What Are The Benefits Of Smart Glasses? Besides being the only person in your class, job, or block with them, you’ll find a host of other reasons to put a pair of smart glasses on. Smart glasses are the next step in innovation for smart wear. It will connect you to the web, phone calls, camera, music, and other convenient features. In other words, you’ll be able to read through your grocery list as you shop....

These days we almost all use our smartphones for GPS navigation and thanks to widespread mobile internet, we pull our maps from the web live. It’s a great time for the technology, but there are still times when you’ll need offline GPS navigation. These nine apps offer free offline GPS services for Android phones and cover everything from driving in the middle of nowhere to hiking in the wilderness....

One of the lesser known features in Zoom that you won’t find in Microsoft Teams or Google Meet are the Zoom Breakout Rooms. The Breakout Rooms work like breakout groups in a physical seminar or workshop by allowing you to split your Zoom meeting into separate sessions.In this guide, we’ll walk you through the process of setting up Zoom Breakout Rooms to help you understand the feature in its entirety....

On the other hand, it can make it hard to know where to start—after all, the Angry Birds games are no longer just about destroying an army of invading, egg-stealing pigs. The Angry Birds franchise now includes everything from augmented reality titles to racing games. This guide will walk you through the best Angry Birds titles to date and help you decide exactly which entry in the series is the right one for you....

It’s actually a pretty incredible deal, including licenses for multiple installations and users (using the family plan), oodles of included OneDrive storage, and a complete unlock of the mobile Office apps on Android and iOS. However, what if you don’t want to spend a single cent? What are the best free alternatives to Microsoft Office? Be sure to check out our YouTube video also where we walk you through some of the options mentioned in the article:...

Each of these virtual whiteboards is web-based and perfect for team collaboration. Beyond brainstorming, use one for project planning, displaying a workflow, or getting input from your remote team members. If you work alone and don’t have a physical whiteboard, you’ll enjoy the ease-of-use and pleasant interactive whiteboard experience. Miro Miro is one of the most popular and full-featured online whiteboards. You get the exact tools you need with a pen, highlighter, and eraser plus sticky notes, shapes, text boxes, lines, and arrows....

By 2010, the Chrome Web Store had already surpassed 10,000 extensions. The total number of extensions available today isn’t shown publicly anymore, but it’s assumed to be well into the hundreds of thousands.As Chrome’s library of extensions grows, so does the risk of installing and enabling extensions that may cause problems. Although the Chrome Web Store has policies that help keep malicious extensions out, some do pass through.Similarly, there are some extensions that just encroach on users’ privacy far more than necessary....

ScrapBook is an awesome Firefox extension that helps you to save web pages and organize them in a very easy to manage way. The really cool thing about this add-on is that it’s very light, speedy, accurately caches a local copy of a web page almost perfectly and supports multiple languages. I tested it out on several web pages with a lot of graphics and fancy CSS styles and was surprisingly happy to see that the offline version looked exactly the same as the online version....

Suspicious Payment Arrangements Avoid Massive Discounts You know the old saying: “if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.” If you see a PlayStation 5 for sale for $50, ignore the temptation to click the link. If you receive anything at all after the purchase, it won’t be a PlayStation. Huge discounts on items that sell for much higher everywhere else indicate the seller is trying to coax you into an impulse buy....

One of the most useful of those is Slack’s Google Calendar integration. Once you enable this, you can use Slack to create, delete, or get notifications of calendar appointments and events.Adding the integration just takes a few clicks. In this article you’ll learn how Slack Calendar integration works, and all of the features you get once you enable it. Enabling the Slack Calendar Integration To get started, log into your Slack team account....

It’s free to sign up as an Xbox Insider, although the features you get will sometimes depend on certain requirements, such as your Xbox Insider level, platform or region. However, there are plenty of early access features to test out and betas to sign up for.Let’s take a look at how to become an Xbox Insider and how you can get access to the higher level Xbox Insider rings for even more early access features....

You’ve got multiple ways to boot Windows 11/10 into the Windows Recovery Environment. But that depends on the state of the operating system. For example, is Windows functional? Or do you have trouble even accessing the desktop area? Regardless, the methods below have you covered.Once you boot into the Windows Recovery Environment, read on to learn more about the system recovery options that you can use to fix Windows 11/10....

Depending on your version of Windows, you may or may not be able to burn a WMV file to a DVD from WMM. Windows Vista and Windows 7 both included a free program called Windows DVD Maker, which was sadly removed in Windows 8. Using Windows DVD Maker, you can burn a WMV file to DVD directly from Windows Movie Maker.If you’re running Windows 8 or Windows XP, you’ll need to use a different set of tools to burn the WMV file as a playable DVD....

If you’re someone who enjoys gaming on both consoles and your mobile phones, you’d be glad to know that your PS4 controller can now be used to play games on your mobile devices. This makes it easier to play your favorite games on your mobile as you don’t have to learn new control layouts and you can use the default layout of your controller.Since the PS4 controller uses Bluetooth to connect to the PS4 console, you can use this wireless functionality (Bluetooth) to connect your controller to your mobile devices....

You can choose a new image from your computer, or on a mobile device, you have the option to snap a photo with your camera. This lets you display whatever cover art you want. Here’s how to customize a Spotify playlist cover. Tips for a Spotify Playlist Picture When you choose a photo or picture for a playlist cover, Spotify has access to that image. So, be sure that you have the right to use the photo, that it does not contain inappropriate images such as nudity, and also does not show private information....

There are some techniques you can use to make editing music into videos much easier. Of course, the way you utilize these tips can change depending on which editing program you use, but the general ideas should apply. Edit On the Beat One efficient way to edit music into a video is to edit the video cuts in time with the beat. Or, line up certain clips. Doing this is very easy no matter which video editing program you’re using....

If you find Google Drive Backup and Sync not working properly on your computer, then go through the fixes that follow. They should help you deal with slow or stuck uploads and downloads, as well as other snags that you may come across while using the cloud-storage service. Check Server Status If Backup and Sync worked fine a few moments ago, it’s best to confirm that there’s nothing wrong with Google Drive on the server-side....

In most cases, you’ll see blank thumbnails due to incorrectly configured File Explorer settings (called Windows Explorer earlier) or a corrupt thumbnail cache. But rarely, you could be dealing with something as severe as a malware infestation.Work through the fixes below to get all thumbnails showing in Windows 11 and 10 as soon as possible.Note: By design, Windows 11 cannot display thumbnail previews for folders. Hence, the following fixes only impact file previews in Microsoft’s newest operating system....

In this article, we’ll show you how to measure distances, areas, and elevations on Google Earth. The first step is to choose a version of Google Earth to use. There are three main versions. The quickest way to get started is to access Google Earth on the web by visiting earth.google.com from a supported web browser. Currently, supported browsers include Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Opera.Mobile device users can download the Google Earth app from Apple’s App Store or from the Google Play store....

If you have a new computer, syncing Chrome would be beneficial so that none of your bookmarks are misplaced during the transition. You can also set up a Chrome sync between your phone and computer to access saved passwords, history, and more.Let’s look at why someone might set up Chrome sync and how easy it is to do. Why You Should Set Up a Chrome Sync If you’ve ever lost a bookmark or forgot a password you saved to Chrome years ago, you’ll want to set up Google Chrome sync....