Here’s a look at four ways smartphone electrocution can occur and how to make sure it doesn’t happen to you. Don’t Charge and Use Your Cellphone While in Water In December 2016, a 32-year-old British man was found dead in the bathtub. The cause was a charging smartphone. He was resting a charging iPhone on his chest when the device made contact with the water. His injuries were severe, including burns on his chest, arms, and hand....

Whether you’re an IT professional or a home user, here are five simple tips for securing your wireless network. Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) is the more common standard and is more hacker-resistant. However, there is also WPA3, which takes WPA2 to the next level but is not as widespread. WPA3 is also backward compatible with WPA2. Depending on how old your wireless router is, you may need to upgrade its firmware to add WPA2 or WPA3 support....

Because most free video editors limit their features to advertise their professional versions, you may find roadblocks that stop you from making advanced edits. For editors with more advanced features that aren’t free, check out mid-level digital video software or top professional video editing programs. Features include desktop integration for drag-and-drop, image and audio support, curve-based keyframe animations, unlimited tracks and layers, and 3D animated titles and effects. OpenShot is also good for clip resizing, scaling, trimming, snapping, and rotation, plus motion picture credit scrolling, frame-stepping, time-mapping, audio mixing, and real-time previews....

Even if you still mostly listen to music on your smartphone or computer, vinyl gives you the option of elevating the experience with your favorite albums. You also get to have an object that you can proudly display in your home. Here’s where you should start if you want to buy Vinyl records online. Genres available include everything from rock, pop, and country to brass and military, stage and screen, children’s music and more....

Besides donating or recycling, another popular option is to sell your used electronics for money, something you can do right at home or work, usually without fees. To sell used electronics online, you have to answer some questions to value the items, print off a free shipping label, package the products in a box that you or the company provides, and then send it off. Once they receive the items and verify that the condition is as you described, it’s common for them to pay you via a check, PayPal, gift card, or some other means just a few days later....

What’s Taking up So Much Space on My PC? One of the simplest places to look for items taking up a lot of space on your PC is the Recycle Bin. The Recycle Bin is where your deleted files go. Files aren’t automatically deleted. Instead, they are marked for deletion and placed in the Recycle Bin. That gives you some time to restore the files if you have mistakenly deleted one, but it can take up a lot of space....

Sadly, it’s become increasingly common to advertise that a registry or other PC cleaner program is free to “download” even though the all-important “cleaning” part will cost you. How these companies get away with that sort of practice is beyond belief. Fortunately, among the hundreds you’ll find in a search, there are several very good, completely free PC cleaner tools available. Where to Get a True Free PC Cleaner Completely free PC cleaner tools are available from many companies and developers, and we’ve put together a list of the very best to choose from in our Best Free Registry Cleaners list....

Researchers at MIT have designed a modular chip that uses flashes of light to convey information between its components. One of the design goals of the chip is to enable people to swap in new or improved functionality instead of replacing the whole chip, in essence paving the way for perpetually upgradeable devices. “The general direction of reusing hardware is a blessed one,” Dr. Eyal Cohen, CEO and co-founder of CogniFiber, told Lifewire over email....

Copy Your Chart From Excel Any chart that you create in Excel can be copied and pasted into any Microsoft Office app. Choose How to Paste Your Chart The chart you copied in Excel is stored on the Clipboard. Now it’s time to paste it into a PowerPoint slide. Update Excel Charts in PowerPoint If you chose to Link Data when pasting your Excel chart into PowerPoint, changes made to the original spreadsheet file will update the chart in PowerPoint....

The Trouble With USB and Older Head Units While USB seems like just another type of auxiliary input, there’s actually more going on under the hood than a lot of people realize. Normal auxiliary inputs require an analog signal from a device like a satellite radio, CD player or MP3 player, which is fine, but USB allows a device to offload digital audio data to a head unit and allow it to do the heavy lifting....

Cloud Spaces is a digital hub for work teams to aggregate files, links, and libraries to ensure everyone stays consistent on a project. Cloud Canvas is a digital surface where team members can bring together different creative works into a cohesive vision for review. With Spaces, team members can organize assets to ensure the right people have the proper access, add links to relevant documents, and keep project resources up to date....

What Do I Need to Use Cydia? An iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, with iOS 3 or higher, that is jailbroken. Where Do I Download Cydia? Many jailbreaks for iOS give you the option to install Cydia as part of the process. If yours didn’t, you can download the latest version of Cydia here. What Kind of Apps Does Cydia Have? The types of apps available in Cydia vary widely. Some perform system-level tasks that Apple blocks from apps approved for the official App Store....

According to Apple rumormonger Mark Gurman, Apple is working on not one, not two, but several new monitors. After a years-long drought in the Apple displays department, this kind of revelation gets the imagination going. One of these will be an update to the current high-end 32-inch Pro Display XDR, but other than that, we can only speculate. So, speculate we shall! “It’s possible that Apple may incorporate some of the technologies it has developed for its iPhone and other devices into its new external monitors with Apple Silicon....

Earlier this year, Google previewed a new Game Dashboard for Android 12 that would allow users to record, monitor frames-per-second in a game, and activate Do Not Disturb mode while gaming. Now, you can finally get your first look at how the dashboard integrates with your Play Games account. According to 9To5Google, you’ll need to be running Android 12 Beta 4 or later, but once downloaded, updating to Play Games v2021....

The iPad Air 4 received a major facelift compared to the previous generation, but the new aesthetic is hardly the biggest change here. Equipped with the powerful A14 Bionic processor, a beautiful and fully-laminated Liquid Retina display, and a magnetic Magic Connector that works with accessories like the second-generation Apple Pencil and the fantastic Magic Keyboard, Apple has quietly built a solid competitor for the iPad Pro at a lower price point....

Ohm’s Law Ohm’s law is the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance in a circuit. It is the most common (and most simple) formula used in electronics. Ohm’s law can be written in several ways, all of which are commonly used. The current flowing through a resistance is equal to the voltage across the resistance divided by the resistance (I=V/R).Voltage is equal to the current flowing through a resistor times its resistance (V=IR)....

These dedicated audio CD extraction programs typically have more features than the options built into popular media players such as ​Windows Media Player. ​ EAC’s accuracy comes at the cost of speed, but if accuracy is important to you, a minute or more extra time isn’t a problem. On the other hand, EAC isn’t the most user-friendly CD ripping software program, and it doesn’t apply its own codec. It also doesn’t pull the album metadata from the database until you tell it to do so....

Here are the top websites for creating and sending online video cards. JibJab offers video cards for all occasions. Just upload a headshot, and the site takes care of all the rest. Some of the video cards are free, but you must become a member to access many of the video card designs. Whether you want William Shatner, a gospel choir, or a pirate dog to sing your personalized lyrics, American Greetings has you covered....

Overall Findings Block heaters are useful in very cold situations, as they help to warm the engine prior to starting it. This helps reduce damage caused by starting an engine in freezing temperatures. Remote starters, on the other hand, simply start the engine from a distance, allowing you to wait from a warm environment as the car interior warms up. Use Cases: Engine Maintenance vs. Remote Convenience Block heaters are electric heating elements that prevent engine coolant from gelling....

How to Use Find and Replace You can open the Find and Replace tool in Google Docs with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+H (Windows) or Command+Shift+H (macOS). You can also access it via the Edit menu. Other Uses for Find and Replace Find and Replace in Google Docs has additional functionality. Here’s what else it can do. Numbers and Characters Search for numbers and other characters, and even use regular expressions to search for text....