If you’re tired of toggling slowly with your remote control to navigate onscreen keyboards on your favorite streaming platforms, the Corsair K83 Wireless Entertainment Keyboard offers a quicker solution. This wireless media/gaming/computer keyboard offers fast connectivity and access to up to three different devices, whether that’s a PC, laptop, smart TV, or smartphone. It also comes with a joystick, media controls, and LED lighting for visibility even with the lights down....

With both advanced settings and add-on Alexa Skills, you can change your device location, manage your calendar, get weather information for any location around the world, and fine-tune accessibility features for hearing- or vision-impaired users. Here are some details on key ways to customize the Echo Show to work for you. Beyond Basic Settings Here are ways you can fine-tune your settings. Device Location: As a result of the initial setup process, the Echo Show knows your location, time zone, and other details....

Dealing With Bad Air In Cars: The Problem With Car Air Purifiers Car air purifiers exist, and some actually work. The problem is that car air purifiers rarely work in the same way, or as well as the air purifiers you may use at home or work. If you’re expecting similar results, you’ll probably end up disappointed. Therefore, it’s important to temper your expectations when dealing with car air fresheners, purifiers, ionizers, and similar gadgets....

“Using video chatting to stay in touch with distant family members, or as we saw during the early COVID crisis when we could not be around even friends and neighbors, is a real strength and help kids to stay connected,” Megan Carolan of the Institute for Child Success told Lifewire in an email interview. “But we would not want a situation where kids choose playing on a device with their friend down the street rather than playing in person with them....

What Is Dolby Digital? Dolby Digital is a digital audio encoding system designed for DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc, and, in some cases, cable TV and streaming content. This format provides efficient transfer for audio signals that may have one or more channels that can be decoded by a home theater receiver or AV preamp or processor with a Dolby Digital decoder and distributed to one or more speakers....

Dolby TrueHD is available for use in the audio portion of Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD programming content. Although HD-DVD was discontinued in 2008, Dolby TrueHD has maintained its presence in the Blu-ray Disc format, but its direct competitor from DTS, referred to as DTS-HD Master Audio, is more commonly used. Dolby TrueHD Specifications Dolby TrueHD can support up to 8 channels of audio at 96 Khz/24 bits (which is most commonly used), or up to 6 channels of audio at 19 2kHz/24 bits....

When I asked an audiophile nerd friend who he thought these air-purifying headphones were aimed at, he said that they’re for Bane from Batman: The Dark Knight Rises “when he gets a job at a call center.” And he might be right. “These headphones are clearly meant to be used by people who live in heavily-polluted areas,” Troy Portillo, musician and online learning expert, told Lifewire via email. “However, there are often correlations between poverty and areas of high pollution levels, so there is an obvious disconnect with these headphones costing almost one thousand dollars....

What Are EMLX and EML Files? A file with the EMLX or EML file extension is a Mail Message file used to store an email message. Although these file formats are used for similar reasons, they’re not exactly the same thing. EMLX files are sometimes called Apple Mail Email files because they’re typically created with Apple’s Mail program for macOS. These are plain text files that store just a single email message....

How to Subtract in Excel Topics covered: How to subtract numbers using a formula. A step-by-step example of creating a subtraction formula in Excel using point and click. Why using cell references will make it easy to update your calculations if your data should ever change. How to Subtract in Excel How to Divide in Excel Topics covered: How to divide two numbers using a formula.A step-by-step example of creating a division formula in Excel using point and click....

exFAT vs NTFS: Overall Findings The most important consideration when deciding between these two file systems is the systems to which you will attach the drive. For example, you may connect removable storage like USB sticks to systems running Windows, macOS, Linux, or even Android. In this case, the wider overall support of the exFAT filesystem will make your cross-platform work a lot easier. On the other hand, if you’re confident the drive will be used exclusively in Windows (as your computer’s internal SSD would likely be), go NTFS....

While most cameras are capable of digital zoom, the in-camera post-processing can sometimes interfere with your results, leaving you with underwhelming resolution and low-quality pictures. Optical zoom, on the other hand, uses a series of lenses to enlarge the subject in your exposure without digital manipulation, ensuring that your subject is limited only by the megapixel (MP) rating of your camera’s sensor. Optical zoom cameras are ideal for all sorts of shots, including travel, landscape photography, sporting events, wildlife, or any situation where you’d like to get closer to your subject without sacrificing image quality....

What’s the Difference Between a USB Flash Drive and a Regular Flash Drive? A flash drive is solid-state drive (SSD) technology that stores data in a manner similar to the typical hard drive found in most PCs but without moving parts. Flash drives come in many forms, including external storage devices, portable USB drives, and as the primary storage drive in some laptops. A USB flash drive is the industry term for a small, extremely portable flash drive that connects to a computer through a USB port....

Fitness trackers from brands such as Fitbit and Samsung are well-rounded crowd-pleasers that ably cover basic wellness, but advanced wearables like the Garmin Forerunner 745 are on a different level. This premium multi-sport fitness tracker is designed with athletes in mind, specifically triathletes, and delivers insights into everything from blood oxygen saturation to aerobic and anaerobic impact, training load, and training efficiency. The Forerunner 745 monitors all of these valuable metrics in a comfortable form factor and in combination with other connected features busy users will appreciate....

Find Apps Quickly How do you find a particular app you installed on your iPad when you have lots, and some collected under groups? Don’t waste time flipping through the screens; instead, use the iPad’s Spotlight search, which can be accessed by swiping down on the screen. Once you get used to searching the iPad, you won’t know how you had the patience to do it any other way. You can also use this method to search through your contacts or even your email....

Overall Findings Both optical cables and HDMI cables are capable of transmitting multi-channel, high quality audio, with major advantages over more traditional analog audio connectors. However, HDMI supports newer, higher resolution audio standards, like Dolby TrueHD, and DTS HD Master Audio. Optical cables do not. HDMI is also able to transmit video too, and when combined with ARC and eARC technologies, is able to be a singular cable solution for connecting your video and audio sources to a TV and external A/V system, where optical cables can function only as audio transmission cables....

This article will help you understand how HDR10+ works and how it differs from other HDR standards. What Is HDR10+? Before getting into HDR10+, it’s essential to understand what HDR is. High-dynamic-range (HDR) is a video technology used in the high-definition television industry to produce video and still images with improved brightness, contrast, and color accuracy. Any HDR-capable TV is compatible with one or more HDR formats. HDR10 is the most widely adopted format and is an open, royalty-free standard that uses static metadata to deliver brightness, contrast, and color to your TV....

What Is a Layer 3 Switch? A Layer 3 switch is a specialized hardware device used in network routing. Layer 3 switches technically have a lot in common with typical routers, and not only in physical appearance. Both can support the same routing protocols, inspect incoming packets, and make dynamic routing decisions based on the source and destination addresses inside. One of the main advantages of a Layer 3 switch over a router is in the way routing decisions are performed....

Toshniwal is the co-founder and CEO of Y Media Labs (YML), a Silicon Valley-based design and technology agency that builds digital products for both large companies and fledgling startups. “Our mission is to help companies become tech-enabled so they can serve their customers well,” Toshniwal told Lifewire in a phone interview. “We want to export the Silicon Valley mindset to the world.” Toshniwal launched YML in March 2009, just months after the Apple App Store launched in 2008....

It’s a simple concept, but how does it work in reality? What’s the business model, and what’s the relationship between customers and employees? Let’s find out. What Is Turo? Turo is a sort of car rental service where, instead of one company operating a fleet of vehicles, people who own their own cars join the service and let people rent their personal vehicle as needed. Some commercial renting operations also use the platform....

How Long Should an EV Battery Last? There’s one thing all rechargeable smartwatches, smartphones, tablets, and laptops have in common: battery life. It almost feels as if manufacturers make them only to last about 3 years, coinciding with the same time the latest must-have device is released. Many think of electric vehicle batteries in the same light and assume there is the same type of short lifespan, which couldn’t be further from reality....