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How To: 5 Fast Ways to Unlock Your Android Phone When Wearing a Mask & Gloves
Biometrics have a major flaw: they don't work well with personal protective equipment. Whether it's a mask obscuring facial recognition or gloves blocking the fingerprint scanner, it's a lot harder to unlock your phone when you're wearing the proper PPE. Thankfully, there are a few ways to speed things up.
How To: Take Control of Your Online Presence — Become a WordPress Master for Under $30
Since it first launched in 2003, WordPress has dominated the internet. The free, open-source content management system (CMS) is used by over 60 million websites. Wordpress is undeniably one of the most popular CMS solutions in the world.
How To: 13 Exciting New Features in Apple Photos for iOS 14
While there are other photo-editing apps to choose from on the App Store, Apple Photos is more than good enough for most needs on the iPhone — and things only get better with age. With each new iteration of iOS, Apple refines and improves Photos for the better, and iOS 14 adds a lot of new features into the mix.
How To: Hide Your Facebook Messenger Online Status from Everyone Except Certain Contacts
Facebook Messenger's user base has grown so much that it has taken over text messaging as the primary contact method for many people. However, sometimes you might want to hide your online status from specific contacts and appear offline to others. There's a neat little trick you should know that can help you achieve this.
YSK: You Can Lock Mario Kart Tour in Landscape or Portrait Without Touching Your Phone's Main Rotate Setting
Nintendo changed Mario Kart Tour for the better with an option to play the game in landscape mode. That said, the game will rotate automatically, which can mess you up in the middle of a heated race. But you don't need to lock your iPhone or Android phone's orientation setting to fix the problem since you can do so within the game itself. That way, other apps will auto-rotate as usual.
How To: Learn How to Join the AI Revolution with These Courses
In the coming years, artificial intelligence (AI) will revolutionize every facet of technology and business. AI researchers are in high demand. Salaries in this field are regularly in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
How To: Customize Your Google Pixel with New Accent Colors
Google lets you change the system-wide accent color on its Pixel devices, but the options are a bit muted. If you'd like something more vibrant, developer Tulsadiver created a mod that will give you a wide selection of punchier colors.
How To: It's Time to Finally Learn Microsoft Excel & Power BI — This Training Deal Is Too Good to Pass Up
Data analytics is crucial to the operations of any modern business these days. This trend is going to continue: in three years, 71% of global enterprises predict a rapid increase in data analytics.
How To: This Massive Development & Animation Program Teaches You Everything You Need to Know to Design Video Games
This year, over 2.7 billion gamers will spend nearly $160 billion dollars. That number is predicted to increase to over $200 billion in just three years. If ever an industry had growth potential, this is it.
How To: 16 New Apple Maps Features for iPhone in iOS 14, Including Cycling Routes, New Widgets & City Guides
Once the laughing-stock of the navigation app market, Apple Maps is now a powerful, reliable travel companion. Apple rebuilt the platform from the ground up, placing the app in league with Google Maps. That said, there's always room for improvement, as demonstrated by its impressive new features set in iOS 14.
How To: Set Data Limit Alerts on Google Fi
Google Fi Is a great wireless carrier alternative and can be quite beneficial when used correctly. If you don't require much data, you can easily get away with a $30 or less bill. However, if you wanted to crank out more data during your current billing cycle, there's a setting you should use to keep your data in check.
How To: Share Your Phone's Screen with Friends in Facebook Messenger Video Chats
Screen recording is an essential tool for sharing what's on our smartphones. If you want to send your friends and family an unsharable video you're watching, or a neat trick you discovered on your phone, recording your screen is one way to do so. Messenger, Facebook's standalone chat app, simplifies the experience by implementing live screen shares directly in video calls.
How To: Get the iPhone's New Widgets from iOS 14 on Any Android Phone
After more than a decade, iPhones are finally getting widgets on the home screen. They even have that Apple aesthetic that many people crave, with their uniform, squircle appearance. But fret not, as with pretty much any iOS feature, you can get them on Android with a tiny bit of work.
How To: Here's Your Comprehensive Guide to Master DaVinci Resolve 16 & Edit Videos Like a Pro
In 2009, DaVinci Resolve only had 100 users; by 2019, over two million users were taking advantage of this professional color correction and non-linear video editing application. DaVinci Resolve is the go-to software for amateur and professional video editors across the world. This powerful application is used for every type of production, including business and marketing videos, music videos, documentaries, and feature films.
How To: Apple's Stock Keyboard Finally Has an Emoji Search Tool — Here's How to Use It
Since their introduction, emoji have become as essential to the iPhone as the touchscreen itself. While the original set of emoji was manageable, finding a particular emoji these days has become a chore. Apple tried to make it easier in past iOS versions, but it has avoided adding the most sensible option — until now.
How To: Optimize Your Management Skills with Six Sigma's Proven Methods
Invented by Motorola engineer Bill Smith in 1986, Six Sigma's methodology defines a series of steps with specific value targets. These targets can be used, for example, to eliminate costs and process cycle time while increasing profits and customer satisfaction.
How To: Strengthen Your Email Newsletters with This Powerful Verifier for Under $50
With so many competing outlets to reach people, accessing inboxes remains one of the most effective forms of communication. Yet newsletter creators run into a constant problem: bounced emails.
How To: VeePN Keeps Your Online Identity Safe & Secure While You Browse the Internet
While sheltering at home orders are lifting, companies are still conducting most business online. Case in point, hackers have been having a field day over the last few months. Securing your identity has always been important, but never as much as it is at this moment.
How To: How Google's Preventing the AirDropped Nudes Problem with Android's New Nearby Share
Android has finally got a proper alternative to Apple's AirDrop. With a few touches, Nearby Share lets you send files, links, and even tweets to Android, Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, or Linux. But AirDrop has not been without its share of issues, and thankfully, Google has learned from them.
How To: Apple Releases iOS 13.6 GM for Public Beta Testers, Includes CarKey Support, Apple News Audio & Symptom Tracker
Apple just released the public GM (golden master) for iOS 13.6 today, Thursday, July 9. The update comes three hours after Apple released the 13.6 GM for developers, and the same day as the release of iOS 14 public beta 2.
How To: Apple Releases iOS 13.6 GM for Developers, Includes CarKey Support, Apple News Audio & Symptom Tracker
Apple just released the GM (golden master) for iOS 13.6 today, Thursday, July 9. The update comes nine days after Apple released the third developer and public betas for 13.6, and the same day as the release of iOS 14 public beta 2.
How To: Use Android's New Nearby Share Feature to 'AirDrop' Files & Links to Other Devices
Android phones finally have a true AirDrop alternative called "Nearby Share." The new feature was added through an update to the Google Play Services app that comes pre-installed on all Android devices in the US, so you don't even have to wait on a firmware upgrade — it's just there.
How To: iOS 14's Revamped Home Screen Search Can Help You Open Hidden Apps Faster
The ability to hide entire pages on your iPhone's home screen is an excellent privacy upgrade packed into iOS 14. That said, it can be a bit of a pain to find and open the hidden apps on those pages in a timely fashion. Luckily, iOS 14 has a solution that makes opening those apps, as well as any others, faster and more convenient — and we're not talking about the new App Library.
How To: This Training Will Make You an Excel Master for a Ridiculously Low Price
Since its original release as a spreadsheet program called Multiplan in 1982, Microsoft Excel has become the world's premier business software. If you think that it's only good for spreadsheets, you haven't been paying enough attention.
How To: Get Lifetime Access to This Web Hosting Service for $30
There are many considerations to make when choosing a web hosting plan. Storage space, performance, security, and reliability all matter. The cheapest option isn't always the best idea.
How To: Grab This Pro Gaming Headset for a Steal — Superior Sound, Universal Compatibility & Detachable Microphone by HCG1
Gaming immerses you in environments. To get the most out of the gaming experience, you want the most immersive experience possible. That starts with great audio.
How To: Google Just Turned Off a Crucial Feature in Google Photos for Android — Here's How to Fix It
After shipping a redesign of Google Photos and adding a neat new Map View feature for exploring photos, Google has made another change to manage the volume of photos and videos the app is handling during the Social Distancing Era.
Deal Alert: Get 68 Hours of Lessons on Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Python & More for Under $40
More information is available to us now than ever before. We simply cannot make sense of so much data on our own. Thankfully, we have programs to do the heavy lifting for us.
How To: Use Siri to Send Audio Messages via iMessage or Texts in iOS 14
Siri has slimmed down in iOS 14. The assistant now appears as a compact icon at the bottom of the screen instead of hijacking your entire iPhone. It's a welcome change to a user interface that has always felt a bit clunky, but just because Siri's UI has simplified doesn't mean that its capabilities have too. On top of several new features, Siri now lets you record and send audio messages using only your voice.
How To: Become a Data Wizard with This Microsoft Excel & Power BI Training
Data analytics is one of the hottest fields around. With so much data at our fingertips, top companies are seeking experts to put all of this information to real-world use.
How To: Set a Group Photo for Multi-Person Chats in iOS 14's Messages App
Apple has introduced several new features to its native Messages app with iOS 14. When it comes to group chats, you can now pin those conversations, use inline replies, and receive notifications only when you're tagged. And if that wasn't good enough, you or anyone else in the group can assign a photo for the entire group.
How To: 6 Ways to Try Google's Next-Gen AR Experience on Android Right Now
While Apple and Samsung have started integrating depth sensors into the iPad Pro and Galaxy smartphones, more advanced AR experiences are arriving for standard smartphone cameras on Android devices.
How To: Apple Added 8 Key Android Features to iOS 14 & It's a Big Deal if You're on the Fence About iPhones
The smartphone market is stagnating. Without hordes of new users rolling in every year, the best way to boost profits nowadays is to poach customers from the competition. That's exactly what Apple appears to be doing with iOS 14.
How To: Share Your Smartphone's Screen in Google Meet
Now that Google Meet is free for anyone with a Gmail address, you can expect to see invites from Google's service alongside Zoom calls.
YSK: Gboard Lets You Copy & Paste Multiple Items
Touchscreen typing has always presented its own unique challenges, so a phone's copy and paste capabilities are more important than you might think. Gboard users should know about a useful feature in this category: extended clipboard history.
How To: New iPhone Features & Changes in iOS 13.6 That You Need to Know About
While the iPhone world's attention might be fixated on Apple's upcoming iOS 14 and all of its new features, it's still in beta. What's not in beta anymore? Apple's latest iOS 13 update — iOS 13.6 — which dropped on July 15.
How To: Remove the Screen Recording Icon from Android 11's Status Bar
After teasing the feature in Android 10, Google finally added proper native screen recording to Android 11. But when you start a capture, you'll see a small red indicator in your status bar as long as recording is ongoing, which can really distract from your video. Thankfully, it can be removed with a little ingenuity.
How To: This Sanitizing Wand Is Perfect for Stopping Germs on the Go
Maintaining a clean living space is important, but it shouldn't have to be a hassle. The KAPSULE™ UV Sanitizing Wand 2.0 is designed to keep surfaces pathogen-free. This powerful wand emits 254nm UV-C light and makes quick work of pathogens. In a laboratory test, KAPSULE even eliminated more than 99% of E-coli!
How To: Learn to Code for Only $40 with Learnable
No matter which way you cut it, coding remains one of the most lucrative tech skills you can learn in 2020, and, thanks to Learnable, mastering the essentials is even easier. This training platform is your ticket to learning many of today's top coding languages, as well as understanding key technologies, and lifetime subscriptions are on sale for just $39.99.
How To: 5 Ways to Communicate Safely on Your Smartphone — Keep Police & Big Data Out of Your Conversations
It is well documented that what you say and do online is tracked. Yes, private organizations do their best to protect your data from hackers, but those protections don't extend to themselves, advertisers, and law enforcement.