Although the concept is cool it does tend to run into problems at times, freezing or misbehaving until you’re forced to restart it. If you run into one of these problems, it doesn’t take much to quickly restart the Touch Bar with a Terminal command. If done successfully, the Touch Bar will blink, and then restart, hopefully operating normally once it does. Click the Finder icon to open a Finder window....
You can get a general idea of where things stand from the icon alone, but sometimes 10-15% can make a real difference and that isn’t so easy to parse on that tiny icon. There’s no magic trick to get it back in the status bar, but here are the fastest and easiest ways to see your battery percentage on an iPhone. Best smartphones in 2021iPhone 13: Price, release date, specs and moreBest phone deals of April 2021...
Make Sure You’re Logged into iCloud on Both Devices To pick up where you left off in Safari on another Apple device, you’ll need to be logged into the same iCloud account on both devices. Here’s how to check, if you’re not sure. On the Mac, click iCloud in System Preferences. Make sure Safari is checked in the iCloud window. In iOS, open the Settings app. Tap iCloud and make sure Safari is toggled on....
Now, every time you want to log in to your Google account (Gmail, Play store, etc), the service will send a single use code to your Authenticator app. Once you add the code and your password, you’ll be granted access. Here’s how to set it up. Open the 2-Step Verification page and click Get Started. Log in to your Google account, if needed. Add your mobile phone number and select Text message or Phone call to complete the step....
It’s fairly cut and dry to navigate your way through it, but here are the settings you may want to take a look at. Open a web browser and visit your Microsoft account management page, found here (opens in new tab). Click the Sign in with Microsoft button and sign in to your account with the email address and password associated with your Microsoft account. Below the child’s name, click Content restrictions....
The backbone of Material You is the set of colors it draws from your wallpaper or the ones you cherry-pick yourself. It then selects the dominant and secondary shades to personalize your phone’s software. If you have a brown-heavy backdrop, for instance, activated toggles will be brown, while that particular screen’s background itself may be of a lighter tone, such as beige. Although most of this process is automated on Android 12, you do have a few choices to fine-tune what your theme looks like....
OneNote is free and fully capable of being a full-fledged Evernote replacement after significant updates over the past several years. Download the OneNote Importer tool and click the downloaded file to open. Accept the terms of the license agreement and click Get started. Select the Evernote Notebooks you wish to import and click Next. Sign in to your Microsoft account. Check the box if you’d like OneNote to use your Evernote tags for better organization, or just click Import if you’d like to sort it later....
Today we’re going to learn how to do just that. Open an Excel workbook.In this case, I’m just going to use a new workbook, and add a set of dummy data (names) using all sorts of random cases, both capitalizing entire names, and just random letters. Use the column to the right of column A (column B) to create a temporary column. You can delete this later, or use a blank column elsewhere on the page, if needed....
Click on the date on the Taskbar. Click the plus sign to add an event to the calendar. In the Calendar window, type the name of the event. Adjust the date and time for the event. Click Save to save and close the window.
Windows 11, poised to launch on Oct. 5, will offer several new features: better UI, integrated Android Apps, and more appearance settings, to name a few. It will also provide some of our favorite features from previous Windows versions, such as Virtual Desktops. How to download Windows 11 for freeThe best laptops of 2021 As Microsoft prepares to usher in a new era, perhaps it’s about time that you, too, revivify your productivity by taking advantage of all the perks Virtual Desktops has to offer....
To use Timeline: Press the Timeline button, which appears to the right of the search box. Or hit Windows + Tab. A list of all currently-open tasks appears at the top of the screen. Below that is your timeline of activity. Scroll down to see files / sites you opened. Use the search box to find a particular file. Click on a file or web page to open it. Timeline provides a good way to remember what you were working on and get back to it days or even weeks later....
It all but secures the Elite Dragonfly’s place on our best laptops and best business laptops pages. HP Elite Dragonfly (2020) pricing and configurations The base model costs [TK] and features a 10th Gen Intel Core i3 processor with 16GB of RAM, a 128GB m.2 SATA SSD, a 13.3-inch 1920 x 1080, 400-nit display and a 2-cell, 38 watt-hour battery. You can max out the notebook with a Core i7 CPU, a 2TB NMVe PCIe SSD, a 13....
The HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop 16 is slated to launch sometime this June starting at just $799. Here are the best gaming laptops and best VR-ready laptopsSee the best PC games and best Xbox Game Pass PC games to play nowCheck out the best cheap gaming laptops available now HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop 16 design, ports and specs The HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop 16 doesn’t look as bulky as its predecessors, despite being a 16-inch laptop, but the design is very much the same: bland....
Design Neither the ZBook 15 or 17 are nowhere near as pretty as HP’s ZStudio workstations. But I guess when the focus is pure computing power, beauty gets tossed to the wayside. That’s not to say that the notebooks are ugly, but outside of the glossy HP logo and the large plastic strip topping the dark gray aluminum lid, the ZBook fades into the background. Display While the “world’s most powerful workstation” claim is a bit hard to prove, HP’s claim that the ZBook 17 is the first mobile workstation to feature a display with 100 percent of the DCI-P3 color gamut, which is much wider than the sRGB gamut....
Now is a great time to save on a new laptop, monitor, and must-have PC accessories. As part of the sale, you can get the HP Envy x360 with AMD Ryzen 7 CPU for $899 (opens in new tab). Typically, it retails for $1,099 so you’re saving $200 with this deal. It’s the lowest price ever for this convertible notebook and one of the best laptop deals of the week....
The Apple MacBook Air with M1 chip just got a considerable price cut, so you’ll want to act fast on this deal. More: Best MacBook dealsMacBook Air reviewBest laptops in 2021 MacBook Air deal Apple’s MacBook Air M1-powered ultraportable is one of the best laptops to buy. The MacBook in this deal packs a 13.3-inch (2560 x 1600) IPS Retina display, 8GB of RAM, and a 512 GB SSD. In our MacBook Air with M1 review, we commended the laptop’s breathtaking performance and slim, unibody design....
A lump formed in my throat as my Oculus Quest 2 headset catapulted me into my first VRChat room — a bizarre social space where VR and PC users can mingle and be weird together. Before the simulated environment could fully load, I heard someone call out my username. Excited to have my first conversation, I opened my mouth to salute him — ‘til the greeter’s lewd gestures stopped me mid-hello....
In an effort to bring Project Athena to the masses, Intel is opening three new labs around the world sometime in June 2019 (Folsom, California, Taipei, Taiwan and Shanghai, China), where component makers can work with the processor maker to ensure subsequent parts are within the new Athena standards. So when can consumers expect to see these new laptops? According to Intel, we might see these Athena-notebooks as soon as 2020....
Sophisticated cyberattacks like NSO’s Pegasus are actively deployed to hack influential individuals like Jeff Bezos. Their ability to penetrate any phone, irrespective of the level of security guarding it, is what makes them so treacherous: they can be installed remotely, don’t require any interaction from the target, and collect a sweeping amount of rich data in no time. Apple’s solution for such attacks, as the name “Lockdown” suggests, is to shut off all functions except the essentials on your phone or computer....
However, recent reports suggest you might want to wait before syncing your Apple devices with your new M1 MacBook Pro or MacBook Air. In a slew of recent user complaints on Apple’s support community, it appears syncing your devices with your M1 Mac may cause apps on your iPhone or iPad to no longer work. Many users are reporting that after syncing their Apple devices, many third-party apps no longer seem to function properly....
