many people know more about Zoom’s virtual backgrounds feature, it’s also possible to apply some video filters to the service. Many video filters are already in the app, with others available through third-party software and additional downloads. How Do You Get Visual Filters on Zoom? To add a filter to your video call, you need to know where to look. Here’s what to do using the Zoom desktop app....
Where You Can Find YouTube YouTube can be found on almost every streaming device, so however you stream, you can watch YouTube on your TV. Smart TVs If you have a smart TV, with very few exceptions, the YouTube App is either pre-installed or available to add to your viewing list using the TV’s built-in app selection or store. If you don’t have a smart TV, but your TV has an HDMI input, you can connect other devices to your TV to get access to YouTube....
The Show 10 goes on sale on February 25 for $249.99. Unlike previous models, this one has a swiveling screen that can track your movements, so it always will face you during video conversations. Experts say the tracking feature opens a new front for privacy invasions. “While this model includes the usual Echo-related privacy concerns (listening for its wake word, mistakenly hearing its wake word, access of recorded conversations by employees, other users possibly being able to see your conversation transcripts, and more), the Show can also track you around the room, meaning you’re never off-screen,” Chris Hauk, consumer privacy champion at Pixel Privacy, said in an email interview....
What Is the iCloud Email Size Limit? iCloud Mail lets you send and receive messages that are up to 20 MB (20,000 KB) in size, which includes the message text as well as any file attachments. For example, if your email is only 4 MB with text, but then you add a 10 MB file to the message, the total size is only 14 MB, which is still permitted. However, if you add an 18 MB file to an email that exceeds 2 MB, it will be rejected, since the whole message exceeds 20 MB....
How does it work? When you use Image Capture to import photos from, say, an iPhone or iPad, you have the option to convert them to JPEG when bringing them onto your Mac, rather than importing them as the default HEIC format. To do this, you uncheck the “Keep originals” checkbox in Image Capture and then import. When you do so, however, the developers found that each imported photo file had 1....
The internet is a global network of billions of servers, computers, and other hardware devices. Each device can connect with any other device as long as both are connected to the internet using a valid IP address. The internet makes the information sharing system known as the web possible. The web, which is short for World Wide Web, is one of the ways information is shared on the internet (others include email, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and instant messaging services)....
One big problem with modern devices is discoverability. App developers, and OS developers like Apple and Google, keep adding new features, but unless the users know about them or can easily find them, they won’t know they are there. Take Spotlight, for example, the built-in, system-wide search feature on iOS devices and Macs. It has been on the iPhone since iOS 3 in 2009 but is so hidden, most people don’t know it’s there....
The Challenge: Two Eyes, Two Images The main issue with viewing 3D on a TV (or video projection screen) is that humans have two eyes, separated by a couple of inches. We see 3D in the real world because each eye sees a slightly different view of what is in front of it and transmits those views to the brain. The brain combines the two images, resulting in viewing a natural 3D image correctly....
How to Tell If Outlook.com Is Down Can’t access your email and you’re not sure who’s at fault? Check these places first to see if it’s down for everyone or not. If problems are being reported, you’ll likely need to wait until Microsoft fixes the problem. If no one else is reporting a problem with Outlook across these services, though, the problem is almost certainly on your side. If the web page displays a red or yellow symbol next to Outlook....
About Android and Rooting Android is an open source operating system, although the Google fork of it contains a lot of Google-specific services baked in. Because the core of Android is open source, anyone can build on and modify it. Most of the time, device manufacturers modify the OS to create custom Android versions for their phones, add features, and create a polished experience for users. Part of that includes imposing their own rules and restrictions on their custom Android builds....
However, at the Let Us Loop You In Apple Event on March 21, 2016, Apple announced a new, smaller 4-inch smartphone called the iPhone SE. Despite the company’s push to larger devices, Apple sold 30 million 4-inch iPhones in 2015. The iPhone 5s (the previous 4-inch model that Apple produced) still proved incredibly popular among people making their first smartphone purchase. With the forward momentum of new device launches leading to the retirement of earlier models, Apple needed a solution to fill the “budget” smartphone space in their lineup, and with the iPhone 5c (their first attempt at a budget model) nearing its third anniversary, there was a need for something new to fill the void in their product lineup....
How to Transfer MP3s to Apple iCloud iCloud works with Mac desktop and laptop computers, Windows PCs, iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch devices. You need to sign up for a free Apple ID if you don’t have one. The account includes 5 GB of cloud storage. If that’s not enough, you can purchase more for a small fee. Here’s how to turn on the iCloud Music Library on various devices:...
Keyboard Shortcuts for the Mac Finder Keyboard shortcuts for the Finder can streamline how you work and play with your Mac. However, keyboard shortcuts are a combination of two or more keys that, when pressed at the same time, perform a specific function, such as pressing the Command key and the W key to close the frontmost Finder window. It’s unlikely you’ll be able to memorize all the shortcuts. Even if you only learn the shortcuts for the actions you often perform, you’ll increase your productivity and save time....
Damage to the electrical components or accessories with a digital camera could lead to a fire or to a malfunctioning or broken camera. Use these tips to properly maintain, use, and protect your digital camera and to learn everything you need to know about digital camera safety. Make Sure the Battery Charger Matches Your Model Only use an AC adapter or battery charger that is designed specifically for your make and model of camera....
