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Why Does the iPhone Camera App Switch to Auto Macro Mode? Introduced in iOS 15, Apple’s Auto Macro mode furthers the Macro photography chops of the camera on iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max models (and will likely continue to do so on future iPhones). When you are about to take a nice close shot, the iPhone’s Camera app jitters as you move closer to a subject. The Camera app tries to help you capture more details by activating Auto Macro mode and shifting from a regular wide lens to an ultra-wide lens....

Google Photos is great for photo management and backups, but it’s also full of features you might have overlooked. You can perform quick edits, share with others, and even build simple movies. Let’s take a look! Use the Assistant to Build Albums, Books, Movies, and More If you’ve been using Photos as a way to back up and collect your pictures, you likely have a slew of images to work with....

When you’re working with large amounts of data in a Google Sheets spreadsheet, it isn’t always convenient to drop a chart into the mix. To help you, you can create one-cell charts using the SPARKLINE function instead. A sparkline chart is a very small line chart that allows you to quickly visualize your data. It’s useful if you want to quickly see if share price data in a spreadsheet was going up or down, for instance....

Your Mac keeps system logs, which can help diagnose and troubleshoot problems with macOS and your installed applications. These logs are stored as plain-text log files on your Mac’s system drive, and macOS also includes an app for viewing them. View System Logs in the Console App To view your Mac system logs, launch the Console app. You can launch it with Spotlight search by pressing Command+Space, typing “Console,” and then pressing Enter....

It’s common knowledge that water does bad things to electronics, but there are still a few things you may not know about how exactly water can damage electronic components and what you can do if you ever accidentally take your devices for a swim. What’s Happening Exactly? Let’s use your smartphone as an example for how water damage occurs, and let’s say that you accidentally drop it into a puddle of water and it ends up damaging the device, leading to malfunction and, eventually, total failure....

Microsoft Flight Simulator lead Jorg Neumann spoke in a video Q&A about the future of the game, and one of the questions that came up was mouse and keyboard support for the game in Xbox Cloud Gaming. “This is a platform level support, so it has nothing to do with us, obviously mouse/keyboard works for our sim. So the platform team is working on this, and no I can’t give a date because it’s the platform team....

Command+Tab is the main keyboard shortcut for switching applications in macOS. Hold Command then press Tab—you’ll see icons representing every application open on your Mac, as shown above. Press Tab again until you switch to the application you want. It’s simple at first glance, but there’s more power hidden here. You can hide and quit applications from here, too, allowing you to close a bunch of applications at once. There’s also a way to switch between individual windows in a particular application....

PCs in the 2000s I’m probably one of the youngest writers on this site, and I’m part of Generation Z, so most of the big moments of that era’s PC space happened when I was a kid. Still, I’ve always been a nerd, and the first gaming PC I managed to get my hands on was an Intel Pentium 4 powerhouse that belonged to my uncle. I also remember asking my parents multiple times to buy me a PC with an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU....

Many online services offer two-factor authentication, which enhances security by requiring more than just your password to sign in. There are many different types of additional authentication methods you can use. Different services offer different two-factor authentication methods, and in some cases, you can even choose from a few different options. Here’s how they work and how they differ. SMS Verification RELATED: What Is Two-Factor Authentication, and Why Do I Need It?...

Google Messages is adding a bunch of new features, as well as a new logo, as Google is keeping its #GetTheMessage campaign going — even if it doesn’t look like it’s doing anything to actually pressure Apple into adding RCS support to the iPhone. Among these features, we now have direct replies to messages (letting you quote a message in a group to reply to it), and emoji reactions to SMS messages on iPhones....

Low-price listings for expensive software like Microsoft Office or Adobe Creative Suite are usually too good to be true—especially on secondary markets like Craigslist or eBay. Let’s take a look at some of the ways scammers try to rip you off. You Might Be Getting an OEM Licensed Product Okay, so this one isn’t so much a scam as it is something to watch for. OEM stands for “Original Equipment Manufacturer....

Android One was originally an initiative to bring low-cost Android phones to developing countries. However, Google has shifted directions, making Android One a more user-focused program to bring more stock Android phones to market. What Android One Was: A History Lesson Android One was created as an initiative to release functional, practical, and usable smartphones for emerging markets. It was designed as a marriage of hardware and software—lower end hardware to keep costs down, combined with software maintained and updated by Google....

Microsoft just launched a version of Windows 10 that will run on low-powered ARM hardware. Unlike Windows RT, the version of Windows 8 that powered the original Surface and Surface 2, this is a full version of Windows 10 with an emulation layer that allows it to run traditional desktop apps from outside the Windows Store. Why Is Microsoft Putting Windows 10 on ARM? ARM is a different type of processor architecture from the standard Intel x86 and 64-bit Intel architecture used on PCs today....

Free Streaming Music Plans The cheapest streaming music service is the one you don’t have to pay for. If you don’t mind a few ads, there are several streaming music services that offer free tiers. Spotify is one of the most popular streaming music services, and it has an ad-supported free tier. How many ads do you have to sit through? Some users have reported up to three 30-second ads in a row every three or four songs....

Normally, Electronics Produce Some Heat Some warmth is normal in any phone charger. Your charger converts AC power from your outlet into DC power for your phone, and it generates heat in the process. To perform the AC/DC conversion, the charger uses an electrical component called a transformer. Transformers produce heat due to the regular process of conducting electricity and also through eddy currents and other losses, which are a side effect of how transformers work....

While making any image into an 8-Bit style graphic can be a lot of fun, it’s surprisingly easy to go the extra mile and use authentic palettes of popular retro gaming systems like the Gameboy, NES, or Sega Master system. All you have to do is fire up nearly any version of Photoshop and download a few files to make the process quick and easy. Keep reading. My first How-to on creating 8-Bit graphics is still available, and shows the process in greater depth....

What Is an Ionic Air Purifier? Ionic air purifiers are air cleaners that help your remove or reduce ultrafine contaminants from the surrounding air. Also called ionizers or ion generators, the ionic air purifiers release a negative ion charge that attaches to the pollutants in the air and leads them to stick to a nearby surface. Some ionic air purifiers also come with a positively charged collector to attract the negatively charged pollutants....

Warner Bros Discovery said back in August that it planned to merge the HBO Max and Discovery+ streaming services into one combined service, starting in summer 2023 in the United States. However, that timeline has now been moved up to spring 2023, according to CEO David Zaslav on the latest earnings call. The new show Fixer Upper: The Castle was a test to see how the “reality” content that makes up most of the library of Discovery+ would do on HBO Max....

I’m getting sick of Windows 10’s auto-installing apps. Apps like Facebook are now showing up out of nowhere, and even displaying notifications begging for me to use them. I didn’t install the Facebook app, I didn’t give it permission to show notifications, and I’ve never even used it. So why is it bugging me? Windows 10 has always been a little annoying about these apps, but it wasn’t always this bad....

Apple claims Face ID and Touch ID are secure, and for the most part that’s true. It’s extremely unlikely a random person could unlock your phone. But that’s not the only type of attack to worry about it. Let’s dig a little deeper. Although they use different biometric authentication methods, Face ID and Touch ID are very similar under the hood. When you try to log in to your iPhone—either by looking at the camera on the front or putting your finger on the touch sensor—the phone compares the biometric data it detects with the data that’s saved in the Secure Enclave—a separate processor that’s entire purpose is to keep your phone secure....