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How to Use a Speaker Selector Switch An external speaker selector switch routes the signals from a receiver or entertainment center to any specific arrangement of speakers that the switch can support—regardless of the room they’re in. Why Use a Speaker Selector Switch What if you want to connect additional sets of speakers and wire other rooms? The easiest and safest solution—and also the most cost-effective—is to use a speaker selector switch....

How to Configure a Universal Remote With Apple TV The Apple TV remote control is great, but it has its limitations. If you want to control your Blu-ray player and other connected devices with one remote, it makes sense to configure your Apple TV with a universal remote control. The steps for setting up the remote depend on the brand, so consult the manual that came with it. Power on the new remote and then follow these steps to configure the universal remote for your Apple TV....

Add Your Text Using WordArt The first step to creating bent or curved text is to insert WordArt into your presentation. Alter the Text Path Once your WordArt is inserted, you will highlight the text and alter the text path. Each Transform option may be adjusted to scale your text and preserve readability. A control handle appears at different locations within the text box (sometimes the border, sometimes in the center)....

How to Connect Your iPhone to a Satellite The iPhone 14 has the ability to connect to a satellite, but only in emergency situations. You can’t place normal phone calls via satellite, and the option only comes up when you try to contact emergency services in an area where you don’t have access to cellular service or Wi-Fi. Here’s how to connect your iPhone to a satellite in an emergency:...

The function is =CONVERT. Number is the value you want to convert. It can be a number held within the same cell as the formula or one referenced in another cell. From_Unit is the unit for the Number. To_Unit is the unit for the result. Excel requires abbreviations, or short forms, for many measurement units in From_Unit and To_Unit arguments. For example, “in” is used for inches, “m” for meters, “sec” for second, etc....

How to Use the EDATE Function in Microsoft Excel The EDATE function in Microsoft Excel calculates a date after adding or subtracting a specified number of months to a given date. For example if you want to know the date 13 months from today, you could use the EDATE function to find that. The function relies on two arguments: start_date: This is the date on which you want the return date based....

How to Use INDEX Function in Excel The INDEX formula is a great tool for finding out information from a predefined range of data. In our example, we’re going to use a list of orders from a fictional retailer that sells both stationary, and pet treats. Our order report includes order numbers, product names, their individual prices, and quantity sold. You can also use different cells for your Row and Column inputs to allow for dynamic INDEX outputs, without adjusting your original formula....

How Do I Use the Magic Eraser Feature on the Pixel 6? The Magic Eraser feature allows you to excise people and objects from a photo within seconds without expensive photo editing. The following will explain where to find this unique feature and use it. Where to Find the Magic Eraser Feature in the Pixel 6 Camera To use Magic Eraser, you need to have already taken a photo with the Pixel 6....

How to Download the New Office App If you already had the My Office app installed on your Windows 10 devices, you only need to update the app from the Microsoft Store to get the latest version of the app. If you never had the Office app, then you can follow a few simple steps to get it installed. Office App vs. My Office Before jumping into details on how to use the new Office app, it is important to understand the similarities and differences between the previous My Office app and the new Office app....

How to View Source in a Desktop Browser For all the major desktop browsers—Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Vivaldi—press Ctrl+U to open a new tab that displays the raw HTML of the page you’re on. On a Mac, press Cmd+Option+U or Cmd+U in Firefox. Alternatively, all desktop browsers support a URL-specific tweak. Prepend the text view-source: to the URL to open the page in Source mode. For example, type view-source:https://www....

How to Watch the Transformers Movies in Order of Release The first Transformers movie was released in 2007. The next four movies in the series followed in chronological order. It’s only in 2018 with the release of Bumblebee, the franchise went back in Cybertron time to the Cybertron Civil War. In Earth time, it is the year 1987 when the Autobot called B-127 or Bumblebee crashlands on Earth while on a scouting mission for Optimus Prime....

How to Zoom in Animate CC: Make a Selection Simulate a zoom effect in Animate CC to make it appear as though the camera has zoomed forward or backward from the image to encompass more or less of the scene. Decide what you want to zoom up on in Animate CC and select it. Select the object or objects with the Selection Tool (press V). To select multiple objects, drag the tool around the objects you want to zoom in on....

Ping is a Command Prompt command in Windows. For example, to find the IP address of Example.com on a desktop computer, use the command-line interface instead of the graphical interface, and enter the command: The command returns a result similar to the following, which contains the IP address: Pinging example.com [​255.255.255.255] with 32 bytes of data: . . . Many large websites do not return connection information in response to ping commands as a security measure....

Using Font Tools to Insert Exponents From the Font group of the Home menu, use the Superscript button to force highlighted characters to appear as superscripts relative to the baseline size and position of the text. This method offers the simplest solution. Using Symbols to Insert Exponents Select the Symbol tab from the Insert menu. Select Symbols then choose More Symbols to reveal a popup menu. Choose the exponent’s font. Most of the time, it will just be the same as the rest of your numbers and text, which means you can simply leave it as normal text....

Aside from being helpful for personal use, the history log can be used to record time-tracking information for client work, to create a legal record, and for training purposes. How to Turn On the History Log The history log is turned off by default. To turn it on: Under Edit Log Items are three choices: Sessions Only: Only records when Photoshop is opened and closed, and when each file is opened and closed....

Kobo just announced two new products to its growing line of well-regarded e-readers. There’s the $260 Kobo Sage, its latest flagship e-reader, and a refresh of the company’s popular Libra line, the $180 Libra 2. Both devices are available to pre-order and will ship on October 19. Both devices feature E Ink Carta 1200 screens and Kobo’s ComfortLight Pro feature that adapts screen brightness and color depending on the time of day....

Try Using Find My iPhone This official app from Apple uses the company’s iCloud service to locate your lost phone. First, be sure to set up Find My iPhone so that you can use the app on a different device or the web when your phone is missing to see your phone’s location, remotely lock the phone, set a passcode on it, or even remotely delete its data. It’s free and requires access to another iOS device, a Mac, or a web-connected computer when yours is lost....

Message and Attachment Size Limits in Gmail Gmail processes messages up to 25 MB in size. This limit is applied to the sum of the message’s text and the encoded attachment. Encoding makes the file size slightly larger, so if you have a file that is exactly 25 MB, it will not go through. Sending messages larger than 25 MB from Gmail yields an error. Messages sent to your Gmail account that exceed the limit bounce back to the sender....

A one-to-many relationship in a database is the most common relational database design and is at the heart of good design. Example of a One-to-Many Relationship Consider the relationship between a teacher and the courses they teach. A teacher can teach multiple classes, but the course would not have the same relationship with the teacher. Therefore, for each record in a Teachers table, there could be many records in the Courses table....

The purpose of the feature is to see what various types of home decor will look like in your home before purchasing them. Pinterest is working alongside American retailers like West Elm and Wayfair to make this AR preview capability possible. The feature utilizes Pinterest Lens, a technology that normally scans objects and shows you items with similar styles and designs on the app. For this new feature, you will find a button on select product listings that displays the AR preview....