To turn Siri on on your iPhone X, you can either press and hold the side button or say “Hey Siri. To ask Siri a question on the iPhone X, you can either use the “Hey Siri” function or press and hold the side button. There are a few ways to activate Siri on an iPhone without the home button. One is to use the “Hey Siri” feature, which you can enable in the Settings app....
Sound Recognition, first introduced in iOS 14, lets iPhone users with hearing loss receive visual alerts when the iPhone detects certain sounds like smoke alarms, sirens, door knocks, and dogs barking. It does this with onboard intelligence, so no network connection is required. Here’s how to use it. First, open “Settings” on your iPhone. In Settings, tap “Accessibility.” In Accessibility, navigate to the “Hearing” section and tap “Sound Recognition.”...
“Tab Groups” is a recent addition to many web browsers, and Microsoft Edge gained the feature in version 93. You can organize tabs into groups with labels and move them around together. It’s a pretty useful feature to know about. RELATED: Why You Should Use Tab Groups in Your Web Browser First, you’ll need to have a few tabs open in Edge. Selecting tabs works just like selecting multiple things in a lot of other applications....
When You Should Use chgrp You use the chgrp command to change the group ownership of a file or directory. The chown command allows you to change the user owner and the group owner of a file or directory. So why would you need or use chgrp? Well, for one thing, it’s easy. Using chown to change just the group owner setting is a little counterintuitive. You have to be very careful with the syntax....
After you’ve unlocked the Able Sisters Tailor Shop in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you will have access to a Custom Design Kiosk, allowing you to upload and download custom designs made by other players. Here’s how to search, upload, and download custom designs in Animal Crossing. Nintendo Online Subscription is Required to Access Designs When you access the Custom Design Kiosk for the first time, you will be warned that only players with internet access and a paid Nintendo Online subscription can use the custom design feature....
Mount Points The Linux file system is a large tree. Depending on the choices you made when you installed Linux, different hard drives inside your computer may have different file systems on them. If you use snap packages you’ll have squashfs pseudo-file systems in your system too. Devices like USB memory sticks will have assorted file systems on them, especially if you also use them on Windows computers. Regardless of the file system type, they all have to be grafted onto the file system tree in a process called mounting....
The Magic Wand tool is used to select objects in a image. It works by moving the cursor over the object you want to select and then clicking and dragging it to the desired location. To use the Magic Wand tool in Photoshop 2020, first open Photoshop and click on the Tools palette. Then, select the Magic Wand tool from the tool palette and click on the desired area of your image....
The new Instagram update includes a number of new features, including the ability to add multiple accounts, a more user-friendly design, and live video. To add another account, go to your profile and tap the menu in the top right corner. Select “Add Account” and sign in with the other account. To switch between accounts, go to your profile and tap the name of the account you want to use....
Smartphones have become important tools for productivity, and nothing signifies that more than using multiple apps at a time. All Android devices support the ability to run apps side by side in split-screen mode. We’ll show you how. As with many things in the Android world, this process is going to look slightly different depending on your operating system version and phone manufacturer. In general, the steps should be pretty similar, though....
Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update makes voice dictation much easier to use. Now, you can immediately begin dictation by pressing a key Windows+H on your keyboard. You don’t have to dig through the Control Panel and set anything up first. The old Speech Recognition tool is still accessible via the Control Panel. It has some advanced features you won’t find in the new dictation tool, like the ability to navigate your desktop with voice commands....
iPhones and iPads can now use widgets thanks to iOS 8. In fact, you probably already have some widgets installed — they’re all just disabled by default. Here’s how to enable and use those widgets you already have. Unlike on Android, widgets can’t appear on our home screen — that’s still reserved just for apps and app folders. Instead, widgets appear in your notification center. This means you can access them from any app with a quick swipe....
Getting Started With Sticky Notes If you’ve searched the Desktop Gadget Gallery for the Sticky Notes gadget from Windows Vista, you don’t have to search any more. The Vista Gadget has been replaced in Windows 7 by the Sticky Notes application. You’ll find it under Accessories in the start menu, or just type Sticky Notes in the Start Menu search. Sticky Notes are great for jotting down some quick text you need to remember, like an address you receive over the phone or the items you need to pick up from the store on the way home....
How Windows Hello Works with a Webcam Windows Hello is an alternative to traditional passwords. It is designed to make signing in to your Windows 11 PC more secure and convenient. Several of the options included in Windows Hello are biometric, meaning they rely on things like your face, fingerprint, or an iris scan to log in. It also includes a few non-biometric options, like a PIN, or a USB security key....
The feature picks up audio using the microphones present on the AirPods for calling purposes and then enhances and delivers it through the speaker on earbuds, thus allowing you to hear the sounds around you more clearly and at a higher volume. This feature is not only handy for people with mild hearing problems but can also be used when one wants to converse in a noisy environment without having to shout....
There is no one definitive answer to this question. However, some tips that may help include using a vector graphic editor such as Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator, creating a simple logo design, and using a resizing tool to adjust the size of the logo. There are many ways to vector an image in Photoshop. You can use the vector tools, or use the commands that correspond to the specific vector tools you are using....
There are a few ways to do this. One way is to create a new Illustrator document and use the Pen tool to create a vector line. You can also use the Selection tool to select a portion of an object and use the Vector Tools > Transform menu option to change its shape. Yes, vectorizing an image in Illustrator is possible. Vector images can be scaled without losing quality, and they can be edited easily with vector tools....
Last month, Linux Mint’s website was hacked, and a modified ISO was put up for download that included a backdoor. While the problem was fixed quickly, it demonstrates the importance of checking Linux ISO files you download before running and installing them. Here’s how. Linux distributions publish checksums so you can confirm the files you download are what they claim to be, and these are often signed so you can verify the checksums themselves haven’t been tampered with....
Safari is fast and optimized for mobile devices. That’s usually a good thing. But there are still a few websites that refuse to adapt to mobile Safari or provide an inferior experience on their mobile site. In times like these, you can switch to the desktop version of the website. How to View Desktop Site in Safari Like many iOS features, especially ones for Safari, the Request Desktop Site feature is hidden....
Open the Instagram app on your iPhone or Android device and head into your profile by tapping your display picture in the bottom-right corner. Tap the three-line menu icon in the top-right corner, then select “Your Activity.” Under the “Links” tab, you’ll find every link that you’ve ever clicked on Instagram in reverse chronological order. You can tap any web page to revisit it. If you want to hide a link from the “Your Activity” section, you can long-press it and select “Hide....
