Why HTTP/3 and QUIC Matter Here’s the short explanation: Web browsers, web servers, and other critical pieces of web infrastructure are getting support for a new standard named HTTP/3, which uses QUIC. This is a more modern version of HTTP, which web browsers use to communicate with web servers and send data back and forth. HTTP/3 has been rewritten to send data more quickly with better resistance to errors. It has built-in encryption, too....

Why Is NFC and Why Does It Matter? Apple Pay has always used NFC for contactless payments. If you’ve ever paid for something using your iPhone or Apple Watch, you’ve used NFC. NFC stands for Near Field Communications, and it’s a set of standards that allow devices to communicate through radio waves when they’re in close proximity. Emphasis on the close, as the devices need to be 4 inches apart or less....

By default, Windows Remote Desktop will only work on your local network. To access Remote Desktop over the Internet, you’ll need to use a VPN or forward ports on your router. We’ve covered several solutions for accessing your desktop remotely over the Internet. However, if you have a Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate edition of Windows, you already have the full Windows Remote Desktop installed. Home versions of Windows only have the remote desktop client for letting you connect to machines, but you need one of the pricier editions in order to connect to your PC....

After a shoot, it’s time to go through all the images you’ve taken and pull out the good ones. But what makes a good photo? Let’s look at how to assess and analyze your images. In this article, I’m mainly going to focus on assessing your own work to see which of your images are strong and have potential, but you can use the same process to look critically at the photos you see every day....

In case your trip involves any points where you predict you might lose cellular service or fall out of range of a wireless router, this is a feature which can prove especially useful for keeping family members entertained in the car, or adding a little extra entertainment to your next 18-hour flight from Hong Kong. . The app will automatically take you there if the option isn’t enabled, but if you wish to do so manually, you can find the toggle under Settings –> Security....

To enable dark mode in Slack, tap the menu icon at the top right corner of the Slack app—it looks like three vertical dots. It’s in the same place on Slack for iPhone, iPad, and Android. Tap “Settings” in the menu panel. Tap the “Dark Mode” option here. On iPhone or iPad, tap the switch to the right of Dark Mode to quickly toggle it on or off. On Android, scroll down to the General section and tap the “Dark Mode” option....

If your Mac won’t boot, there’s a hidden “Recovery Mode” that you can use to diagnose and fix issues or reinstall macOS completely. The first thing you’ll need to do is boot into Recovery Mode. Fortunately, that’s easy. Turn off your Mac and then restart it, holding down Command+R while it starts. This should get you into Recovery Mode, where you’ll see the macOS Utilities window. Recovery Mode provides four services....

If you use Miracast to project another device’s screen to your Windows PC, you might be surprised to learn that starting with the May 2020 update, the Connect app is no longer included with Windows 10 by default. Luckily, you can still download it from Microsoft. Here’s how. First, open Settings. To do so quickly, click the “gear” icon in your Start menu or press Windows+i on the keyboard....

Being able to use high-res icons really goes a long way to making your PC look fantastic, but it’s just so annoying when you can’t find one that looks the way you want it to. So make them yourself, and really give Windows the custom look you’ve been craving. Grabbing Graphics for Custom Icons Your new icons can be whatever you want, or whatever you can Google. You can design your own, if you’re artistically inclined, but for the sake of demonstration, we’ll simply grab something simple from Google Images....

By default, Apple runs your Mac’s fans automatically—with no way to configure them—and it ramps them up when your system gets too hot. The free Macs Fan Control app lets you manually control your fans. There are two reasons you’d want to do this—to allow your Mac to run faster but louder, or slower but quieter. Apple’s auto control aims for somewhere in the middle. A Few Warnings Your Mac throttles your CPU when it gets too hot, slowing it down significantly until the temperature gets under control....

Like any digital device that’s protected by some sort of passcode, there’s a chance you could get locked out of your Chromebook. If this happens to you, here’s how to powerwash it without having to log in. Why Would You Need to Do This? Since you log in to your Chromebook using your Google account and password, you might be wondering how you could get locked out of it. There are a variety of reasons—maybe you simple don’t use your Google account that often and forgot the password....

Hole punches are great for inserting your printed documents into a binder neatly. Hole punches are not, unfortunately, so great when they accidentally cut off different words throughout your work. You can easily adjust your Word document’s margins to make room when using a hole punch or printing to pre-punched paper. To leave room for a hole punch, you’ll need to adjust the layout of your document. It’s better to do so ahead of time so you can see how moving the margins affects the layout of your document....

USB charging ports in public places are convenient but possibly risky. Data is transferrable over a USB connection, so plugging your phone into an unknown charging port puts it at risk. What’s the Danger? Let’s be realistic: You probably shouldn’t be too paranoid about these attacks. We haven’t seen widespread reports of charging ports causing problems. However, many possible attacks could happen over a USB port, and avoiding the risk is easy enough that it won’t inconvenience you....

The Mac, just like iOS, has more than its fair share of fancy animations that accompany most user interactions. They can look pretty great, but they can also make people prone to motion sickness feel unwell. That’s no good, so here’s how to disable them. Unfortunately, no matter what you do it’s impossible to stop macOS from getting a little carried away with itself, flinging interface elements around the screen with nary a thought for your health....

You may need to resize a column to fit the width of your data or a row for a better appearance. But what if you want to resize all columns and rows in an Excel spreadsheet? We’ll show you a few easy ways to change the sizes of your columns and rows at one time. Plus, we’ll explain how to adjust the default size of all new columns in a sheet....

If you have kids that use a Nintendo Switch, you might worry that they could potentially talk to strangers in online-connected games. Luckily, Nintendo provides an easy way to turn off communication with others in their Parental Controls app for smartphones. Here’s how to set it up. First, Get Nintendo’s Parental Controls App Before you can restrict communications with others online, you’ll need to register the Switch console with Nintendo’s parental controls app....

Windows 10’s setup process now forces you to sign in with a Microsoft account. If you’d rather use a local user account, Microsoft says you should switch from Microsoft to a local user account afterward. Here’s how. What You Need to Know There is a way to set up Windows 10 without using a Microsoft account. If you disconnect your system from the internet, you’ll be able to sign in with a local user account....

Turn Off Your iPad Pro with Face ID If you have one of the newer iPad Pros manufactured in 2018 or later with Face ID, Apple has made the process of turning off the tablet slightly cumbersome. Holding down the Power Button now triggers Siri, so an extra step is necessary for the shut-down process. First, press and hold the Top/Power Button and either Volume Button at the same time. Continue holding both buttons until the “Slide to Power Off” slider appears at the top of the display....

Keeping your Mac up-to-date may seem like a chore, but it’s an essential part of protecting yourself online. Apple and app developers patch security holes when they’re found—and they add helpful new features to macOS and your applications, too. Beyond the usual security patches and app updates, Apple offers shiny new versions of macOS to Mac users every year—for free. We’ll explain how it all works. You can automate much of this process so that updates take care of themselves without bothering you, too....

Ubuntu’s look Command Behaves Differently For a simple, but useful, command, look certainly gave me the runaround when I was researching this article. There were two problems: compatibility and documentation. This article was checked using Ubuntu, Fedora, and Manjaro. look was bundled with each of those distributions, which was great. The problem was the behavior wasn’t the same across all three. The Ubuntu version was very different. According to the Ubuntu Manpages, the behavior should be the same....