How to Turn on Low-Light Mode on Google Meet Google Meet offers an automatic lighting adjustment setting for low-light conditions. Here’s how to turn this feature on for better-lit video meetings. Can You Adjust Lighting on Google Meet? There are no manual lighting settings on Google Meet. But you can turn on automatic lighting adjustments for meetings in a browser and the iOS app. This low-light mode feature analyzes the existing light in your surroundings and activates when needed....

How to Create a Passkey on an iPhone Creating a passkey using an iPhone is relatively simple. In order to create one, though, you need to have: An iPhone running iOS 16 or higher An account with a site or app that supports Passkeys. Assuming you meet those requirements, here’s how to create a passkey: When you create a Passkey, it’s specific to the site you created it on just like a password is....

When a simple text entry in the search field at the top of the Gmail screen returns too many emails, use these operators to search by subject line, date range, sender, and more. Simple Searches To find messages in Gmail, a good first approach is to type search terms in the Search mail field. Gmail Search Options When a simple search yields too many results or not those you need, specify criteria to narrow the results....

How to Ask Questions With the Questions Sticker on Instagram Here’s how to use the Instagram Stories question sticker to connect with your fans. How to Request Music Using the Instagram Questions Sticker While the main purpose of the questions sticker is to ask and answer questions, it can also be used to prompt your followers to send you music. How to Answer Instagram Story Questions Responding to an Instagram Story questions sticker is very simple and only takes a few seconds....

Why Use Samsung Secure Folder? While anyone can use the Samsung Secure Folder, it’s especially useful for those who want their private phone to double as a work phone. Put the information that you want separate from the rest of the phone in your Secure Folder. Once it’s set up, all you do is input a passcode or use a biometric option to unlock it and access your files and information....

What is the VLOOKUP Function? The VLOOKUP function in Excel is used to find something in a table. If you have rows of data organized by column headings, VLOOKUP can be used to locate a value using the column. When you do a VLOOKUP, you’re telling Excel to first locate the row that contains the data you want to retrieve, and then to return the value that’s located in a specific column within that row....

Overall Findings Like the other games in the series, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas combine the best elements of the RPG and FPS genres. Both feature top-notch graphics complimented by engaging stories and missions. From a mechanical standpoint, there is no question that Fallout: New Vegas has better gameplay than Fallout 3, but the world of Fallout 3 is more interesting to explore. World Design: Fallout 3 Has a Better Open World Fallout 3 has the advantage when it comes to world design....

Put away your best selfie face and shove all your insecurities aside so you can fully embrace the lenses that make you look crazy and ugly as opposed to perfect. Use them to make your face twist and distort into something almost unrecognizable before snapping a good one at just the right angle. Bonus points to you if you add a really funny caption with it. You can play around with lenses on your pets by first activating your front-facing camera and holding down your face to bring up the lenses, then switching to your back-facing camera and trying to get the app to recognize your pet’s facial features....

While iPhone owners used to pay to use Spotify on iOS devices, there’s now a free tier that lets you shuffle music and playlists without a subscription (you’ll still need an account). You will have to listen to ads with this version, though. To unlock all the features of Spotify, the Premium subscription is required. With that, you can avoid the ads, save music for offline listening, and enjoy music in a higher-quality audio format than with the free tier....

Access the Quick Menu The quick menu: To get to frequently used settings quickly, just swipe down from the top of your phone screen to bring up the quick menu. Voila! Now you can activate or turn off Wi-Fi, location services, Bluetooth, screen auto-rotation, and volume. For more options, tap on that upper right arrow that’s facing down, and you’ll get several extra icons for features such as airplane mode, mobile hotspot, power saving, flashlight, NFC, mobile data, sync, and do not disturb mode....

A common way to “erase” data is to format the hard drive, but you don’t actually erase the drive of its data when you do this, but instead only erase the location information for the data, making it “lost” to the operating system. Since the OS can’t see the data, the drive looks empty when you look at its contents. However, all the data is still there and, unless you truly erase the hard drive, can be recovered using special software or hardware....

A 503 error message can be customized by the website it appears on or the server software that generates it, so how you might see it vary greatly. How to Fix the 503 Service Unavailable Error Since the 503 Service Unavailable error is a server-side error, the problem is usually with the website’s server. Your computer may have an issue causing the 503 error, but it’s not likely. Regardless, there are a few things you can try:...

Sites that have public domain songs are different from free music streaming services because this music is actually yours to keep. Nobody owns it because there aren’t any active copyrights, so you don’t have to worry about infringing on copyright laws if you use them in your own videos or mix them in with your existing music collection. Below are the best public domain music websites. Expand your musical horizons and discover a whole new world of music you might not know about....

Below is a list of the best, completely free image converter software programs. Some are even online services, meaning you can use them to convert pictures online without needing to download the program. Input Formats: GIF, PNG, TIFF, BMP, DIB, JFIF, PJPEG, JPG, PJP, HEIF, and HEIC Output Formats: JPG, PNG, PDF, and SVG This converter is extremely easy to use. Just upload one or more photos to the site, rotate any of them if necessary, and then pick from any of the supported output formats....

Below is a short guide on HD camcorders, with the difference between standard and high definition quality camcorders, the video resolutions supported by camcorders, and more. SD vs HD Camcorders Much like televisions, the difference between standard definition and high definition camcorders is the video resolution. The video you see on your TV or computer screen is made up of hundreds of different lines. Standard definition video has 480 horizontal lines of resolution whereas high-def video can have up to 1,080....

What Was Napster Originally? Napster had a very different face when it first came into existence in 1999. The developers of the original Napster launched the service as a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network. The software application was easy to use with a free account, and it was specifically designed for sharing digital music files (in the MP3 format) across a Web-connected network. The service was extremely popular and provided easy access for millions of internet users to a large amount of free audio files (mostly music) that could also be shared with other Napster members....

If your computer isn’t powerful enough, Aero’s various effects adversely affect performance. But, like all things Windows, Microsoft offers a way for you to cut down on the effects and adjust them to your heart’s content. How to Adjust Visual Effects on Your Windows Computer To reduce the number of effects Windows utilizes: Benefit of Adjusting Visual Effects Reducing the performance load of visual effects can result in speed increases for your computer, especially if it’s an older model....

According to 9to5Google, Action Launcher developer Chris Lacy tweeted a photo on Monday of an actual two-factor authentication text message from Google with a VPN ad and included link at the end of it. Lacy said he asked for a verification code after a failed login attempt, so it wasn’t a random text, but Google Messages still flagged it as spam. Lacy received a slew of responses to his Tweet, and it appears that a phone carrier added the ad to the message, possibly as a very clever form of targeted advertising....

Living in an area known for natural disasters and potentially prolonged power outages, I’m always on the lookout for ways to generate backup electricity without storing gas or propane. And while I didn’t run into any hurricanes during my time with the Aeiusny 288WH Portable Solar Generator, I did put it through its paces over the course of a long weekend, testing charge speed at home and on the road, its ability to keep devices like my phone and laptop charged, and whether that big battery capacity is really all it’s cracked up to be....

One possibility is updating your mail client software. For example, the Mail app on iPads and iPhones with iOS version 6 or earlier is not secure enough to access Gmail. Update your device’s software to the latest version, which will include an updated Mail app compatible with Gmail security. Another option—which Google does not recommend because it weakens the security of your account—is to change the settings in your Gmail account to allow less secure apps access to it....