Apple’s watchOS 9.1 update is rolling out to Apple Watch Ultra owners, complete with a new ultra-low-power mode, which Apple promised to roll out sometime in the fall. According to the company, you should expect to get up to 60 hours of battery life by turning on this special mode, while still having most smartwatch functions working. This one is different from the existing battery-saver mode that’s included in the smartwatch, which turns off some features, and the Power Reserve mode, which turns off everything except the actual watch feature....

While Samsung’s One UI and Google’s Pixel UI are both built on Android, they look and feel very different. The same thing can be said about the company’s smartwatches, which are both built on Wear OS. But in this case, it’s Samsung offering the better experience, and it’s just as Google-y. Samsung Is the Standard for Wear OS One of the interesting side-effects of Google taking so long to make its own smartwatch is it didn’t get to set the precedent of how Wear OS functions....

People love entering bizarre text prompts for AI image generators and seeing the results. However, it’s not as easy to make it personal. Lensa is an AI-infused app that can generate selfies of yourself, and they look way too cool. What is Lensa? Lensa is an app created by the makers of Prisma, a popular photo editing app that applies heavy art filters to photos. Lensa is a similar idea to Prisma, but it uses AI to do the hard work for you....

If you’re using a Gmail account for your business, that account is the key to your entire life. You may think two-factor authentication (2FA) is enough to keep criminals at bay, but SMS based 2FA can be easily bypassed. The Problems with 2FA Two-factor authentication is great for account security. Instead of just asking for a password, a 2FA-enabled account will send you a code over SMS or through an authenticator app to your phone, which you’ll have to enter to confirm it’s you....

Settings Vary, So Read Your Manual We can’t possibly cover every variation of settings and the presence of said settings (or lack thereof) on a particular router, but we can go over settings and concepts you should be aware of. Whether you access your router interface through a smartphone app or using a web browser on your PC, be sure to look up your particular router model and review what settings and options are available, as well as what terms your router’s manufacturer uses for the concepts outlined below....

There are those occasions where the Magic Eraser is just too frustrating to use and there’s an opportunity to remove the background without all of that tedious erasing. In this How-To, you’ll see how to use Channels to remove your background with minimal use of the Eraser tool and no use of the clunky Magic Eraser tool at all. Beginner Photoshop users be warned—this How-To is aimed at intermediate-level and higher Photoshop users....

Generate Report To generate the report you’ll need to use the Elevated Command Prompt as Administrator. Click on Start and type CMD into the search box, then right-click the command prompt icon and select Run as Administrator. Next type in the following command to generate the report on energy efficiency: It takes a full 60 seconds for the report to generate. and you’ll see the following message in the command screen when it’s finished....

Managing IT infrastructure is a hard job, but in recent years cloud providers have been making it easier to automate every aspect of a sysadmin’s life. Infrastructure as Code is the next step: defining all of your services in a configuration file which can be tracked through source control. How Does Infrastructure as Code Work? Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is pretty simple in theory. All of your server deployments, cloud services, and their associated configuration are all stored in one centrally modifiable configuration file or set of configuration files, usually YAML or something similar....

Password Authentication Sucks Before two-factor authentication was ever a thing, the world ran on passwords. Passwords are still commonly used today, as they’re quite useful for most people—a short easy-to-remember phrase that gives you access to your protected services. But, passwords have a lot of security problems in practice. The main issue is that you’re trusting your password to a lot of random third parties, which runs the risk of having the hash of your password getting stolen in a data breach....

What Is Serverless? “Serverless” is a slight misnomer—your code will still be ran on a server somewhere. You just won’t have to worry about it, because the metal it runs on will all be managed for you “in the cloud,” leaving you to focus purely on software. This is the allure of serverless solutions; cutting out the cost of managing servers saves you money, both the labor cost of sysadmins and the cost of running a VPS, especially one that might be more than you need....

TypeScript is a custom version of JavaScript built by Microsoft that adds support for static typing, classes, enums, and interfaces. Using it for a large JavaScript project can make your code more organized and easier to integrate. What Is TypeScript? TypeScript isn’t a new language. It is a syntactical superset of JavaScript—any valid JS code is valid TypeScript code. TypeScript compiles down to plain JavaScript that runs in any browser....

If you only have access to an Ubuntu Live CD or thumb drive, you can actually use that instead if you prefer, and we’ve got you covered with a full guide to securely wiping your PC’s hard drive. Otherwise, keep reading. Wipe the Drive with DBAN Darik’s Boot and Nuke CD is the easiest way to permanently and totally destroy every bit of personal information on that drive—nobody is going to recover a thing once this is done....

When In Doubt, Test Your PSU When there’s a pop sound and bunch of smoke wisps upward out of the back of your PC directly from the PSU fan exhaust, you don’t exactly need an advanced degree in the subject to deduce that your PSU is dead. But not all PSU problems are so dramatic and immediately apparent. In fact, a lot of the signs that your PSU is failing are easy to confuse for other computer problems....

Google Cloud Platform is secured with their Identity and Access Management system, which controls the permissions for each user in your project. If you’re switching from AWS, GCP does things a little differently. How Do Permissions Work? If you’re used to AWS’s namesake IAM system, you may recognize some of the keywords here, but they mean different things. With Google’s IAM, you manage access control “by defining who (identity) has what access (role) for which resource....

There has been a noticeable trend with laptops over the past few years: you don’t have to compromise as much with budget models anymore. Acer has now released a series of laptops that deliver performance without breaking the bank: the new Aspire 3. The rest of the specifications look decent. You get a 15.6-inch 60 Hz LCD screen with a resolution of 1920 x 1080, 8 GB RAM, a 128 GB SSD, 802....

Before With the newest version of Firefox you may have noticed a very useful command missing from the “Context Menu”. Here you can see that when we right clicked on the article link we were unable to “access” the properties for it… Same article and the same problem when trying to “access” the properties for one of the images. After Once you have installed the extension you can once again “access” the properties for those links…...

Note: There is a paid version of this software (tinySpell+) available as well for those who want extra functionality. tinySpell in Action The installation process is simple and straightforward…as soon as you have finished installing tinySpell you will see your new “System Tray Icon”. You can see tinySpell’s “Context Menu” here. Before going any further you may want to have a look through the settings to make any desired display modifications....

Transitions certainly aren’t new to PowerPoint, but Office 2010 adds a number of exciting new transitions and options. Add Transitions Select the slide to which you want to apply a transition. On the Transitions tab, select the More button to reveal the all transition options in the gallery. Select the transition you’d like to apply to your slide. The transitions are divided into three types…Subtle, Exciting, and Dynamic Content. You can hover your mouse over each item in the gallery to preview the transition with Live Preview....

Activate Microsoft Update First, open Windows Update to see what updates you’re receiving. You can easily find it by entering Windows Update in the Start menu search. Look underneath the Windows Update box to see what you’re getting updates for. By default, Windows 7 will only check for updates to Windows and drivers, not other Microsoft products such as Office. To add this, click the Find out more link on the bottom....

Everything looks normal here…however it can be annoying having to hover the mouse over the clock to display the day of the week. Yeah…yeah…how can you not know what day it is? Trust me, during a busy day you can forget a lot including your own name! To display permanently show the day of the week or change the date and time format to something you’re more comfortable with, open Control Panel and go to Region and Language....