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How to Join a Call Using the Zoom App for iPhone While anyone can start a Zoom call and invite others, most of the time, you’ll probably find yourself joining other people’s Zoom calls. It’s really easy to do this, since you don’t even need a Zoom account to join a meeting. You simply need to enter the meeting ID and password in the Zoom app on your iPhone. How to Use Zoom on iPhone to Start a Zoom Meeting If you don’t have a link but someone sent you the meeting ID, start the Zoom app and then tap Join a Meeting....

How to Place a Watermark on Your Images To place the watermark on your photos, follow these steps. Watermark Apps for Your Phone Several apps are available to manage watermarks with a smartphone. Consider these options. A+ Signature Lite. You can add a watermark, an annotation, or an artistic border to your photos using the A+ Signature app available through the App Store. ​Marksta. You’ll have a surprising number of options for customizing your watermark with the Marksta app available through the App Store....

Starting at just $749, the under 1 kilogram (less than 2.2 pounds) HP Pavilion Aero 13 looks to be the company’s lightest consumer laptop yet, and features the first full magnesium-aluminum chassis for the line. It comes readily compatible with Windows 11 and will be available on the official website starting in July, with a wider release to select US retailers planned for this fall. The Pavilion Aero 13 is the first Pavilion laptop with a 90% screen-to-body ratio, which provides a 13-inch display without affecting the hardware’s dimensions....

Add Another Document to a Word Document Word can add an entire document into your work in a few quick steps. Add a Portion of a Document to a Word Document If you don’t want to add the entire contents of the file into your Word document, choose which parts of the document or worksheet that you want to insert. Insert a Linked Text in a Document If the text from the document you’re inserting might change, use linked text that can be updated easily....

The new caption stickers covert audio into captions so users can enjoy Reels videos without audio. Captions are already a part of Stories and are seeing wider implementation. The new feature is currently available in a few English-speaking countries, with plans to include other languages and additional countries soon. The change comes as Instagram is shifting from a photo sharing app to a more entertainment- and video-focused app, following its introduction of Reels to compete with the success of TikTok....

Turning on transaction logging may not be a straightforward affair, but it is not difficult, either. To create a log file with all Post Office Protocol, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, and Internet Message Access Protocol traffic in Mozilla Thunderbird, first, make sure it’s not running. Then, follow the instructions for your operating system. Turning on Transaction Logging in Windows In Microsoft Windows, follow this procedure: Turning on Transaction Logging in macOS Use the following procedure on your Mac: followed immediately by:...

Make Yahoo! Mail Display Messages in a Larger Font To read your emails in a larger font, you’ll have to make some changes outside of Yahoo! Mail. Most web browsers can increase or magnify the size of the site displayed in the browser. You may see this option as a magnifying glass with a plus in the center of it in the address bar. If you do not, you might need to go to the Settings menu to find the Zoom controls....

The transition to digital-only television in 2009 killed the TV-band radio; it’s an unfortunate casualty of the transition. However, you can use a workaround to listen to television on your radio. How to Use a TV-Band Radio With a Digital Signal This workaround uses an antenna and DTV converter box to capture the TV audio. Then, you connect the audio output of the converter box to either self-powered speakers or headphones with an RCA-type connector....

Personal Boundary creates a bubble of sorts around avatars that prevents players from getting too close to one another and maintains personal space. Meta joins the ranks of other VR developers as this feature appears to have been made in response to a recent harassment incident. Meta explains that the feature ensures players’ characters stay around four feet from each other and that there will be no feedback when hitting that barrier....

Microsoft is officially phasing out Office in favor of Microsoft 365, but Office technically isn’t going anywhere. What’s specifically happening is the Office suite is being rebranded and updated, thus becoming its own version of the cloud-focused Microsoft 365 platform. This means you can look forward to a new look, an updated icon, and more features. Office 365 subscriptions are also sticking around, along with access to Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word (as well as one-time purchase options for those apps)....

The new cloud offering will take the operating system to the cloud by streaming apps, settings, and even data to the user’s personal or company computer while enabling users to easily pick up whatever task they were last working on from any location. The monthly service will become available to businesses on Aug. 2. As workers have increasingly been called back to the office recently after a year of remote work, many have found themselves on hybrid schedules—spending a few days on-site and working a few days from home....

For Consumers: Windows 8/8.1 Standard Windows 8/8.1 is the consumer version of the OS. It excludes many business-related features such as drive encryption, group policy, and virtualization; however, you have access to the Windows Store, Live Tiles, Remote Desktop Client, VPN Client, and other features. For Small Businesses: Windows 8/8.1 Pro Windows 8 Pro is made for businesses and technology enthusiasts. It includes everything found in the standard edition plus features such as BitLocker encryption, PC virtualization, domain connectivity, and PC management....

Mark Clennon is a self-taught photographer and is well known for using an iPhone in his work. The tips in the video refer to the iPhone 11 and later models as they have the particular lenses Clennon uses in his work. In addition to dynamic poses, Clennon states he uses all three of the iPhone’s camera lenses for his work: the wide-angle, ultra-wide-angle, and the telephoto lens. The wide-angle lens is the standard point-and-shoot camera many smartphones have, and on recent iPhone models, these lenses have a high aperture for higher quality photos....

Google just announced that the software is currently in open beta, marking it as an important milestone in the company’s long-held goal to “bring professional and accessible video editing” to mainstream consumers. As such, this software was built from the ground up to integrate with ChromeOS. In other words, this is not simply a rehash of the LumaFusion app available to smartphone and tablet owners, and the ChromeOS version takes full advantage of being installed on an actual computer....

Cybersecurity firm Check Point Research claimed in the study that at least 23 popular mobile apps contain “misconfigurations” of third-party cloud services. The company said that developers of some of the apps didn’t check if security measures designed to prevent data breaches were in place when synchronizing with cloud services. “By not following best practices when configuring and integrating third party cloud services into applications, millions of users’ private data was exposed,” the researchers wrote....

4/8/20: In what might seem like spectacularly bad timing, HBO has made plans to end support for its streaming app, HBO Go, on older Apple TVs, starting April 30. Why now? On a support web page, HBO says it’s making the changes to “provide the best streaming experience.” However, most of us are stuck in our homes during this COVID-19 pandemic, without access to upgrading older Apple TVs, even if we wanted to....

The Peloton Row is an efficient way to get your reps in, as rowing is known to be a low-impact exercise that combines strength training and cardio. Peloton’s new machine promises the same highly personalized workouts the company has become known for via its Bike and Tread line of fitness machines. To that end, rowing enthusiasts will have access to a suite of “motivational instructors” accessible via the machine’s 24-inch HD swivel screen....

What’s a Keychain? Keychains contain login information such as account names and passwords in a secure, encrypted form for apps, websites, services, and other virtual places you visit on your computer. When you set up Apple Mail or another email service, iCloud Keychain prompts you to save your login name and password. This information is stored securely in a keychain on your Apple device, as well as in iCloud, if you enable it in the Mac System Preferences....

The Wireless LAN and VoIP Until relatively recently, LANs have been wired with RJ-45 jacks on an Ethernet network, but with the advent of Wi-Fi and the steadily increasing speed it offers, network administrators are leaning more toward wireless connection for their internal LANs. In most cases, instead of a hub with wires that run to the different machines in a wired network, you have a wireless router that connects to the machine’s wireless adapter....

Physical Installation When installing add-on cards to a computer, USB tuners are the easiest, as you simply plug it into any available USB port. The driver installation is typically automatic. If installing an internal tuner, shut down your PC, open the case, and connect the tuner to the appropriate slot. Once it is properly seated, button up the case and restart the PC. Before jumping into Media Center, install the drivers for your new tuner....