RELATED: PlayStation 5 vs. Xbox Series X: Which Should You Buy? Sony has a new registration page where you can log in to your PlayStation account and register for a chance to buy a PS5 from Sony. The key part of the phrase is “chance,” as there’s no guarantee that registering will grant you the option to buy a PS5. As far as when you can purchase a PlayStation 5 if you’re selected, Sony says invitations will go out in November 2021....
Nook for PC If you’ve got a laptop or a netbook, you’ve already got a nice eBook reading device. The Barnes and Noble Nook for PC lets you read your Nook eBooks, eNewspapers, and more on any of your computers. It’s available for both Mac and PC, but here we’ll look at the Windows version. Head to the Nook apps website (link below), and download Nook for PC to your computer....
Fake Recruiters Are Impersonating Real People Here’s why this scam is so smart: Fake recruiters are impersonating legitimate people at real companies. When the person contacts you, everything appears real—a real company with a real website and a real person’s name and photo that appears in that company’s directory of employees. The scammer links you to the company’s real website and a real LinkedIn profile that seems to match the person to whom you’re talking....
AutoHotkey scripts are a great way to customize your computer, but may seem daunting at first. Don’t worry – getting started is much easier than it looks! Read on to see. [Image: mlinksva] Getting AutoHotkey The first thing you want to do is download and install AutoHotkey. Go to the AutoHotkey download page. You will be presented with a number of download links: Click the first one, the installer for AutoHotkey_L....
Microsoft’s “Shared Experiences” allow you to start a task on one device and finish it on another, or easily set up a remote control or other companion app on a smartphone. RELATED: What’s New in Windows 10’s Creators Update Shared Experiences between Windows 10 and Android devices, and is highlighted in the Settings app in the Creators Update. It promises to be a pretty useful feature. Unfortunately, only a small handful of app developers have bothered to implement it yet....
Installing Philips Hue bulbs is a great way to boost your lighting game, but since they heavily rely on an internet connection, you might be wary of going all in and blanketing your house with smart lights. The good news is that there isn’t a whole lot to worry about—here’s what happens whenever your Philips Hue lights go offline. RELATED: How to Set Up Your Philips Hue Lights If Your Internet Goes Down Since smart lights use an internet connection in order to make many of their features work, you may think that they become completely useless whenever your internet goes down....
Bring Up My Post On the internet, a “bump” is a post or comment made by someone with the sole purpose of increasing the visibility of the primary message. It used to be a staple on message boards but is now commonly found in group threads, direct messages, and posts on social media platforms like Facebook and Reddit. A less popular but still common colloquial definition for a bump is “dancing or moving to music....
Corrupted files don’t happen too often on modern computers with good security measures in place. But when they do, it can be a nightmare. Let’s take a look at the common causes of corrupted files, how you can help prevent them, and what you can do when it happens. Why Do Files Become Corrupted? Usually, files become corrupted when being written to a disk. This can happen in various ways, the most common of which is when an app suffers an error while saving or creating a file....
Microsoft distributes special “N” editions of Windows in Europe and “KN” editions of Windows in Korea. These are the same as the standard editions of Windows, except they don’t include Windows Media Player and other multimedia playback features. How Are “N” and “KN” Editions Different? “N” editions of Windows are available in Europe, and are missing a few media-related features. On Windows 7, you’ll find that Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center are missing....
In photography, the aperture is the hole in a lens that lets light into your camera. RELATED: What Is Shutter Speed? When you take a photo, the shutter inside your camera swings up and lets light hit the sensor. How much light hits the sensor is determined by two things: how long the shutter is open for and how big a hole—the aperture—the light has to get through. The more light that hits the sensor, the brighter the image....
At NVIDIA’s CES 2019 presentation, the company showed off a new technology called DLSS. In demonstrations, it all but eliminates the performance hit taken in games that enable fancy new ray-tracing graphics on RTX cards. But how does it work? What Is DLSS? DLSS stands for “deep learning super-sampling.” There are two parts to this idea, but let’s focus on the second one first: super-sampling. Super-sampling is something you can do on your machine right now with a lot of games....
Most lens manufactures offer multiple lenses with the same focal length at different price points. To continue the example above, Canon has a 50mm f/1.8 at $125, a 50mm f/1.4 at $329, a 50mm f/1.2 L at $1,299, and the 50mm T1.3 cine lens at $3,950. They all have the same focal length so the image will look similar regardless of which lens you use, especially if you use the same aperture....
It’s quite possible to install third party applications to your Android phone without using the Play store to download and install them, but today’s question comes from a reader who has run into a rather curious set of circumstances wherein the very “install” button itself is unavailable. Read on as we crack the case of the frozen button. Normally when people come to us with “my phone/computer is doing this weird thing…” questions it’s terribly difficult to troubleshoot their problems because there are simply so many variables at play....
Wait, What’s a Modem? In the olden days, people had to use a peripheral called a dial-up modem to connect to online services or link two remote computers. Dial-up modems were designed to work with the ordinary wired telephone network that linked nearly every home and business in the developed world. Using special software, your computer would tell your modem the telephone number to dial. Your modem would then connect to another modem (and computer) at the other end of the line....
We’ve become reliant on digital cameras since they are so easy to use. But have you ever wondered how film-based photography works? Read on to increase your photographic knowledge—or to develop an new appreciation for your point and click camera. Film-based cameras, to some, are a relic of the past. Simply an old technology made obsolete by the new and improved. But to many, film is an artisan’s material, and a photographic experience no digital system could hope to ever recreate....
Why Does HDMI Cable Length Matter? High Definition Multimedia Interface, or HDMI, is the most common display interface today. It’s used in everything from televisions to monitors to electronic art. By using a single HDMI cable, you can transmit both audio and video signals from one device to another. You will find HDMI cables in multiple sizes in the market. Some are around a foot, whereas others are several meters long....
As a web-based service, it’s harder to create screen recordings in Google Slides presentations directly. You’ll have to record your screen using Screencastify for Chrome and save it to Google Drive, where you can then import it into your presentation later. You’ll need to download and install the Screencastify extension for Google Chrome before you begin. As Screencastify saves screen recordings to Google Drive, you’ll also need to sign in to the same Google account you use for Google Slides....
If you’re using Chrome, you can set up search keywords to search specific sites from the address bar. There’s no way to do that by default in Safari, but a free Safari extension called Safari Keyword Search makes it easy to search a number of sites. So typing y kittens in the address bar searches YouTube for kittens or typing wa warp 9 asks Wolfram Alpha how fast Warp 9 is....
While the crisp and clean recording that digital music allows for is great for perfect reproduction, there’s something to be said for the snaps, crackles, and pops of an old record in play. Read on as we show you how to mimic the sound of an old record with your digital music collection. Although the hiss and pop of old records is actually the result of dirt, grime, and scratches on the record (and was historically considered problematic because it distorted the actual recording) we absolutely get where you’re coming from....
