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How to Use the Google Measure App Once you’ve installed the Google Measure app on your phone, it’s easy to use. The first time will be a little different, because there are options you can set up (such as how you want Display Units displayed — Imperial or Metric). After that, can jump straight into measuring things when you open the app. How Google Measure Uses AR to Work The Google Measure app uses ARcore to translate real-world content virtually onto your phone....

How to Set Up and Use Voice Access on Windows 11 Here’s how to set up and use the Windows 11 voice access tool. How to Improve Your Voice Recognition Results Here are some tips for improving your voice recognition when using voice access in Windows 11. A small welcome popup message will appear if this is your first time using voice access. Select the X icon to close this popup....

How to Place a Video Call on Echo Show There are two ways to initiate a video call using an Echo Show. After you’ve set up your Echo Show, you can use your Alexa wake word and then give a command, or you can use the touchscreen interface to start a call. Both you and the person you’re calling need to have the Alexa app installed on your phones, you both need to have an Echo Show device, and the person needs to be in your Alexa contacts....

How to View Hidden Mozilla Email Header Data All emails consist of two parts: the header and the body. The standard header—which is the part you normally see—typically lists the sender and recipient of the message, date, and subject. Behind the scenes, though, the header contains much more information, such as the path it took from sender to recipient, the sender’s IP address, and the message’s priority. This information isn’t particularly easy to interpret and isn’t usually of interest to the recipient, so it’s hidden....

Locating Movies and TV Shows The iPhone ships with the Apple TV app. You can copy movies and TV shows you have on your computer to the iPhone by syncing your devices in iTunes, or you can download them directly to the phone: In the case of movie rentals, you have 30 days to begin watching a movie before it expires and disappears from your iPhone. Once you begin watching, however, you have only 48 hours to finish viewing the movie, so don’t start it unless you plan to finish it within two days....

Watch Blu-rays and DVDs on Xbox One Some say physical media like Blu-ray and DVD are headed the way of the dodo; others still cling to their large disc collections or insist on the superior quality of Blu-ray. Either way, here is how you can play Blu-ray discs and DVDs on your Xbox One. Xbox One Controls for the Blu-ray Player App Listed below are the basic controls that can be used when watching a Blu-ray disc or DVD with the Blu-ray Player app on Xbox One....

Likewise TV is a streaming hub powered by machine learning, people from the Likewise community, and other streaming services. The service aims to do away with mindlessly scrolling through a menu, looking for something to watch, or jumping from one app to another by providing a single location for recommendations. Likewise TV recommends shows by curating ratings and reviews from community members and your friends list. You can then launch whichever streaming service hosts the content from the Likewise app....

How the Memory Management Error Appears The most common form of a memory management error is a small mention of it on the blue screen of death (BSOD). This is why the error is occasionally referred to as a memory management BSOD error message in some online forums and web pages. The message is often referred to as a Windows 10 stop code memory management error due to its tendency to cease all regular functions and force the user to deal with the error code immediately....

Privacy Center gives information on five main topics: Security, Sharing, Collection, Use, and Ads, according to the official announcement. Currently, Privacy Center is only available to select users in the US on the desktop version of Facebook. The five topics each come with their own corresponding educational guide and controls. Security teaches you about your Facebook account’s security and how to set up two-factor authentication. Sharing answers to questions regarding who sees your posts and how to manage them....

How: You can pre-order the $1500 device at Motorola or Verizon websites starting January 26th, and it should ship on February 6th. Why Do You Care: The nostalgic design has many consumers excited. If you’re one of them, you can reserve your own folding smartphone soon. The Razr joins Samsung’s Fold as one of the newest category of mobile devices: folding screen smartphones. The initial pre-order date for Motorola’s Razr was December 26th, making this a month-long wait for eager early adopters....

If the Default Password Doesn’t Work If the default password doesn’t work, it means someone changed it away from the default password. This is good for security purposes, but it doesn’t help if you need to get in. To return the router to the defaults, reset the router to its factory default settings. This removes the changed password and username, then restores the default credentials as they’re described above. Here’s how to reset a NETGEAR WNR1000 router:...

The update is going out to Android, iOS, TV app, and web browser versions starting today as a new way for Netflix’s algorithm to better understand what people like to watch and dish out better recommendations. This new feature is a part of Netflix’s continued efforts to better your experience and help you with content curation. The Double Thumbs Up button will allow the algorithm to get more specific and even recommend something based on a show’s cast or creator....

The manufacturing giant has announced their Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 smartphone processor chip at their annual Snapdragon Tech Summit, with further details laid out in a company blog post. This follow-up to last year’s Snapdragon 888 looks to have plenty of bells and whistles underneath the hood. Aside from the new single-digit naming scheme, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is the first chip from the company to use the Armv9 architecture from Arm, with an eight-core Kryo CPU that includes a primary core, three performance cores, and four efficiency cores....

What Happens When You Do Not Remove Addresses Not removing the addresses on a forwarded email has one advantage. Everyone who receives the message knows who already sent and received it, so there’s no need to send it to those recipients again. However, including all header information, including email addresses, also has overwhelming disadvantages. First, the message looks messy and, often, the actual content is buried beneath all the header information....

Improve Router Performance Sometimes, it is better to replace the router’s built-in antenna with a different one. An omnidirectional antenna can have difficulty reaching long distances because its signaling power expands in all directions. This can result in a “dead spot” in your home or business, where the signal can’t reach. Improve the router performance with new antennas: Replace the existing omnidirectional antenna with a stronger omnidirectional antenna.Replace the existing omnidirectional antenna with a high-gain directional antenna....

If you were a heavy user of the earlier version of QuickTime Player, you might have relied on QuickTime to automatically start playing when you opened or launched a QuickTime file. The Autoplay feature is especially important if you use your Mac and QuickTime in a home entertainment environment. The new version of QuickTime ships without this handy feature enabled, but you can remedy the situation using the Terminal application and a single line of code....

One Tap to the Top of an Email or Mailbox: iPhone To go to the top of an email or mailbox quickly in iPhone Mail: Tap the ​iPhone status bar in the upper-right corner, where you see the battery and signal strength indicators.The same process works for scrolling to the top of a folder’s message list. To go to the top of your mailbox, tap the upper-right corner of the status bar....

Ubuntu Linux users are at risk of just that, according to cyber security firm Qualys, as reported in a company blog post written by their Director of Vulnerability and Threat Research. Qualys notes they have discovered two flaws within Ubuntu Linux that would allow for root access by nefarious software packages. The flaws reside in a widely used package manager for Ubuntu Linux called Snap, putting around 40 million users at risk, as the software ships by default on Ubuntu Linux and a wide range of other major Linux distributors....

How to Set up Locations You can have as many locations as you need. You can even have multiple network locations for the same physical location. For example, if you have both a wired network and a wireless network at home, you can create a separate network location for each. Here’s how to set up and manage locations on your Mac. Automatic Location Switching between home, office, and mobile connections is now just a drop-down menu away, but it can e even easier than that....

Is It OK to Use a TV as a Computer Monitor? Yes. People have been using TVs as monitors since the advent of the home computer. Computer and TV screens rely on the same evolving technologies, from vacuum tubes to LCD technologies. Today, most TVs support HDMI or Wi-Fi, allowing them to connect with your computer wirelessly or with an HDMI cable. Is It OK to Use a 4K TV as a Monitor?...