Quick Links Summary To turn on your camera, head into Settings > Privacy > Camera, select “Change,” and enable the “Allow Apps to Access Your Camera” option. You can then use Windows 10’s Camera app to test your webcam. By turning on your Windows 10 laptop or desktop’s camera, you can take pictures and videos, attend online meetings, stream your gaming sessions with your overlay on them, and more. It’s easy to start your webcam, test it, troubleshoot any issues with it, and disable it when you’re done....

Quick Links Summary Excel’s RANK function tells you a statistical rank of a value within a set of data. This has a range of practical uses—teachers ranking their students, sports coaches ranking their players, and a whole host of other situations where you would want to rank data. Here’s how to use it. How to Use Excel’s RANK Function When you use RANK, it will return a digit that tells you where the cell you’re referencing ranks within the chosen series of data....

Summary I spend my fair share on YouTube, especially when doing chores. A good proportion of the videos I watch are well over 30 minutes, so I watch them in installments. The problem is that I sometimes forget to finish these videos. The “Watch later” playlist can fix this, but I always forget it exists. Why We Forget to Use “Watch Later” There are a few factors that contribute to us forgetting about “Watch Later....

I can’t be alone in noticing how, no matter how much storage I buy for my computer, digital refuse always piles up. Fortunately for me, on Linux, there’s a simple terminal command that let me easily drag up the heftiest files. I wasn’t too proud of the results. Meet ncdu and Go Fishing for the Whoppers I’ll be honest: I’m not a command line ace. If a job can get done easily and effectively in a graphical application, I’m going to do it that way....

Quick Links Whenever I see a pretty notebook sitting on a store shelf, I imagine taking it home and all the great things we can do together. Too bad it rarely works out. Now that I’ve used a touchscreen with a stylus, I find physical notebooks hard to use. There’s so much digital note taking brings to the table that I miss when I pull out pen and paper. My Phone and Stylus Are Always With Me I like to imagine myself going everywhere with a Fisher Space Pen and a Moleskin in my pocket, but in practice, that just isn’t the case....

Summary Apple offers six core subscription services: iCloud+, Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, Apple News+, and Apple Fitness+. Subscribing to all six services individually could set you back almost $70. What Is Apple One Premier? Apple offers individual subscriptions to its services, such as iCloud+, Apple Music, and Apple TV+. It also offers threeApple One bundlesthat include several of the services for a discounted price. Apple One Individual includes subscriptions to iCloud+, Apple TV+, Apple Music, and Apple Arcade, with 50GB of iCloud storage for $19....

Summary TheJLab JBuds ANC 3are budget-friendly, true wireless earbuds with Active Noise Canceling and an app that lets you customize your music’s equalizer settings. The included charging case ensures extended listening time. While they offer great value, are they truly the best budget earbuds available? JLab Jbuds ANC 3 The JLab JBuds ANC 3 are super-portable, compact, true-wireless earbuds with Active Noise Cancellation. With its integrated battery case, they offer 42+ hours of playtime....

Summary Some people use ChatGPT like Google, while others expect it to perform like a support rep or digital assistant. However, ChatGPT is neither a search engine nor a human, resulting in disappointing answers. Understanding how the AI tool works can help you get better responses out of it. Understanding the GPT Model Powering ChatGPT There’s a belief that knowing someone’s (or something’s) name can give you power over them, and I’m surprised at how much it holds true forChatGPT....

Summary Serious gamers want serious performance from a gaming laptop, and for the most part, the16-inch Lenovo Legion 9i (2023)serves up gaming on a silver platter. With a top-tier NVIDIA GPU and an HX-rated Intel Core i9 processor, the Legion 9i offers speed, accuracy, a gorgeous chassis, and a 3.2K display for all the eye candy you could want. When Lenovo announced theLegion 9i16-inch Gen 8, the company hyped its fully self-contained liquid cooling system....

There are two office productivity suites that reign supreme: Google Workspace (Google Docs) and Microsoft Office. But which one is the best tool for you? Office Apps vs. Google Workspace Microsoft Office and Google Workspace/Docs have the same three core applications. For word processing and text documents, you get Microsoft Word and Google Docs—the Docs name is often used when talking about all of Google’s office apps. For presentations, you get Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Slides....

The team behind Minigalaxy, a custom Good Old Games (GOG) client for Linux, has dropped a new update with a number of tweaks and an upgrade to the Windows game installation experience. Since the GOG Galaxy client for Windows and Mac doesn’t have an official port for Linux,playing your GOG library on a Linux deviceis a challenge without a third-party client like Minigalaxy. Even more challenging is running a Windows-exclusive that requires a compatibility layer likeWineto play....

Summary NVIDIA’s latest and greatest family of graphics cards improve on what’s come before in just about every way, if not by much. However, in one area, these cards have regressed in a small but important way: PhysX. Specifically, NVIDIA has dropped32-bit CUDA support, which means games that use 32-bit PhysX are now effectively unplayable on NVIDIA’s latest cards, unless you turn this feature off completely. Is this a big deal?...

One of Apple’s longest-selling products, the 2008 USB SuperDrive disc reader, appears to have been discontinued. It’s no longer available on Apple’s web store and is slowly selling out at third-party retailers. This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. TheUSB SuperDriveis an outdated, overpriced optical disc reader—a $79 beauty that’s been unchanged since 2008. It can’t play Blu-ray discs, its permanently-attached USB-A cable doesn’t fit into modern Macs, and most USB dongles are unable to power the SuperDrive....