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Compared to Wi-Fi 5 (What You’re Probably Using) If your router is reasonably new, it probably supports Wi-Fi 5, technically known as 802.11ac. Assuming your device is also Wi-Fi 5-enabled, you can expect to get a maximum transfer speed of 3.5 gigabits per second (Gbps). However, that’s the theoretical maximum speed for optimal conditions only. You probably won’t actually achieve that speed. It’s influenced and brought down by factors like your internet plan, your Wi-Fi router’s location and surroundings, your device’s location, and interference coming from nearby networks....

If you’d like to change Google Sheets’ default border around cells to something else, it’s easy to do that. You can choose a custom color for your borders and then display or print your spreadsheets with those colors. Here’s how. Sheets offers multiple colors to choose from for your borders. If you don’t find the color you want on this list, enter your favorite color’s HEX code or choose it on a color wheel in your spreadsheet....

Many times, projects and goals develop out of emails or messaging discussions. If you’re using Google Chat, you can turn a message turn into a task. Then access it like your other Google Tasks or in Google Calendar. You might be chatting with your team about a project or your boss about an assignment. Simply turn that Google Chat message into a task, include a note or a due date, and get it done....

Pinterest makes it easy to remove unwanted pins from your boards. You can delete specific pins or all pins on a board at once. We’ll show you how to do that using your desktop or mobile device. RELATED: How to Download Images From Pinterest Remove Individual Pins on Pinterest To delete an individual pin from your board, it’s as easy as selecting that pin and finding the delete option. Here’s how....

Do you have a date in your spreadsheet that you want to turn into the day of the week? If so, Microsoft Excel has multiple features and functions to help you do that. We’ll show you how to use them. Ways to Find the Weekday From a Date in Excel To find the day of the week from a date, you have basically three ways. The first method is to turn your date into the day of the week in a numerical form....

There’s a bit of confusion about what happens when you remove a secondary account. Google’s documentation says: “If you remove the profile you added most recently, your device will be factory reset.” However, that is only true if the profile is the original profile used to set up the device. Removing a secondary profile does not reset the Google TV. What it does do is remove all the data associated with that account and any kids profiles that were tied to it....

Placing text around an image brings a professional appearance to your presentation and makes the most of the space on your slide. Even though PowerPoint doesn’t offer the same feature as Word for wrapping your text, there are a couple of ways to make it happen. Option 1: Create the Wrapping in Word and Insert It in PowerPoint This first method uses a combination of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. You’ll take advantage of the text wrapping feature in Word and then insert it as an object in PowerPoint....

Open a blank or existing Excel 2007 spreadsheet. Click the Data tab on the Ribbon and choose “From Text”. Choose the text file you want to import and double click. This will open the Text Import Wizard. Choose your data type and which row you want to start the data at and click next. Step 2 of the Wizard allows you to manage the break lines between your data. Step 3 of the Wizard allows you to choose column formats, provides data preview, and other advanced settings....

HDMI Cables If you’re buying an expensive new TV, you might feel inclined to spend a bit more on cabling for devices. Don’t be fooled. As long as your HDMI cable is capable of carrying enough data for your given usage, it’s good enough. Spending more may get you a cable more durable against repeated plugging and unplugging, but in most cases, your HDMI cables live at the back of your TV and are rarely unplugged....

All you have to do is type +-+ and hit enter, and Word will automatically insert a table. The + symbol indicates a column break, and the – symbols indicate the width of the column in the table. For instance, +-+ will get you a very small single column table, but you can do more. Let’s look at a more useful example, where we want a 3 column table with a wider middle column....

NFL+ is available starting today, with a seven-day free trial available. The initial $4.99 per month ($29.99/yr) tier includes live out-of-market preseason games on all devices, live audio for all games, and an on-demand library of archived videos and documentaries. Live regular season and postseason games are also included, for both primetime and local games, but those are only accessible on phones and tablets — no TVs. That includes Playoff games, the Pro Bowl, and next year’s Super Bowl LVII (which will also be broadcasted on CBS)....

The OnePlus 10 Pro was released at the start of 2022 — confusingly, there was not a non-Pro version, though rumors persisted for a while that it was still in development. Following the company’s usual release cycle, the OnePlus 10T is now official, which serves as a mid-cycle upgrade until we get the OnePlus 11 series next year. The OnePlus 10T is powered by a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset, a slight upgrade from the non-plus Gen 1 in the OnePlus 10 Pro....

You can go with the really short method: The only problem with that method is that some web hosts have url access blocked in the file methods, for security reasons. You may be able to use this workaround method instead: $str = file_get_contents($url); You should now have the contents of the website in a string variable. Note that this doesn’t pull down the supporting files such as javascript or CSS....

Setup After you have installed Tab Sidebar, the first place to start is in the options. Here you have many wonderful options for managing those tabs. You can choose to hide the Tab Bar while using the Sidebar, display navigation buttons if desired, select the options that you like for page previews, and best of all you can decide exactly where you want your Tab Sidebar to display! Here is a look at the drop down menu for Sidebar location…five wonderful choices for you to select from!...

The advent of tabbed internet browsing has meant that we are not afforded this advantage when browsing online. Annoyingly, we are forced back to the open-and-see approach until we eventually figure out what that website was called that we wanted. Tab Preview 0.3 addresses this issue. You’ll have to restart to complete the installation, as with all Firefox extensions. If you’ve never clicked it before, click the little check box that says “Do not ask me again” when this message comes up – it will save you a few annoying clicks in the future....

What you have to do is set a less-known flag to allow you to see non-present devices, and then launch device manager. You’ll then see the old devices in the list, and can uninstall the drivers for them. In Windows 7 or Vista, the first thing you’ll need to do is open a command prompt in administrator mode. Type cmd into the start menu search box, and then use Ctrl+Shift+Enter to open in administrator mode....

First you’ll need to open Device Manager. The easiest way is to just type device manager into the start menu search box, but you could also go through the control panel if you choose. Once you have it open, browse down to the problem device, right-click and choose Properties. Now click on the Driver tab, and then click the Roll Back Driver button. You’ll get a prompt telling you that you don’t want to do it, but go ahead anyway....

That’s a big question to answer. In many ways, it’s harder to choose a device for your wrist than it is to pick a smartphone. There’s a huge range of options, and the features vary wildly. We’ll try to help you decide on a path. What Is a Fitness Tracker? Let’s start with fitness trackers. These devices have been around longer than smartwatches due to being simpler in nature. That’s the main defining quality of a fitness tracker compared to a smartwatch—simplicity....

Google actually stopped offering free g Suite accounts back in 2012, but the company allowed tons of users to keep their free accounts active. Anyone with a custom domain could sign up for these accounts and access Gmail and most of Google’s tools. Google killing off these free accounts is sure to upset many users, but it’s hard to be upset about getting something for free for more than ten years....

CFexpress cards aim to solve that problem, boasting write speeds of over 1,000 MB/s. Shooting with one of these cards means several seconds—and hundreds of frames—of uninterrupted burst photo shooting. And even when your camera’s buffer fills, it clears in a fraction of the lengthy wait times of the past. When choosing a CFexpress memory card for photography, the most important factor will be the kind of shooting you do....