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How to reset the SMC in a MacBook (and why you might want to)

Jul23
by on July 23, 2019 at 12:14 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Basics


Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. If you find your MacBook acting strangely, and seemingly for no reason, resetting the SMC may help. There are a number of things that could signal an SMC issue, from screen resolution problems, to a PC that doesn’t seem to want to reboot. And while resetting the SMC isn’t a cure-all approach to diagnosing problems, it’s a great place to start. What is the SMC? SMC stands for system management controller, and it’s a chip…

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How to record vocals for music and spoken word

Jul22
by on July 22, 2019 at 11:54 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, artificial intelligence, Basics, Music, Plugged


Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. There are different schools of thought when it comes to getting your vocals perfect for any project. The easiest way, surely, is building a million-dollar studio and filling it with the best gear money can buy. This is a guide for those of us who don’t have that option. The first thing you need to do is find out where you’re at vis-a-vis what you need, what you want, and what you can afford. The…

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Nintendo is facing a class-action lawsuit over ‘Joy-Con drift’

Jul22
by on July 22, 2019 at 10:21 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


As more and more reports of flaws in the Nintendo Switch’s Joy-Con controllers surface, a New England law firm is championing the players with a lawsuit against the company. If you haven’t experienced it, the fault occurs sometimes in Joy-Con that have been in use for a while. The Switch will react as if the thumbstick is being moved even when it’s not being touched, which can obviously cause some gameplay problems. The so-called “Joy-Con drift” has never really been explained. Is it the result of a hardware problem or stress from use? Nintendo isn’t saying, and I can’t even find…

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Review: Samsung’s Space Monitor saved me from cluttered-desk hell

Jul22
by on July 22, 2019 at 7:39 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Music, Plugged


Samsung’s Space Monitor is a clever gadget whose sum is greater than its parts. On first glance, it’s simply a decent screen mounted on an innovative bracket. But it’s hard to overstate how huge an impact it’s had on my workflow as both a tech reviewer and a musician. There’s a lot of great displays out there, but this one is a much-needed, esoteric departure from the feature-bloated monitors in the status quo. As a gamer and someone who dabbles in film and photography, I appreciate a top-of-the-line monster of a monitor like Alienware’s huge curved screens or Apple’s mind-blowing…

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