How Common Is Counterfeit Camera Gear? Counterfeit camera gear is, if not common, definitely out there. What way it’s counterfeit depends on what exactly it is. RELATED: What SD Card Do I Need for My Camera? Similarly, Canon has had trouble with counterfeiters manufacturing knockoffs of their flash units, and there have been fake Nikon battery grips. These kind of accessories are a gold mine for fakers because the products work and most people won’t be able to tell the difference....

Want to get back to a post you’ve liked on Instagram? If so, you can use the platform’s iPhone or Android app to do so. You can also bulk unlike posts if you want. We’ll show you how. RELATED: How to Save Posts and Manage Your Collection on Instagram View Your Liked Instagram Posts on Android and iPhone To begin, launch the Instagram app on your iPhone or Android phone....

Windows 10’s Creators Update brings a number of improvements to Microsoft Edge—mostly in the areas of responsiveness and security. It also includes some new tab management features, like being able to set aside tabs for later. RELATED: What’s New in Windows 10’s Creators Update If you’re like us, you often find yourself with a bunch of open tabs. You’d like to get those tabs out of the way sometimes, but they’re maybe not worth saving as actual bookmarks....

Street photography is about documenting the day to day life of a city. It’s about capturing the small, authentic moments that take a city from grey concrete and turn it into a real, living place. It’s a really popular genre of photography, so let’s have a look at how to do it well. All the photos in this article were shot by me on the streets of my hometown, Dublin, Ireland....

Webcams often include a light showing whether the webcam is in use or not. Windows doesn’t make it easy to check which application is actually using the webcam when the light comes on, but it’s possible to find out. If you’re concerned about someone spying on you—and especially if you don’t use your webcam much—you may want to disable your webcam altogether. Webcam spying is a very real thing, and you can never be too careful....

Chrome for iOS may never outperform Safari, but it has still become a solid browser alternative with some nice extra features all its own. The trouble is, when you install Chrome for iOS, there’s no way to directly import bookmarks from Safari into Chrome. For that, you’ll have take a few steps and even get your desktop computer involved. RELATED: Why Third-Party Browsers Will Always Be Inferior to Safari on iPhone and iPad...

Internet connection problems can be frustrating. Rather than mashing F5 and desperately trying to reload your favorite website when you experience a problem, here are some ways you can troubleshoot the problem and identify the cause. Ensure you check the physical connections before getting too involved with troubleshooting. Someone could have accidentally kicked the router or modem’s power cable or pulled an Ethernet cable out of a socket, causing the problem....

If you check your PowerShell version and find it is out of date — or PowerShell has been helpfully reminding you that there is a new version available — you have a few options. Here is the best way to update PowerShell on Windows 11. How to Update PowerShell The best way to update PowerShell is through the command line, using winget. Winget is a package manager introduced in Windows 10....

A media center isn’t nearly as fun if all your media is mislabeled poorly organized. Read on to learn how to use Ember Media Manager to whip your media into shape and make your collection sparkle. Why Do I Need a Media Manager? Perhaps you’ve never heard of a media manager or if you have you’ve written it off as something for those obsessive types to tinker with. Media managers are invaluable for ensuring that what your media center displays is accurate, custom tuned, and ultimately shows off how awesome your media collection is....

Lens is an advanced open-source Kubernetes dashboard which provides a graphical view into your cluster. Unlike other dashboards, Lens is an Electron-based desktop application which you install on your machine. It connects to your cluster using your existing Kubeconfig files. Getting Lens Pre-compiled Lens binaries are available from the project’s website. There are options for Windows, macOS, and several flavors of Linux. You can pick from Debian, Fedora, Snap, and AppImage distribution formats....

Until Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu recommended all users use the 32-bit edition of Ubuntu on its download page. However, this recommendation has been removed for a reason — users of modern PCs are better off with the 64-bit edition. While Microsoft has been installing the 64-bit edition of Windows on modern PCs by default for years, Ubuntu has been slower to recommend the use of its 64-bit edition — but that has changed....

Are you listening to classical, jazz, or another type of music with plenty of nuances and dynamic range? If so, you’ll want a pair of headphones that can capture that range. Are you mainly listening to podcasts and audiobooks? If that’s the case, overall sound quality isn’t as big an issue for you, so you might prioritize other features. Next comes the actual noise cancellation. While all of the headphones we’ll look at here feature noise cancellation, some are better at it than others....

Roku has discounted its Streambar device to $79.99, a 38% reduction from the original price of $129.99. It’s a soundbar that connects to your TV with an HDMI ARC connection (optical audio is also supported), with more powerful and better-sounding speakers than just about every modern TV. The Streambar also houses a Roku streaming player, giving you easy access to most streaming services and other online content. It supports 4K HDR, but not Dolby Vision or Dolby Atmos, and it can function as a Bluetooth speaker....

You’ve seen it on plenty of PC help sites. “Uninstall fonts to speed up your computer!” Don’t follow this advice–it’s a myth. Uninstalling fonts is a troubleshooting tip for fixing a specific problem, not a general performance tip for speeding up your computer. Sure, Installing Thousands of Fonts Is a Bad Idea RELATED: 10 Windows Tweaking Myths Debunked As with many myths, there’s a kernel of truth here. You don’t want to install too many fonts on your computer, as that can slow things down....

A file with the .wav or .wave file extension is a Waveform Audio File Format. It’s a container audio file that stores data in segments. It was created by Microsoft and IBM and has become the standard PC audio file format. Note: WAVE and WAV files (or the .wav and .wave extension) are the same thing. Throughout this article, we’ll be referring to them as WAV files to save a few words....

“Hope This Helps” and “Happy to Help” HTH stands for either “Hope this helps” or “Happy to help.” It’s often used on the internet to either provide assistance or respond to someone thanking you for your assistance. How do you tell which is which? Here are two examples of HTH in action: “Here’s a Dropbox folder with all my notes from last semester. HTH. ” “Sure, HTH, I hope you find those notes useful....

Compression Makes SSDs Faster Modern SSDs using the latest interfaces can read gigabytes of data per second. For example, the SSD in the PlayStation 5 is rated for a read speed of 5.5 gigabytes per second. You can now buy SSDs for your computer that can reach 7 gigabytes per second, assuming you have the latest SSD interface on your motherboard to support this rapid data transfer speed. These speeds are amazing, but the PlayStation 5 can achieve real-world transfer speeds much faster than that....

Once upon a time, Android devices and Bluetooth audio devices handled their respective volume outputs independently of one another. Then Google linked Bluetooth and system volume together for a more unified experience. Now Samsung is letting you undo that on the fly. And that’s really the long and short of the story here: the Galaxy S8 uses Bluetooth 5.0, so you have a lot more control over what happens with Bluetooth connections....

Moviegoers already know the bliss of a good surround sound setup, but PC gamers have an even better reason to invest in a little audio immersion: beating the snot out of their online opponents. A good surround sound system can make a surprising amount of difference in fast-paced competitive games, helping you hear where other players are on the map. When shopping for a gaming headset, you may see “surround” sound advertised, but it isn’t always as good as it claims to be—there’s a difference between “true” surround sound and “virtual” surround sound....

Talk to any tech person, read any forum, and at some point you’re sure to be told to update your drivers… but what does that really mean? And is it necessary to compulsively update your drivers? Here’s our take. Drivers? What Are Drivers? In very simple terms, drivers are computer programs that let Windows and your other applications interact with a hardware device. Your computer doesn’t natively know how to use all the features of your video card—it needs a driver to do that....