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Set Up Your Roku in a Hotel or Dorm The Roku Hotel & Dorn Connect feature makes it possible to set up your Roku and connect it to Wi-Fi without signing in from a web browser. Here’s how it works: Connect Your Roku Using a Mobile Hotspot If you can’t connect your Roku using the Hotel & Dorm Connect feature, there’s a workaround. Create a mobile hotspot with your smartphone, tablet, or laptop, and use it to connect your Roku to the internet....

One component of the volume boot record that’s specific to the operating system or program itself, and is what’s used to load the OS or software, is called the volume boot code. The other is the disk parameter block, or media parameter block, which contains information about the volume like its label, size, clustered sector count, serial number, and more. A volume boot record is commonly abbreviated as VBR, but is also sometimes referred to as a partition boot sector, partition boot record, boot block, and volume boot sector....

History of the BlackBerry Device Research in Motion (RIM) released the BlackBerry 850 pager in 1999. BlackBerry handhelds started as data-only devices; you could not use them to make phone calls. Early models were two-way pagers with full QWERTY keyboards. Business people mainly used them to send messages back and forth wirelessly. RIM soon added email capabilities to its BlackBerry devices, which became popular among lawyers and other corporate users. Early BlackBerry email devices featured full QWERTY keyboards and monochrome screens but lacked phone features....

It is one of several methods for transmitting digital audio signals between components in consumer audio systems. What Systems Use TOSLINK? If you take a look at the fiber optic end of a connected TOSLINK cable, you’ll notice a red dot beaming light back at you. The cable end is flat on one side and rounded on the other, so there’s only one orientation for plugging it in. Many wireless audio adapters, HDTVs, home theater equipment, DVD/CD players, receivers, amplifiers, stereo speakers, computer sound cards, and video game consoles feature this type of digital optical connection....

What Is Adaptive EQ? Adaptive EQ is a feature Apple includes on many of its in-ear and over-ear headphones. It’s also in some Beats headphones (a brand Apple also owns). Effectively, it’s a marketing term to explain the system used to create equalized sound tailored to the shape of your ear, providing you with a personalized listening experience. Apple describes it as “[adjusting] the frequencies of your music to deliver a rich, consistent experience that faithfully reproduces every note....

What is AirDrop? What Does That Mean? AirDrop is a feature in iOS and macOS that lets physically close Mac and iOS devices share files wirelessly with one another with a minimum of fuss. The name basically means to send or ‘drop’ files over the air from one device to another. It uses Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to transmit the files via a proprietary, close-range wireless communication process. Those can be text, image, or other types of files, such as playlists and locations....

What Is an ATN File? A file with the ATN file extension is an Adobe Photoshop Actions file. It’s built to record steps/actions in Photoshop and is meant to be “played” again at a later time to automate those same steps. ATN files are basically shortcuts through Photoshop that are useful if you find yourself going through many of the same steps time and time again. These steps are recorded so Photoshop knows exactly what to do when you run the Actions file....

What Is an M2TS File? If you’ve ever ripped a Blu-ray movie, you may have seen files with the M2TS (MPEG-2 Transport Stream) file extension. These are Blu-ray BDAV (Blu-ray Disc Audio-Video) Video files. How to Play an M2TS File M2TS files can be opened with VLC, SMPlayer, 5KPlayer, Splash, Windows Media Player, and other popular media player applications. PlayMemories Home should be able to open one as well. All of those M2TS players are available for Windows, but VLC also works for playing M2TS videos on Linux and macOS....

What Is ADC? All DSLR and point-and-shoot cameras employ sensors that consist of pixels with photodiodes. These components convert the energy of photons into an electrical charge. That charge is converted to a voltage, which is then amplified to a level at which it can be processed further by the digital camera’s Analog to Digital Converter (variously called the ADC, AD Converter, and the A/D Converter). The ADC is a chip inside your digital camera and its job is to classify the voltages of the pixels into levels of brightness and to assign each level to a binary number, consisting of zeros and ones....

What Was Steve Jobs’ Email Address? As is the case with many CEOs of big companies, Steve Jobs had an email that was very straightforward. While at Apple, his email addresses were quite simply: sjobs@apple.com and steve@apple.com. Did Steve Jobs Reply to Emails? Steve Jobs had many fans, especially after Apple began releasing the company’s famous mobile devices. It began with the 2001 introduction of the iPod and he only gained more fame as each new iPhone was released after the first generation came out in 2007....

How Yahoo People Search Worked Some information that was found through this website was supplied by Intelius, an information retrieval organization that licensed this data to Yahoo. Most of the information found using the tool was absolutely free, but if you decided to pursue the information that Intelius offered, you’d have to pay. The people search tool funneled publicly accessible information from phone books, white pages, and yellow pages into Yahoo’s search service....

French electronics company Withings just released the Scanwatch Horizon, a best of both worlds smartwatch, for the United States market. This follow-up to the original Scanwatch has both beauty and brains to spare. Let’s start with beauty. The Scanwatch Horizon boasts a sapphire-glass casing, a metallic face with an anti-reflection coating, white accents, and a stainless steel chassis. The design is inspired by old-school diver watches, featuring a rotating bezel with laser-engraved markings to make the face easier to see while underwater....

The Sims 2 Primary Career Tracks There are 10 levels in each career track, each with a unique pay and work schedule. Moving forward in a career is a linear process, because each job has certain criteria that must be achieved before a Sim can move to the next level of pay in that career track. As the Sims make progress in their careers, they can earn a Career Reward object that makes learning one of the required skills easier....

Why It’s Rare to Use 192.168.1.0 Internet protocol organizes each network into one continuous address range. The first number in the range serves a special purpose in IP. Routers use it to support the 192.168.1.x network as a whole. When 192.168.1.0 (or any other address) is configured as a network number, it becomes unusable for any other purpose. If an administrator assigns 192.168.1.0 as a static IP address, the network stops functioning until that device is taken offline....

Animated GIFs have become wildly popular all over social media and even on popular websites and blogs too, but if you’re not too keen on creating them manually (or simply don’t know how), you can download one of the many useful free apps to simplify the process and save time. Many apps also allow you to film right through the app or use existing videos on your device for your GIFs, giving you the opportunity to turn almost anything you want into a GIF – from your vacation videos to the videos you have of your cat....

Scene Optimization has 20 modes, allowing the camera to accurately adjust color, temperature, white balance, and other settings so that you get the best picture possible every time. These modes include: To enable Flaw Detection, open the camera settings and choose Flaw Detection in the Common section. Pro: Allows for manual adjustment of settings including ISO, f-stop, white balance, and more. Slow-motion: Automatically captures video in slow-motion. Hyper-lapse: Creates a time-lapse video of longer duration action scenes....

To find a specific type of template, browse through the categories and download the right template for the occasion. Each template shows you what the download contains (if it’s an archive or single file), what version of Excel the template works with, a screenshot of the template, and suggestions on how to use the template. The Trump Excel website provides screenshots that gives a view of each free template and how-to instructions that show what the template is capable of handling....

Use a Meme Generator Many online meme generators support speech or thought bubbles that overlay an uploaded or stock image. Services like SuperLame, for example, include more than one option for these bubbles. Use Microsoft Paint Microsoft Paint on Windows 10 remains a free, reliable standby. The modern version of Paint includes built-in callouts for speech and thought bubbles. Just open your favorite image and drag a call-out on top of it, then add a text box overlaying the callout....

How to Add Photos to an iMovie Project Any images located in your Photos, iPhoto, or Aperture library are available for use in iMovie. If the photos you want to use in your iMovie project are not located in one of these libraries, add them to the library before you open iMovie. Apple recommends you use the Photos Library when working with iMovie. You can use any size or resolution photo in iMovie, but big, high-quality photos look best....

It’s something the FIDO Alliance has been pushing for as it believes passwords are no longer the most secure way to protect accounts. Most average users tend to stick with the same one or two passwords for everything (to make it easier to remember), which leads to problems if one is compromised. But passwordless sign-in, according to FIDO, could be more convenient and secure for everyone if it became the industry standard, which is where Apple, Google, and Microsoft come in....