The phones, tablets, and gizmos that can be delivered straight to your door vary in subtle but delightful ways from the ones you can pick up at Best Buy. It’s sometimes hard to tell exactly what you are getting and the warranty service might be sketchy. But the uncertainty can be half the fun, some say. “Gadgets from overseas come a lot cheaper than the stuff made home, therefore you can find pretty good deals at low prices,” Zohar Gilad, the co-founder and CEO of InstantSearch+....

How to Buy Games for Quest 2 From the Headset in VR If you’re already in VR and you want to get into a new game fast, the best way is to buy a game through the Quest 2 storefront. You can access the store at any time by pressing the Oculus button on your right Oculus touch controller and selecting the store icon from the Toolbar. As long as you’ve already added a payment method for Oculus purchases through the mobile or desktop app in the past, you can purchase games directly from the Quest 2 store without leaving VR....

Calculate Sample or Population Variance Excel provides functions to calculate variance and supports add-ins that enable regression analysis. Variance indicates how widely a set of numbers diverges from the average of the numbers. When comparing variance calculations, the higher the variance, the more widely distributed are the numbers in a data set. A variance of 0, for example, indicates that all the numbers in the selected data set are the same....

How Do You Change How Long Your Snapchat Messages Last? By default, a message is automatically deleted after all recipients have read it and then exited the conversation. There are two steps you can take to make messages stick around longer: change the chat settings so messages auto-delete after 24 hours, or manually save messages you want to keep longer. Change Your Chat Settings Change the Delete Chats setting for any conversation you want to stay for 24 hours....

How Do I Display the Clock on the Echo Spot? In addition to the audio commands the Echo Spot understands, the new Echo Spot and Echo Show provide a visual interface and camera that lets you watch videos or video chat with friends and family. When it’s not in use, it can show the time, the weather, or any number of built-in widgets. Like its predecessors, setting up your Echo Spot starts by turning it on....

How to Change the Default iPhone Ringtone To change your iPhone’s default ringtone, follow these steps: Whenever you get a call, the ringtone you selected will play unless you assigned individual ringtones to callers. If you’ve set a specific ringtone for an individual, that ringtone plays instead. Just remember to listen for that sound, and not a ringing phone, so you don’t miss any calls. How to Create Custom iPhone Ringtones Want to use a favorite song as a ringtone instead of one of the iPhone’s built-in sounds?...

How to Change the Startup Sound in Windows 11 & 10 It’s easy to change system sounds in Windows 11 or pick different sounds in Windows 10 because Microsoft provides a tool built right into the OS. Changing the startup sound is a different thing entirely. Fortunately, however, since we know where the Windows startup sound file is located, we can replace it with a different file that we’d rather use instead....

How Do I Get to My Router Admin Page? To access your router’s settings, log into your router’s admin console from a web browser: How Do I Log Into My 192.168 1.1 IP Address on My Phone? You can access your router’s settings on your phone using a mobile web browser. Just follow the steps in the previous section. However, if your router has a mobile app, there might be a more convenient way:...

Like most things in the technology world, your motherboard software (BIOS) occasionally gets updated, sometimes to fix bugs and other times to add new features. As part of some hardware troubleshooting processes, especially those that involve new RAM or a new CPU that won’t work correctly, updating BIOS to the latest version is a good thing to try. Below are six different methods for checking the BIOS version installed on your motherboard:...

Get High-Speed Data The faster your internet connection, the better, and this is especially true if you’re one of the growing numbers of remote workers — employees, freelancers, and business owners — who work out of their homes. When you work from home, you need to perform as well as — or better than — your office-based and remote counterparts. A fast internet service helps you get your job done quicker....

Combine the ROUND and SUM Functions Combining the operations of two or more functions, such as ROUND and SUM, in a single formula within Excel is referred to as a nesting function. Nesting is accomplished by having one function act as an argument for the second function. Follow this tutorial and learn how to properly nest functions and combine operations in Microsoft Excel. Begin by entering the data in rows 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 shown in the image above....

How to Connect Alexa to Pandora Using Your Smartphone How to Play Pandora Stations With Alexa Now you can use Alexa voice commands to play Pandora stations. For example: “Alexa, Play [station] on Pandora.““Alexa, Play [song or artist] on Pandora.““Alexa, create a [artist or song] station on Pandora.” Adding “on Pandora” to your command tells Alexa that you want to use Pandora instead of the default music service. It’s also possible to make Pandora the default player so that you can omit “on Pandora....

How to Link Prime Music to Your Alexa Device To get more specific, call out a genre, artist, or song by name. Experiment with commands until you find what you want to hear. Alexa will let you know if it isn’t in her library. Volume up or Volume downWho is this artist?What song is this?Stop or PauseNext or PreviousShuffle or Stop ShuffleListen to my playlist.Play a station I haven’t heard in a whilePlay something more like thisPlay the artist I was listening to yesterdayThumbs up or Thumbs down (to let Alexa know you like/dislike a song)...

How Do I Connect My Echo Dot Speaker to My TV? How you pair your Echo Dot with your TV depends on the model. In some cases, you must download an app or skill to connect your devices. How Do I Connect My TV to Alexa? If you don’t have an Echo Dot, you can still connect Alexa to your TV using the Alexa app. In the app, go to More > Settings > TV & Video, then tap the plus sign (+) next to your TV or video service and follow the on-screen instructions....

How to Hook Up an Xbox One to a TV Because Microsoft designed the Xbox One for high-definition TVs, you’ll only need one cable to connect it to your set. The image in these instructions shows the base Xbox One console, but the instructions are the same for an Xbox One S or Xbox One X. Why Does the Xbox One Have Two HDMI Ports? You want to be sure to connect the HDMI cable to the correct port on the back of the Xbox One....

How to Connect the Xbox Series X or S Controller to Android Android smartphones have plenty of games at their disposal so it’s smart to be able to connect your Xbox Series X or S controller to your Android phone. Here’s how to connect Xbox controller to Android with a focus on pairing up your Xbox Series X or S controller to your phone. How to Disconnect Your Xbox Series X or S Controller From Your Android Smartphone Want to disconnect your Xbox Series X or S controller once you’ve finished playing?...

Set the number of sides of your polygon by double-clicking the Polygon tool in the toolbar to bring up the Polygon settings dialog, where you can change the number of sides of any selected polygon or set the number of sides for polygons. The Polygon settings box includes an entry field for Number of Sides and a field for Star Inset, which is used when you are drawing stars. Holding the shift key while drawing polygon forces all sides to be the same length....

Delete a Calendar in the Calendar App You can remove an iCloud, subscribed, or Google calendar from your iPhone easily from right within the Calendar app. If you do not see the Delete Calendar option described here, go to the next set of steps to Delete a Calendar in Settings. Delete a Calendar in Settings For some calendars like Exchange, Yahoo, or business accounts set up with Google, you’ll need to head to your Settings app to disable the calendar....

How to Deactivate and Delete Your Snapchat Account If you go into your Snapchat settings on the mobile app, you won’t find anything that takes you through the process of how to delete your Snapchat account. Don’t worry—it is possible to delete a Snap account, but you have to do it from a web browser. How to Reactivate Your Snapchat Account If you change your mind about deleting your Snapchat account, you can always reactivate it, provided you do it within 30-days of deactivating it....

Can Apple Photos Delete Duplicates? One of the best parts of owning an iPhone is the camera. The cameras are excellent and so easy to use many of us take tons of photos. Unfortunately, that often results in tons of duplicate images. Sadly, iPhone cannot automatically delete duplicate photos, either, which means they can quickly add up. So, you’ll be stuck deleting your duplicates manually, or you’ll have to use a third-party app to get the job done....