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Does Unlimited Data Include Personal Hotspot? Tethering is the generic name for the feature that Apple calls Personal Hotspot. It lets you share your iPhone’s cellular data connection with other devices to get them online. Most major phone companies include tethering in their monthly plans for no extra charge. Even better, most carriers offer at least some plans that include unlimited monthly data. So, yes: unlimited data plans usually do include Personal Hotspot....

How Does Draw Something Work? Draw Something is a drawing game app based on Pictionary. The app pairs you with your friends or random players, then you take turns sharing your drawings and guessing what each other drew. When it’s your turn to draw, you’ll be given a word and a pallet of colors to draw on your device’s screen with your finger or a stylus. When you’re finished, the other player will guess what you drew....

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is opening registration for the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program next week through an approved broadband provider or the program’s website. The FCC announced the program earlier this year as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, which includes a $3.2 billion Emergency Broadband Connectivity Fund. “Families in every corner of the country have been struggling to get online throughout this pandemic,” Jessica Rosenworcel, the FCC’s acting chairwoman, said in a press release....

Right now, Live Audio Rooms are only rolling out to certain people on the social media platform. Any verified public figure or creator can host one; Facebook Groups can create them as well. Facebook says it’s also testing the feature on Android and desktop, though Android users can’t create Live Audio Rooms, and desktop users can’t listen in at all. Facebook began testing the Live Audio Rooms feature in June....

The new direction comes as the company has been heavily criticized for how its platforms negatively affect the mental well-being of minors. According to the Associated Press, the features will include new controls for parents or guardians of teenagers to supervise what they see or do on Facebook. Facebook has yet to detail what the features will look like or how it will implement them. The company’s vice president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, appeared on multiple news shows to discuss the upcoming features....

How to Forward Emails to a Folder in Outlook 2019 and 2016 To send messages from a particular sender to a designated folder: How to Filter Emails in Outlook on the Web To send messages from a particular sender to a designated folder using the web version of Outlook for Microsoft 365: How to Forward Emails to a Folder in Outlook 2013 Forwarding incoming emails to a specific folder in Outlook 2013 is very similar to later versions of Outlook, with some small variations....

Android 13’s beta has been running developer previews and beta releases since February of this year, but it looks like time is almost up. The final test run—Beta 4—is now available for everyone who’s previously registered for testing or would like to sign up for an early peek. As is always the case with beta builds, there’s a chance you’ll encounter a bug that has yet to be worked out, but Google says it achieved platform stability in Beta 3, so it may not be as big of a risk this time around....

How to Find Shared Windows Folders With Microsoft Windows, folders can be shared on a network so that desktops and laptops can access the files in these folders without physical access to the computer where the folders are stored. When a folder of documents or videos is shared, anyone with access can open, edit, save, and delete the files and folders if the permissions allow it. The easiest way to find a list of network shared folders is to use File Explorer (Windows 10) or Windows Explorer (Windows 8 and Windows 7)....

The Fossil Gen 6 is the 13th iteration of Fossil’s smartwatch lineup and includes activity tracking goals, hundreds of compatible apps, notifications for calls and texts, and more. The watch is available to pre-order now and will begin to ship starting September 27. Some notable new features of the Gen 6 include a brighter always-on display with more colors, simplified Smart Battery Modes to better optimize your watch’s battery life, a speaker for taking calls, a blood oxygen sensor, and automatic syncing....

Parent company Muse just announced Audacity Version 3.2, which now supports a full range of modern features. There’s enhanced VST3 support, giving a visual boost to editing plugins and increasing the number of supported plugins, as well as a complete visual redesign of the user interface. This is especially good since Audacity launched in 2000, and, well, you could tell. Version 3.2 also supports non-destructive editing, which is new for the platform....

How: You can download the client for Mac, PC, Android, and NVIDIA Shield. Why Do You Care: The system will let you play the latest demanding games on lower-end hardware. Google’s competing service, Stadia, got middling reviews when it released in November 2019, mostly focused on network reliability and the fact that you have to purchase (or re-purchase) games and a specialized controller for the service. Geforce aims to fix the latter issue, at least, by working with any Steam, Epic, or other digital gaming platform games you already own....

What it is: Adobe announced this bit of technological gee-whiz back in October 2019 and released it on Thursday. Basically, you can apply the fancy filters to your viewfinder, choosing what the end result is going to look like (you can also apply the filters after you take a shot). The app uses artificial intelligence (AI) to recognize the subject of your photo and provide recommendations for the best filters to use....

ERROR: NON-HDCP OUTPUTHDCP ERROR However, given the way the HDCP standard works, you may be able to bypass this problem. Causes of HDCP Errors HDCP is a type of Digital Rights Management encoding intended to prevent piracy by providing an encrypted tunnel between an output device (like the Blu-ray player or Chromecast) and the receiving end (for example, the HDTV or media center). Just as DRM stops someone from sharing downloaded movies from iTunes unless the computer playing it has been authorized by the account that bought it, HDCP devices only work if other cables and devices within the setup are also HDCP compliant....

How to Add Animation to PowerPoint on a PC Here are easy steps for using PowerPoint slide animation. The following instructions are for PowerPoint 2016, 2013, and 2010, as well as PowerPoint for Microsoft 365. How to Add Animation to PowerPoint Using a Mac The following instructions are for PowerPoint 2019, 2016, and 2011 for Mac, as well as PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 for Mac. You can also add Entrance, Emphasis, or Exit animations:...

Use Siri to Find Events in Other Apps You can set up your iPhone so that Siri suggests events it locates in the Mail app, Messages app, and Safari, such as meeting times or reservations. Then you can opt to add them to the Calendar app. For example, if an email reads, “How about dinner tonight at 8 p.m.? Or would you prefer Wednesday around 7 p.m.?” the Mail app underlines these times to make it easy to add one or both to your calendar....

Create a Desktop Shortcut From the Desktop Follow these steps to create a shortcut for an application or file directly on the desktop: How to Create a Desktop Shortcut From the Start Menu To create a desktop shortcut from Start: How to Create a Desktop Shortcut for an Application If you’re a little more tech-savvy or maybe you forgot to add a Start Menu item for the application when you installed it, you can create a desktop shortcut for it through File Explorer....

How to Change the Google Chrome Home Page Most web browsers for Windows provide the option to designate any website as your home page. In Google Chrome, you can choose one or multiple pages to launch at startup: How to Change the IE 11 Startup Page The final version of Internet Explorer allows you to set a custom home page. How to Change the Home Page for Microsoft Edge The default browser for Windows 10, Microsoft Edge, makes it easy to control what page or pages load at startup....

Set the Default Browser in Thunderbird Thunderbird usually passes the event off to your default web browser. Under normal circumstances, this all goes off without a hitch. However, if things go wrong, you need to know how to tell Thunderbird precisely which web browser you want it to use. Pro Tip By following the steps above, you can set Thunderbird to use a web browser other than the default one the rest of your computer’s applications use....

How to Change the iPhone Language Settings While you initially set the language during the iPhone setup process, there is no need to reset the iPhone to change the language. Once you choose a new language, your iOS device will load in the new language settings and you’ll be using the new language in seconds. How to Change Language for Siri You may find that Siri doesn’t change over when you change the language for your iPhone....

How to Change Your Name on the Instagram App On Instagram, you have a username and a display name. You log in with your username, your display name is what others see when they look at your posts or profile. On Instagram, you can change your username and display name whenever you want. Here’s how to change your display name or username on Instagram using the mobile app: How to Change Your Instagram Username & Display Name on the Web Changing your Instagram username or profile name is very similar in the desktop version using a web browser to how it’s done in the mobile app....