Just this week, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri Tweeted that iPad users are “still just not a big enough group of people to be a priority.” Meanwhile, Apple sold $7.2 billion worth of iPads in its last reported quarter. Clearly, Instagram doesn’t care about the iPad, but it’s certainly not down to the number of users. But do iPad users really need the Instagram app anyway? Meanwhile, tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee voiced the question we all wanted to ask: “Ok, so I’m clearly not an executive for a reason, but hear me out—maybe that group gets way bigger when an excellent app actually does exist?...

Other than their screen size, physical size, and thickness, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus phones are virtually identical. They have the same buttons and ports. 1. Home Button Because it’s used for so many things, this is probably the button pressed most often by iPhone users. The iPhone 6 Home button has the Touch ID fingerprint scanner built into it for unlocking the phone and making purchases with ApplePay....

What Does1080p Mean? Digital displays consist of pixels, which are arranged in rows or lines. 1080p refers to a display that has 1,920 pixels arrayed horizontally and 1,080 pixels arrayed vertically. Said another way, the 1,920 pixels on an HD display are arranged in vertical rows crossing the screen from left to right. The 1,080 pixels are arranged in rows or lines that go from top to bottom. 1,080 (which is referred to as the horizontal resolution) is where the 1080 part of the term 1080p comes from....

For a conventional podcast, you need at a minimum a microphone, headphones, a computer, recording and mixing software, and internet access. Basic Microphones To get your voice into your computer for recording, you need a microphone. You don’t have to spend a lot of money on one if you aren’t concerned with high quality. However, the better the quality, the more professional your audio sounds. No one will listen to your podcasts if the audio is inferior....

Other terms for disk signature include disk identity, unique identifier, HDD signature, and fault tolerance signature. How to Find a Device’s Disk Signature You can display the disk signature in Command Prompt, with the diskpart command. Disk Signature Collisions and Why They Happen Disk signature collisions in Windows happen when two storage devices have the same signature. The most common occurrence is when a drive has been cloned, sector by sector, to make an identical copy, and a user then attempts to mount it alongside the original....

What is the Google Home Mini? For connectivity, the Google Home Mini can connect to both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz wireless networks, supports Chromecast and Chromecast Audio, and accepts audio inputs via Bluetooth 4.1. That means you can connect it to the internet via Wi-Fi regardless of the type of router you have, stream music and other audio to your Chromecast or Cast-enabled speaker, and stream music and other audio from your phone to the Home Mini via Bluetooth....

For instance, if someone’s phone number is 326-555-6732, then the two possible text door neighbors they could have would be 326-555-6731 and 326-555-6733. The last digits of these two numbers are one number off from the last digit of the original phone number. While the general idea of a text door neighbor is having the last digit off by one, some followers of the trend say the last digit can be any number at all....

Advantages of MDE files include compacted file size, VBA code that can run but can’t be changed, and the ability to edit data and run reports while shielding the user from having full database access. What do you do if you need to open an MDE file? Below are some suggestions to help out. How to Open an MDE File MDE files can be opened with Microsoft Access and probably some other database programs as well....

Android Open-Source Project Android is a widely-adopted open-source project. Google actively develops the Android platform but gives a portion of it for free to hardware manufacturers and phone carriers who want to use Android on their devices. Google only charges manufacturers if they also install the Google apps portion of the OS. Beyond the Phone Android powers phones and tablets, but Samsung has experimented with Android interfaces on non-phone electronics like cameras and refrigerators....

Performing a people search at FamilyTreeNow.com lets you find a variety of information on someone, such as associated names, possible relatives, age, possible associates, current and past addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. Is Family Tree Now Really Free? The data you find on FamilyTreeNow.com is 100 percent free. There aren’t any tricks you need to know or hidden fees to pay in order to find someone or build your family tree....

The Fire TV Recast streams any live TV signals it receives and/or recordings it makes through a Fire TV stick/box connected to your TV, or directly to a Fire Edition TV or Echo Show. What the Fire TV Recast Can Do The 2-Tuner Fire TV Recast includes a 500 GB hard drive allowing up to 75 hours of recording in HD quality. With a 2-tuner Fire TV Recast, you can:...

Installation and Usage Computer infrared network adapters both transmit and receive data through ports on the rear or side of a device. Many laptops and personal hand-held devices had infrared adapters installed. In Microsoft Windows, infrared connections used the same method as other local area network connections. Infrared networks supported direct two-computer connections only, created temporarily as the need arose. Extensions to infrared technology, however, supported more than two computers and semi-permanent networks....

What Is Plex? Plex Media Server (usually just called Plex) is a digital media player and organizational tool that allows you to access the music, pictures, and videos stored on one computer with any other computer or compatible mobile device. You can install the Plex Media Server software on a Windows, Mac, or Linux computer, or a compatible network-attached storage (NAS) device, then play it back on any other internet-connected device capable of running the Plex app....

A Brief History of PPTP PPTP is a network tunneling protocol that was developed in 1999 by a vendor consortium formed by Microsoft, Ascend Communications (today part of Nokia), 3Com, and other groups. PPTP was designed to improve on its predecessor Point-to-Point Protocol, a data link layer (Layer 2) protocol designed to connect two routers directly. How PPTP Works PPTP is an outgrowth of PPP, and as such, is based on its authentication and encryption framework....

Tethering Benefits Tethering offers internet connectivity to devices that lack a built-in mobile data plan. It’s especially helpful in situations where no other means of internet access are available: when, for example, there’s no Wi-Fi hotspot around, your cable modem goes on the fritz, or you’re on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere and need an online map. If you’re already paying for data on your cell phone and your wireless provider doesn’t require any extra fees for using your cell phone as a modem for your laptop, tethering can also save you money, since you won’t have to pay for separate mobile broadband service or buy additional hardware just to get your laptop connected....

Calling Alexa Skills You can also take advantage of Alexa skills. With tens of thousands of skills or tasks Alexa can perform, you can ask Alexa to help with almost anything you can imagine. Ask Alexa to add a skill you need to customize your experience to your needs, and new Alexa skills are being added continuously. More Than a Smart Alarm Clock Sometimes called a “smart alarm clock,” the Spot is capable of so much more....

How S4S Works on Instagram If you follow popular, branded Instagram accounts (fitness, food, fashion, makeup, etc.), you may have noticed that some of them also include “S4S” in their bios, captions, and even in the comments in their posts. S4S involves two users who have agreed to give each other a shoutout on their own Instagram accounts. Each user posts a photo or video featuring the other user’s account, and they encourage their followers to follow the featured account....

Because AirPlay seems to work magically, it can seem confusing to troubleshoot, but AirPlay works on simple principles. Solving AirPlay connection problems is usually simple as well. Making an AirPlay Connection When everything is working correctly, you access AirPlay by pulling down on the upper right side of the iPad or iPhone screen (in iOS 12 or iOS 11) to open the Control Center. Pull up from the bottom of the screen to open Control Center in earlier versions of iOS....

There are four things to try when your Google Assistant won’t play your movies. Check Your Google Assistant Permissions For Playing Movies When Google Assistant isn’t able to play movies, the first thing you should check is whether it has the correct permissions. On an Android phone, permissions are the way that you can allow an app to access various things like your microphone, local storage, and your contact information....

Check Your Permissions One problem might be with your permissions. Google Assistant can’t work properly if it doesn’t have access to the Google app and other core functions. For example, Google Assistant needs access to your phone’s microphone to hear voice commands. Here’s how to check permissions on your Android device and make sure Google Assistant has the access it needs. Check Your Linked Google Account The problem might stem from mismatched Google accounts....