Spatial audio aims at making it sound like the music you’re listening to is coming from all around you. Combined with head tracking, another feature of the 1MORE Aero, it can sound like you’re listening to music coming from speakers rather than earbuds. Whether spatial audio will take off the way the companies pushing it want it to remains to be seen, so was it worth it for 1MORE to gamble on spatial audio?...
Installation The install process for Stickies does not run quite like other programs. As you can see with the first install window you are immediately placed into the major part of the decisions. Make the selections and/or changes that best suit your preferences. Just before the installation process begins you will be presented with the following message concerning backups. Click “Yes” to proceed with the installation. Here is the final install window....
The Apple TV HD is a lower-end model of the Apple TV 4K. At a surface level, it’s seemingly identical. It has the same redesigned Siri remote controller and the same basic outside design. However, its internals change a bit. After all, this device only goes up to 1080p, while the Apple TV 4K goes up to, well, 4K. The device has 2GB of RAM and 10/100 Ethernet rather than gigabit Ethernet....
Storage Lens is a new analytics tool for AWS’s Simple Storage Service (S3) that can help customers optimize their storage. Storage Lens can give you a great overview of your buckets, as well as provide useful insights into cost efficiency and data protection. What Is Storage Lens? Storage Lens is a visualization dashboard for bucket metrics. While buckets have their own metrics panels, Storage Lens can show metrics for multiple buckets at once....
Qualcomm is perhaps best known as the company behind the Snapdragon chips in many Android phones and tablets. The company revealed today that it’s building hardware for use in Wi-Fi 7 mesh routers, promising speeds of “over 20 Gbps.” Qualcomm today announced a new lineup of hardware for use in future mesh routers, dubbed the “Immersive Home Wi-Fi 7 Platform.” As the name implies, it’s built around the emerging Wi-Fi 7 standard, which promises faster speeds and lower latency than Wi-Fi 6E (which still isn’t common) and Wi-Fi 6....
To get to System Maintenance you can go through several menus in Control Panel to launch it. If you want easier access to it, we’ll show you how to create a shortcut to it. It’s a basic troubleshooting feature that can clean unused files, perform maintenance tasks, and help prevent problems with your PC. Create Shortcut to Troubleshoot Using System Maintenance Right-click an empty area on your Desktop and select New \ Shortcut....
WordPress offers many features that help you make your blog the best it can be. Although it doesn’t offer as many customization features as full WordPress running on your own server, it still makes it easy to make your free blog as professional or cute as you like. Here we’ll look at how you can customize features in your blog and build an audience. Personalize Your Blog WordPress make it easy to personalize your blog....
Before Here are some examples of items that you may be tired of looking at in your Gmail account such as the “Footer” below your “Inbox”, the “Chat Box”, and the “Invitation Box”. Perhaps you would also like to have the “New Window, Print all, & Create a document Commands” moved elsewhere. And of course there is everyone’s “favorite” sponsored links… Time to do some cleaning up and reorganizing....
iGoogle For those of you who don’t know what iGoogle is, it’s a customizable homepage that contains the Google Search box and then your personalized gadgets. There are tons of different things you can add like news, weather, Gmail, stock reports, RSS feeds from any site, games, movie times…etc. In fact you can even design your own iGoogle gadget if you want. It also lets you pick custom themes, move the gadgets around, and create new tabs for even more gadgets....
The Error We ran into the following error while trying to add OneNote to a current install of Office Professional Plus 2010 32-bit on a 64-bit version of Windows 7 Ultimate. It is actually a permissions error to the Temp folder and we need to give everyone access. The Fix First go into Services by typing services.msc into the Search box in the Start Menu and hit Enter. Scroll down to Windows Installer and Stop the service…...
The newest update to the Pixel Buds Pro is adding a full 5-band equalizer. By updating your Pixel Buds app to version 1.0.474476083 and your Pixel Buds Pro firmware to 3.14, you’ll gain access to a device-wide equalizer with five different frequency bands, as well as a handful of presets that were tuned by Google’s audio engineers. The best part about it is that tweaking those sliders won’t just affect your listening experience on your phone....
This is Google’s competitor to the Apple AirPods Pro and Galaxy Buds 2 Pro, with many of the same features (true wireless design, ANC, etc.) at a lower price. The Pixel Buds Pro supports Active Noise Cancellation, so it can block out background noise, and the case charges over both USB Type-C and Qi wireless pads. The long-lasting battery life might be the Pixel Buds Pro’s best feature, with around 11 hours of playback with ANC off and seven hours with ANC turned on....
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART for short, reached its most exciting stage yesterday. The test had the aim of intercepting an asteroid called Dimorphos. The spacecraft launched by NASA was quickly zipping at 14,000 mph, until it finally struck, and redirected, the asteroid on September 26th at 7:14 PM ET. — NASA (@NASA) September 26, 2022 The asteroid itself wasn’t threatening Earth at all. It was actually a small asteroid that was orbiting a bigger one, Didymos, as a satellite, and while both were close to Earth, they weren’t currently heading over to destroy our planet from an impact....
Ever need to grab a file or two from your ext4 partition? Maybe you’ve wanted to backup a few important files while you were in Windows. Here’s how to browse your Linux partition from Windows using a tool called Ext2explore. Most Linux distributions nowadays use the ext4 partition by default, and while there are some tools that can read the older ext2 and ext3 partitions, Ext2explore (also known as Ext2Read) is the only one that we’ve seen that is able to read all three....
Image by Ifijay The common approach to create an index table in Word is to manually mark each word that we wish to index, but the other alternative is to use a concordance document to automatically index our master document, which is what we will cover in today’s article. Generating the Index Let’s start by creating a two column table in our concordance file. Write the words that you would like to be marked for indexing in the left column....
Google Cloud Platform’s Compute Engine works very similarly to AWS’s EC2 platform, allowing you to launch and run cloud servers very quickly. We’ll show how to get started and get a server up and running if you’re new to the platform. Launching a Server Google has a wide variety of compute-related services, ranging from container orchestration platforms with managed Kubernetes to serverless functions using Google Cloud Functions. However, if you just want to run a basic Linux or Windows server, you can do that from Compute Engine, which is their general purpose compute platform....
DigitalOcean provides an API as an alternative to its web-based cloud control panel. The official doctl command-line client offers an intuitive wrapper around the API. You can administer your DigitalOcean resources using an easily scriptable programmatic interface. Installation Doctl is available on Windows, macOS and Linux systems. A variety of installation methods are supported depending on platform. All systems can download the latest release directly from GitHub. Most Linux distributions include doctl in their package repositories....
We’re big fans of hidden registry hacks around here, so when our friend Justin showed how to put a real, working Libraries icon on the desktop, we figured it would make a perfect article for for a few extra geek points. Yeah, you can always create a shortcut icon for anything on the desktop, but this one is the actual icon without the shortcut overlay. Plus it’s a geeky hidden trick—what’s not to like?...
One of the most common workloads of Docker is using it to containerize web servers like NGINX and Apache to run a high-performance content delivery fleet that can be easily auto-scaled and managed. We’ll show you how to set it up with NGINX. Setting Up NGINX Inside Docker Docker is a containerization platform, used to package up your application and all of its code into one easily manageable container image....
FTP, or File Transfer Protocol, is a standard protocol for sending and receiving files from remote servers. It’s easier to use than command line alternatives like scp, especially with GUI interfaces like FileZilla. What Is FTP? In the olden days of the internet, public FTP servers were a very common way of making files available to a large number of people. Today, FTP is still around, and widely used for administrative tasks....
