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TRMK/Shutterstock The iPhone’s user-friendly Camera app makes it possible for anyone to take great photos. But the app doesn’t get it right every time, and sometimes you might want to brighten or darken your scene. To do that, you’ll need to use the Exposure Compensation dial. Apple added it in the iOS 14 update, released…

The Windows 10 Start menu includes a handy list of shortcuts to common locations (such as Pictures, Downloads, Settings) in a tiny sidebar. Using Settings, you can customize which shortcuts appear there. Here’s how to do it. First, launch “Settings” by opening the “Start” and clicking the “Gear” icon (or by pressing Windows+I). This gear…

Rating: 6.5/10 ? 1 – Absolute Hot Garbage 2 – Sorta Lukewarm Garbage 3 – Strongly Flawed Design 4 – Some Pros, Lots Of Cons 5 – Acceptably Imperfect 6 – Good Enough to Buy On Sale 7 – Great, But Not Best-In-Class 8 – Fantastic, with Some Footnotes 9 – Shut Up And Take…

Ilya Titchev/Shutterstock Passwords are the keystone to account security. We’ll show you how to reset passwords, set password expiration periods, and enforce password changes on your Linux network. The Password Has Been Around for Nearly 60 Years We’ve been proving to computers that we are who we say we are since the mid-1960s, when the…

Apple is trying something new this year. The company is selling a $700 iPhone 12 Mini alongside its $800 iPhone 12, and some people aren’t really sure which device to go with. Don’t worry; the only differences between the iPhone 12 and 12 Mini are size and price. Note: The standard iPhone 12 is already…

Corsair People often draw parallels between computers and the human brain, and sometimes, it’s an apt comparison. For example, both the brain and a computer have short- and long-term memory. RAM is where a computer stores its short-term memory. What Is RAM? RAM stands for Random Access Memory, and if you’ve ever opened a lap-…

legotruman/LEGO Ideas The latest LEGO Ideas project to reach 10,000 supporters is based on Studio Ghibli’s beautiful animated film Spirited Away. Created by legotruman, the project is set in the award-winning movie’s iconic bath house and showcases eight unique rooms featured in memorable scenes throughout the movie. The set includes several characters from the movie…

Yasin Hasan/Shutterstock One super-nifty feature about Google’s line of smart speaker and smart display devices is the ability to make free calls to most U.S., Canadian, or U.K. numbers without needing to tie in your cellular carrier. According to a support document on the company’s Nest Help pages, this may be soon changing for those in…

Amazon Like Microsoft, Google, and Nvidia, Amazon wants in on the game streaming craze. Rather than buy an expensive PC or Console, you can subscribe to a service and stream high-end games to your tablet or weak PC. I tried out Amazon’s take, called Luna, and a few hours is enough to say it needs…

Tesla An updated design for Tesla’s unique Cybertruck might be available for everyone to see in about a month, according to Elon Musk. That isn’t exactly a date set in stone, especially for a company that’s widely known for its delays, but it does mean that changes have been made to the Cybertruck since its…

Nintendo/Amazon To celebrate Mario’s 35th anniversary, Amazon is sending out random orders in limited edition Mario boxes throughout November. Nintendo announced the partnership on its website’s Mario Missions tab and now offers 100 My Nintendo Platinum Points to users who visit Amazon’s Mario Anniversary splash page. Amazon uses its Mario boxes “randomly, while supplies last.”…

Google Meet is a popular video conferencing service for everything from important work meetings to hanging out with friends. Virtual backgrounds are a fun and useful feature. We’ll show you how to use virtual backgrounds in your next Google Meet video call. Virtual backgrounds are a popular feature in Zoom, but Google Meet can do it,…

If you’re browsing Apple Maps on an iPhone, iPad, or Mac and you’d like to figure out the latitude and longitude of a particular location, it’s as easy as dropping a pin. Here’s how to do it. How to Find Latitude and Longitude in Apple Maps on iPhone and iPad On an iPhone or iPad,…

Oculus The Oculus Quest 2 is already out, and we’d argue some of the first accessories you should buy for your unit are the Elite Strap or the Elite Strap with Battery. The Elite Strap makes a huge difference in putting on the VR headset comfortably. Unfortunately, it seems you’ll have a hard getting one…

Amazon There may be people you know who have a certain difficulty when it comes to learning new pieces of tech. This can make gifting them something tech-related tricky; you want it to be useful but easy to understand—not something you’ll need to troubleshoot for them every other week. Fortunately, there are options out there…

Khamosh Pathak Love taking handwritten notes? Wished you could convert them to text for your report or for sharing? Using your iPad, you can. Here’s how to copy and paste handwritten text from the Notes app as typed text. Handwritten notes on the iPad are not a new thing. But starting in iPadOS 14, your…

Shutterstock/insta_photos Want to remotely connect to a desktop on another Linux server from your Linux desktop? Getting started is easy: this article will show you how to setup VNC and connect directly to the desktop of a remote machine! What is VNC? Often, we need desktop/GUI (graphical User Interface) resources “on the other side of…

Finding the best deals can be a challenge when shopping online. With so many different retailers to choose from, which store has the best prices? Google Shopping makes this easier with its price comparison tool. If you’re unfamiliar with Google Shopping, it’s essentially Google Search with shopping results. Google scours the web for retailers that…