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While most modern Android devices aren’t necessarily lacking storage options, there may come a time when you need to use a flash drive with your phone. Fortunately, this is easy—Android natively supports external drives. There are a couple of different ways to go about accessing a flash drive on Android, depending on your situation. But we’re going to talk about them all, so let’s get started. How to Connect a Flash Drive to Your Phone How you connect the flash drive to your phone depends on what type of USB port your phone has—USB-C or Micro USB....

If you’re an iPhone or iPad owner you’ve probably come across share and action extensions, but what are they and how do you use them? Both add power and capabilities to apps, and they can change the way you use your devices. A share extension makes it quick and easy to share content with people or, in some cases, other apps. Imagine reading a great guide on How-to Geek, but you need to leave to catch a train....

Google Maps now offers built-in music playback controls you can use while navigating. It supports popular music services like Spotify, Apple Music, and Google Play Music. This works on both iPhone and Android, but you have to enable it first. Combined with an inexpensive phone mount, this makes Google Maps a much more convenient solution for your commute. Who needs CarPlay or Android Auto? iPhone On an iPhone, launch the Google Maps app and open the Settings screen....

Whether you’re using an iPad Pro as your laptop replacement or you’re a road warrior who lives on your iPhone, being able to navigate through text and select if needed is important. It’s also easier than you might think. It’s clear at this point that Apple has done a particularly poor job of making text navigation and selection on iOS devices something that is naturally discoverable. If you delve deep enough into Apple’s online knowledgebase, you might come across some of the techniques that so-called power users have been taking advantage of for years....

Update: On January 30, 2020, Avast announced it will shut down to its Jumpshot subsidiary, which sold its users’ browser histories to marketers. Avast Collects and Sells Your Browsing History Do you use Avast’s antivirus? By default, Avast collects your web browsing activity and offers it to marketers through a subsidiary named Jumpshot. Companies who pay Avast can view full “clickstream data” to see what Avast users are doing online....

‘Genshin Impact’ Drops Today Play Video As promised last week, Genshin Impact launches publicly today on GeForce NOW. Aside from being a free-to-play title that you can enjoy the moment it’s available, this also marks the first time Mac users can play directly on their devices. Perhaps even more intriguing is that Genshin Impact is arriving through the developer’s native PC launcher instead of on Steam or the Epic Games Store....

To say Pokémon GO is wildly popular would be a vast understatement. To say the app’s use of your Google Account is wildly insecure would also be a vast understatement. You should revoke its access to your account now. (But don’t worry, there’s a way to keep playing.) Update: Niantic has released a patch that fixes this problem. We’ll be leaving this article here for posterity, but as long as you have the latest version of Pokémon GO on your device, you should be free of the concerns outlined below....

How to Watch Galaxy Unpacked 2022 You can watch the event on Samsung’s website or YouTube (or both at the same time if you really love Samsung devices). If you’re a VR user, you can watch the event through the Decentraland platform and get a 3D view of everything Samsung is set to announce. You’ll hang out in a virtual representation of Samsung’s New York store. It sounds like an odd way to watch a press event but to each their own....

When Microsoft first announced the Xbox One, the Kinect was an “essential” part of the console. In fact, the Xbox One wouldn’t even function unless the Kinect was plugged in. That’s changed, however–today, the most popular Xbox One bundles don’t even include a Kinect. Microsoft is still selling Xbox One bundles that include a Kinect, and you can buy a Kinect separately and plug it into your Xbox One if you didn’t buy one at first....

T-Mobile announced today that 5G Home Internet is now available in more locations in the U.S. states of Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. T-Mobile says a total of nine million homes in those states are now eligible for Home Internet, three million of which don’t have landline home broadband service, according to the company. T-Mobile has rapidly expanded its home internet service to more areas over the past year, which uses a fixed LTE/5G modem that connects to the same wireless network used by phones on T-Mobile....

In the immortal words of Jacobim Mugatu, mini-ITX gaming PCs are “so hot right now.” While home-assembled gaming computers have generally been focused on the larger mid-tower ATX standard for decades, a recent wellspring of tiny, powerful components have made more compact builds worth considering. But what are you giving up if you decide to go for a smaller form factor? Not much, as it turns out. Even with high-power components, there are only a few things you need to look out for....

Verizon 5G Home was initially priced at $70 per month, but if you were already subscribed to some of Verizon’s phone plans, it was $50/mo. These days, it’s $50 per month for everyone (with Auto Pay enabled), and now Verizon is slashing the price in half for people with a “qualifying Unlimited phone plan.” If you already pay for 5G Play More, 5G Do More, 5G Get More, Play More Unlimited, Do More Unlimited, Get More Unlimited, Beyond Unlimited 5G UW, or Above Unlimited 5G UW, home internet is only $25 per month....

What Are Virtual Servers for a VPN? Virtual servers are VPN servers that don’t exist in the physical world. Like a virtual machine on your desktop computer, the server has been simulated on another device. When you connect to a virtual server, you’re still connecting to a server made of metal and electronics, it’s just not in the location the IP address implies it is. The way this works is that a VPN provider leases a number of IP addresses from a registrar and then assign them to servers outside of the country they belong to....

DSLRs and mirrorless cameras have a lot of buttons. If you’re just starting to get the hang of manually controlling your camera, you’re probably wondering what all the—seemingly non-essential—ones do. Let’s take a look at the AE-L, AF-L, AF-ON, and * buttons. RELATED: Get Out of Auto: How to Use Your Camera’s Shooting Modes for Better Photos The AE-L or * Buttons The AE-L and * buttons are the same....

Where to Find the AirPods Status Light? Depending on your AirPods model, the status light can be inside or outside your case. If you are using the first- or second-generation AirPods, you’ll find the status light inside the case, in-between the two earbuds. Just flick open the case to view the status. If you’re using AirPods Pro, or AirPods with a wireless charging case, the status light is on the front of the case, right below the lid....

As part of Microsoft’s push towards cloud and mobile apps, it has invested in several cloud-only additions to the old Office apps with which you’re familiar. One of these is Sway, a friendlier alternative to PowerPoint. Why Does Microsoft Need a PowerPoint Alternative? If you’ve ever worked in an office environment, you most likely associate PowerPoint with shiny-suited salespeople and managers with no public speaking skills. That’s not entirely fair, because you can produce brilliant presentations in PowerPoint....

ISO is the one camera setting you can change without it affecting how your image looks too much, at least for lower values. At higher values, visible digital noise can become an issue. So, let’s look at how to choose the right value for different situations. RELATED: Your Camera’s Most Important Settings: Shutter Speed, Aperture, and ISO Explained The Default: Your Camera’s Base ISO Every camera has a base ISO....

Do you often need to quickly jot down a note on your iPhone or iPad? Using these four tips, it’s easy to add notes without needing to hunt for the Notes app on your Home screen. Here’s how. Add a Note Using a Widget It’s easy to quickly jot down a note using a special widget that you can add to your Today View screen. To add the Notes widget, visit your Today View by swiping from left to right on the first page of your Home screen....

Note: Version 0.44.19.20090811.3 shown here. Installation & Setup Once you have the SmoothWheel extension installed, the best place to start is with the options. In the Options Window there are only two tabs that you need to focus on to make adjustments. In the “Basic Tab” you can make adjustments for Scroll Speed, Scroll Step Size, hotkey-type options, whether to use your keyboard or not, the option to disable SmoothWheel, and a compatibility mode....

When you launch the Facebook website on your iPhone, you’ll notice that your web browser loads the site’s mobile version. If you’d like to access Facebook’s desktop version, there’s a way to make that happen in Safari, Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. On your iPhone, nearly all web browsers offer the option to request a site’s desktop version. When you use this feature, your browser loads the version of the site that you’d see on a desktop computer....