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When looking for your new device holder, consider its location in your vehicle. Some prefer to have it attached to the dashboard, while others prefer vent attachments. Also check out our roundup of the best car phone holders if you don’t need charging. Otherwise, secure your phone service in more ways than one with one of the best wireless phone-charging car mounts. To set up the charger, just assemble the mount and insert it into your car’s air vent....

If you have a large selection of music tracks that need tag information, an efficient way to work with song metadata is to use a dedicated ​MP3 tagging tool to save time and ensure that your music files have consistent tag information. This isn’t to say that it can’t tag single files, but it works in a different way from the others in this list by building albums from single tracks....

What Is a Lumen? Lumens measure the volume of light coming from a given source. While the newest “official” definition of a lumen is highly technical, it’s easier to understand the slightly older meaning, circa 2018. It describes one lumen as the amount of light you’d get unobstructed from one common wax candle (this measure is called a candela). It’s an oversimplification. For us non-scientists, it’s good enough for… well, non-scientist work....

What Is a Keyboard Shortcut? A keyboard shortcut uses one key or sometimes a keystroke combination to perform a menu or other type of function in a computer program. The process makes entering computer commands much faster, which then makes using a given program quicker and easier. Keyboard shortcuts can be found in operating systems such as Windows, Mac, and Linux as well as in web browsers, office programs (like Excel, Word, or Powerpoint), and in many other kinds of programs, including Maya and Photoshop....

The company makes some bold claims about the battery life on this speaker, saying it can pump out the jams for a full 24 hours before needing a quick power nap at the wall outlet. The battery isn’t just for blasting tunes, however, as this speaker also doubles as a mobile charging unit for your favorite gadgets, with various inputs for phones, tablets, and more. The primary draw here, however, is the speaker itself, with 40 watts of output, a pair of 3....

In the process, they’re disrupting the established travel industry, including trip planners, travel agencies and rental services of all kinds. Even first-generation social travel sites like TripAdvisor with its millions of user-generated travel reviews face increased competition from travel social networks that have popped up in more recent years. What Is Social Travel? Social travel simply refers to information-sharing about travel. Typically, the new services include a website and mobile app and let you tap into your existing social networks on Twitter and Facebook for travel advice, as well as communicate with other travelers you’ve never met via the sites’ own social travel network....

Finding the best ebook app for your iPhone can be a trial and error process in which you stumble onto things you like and shortcomings in each. Save your self a little time when narrowing down your search for your favorite reading app by checking out our overviews of each below. The app is very easy to use, lets you adjust text size and font style, change line spacing, define unfamiliar words with instant access to a dictionary, change the paper color, scroll through several pages at once, add bookmarks and notes, automatically return where you left off, and copy text....

The Chinese electronics manufacturer just announced the V25 series of smartphones, comprising the V25 standard edition and the V25 Pro. These phones place a major emphasis on camera technology, with the company saying users can leverage the camera system to “embark on a self-expression journey.” If nothing else, the main camera’s specs certainly seem robust, to say the least. A 64-megapixel OIS (optical image stabilized camera) is designed to minimize blur and support longer exposure times for clearer images in low-light situations....

What Is a Ratio on TikTok? A ratio in social media describes a particular relationship between different kinds of engagement. Two major things can create a ratio, but the specifics depend on the platform. Put simply, a ratio occurs when either: A video has more comments than likes, orA comment has more likes than the video it’s replying to. Both of these can happen on a single TikTok, but either is a ratio....

The company released this format in 2010 and has a page dedicated to the compression techniques that WebP uses. The following browsers and operating systems support WebP: ChromeMicrosoft EdgeFirefoxOperaAndroid’s built-in browserSafari 14 and up How Do I Open a WebP File? You don’t need any special software or a particular web browser to open a WebP file. In most cases, you can double-click it, and it will open in your default browser....

Depending on the browser you use, the search box types right to left, and the results display mostly backward. You can search for words either backward or forward, but typing them backward is more fun. Is This a Joke? ElgooG is a parody site originally designed and hosted by All Too Flat, a parody and comedy website. Although elgooG is not affiliated with Google appears in the fine print at the bottom of the elgooG search screen, a search of the Whois website reveals Google is indeed the owner of the site....

M4a also uses the MPEG-4 Part 14 container format, commonly referred to as MP4. The MP4 format is a metafile wrapper that can hold any type of data (both video and audio) and acts as a container for M4b audio streams. Incidentally, the MP4 container format is based on the Apple QuickTime platform, but it differs slightly by having extended MPEG features and Initial Object Descriptor (IOD) support. That means it includes elements to access MPEG-4 content....

Here are five options. Linux system requirements vary from one distribution to another, but you can typically run Linux on MacBooks that are no longer capable of running the latest version of macOS. It isn’t the same as macOS, and Linux can take some getting used to, but this is a great way to extend the life of a MacBook. You may even find that your MacBook boots and runs faster after switching to Linux....

Who Is Eligible for the Ambassador Program? If you bought your Nintendo 3DS prior to August 12, 2011, and logged into the Nintendo eShop at least once before that date, you were automatically registered for the Ambassador Program. This also applies if you took advantage of the unofficial price cuts that were rolled out by some major retailers like Wal-Mart, Target, and GameStop in the week leading up to August 12....

Here are some of the best places to watch anime online. Some anime series and movies to check out on Netflix are Aggretsuko, Attack on Titan, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Knights of Sidona, and Glitter Force, the Netflix-produced English dub of the popular Japanese anime, Pretty Cure. Netflix has official apps on almost every device imaginable from smart TVs and Blu-ray players to gaming consoles and smartphones. You can also stream anime via the Netflix website....

Windows has long had the option to run Linux distributions as a virtual environment, but it’s going to get a little easier because Microsoft is releasing WSL as a separate app, which you’ll be able to download from the Microsoft Store. The WSL app that’s currently available is intended as a “preview to help ensure quality,” but a general release is planned for the future. Part of what makes this specific form of distribution stand out is not digging through menus to enable WSL in Windows 11....

The Xbox app has received an update that now shows whether or not some select game will run well on your PC. It appears Microsoft is still in the process of putting this in place, so not every game in the library has been cataloged yet. Once you select a game from the Xbox app, you’ll likely see one of two icons with accompanying text that appear under the Install button....

According to Xbox Wire, the feature requires a subscription to Game Pass Ultimate and will be available in 25 regions around the world, with Brazil support coming soon. The November update also includes quality-of-life changes like new color filters for menus and a controller firmware update. Xbox Cloud Gaming allows you to play titles on Microsoft’s cloud servers. It has many uses, like trying out new games before downloading them or hopping in a multiplayer match on a title you don’t own....

Use Pinch Gestures to Zoom In and Out To zoom in on a photo or web page, press on the screen with your index finger and thumb leaving only a small amount of space between the two fingers. Keep your finger and thumb on the screen, then move your fingers away from each other, expanding the space between them. As your fingers move apart, the screen zooms in. To zoom out, do the reverse: Move your thumb and index finger toward each other while keeping each pressed to the screen....

But before you can take advantage of all of these benefits, you’ll need to know the following tips and tricks so you can set everything up the way you prefer. To turn these off, open the Samsung Health app, select Settings, and scroll to and tap Inactive time alert and disable it. Go back to the previous menu, scroll to Workout detection, and tap it to turn that notification off as well....