Indesign Frame Tools vs. Shape Tools The tools work the same way but draw different shapes. Don’t confuse the frame tools with the Rectangle, Ellipse, and Polygon shape tools. The frame tools create boxes (or frames) for graphics. The Rectangle, Ellipse, and Polygon tools draw shapes to fill or outline with color. How to Use the Frame Tool To use any of the frame tools, select the Frame Tool in the Toolbox, select a blank space in the workspace, and then drag the pointer to draw the shape....

Overall Findings Do stories represent the next stage of how we share things online? And how do we decide which platform to publish them on now that there are two major options? Your audiences on Instagram and Snapchat may differ. The platform is a consideration when you post a 10-second photo or video. The features of each platform present subtle differences, too. As one certainly beefs up its Stories feature, the other will most likely do the same to compete....

Overall Findings Despite a long, drawn-out approval process and intense competition, the Apple App Store is a great investment for developers, with a reasonable registration fee and a high percentage of sales going to the developer. Developers for the Google Play Store enjoy a less tedious approval process, and it’s affordable to submit apps. Both app stores have wide audiences, ensuring good visibility for an app, but you may have to work a little harder to make money with a Google Play Store app, as Android users tend to prefer free apps....

Sure, it’s a bit gimmicky, and I was preparing myself to scoff at the Pulse 3, but from the moment I turned it on throughout the following week of real-world testing, I was continuously impressed with what this it could do. Design: The star of the show There’s no way around this: the most unique part of the Pulse 3 is the LED light show the speaker puts on. We’ve all seen lights syncing to music, from the psychedelic concerts of the ‘70s all the way to the stock “visualizer” on Windows Media Player from the early aughts....

Whether you’re searching for the perfect angle, the best vacation snap for social media, or spending an evening out with friends and just want to capture the moment, the JETech Battery Free Selfie Stick is a versatile, compact device that supports a range of needs. We spent a week toting this little gadget around, testing its design, portability, and ease of use. Design: A lightweight build Not much larger than a smartphone, the JETech arrives with a warranty card, instruction leaflet, and the battery-free selfie stick itself....

Thanks to England’s infamous CCTV saturation, it’s easy to track cars automatically by license plate—that’s how London’s current Congestion Charge works. The same tech could be used to track and bill drivers every time they make a trip. It’s a radical move but also somewhat inevitable if London wants to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2030. But could it work in the US? And why not just ban cars altogether?...

What Is an M3U File? An M3U file is an Audio Playlist file that stands for MP3 URL, and as such, isn’t an actual audio file in and of itself. An M3U file just points to audio (and sometimes video) files so that a media player can queue them for playback. These text-based files can contain URLs and/or absolute or relative pathnames to the media files and/or folders. M3U files that are UTF-8 encoded are instead saved in the M3U8 file format....

What Is Macroblocking? Macroblocking is a video artifact in which objects or areas of a video image appear to be made up of small squares, rather than proper detail and smooth edges. The blocks may appear throughout the image, or just in portions of the image. The causes of macroblocking are related to one or more of the following factors: video compression, data transfer speed, signal interruption, and video processing performance....

The vulnerability enables hackers to trick desktop users into installing harmful applications by disguising them as official ones. In technical terms, the bug enables hackers to commandeer the Windows App Installer built-in feature, also referred to as AppX Installer, to spoof legitimate packages, so users willingly install malicious ones. “Typically, if the user tries to install an application containing malware, such as an Adobe Reader lookalike, it won’t display as a verified package, which is where the vulnerability comes into play,” explained Kevin Breen, Director of Cyber Threat Research at Immersive Labs, to Lifewire over email....

Is There Going to Be a Microsoft Surface Trio? We’re not sure! The details available at this stage come from a patent, and history tells us lots of companies file for patents which describe technology and products we never end up seeing on store shelves. Patently Apple took note of the patent shortly after it was posted on the US Patent & Trademark Office website in December 2021 (it was filed in June 2020)....

What Is an MP3 File? A file with the MP3 file extension is an MP3 Audio file developed by the Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG). The abbreviation stands for MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III. An MP3 file is normally used to store music data, but there are lots of free audiobooks that come in this format, too. Due to its popularity, a variety of phones, tablets, and even vehicles provide built-in support for playing MP3s....

Overall Findings Nest Hello and Ring offer basic smart doorbell features, such as video and two-way communication. Each has some unique features, as well. With Nest Hello, for example, HDR video is helpful for night vision, and the facial recognition feature is like caller-ID for your front door. The Ring smart doorbell can be installed on a door without doorbell wiring. This is essential if you live in an apartment or condo home....

Actronika has banked on its years of experience in the field of haptics to create a vest-like wearable that enables gamers to feel real-life sensations in virtual worlds. It claims to do so by employing a souped-up version of a well-known haptic mechanism that it’s calling “high-definition vibrotactile haptics.” “When we touch an object, vibrations are propagated in our body and allow us to understand the nature of the surface or object with which we interact,” explained Actronika’s Communications Manager, Marina Crifar, in an email to Lifewire....

The new Kindles offer a larger display, a new adjustable warm light, and increased battery life, while the new Signature Edition adds an auto-adjusting light sensor and is the first-ever Kindle to support wireless charging. I’ve been using the new Signature Edition for a few weeks and the new features have left a noticeable impact on my reading habits. My aging eyes appreciate the bigger screen and the faster page turns keep me zipping through novels....

Researchers have developed a new way to make you feel what’s happening in a virtual world when you put on VR goggles. A device applies chemicals to your skin to trigger responses. It’s part of a growing wave of so-called ‘haptic’ gadgets designed to enhance virtual reality. “Humans typically use all their senses to understand the world around them,” Todd Richmond, a VR expert and IEEE member, told Lifewire in an email interview....

The Phone (1) is essentially just another Android phone, but it shows what can be done when you stray from the increasingly dull slab-of-glass design invented by Apple and copied by pretty much every other smartphone maker. And while there are a few nice design touches and features, the one that really shines—quite literally—is the array of LEDs on the back. “Nothing’s Phone (1) is said to be disrupting the smartphone market by revamping the modern user experience....

Nvidia recently demonstrated the photo method called Instant NeRF, which uses computing power to approximate how light behaves in the real world. It could transform your old photos into a video game scene, or it can be used to train robots and self-driving cars to understand the size and shape of real-world objects. “3D imaging brings a new world of transformation,” Oren Debbi, the CEO of Visionary.ai, a computer vision company that runs its 3D algorithms on the Nvidia platform, told Lifewire in an email interview....

The tips listed here should help you troubleshoot your Olympus camera error messages and fix problems with Olympus camera memory cards. Card or Card Cover Error Message Any Olympus camera error message containing the word “card” refers to the Olympus memory card or the memory card slot. If the compartment sealing the battery and memory card area isn’t completely closed, you’ll receive a “Card Cover” error message. If you believe the problem is with the memory card, use it with a different device to determine whether it’s malfunctioning....

The beta version of Photoshop on the web is currently rolling out and will be accessible via an Adobe login. Users can create documents in the browser and collaborate with others on any image. This makes it ideal for quick edits and creation, and because it runs on Adobe’s servers, you don’t need a powerful computer. But what’s in this for Adobe? “Adobe’s marketing decision to provide a free browser version of their most popular product is the company’s way of ensuring that 90% of the world’s creative professionals continue to use Adobe Photoshop,” creative director Jessica Althaus told Lifewire via email....

Eliminate Duplication The first rule dictates that we must not duplicate data within the same row of a table. Within the database community, this concept is referred to as the atomicity of a table. Tables that comply with this rule are said to be atomic. Let’s explore this principle with a classic example: a table within a human resources database that stores the manager-subordinate relationship. For the purposes of our example, we’ll impose the business rule that each manager may have one or more subordinates while each subordinate may have only one manager....