Getting a home office setup that helps ensure a comfortable work from home environment can be a tricky beast. From finding the right desk for your needs to grabbing the best ergonomic keyboards, one can almost forget one of the most important features in building a home office: a quality office chair. Admittedly, this was one of my biggest follies as I began to work from home. I naively believed that just grabbing a dining room chair was the most reasonable option....

What Is an XCF File? A file with the XCF file extension, which stands for eXperimental Computing Facility, is a GIMP image file. Much like PSD files used in Adobe Photoshop, GIMP uses XCF files to store layers, transparency settings, paths, and other information associated with one or more photos that are a part of the same project. When the file is opened in a compatible image editor, all those settings are accessible again so that you can edit the layers, images, etc....

What Is an XLTM File? A file with the XLTM file extension is an Excel macro-enabled template file created by Microsoft Excel. They’re used to build similarly formatted XLSM files. The file is similar to Excel’s XLTX format in that they hold data and formatting, except that they’re also used to make spreadsheets that can run macros, while XLTX files are used to build non-macro XLSX spreadsheet files. How to Open an XLTM File XLTM files can be opened, edited, and saved back to the same format with Microsoft Excel, but only if it’s version 2007 or newer....

In reality, however, the match isn’t quite so perfect. You’ve got horror stories, for example, of children racking up sizable bills when purchasing apps or in-game content. Younger children can also be rough on their devices, with tablets not precisely designed to withstand a ton of physical abuse. It’s Surprisingly Grown Up It’s Tough It Comes With FreeTime Unlimited Parental Controls Even with FreeTime Unlimited, you’ll still want to have controls that limit what your kids can do with the Kids Edition tablet and prevent potential accidents....

You have to pay up: Zoom announced it would add encryption to its calls for paid users at the end of May 2020. The Verge reports that CEO Eric Yuan said, in an investment call Tuesday, “Free users—for sure we don’t want to give [them] that, because we also want to work together with the FBI, with local law enforcement, in case some people use Zoom for a bad purpose....

The Flow is a lot lighter than most other non-pro VR rigs on the market. It ditches a few things to keep its weight down, including controllers, so you have to use your smartphone instead. Experts say that portability is vital when it comes to VR. “It is something that some people could also consider wearing outside the home, like, for instance, on a plane,” VR expert Antony Vitillo told Lifewire in an email interview....

The IBUYPOWER BB108A sits at the low end of the desktop PC spectrum, both in terms of cost and in horsepower. Once you start looking at budget desktop PCs, you’ve got to expect serious compromises. Can the BB108A perform well enough to justify its cost, even at this low price point? Design: The incredible bulk There is nothing discreet or subtle about the iBUYPOWER BB108A—it’s a massive, hulking tower of metal and glass that tends to dominate any space in which it’s placed....

Something else you can do at Internet Archive is download free movies. It’s 100 percent legal to not only stream these films but also save them so you can watch them offline on any of your devices. Internet Archive’s Free Streaming Movies This site’s movies are organized in collections. Some of them include Animation & Cartoons, The VHS Vault, Vlogs, Short Format Films and, of course, Movies. Along the left side of the page are all the filtering options....

For owners who bought their devices in the 4-5 years prior to the release of iOS 10, the news was good. In this article, you can learn all about the history of iOS 10, its key features, and which Apple devices are compatible with it. iOS 10 Compatible Apple Devices Key iOS 10 Features iOS 10 was so desirable because of the key new features it introduced. The most significant improvements that came in this version were: Improved Siri Revamped interface for Apple Music iMessage apps iMessage effects and animations Improved lock screen features and options The ability to delete pre-installed apps Voicemail transcriptions Home, an app to control Homekit compatible smart-home devices....

More information about how Apple plans to bring Find My support to AirPods has possibly been revealed thanks to code discovered by 9To5Mac in the latest iOS 15 beta. According to Engadget, Apple has been talking quite a bit about how it wants to bring more support for AirPods to iOS 15, including better tracking. The code found suggests that users will be able to connect their AirPods to their Apple ID....

Is the Apple Watch Series 7 Waterproof? Like every model of Apple Watch since the Series 2, the Series 7 boasts a WR50 rating, which means it’s water-resistant up to 50 meters (about 164 feet) below the surface. So the short answer is, no, it isn’t completely waterproof. The longer answer is that it’s sufficiently resistant. You shouldn’t have to take it off in most situations. The Apple Watch conforms to ISO-22810-2010, an international testing standard that ensures the water resistance of watches....

In this guide we’ll take a closer look at Vonage, including its pros and cons. Features Vonage includes a lot of features with its basic service. Here are some of them: 911 Voicemail Caller ID with Name Call Waiting Call Forwarding 3-Way Calling In-Network Calls Take Vonage With You Area Code Selection Call Transfer Click-2-Call Call Return Caller ID Block Repeat Dialing International Call Block Ring Lists Call Hunt Vonage V-Forecast...

Wielding artificial intelligence, investigators were able to scan huge amounts of information collected from wearables and discern users’ height, weight, sex, age, and other characteristics, according to a recently released paper by scientists from the University of Cambridge and the Alan Turing Institute. The identities of the people whose information was in the data were not revealed, but the study raises privacy concerns about what could happen to information that’s collected, experts say....

The bill would force social media services like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to offer a plain old chronological timeline as an alternative to the algorithm-created flows that are optimized to keep users engaged and enraged. The idea is that users could choose to switch away from these opaque and possibly manipulative content feeds and take back a measure of control. But will it work? After all, there’s a reason these platforms are so popular—people like what they’re being fed....

Let’s talk about how you should be part of that second group. Not an Instant EV Utopia On January 1, 2035, no one will be rolling through town in—I assume—a large truck that transforms into a fire-breathing mechanical dinosaur and destroys gas-powered vehicles sitting in driveways. Sure it would make for some outstanding reality television. But that’s not what the rule says or will do. Instead, the rule says that all NEW cars sold in the state need to be electric....

Where things stand right now: What you’ll initially notice is the simplification of the tabs on the bottom of the screen. Already reduced to three tabs in an October 2018 update, this new update removes the Discover tab altogether, putting the focus on People and Chats. The former shows your contacts’ stories while the latter is the same basic chat list you’ve used before. The big picture: While it may seem a small change, the streamlining of the Messenger app could also be seen as another step towards putting people first as Facebook tries to undo the damage from the Cambridge Analytica debacle and Russian interference in the 2016 elections....

University of Rochester researchers have come up with a new way to make VR glasses that are compact and easy to wear. The glasses are made by imprinting freeform optics with a nanophotonic optical element called “a metaform.” Innovations like this one could soon make VR gear more immersive. “Today, device makers have to make tradeoffs between immersion and portability because a device with a high-quality display and a high refresh rate will likely consume more computing power,” Thomas Amilien, the CEO of virtual reality company Clay AIR, said in an email interview....

Inexpensive webcam options abound in online marketplaces. They boast HD video with built-in microphones, but they are almost always too good to be true and promise more than they can deliver. But what about more expensive options? We tested the Logitech C920 Pro HD Webcam to see if it’s worth the extra cost. Design: Sleek design but it doesn’t rotate The Logitech C920 Pro HD Webcam is a sleek device in all black....

Download the El Capitan Installer Download the El Capitan installer from the Apple website. It is no longer available in the App Store. Once the download is complete, the installer starts automatically. When it does, quit the installer. You need a copy of the El Capitan installer to make a bootable USB. The El Capitan installer is downloaded to the /Applications folder, with the file name “Install OS X El Capitan....

Who Is Miles Morales? Depending on the comic book series you’re reading, Miles Morales is the ’latest’ Spider-Man having inherited the mantle from the Ultimate Spider-Man’s version, Peter Parker, after his death in 2011. How Old Is Miles Morales? Miles Morales is a 15-year-old teenager when he first adopts the Spider-Man persona. That makes him slightly younger than the Peter Parker we’ve seen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, and around 8-13 years younger than other versions of Spider-Man we’ve seen within comic books, games, and films over the years....