Quick Links OneNote is a versatile digital notebook that can help maximize your productivity. We’re going to show you how to use features like tags, reminders, OCR, and transcription to get the most out of OneNote when handling your daily tasks. Categorize and Prioritize Tasks Using Tags As youuse OneNote in your everyday life, you should take advantage of tags to help you categorize and prioritize tasks. Tags makes tasks easier to find by making them easily searchable....

As Earth passes through the debris of Halley’s Comet, the sky lights up with shooting stars for more than a month. The Eta Aquariid meteor shower is an extended cosmic spectacle, and it’s calling on you to bear witness to nature’s celestial fireworks. What Is the Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower? When our blue planet drifts through the cosmic breadcrumbs left behind by Halley’s Comet, our sky becomes a stargazer’s delight. This annual show is one of two meteor showers linked to one of history’s most famous astronomical objects....

Quick Links Summary I started playing electric guitar recently and quickly discovered that creating new songs is hard, especially if you don’t know music theory or scales. So, I thought, why not ask someone who knows music theory better than anyone else—AI? Rocking It With ChatGPT Let’s kick things off with something simple, such as a rock guitar riff. Right off the bat, I think that it’s all right. It’s a very simple riff that only consists of power chords, which are very common in rock and metal....

Summary I never thought of myself as the target audience for Bluetooth speakers. I live in an apartment, so I always listen to music through my PC speakers. When I go outside, my earbuds are all I really need. I didn’t see how a Bluetooth speaker could fit into my everyday life until I was gifted one. A Significant Upgrade Over Built-in Speakers Whether it’s a $1,500 folding phone or a$150 budget unit, there’s one thing that all smartphones have in common—crappy speakers....

Here are two things most Android owners don’t know about their phone: it might have a “desktop mode,” and if it does, there’s a way to turn it into a laptop. After doing this with both a Motorola and a Samsung Galaxy phone, here’s what I’ve learned. You Need to Buy a Lapdock When I say I’ve been using my phone as a laptop, I don’t mean I only use my phone (though I often do)....

The repair experts at iFixit have unveiled the FixHub, a practical portable soldering toolkit you can take anywhere to repair your stuff. iFixit, one of the champions of the Right to Repair movement, says the new FixHub comprises a 100W USB-C soldering iron capable of hitting the optimal soldering temperature in under five seconds. It also has a dedicated power station and a set of associated precision tools for accurate soldering (also available separately) that will start shipping on October 15....

Hours after TikTok was pulled in the United States, Meta seized the opportunity and unveiled a new Edits app. It’s intended to be a replacement for CapCut, the editing app by TikTok owner ByteDance, as well as TikTok’s built-in video editor. Edits is a video editor aimed at people “who are passionate about making videos on their phone,” said Instagram head Adam Moserri in the announcement posted on Threads on January 19....

When it’s time to draft a document or make a presentation, you probably use Google Workspace or the free browser-based version of Microsoft 365. But if you need an offline experience (and you aren’t willing to pay), LibreOffice is your best choice. Now, LibreOffice is getting its first big 2024 update, complete with a version numbering change. LibreOffice 24.2 Community, the latest major release of the free office suite, is finally here....

Tablets have become a staple of modern society, and no tablet is more popular than Apple’s iPad and its many variations. Whether you need something more portable than a laptop or more powerful than a phone, the iPad is capable of accomplishing truly remarkable things with the right support. That’s where ESR comes in. With its range of high-end iPad cases and accessories, you can make your iPad not only safer but more powerful than ever before....

Summary TheNothing Ear (a) earbudsare proof you don’t need to spend hundreds of dollars to get a nice pair of noise-canceling in-ears. With an eye-grabbing appearance, great sound and call quality, fantastic ANC, and one of the best earbud apps I’ve ever used, the Nothing Ear (a) gets a solid two thumbs-up in my book. Nothing Ear (a) Made for every part of every day, Ear (a) is for the music lovers....

Valve developers have announced an update to its compatibility layer for Windows games. Proton version 10.0 is available for beta testing on Steam for Linux, bringing with it several specific game fixes. An overall improvement for gaming on Linux is arriving with this beta thanks to updates to the compatibility layer’s internals. Proton 10 includes the latest versions of DXVK and VKD3D-Proton, two translation layers that take Direct3D calls and let Vulkan on Linux implement them properly....

The Apple Trade-In program is device agnostic, which means you can trade anything you’re no longer using to get money off a new purchase. Your purchase doesn’t need to be an iPhone, either. Here’s how it works. Step 1: Trade-In Your Old iPhone for Store Credit TheApple Trade-Inprogram lets you trade in your iPhone, Watch, iPad, Mac, or Android device (yes, really) and receive credit with Apple that you can use on whatever you want....

Summary One of the first things that breaks down on most headphones is the ear pads. Ear pads break down over time because they’re always exposed to sweat and the natural oils from your skin. Yuck! Fortunately, ear pads are incredibly easy to replace. New Ear Pads Improve Comfort, Sound, and Looks While audiophiles are aware of the importance of good ear pads, most people don’t give them a second thought....