Summary Have you ever asked yourself, “Why are my Instagram videos blurry?” If you’re trying to upload a beautiful pic or video, but the published result is an out-of-focus photo or low-quality Instagram Reel, we’re here to help. Social media apps likeTikTokand Instagram purposely lower the quality of photos and videos. One reason for this is that it takes up less space on their platform, but it’s also to improve your app experience....
Quick Links Summary By incorporating ChatGPT and MidJourney into your workflow, you can create compelling PowerPoint presentations with ease. ChatGPT helps generate presentation outlines, slide notes, and slide text, while MidJourney provides visually captivating illustrations. These AI tools enhance your productivity and allow for impressive customization in your presentations. Despite all our modern technology, putting together a slideshow is still a chore, even if you’re really passionate about the topic you’re presenting....
Quick Links Summary Turn off Discord’s in-game overlay for all of your games by clicking the gear icon inside Discord. Click “Game Overlay” and toggle the option off. To disable the overlay for specific games, click the gear icon > Registered Games. Then, click the monitor icon beside each game to remove the overlay. Discord’sin-game overlayis an excellent tool for communicating with your friends while gaming. However, if you find that it interrupts your gaming sessions, you can turn it off for all of your games or just specific ones....
Quick Links A smart speaker has to be listening for its “wake word” to be useful, but there are privacy protections to ensure they don’t heareverythingyou ever say. There are also additional steps you can take to boost privacy levels if you have concerns. The Privacy Concerns With Smart Speakers If smart speakers didn’t already exist, they would sound like a pretty strange concept. “Hello, we’re a giant corporation, and we’d like to put microphones into your home that will listen to you 24/7....
Quick Links Your iPhone and your car are likely two of your most used tech devices. Both deeply impact the way we live our lives and interact with society, so it only makes sense for them to communicate with one another. These iPhone tips and tricks can make your car usage easier and more convenient. 1Parked Car Tracking When visiting a busy area, like a grocery store, mall, or concert, it can be a pain to remember where you parked your car....
Summary I love my MacBook Pro. It’s a great computer, but, when it comes to simply getting work done and lasting all day on a single charge, well, it doesn’t do either of those things adequately. Because of that (and more), I really want a Chromebook again. Chromebooks Have Awesome Battery Life Chromebooks are notorious for having crazy good battery life, and they’ve only gotten better over the years. Most Chromebooks can last for well over a single day’s worth of work on a single charge....
Quick Links Many people use their phone until the moment of falling asleep, then it’s literally in bed with them—or charging nearby—all night. Using your phone before bed is already not great, but is the close proximity bad too? Researchers agreethat using a phone before bedtime can cause poor-quality sleep. However, what about when we’re finally asleep? Does having the phone nearby subliminally affect us? And are there any health risks associated with sleeping near a mini computer every night?...
Quick Links Summary The 2024 MacBook Air runs on Apple’s M3 chip and is the most powerful model in the range to date. Does that mean you should upgrade from your existing MacBook Air? Let’s take a look. What’s New in the M3 MacBook Air? The main selling point of the 2024 MacBook Air is that it brings Apple’s M3 system-on-a-chip (SoC) to the series for the first time. Ourcomparison of the M3 with the M2shows that it offers better—but not radically better—performance and battery life over its predecessor, with the main benefits being in graphics performance....
Today, Apple released the macOS Sequoia update, bringing the second wave of Apple Intelligence features and a few non-AI enhancements to compatible Mac computers. If your Mac is powered by Apple silicon instead of Intel chips, it can run Apple Intelligence. macOS Sequoia 15.2 expands upon the initial Apple Intelligence features that dropped in September alongside macOS Sequoia 15.0. Though still restricted to English, Apple Intelligence in macOS Sequoia 15.2 brings English language support to Mac owners in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom....
Not All Planets Have a Star When you think of a planet, you probably think of one of the planets in our own solar system, like Earth, Jupiter, or Mars. Most of the exoplanets we’ve discovered have been like those in our solar system. They orbit their parent stars like clockwork. However, not all planets exist in such orderly systems. Some planets are floating through the galaxy alone, not bound to any star in particular....
The browser-based version of Microsoft Excel just gained a redesigned interface with a ton of convenient mouse controls, including the ability to drag and drop elements within a spreadsheet. This update should make web-based Excel more intuitive, particularly for novice users. If you open Excel in your web browser, you’ll find that the toolbar now sports a modern monochromatic design with more prominent collaboration and sharing buttons. Everything’s in the same place, but the toolbar icons are easier to read, and the horizontal green eyesore that used to sit at the top of the window is gone....
Summary Spam calls are so common these days that we’ve all learned to live with them. And while phone carriers are constantly trying to find ways to block them, it never lasts. Fortunately, NordVPN, known for its popularVPN service, just announced a powerful new call screening tool for Android. There’s nothing more frustrating than an unwanted scam call or text message at 9 PM when you’re winding down for the night....
Quick Links Managing the resourcesavailable to your Pods and containersis a best practice step for Kubernetes administration. You need to prevent Pods from greedily consuming your cluster’s CPU and memory. Excess utilization by one set of Pods can cause resource contention that slows down neighboring containers and destabilizes your hosts. Kubernetes resource management is often misunderstood though. Two mechanisms are provided to control allocations:requests and limits. This leads to four possible settings per Pod, if you set a request and limit for both CPU and memory....
