Fortunately, there are a few way to use Chromecast without connecting to your Wi-Fi. What To Do When Your Wi-Fi Is Down If you want to use your Chromecast but the internet is down, there are ways to keep the party going. Use a Portable Router If you’re on the move and you want to watch content through Chromecast, it’s a good idea to bring a portable router with you....
To get to know how to enable and customize Do Not Disturb, simply follow the guide below. Enable Do Not Disturb on Your Mac Click on the Notification bar icon in the top-right corner of your Mac. Once the Notification Centre is revealed, swipe up. This will reveal two options: Night Shift and Do Not Disturb. Simply turn the switch on to enable “Do Not Disturb” on for your Mac....
Great Live Distributions If you want a full desktop environment in “Live” form, Ubuntu and Mint are two of our favorite choices. Both are full-featured, come with an excellent selection of software, and run great on relatively modern PCs. Still, there’s a different subgroup of distributions explicitly designed to be light on resources and run optimally from removable media. They are intended to be used this way, or even installed and used from a flash drive....
Signing In If you have not started using the Mail app, this is a great time to start. Go to your Applications folder and double click on the icon for your Mail app. Enter your user name and password. Then click on the Create button. For the first time, it will take a while for it to load your mailbox and fetch the mails from the server. Creating A Rule To make your rule, simply click on Mail -> Preferences....
This photography technique of applying “background blur”, known as bokeh, can be accessed on the iPhone in a few simple taps in a range of distinct styles. Learn how to point and shoot like a pro on your iPhone. How to Activate Portrait Mode Before we start, check out the iPhone models that support portrait mode. How to Toggle Between Portrait Lighting Effects The Portrait Lighting feature encompasses a set of five studio-quality lighting effects that can be applied instantly to Portrait Mode photos to isolate, enhance, or otherwise brighten key elements of your subject....
For illustration purposes, we have a system with three users – john1, john2 and john3, all are members of the common group “johns” Let’s say “john1” creates a new directory called “shared-dir” meant to be shared among all users of “johns” group. With the ls command, we can view the permission of the “shared-dir”, which can be interpreted in the following table: Only “john1” can read the directory’s contents and also write to the directory....
Collections are similar in some ways to a favorites folder, but it’s more than just a list of links. Instead, the collections display in a pane on your browser window. It displays images and text to help you remember what was on that site instead of having to guess and click until you find the page you wanted. You can add more than just links to collections, like images and text....
How to Launch the Camera App As long as you are running one of the last few iterations of iOS, getting the camera app can be done one of two ways. On Face ID-enabled iPhones, the current lock screen has a shortcut to the camera at the lower right. The icon looks exactly like a camera. You don’t even have to unlock the phone. Just press and hold the camera icon, and the camera app will pop up....
That’s right, those beautiful twinkling lights keep a dark secret that affects your Internet connection. The secret is that they give out their own waves that don’t let your Wi-Fi connection work to the fullest. You probably already have enough issues with your Internet provider during the rest of the year, and the last thing you need is for your Christmas lights to also hurt your connection. How to Get a Better Singal To get the most out of your WiFi signal, you may want to keep your router away from your Christmas lights, electronic devices and maybe even use the Ethernet cable....
If you are running an online business, chances are you are already collecting the email addresses of your users and engaging in email marketing to get your subscribers to return for more. In your email database you probably have thousands, or even millions, of email addresses. The question is how many of them are valid? Online subscription forms are a magnet for spambot, and a lot of the time our email databases are full of spam addresses that we are not aware of....
Part 1: Setting your iOS device up Part 2: Navigating around in your iOS device. Part 3: Mastering the Settings in your iOS device. Part 4: Installing and Managing Your Apps in iOS In iOS, every function is accomplished with the use of an app. There are native apps that are included with iOS, such as Safari and Mail, there are a few apps that Apple makes available to you to add more function, and there are also third-party apps that are available....
Noow is a pretty new competitor to the media playback game. Its claim is that it can play back HD video with amazing quality. Lets see how it stacks up against VLC. The desktop applications Both are applications you will need to download and install onto your machine. The look of Noow is clean and modern. There are options in the left sidebar to video sources like Hulu and YouTube....
How Is The System Flawed? To answer the question we asked earlier, we need to think about whether the file and folder system has flaws at all. It turns out that there is actually one enormous issue with the way we organize our data: The typical file on a computer today is more than a simple document; it is multimedia that can be organized in several ways, with many attributes attached to each piece of data....
Thus, it’s probably a good thing that GPS isn’t the only satellite navigation system in existence – Russia, the EU, and China all have their own satellite constellations, and there are even smaller regional systems that help make coverage of certain areas more precise. In fact, your phone is probably counting on two or three different satellite constellations for its location even now! It’s not just knowing about which side of the street you’re on, either: machines will need good location data in the future if they’re going to navigate a human-sized world, and having multiple GNSS systems to ensure consistent availability and better accuracy is important....
If you’ve been looking to try a mechanical keyboard as a gamer or even just for casual usage, you’ll love this mechanical keyboard by KKmoon. Not only does it have a true typewriter sound and feel to it (due to the suspended keys), but it also features nine different LED backlit modes, eight different pattern zones, plus two programmable profiles. Here’s a closer look at the KKmoon LED gaming mechanical keyboard....
For those just starting out with Linux, or the command line specifically, the program that displays the command prompt and handles your commands is called bash, or the Bourne Again Shell. In this article we’ll be using the words command line and shell interchangeably to refer to interacting with Linux through bash. Today we’ll be covering: Changing the shell startup routineMaking a more useful command promptCreating aliases for long or complex commands...
Hello Iris Although Google dropped the ball with its Voice Actions app, an enterprising company by the name of Dexetra has taken it upon themselves to create their own Siri-like alternative. This app is called “Iris”, which is the opposite of Siri. At first test, the beta version was not all that impressive as the responses I got to the majority of my questions were simply humorous quips. But, for an app that was developed in an 8-hour hackathon, it showed a lot of promise....
Regardless, you’ll also have wondered what the purpose of these other file types are. In this article we’ll cover many formats that relate to documents which can be edited as possible. .docx At present, .docx is the default file format in Microsoft Word and has been since Office 2007. Opening a .docx file in Office 2003 will force it to open in “Compatibility Mode.” It’s a fundamentally different format tHan its predecessor, being based on the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and ....
For instance, people running Drupal websites often call on Apache, whereas WordPress users seem to favor Nginx as much if not more. Accordingly, our goal is to help you understand your own requirements better rather than providing a one-size recommendation. Having said that, the following comparison between the two gives an accurate picture. 1. Popularity Up until 2012 more than 65% of websites were based on Apache, a popularity due in no small measure to its historical legacy....
Introduction The choice used to be simple if you wanted smart Christmas tree lights: you could buy the Twinkly lights. Now, there’s a contender: the Philips Hue Festavia String Lights. Integrating fully with the Hue ecosystem, including the app and wireless controls, these smart lights have an advantage over Twinkly. Yet, despite its quality, the Festavia set doesn’t have the full range of effects one would expect from Christmas tree lights, so choosing the best lights is more difficult than you might think....
