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After all these years of speech recognition being baked into Microsoft’s operating systems, it’s almost inconceivable that we haven’t yet reached the promised land of perfect voice control for our PCs. While Cortana has moved us in the right direction, it does little to address good old-fashioned speech-to-text. That particular feature has been left to the “Speech Recognition” app, which has laid dormant for a long time. Nevertheless, it features in Windows 10 and remains your best on-board bet for talking documents into being....

If you’re leading a meeting or giving a presentation on Microsoft Teams, you need to know how to share your screen in Teams. This article explains how to share your entire screen, how to share just one window, and how to stop sharing. What to Know To share your entire screen, click the sharing icon (the box with an arrow) in the top right and then click your screen in the sharing menu....

There are many ways to silence your Apple Watch, but it might not be obvious which methods you should use and when. Here are the various ways to silence an Apple Watch and when each one works best. What to Know First option: Slide up to open Command Center > Silent Mode (bell icon). Your watch will still vibrate.Or turn on Theater Mode (mask icon) in Command Center to silence, turn off vibrations, and keep screen dark....

This article teaches you how to stop apps and Android OS from automatically updating on your Android smartphone, including Samsung devices. What to Know Tap Settings > Software Update > cog > Auto download & install > Do Not Allow to disable operating system updates.Tap Google Play Store > Profile Picture > Settings > Network Preferences to disable automatic app updates.It’s sensible to leave apps regularly updating for security and stability reasons....

This article explains actions you can take when you encounter an echo on a voice call, plus information about the reasons for echoes. What to Know Echo when recording calls: Move the microphone away from the phone speakers or use headsets.Echo on VoIP calls: Remove the smartphone case.Echo on smartphone calls: Turn off noise suppression or remove the phone case. Recording Echo Echoes sometimes result when a call is recorded. It is produced when the sound that is emitted by the speakers are recorded by the microphone....

MLB games will air on local CBS, Fox, and NBC stations, but streaming services won’t cover in-market games, leaving them exclusively to cable providers. Need all the games? Sign up for a subscription to MLB.TV and use a VPN to avoid market restrictions. How to Watch Baseball With MLB.TV Blackouts, or game restrictions, impact all the MLB.TV subscription packages. MLB 2023 Season Details Regular Season: March 30, 2023, to October 1, 2023...

This article explains four ways to enable streaming on your iPad or iPhone so you can see your device’s content on a television screen. Instructions include connecting your device to the TV using an Apple Lightning Digital AV Adapter with an HDMI cable, using Chromecast and Chromecast-compatible apps, streaming with your Apple TV, and using a DLNA-compatible app with a smart TV that supports DLNA. What to Know Easiest way: Use a Lightning Digital AV Adapter with an HDMI cable to connect your iOS device to your TV....

Discord promises the new in-built “timeout” option within the server settings to make your server better than ever. Before there was a workaround to timeout users, but this involved creating a new role and changing the users to and fro depending on the time period you are looking for. But all this is can be done with a few click-on buttons, and users will get their permissions back automatically as soon as the timeout timer expires....

There are about 1.4 billion cars in use all around the world according to motor vehicle research. A car is without a doubt one of the most convenient and comfortable modes of transport by road. Almost every house in a developed economic country has a car. This number is said to rise in the coming years considering how useful a car is as a motor vehicle for people. With the advancement in motor technology, new cars have advanced features, one of which is tracing a car....

Hide stuff on your smartphone from prying eyes using an app called AppLock. This privacy protector app can restrict access to apps, media files, and almost anything else from unauthorized individuals on your smartphone. Moreover, you can hide the icon of the AppLock itself. How? We’ll show you how. Some people take privacy seriously. And they should too as we all should. As we use a smartphone the most and it probably has most of our sensitive data, it is natural to have an urge to get protective towards the smartphone....

This article explains how to install Neverware’s CloudReady version of Chromium OS on your Windows, Mac, or Chrome computer using an 8- or 16GB USB flash drive. What to Know You can’t install Chrome OS, but CloudReady Chromium OS offers a similar experience.To install and use, create a CloudReady installation file on a USB drive.Boot CloudReady from the USB drive. How to Create a CloudReady Chromium OS Installer on a USB Drive This process is a little different on Windows than it is on MacOS and Chrome OS, and Neverware recommends that you use Windows for this step even if you aren’t planning on installing CloudReady on a Windows computer....

On planet Icarus, survival is hard since the time exotics obstructed the terraforming. With evolved lifeforms all over the planet ready to kill the alien, you, it’s best to explore these dangerous lands with your friends to back you up if something goes south. So if you are wondering how to join & play with friends in Icarus, then this guide is curated for you. How to Invite, Join & Play With Friends in Icarus (Multiplayer Guide) First and foremost you need to make sure your friend also has a copy of Icarus installed on their PC....

Fortnite’s Land a Choppa at the Bottom of Steamy Stacks Weekly Challenge is one of the most straightforward challenges given in the game, but due to the sheer number of players trying to complete this challenge many are having difficulties. If you are trying to complete this challenge but are facing difficulties, read our guide on how to land a choppa at the bottom of steamy stacks. Land A Choppa At The Bottom Of Steamy Stacks Challenge Fortnite Season 3 is here and along with it are tons of challenges including this one where you have to pilot a helicopter and land it at a specific place....

Have you ever noticed that ads follow you around the internet? Often, ads for the same products appear on various sites you visit. Ad tracking is the culprit. If you don’t like the idea of advertisers following you around the web, your iPhone and iPad have built-in settings to help. And Apple’s iOS 14.5 update gives you more power to stop apps from tracking you. What Is Ad Tracking? Ad tracking is a set of technologies that advertisers, websites, and apps employ to learn about users, track them around the internet, and serve relevant ads to them....

To help control the size of an Excel worksheet, you can limit the number of columns and rows that a worksheet displays. In this guide, we show you how to hide (and unhide) rows and columns in Excel 2019, Excel 2016, Excel 2013, and Excel for Microsoft 365, as well as how to limit access to rows and columns using Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). What to Know To hide certain rows: Select or highlight the rows you want to hide....

Logging in or out of Hulu on a device such as the Roku can be a bit different than on your phone or computer. However, all you need to do is use your Roku remote and go into your profile settings on the Hulu app. What to Know Hulu app: Main profile > Profile icon > Log Out > Log Out of Hulu.To log back in: Hulu app > Log In > Choose log in on your computer or Roku device > Enter account info using chosen method....

This article explains how to make every regeneration potion in Minecraft on any platform. What to Know After you gather the required supplies, activate the Brewing Stand with Blaze Power, add a Nether Wart, then add a Ghastly Tear to a Water Bottle.To brew variations of the regeneration potion, you’ll need Glowstone, Redstone, Gunpower, and Dragon’s Breath.Regeneration potions can restore your own health and heal others. What You Need to Make a Potion of Regeneration To create a Potion of Regeneration (or regen potion) in Minecraft, you’ll need the following items:...

Knowing how to grow Sugarcane faster in Minecraft will be of great help to you in-game. It is of great importance as a crafting item in survival mode. As a Minecraft gamer, you will notice how sugarcane takes annoyingly forever to grow. To add to this, you need to be within 64 blocks to get your sugarcane to grow. Thankfully, you can speed up this process. Within the game, there exist a few ways in which you can execute them!...

If you have a large file you want to distribute to several people – say, a documentary you shot, or your band’s discography – creating a torrent is the way to go. If you make your own torrent, it will speed up the download time for each consumer of your content, provided you and others continue to seed it (remind your friends to be good seeders). What You’ll Need Several different programs can be used to make your own torrent....

A password manager is a savior in this unsecure world where a different complicated password is required for each and every account that requires login. However, with so many password managers out there, it can be difficult to identify the good ones from the rest. Luckily, we found Bitwarden, which is a comprehensive tool to manage passwords. Bitwarden is an open-source password manager that supports almost all computing platforms, comes with plenty of features and is free....