Open the App Quickly With Spotlight Search Opening an app on your iPhone or iPad seems easy. You just tap on it, right? One big problem: You need to know where it is first. However, this is a problem you don’t need to solve. You can launch apps quickly without searching through page after page of app icons using a few shortcuts. The Spotlight Search feature is powerful, but many people never use it....

The usual culprit is a leaking heater core. Antifreeze has a sweet scent, and when it leaks into the heater box, that cloying sweetness will propagate throughout your car. The windows fog up with this problem, too. When the antifreeze evaporates and then condenses on the windshield, it creates a sticky film that’s tough to clean off. The fix: Replace the heater core. In most cases, this is a job best left to professionals unless you have experience working on your car....

Microsoft Windows PCs To join a wireless network in Windows 10, go to the Windows taskbar, right-click on the network icon (displaying a row of five white bars), select Open Network & Internet Settings, then choose Network and Sharing Center. Or, go to Windows Start, select Settings, choose Network & Internet, then select Network and Sharing Center. PCs fail to join networks when wireless drivers are out of date. Check for driver upgrades in the Microsoft Windows Update utility....

Common Google Play Store Errors Before you begin troubleshooting Google Play errors, visit Downdetector.com to see if other users are reporting problems with Google Play. If so, the issue likely lies with Google Play Services, and it will resolve itself soon. Often, you’ll receive an error code that indicates what’s wrong. Here’s a list of common Google Play error codes and what each means: Error 944 Google’s servers are having connectivity problems; wait until Google resolves the problem....

The Simple Solution: Cover It Up Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best ones. To be absolutely sure that no one is watching you through your webcam, get some electrical tape and cover it. If you don’t want tape residue on the camera, use a longer strip of tape and fold it back on itself. The best hacker in the world can’t defeat electrical tape. If you want a more sophisticated approach, roll up a coin in the electrical tape so that the weight of the coin keeps the tape positioned over the camera....

How to Set up a Fire TV Cube Here’s how to set up a Fire TV Cube: How Do I Get My Fire TV Cube to Control My TV? Your Fire TV Cube includes something called an IR blaster, which means you can use it to control most devices that use IR remotes. That includes most televisions, soundbars, Blu-ray and DVD players, and a variety of other home entertainment devices. Some ceiling fans and other fixtures and appliances can even be controlled by the IR blaster in a Fire TV Cube....

How to Watch the Hallmark Channel Without Cable The Hallmark Channel is one of the top basic cable channels, but you don’t need cable to watch your favorite family-friendly movies and shows. The Hallmark Channel is available on a number of streaming services, from full-coverage live TV streamers like YouTube TV to more niche services like Philo and Frndly TV. These services all require a subscription, and they all allow you to stream the Hallmark Channel through a web browser on your computer or an app on your mobile device or streaming device....

Set Apple Watch Preferences on iPhone Before you can use the Maps app on the Apple Watch, adjust the settings in the Watch app on the iPhone. Here’s how: Navigate From Your iPhone The easiest way to use Apple Maps on your Apple Watch is to start from the Apple Maps app on your iPhone. When you have an Apple Watch paired with your phone, any directions you start on the iPhone are automatically sent to the watch....

How to Download and Install Wireshark Wireshark can be downloaded at no cost from the Wireshark Foundation website for both macOS and Windows. You’ll see the latest stable release and the current developmental release. Unless you’re an advanced user, download the stable version. During the Windows setup process, choose to install WinPcap or Npcap if prompted as these include libraries required for live data capture. You must be logged in to the device as an administrator to use Wireshark....

How to Stream the Indianapolis 500 From NBC NBC has the broadcast and streaming rights for the Indy 500. That means you can catch the race on your local NBC station, stream it through NBC Sports, watch through a streaming service (scroll down for a variety of options and free trials), or catch the action through the official Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) Livestream. Location: Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, IN Channel: NBC Stream: NBC, IMS Livestream If you have a cable or satellite subscription, but you prefer to stream to your computer or laptop instead of watching on your television, you can use the NBC Sports live streaming website to get free access to sports events to which NBC has the rights....

The HP ProDesk 400 G4 is a no-nonsense PC made for businesses that need reliability, customizability, and convenience. It keeps a low profile on any worker’s desk with its shoebox-like size, but it takes advantage of every inch of that compressed design: the ProDesk comes packed with a slew of ports, a CD/DVD drive, security features, a 7th gen Intel Core i5 processor, and an SSD. What’s more remarkable is that there’s plenty of space inside the chassis to add a GPU, a sound card, a custom processor, or anything else your business may need....

The new update includes support for HDR videos on the recently launched iPhone 12. For filmmakers, the iMovie update includes new ways to customize titles, multiple movie backgrounds, and a slider that allows users to adjust the photo and video filter intensity. GarageBand users get the ability to quickly start audio recordings and a new sound pack. “It’ll be particularly great as well for those looking to jump into content creation for the first time,” Catherine Consiglio, who runs the tech enthusiast site RaidBuff, said in an email interview....

MySQL is a beneficial database for both developers and system administrators. Installing MySQL on Windows 7 is an especially valuable tool for those seeking to learn database administration but lack access to a server of their own. Here’s a step-by-step walkthrough of the process. Downloading MySQL on Windows 7 First, you will need to download the appropriate MySQL installer for your operating system. If you’re running a 32-bit version of Windows, you’ll want to use the 32-bit Windows MSI installer file....

Coaxial Cables Invented in the 1880s, coaxial cable (also called coax) was best known as the kind of cable that connected television sets to home antennas. Coaxial cable is also a standard for 10 Mbps Ethernet cables. When 10 Mbps Ethernet was most popular, during the 1980s and early 1990s, networks typically used one of two kinds of coax cable — thinnet (10BASE2 standard) or thicknet (10BASE5). These cables consist of an inner copper wire of varying thickness surrounded by insulation and another shielding....

Thanks to its portless design, the Craob X claims to be only 7mm thick and weigh just 1.9 pounds. To put this into context, the thinnest laptops, the Acer Swift 7 and the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook, are about 9.9mm thick. Even the iPhone 13 at 7.65mm is bulkier than the Craob X. However, hardware experts don’t think a laptop as slim as the Craob X would be functional. “I don’t think it’s possible to make a laptop device that thin without technology to replace the battery,” Alex Lennon, founder of Dynamic Devices, told Lifewire over email....

Overall Findings Lyft and Uber looked very different at launch. Uber mostly used black cars and SUVs, drivers dressed up, and passengers sat in the back seat. Meanwhile, Lyft cars featured giant pink mustaches on the grill, and passengers were encouraged to sit up front and fist bump the driver. Lyft has mostly gotten rid of the pink mustaches and fist bumps, and passengers now sit in the back seat. The services are nearly identical now....

What Is an M3U8 File? A file with the M3U8 file extension is a UTF-8 Encoded Audio Playlist file. They are plain text files that can be used by both audio and video players to describe where media files are located. For example, one M3U8 file may give you references to online files for an internet radio station. Another might be created on your computer to build a playlist for your own personal music or a series of videos....

Here’s a look at the history of the MacBook Pro and how to determine what upgrades you can perform on your device. About MacBook Pro Upgrades Introduced in 2006, the MacBook Pro replaced the G4-based PowerBook line of Mac notebooks. The MacBook Pro was originally equipped with the Intel Core Duo processor. This 32-bit architecture was replaced in subsequent models with 64-bit processors from Intel. The MacBook Pro lineup has gone through some changes in how upgrades are performed....

What Is an MDB File? A file with the MDB file extension is a Microsoft Access database file that literally stands for Microsoft Database. This is the default database file format used in Access 2003 and earlier, while newer versions use the ACCDB format. MDB files contain database queries, tables, and more that can be used to link to and store data from other files, like XML and HTML, and applications, like Excel and SharePoint....

In 2017, Han founded CultivatePeople, a consulting firm that helps startups and emerging tech companies develop better payment structures. The company’s main mission is to make compensation painless for companies while helping to solve pay disparities for fast-growing companies by using machine learning to match employees’ jobs to reliable, global market data. CultivatePeople’s software launched publicly in July 2020, but even with all the success, Han still has to deal with people who doubt her....