Important Considerations Before producing your commercial, you must answer several important questions that are common—and crucial—to crafting any successful promotional material. What’s the Message of Your Commercial? Define exactly what your commercial will be about. Is your commercial promoting your business in general? Or is it focused on a particular product or event? Because commercials need to be short, focus on one topic per ad, instead of trying to fit in too much at once....

How to Unlock a T-Mobile Phone To unlock a phone on the T-Mobile network, you must meet the following device guidelines: Own a T-Mobile device that has been active on the T-Mobile network for at least 40 days. You may need to show T-Mobile proof of purchase.The associated device and account must be paid-in-full and considered in good standing.The phone can not have been reported lost, stolen, or blocked.Prepaid devices must have been active for a year or used more than $100 in refills....

Today, you can buy a simple code reader for less than the cost of a movie ticket, and the right accessory can turn your phone into a scan tool. Since you can find most of the information you need to interpret trouble codes online, a check engine light no longer calls for an immediate trip to a mechanic. Before you buy a car diagnostic tool, realize that they aren’t some kind of magic panacea....

The circular polarizer adds dramatic effects to your photographs. It’s one of the tricks that professional photographers rely on to create brilliant images with rich color and dynamic contrast. How a Polarizing Filter Works Put simply, a polarizer reduces the amount of reflected light that goes to your camera’s image sensor. It cuts out the junk light and haze of the atmosphere and allows the camera to capture a clearer, crisper photograph....

Using an Xbox Controller With Stadia While Xbox controllers work just fine with Stadia, the situation is a little complicated. There are a few main types of Xbox controllers that you’re most likely to own: wired and wireless Xbox 360 controllers, Xbox One Elite controllers, Xbox One controllers, and the revised version of the Xbox One controller that first shipped with the Xbox One S. There are also three main ways to play Stadia: on a computer with the Chrome browser, on a phone with the Stadia app, and on a TV with Chromecast Ultra....

How Do You Do Live Text On iPhone? Live Text lets you pull text from images and paste it just about wherever you want. The feature works with both handwritten and typed text, and it works in the Camera app, the Photos app, and Safari. That means you can use Live Text to grab text from any of those locations and then paste it into a document, message, email, or wherever else you want....

How Do I Access Pixel Buds Settings? When Pixel Buds are paired to an Android phone, the settings can be accessed through the connected devices section of the Android settings app. While you can use Pixel Buds with other devices, like computers and non-Android phones, you can only access and adjust the settings through an Android phone. Here’s how to access Pixel Buds settings: How Do I Change Pixel Buds Settings?...

Specifically, it can show details about individual network connections, overall and protocol-specific networking statistics, and much more, all of which could help troubleshoot certain kinds of networking issues. Netstat Command Availability This command is available from within the Command Prompt in most versions of Windows, including Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server operating systems, and some older versions of Windows, too. Netstat is a cross-platform command, which means it’s also available in other operating systems like macOS and Linux....

How to Use Your iPad as a Second Monitor With Sidecar Sidecar comes equipped with most modern Macs and iPads. Here’s how to use this feature to run your iPad as a second monitor for your Mac. Is an iPad a Good Monitor? Is the iPad as good a display as an actual monitor? Not really. The 9.7-inch display of the full-sized iPad won’t give you as much real estate as a 22-inch monitor....

There are no two ways about it: the HP Envy 17t is a decidedly large laptop. It’s not particularly shy about this fact, and doesn’t make any attempts to hide it. It’s also heavy. And did we mention how large it is? Snark aside, the HP Envy 17t does put a lot of interesting features into one chassis to make it very compelling offering for a likely small subset of shoppers that have the need for them....

On paper, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles sound like the perfect solution to our climate crisis woes. They fuel up as quickly as a gas-powered car, and their only emission is water. Water you can drink if you’re so inclined, but I wouldn’t recommend it; I’ve actually tasted the water that spewed from the Toyota Mirai. Sadly, fueling stations just haven’t been built in any way that makes these vehicles available outside of Northern and Southern California and parts of New England....

Real, printed-on-photo-paper photographs used to be the standard way to see photos, but now they’re a rarity. Show someone a great photo on your phone, and they start swiping through your other pictures. But give them a print, and they’ll love it. Fujifilm’s new Instax Mini Evo is a neat hybrid digital camera and printer, with the benefits of both—a bunch of neat color and ’lens’ effects, plus a real photographic print at the end....

Internet speed tests are great for proving that you are, or are not, getting the bandwidth from your ISP that you’re paying for. They can also help determine if bandwidth throttling is something your ISP is engaging in. Test your bandwidth with one or more of these free sites, and then compare that information with the high-speed plan you’ve signed up for. While it’s possible that some of the other more generic speed tests further down our list are technically more accurate, it’ll be a hard case to make to your ISP that your service isn’t as fast as it should be unless you can show the same with the bandwidth tests they provide....

Unless you have specific pro-level needs, then the iPad Air is probably enough iPad for most people. That said, “Pro” means different things for different people, and there’s one significant feature missing from the iPad Air that might be worth the $200 upgrade all by itself. The Specs It’s tricky to compare the iPad Air and Pro like-for-like because even the base configurations of storage are different, and the Air is only available in the 11-inch size....

That means iPhone 13 phones are water-resistant but not waterproof. Is the iPhone 13 Waterproof? No, the iPhone 13 isn’t completely waterproof. However, all iPhone 13 models, including the iPhone 13, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone 13 Pro, and iPhone 13 Pro Max, come with an Ingress Protection (IP) rating of IP68. IP ratings fall under the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 60529 standard, which rates how well devices hold up to dust and moisture....

The Monochrom is a variant of the regular Q2. It’s pretty much the exact same camera, only $1,000 more and with the color removed. But if you shoot mostly B&W photographs, then it’s likely you’re already working out how to pay for this. And compared to other Monochrom Leicas, this one is cheap. “It’s really a case of ’the right tool for the job,’” B&W photographer Gregory Simpson told Lifewire via email....

Magic Trackpad 2: New Look, New Battery If there’s a unifying theme for the 2nd generation of Magic peripherals—Magic Mouse 2, Magic Trackpad 2, and Magic Keyboard—it’s the removal of the AA batteries that used to power the peripherals, and the addition of an internal rechargeable lithium-ion battery to supply power to the devices. In the case of the Magic Trackpad 2, the new internal battery allowed Apple to redesign the original trackpad and eliminate the battery bump that previously housed AA batteries....

With her casual style and culturally specific braggadocio, she is challenging what it means to be a successful streamer. A mother and wife, she doesn’t quite fit the standard (early 20s, single) image of what a video game streamer is supposed to be. The 34-year-old Texas native hasn’t spent her life breaking a sweat in gaming lobbies, either. Instead, she’s your run-of-the-mill mother of twins who stumbled upon the hobby and found she had more than a knack for it....

Next year, passwordless logins should be the standard, Microsoft said recently on its security blog. The company is touting Windows Hello, a biometrics scanning tool that lets you log into Windows 10 with your fingerprint. But some observers say that you should hesitate before greeting Hello with open arms. “The use of biometrics as described in Microsoft’s plans are promising, but we should all exercise caution with new versions and implementations of biometric authentication, as we learned when researchers demonstrated that early iterations of Apple’s FaceID could be fooled,” Phil Leslie, the co-founder of cybersecurity firm Havoc Shield, said in an email interview....

MOD’s Guitar Synth—available as a free software update on all its current devices—takes the audio signal from your guitar and uses that as the controller. This lets guitarists do all the cool, fancy stuff they can do with a synthesizer, only they don’t have to learn to play keys to do it. What’s more, you can use all the guitar tricks you already know, like string bends, legato, and fancy jazz chords, and use them to make otherworldly sounds....