Focus Breathing Defined Whether it’s for an SLR, DSLR, or mirrorless, your camera lens has a focus ring. Rotate that ring to adjust the focus of your lens until the image is sharp through the viewfinder, and then you can take a shot. On some lenses, adjusting the focus ring can change the angle and magnification of your subject. This can make things appear closer to or farther away from you depending on whether they’re in focus....

Basic Troubleshooting Before determining that your mouse is broken and in need of replacement, there are a few things you can try to fix it. The easiest solution is replugging your mouse into a different USB port. For wireless mice, replug the wireless transmitter or reconnect your mouse via Bluetooth to reset the connection. Ensure you’ve updated your mouse’s drivers and recharged its batteries, too. If you’re currently using the latest drivers, reinstall it....

Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22557 is here, and it’s a huge one. One of the more exciting features is live captions, which lets you see captions for any spoken content played on your computer. “Live captions will help everyone, including people who are deaf or hard of hearing, better understand audio by viewing captions of spoken content,” said Microsoft in a blog post. The captions are generated on the local computer, which means you won’t have to send what you’re watching to Microsoft’s servers or anything like that....

Instead of having to email attachments or store data on easily to lose flash drives, all of your documents can now be stored and worked on from a central and secure location. As a quick look at Office Live Workspace we will go through saving a document to a site. The first thing you will need to do is add the Microsoft Office Live Add-in Version 2.1 after installing it a system reboot is required....

Use Strong Passwords and a Password Manager Using strong passwords is a must-do to keep yourself protected, and you should take this a step further by using a unique password for each separate account you have. This protects you in a number of ways. Using strong passwords increases your protection against brute force attacks, to name one of many. These attacks happen when a cybercriminal, or “threat actor,” uses software that generates random and known passwords (acquired from data breaches) to try to guess what your password is....

Anker PowerConf C300 Webcam for $99.99 ($30 Off) The Anker PowerConf C300 is a modern webcam that captures clear HD footage at up to 1080p and 60 FPS, along with equally clear audio thanks to a pair of integrated noise-canceling microphones. While your conference call attendees will be treated to your superior video clarity and smooth frame rates, the Anker PowerConf C300 also comes with AI-powered low-light correction that boosts picture brightness when conferencing in dimly lit conditions....

When first launching Revo the first thing I noticed were all of the additional features not included with Window’s Add / Remove utility. Here I am going to show the process of uninstalling an unwanted toolbar from a Vista machine. After double clicking the program you want to remove the familiar ‘are you sure’ message will pop up. Now for the cool part! Revo lets us choose how to uninstall the application using different mode levels....

AMD revealed its new Ryzen 7000 series of processors today, and even though those are limited to desktop PCs (at least for now), the company also talked about its partnerships with laptop manufacturers. Corsair was present at the event, and showed off its first gaming laptop: the Corsair Voyager a1600. Play Video The Voyager laptop is built with a 16-inch QHD+ 240Hz screen, Radeon RX 6800M graphics, a 16-thread Ryzen 9 6900HS processor, Wi-Fi 6E support, Dolby Atmos audio, and a 1080p camera....

There’s a utility called PageDefrag from Sysinternals (Microsoft) that lets you do one single task, and it does it well. It runs as a boot-time process that defragments the system files before they are locked by XP. Thanks to Reader Shawn for suggesting this as a topic. Defragment Your System Files When you open up the application, you’ll see a list of the system files and the number of fragments each file is in....

Why Skip Buying a Wi-Fi Extender? Wi-Fi extenders are, on paper at least, quite appealing. And why wouldn’t they be? Who doesn’t like an inexpensive solution to a complex problem? Fifty bucks or less to finally get Wi-Fi all the way across your house or out to the corner of the patio where your hammock is set up sounds like a great deal. And while, in some cases, a Wi-Fi extender can be a useful and economical solution to your Wi-Fi issues, it’s largely a band-aid slapped over bigger problems with your network....

In an exchange on Twitter, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeny addressed bringing Fortnite to Steam Deck, which would require the game to support Linux. He said, “Fortnite no, but there’s a big effort underway to maximize Easy Anti Cheat compatibility with Steam Deck.” So while it sounds like Epic is working on bringing its anti-cheat tech to Linux, Fortnite doesn’t look like it’s coming. In another Tweet, Sweeny elaborated, saying, “We don’t have confidence that we’d be able to combat cheating at scale under a wide array of kernel configurations, including custom ones....

Alienware X15 R1 Gaming Laptop for $1,999.98 ($550.01 Off) The laptop gaming market has really taken off in recent years, thanks in large part to NVIDIA’s Max-Q technology. With cooler temperatures and higher performance, laptop OEMs like Alienware have pushed the boundaries of what a gaming laptop can do. This week, you can snap up their ultra-thin Alienware X15 R1 for $1,999.98 ($550.01 off). This configuration of the X15 R1 features a gorgeous 15....

Google requires all Android apps on the Play Store to use the company’s own Play Billing system if an app or game wanted to offer in-app purchases — like cosmetic items in a game. Play Billing is available in over 135 countries and supports many different payment methods, but Google does take a small cut of each transaction to cover operating costs. The service fee used to be 30% of each transaction, but last year Google started lowering it to 15% for most apps....

Researchers from Pradeo discovered the app, which was aptly named 2FA Authenticator. It installs a trojan called Vultur, which has been infecting Android phones for over a year. Roxane Suau from Pradeo said, “Our analysis revealed that the dropper automatically installs a malware called Vultur, which targets financial services to steal users’ banking information.” Apparently, the app was well-designed to look like a legitimate 2FA tool. According to Pradeo, “It has been developed to look legitimate and provide a real service....

WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging services in the world, but its owner Meta (formerly Facebook) hasn’t quite figured out how to make buckets of money from it. Now the company has a new feature that might change that. Meta announced that it’s rolling out the WhatsApp Cloud API to all businesses worldwide, which has been in beta testing since November. The functionality allows companies to integrate WhatsApp messages from customers or clients into their back-end systems....

If you’ve been using Adobe Photoshop and you don’t want to leave your recent work visible on the opening Home page when you launch the app, you have a few options for clearing the list or hiding it. We’ll show you how. How to Clear the Recent File List in Photoshop To clear the recent photos list in Adobe Photoshop, first click “File” in the menu bar. Then select “Open Recent....

Along with the basic features like an editable booking form and email reminders, you can add multiple time periods per day, choose how far in advance people can book, and include a buffer between appointments. Let’s take a look at how to customize your availability and more in Appointment Schedules. Edit an Existing Appointment Schedule If you’ve already set up an appointment schedule that you want to change with the options below, select it in Google Calendar and click the pencil icon to edit it....

If you have an event on your calendar that’s not going to happen, you might want to remove it to keep the calendar decluttered. It’s easy to delete calendar events on an iPhone, and we’ll show you how. In your iPhone’s Calendar app, you can delete both one-time as well as recurring events, as we’ll explain below. RELATED: How to Add, Edit, or Delete Recurring Events in Google Calendar...

What’s Wrong With Windows 11’s Start Menu? Windows users are typically pretty resistant to change when it comes to the user interface (UI), especially when Microsoft changes prominent things like the Start Menu, the right-click context menu, or the taskbar. The Windows 11 Start Menu has proven to be one of the more controversial changes that came with Windows 11— it doesn’t display your installed applications without an extra click, you can’t show your pinned applications while displaying your installed applications, you can’t sort your pinned applications into groups, you can’t change the size of the icons of your pinned applications, and the entire recommended section is automatically populated....

New in Windows 7 is the Action Center which is an activity center that allows you to control system notifications. This is definitely an improvement to previous versions so you can control the amount of annoying messages the OS pops up from the taskbar. To get to Action Center select it from Control Panel or simply type “action center” (no quotes) into the search box in the Start Menu....