Tip

Quick tip of the day: Finding Lost AirPods

You spent at least a hundred bucks on a pair of Apple AirPods … and then you lose one. If this happens when you’re out and about, there’s a good chance you’ll need to pony up $70 for a replacement.

What about at home? I lose mine more often than I’d like to admit. Luckily, AirPods are easy to find with this simple trick:

• Open the Find My app on your iPhone and tap the devices tab. If your wayward AirPod still has power and is within Bluetooth range, it should show up on the list with the location.
• Tap on Play Sound and start listening for the AirPods to make a noise. It’ll get louder over a two-minute period. Once you’ve found the missing one, just tap Stop.
• If both AirPods are inside the charging case, they won’t play a sound. That’s when you’ll have to rely on the mapped location that shows up in your app.

Tool

Free app to quickly remove your pics and posts on Facebook, Twitter and more

Deleting yourself from the internet is a time-consuming endeavor. If you don’t want to shut down all your social media accounts, you have to scour through them and pinpoint the messages you want to delete. Or you can use this free tool to scrub all of your social media accounts.

There’s a much quicker way to clean up your old posts from Twitter, Facebook, Imgur and more. Enter Redact. If you want to wipe out a handful of profiles, this free tool makes it so much easier. You can mass-delete posts, files, images and DMs.

With Redact, you can automatically remove posts from more than 20 sites and apps all in one go.

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Answers to ANY of your questions better than a search engine

How long do sea turtles live? How many kilometers are in a mile? Who is the king of Sweden?

Nowadays, when a question pops into your head, the first place you go is the internet, as it is filled to the brim with resources that can give you the information you are looking for. One of them being Quora.

What is Quora?

Quora is a question and answer website where people go to find information. Every piece of content on the site is generated by users, meaning it is created, edited, and organized by the same people that use the website.  You can even join and share your expertise too.

After hearing that description of Quora, you might be thinking, “Well why don’t I just use an everyday search engine?”

I’ll tell you why. Quora has some qualities that those other research tools don’t:

• It allows users to create social networks and follow topics that interest them.
• It focuses on high-quality questions and answers.
• It enables users to vote on answers to highlight the most accurate information possible.

Are you thinking about switching to Quora for all of your information searching and sharing needs? Let’s go over the basics of Quora and what you need to know before you start using it.

How to use Quora

To use Quora, you need to create an account. Then, you can learn the basic functions of the website. Don’t worry, they make account creation and navigation of the website pretty easy for you. Plus, it’s free! Start here: www.Quora.com

Gossip

Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Struggles for Relevancy

As a classic example of a Technocrat mind, Mark Zuckerberg pictures himself as being personally responsible for bringing billions of people to Facebook. His switch to Metaverse is rapidly deflating his ego as his groupies reject his shoddy and ill-conceived alternate reality. ⁃ TN Editor

Last October, when Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, announced that the company would change its name to Meta and become a “metaverse company,” he sketched a vision of a utopian future many years off in which billions of people would inhabit immersive digital environments for hours on end, working, socializing and playing games inside virtual and augmented worlds.

In the year since, Meta has spent billions of dollars and assigned thousands of employees to make Mr. Zuckerberg’s dream feasible. But Meta’s metaverse efforts have had a rocky start.

The company’s flagship virtual-reality game, Horizon Worlds, remains buggy and unpopular, leading Meta to put in place a “quality lockdown” for the rest of the year while it retools the app.

Some Meta employees have complained about frequent strategy shifts that seem tied to Mr. Zuckerberg’s whims rather than a cohesive plan.

And Meta executives have butted heads over the company’s metaverse strategy, with one senior leader complaining that the amount of money the company had spent on unproven projects made him “sick to my stomach.” Read more here: Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Struggles For Relevancy (technocracy.news)

The company’s struggle to reshape the business was described in interviews with more than a dozen current and former Meta employees and internal communications obtained by The New York Times. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about internal matters.