To help you choose which features you want and need, here’s a quick rundown of the most ubiquitous and popular. Essential Digital Camera Features Some features are must-haves. Just about everyone can benefit from these essentials. Removable Memory Card: All but the most inexpensive digital cameras save images to memory cards. The capacity of memory cards varies widely. When you run out of space, it takes only seconds to pop in a spare card....
Check for DSL Availability To see if DSL is available at your location, enter that location, or a local phone number from that area, into an online DSL-lookup service. Allconnect: Enter the address where you want to receive service and get a list of DSL providers. BroadBandNow.com: Enter your ZIP code and compare the prices of nearby providers. FCC.gov: The Federal Communications Commission has a Fixed Broadband Deployment tool that identifies providers around a specific address, complete with their last reported maximum download and upload speeds....
This old convention either meant that you received an error message or you received nothing. The email may have arrived or it may not have arrived. The error messages, in many cases, were just as helpful as no error messages. DSN Extensions to SMTP RFC 1891 proposes some extensions to the SMTP protocol that should result in a more reliable and more usable DSN system. It is a set of extensions to the MAIL and RCPT commands....
During Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) on Monday, Apple announced a slew of new updates on everything from FaceTime to Messages to Notifications, all designed to make iOS 15 a game-changer. FaceTime Users will see so many different changes and updates to FaceTime in iOS 15, including spatial audio capabilities, voice isolation, a new grid view in FaceTime, a Portrait Mode in FaceTime, and the ability for Android and Windows users to finally participate in a FaceTime call by simply sharing a link with them....
What Is an EXO File? A file with the EXO file extension is a Video Chunk file. These files are literally pieces of a larger file that are created when an offline video is requested from a website or app hosting video streams, such as within the YouTube app on some Android devices. YouTube EXO files, specifically, are very often encrypted and compressed. Others taken from online videos might be encrypted, too....
This device features a replaceable coin cell battery rated for a full year+ of use, so you won’t have to worry about charging it up on a weekly (or even monthly) basis. The Vivofit is far from Garmin’s most advanced activity tracker, but it has some solid features, especially for more casual exercise enthusiasts. In addition to tracking and displaying your steps, distance, and intensity minutes on its backlit display, the wrist-worn Vivofit 4 tracks your sleep and automatically recognizes the type of exercise you’re doing....
When Google Assistant refuses to open anything, it’s usually related to issues with the Google app or smart lock feature, but there could also be a problem with compatibility, your internet connection, or even your microphone. When this problem happens, you will typically see this message: “Sorry, I can’t open apps on this device.” In other cases, Google Assistant won’t respond at all, or you will see the Google Assistant dot icons move for a while, but the requested app won’t open....
The Google Pixel 7 and 7 Pro flagship models launched in October 2022. The new devices look similar to their Pixel 6 and 6 Pro predecessors but feature aluminum horizontal camera bars instead of glass and more prominent camera lenses. Along with a minimally updated design, the models boast Google’s new Tensor G2 processor, face-unlock capabilities, and enhanced camera zoom features. Both the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro come in Obsidian and Snow, while the 7 has an additional Lemongrass shade, and the Pro also includes a Hazel offering....
The Apollo, built in accordance with a University of Pittsburgh study, is an app-controlled wearable ($349, or $32/month) that purports to regulate your mood with the calming effects of inaudible sound waves. Depending on the setting, it’s supposed to help with relaxation, focus, anxiety, stress, or sleep. Ordinarily, I’d pass something like this by, but after the top-rope soul crusher that was 2020, I’ve gotten more proactively interested in practices like chill-out apps and other at-home mental health boosters....
Basic Facts Name: Sega Genesis (North America), Sega Mega Drive (Japan, Europe, Brazil)Type: 16-bit consoleDate: 1988 (Japan), 1989 (North America), 1990 (Brazil)4th Generation of Video Games Before the Beginning With the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System dominating the video game market from 1984 to 1989, fellow coin-op arcade manufacturer Sega threw their hat into the home console biz with the Sega Master System. Designed to go head-to-head against the NES, the Master System released seven years after the NES, and while it was a bit more advanced than the competition, it never really caught on in North America....
Artificial intelligence (AI) can discover who you are attracted to. A computer program could generate images of faces it knew certain users would find attractive by examining brain scans. It’s part of a growing effort to build computers that can understand our thoughts. “Such a system might be used to select the content to be catered to a given user,” Radek Kamiński, CEO of nexocode, a company that focuses on AI implementation and consulting, said in an email interview....
DALL·E, a portmanteau of the names of the artist Salvador Dalí and Pixar’s WALL·E, can take any text and create an image from it. The system uses a neural network that’s been trained on billions of pictures and text examples. It’s one of a growing number of AI projects that can mimic, but not replicate, human beings’ creative output. “Because natural language is constantly evolving, and very dependent on contextual nuance, teaching a machine to understand language well enough to draw a picture is a very significant achievement,” Tamara Schwartz, professor of cybersecurity at York College of Pennsylvania, said in an email interview....
Why Is Base64 Encoding Used? The need for Base64 encoding comes from the problems that occur when media is transmitted in raw binary format to text-based systems. Since text-based systems (like email) interpret binary data as a wide range of characters, including special command characters, much of the binary data that is transmitted to transfer media is misinterpreted by those systems and lost or corrupted in the transmission process. One method of encoding this kind of binary data in a way that avoids such transmission problems is to send it as plain ASCII text in Base64 encoded format....
YouTube’s decision to change how the website uses its hashtag keywords recently was announced in a community post. Instead of offering recommendations of videos with the searched hashtag alongside other relevant content, hashtag landing pages now only will show the videos making use of that particular tag. “Under the old system, you simply added keywords, but they were no guarantee your video would be found unless you intentionally misspelled a keyword and had someone search for your topic with the same misspelling,” YouTuber John Bennardo, director of The Two Dollar Bill Documentary, told us in an email interview....
Understanding Network Routing You can think of network routing as similar to a public transportation system. The entire bus system, including all the stops, is like the network, and the stops are like the nodes. As a bus rider who must make several transfers to get where you’re going, you’re like the data that travels between each node until it reaches its final destination. When data is transferred from one device to another on an Internet Protocol (IP) network, it is broken down into smaller units called packets....
Wu is the founder and CEO of Pathrise, developer of an online mentorship and job placement platform for tech professionals. He was inspired to launch the company after seeing a lack of career services in the tech industry. “In terms of how we see the overall mission of Pathrise, I think it revolves around wanting to help people who aren’t getting access to networks or the behind-the-scenes playbook on how to succeed in the job search,” Wu told Lifewire in a phone interview....
How Many Devices Can Connect to a Router? Most home networks and public Wi-Fi hotspots function with a single wireless access point (a broadband router in the case of home networking). Conversely, business computer networks install multiple access points to expand their wireless network coverage to a larger physical area. Each access point has limits for the number of connections and the amount of network load it can handle. By integrating multiple access points into a larger network, the overall scale is increased....
If you wanted to start a blog back in the olden days, you’d have to buy a domain name, find web hosting, find a way to upload your work, then create an RSS feed so people could subscribe. Then came Blogger, which let you just write in a web browser and hit publish. That’s Outpost. It takes all the annoying parts out of making your own small media empire, so you can just make stuff....
In the US alone, sales during this year’s Prime Day are expected to total $6.17 billion. Shoppers snapped up everything from the possibly reasonable, like discounted TVs, to the more questionable, such as bitter apricot seeds. Not everything arriving in mailboxes will turn out to be a great bargain, observers say. “As someone with a closet full of items I’ve used once or not at all, I consider myself a reformed impulse buyer,” Cheryl Wagemann, a retail analyst, and editor at the shopping comparison site Finder, confessed in an email interview....
To help celebrate the season, Spotify has introduced a feature, only in testing for now, similar to Instagram’s Stories, which offers listeners a small message from some of their favorite artists. Experts believe that it could help make Spotify a more active social application and less of a passive app that people turn on and forget about. “I think Spotify should and is trying to make itself the go-to place to see stories from your favorite musical artists,” Amanda Clark, a digital media strategist for Charlene Shirk Public Relations, said via email....
