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Although you may certainly still run into the occasional TAR files that use BZIP compression, BZ2 is a newer, and increasingly common, compression algorithm that produces TBZ2 files. How to Open a TBZ File 7-Zip and PeaZip are just a few of the many free file extractors that can decompress (extract) the contents of a TBZ file. All three of those programs also support the newer TBZ2 format. You can also open a TBZ file online via the B1 Online Archiver webtool....

Finding the Best Smartwatch Apps for Android Google’s pared-down version of Google Play is available right on your wrist, which makes it easy to discover new smartwatch apps for your Wear device. In the Wear version of Google Play, you’ll find a list of popular apps, a few handy categories, and even a list of apps on your phone that have smartwatch versions available. Since it can be tough to sift through the thousands of smartwatch app options on such a tiny screen, we assembled the 15 best Wear apps to help increase your productivity, access important information, and stay entertained when you’re away from your phone....

Access more than 39,000 maps of golf courses around the world and check your distance to the green, while flagging hazards. Measure your shot distance, save your scores, and get pro insights on how to improve your game. You can also save your rounds as workouts in the Apple Health app to stay on top of your fitness. Download and use Tag Heuer Golf for free. You’ll need to upgrade to a paid subscription to access additional features, including saving your scores and seeing real-time stats....

Celebrate a recent graduate with one of these best graduation invitation templates in Word. Personalize it with event details and use it as an invitation for a party celebrating your high school or college grad. You could also use this template as a card to express well wishes. Add details about the date, time, and location, and leave the rest of the work to this festive design. Use the simple Microsoft Word template to invite loved ones to a celebration in honor of your little one’s big day....

The app includes several other tools, including a protractor that lets you place your phone flat to measure surface angles, and a laser level tool that lets you place your phone on any object above the floor to view how level the surface is. There’s also an icon in the upper left corner of the screen that acts as a compass and always shows you the orientation of your phone relative to due North....

A Good Starting Point: Google Fit Google Fit comes pre-installed on all new Android phones, and if you have a Wear device you can choose to use Google Fit as the main fitness app on your smartwatch. To do so, navigate to the Wear app on your phone, and select Google Fit as your default activity tracker. The Google Fit app covers most of the basics you’ll find on standalone activity-tracking devices—such as steps taken in a day, total active minutes, distance traveled, and calories burned....

Apps are available for Kindle, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Android. Everything you save can be called up later on any of these devices that link to your Instapaper account. Likewise you can access your saved content through any desktop or mobile browser. A browser extension makes saving articles easy: Simply hit the Instapaper button Then, visit your Instapaper account to read the material when you have more time. Visit Instapaper Pocket is easy to use, even for beginners....

Overall Findings The two sizes of the 2nd generation iPad Pro are designed for productivity, but they make excellent home devices as well. They are the top of the line iPads, and their prices reflect that. The iPad (5th generation) is a solid entry-level iPad that is the lowest priced of the bunch. The iPad mini 4, although the oldest, is still capable of impressive performance in a compact package....

When a VPN connection fails, the client program reports an error message typically including a code number. Hundreds of different VPN error codes exist but only certain ones appear in the majority of cases. Many VPN errors require standard network troubleshooting procedures to resolve: Ensure the computer running the VPN client is connected to the internet (or another wide area network), and that the access to the outside network is working Ensure the VPN client has correct network settings required to work with the target VPN server Temporarily turn off the local network firewall to determine whether it is interfering with VPN communications (some types of VPNs require certain network ports to be kept open)...

Why Classification? Very large databases are becoming the norm in today’s world of big data. Imagine a database with terabytes of data—a terabyte is one trillion bytes of data. Facebook alone crunches 600 terabytes of new data every single day (as of 2014, the last time it reported these specs). The primary challenge of big data is how to make sense of it. And sheer volume is not the only problem: big data also tends to be diverse, unstructured and fast-changing....

Lumina may be best known for its 4K webcam, but the company announced that it’s branching out in a big way. As in, physically big, because it’s working on the Lumina Desk—something that could best be categorized as a “smart desk.” The Lumina Desk’s most prominent feature is its always-on built-in ambient digital display, which Lumina also lists as being fingerprint-resistant. Think of it as a digital alternative to having a desk calendar, but it’s also more than that because you can use it for task lists, weather, social media feeds, or just about any other available apps....

The subscription service has all of the bells and whistles of other music-streaming apps but with one key difference. Stage+ is exclusively for classical music. The service offers live performance streams, a massive video archive, and plenty of new audio releases. Deutsche Grammophon has partnered with famous opera companies, orchestras, concert halls, and festivals to bring weekly live performances to the platform. Users can search for video performances and audio recordings by title, movement, scene, composer, venue, or performer, so you should be able to quickly find what you are looking for....

Twitter users have been sharing screenshots of a notice they received stating this new feature is now active. No formal announcement has been made, but according to Chris Stokel-Walker, author of the book “Tiktok Boom: China’s Dynamite App and the Superpower Race for Social Media,” a TikTok spokesperson confirmed the feature will be a global release. Launched initially with 15-second videos, TikTok has been working its way to increase the video length on its platform....

Showtimes on TikTok is an attempt to create a more convenient kind of TikTok trailer ad, which does more than simply show you carefully edited clips to grab your attention. The company made the announcement within the marketing forecasts and user engagement percentages shared during TikTok’s “second global product summit,” TikTok World. What Showtimes on TikTok does is allow advertisers (in this case, movie studios) a way to enhance their movie trailers with added theater and showtime information along with ticket sales....

One of the major updates is the ability to add up to nine 10-second videos to your profile to give people a glimpse of who you are outside of a photo. Tinder also is adding an Explore section—similar to Instagram’s feature—to discover matches who share similar interests, known in the app as Passions. The Explore section also will feature a Hot Takes social experience that will allow people to participate in different activities and talk to others even before matching....

What Is the Triller App? Triller is a short-form video platform, available for Android and iOS. As with its competitors, users create video clips and share them; clips are automatically made public; you can make videos private if you prefer. Videos can be up to 60-second clips; 16-seconds is the default. How Triller Works You can view Triller videos without an account, as you can on TikTok, but you need to sign up to create videos, follow other users, and like and comment on their videos....

Causes of Problems With Vivitar Cameras Some of the error messages that you may encounter include: Card Full Error/No File ExistsLens Error/E18 ErrorWrite Protected Error Here are some causes of potential problems with Vivitar cameras: If the camera doesn’t read the SD memory card, it may be write-protected, or it may be a new memory card that needs to be formatted. If the flash isn’t working, it may have been turned off manually through the camera menu....

Actual hardware failure is rare, but it happens from time to time. A common hardware failure is random-access memory (RAM). The Apple Hardware Test can check your Mac’s RAM and let you know if there are any issues. Some Mac models allow you to upgrade the RAM yourself, but in general, the newer your Mac, the less likely this feature will be supported. Apple Hardware Tests on Newer Macs Not all Macs can use the internet-based AHT....

Valve’s Steam Deck is basically a handheld gaming PC, so naturally there are going to be users who want to install the newest version of Windows onto it. However, Microsoft’s push for security in Windows 11 means a lot of systems either aren’t compatible or will need a firmware/BIOS update in order to run it. This throws Steam Deck’s ability to run Microsoft’s upcoming operating system into doubt, but Valve has assured PC Gamer that it’s making Windows support a high priority....

The Steam Deck is intended to function as a handheld gaming PC, so it makes sense that Valve would want to avoid exclusivity. As IGN points out, the Steam Deck is essentially a PC in handheld form, which can play both Steam and non-Steam games. Gaming consoles like the Playstation 5, Xbox Series X, and Nintendo Switch all work somewhat differently, making cross-platform development tricky. On the other hand, aside from general performance differences across hardware, what works on one PC should also work on another....