Make Sure the Horizon Is Level Many sunset photos posted on social media have a common issue that is relatively easy to correct: crooked horizon lines. Camera apps often have a toggle switch for grid lines, including the built-in camera app. In the Camera menu in your iPhone settings, you can find the grid toggle. This will overlay a rule-of-thirds grid on your screen when you use the camera. When shooting, pay attention to the horizon lines in your scene, and keep them straight against the grid lines....

The Best Way to Tell If Someone Blocked You Is to Ask Them If your calls have gone unanswered and your texts never get a reply, it’s best to just ask them outright: Did you block me on your phone? There’s a chance they did and didn’t mean to. If you’re uncomfortable asking them if they’ve blocked you, try these ideas. How Many Times Did Your Call Ring? The biggest indicator of a blocked call is a single ring that goes to voicemail....

Reset the Phone and Add an Account If you’ve purchased a used phone for your child, or you’re giving them your older Samsung Galaxy device, you’ll want to reset the phone. This will clear browsing details, images, and other data from the device. Having a clean device makes implementing Samsung parental controls much easier. How to Enable Samsung Parental Controls If your child is between toddler age and 13 years old, your best option is to install the Samsung Kids home feature....

How the Ngram Viewer Works An Ngram, also called an N-gram, is a statistical analysis of text or speech content to find n (a number) of some sort of item in the text. The search item can be all sorts of things, including phonemes, prefixes, phrases, and letters. Although an Ngram is obscure outside the research community, it is used in a variety of fields and has a lot of implications for developers who are coding computer programs that understand and respond to natural spoken language....

How to Use the Marquee Tool in Photoshop You can use the Photoshop marquee tool to select areas of an image that you can then copy, cut, or crop. It can also isolate sections of a graphic to apply a filter or effect to a particular area. Marquee selections also mark out boundaries for stroke and fill commands to create shapes and lines. These instructions apply to Photoshop CS5 and later, although some settings and commands may differ between versions....

Safelist a Sender or Domain in SpamAssassin Using its comprehensive set of rules and Bayesian analysis, SpamAssassin catches an impressive amount of spam with hardly any false positives — hardly any. To reduce this number even further, you can safelist certain newsletters, for instance, which tend to be top candidates for being erroneously classified as spam. While you’ll sometimes you’ll see the term safelist written as whitelist, the modern term is safelist....

Whether you’re looking for a way to zoom in on a specific area, or would like your entire screen content to be enlarged, read on to learn how these features work. Zooming in and out on a Mac Increase Size in Apps Increasing text size in many Mac apps can be done from the View menu (found along the top of the screen in the Menu Bar). Typically the feature will be called Zoom In along with a corresponding feature called Zoom Out....

Long before Reddit became the front page of the internet or Quora was the go-to answer forum, Yahoo Answers provided an entire generation with a sense of community through shared questions. Though the service experienced both good and bad times, experts say this truly marks the end of an internet era. “Yahoo Answers were a remnant of a time that is already well behind us; a time when search results weren’t Google search results by default when they were a lifelike mix of human knowledge, curiosity, and ignorance,” wrote Mark Coster, owner and chief editor of STEM Toy Expert, to Lifewire in an email....

Online Roulette released a new survey of 788 self-identified LGBTQ+ gamers detailing their experiences in it. The findings show that they experience an increased degree of harassment and discrimination, compared to their cisgender and heterosexual counterparts. Approximately 88% who are out to their gaming communities have experienced harassment within the past year. “Our study shows that online gaming still has a significant problem with harassment, and half of LGBTQ+ gamers are still uncomfortable being open about their sexual identity with their gaming communities,” the report reads....

In a recent interview, Gates claimed he doesn’t avoid Apple handsets, but likes that some Android manufacturers pre-install Microsoft software. Gates said he owns both kinds of devices. But the two types of handsets elicit strong opinions. “I’m not going to sit here and lie about how much an Android phone sucks,” cybersecurity analyst Eric Florence said in an email interview. “That’s simply not true. However, someone once told me that an iPhone is a dumb smartphone, meaning it couldn’t be more user friendly and intuitive....

When Will the iPhone SE Plus Be Released? It’s expected by some to arrive in 2022, but it’s not clear when, or even if it’ll really show. YouTuber Jon Prosser mentioned a plus-sized iPhone SE as early as 2020, and then soon after revised its release to be 2021. Although it never happened, it’s important to know that Prosser routinely makes early predictions that turn up true later on. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo made a prediction in 2021 that Apple would launch a phone with the SE Plus moniker that year, with a display possibly as large as the 6....

Although the tablet market, in general, has declined from its heyday only a few years ago, the iPad still leads the way in sales and innovation. The Facts At the end of 2018, these were the facts: The 9.67 million iPads sold in the fourth quarter of 2018 accounted for 34.9 percent of the tablet market share—more than any other manufacturer. Second-place Samsung held on to 15.1 percent of the market, while third-place Huawei claimed 10....

LG has announced its new OLED.EX displays that it claims will improve picture quality and brightness by as much as 30 percent compared to current OLED displays from competitors. It’s one of a growing number of new display technologies. “As display technologies improve, it’s likely that we’ll see a move away from traditional TVs towards newer forms of displays such as ‘smart’ mirrors and even whole-wall displays,” tech expert Morshed Alam told Lifewire in an email interview....

The LG Stylo 6 is the sixth iteration of LG’s Stylo hardware, and it looks better than ever. With a huge display, beautiful mirror-finished back, enough battery life to last several days, and a price tag that seems too low for its upscale looks, the Stylo 6 makes for an intriguing option if you’re in the market for an affordable phone. This phone also manages to stash a nice little stylus inside its relatively thin frame as an added bonus....

The Line 6 DL4 was an early digital modeling unit in the form of a guitar pedal, a box designed to sit on the floor and be operated with footswitches. It was a delay effect and modeled several then-popular (and now classic) analog delay units. It was also a looper, which allowed musicians to play more than one part by themselves. Now, the DL4 is itself a classic, albeit a flawed one....

The Master & Dynamic MW07 Plus earbuds are a super-premium entry into a now-crowded field of true wireless earbuds. With options that range from $20 all the way to $300–400, this category of product offers a ton in the way of options. Even Apple’s most premium option—the AirPods Pro—come in at about $50 cheaper than the MW07 Plus. So, it’s clear that we’re talking about premium earbuds here. I got my hands on a Kevin Durant-associated, Black Quartz-colored unit to see what all the fuss was about—and man, am I blown away....

What Is an MAT File? A file with the MAT file extension is most likely a Microsoft Access Table Shortcut file that’s used to quickly open a table without having to first open the MS Access program. The MathWorks MATLAB program uses MAT files, too, but as a container for holding data like functions and variables. This file extension is also used in 3D design software to denote a file that stores things like textures and images....

A product that’s over a decade old typically doesn’t hold up very well, but with Microsoft’s Flight Simulator X, that isn’t necessarily the case. Originally released way back in 2006, Flight Simulator X was the pinnacle of flight sim software, packing in tons of content, interesting new integration with real-world weather and locales, and the most realistic immersion around. Thirteen years later, the game remains one of the most-played flight simulators and continues to get support despite the original studio being closed....

Windows Phone has been dead for a few years now, but Microsoft’s smartphone efforts have been given new and surprising life with the Surface Duo. Named similarly to one of the tech giant’s Surface series tablets and laptops, the Android-powered Surface Duo is a totally unique, convertible two-screen phone. It can run two apps side-by-side, run one large app across both screens, or even fold back so either screen can be used individually....

Microsoft discovered a winning niche in between tablet and laptop when they first introduced the Surface Pro. It arguably took until the third generation before it really hit its stride, but the combination of full-blown laptop internals in a highly portable tablet form factor has created plenty of fans. Many of the ways in which the Surface’s form factor excels only become clear when used for a while. The Surface Pro 7 transitions effortlessly from productivity to creativity to entertainment in a way that’s hard to replicate on any other device....