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Should you need to find the most commonly occurring value in your spreadsheet, Google Sheets has a function that automatically analyzes your document for you. Here’s how to use the MODE function to find a value that frequently appears. Fire up Google Sheets and open a spreadsheet with datasets for which you want to find the most commonly occurring value. Click on an empty cell and type =MODE(, [, …]) into the cell or the formula entry field, replacing and with the values or ranges to consider for calculation....

The deal applies to any new or existing T-Mobile or Sprint customer on post-paid cellular or home internet plans. That means that anyone on T-Mobile’s prepaid plans will have to sit this one out. However, since the freebie is available to new subscribers, you could always switch to the post-paid plan to take advantage of it. You’ll get a year of the Paramount+ Essential plan, which is the $4.99 per month plan with some ads....

The Internet’s “Um” So you might have seen people use “oof” all over the internet lately, and with seemingly little reason. Unlike some other internet terms we’ve covered, the term isn’t an acronym or even an exact, definable word. People mainly consider it a filler term—a response when they can’t find anything better to say to someone. What “oof” means depends heavily on the context. You can use the word negatively: for example, someone tells you that they’re currently having a hard time with math homework....

More than anything, focal length determines how your images look. It’s what controls the field of view of the image as well as how objects at different distances appear.] Focal lengths are grouped into three main categories: Wide focal lengths are between around 16mm and 40mm on a full frame camera or roughly 10mm and 28mm on a crop sensor camera. Anything wider is considered a fisheye lens, which has specific uses....

The Internet Is a Real Place It’s easy to think of web content such as Netflix steaming episodes or your Google Drive files being “out there” in the cloud. However, every bit of data has to live somewhere on a physical storage device, inside a network-connected computer. If you try to access a website on the other side of the planet, it will take much longer to load than one on a website hosted in your city or country....

At first glance, all music streaming services are the same. This may be true on some level, but Apple Music takes a different approach than some of its competitors. Let’s take a look at what makes Apple Music special. What Is Apple Music? Apple Music is a streaming music service, where instead of buying individual songs or albums, you pay a monthly fee for all the music you can listen to....

Why Speaker Placement Matters But, even cloud cloud-powered, that intelligence doesn’t do much if the speaker can’t hear you. Smart speakers have multiple microphones built to listen to everything around them. But, if you put the speaker in the wrong location, those microphones may not work optimally. But that’s ok; it’s an easy fix. Just move your smart speaker. It’s just a matter of knowing where to move it. The Center of a Room is Best That means if you place a smart speaker against the wall, you run the risk of blocking some of its microphones from hearing your voice....

Appliances Should Last For Decades Today, there are still plenty of homes furnished with fridges, stoves, and washing machines from the ’80s. These appliances may not look as good as they used to, and they probably inflate electric bills, but they’re reliable and easily serviceable. Some of these appliances may survive for another ten or twenty years. So it’s fair to assume that a brand new appliance will last for decades, right?...

Chromebooks have come a long way since the original Cr-48 back in 2010, and are now more powerful (and mainstream) than ever. If you’re curious about Google’s web-centric operating system, here are some things you may not know. Chrome OS is Based on Linux Linux is an open source operating system that anyone can download, modify, and use to build their own distribution. That’s exactly what Google did with Chrome OS by using the Linux kernel and building around it....

Sudden and Frequent Restarts Sudden and frequent restarts, particularly those accompanied by an onscreen warning, are known as kernel panics. This is the Apple equivalent of Microsoft’s Blue Screen of Death, and you often see the “Your computer was restarted because of a problem” error when your machine reboots. Many things can cause a kernel panic. It could indicate a problem with hardware, such as RAM or CPU. An unreliable peripheral you have connected to your Mac can also cause a kernel panic, or it could simply be a case of low disk space....

Buying your smartphones used can save you a lot of money over buying new—or can it? We’ve done some math to see what the best route is as far as buying new vs. used smartphones. RELATED: The Best Way to Save Money on Tech: Buy Used There’s a decent argument for buying anything brand new (not just smartphones), and it’s that while you’ll spend more money up front for a brand new product, you’ll likely keep it forever (or at least as long as possible until it finally bites the dust)....

If your USB flash drive, SD card, or another drive isn’t working quite right, “cleaning” the drive and removing its partitions is one possible solution. This can fix problems with a drive that can’t be formatted or one that shows the wrong capacity. RELATED: How to Manage Partitions on Windows Without Downloading Any Other Software This trick also deletes partitions that you can’t delete with normal tools, like the graphical Disk Management disk-partitioning tool built into Windows....

If you haven’t yet, you should explore the Gallery section in the Shortcuts app and try out some shortcuts on your iPhone or iPad. Once you get into them, you’ll want to download and install third-party shortcuts from the web. People also create and share shortcuts, so you don’t have to build everything from scratch. You can find shortcuts for various things, like saving a webpage as PDF or quickly searching a website....

When you’re putting audio tracks together, you’ll often notice that there are discrepancies between them. Using Audacity, you can easily change the tempo of a song independently of the pitch, or vice-versa, to better suit your project. Changing Tempo You can change the tempo of your track without it sounding like chittering chipmunks. Select your track (or a portion you want to edit) and go to Effect > Change Tempo…...

When you register for a Stadia account, you are asked to create a username. If you made a typo or want to modify your Stadia name later, you can change it with a little bit of help from Google. The process for changing your Google Stadia username and avatar is almost identical across the Android and iPhone mobile apps and the desktop website. The below screenshots were taken on an Android, but the interface is uniform across all platforms....

HomeKit for Any Smart Device Sure, they’re not as premium as LIFX; the colors aren’t as vibrant, and they emit an audible buzz in the bathroom, but for $10 a pop, they’re a pretty unbeatable value. The main issue, though, is that they don’t have HomeKit support. They’re not entirely dumb—they work with Google Home, Alexa, IFTTT, and the manufacturer’s app. They’re fine for someone who only has TECKIN smart bulbs....

With iOS 12, Siri began offering suggestions for Shortcuts and more via the lock screen. You can disable these suggestions for individual apps or disable all Siri suggestions completely to clean up your lock screen. Siri Suggestions is a little-known feature that lets Siri watch for tasks you carry out regularly and then offer up a shortcut to those tasks at the best time. A great example of this would be if you made a coffee order at a certain time or location....

We all have things on our home network we want to access from the outside: music collections, game servers, file stores, and more. Dynamic DNS makes it easy to give your home network a memorable and easy to use address. What’s Dynamic DNS And Why Would I Want It? RELATED: What Is DNS, and Should I Use Another DNS Server? Before dive into the tutorial and before we even start talking about what dynamic DNS (DDNS) is, let’s start with the basics–what DNS even is....

Chrome OS has a hidden feature that lets you use Google Assistant on your Chromebook. It’s tucked away as an experimental feature on the Flags page, and when enabled, lets you take advantage of Google Assistant directly from the desktop. When you enable anything from chrome://flags, you’re using experimental features that haven’t been tested on all devices and could misbehave. Although Assistant is enabled, you can potentially run into a few bugs along the way, so be careful when playing around with some of these flags....

GnuPrivacy Guard (GPG) allows you to securely encrypt files so that only the intended recipient can decrypt them. Specifically, GPG complies with the OpenPGP standard. It is modeled on a program called Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). PGP was written in 1991 by Phil Zimmerman. GPG relies on the idea of two encryption keys per person. Each person has a private key and a public key. The public key can decrypt something that was encrypted using the private key....