At the time of writing, dark mode is supported on the Kindle Paperwhite 4 (2018), Oasis 2 (2017), and higher. If you don’t see the feature yet, make sure that you are connected to Wi-Fi and that your Kindle is updated to version 5.12.4 or higher. If you don’t see the update, try manually updating your Kindle. RELATED: How to Manually Update Your Kindle Enabling dark mode on Kindle is quite easy....
How many times have you created a formula and copied it to the adjacent cells in your sheet? In Google Sheets, you can skip this step by using the ARRAYFORMULA function. With ARRAYFORMULA in Google Sheets, you can return several values instead of just one. This lets you combine the function with others like SUM, SUMIF, IF, and more to obtain results for an entire cell range. About Array Formulas If you aren’t familiar with array formulas, you can simply break down the term....
Windows PowerShell has a built-in command history feature that provides detailed information about the commands you’ve run. Like the Command Prompt, PowerShell only remembers your command history for the current session. How to Use the Command-Line Buffer RELATED: Geek School: Learn How to Automate Windows with PowerShell PowerShell technically has two types of command history. First, there’s the commandline buffer, which is actually part of the graphical PowerShell terminal application and not part of the underlying Windows PowerShell application....
Sony encourages you to use “Rest Mode” on your PlayStation 4 instead of completely powering it off. Rest Mode is a bit like sleep mode on your PC–it goes into a low-power mode instead of turning off entirely, so you can get to your games faster when you wake it up. The only downside to using Rest Mode is that it uses more energy than turning your PS4 off–but how much more, and how much does it cost?...
Check With Your School First for Software Discounts If you need special software for your schoolwork, like the Microsoft Office suite, Adobe Creative Cloud, SolidWorks, MatLab, ChemDraw, or anything else, always check with your institution before you buy them for yourself. Schools, and even individual departments, often purchase bulk licenses or discounts for their students, and asking could save you a ton of money. The Best Software and Service Deals for Students There are a million and one software packages and services out there that you might need or want as a student....
Have you noticed a lot of new desktop applications look pretty much like websites? It’s not your imagination. From Trello to Slack, from WordPress.com to Github, it’s become increasingly common for so-called desktop applications to bundle a website with a few native features like notifications, file system access, and menus. The most common technology enabling this is called Electron, and it’s used by a few applications you might not even suspect, like chat application Discord and Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code....
While checking out Activity Monitor, you noticed a couple of processes you don’t recognize: mds and mdworker. Neither have an icon, and they seem to be running constantly. Don’t worry, they’re harmless. RELATED: What Is This Process and Why Is It Running on My Mac? This article is part of our ongoing series explaining various processes found in Activity Monitor, like kernel_task, hidd, installd, and many others. Don’t know what those services are?...
The builtin commands in Bash can be extremely useful, but what does “builtin” itself actually do? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites. The Question SuperUser reader lfalin wants to know what the builtin command in Bash does: What does the builtin command in Bash do?...
Bringing Dolby Vision to Games HDR is now a standard feature on most new TVs, with HDR10 being the dominant “baseline” format. There are many benefits to HDR video: a wider color gamut, better shadow detail, 10-bit color, and eye-catching highlights that take advantage of the higher peak brightness on the latest compatible displays. Metadata included in the HDR container tells the TV how to render an image, including how bright to get....
You recognize most of the processes you see while browsing Activity Monitor, but not hidd. The name is cryptic, and there’s no icon for you to recognize. Should you be worried? RELATED: What Is This Process and Why Is It Running on My Mac? This article is part of our ongoing series explaining various processes found in Activity Monitor, like kernel_task, mdsworker, installd, and many others. Don’t know what those services are?...
Lenses aren’t just dumb tubes that you attach to your camera; they manipulate light in complex ways. One of the side affects of this is optical distortion. Let’s look at it in more detail. You are most likely to notice optical distortion in your images when you are taking photos of things with straight lines—like buildings. What’s actually a straight line in real life might appear curved in your photo....
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai just publicly called on Apple to activate the FM receiver chips found in iPhones for public safety reasons. Many Android phones also contain dormant FM chips. But, if your phone has an FM receiver, why can’t you already listen to the radio on it? There’s one quick issue with Ajit Pai’s request: As Apple noted, the iPhone 7, iPhone 8, and iPhone X don’t even have an FM chip....
Sometimes, the emoji keyboard mysteriously disappears from your iPhone. But don’t fret–here’s why it goes away, and how easy it is to get it back. RELATED: Insert Emoji Faster with iOS’ Text Replacement Shortcuts I’ve noticed that a few things can cause this to happen. Every time I delete a third-party keyboard from my iPhone, I have to go back in and re-enable the emoji keyboard in order to get my emoji back....
What Does FPGA Mean? FPGA stands for field-programmable gate array, a type of integrated circuit that can be reconfigured after manufacture. Unlike a traditional computer chip, FPGAs use programmable logic blocks and interconnects that can be reconfigured to suit a variety of different purposes. In essence, an FPGA can be reprogrammed to act as any type of digital circuit. This can be done over and over again simply by loading a new configuration into RAM to emulate a different type of chip....
If you’re old enough to have played games in the 80s or early 90s, you’ll remember that they were hard: really damn hard. Why they were they so infuriatingly difficult? The answer presents a fascinating look at the history of video games. When people talk about how hard old video games were, they use the phrase “Nintendo Hard.” Nintendo wasn’t the only company making early video game consoles (and certainly not the first in the market)....
What Is the Apple Silicon Mac mini? The M1 Mac mini is Apple’s smallest desktop computer, and it also happens to be one of the fastest. The latest model is powered by Apple’s M1 system-on-chip, which uses a different processor architecture and instruction set than older Intel Macs. The Mac mini provides a barebones Mac experience. All you get for your $699 is the computer itself, housed in an aluminum case, with Apple’s trademark rounded corners and a power cord....
If you’re stuck in a group chat in Messages with devices that use SMS (such as Android phones), you can’t leave the group text, and that makes iPhone owners vulnerable to abuse and bullying. Apple should fix this immediately—here’s how. How Group Texting Abuse Happens Here’s the core problem: Using their phone, anyone can send a text message to multiple phone numbers at once, creating a texting group. Any time someone replies to that group, the reply is sent out to every single phone number on the list....
Improvements Made in the Apple Watch Series 8 The Apple Watch Series 8 only has very few new features to separate it from last year’s Series 7 (which was only a few steps removed from the Series 6). Apple again focuses on iterative improvements, making small tweaks rather than large overhauls. As a result, the Series 8 looks identical to the Series 7 that came before it. The main visual difference concerns case materials since the Series 8 is not available in a titanium finish with Apple instead settling on stainless steel and aluminum....
RELATED: How to Make Alexa Understand You Better From a privacy standpoint, that voice history may be a concern (and we’ll address that in a bit), but it’s a heck of a lot of better than an entire audio log of everything you’ve ever said in your own home. Simply put, neither the Echo nor Google Home have the capability to record or listen to everything you say out of the box....
Google Lens was heavily touted at Google I/O 2017, and we’re finally starting to see some of its best features start to trickle out. Today, it got the ability to identify and select text from what it sees through your smartphone camera, and then provide results based on that text. RELATED: The Best Stuff Google Announced at I/O 2017, In a Nutshell To be clear, this is a feature that has been available in the Google Photos’ Lens feature for some time now, but it finally works in a live view within Assistant....
