Improve Quality With Lossless and Dolby Atmos Audio The HomePod 15.1 update brought support for lossless and spatial audio on the HomePod and HomePod Mini. So make sure you’ve updated your HomePod. To enable lossless and spatial audio, open the Home app, and tap on the Home icon in the top-left corner. Select “Home Settings.” Under the “People” section, tap on the username you use. Select “Apple Music” under the “Media” section....
In a new interview with The Wall Street Journal (transcribed by 9To5Mac), John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, said, “We make the world’s best touch computer on an iPad. It’s totally optimized for that. And the Mac is totally optimized for indirect input. We haven’t really felt a reason to change that.” Basically, the company is saying that if you want an Apple device with a touchscreen, they have one ready to go in the iPad....
Email inbox gimmicks keep popping up. First Google introduced Priority Inbox, and now it’s using category tabs. Dropbox purchased Mailbox, which turns your inbox into more of a to-do-list. Microsoft’s Outlook.com has a Sweep feature that automatically cleans your inbox. All of these are attempts to manage your email inbox for you. These gimmicks are never as smart as you yourself are, so you can make your email much smarter by taking a more active role....
The last time we alerted you to a major security breach was when Adobe’s password database was compromised, putting millions of users (especially those with weak and frequently reused passwords) at risk. Today we’re warning you about a much bigger security problem, the Heartbleed Bug, that has potentially compromised a staggering 2/3rds of the secure websites on the internet. You need to change your passwords, and you need to start doing it now....
Windows 8 asked you to “Trust This PC” after you signed in with a Microsoft account. This message is gone in Windows 10, replaced with a new “Trusted Devices” system that works differently. How “Trust This PC” Worked on Windows 8 On Windows 8, you’d see a message asking you to “Trust this PC” after you logged in with your Microsoft account. This was a Microsoft account security feature. Only trusted PCs were allowed to synchronize sensitive data such as your saved passwords....
If you’ve gotten a wee bit addicted to your Chromecast (and we hardly blame you, it’s a fantastic little device) you might want to take it on the road with you. If you’re headed to a friend’s house, you shouldn’t have any issues. If you’re headed to a hotel, however, there are plenty of pitfalls. Read on as we show you how to use the Chromecast in a hotel room....
Editing photos on your iPhone or iPad is really easy. The Photos app on iOS packs a lot of features into it, including the ability to crop, adjust the color, make one-touch adjustments, and more. In this article, we’ll show you how to access the Photos app’s editing tools using an iPhone. If you do this on an iPad, you’ll see the same tools and buttons, but they may be in slightly different locations....
What Is a Logic Gate? First, it’s important to realize that logic gates take many forms. Even in our personal lives, we are constantly processing things through various logic gates. While our minds are optimized at doing so, we often do not realize the thought process in motion. However, it does take place. For example, when sitting an exam, one might know that not answering a question will lead to a negative score for that question....
Discord is great for chats, but some users send too many irrelevant messages. While you can’t silence such people without mod powers, you can block them. We’ll show you how to block and unblock people on Discord. The good part is that Discord doesn’t notify the user when you block them. Similar to blocking people on Facebook, you won’t see their messages anymore on your mutual servers. However, they can still view your messages and interact, though Discord won’t let them send you direct messages....
Looking for a way to block a subreddit in your r/all feed? You can block specific subreddits from appearing there, although Reddit makes it a little complicated. We’ll show you your options. RELATED: How to Disable Reddit’s “Open in App” Pop-Up Block a Subreddit in r/all With Old Reddit One quick, easy, and free way to block subreddits rom appearing in your r/all feed is to use Reddit’s old website....
By default, LibreOffice saves files in the Open Document Format (ODF). However, it also reads and writes files in Microsoft Office formats (DOC and DOCX). If you collaborate with others on Microsoft Office documents, but you use LibreOffice, you can choose to always save files as Microsoft Office files to make it easier to exchange those documents back and forth. There are actually many other formats you can choose from as the default file format, as well....
Are you looking to de-Google, or maybe you’re just switching to a new account? If don’t need Google’s services anymore, you can delete your Google account for good. We’ll show you how to do just this. RELATED: How to Delete Your Gmail Account Without Deleting Your Google Account What Happens When You Delete Your Google Account When you delete your Google account, you lose access to all your content stored in your account....
Google is trying hard to push Google Meet by promoting it in Gmail. If you have no interest in starting video calls or chatting in Gmail, here’s how to disable Hangouts Chat and Google Meet in Gmail sidebar. First, open the Gmail inbox where you want to disable Google Meet and Hangouts Chat. Click the “Settings” button in the top-right corner. Now, select the “Settings” option to access Gmail’s settings....
Windows uses the “Windows key” for a lot of useful shortcuts. But if they get in your way—or you’d just like to assign them to different functions—there is a way to disable them all in one fell swoop from the Registry or Group Policy Editor. RELATED: The 20 Most Important Keyboard Shortcuts For Windows PCs It’s important to know that the changes we’re going to talk about in this article are per user, meaning that you’ll have to make these changes for each user account where you want to disable the shortcuts....
Many websites, including How-to Geek, display a mobile version for users that are browsing the site on their phone. This is done to reduce bandwidth and look better on a smaller screen and resolution, but sometimes you really just want the full desktop version of a website. Read on to find out how to view the desktop version of any website on your phone. There are plenty of reasons why you might want to use the full desktop version of a website on your mobile device....
Google Home brings a lot of the awesome features of Google Assistant to your living room. Developers can also add new features, making Google Home’s potential virtually limitless. You don’t even have to install a thing. Here’s how to find and use third-party services. This system is a little confusing, but once you get used to it, it’s a little easier than installing an app or enabling a service for everything you want to do with Google Home....
Facebook is the most popular social network on the internet, and as a result, its messaging service is a very common way for people to privately communicate with one another. However, Facebook also tells you when your recipient has read your message—something not everyone enjoys. These are called “read receipts”, and Facebook doesn’t actually include a built-in way to disable them. As such, there’s no one-click-trick to make this happen across the board....
Password managers like LastPass are the most secure way to generate and store passwords for all your favorite sites. And, if you want to make them a little easier to use, you can log into your LastPass vault instantaneously using just your fingerprint. You don’t need Windows Hello to do this, either. LastPass can use the Windows Biometric Framework—which is available in Windows 7, 8, and 10—to unlock your password vault with a fingerprint....
While you’re still waiting on your refrigerator or your microwave to be as smart as your phone, the car in your garage is already ahead of the curve. If you own a vehicle made after 1996, you can connect to it with a simple device called an OBD-II adapter and find out your fuel efficiency, diagnose check engine lights, and gather a ton of other useful data. Most cars manufactured since the 80s have an on-board diagnostics (or OBD) computer inside....
On the Nintendo Switch, game save data is stored on the console’s system memory, and it is automatically backed up to the Nintendo cloud. This will not change whether downloadable software or software from a physical game is being played. RELATED: How to Decide Which Nintendo Switch Is Right for You Save data is linked to your Nintendo account. If you move to a new system, you can pick up all of your data by downloading or transferring everything to the new Nintendo Switch device....
