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Slides keep an audience’s attention during a presentation and provide additional supporting information in textual or graphic format. Selecting Slide Formats in PowerPoint When you open a new PowerPoint presentation file, you are presented with a large selection of slide templates that you can choose from to set the tone for your presentation. Each template has a series of related slides in the same theme, color, and font choice for different purposes....

For music, that means that acoustic or electric bass, and more movies that means the rumbling of a train running down railroad tracks, cannon fire and explosions, and the big test: the deep rumbling of an earthquake. However, before you can enjoy it all, you have to integrate the subwoofer with the rest of your system, and how you connect a subwoofer to the rest of your home theater setup depends on whether it is Powered or Passive....

The Galaxy A line has always been touted as Samsung’s somewhat more affordable alternative to its costly flagship Galaxy S series, and the Galaxy A23 5G is no exception. The new smartphone claims to offer many features one would expect from a Galaxy device, but without the (comparatively) high price tag. Galaxy A23 5G adopters can expect a 6.6-inch FHD+, edge-to-edge LCD infinity-V display for crisp and clear visuals and an up to 120Hz screen refresh rate for smoother-looking videos....

Why Is Stadium Events So Rare? It isn’t the gameplay that makes the 1987 Stadium Events so sought after. It was re-released in 1988 with a new title: World Class Track Meet. This makes the North American version with the original title rare. Only about 10 or 11 copies have reportedly been spotted since then. The game was originally test marketed in the United States by publisher Bandai as part of their Family Fitness line of games, designed for use with their Family Fun Fitness pad (similar to the Dance, Dance, Revolution dance pad)....

The new TV has a bunch of new features that are enough to make me upgrade from my older model. A faster A12 Bionic chip inside supports speedier frame rates when watching HDR content and a nifty color calibration mode that works with your iPhone. I’m deeply tied into the Apple ecosystem to the point where some might call it a dependency. I own TV shows and movies that I bought through Apple more than a decade ago, so I’m always on the lookout for the latest and greatest from Cupertino....

TE is known for its beautiful design, and for squeezing weird but excellent innovations into its products. Up until now its music machines have been synthesizers and speakers, but the new TX-6 is a pocket-sized mixer and audio interface. The most obvious features are its size, and its amazing looks, but this unit is unique for many other reasons. It is also quite flawed. Oh, and it costs $1,199. “The TX-6 is perfect for what I’m aiming for....

There are tons of drum machines to choose from, not counting the software that lives inside apps like Ableton Live and Logic Pro or your iPhone. And there are many different approaches to how to make one, all to suit different user preferences. But Korg’s new $600 Drumlogue is a kind of compromise, an attempt to put the best of everything into one box. And, amazingly, it might just have pulled it off....

Network-based Time Machine volumes are very useful. Having your backup drive in a remote location, one that’s physically isolated from your Mac, protects your backups in the event your Mac has a catastrophic failure. Another wonderful use for remote Time Machine volumes, such as Time Capsules or NAS (Network Attached Storage), is to allow multiple Macs to perform backups to a single central location. Of course, network-based Time Machine volumes have their own set of problems; one of the most common is the failure of the backup volume to mount on your Mac....

You don’t have to go to the toolbar or menus to fill a layer in Photoshop. Just commit your favorite shortcuts to memory and let your fingers loose on the keyboard. Shortcut Formats Shortcuts are listed beside menu items. Depending on your operating system, you may need to press a modifier key. The common modifier keys used with shortcuts are: Command on a Mac or Ctrl on a PCOption on a Mac or Alt on a PCShift...

The game is set in a sprawling metropolis and gives you free rein to choose your path in the big city. Many players opt for a criminal life. Others stay on the straight and narrow by getting a job and advancing their education to get ahead in this constantly updated virtual world. You can play Torn City in any web browser across most major platforms, including mobile and tablet-based operating systems....

In a blog published on Tuesday, the social network said it is looking for users to apply to test the two new features. Android and iOS users can apply to try out Ticketed Spaces, while only iOS users can apply to test out the Super Follows feature. Both features are designed to help users make money off of the platform. “We want to help make Twitter not just a fun place to engage your audience, but a place where you can earn money driving great conversations—whether you’re just starting out or have already built a following,” Twitter wrote in its blog post....

Blooming Pixels on a DSLR sensor collect photons, which are converted into an electrical charge. However, the pixels occasionally collect too many photons, which causes an overflow of electrical charge. This overflow can spill onto existing pixels, causing overexposure in areas of an image. This is known as blooming. Most modern DSLRs have anti-blooming gates that help drain away this excess charge. Chromatic Aberration Chromatic aberration occurs most frequently in images shot with a wide-angle lens; it’s visible as color fringing around high-contrast edges....

Rideshares like Uber are incredibly commonplace and convenient for many, but they can also be dangerous for both riders and drivers. It’s something Uber (as well as other companies) has been working to address over the years. Now the company has taken another incremental step with an update to its in-app Safety Toolkit. The feature has been adjusted so that tapping the safety shield icon during a ride will pull up a menu full of large, easily-identifiable icons representing your different options....

What Determines the Frame Rate of a Video Game? The areas that can impact game frame rate/FPS include: System hardware, such as the graphics card, motherboard, CPU, and memory. Graphics and resolution settings within the game. How well the game code is optimized and developed for graphics performance. The graphics card and CPU are the most significant contributing factors to a game’s frame rate or FPS performance. The computer’s CPU sends instructions from programs to the graphics card....

About FileVault FileVault is a disk-encryption program on Mac computers. With it, you can encrypt folders and protect them with a password. Individual files and folders in an encrypted FileVault image are locked away and cannot be accessed using Time Machine. However, Apple provides another application that can access FileVault data: the Finder. This isn’t a backdoor that allows just anyone to access encrypted files. You still need to know the user account password to gain access to the files, but it provides a way to restore a single file or group of files without having to perform a complete restore from the Time Machine backup....

Dai is the co-founder and executive chairwoman of MeetKai, developer of an artificial intelligence-powered virtual assistant that users can access via an application on smartphones and other tech devices. MeetKai was founded in 2018 by Dai and CEO, James Kaplan. The company uses artificial intelligence to engage in voice-operated, personalized search conversations with its users about recipes, books, games, fitness, weather, and more. The Kai platform is live in 36 countries and operates in more than 15 languages....

What You Need to Know About Settings Often represented as a gear icon on a smartphone or tablet, “settings” is an app that lets you customize your device to fit your preferences. In general, a smart device has settings for wireless connections, device-related options, such as screen brightness, notification sounds, and date and time, and privacy and security controls, such as location services and screen lock set-up. Additionally, most of the apps that you download to your smartphone or tablet also have settings, which often include notifications, sharing options, and app-specific functions....

Voltage regulators are a common feature in many circuits to ensure that a constant, stable voltage is supplied to sensitive electronics. How Linear Voltage Regulators Work Maintaining a fixed voltage with an unknown and potentially noisy input requires a feedback signal to clarify what adjustments need to be made. Linear regulators use a power transistor as a variable resistor that behaves like the first half of a voltage divider network....

What Do You Need for Mesh? To install a mesh network, you only need to consider a few things, but each is critical to success. Here’s an overview of what you need for a Wi-Fi mesh network. A mesh network system. You need a Wi-Fi mesh network system before getting any further. Find one that offers the right features for you and matches your budget.Space for the extra equipment. A Wi-Fi mesh network requires multiple devices that look like routers....

The Pros and Cons of Apple Lockdown Mode In security, there is always a trade-off between offering protection and taking away so many features that your device is no longer useful. That’s certainly true of Apple Lockdown Mode. When enabled, here’s what Lockdown Mode does to secure an iPhone or iPad: FaceTime: All FaceTime calls will be blocked except for those coming from people you have called in the past. Messages: All attachments except images, links, and other shared content is blocked in Apple’s built-in texting app....