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Small businesses are utilizing all that social media has to offer to grow their following and customer base. Brother-sister-duo Stephanie and Kevin Lin opened their brick-and-mortar shop, Kestan, in California in 2019 but were forced to turn to a fully online store when the pandemic hit. To promote their store and keep sales going despite not being physically open, they turned to social media (specifically, Facebook and Instagram) to grow brand awareness and get more online customers....

If you want to find that post, you better know who wrote it, so you can visit their account and scroll through their feed to locate it. If that person is a busy tweeter, you can be sure it might take some time to track it down. Also: The best Twitter alternatives There has to be a better way. There is. And fortunately, for those who are migrating away from Twitter to Mastodon, that more efficient method has an analogous feature on both platforms....

The information Safari gathers will be a real eye-opener for many users who probably had no idea just how prevalent trackers are. With that information in hand, you might be inclined to either stop visiting a site or ensure that the site is incapable of tracking. The good news is that Safari is pretty good at blocking trackers. But having this information at your disposal can help you make informed decisions about how to approach your online behavior....

If you’re using an iPhone, Mac, or iPad, the process will probably take about five seconds. If you’d like to use your AirPods with a non-Apple device instead, the task of pairing them is almost as easy. Also: How to clean and sanitize your AirPods We’ll show you how to quickly connect your truly wireless earbuds to just about any Apple or non-Apple device out there. The process is the same for every generation of standard AirPods and AirPods Pro, meaning this guide should work for pretty much everyone....

Back in the days of dinosaurs and 33.6k modems, we had to actually first go to google.com, yahoo.com, altavista.com, dogpile.com, or excite.com, manually chisel our search string into stone tablets, and hope the gods would smile upon us with the results we were looking for. We didn’t have integrated search bars or a one-true-search-engine-to-rule-them-all. Also: Firefox for Android just got an important privacy feature: How it could benefit you Now, we have options....

Say, for instance, you write up all of your copy in Google Docs, which is then copied and pasted into other systems. When you do that, you might find various issues with the formatting or layout. If you’re using markdown, however, any system that supports the format will work perfectly with your document. You could copy/paste content from Google Docs into a developer IDE or any number of CMS editors....

Also: How (and why) to clear the cache on your Android While Android users still can’t initiate a FaceTime call, or download the dedicated app, Apple users can now send an invitation link to their Android friends to hop on a video call, kind of like a one-way Zoom link. Here’s a breakdown of how to do it. How to set up and receive a FaceTime call Also: The easiest way to transfer contacts from your Android to an iPhone...

While a single cloud provider model still may be the case for many businesses, now it’s generally a lot more complicated than that here in 2021. The trend now is for IT to use a multiple-cloud or hybrid-cloud (combination of data center and cloud) setup for optimizing various workloads. In fact, multi-cloud and hybrid systems are what cloud-service providers in all areas – not only storage – are gearing up for as we enter 2022....

Although there were improvements in 2021, many individuals still faced economic challenges that began in 2020. Most Americans, however, received two stimulus payments in 2020 to help out (and those were thankfully tax free). There was a third in 2021 of up to $1,400. And then there was the Advanced Child Tax Credit for eligible parents. The IRS sent advance payments from July to December of up to $300 per child....

If you want a more robust and user-friendly Taskbar in Windows 11, there are several changes you can make in the OS itself. If those don’t do the trick, you may want to try a third-party utility to further enhance the Taskbar. Let’s look at your options. Tweak the Taskbar First, you should review the different ways to modify the Taskbar to make it look and work according to your preferences....

Also: 8 things you can do with Linux that you can’t do with MacOS or Windows Ubuntu Server can be installed on bare metal (in other words, on a physical machine), as a virtual machine, or as a virtual environment on a third-party cloud host (such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud). With Ubuntu Server, there’s no end to the number of applications and services (such as WordPress, Nextcloud, Invoice Plane, email servers, web servers, database servers, and much, much more)....

Benefits to opening a bank account for your business Professionalism Opening a bank account for your business can add credibility and respect to you, the business owner, and your business. It shows your level of commitment and dedication, and you take your business seriously. When you take yourself and your business seriously, others will begin to do the same. Business transactions are also more professional when payments are made to your business than you personally....

Sun had a powerful multi-processor RISC server, the E10000. And we had a fabric-based storage system awaiting the release of the first Fibre Channel switch to provide unheard of storage scalability. But it was nowhere near enough. We - and the rest of the legacy computer industry - came up empty. We had no idea how to even approach solving their problem. Why couldn’t we see a solution? In retrospect, all the architectural elements of a warehouse-scale computer - as Google would call it - were available....

That’s how this is traditionally done and I’ve used the feature often. When the contact to whom you’ve forwarded the email receives the missive, they will see that it came from you and can read it. If, however, they respond to the email, that response will go directly to you, instead of the original sender. If they’re willing to take the time, they could locate the original sender’s address in the email headers (or content of the email), copy that address, and overwrite your email address in the response....

But sometimes, you need to be able to venture beyond the default Google Docs file format. Although there are millions of users working with Google Docs, there are just as many who depend on the MS Word file format. And even though Google Docs does a good job of converting Google Docs to MS Word (and vice versa), there are times you want a much simpler workflow for collaboration. Holiday guide: The best Android phones That’s when you want to make sure your Android Google Docs app is configured to allow the creation of MS Word documents....

In association with MIT’s Solv[ED] Youth Challenge platform, the program is open to girls ages 13-18. HP is looking for girls to submit solutions to an environmental issue near where they live, and winners will get access to HP technology packages and up to $50,000 to develop and implement their solutions. Ten finalists will be chosen at a March 2022 at MIT Solv[ED] and given the opportunity to take part in a Virtual Camp run in coordination with MIT Solve, Lonely Whale, Girl Rising, Female Quotient, and Conservation International....

On Tuesday, SentinelLabs published an analysis of the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-3438 and issued a CVSS score of 8.8. The security issue is described as a “potential buffer overflow in the software drivers for certain HP LaserJet products and Samsung product printers could lead to an escalation of privilege.” According to the researchers, some HP, Xerox, and Samsung printer models contained vulnerable driver software, sold worldwide since 2005. The driver in question, SSPORT....

Design The MateBook X Pro (2022) comes in just one colour in the UK – a smart, distinctly HP Dragonfly-like Ink Blue – although it’s also available in White and Space Gray elsewhere. Thanks to the increase in screen size, it’s larger than the 2021 model – 310mm x 221mm x 15.6mm versus 304mm x 217mm tall x 14.6mm – but it’s also lighter at 1.26kg versus 1.33kg. Although there’s no mention of military-grade ruggedness in the specifications, the magnesium alloy chassis feels solid and there’s little flex in the lid, keyboard or wrist rest....

Hydrow responded to this feedback with the new Hydrow Wave that provides the same rowing machine experience for those in apartments and homes with less available space. It is also more compelling for people looking for an affordable home solution – it’s priced $1,000 less than the original Hydrow. The Hydrow Wave is available for $1,495 from Hydrow.com and Best Buy, with each new machine including a complimentary 1:1 personal coaching session....

Not only does it provide 6 different connections – including a 3.5mm headphone jack, a USB port, a microSD card reader, and an HDMI connection – but the top of the hub has three giant buttons to control media playback. A byproduct of Apple expanding its use of USB-C to the iPad Pro, iPad Air, and iPad Mini is that you can use the new media hub with any of those options....