However, if the thought of using your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch to control your home accessories interests you, and your digital life rotates around Apple, then you may have found an excellent solution with HomeKit. Building Your New Smart Home To get started, you will need to purchase HomeKit compatible accessories; these include an array of home devices including lights, switches, outlets, thermostats, fans, speakers, doorbells, cameras, and more....

The two phones look nearly identical and don’t differ much on the inside either. They both have an extra wide-angle camera and run Android 11. The $699 Pixel 5 does have a few more features going for it including more RAM, a slightly larger battery, and wireless charging. But the 4a is no slouch and costs less at $499. There’s a lot to like with both phones. They both sport the distinctive Pixel design that sets the standard for elegant minimalism....

Overall Findings Both GoToMeeting and Cisco WebEx Meetings are popular online meeting tools with similar functionality that allow users to meet at any time, from anywhere. Both offer an impressive array of features and are reliable, safe, and easy to use. Each offers iPhone and iPad apps for on-the-go meetings, and both services have a variety of paid plans. Cisco WebEx Meetings has more features than GoToMeeting, making it a better choice for those who want to host advanced web meetings....

What to Know About Grey Screens for Projectors Grey projector screens are newer technology; they first entered the market in 2001. The main advantage of a grey screen over a white one is that the darker color absorbs more light. This feature maintains a better contrast (the difference between white and black) in the picture. Black projected onto gray will also be less bright than on white, which makes the darks darker and can create a better image under most circumstances....

Wireless earbuds have become much more than the curiosity that was Bluetooth headsets back in the flip phone days. As with most consumer technologies, what began as an expensive extravagance has become a bit more affordable and far more commonplace. For example, noise cancellation used to be a big deal for wireless earbuds, but now it’s almost as expected as not having wires. This is what makes the steady development of more advanced features so promising....

Josh Dzime-Assison is the co-founder and chief marketing officer of the tech company Vendoo, developer of a software platform that helps business owners manage reselling their merchandise online. Dzime-Assison helped launch the company in 2017 after working in the reselling industry for a decade and realizing the challenges people in this field face. “As I grew in this business, I realized that I was a one-person show. It was me that was managing all the different aspects of my reseller business,” Dzime-Assison told Lifewire in a phone interview....

Meta has begun testing user monetization tools within Horizon Worlds, the company announced recently. Selected creators can already begin creating digital items and effects they can then sell directly within the virtual social space. It’s part of a rush to commercialize the metaverse. “The online video games market has already proven that people will spend real money, think many billions, for virtual goods and abilities to engage more deeply,” Amit Shah, the chief strategy officer of the digital commerce platform VTEX told Lifewire in an email interview....

According to rumors, the next iPad Pro will arrive in April and will offer a brighter, higher-contrast miniLED display, Thunderbolt connectivity, faster CPUs that will perform similarly to those in the M1 Macs, and better cameras. But will these be enough to set it apart from the already amazing iPad Air? And what’s the point of Thunderbolt anyway? “USB-C is capable of delivering display signals up to 4K. Thunderbolt would allow 5K,” musician “Krassman” replied in an Audiobus forum thread started by Lifewire....

From here you can access Windows diagnostic and repair tools like Reset This PC, System Restore, Command Prompt, Startup Repair, and much more. It’s also where you access Startup Settings, the menu that includes Safe Mode, among other startup methods that could help you access Windows if it’s having problems starting. In other words, Advanced Startup Options functions as the Windows 11/10/8 boot menu. This menu should appear automatically after two consecutive startup errors....

Graphics Benchmarks—A Good Starting Point You can benchmark a graphics card in different ways, with no one test giving you the complete picture. Different graphics cards perform better and worse in certain games, other components can affect the score, and real-world performance can depend on what kind of settings you pick. Synthetic benchmarks are a good starting point for graphics benchmarks, as they can give you ageneralized score and idea of the relative performance of your GPU....

What Counts Toward the Google Storage Limit Before you learn how to check your Google data quota, it’s helpful to know what’s included in it and what’s not. Your Gmail Account Each email message has a small data footprint, but you probably have many messages stored in your account. Additionally, some messages have attachments that take up additional space. These factors add up, which is true for any email service, but especially so for Gmail....

Open a New Document Firstly we can set up a blank page. When you open Inkscape, a blank document automatically opens. To check it is the correct size, go to File > Document Properties. We’ve selected Letter for the size and have also set Default units to inches and clicked the Portrait radio button. When the settings are as you need, close the window. Prepare the Document Before starting, we can prepare the document....

How to Erase a Hard Drive Using DBAN You can do this on the same computer you’re going to erase or on an entirely different one. However you do it, the goal is to get the ISO file downloaded and then burned to a bootable device like a CD or flash drive. As you can see in this screenshot, we saved it to the Downloads folder in a subfolder called dban, but you can choose any folder you’d like, like the Desktop....

What Is a Motherboard? A motherboard is a computer hardware element that connects various internal computer parts, including the CPU, memory modules, hard drives, expansion cards, and ports. Computer parts connect to the computer directly or with appropriate cables. Both Macs and Windows PCs have motherboards, but Mac motherboards are generally called “logic boards.” When you hear the term “motherboard,” it’s likely a Windows PC component. A motherboard is like the backbone of a Windows PC, holding its elements together....

Common Mistakes in Audio Setups Here’s a quick list of what not to do when setting up your speakers. Also, be sure to review the sound system’s manual for tips specific to your model. Don’t place stereo speakers near the front wall (the wall behind the speakers). Instead, give them about two to three feet of space. In general, when speakers sit too close to walls, especially corners, they can reflect sound off of surfaces or affect the subwoofer’s performance....

White Ink on a Desktop Printer Epson sells a white ink cartridge for use with its inkjet printers. This option might work for small print runs on your home printer, but the cost of the white ink cartridge is much higher than typical ink cartridges. Print the Dark Color in Reverse Approach the print or design project from a different angle. You can print the dark color with the type reversed on white paper, which means that when you want an element to print white, you reverse or “knock out” the white type or element from the background....

How to Factory Reset a Galaxy Watch 4 With Your Phone You need to connect your Galaxy Watch 4 to your phone, and it needs to be close enough to your phone to exchange information over Bluetooth to initiate a factory reset using your phone. You can then initiate the reset using the Samsung Wearable app. Here’s how to factory reset a Galaxy Watch 4 using your phone: How to Factory Reset a Galaxy Watch 4 From the Watch You can also factory reset a Galaxy Watch 4 directly from the watch:...

Select All Emails in Gmail To select every email in your Gmail inbox: Narrow Your List of Emails Narrow emails you want to select in bulk by using search, labels, or categories. For example, select a category, such as Promotions, to select emails in that category only and manage those messages without affecting emails that are not considered promotions. Likewise, click any label in the left panel to display all emails assigned to that label....

How to Add a Friend on Facebook.com You may see a person you want to add as a friend in the Friends > Suggestions section or you might search for them using the Search Facebook feature. If you select the person’s profile, click the blue Add Friend button.If you find the person you want to add from the Facebook search results, click the gray Add Friend icon.For someone you see in your Suggestions, click the blue Add Friend button....

How to Turn On Restrictions on Apple TV No matter which generation of Apple TV you have, the parental controls (or Restrictions, as they’re now known) are available in the same place. Before you begin, make sure you have the latest software for your Apple TV. Then, to lock apps or features of your Apple TV from your kids: You can customize the different features available on your Apple TV by setting the various restrictions available on the Restrictions page (the available options depend on your Apple TV generation)....