New EV owners typically have a lot of questions when it comes to charging. If you just bought one, you’re likely already wondering if you can charge it at home, how much it’ll cost, the installation process, and more. While several factors go into that answer, yes, you may charge your EV at home. However, you’ll need to consider charging speeds, installing a faster EV charger, and if your house is even capable of such a thing....
Faxing documents in 2023? Yes, it’s actually more common than you may think. Depending on your age, you may not even be familiar with the relic that is the physical fax machine. In the ’80s and ’90s, fax machines were a staple in offices around the world. You might be surprised to learn that they still have a significant presence and frequent usage in businesses today. Many industries still use fax machines....
Quick Links If you want to take a screenshot on your Amazon Fire TV, you’ll quickly learn that it’s not a fast process. Requiring debugging tools and terminal commands, here’s everything you need to know to take a screenshot on your Amazon Fire TV. Step 1: Enable ADB Enabling ADB on your Amazon Fire TV is pretty simple. You just have to go to Devices & Software, then About, and then click “Your TV” seven times....
Quick Links Summary Use the “Move to iOS” Android app during the iPhone setup process. Select “Camera Roll” in the app to transfer photos and videos. Alternatively, you can upload photos to iCloud.com on your Android device and access them on the iPhone. Moving from Android to iPhone can feel like a daunting task—but it’s really not that bad. Photos are probably one of the most important things to transfer in the migration....
Quick Links ChatGPTworks perfectly fine in a browseron an Android phone, but you may want a more native-feeling experience. Thanks to the Tasker app, you can useOpenAI’s powerful AI chatbotlike Google Assistant. Tasker is an Android app that’s been around for a long time, andit can do an insane number of things. The app isn’t the most user-friendly, but the results can be mind-blowing if you take the time. The ChatGPT integration is relatively easy to set up with Tasker, but you need to pay close attention to the steps in the process....
Summary Apple added Game Mode to iPhone and iPad with the iOS and iPadOS 18 updates. Here’s what it does, how to toggle it on or off, and one more feature you might want to enable if you play a lot of games on your device. Game Mode Triggers Automatically The good thing about Game Mode is that it should be enabled automatically whenever you start playing a game. Simply launch a title and look for the “Game Mode On” pop-up to appear at the top of the screen....
Summary If you ever find yourself running low on disk space in Linux, you probably want to see which directories take up the most space. ncdu is a Linux terminal program that will help you do that. What Is ncdu? ncduis a utility for finding large directories on your Linux system. The name stands for “Ncurses Disk Usage.” It’s similar to the existingdu utilityexcept that it works in a full-screen terminal interface created in ncurses, hence the name....
Summary Emulation shouldn’t be a dirty word, despite what some hardware manufacturers believe. The good news is that the emulation scene is booming, and emulators aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. Nintendo Is on the Warpath Nintendo has a long history of opposing emulation, going as far as saying that the practice “harms development and ultimately stifles innovation” despite there being little evidence to support that assertion. You could argue that the thriving homebrew scene on platforms like the Wii proves otherwise....
Summary I can’t be the only one who gets a small rush of accomplishment when I see the achievement pop-up appear while playing a game. I’m not exactly a completionist, but these bite-sized rewards help motivate me to keep going and to experiment with a game’s world and systems. Now consider that you can add achievements to retro games, and you’ve got a whole other reason to replay the classics....
Linux Mint is one of the most popular desktop Linux distributions around, with a solid Ubuntu base and several desktop environments to choose from. Linux Mint 21.2 is now available, and it looks like another great release. Linux Mint 21.2 is based onUbuntu 22.04 LTS, which was released earlier this year as a Long Term Support (LTS) version. Since Canonical has committed to updating that Ubuntu version until 2027, Linux Mint 21....
Quick Links Have you noticed your Microsoft Office apps looking a bit different lately? That would be the new default Office theme kicking in. I, personally, am a fan of the new look, but if it’s not your cup of tea, you may revert to the old theme. What’s Different in the New Office Theme? Before we get into thehowof reverting to the old Office theme, let’s go over the changes the new theme makes:...
Quick Links Picture this—you have a large workbook full of nicely formatted, filtered, and sorted tables. You might think that your work is done, but actually, Excel is sitting and waiting for you to do more with those tables, eager to help you make the most of the hard work you have done so far. In this article, I’ll run through three of the functions or combinations of functions I use the most when I want to either extract or summarize information in my Excel tables....
Summary PCs offer plenty of customization and performance options, but they can be noisy beasts. This can spoil the experience of playing video games, or even watching movies or listening to music, but you can solve this problem in one fell swoop thanks to noise-cancellation technology. High Performance Gaming PCs Are Always Noisy While there are certainly many ways tobuild a quiet PC, and current-generation consoles are all but silent, by and large, any high-performance PC is going to make a fair bit of noise....
