How to Turn on My Photo Stream and iCloud Photos Follow these instructions to activate iCloud Photos or My Photo Stream on your iPad. You can also turn on Shared Albums and invite a group of people to view your individual photos and videos. Apple Photo Sharing Methods Apple dumped Photo Stream for iCloud Photo Library, but it kept the My Photo Stream feature in place for users who wanted an alternative to storing photos on iCloud....

How to Type a Tilde Mark Using a Keyboard Shortcut Here’s how to add a tilde symbol for the most common operating systems and platforms. Mac Keyboard Shortcut for a Tilde Mark Hold the Option key, press the letter N, then release both keys. A tilde appears above an underscored blank space. Now type the letter to be accented. If you’d like the accented letter to be uppercase, press and hold the Shift key and type the letter as you would capitalize any letter....

How to View Accents and Symbols on the iPhone Keyboard To see the available accents and diacritical symbols, tap and hold the letter or punctuation mark that you want to accent. A row of accented versions of the letter appears. If nothing appears, that letter or punctuation mark does not have an accent. To insert the accent, drag across the screen to the letter you want, then remove your finger from the screen....

How to Lock Home Screen Layout Locking your home screen can prevent you from altering a perfect layout (or someone else altering a perfect layout). How to Lock Home Screen Layout Through Settings The other way to lock the home screen layout is through Settings, usually located in your notification shade. Why Would You Want Your Home Screen Layout Locked? Locking your home screen has been around since the days of Android Pie....

Enhanced Notifications Replaces Adaptive Notifications Android 10 added Adaptive Notifications, a feature that used AI to adjust the order in which it arranged notifications. Android 12 changes to Adaptive Notifications and changes the name to Enhanced Notifications, though the difference is not obvious. Android 12 adds a feature called Enhanced Notifications. This has caused some confusion because Enhanced Notifications are effectively Adaptive Notifications with a few UI tweaks (which, because Android 12 is currently in beta, are subject to change)....

Browse Through Trending, Discover, or My Sounds to Choose a Sound Once you’ve downloaded the Dubsmash app to your device, you’re ready to start filming your own videos. Unlike many apps, Dubsmash doesn’t immediately require creating a new account with a username and password — you will still be ​prompted to do so at some point during the video-making process. The main tab shows three categories at the top: Trending: In this category, you’ll find collections of sounds by theme....

How to Set Up Google Chat Setting up Google Chat is as simple as logging in to the service or app with your Google account. While there are apps for Windows, macOS, and ChromeOS, you can use Google Chat in a web browser without installing any software. Using it in a web browser is identical to the desktop app. Android and iOS users must download the Google Chat app from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store....

Does the iPhone 8 Have a Headphone Jack? No, the iPhone 8-Series follows its predecessor’s lead, the iPhone 7-Series, by not having a traditional headphone jack. Neither the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus have a headphone jack. All iPhone models since then also don’t have headphone jacks. As with the iPhone 7, iPhone 8 owners have three ways to connect headphones: the Apple earbuds included with the iPhone 8, wireless headphones (AirPods or Bluetooth), and an adapter for the standard headphone jack....

Photoshop Frames vs. Smart Objects Photoshop pros may know the same thing can be accomplished with layer masks and Smart Objects. Frames accomplish essentially the same goal but with a slightly more flexible system. For example, images in Frames can be moved around and transformed within the frame by default. Frames also make changing images and setting placeholders easier. Layer masks still work, of course, but the Frame tool gets the job done a little faster....

How to Create a Slack Channel Anyone in a workspace can create a channel, but owners and administrators have greater control over who can join. To make a new channel: How to Join a Channel in Slack You can join any public channel by typing /join followed by the channel name in the chat box. To open the channel browser, select the plus (+) next to Channels, then choose Browse Channels....

How to Review and Manage Your Off-Facebook Activity The following instructions are provided for both Facebook.com and the Facebook mobile app, but screenshots are provided for Facebook.com only. What Is Off-Facebook Activity? Off-Facebook activity is considered to be any interaction you have with a website or app (favoriting something, commenting, shopping, taking a quiz, playing a game, etc.) that could be shared with Facebook. With this information, Facebook can then display ads based on the activities it has learned about you....

Get WhatsApp Notifications on Apple Watch WhatsApp doesn’t include an official app for Apple Watch. You’re limited, therefore, to the basics—receiving message notifications on your Apple Watch and responding by choosing from a list of simple, quick replies. Here’s how to receive WhatsApp Messenger notifications on your Apple Watch. Now that these settings are turned on, configure your Apple Watch to mirror notification alerts from WhatsApp: The functionality is limited. You can’t start a new message, use voice messaging, or type a reply....

Watch Live TV on Xbox One With a TV Tuner Free-to-air broadcast television can be viewed directly on the Xbox One console without changing TV channels. This is done by a special Xbox One Digital TV Tuner accessory which connects to the back of the console and also plugs into your TV antenna. Some of the benefits of watching live TV through your Xbox One are: The ability to pause live broadcasts for up to 30 minutes....

How to Wipe Your Mac Remotely From an iPhone or iPad This method requires an iPhone or iPad connected to the same iCloud account as the Mac you want to remotely wipe. The erase will now be pending. The Find My app will notify you when the erase begins. How to Wipe Your Mac Remotely From Another Mac This method requires an additional Mac tied to your iCloud account. The erase will now be pending....

How to Use Fixboot to Write a New Partition Boot Sector You need to enter the Windows XP Recovery Console, the advanced diagnostic mode of Windows XP with special tools that allow you to write a new partition boot sector to the system partition. Here’s how to repair a damaged or unstable partition boot sector: Assuming that a corrupt or unstable partition boot sector was your only problem, Windows XP should start normally....

How big is this increase? Enough that the extra carbon generated would require a forest twice the size of Portugal to lock away the resulting CO2. The land and water footprints are similarly huge, and this is just for fixed-line internet. But is there anything we can do to stop this trend? “We found that turning off video during Skype or Zoom calls is very effective,” lead researcher Renee Obringer told Lifewire via email, “particularly if people are working remotely and spending a lot of time online....

We purchased the HTC Vive Pro Headset so our expert reviewer could thoroughly test and assess it. Keep reading for our full product review. If you are looking to invest in the best PC powered, room-scale VR experience possible, you’ll want the HTC Vive Pro. It has excellent tracking, a high screen refresh rate, a clear lens display, and a comfortable headset you can wear for hours, offering the best VR headset in the market....

Case in point? Hyundai Mobis just unveiled an innovative biotech system that will populate forthcoming cabins in newly manufactured automobiles. The Smart Cabin Controller uses advanced sensors to analyze the driver’s health and take appropriate steps when necessary. What does this mean exactly? The cabin analyzes vital signs, such as posture, heart rate, and brainwaves. Hyundai refers to this technology as an ‘advanced brain’ and notes that the cabin will automatically switch to an autonomous driving mode if it senses something amiss, such as a health issue, an uptick in anxiety, or a drunk driver....

What Is an ICNS File? A file with the ICNS file extension is a macOS icon resource file (often referred to as the Apple icon image format) that macOS applications use to customize how their icons appear in Finder and in the OS X dock. They’re equivalent in most ways to the ICO files used in Windows. An application package typically stores the ICNS files in its /Contents/Resources/ folder and references the files within the application’s Mac OS X Property List (....

What Is an IGS File? A file with the IGS file extension is most likely an IGES drawing used by CAD programs for saving vector image data in an ASCII text format. IGES files are based on the Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES) and used to be a widely used standard for transferring 3D models between different CAD applications. However, lots of programs also rely on the STEP 3D CAD format (....