What Is a Refurbished Computer? If you see a computer marked as refurnished, that generally means: It was a customer return, and the store can’t sell it as new.It failed to meet the manufacturer’s quality tests, and the seller rebuilt it.It came from a canceled order. What Comes With a Refurbished Computer? Many refurbished PCs don’t come with a monitor, an operating system (software like Windows 10), a DVD or Blu-ray player, a wireless network card, or a power cord....

The app runs on Android, iOS, Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10. It requires internet connectivity to run via Wi-Fi or mobile data. The interface is quite simple and intuitive. It does not have tons of features and does not need to because it does the few things it says it will do, as we see below. When you install TrueCaller, it goes through a quick registration process requesting you to sign in through either a Google account, a Facebook account or a Microsoft account....

How to Connect to Android Auto Connecting a phone to the radio or infotainment system in a car with Android Auto is easy, but a couple of things need to happen before you get started. First, the phone must run a version of Android between versions 6 and 11, or Android Auto won’t work at all. The phone also needs to have Android Auto installed, and the car radio or infotainment system needs to be compatible with Android Auto....

CAD Troubleshooting Even a small architectural or engineering firm has a go-to CAD tech. This is the person everyone turns to when things start going wrong. Whether it’s annoying bugs and glitches or total CAD system crashes, there’s always one person who seems to know how to fix the issues. If you want a career as a CAD manager, that person had better be you. A good understanding of the primary CAD packages — AutoCAD and MicroStation products, at a minimum — and a clear idea of the problems that may arise from how they interact with other programs and peripherals is necessary....

What Is a PEM File? A PEM file is a Privacy Enhanced Mail Certificate file used to privately transmit email. The person receiving this email can be confident that the message wasn’t altered during its transmission, wasn’t shown to anyone else, and was sent by the person who claims to have sent it. PEM files arose out of the complication of sending binary data through email. The PEM format encodes binary with base64 so that it exists as an ASCII string....

Opening a local file on your computer is as simple as double-clicking it, but to open files on remote computers, like web servers, we must use URLs so that our web browser knows where to look. For example, opening the HTML file that represents the web page explained below, is done by entering it into the navigation bar at the top of the browser you’re using. Other Names Uniform Resource Locators are most commonly abbreviated as URLs, but they’re also called website addresses when they refer to URLs that use the HTTP or HTTPS protocol....

What Are Tech-Related Easter Eggs? In the tech world, Easter eggs are unadvertised features that developers include typically to get a laugh out of users. Easter eggs usually serve no practical purpose other than to entertain. They may incorporate references to pop culture, or they can be obscure in-jokes among programmers. As with real Easter eggs, tech Easter eggs are usually well-hidden, so users must “hunt” to find them. For example, people have discovered dozens of Google Easter eggs including secret games, snarky jokes, and fun animations....

What Is an FOB File? A file with the FOB file extension is a Dynamics NAV Object Container file used with Microsoft’s Dynamics NAV software. These are files that reference objects like tables and forms that the program can use. These files might also be referred to as Navision Attain Object files or Financials Object files. How to Open an FOB File FOB files can be opened with Dynamics NAV (it was previously called Microsoft Navision)....

What Does an IP Address Look Like? Most IP addresses look like this: Other IP addresses you may come across could look more like this: What Is an IP Address Used For? An IP address provides an identity to a networked device on the internet. Similar to a home or business address that supplies a specific physical location with an identifiable address, devices on a network are differentiated from one another through IP addresses....

What Is Google Workspace (Formerly G Suite)? Google Workspace is Google’s office suite of intelligent office and productivity apps. Google Workspace includes all of Google’s familiar apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet, and more. These apps still exist as stand-alone tools, but there’s more integration when you use them in the Google Workspace framework. Google Workspace takes Google’s productivity apps, along with the Chat messaging feature, and includes deeper integration between all facets to help foster communication and collaboration for groups, whether you’re running a business or planning a family reunion....

What Is HDMI-CEC? HDMI is the primary connection standard used in the AV environment. Along with HDMI-ARC, HDMI-CEC is an optional feature of HDMI. HDMI-CEC may already be enabled on a device you already own. (Although you may need to activate it manually via the settings menu.) Features HDMI-CEC provides several capabilities, which are listed below. However, not all features listed here are accessible on all HDMI-CEC-enabled products. Feature compatibility between brands often varies....

IMDb is an extremely detailed and rich source of film data that features top movies, news, reviews, movie trailers, showtimes, DVD movie reviews, celebrity profiles, and more. If you’ve ever researched a movie or actor, you’ve probably landed on IMDb. The site is truly a mammoth repository of movie information, and while it’s great that most of it is completely free to access, it can seem cluttered and hard to sift through....

Lossless formats use compression algorithms that preserve audio data so the audio is exactly the same as the original source. This contrasts with lossy audio formats such as AAC, MP3, and WMA, which compress audio using algorithms that discard data. Audio files are made up of sounds and silences. Lossless formats are able to compress the silences to almost zero space while maintaining all the sound data. Which Lossless Formats Are Used for Digital Music?...

The Effects Of Compression Usually, a complex calculation (algorithm) is used so that the effects of the lost data are imperceptible to the naked eye in video and photos or can’t be heard in music. Some of the lost visual data take advantage of the human eye’s inability to detect slight color differences. In other words, with good compression technology, you shouldn’t be able to perceive a loss of picture or sound quality....

What Is Pandora? Pandora is a music streaming service and app that you can use to stream music on a variety of devices, including your smartphone, tablet, computer, smart TV, smart speakers, car stereo system, Blu-ray player, or game console. Pandora allows you to create personalized radio stations based on an artist or song that you like. Once you select a seed song or artist, Pandora automatically gathers and plays songs with similar qualities....

SATA or PCI Express Communication The existing SATA 3.0 specifications are limited to 6.0 Gbps bandwidth, which translates to roughly 750 MB/s. With overhead for the interface, the effective performance is restricted to 600 MB/s. Many current generations of solid-state drives have reached this limit and need some form of faster interface. The SATA 3.2 specification, of which SATA Express is a part, is a new communication standard between the computer and devices....

What Is the Brave Browser? Brave is a free web browser that launched in 2016 with the intention of protecting users’ privacy, blocking online advertisements, and rewarding website owners with cryptocurrency payments. In early 2017, Brave launched its own cryptocurrency token, Basic Attention Token, (BAT), which is used to make payments. Later that same year, Brave began to expand beyond supporting websites to share BAT payments with YouTube and Twitch video creators....

What to Do When Your Mac Won’t Turn On If you can’t get your Mac to power up at all, it’s a good idea to start by making sure the most basic box is checked: the power connection. That’s an essential link in the chain, but it isn’t the only possible culprit. If your Mac is a laptop, the battery could be the source of the problem. If your Mac overheats, that can prevent it from turning on too....

“Quibi was a big idea and there was no one who wanted to make a success of it more than we did. Our failure was not for lack of trying; we’ve considered and exhausted every option available to us,” wrote founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman in an official announcement. Quibi’s Big Idea Quibi entered the streaming market in April, promising to stand out with “a new form of mobile-first premium storytelling....

One of the best ways to send cars to Driver’s Ed is by using artificial intelligence. Tesla recently unveiled its new supercomputer that will be used to train the neural nets powering Tesla’s Autopilot and upcoming self-driving AI. And as cars become more autonomous, it turns out that they need a lot of training. “By exposing AI to data related to cars driving, AI can start to recognize patterns,” Chris Nicholson, the CEO of Pathmind, a company that applies AI to industrial operations, said in an email interview....