Here's How Android Apps Work on Windows 11

October 28, 2021

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Avian respiration is far more efficient than mammalian respiration since birds’ lungs allow for a unidirectional flow during both inhalation and exhalation (versus mammals’ bidirectional flow).

One of Windows 11’s most exciting features is the ability to install Android apps. You can finally use some of your favorite mobile apps on your desktop PC. How did Microsoft make this happen? Let’s take a look. Read More »

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Instagram is primarily used on smartphones, but you can also use it in a desktop browser on Windows or Mac. For years that meant only viewing your feed and messages, but it can also be used to upload photos too. Read More »

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just released a new model called the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, and it comes with a quad-core processor and an affordable $15 price tag. Read More »

When you’re working on a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel, locking your cells is crucial to protecting data, preventing mistakes, and more. Today, we’ll show you how to do it. Read More »

Buying a grandparent tech as a gift can be tricky, but as long as you know what they need and don’t mind helping with setup, you can find some excellent high-tech gifts to improve their lives. Here are some gift ideas for those in your life. Read More »

One of the most divisive design decisions Apple has made recently is the MacBook Pro’s notch. Apple has come up with a temporary solution for apps that don’t play well with the notch, but it’s far from an ideal solution. Read More »

Apple first made its Private Relay anonymizing service available on iPhone and iPad with iOS and iPadOS 15. With the release of macOS Monterey, Mac users can use it, too. The feature isn’t on by default, so here’s how to enable it—and why you might want to. Read More »

Television and monitor reviews often talk about blooming or the halo effect and whether a particular model suffers from it. Here’s why blooming occurs and how you can spot it on your monitor or TV. Read More »

When you type a search query in Mozilla Firefox’s address bar, you see various search suggestions appear beneath your query. If you don’t find these suggestions helpful, you can turn them off. We’ll show you how. Read More »

Over the last few years, you might have noticed more and more homes have teal pumpkins on their porches come Halloween. It’s more than a decorating trend: It’s a movement to help kids with allergies have a safe Halloween. Read More »

Tired of unreliable Wi-Fi? A mesh Wi-Fi router might give you the speed and coverage you need. And it just happens that Amazon is running a sale on some of the best mesh Wi-Fi equipment, including a few models with snappy Wi-Fi 6 support. Read More »

Smart lights are some of the coolest, most useful smart home products you can buy. The biggest issue is that sometimes you want to take your smart lighting with you, and you can’t … most of the time, anyway. With Govee’s StarPal lights, that changes. Read More »

Microsoft has been busy with the launch of Windows 11, and now the company is starting to roll new features out to the OS. The company is adding a new page to the Settings app that’ll let you see information related to your Microsoft account in Windows 11 build 22489. Read More »

While the concept of forking a GitHub repository is similar to cloning, there is an important difference between the two. We explain what the difference is, when you may want to fork instead of clone, and how to do it. Read More »

It’s not always convenient to delete your entire history, but you can instead choose to delete specific websites from your history (and the data they leave behind on your device). Here’s how to do it in Safari for iPhone and iPad. Read More »

If there’s a photo of a minor on Google Image Search, it can be removed by request, as Google announced a few months ago. Either the minor themselves or a guardian can go to Google and request the image be removed. Read More »

If you’re using Google Sheets for email addresses, maybe for clients, customers, or employees, you’ll want to make sure the data is entered correctly. One way to do this is to validate the format to confirm it’s an email address. Read More »

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Google held its Android Dev Summit, and the company announced a modified version of its mobile OS called Android 12L, which is designed to tweak the core Android experience to work better on large-screen and foldable devices. Read More »

Do you want to isolate your Spotify account from your Facebook account so that each account operates independently? If so, it’s easy to unlink Spotify from Facebook and we’ll show you how to do just that. Read More »