How to Set Up Internet Parental Controls Our kids are more tech-savvy than we can ever hope to be. We block a website, and they find a way around our blocking software. We put up a firewall; they go through it. What’s a parent to do? We can never be sure that any of our parental controls will work, but we try our best to keep our kids safe. Here are several ways to your internet parental controls a little more effective and harder to circumvent....

Plan a Home Computer Network Designing a home network involves taking stock of the computers and other devices you have while considering the ones you are likely to acquire later. Take the time to sketch out a home network diagram before you get started. Home networks can be built using a combination of wired (cabled) and wireless connections. Each connection technology has advantages in certain situations. If you are unsure which you want, check out the pros and cons of wired vs....

The Benefits of Multiple Time Machine Drives The primary benefit of having multiple Time Machine drives is that one backup often is not enough. Redundant backups ensure that should something go wrong with one backup, you have a second or third backup to retrieve your data from. It’s a failsafe measure. It’s not uncommon for professional organizations to have backup systems that create two local backups used in rotation. The first may be for even-numbered days; the second for odd-numbered days....

How Do I Set Up Multiple TVs? The parts to do this will be available at most online retailers and stores with an electronics section. You’ll only need cables and a signal splitter. If you have a clear line of sight between the two TVs that’s unlikely to be broken, consider using a wireless transmitter to keep cable tangles to a minimum. Why Set up Multiple TVs in the Same Space?...

How to Setup Your Voicemail on iPhone 12 One of the first things you’ll probably want to do when you get your iPhone 12 is to get your voicemail setup. The good news is that if you’ve set up voicemail on an iPhone before, this is still the same process. If you’re new to iPhone, however, a quick tutorial is in order. How Does Your Carrier Affect Your Voicemail Settings? In the past, some mobile service carriers had different instructions for setting up voicemail, so how you set the service up depended on the carrier which provided your mobile service....

Use the Minus Sign to Subtract in Google Sheets When you subtract on paper, you use the minus ( - ) symbol between the numbers, which is also how Google Sheets does it. The only difference is that you refer to cells instead of numbers. For example, to subtract two numbers on paper, you’d write something like 45-17. Google Sheets can do this, but you reference the cells instead of the values, such as B1-C3....

The newer your phone is, the sooner you’ll receive OS updates; Google’s Pixel smartphones gets them first. Those with phones running on older OS versions will have to jump through a few hoops first or might not be able to update at all. Here’s how you can find out which version of the Android OS you’re running, get OS updates, and what to do if you don’t want to wait for your carrier to issue the OS update....

Getting Organized With File Explorer It may come as a surprise that you don’t have to keep all your OneDrive files on your hard drive. In fact, you can leave as many of them as you want in the cloud (aka Microsoft’s servers) and only download files as needed. That would be especially important if you’re using a tablet with limited storage. To decide which files you want to keep on your hard drive, and those you want to leave in the cloud: That’s all there is to making space on your hard drive while still keeping your files available in OneDrive....

What Are the INDEX and MATCH functions? INDEX and MATCH are Excel lookup functions. While they are two entirely separate functions that can be used on their own, they can also be combined to create advanced formulas. The INDEX function returns a value or the reference to a value from within a particular selection. For example, it could be used to find the value in the second row of a data set, or in the fifth row and third column....

Access the Spotify Web Player To access the Spotify Web Player, launch your favorite Internet browser and follow these steps: Spotify Web Player Home Once you’ve logged into Spotify’s Web Player you’ll see that it’s a simple layout. The left pane lists your available options with the first four being ones that you’ll use the most. These are Search, Home, Your Library, and Recently Played. The Home page gives a broad look at all of the main options....

Live Streaming Television in a Car Services like Sling TV, YouTube TV, and others aren’t specifically designed for use in cars, but they do represent the easiest way to watch live television on the road. You need a cellular-data connection to use these services, and watching a lot of television on a mobile data connection can quickly eat through your monthly allotment. Watching live streaming television in your car is as easy as signing up for a service like Sling TV, YouTube TV, PS Vue, Xfinity Stream, or DirecTV Now, and downloading the associated app for your phone or tablet....

Where Is the Best Place to Stream NASCAR? The broadcast rights for NASCAR are owned jointly by Fox and NBC in the United States, with races airing on Fox, NBC, and various cable channels. You can watch a lot for free if you have a television antenna and local Fox and NBC stations. You’ll need a subscription to a cable, satellite, or television streaming service if you want access to everything....

One of USB-C’s greatest benefits is its ubiquity. As more and more gadgets switch to the now-standard connector, you never really have to think about how you charge them. You just grab the nearest cable, and it all sorts itself out. NiteCore has now added a USB-C port to the battery itself, so you can juice a battery from your smartphone, laptop, or other power brick. You still need a charger, but you don’t need a special, separate charger....

A research team at Cornell University has developed a device that can be worn as a necklace and tracks facial expressions. The NeckFace uses infrared cameras to capture images of the chin and face from beneath the neck. It’s part of a growing wave of innovations aimed at capturing and expressing emotions in VR. “Current VR implementations have advantages and disadvantages versus other remote communication forms like webcams,” Devon Copley, the CEO of VR company Avatour, told Lifewire in an email interview....

Business Network Design Small office and home office (SOHO) networks normally function with either one or two local area networks (LANs), each controlled by its network router. These match typical home network designs. As businesses grow, their network layouts expand to increasingly larger numbers of LANs. Corporations based in more than one location set up internal connectivity between their office buildings. This connectivity is called a campus network when the buildings are in close proximity, or a wide area network (WAN) when spanning across cities or countries....

Sensor-shift stabilization, aka in-body image stabilization (IBIS), moves the camera’s sensor to compensate for your wobbly hands while you take pictures. It lets you snap photos that are sharper, even in very low light. And it may be in every iPhone 13. “Generally, better stabilization in cameras will give sharper images at slower shutter speeds,” photographer Nathan Hill toldLifewire via Twitter, “as it helps compensate to any tiny movements while the image is being captured that would usually cause blur....

The short answer is no, the iPhone is not an Android phone (or vice versa). While they are both smartphones — that is, phones that can run apps and connect to the Internet, as well as make calls — iPhone and Android are distinct things and they are not compatible with each other. Android and iPhone are separate brands, similar tools that do similar things, but they’re not the same....

You pick something up that says it is a VHS adapter. However, to your dismay, the 8mm tape doesn’t fit. Frustrated, you demand the salesperson get you a VHS adapter for 8mm tapes. The salesperson responds that there is no adapter for playing 8mm tapes. You respond, “But my cousin in Jersey has one, he just pops in his camcorder tape in the adapter and puts it in his VCR”....

Electric guitars are such expressive instruments that it has proven hard over the years to capture that expression and use it to control software or hardware synthesizers. One approach has been to load up the guitar with special sensors that capture the notes and turn them into MIDI, the international language of musical instrument control. Another has been to use a computer to do the same, but usually with a delay....

JPEG Is the Proper Spelling: True Although the files often end in the three-letter extension JPG or JP2 for JPEG 2000, the file format is spelled JPEG. It’s an acronym for Joint Photographic Experts Group, the organization that developed the format. JPEGs Lose Quality Every Time They’re Opened: False Simply opening or displaying a JPEG image doesn’t harm it in any way. Saving an image repeatedly during the same editing session without ever closing the image will not accumulate a loss in quality....