More and more operating systems, smartphones, and other devices contain built-in abilities to show PDF files; even your web browser can probably handle it. Even so, a dedicated document reader often has a number of advantages over the built-in reader you may already have, like viewing options, better search, and annotations or other light editing. Different types of viewing modes are available, like Single Page, Facing, Book View, and Presentation....

You should also make sure your Skype software is updated and that you know your password. You don’t want to start the app only to spend several minutes attempting to remember, recover, or reset your password. Before you send an interviewer your Skype details, review your Skype username and profile. If you have a goofy username that you made up in high school, or you have profile details that you don’t want potential employers to see, update these things or create a new Skype account for professional purposes....

Semi-reliable Apple rumormonger Jon Prosser claims that the new Apple Silicon iMac, expected this year, will come in a range of colors. Hopefully, they’ll be better colors than the awful washed-out, not-even-pastels of the current iPad Air. In fact, let’s take a look at the best and worst Apple color schemes in history. The Beige Mac Somehow, the original 1984 Mac (and immediate successors) managed to make beige cool. Even the later Snow White color scheme was pretty much just light beige....

Here’s a quick reference if you know what you’re doing, but we get into these services a lot more later in this article: What Are DNS Servers? DNS servers translate the friendly domain name you enter into a browser (like lifewire.com) into the public IP address that’s needed for your device to actually communicate with that site. Your ISP automatically assigns DNS servers when your smartphone or router connects to the internet, but you don’t have to use those....

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller Starring: Justin Theroux, Melissa George, Gabriel Bateman Created By: Paul Theroux TV Rating: TV-MA Number of Seasons: 2 Inspired by the 1981 book of the same name, The Mosquito Coast tells an original story set in modern-day North and Central America. The star of the show, Justin Theroux, is the nephew of Paul Theroux, the author of the original book. Genre: Drama, Thriller Starring: Chris Reilly, Gary Oldman, Rosalind Eleazar Created By: Graham Yost TV Rating: TV-MA Number of Seasons: 2 Based on a series of books by Mick Herron’s novels, Slow Horses has the premise of a typical workplace comedy, but it quickly gets more exciting as the agents are tasked with more serious matters....

Meanings and History of Cobalt Blue Cobalt is a cool color with a connection to nature, sky, and water. It is considered friendly, authoritative and trustworthy. Cobalt blue color is soothing and peaceful. It can suggest richness. Like azure and other medium blues, its qualities include stability and calmness. Cobalt blue has a history of use in Chinese porcelain and other ceramics and in stained glass. In the world of art, cobalt blue was used by Renoir, Monet, and Van Gogh....

In Doodle Champion Island Games, you’ll take on the role of Lucky the Ninja Cat. Lucky has come to Champion Island to take part in the most prestigious games competition ever. Google says that the doodle is the largest interactive doodle that it has ever made, according to Engadget. It’s very much inspired by the Olympics, which just kicked off, and the game offers a distinctive throwback to classic anime and RPG styles....

Tech companies ranging from Facebook (now Meta) to Google are jumping on the idea of a shared virtual reality where we communicate through avatars. The metaverse could drive the adoption of VR headsets by making them as common as smartphones are now. “Large tech platforms (which benefited from the rise of mobile computing apps) now look toward augmented reality as the next computing platform shift,” Goldman Sachs analyst Eric Sheridan wrote in a recent note....

The Multo, made by Cooking Pal, looks like a giant mixer that connects to your Wi-Fi network and is controlled by an 8.9-inch touchscreen tablet. The tablet has a front-mounted jog wheel for navigation, and a rear camera snaps pictures of the meals you’ve cooked for future reference. I was excited to try out the Multo because I’ve done a lot of cooking this pandemic year, and I needed to mix up my repertoire....

It’s like the engineers at Cupertino took the best parts of the latest iPhone models and squished them together with a super-fast iPad. I spent a few days using the new mini, and I found it a tiny tablet that’s great for consuming content on the go. That’s not to say that the iPad mini is perfect for everyone. The mini is not and will never be a productivity powerhouse, simply because its 8....

Ribbon Tabs Each ribbon tab represents a group of tools and features centered around a single purpose. The main ribbon tabs include: Home: The Home tab contains options to change the font and font size, format paragraphs, and copy and paste slide elements. Insert: The Insert tab adds something to a slide. Elements that can be inserted into a presentation include images, shapes, charts, text boxes, videos, and links. Design: The Design tab is home to the themes and color schemes....

The Spark Mini is the follow-up to Positive Grid’s Spark, a combo guitar amp, speaker, and USB audio interface for home recording rig. The mini takes advantage of marvelous modern technology that lets small speakers sound better than big speakers of the past. In terms of features, it gets almost everything right—so even professional guitarists are finding a reason to get one of these tiny powerhouses. “I have the original Spark—it’s really nice as a practice amp....

I gave the Surface Laptop 4 a strong score in my review for Lifewire. Its battery life, performance, and build quality are excellent, especially for a laptop with a 13.5-inch display. The Laptop 4 is great for travel, but powerful enough to handle photo editing, AI upscaling, and programming. It’s a great laptop by any measure. Yet my praise is dulled by an unavoidable downside. For all its perks, I can’t recommend the Surface Laptop 4 over Apple’s MacBook Air....

The Longest Videos on YouTube The 10-hour parody video is an extension of the previous 10-minute version before the video length limit was extended. When a viral video, a catchy song, or a hilarious meme really takes off, YouTube users will often take that as an opportunity to intensify its influence and humor by taking the whole thing or alternatively choosing a short clip to play over and over again in a single 10-hour video....

As a matter of fact, sometimes it seems that online gaming runs on racism, something that the pro-diversity gaming community Melanin Gamers is all too aware of. They have banded together to start The Watch, a community-driven platform whose goal is the end of racism in gaming. They are starting with Activision and its mega-popular Call of Duty franchise. The group is calling on the developer to improve the “reporting mechanism for the racist and toxic behavior....

TikTok recently revealed a new feature that notifies users if a video has been flagged as containing misleading information when they try to share it. Users also will receive a message to seek out credible sources when viewing videos that have been flagged by the system. The added level of scrutiny to videos is one of the biggest steps TikTok has taken to slow the spread of misinformation, though experts warn it might not be enough....

Major Nelson Major Nelson, real name Larry Hryb, is Microsoft’s Director of Programming for the Xbox network. Some argue he’s just a corporate shill and always has to toe the company line, but his blog is a great source of official information about all things Xbox. He posts about weekly sales of Xbox games, when games go up for pre-order/pre-download, and when games go live for download on launch day. He also posts a lot of other Xbox-related news, as well....

If you’ve been having trouble getting ahold of a new iPad lately, it’s not just you—Apple has cut back on production for the sake of the iPhone 13. According to Nikkei Asia, global chip supply shortages have had a much more significant impact on production than anticipated. And since some components are shared between the iPad and the iPhone, Apple had to choose where to focus its resources. The decision to reallocate the necessary shared components (like M1 chips) to the production of the iPhone 13 is likely due to perceived demand....

The announcement was made on a Twitter thread after the hashtag #twitchdobetter trended earlier this week, which brought light to the harassment Black creators were experiencing. Twitch stated that it detected a vulnerability in its proactive filters and updated those filters to close the gap to detect hate speech in the chat better. As seen from various comments in the Twitter thread, the harassment comes in the form of hate speech in chats and bypasses existing filters by using non-Latin characters....

Overall Findings The platform you choose depends on what your goals are for streaming. If you’re brand-new to creating online videos, they’re just about equal choices. But people who have already created a YouTube channel may be better off sticking with that platform to build on their existing audience instead of starting over completely. Both Twitch and YouTube provide opportunities for you to make money from your stream. In most cases, these features involve sharing a cut with the platform provider....