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When Was the 2021 iPad Mini Released? The new tablet was announced at the September 14, 2021, Apple event, along with other devices like the iPhone 13 and Apple Watch 7. After being available for pre-orders, it went on sale in stores and online soon after, on September 24. You can order the 2021 iPad mini on Apple’s website. 2021 iPad mini Price The last several iPad minis launched at $399 (for the lower-end models), but this one starts off at $499 in the US....

Along with a large music library, Spotify supports an offline mode. To use this feature, you must subscribe to Spotify Premium. This subscription gives you music caching on a desktop or mobile device so that you can listen to tracks without connecting to the internet. With Plus, the app automatically downloads your favorite stations to your mobile device and switches to one of those stations if you lose your internet connection....

Why Does My iPad Keep Crashing? There are several possible reasons why it’s shutting down by itself: A memory overload or hiccup. Low or drained battery. iPadOS is outdated and full of bugs. A recent OS update is causing adverse effects. Too little free storage space. The iPad is jailbroken. Failing RAM or other hardware. The hardware is too outdated to run your apps. How Do I Fix My iPad From Crashing?...

It’s also possible to stream content stored within your mobile device, including videos, photos, and music, to your television set using the Google Chromecast. Beyond just streaming TV shows and movies, with a few simple tricks, your Google Chromecast can do much more. Be sure to install appropriate apps, based on what content you want to stream from your mobile device. You can acquire appropriate and optional apps from the App Store associated with your mobile device, or browse for apps while using the Google Home mobile app....

Properties of a Candidate Key All candidate keys have some common properties. One of the properties is that for the lifetime of the candidate key, the attribute used for identification must remain the same. Another is that the value cannot be null. Lastly, the candidate key must be unique. For example, to specifically and uniquely identify each employee, a company might use the employee’s Social Security number. Some people share the same first names, last names, and position, but no two people use the same Social Security number....

Whether due to feedback or the realization that it’s been prioritizing hosts, Airbnb has decided it’s time to throw renters a proverbial bone by way of (slightly) more financially friendly search options. CEO Brian Chesky revealed the company’s plans on Twitter today, stating, “I’ve heard you loud and clear—you feel like prices aren’t transparent, and checkout tasks are a pain.” Probably the most important upcoming change will be an option for you to view a property’s subtotal (i....

Conversation Boost for AirPods Pro was given a brief mention back in June during Apple’s WWDC 2021, but now you can test it out for yourself for the full effect. This new feature is meant to make conversations easier for people with mild hearing impairments to follow. Conversation Boost utilizes the beaming microphones used in AirPods Pro along with computational audio to focus on and enhance the person speaking in front of you....

Apple has revealed that the new Apple TV 4K will allow users to enable HDMI ARC and eARC, which will let audio from all input sources stream over HomePod Speakers. According to 9To5Mac, Apple originally enabled the ability for older versions of Apple TV to stream audio to HomePod Speakers last fall. That software update only allowed audio from Apple TV, itself, to be shared. The Apple TV 4K will allow all audio from all of your TV inputs to be played through your HomePod, if your TV supports ARC output....

Another year is almost over, making it prime time to reflect on the last 334 to 365 days with Apple Music’s updated Replay features. Apple Music subscribers can now look up their listening stats for the year, share details with friends and family, or take a gander at the newly-revealed Top Charts. This year’s redesigned Replay has expanded its listening insights to give you a more nuanced and thorough breakdown of your top songs, artists, genres, etc....

BMP files can store both monochrome and color image data in various color/bit depths. Although most BMPs are uncompressed and so are fairly large, they can optionally become smaller through lossless data compression. This format is very common, so common in fact that many seemingly proprietary image formats are actually just renamed BMP files! XBM and its newer XPM format are two image formats that are similar to DIB/BMP....

Why Did Gmail Mark Conversation as Important? Google uses complex algorithms to ascertain the importance of an email and makes the reasons easy to see. To get an idea of why Gmail determined an email was important enough to make your Priority Inbox: Potential Reasons for Categorizing an Email as Important The reasons Gmail places messages in your Priority Inbox include: The words in the message. You may have marked similar emails important in the past, or the message urges you to action....

What Is a CV File? A CV file has a CV file extension and might be related to either Corel Versions, as an archive file type, or Microsoft CodeView, enabling a multiscreen application that supports source code editing and debugging. Some CV files might instead be Cvip files, but we don’t have any information on how it’s used. How to Open a CV File CV files that are Versions files are opened using Corel Versions, an add-on program that existed only with Corel WordPerfect 8 and 9....

The k-means algorithm is one of the simplest clustering techniques and it is commonly used in medical imaging, biometrics, and related fields. The advantage of k-means clustering is that it tells about your data (using its unsupervised form) rather than you having to instruct the algorithm about the data at the start (using the supervised form of the algorithm). It is sometimes referred to as Lloyd’s Algorithm, particularly in computer science circles because the standard algorithm was first proposed by Stuart Lloyd in 1957....

Defining Old Style, Lining, Proportional, and Tabular Figures Old Style Figures (OsF) Also called non-lining figures, these Arabic numerals are not all the same height and some extend above and others below the baseline (like the ascenders and descenders on some lowercase letters). Lining Figures (LF) A modern style of numerals also known as short ranging figures or regular numerals, lining figures are all the same height and all figures sit on the baseline....

However, third-party websites host the games and offer these games as free downloads to users of Windows computers. These sites include AllGamesAtoZ, BestOld Games, and CNET. Original Grand Theft Auto (1997) The original Grand Theft Auto game was released in 1997 by a small studio named DMA Design, which would later become Rockstar Games. The development company and the Grand Theft Auto series of games expanded rapidly in the years that followed, with the release of more than a dozen Grand Theft Auto titles across various platforms, along with other award-winning and best-selling games, such as Max Payne and L....

Turn On Track Changes The feature is set to off by default, so enable it for every document you wish to track. How to Use the Track Changes Feature When Track Changes is active, all changes made to a document are automatically marked in a variety of colors. Each color is assigned to a different collaborator on the document. This makes deletions, additions, edits, and moves readily visible and collaborators identifiable....

How POP Works Incoming email messages are stored at a POP server until you log in (with an email client) and downloads the messages to your computer. The POP standard doesn’t include the means to send messages. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is used to send emails. How POP Compares to IMAP POP and Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) are similar in that both are used for email retrieval. However, POP is older and defines only simple commands for email retrieval....

Pledge Planets is a new episodic activity series for Messenger Kids, designed with the help of online safety experts and child development specialists. Episodes are intended to teach kids how to handle different social situations, with different mini-games themed around kindness, respectfulness, safety, and having fun. The first episode, titled “Be Kind,” is available today for all countries where Messenger Kids is available. It introduces kids to the owner of a sandwich shop, who they can help out by playing two different mini-games about kindness....

Dial-In Your Contrast and Color Grading Experiment to familiarize yourself with Photoshop’s various adjustment layers (Brightness/Contrast, Levels, Curves, Hue/Saturation, Color Balance, etc.). Adjustment layers are non-destructive, so you should never be afraid to push things as far as possible. One of our favorite color-grading solutions is the gradient tool, which is an excellent way to add warm/cool color contrast and harmonize your color palette. How to Add a Light Bloom Effect The light bloom effect adds dramatic impact to a scene....

What Is the Gmail Archive? Rather than deleting an email and losing it for good, you can choose to archive it instead. As soon as a message is placed in the Gmail archive, it is removed from your inbox and tagged with the label All Mail. These messages remain in your Gmail account and can be retrieved easily at a later time, but in the meantime, they are out of sight and out of mind....