Stage Manager is Apple’s multitasking feature introduced with iPadOS 16. It lets you use several apps at one time and group apps for specific tasks. To help you get started multitasking, here’s everything you need to know about usin Stage Manager on iPad. Stage Manager Requirements To use Stage Manager, you’ll need a supported iPad running iPadOS 16 or later. Here are the device models supporting Stage Manager at the time of writing:...
We all remember doing this hundreds of times as kids. The Nintendo or Sega game (I’m inclusive) begins acting up, and as if you were Sir Isaac Newton developing the theory of universal gravitation after witnessing an apple falling, you grab the cartridge, blow on it with your Capri Sun breath, and restart the now-working game. Hazaa! This is clearly great scientific work in action. The cartridge probably has dust and dog hair on it because it’s sitting on a pile of textbooks a foot off the floor, and your Superman-like breath swiftly whisked away all the debris that prevented the connectors in the cartridge and console slot from hugging each other....
Note: Compatible with Office 2000 and above (English Language versions only). Using the Zoho Office Plugin For our example we created a document in Zoho Writer online before installing the plugin. The installation itself will be quick and simple. There will also be a program folder created in Program Files. When the installation process has finished, both Word and Excel are set to start by default. To access Zoho in Word and/or Excel go to the Add-Ins Tab and login into your Zoho account....
The Exciting World of IT Governance IT governance is about putting in place a suite of policies and procedures that your workforce follows when they’re accessing an IT resource. The documentation forms a governance framework that provides instruction and guidance to your employees. If your staff adhere to the policies they’ll use your IT equipment in the way you’ve prescribed. Sometimes data protection legislation such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires you to have certain procedures and policies in place....
Nearly every rover that’s been to Mars has encountered a dust devil, but the Perseverance rover has recorded footage of what a dust devil sounds like on the red planet for the very first time. The rover is equipped with a microphone, and the dust devil itself passed directly over the rover on September 27th, 2021, allowing it to catch and record its sound for mankind to see. The result?...
Matter uses a combination of Ethernet, Thread (a low-power connectivity method for battery-powered devices), Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth Low Energy to setup and manage smart home devices. The goal of Matter is to create one shared ecosystem that works with all smart home devices and hubs — with any luck, the pain of shopping for Apple HomeKit-compatible devices or double-checking that a certain light bulb works with Alexa should become a distant memory....
NASA officials are targeting September 23rd to try and launch the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket to the Moon. If that doesn’t happen, they’ve also set September 27th as a potential backup date. This initial launch, dubbed the Artemis 1 mission, would carry an uncrewed crew pod so it can detach and circle the Moon. If it’s successful, the agency also wants to carry out a crewed mission down the road — the first Moon orbit crewed flight is expected for 2024....
Note: This tip is really meant for beginner geeks. Simply right-click on the desktop, choose Personalize, and then click on Change desktop icons on the left: Then remove the checkbox from “Allow themes to change desktop icons”. Note that you can also use this dialog to choose which icons actually show up on the desktop. I don’t personally mind if themes change out my icons—but don’t mess with my mouse cursor!...
Raspberry Pi 4: Fast Enough For Gaming? The new 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 may have made a few heads turn when it came out. A cheap, small, microcomputer with desktop like capabilities and memory sizing. But is it good enough for gaming? If you are ready to start playing around with a Raspberry Pi you just purchased, check out our How to Quickly Setup a Raspberry Pi 4 with Ubuntu 20....
About Sandboxie Sandboxie creates a virtual environment called a “sandbox” that lets you run applications without affecting your actual computer system. You can install a new application in the sandbox environment to test it out, without having to worry about it making changes to the OS. It allows more security when browsing the web as well…when you open a browser in the sandbox environment, the cookies, site history, cached files, etc are deleted when you clear the sandbox content or shut it down....
We live at a time where you can walk into a store, grab some items, and pay without ever interacting with another human. Despite how awesome that sounds, self-checkout has its haters. Let me tell you why it’s great. If you look around the internet, you might think everybody hates self-checkout. In fact, that’s literally what some headlines claim. The annoyances with self-checkout are well-documented. I’m here to defend the humble self-checkout machine and maybe provide a viewpoint you haven’t heard....
While the Sonos Arc sits at the top of the soundbar chain and the Sonos Beam (Gen 2) occupies the middle, the Ray still boasts plenty of the features that make Sonos unique at a lower price. Namely, it features the same multiroom audio features as its larger siblings, as well as Sonos’ key TruePlay feature. That said, the company made some curious cuts to the Ray, presumably to keep it within a specific price point....
Figuring out how much you want to spend is a good starting point. Cases nowadays come with various price tags. For example, budget cases can be as cheap as $15, while high-end products can soar to over $60. Once you’ve determined a price range, the next step is to decide how much protection you need. Some cases undergo strenuous testing to ensure they’ll save your phone when slipping out of your hand and hitting the pavement....
Highlighting text is something you probably do a lot and don’t think much about. There are actually a surprising number of ways to do it, and some are much better than others. We’ll show you the fastest methods. Dragging your mouse letter by letter to highlight text is the method most people are familiar with, but it’s not the best. There are several methods that make more sense and will save you time....
Photoshop has a huge menu system with options even advanced users may ignore. For today’s lesson we’ll take a quick tour through them and learn which of them will help you increase your mastery of photo editing. This is Part 4 of a multipart series on learning Photoshop. Part 1, the Toolbox and Part 2, Photoshop Panels, and Part 3, Layers, are also still available. The Top Menu Your menus are laid out as illustrated above....
OSD Lyrics displays your music lyrics onto your screen when you play music. At the time of writing this article OSD lyrics is supported by Amarok 2.0 and 1.4, Audacious, Banshee, Exaile (Both 0.2 and 0.3), JuK new!^, MOC 2.5, Qmmp, Quod Libet, MPD, Rhythmbox, Songbird, and XMMS2. Installing OSD Lyrics Open your terminal and type in the following command. Remember to hit ‘enter’ for each command to execute them....
PortableLinuxApps is a relatively new website that provides many popular applications packaged as a single binary file that works on any supported system. For the time being, the officially supported flavors of Linux are the 32-bit versions of Ubuntu 10.04, OpenSUSE 11.3 (GNOME), and Fedora 12 (GNOME). If you’re not sure if you have the 32-bit version or 64-bit version of your Linux distribution, check out this guide. Making Applications Executable...
About Ubuntu Control Center A lot of utilities and software has been written to work with Ubuntu. Ubuntu Control Center is one such cool utility which makes it easy for configuring Ubuntu. The following is a brief description of Ubuntu Control Center: Ubuntu Control Center or UCC is an application inspired by Mandriva Control Center and aims to centralize and organize in a simple and intuitive form the main configuration tools for Ubuntu distribution....
Make a Webified Spreadsheet To add dynamic data from a website to a spreadsheet, click the From Web button under the Get External Data section of the Data tab in Excel. Enter a website address that you want to get data from, and click Go. The page will load in the preview box, and you might have to scroll to find the data you want on the page. You’ll see a small arrow beside any web tables you can import into Excel....
What Are Programming Languages? In short, a programming language is the way in which a computer programmer “talks” to a device. If you know how to “speak” one of these languages—and there are hundreds—you can create a program that can perform tasks. These can range from the very simple, like a script that moves a file from one place to another, to the very complex, like rendering a 3D world in a video game....
