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One of the common effects that you may need to use for posters or other marketing material is to add a dark or bright overlay on top of an image. This is often used to make the text on top of the image more visible so that users can read the text more easily. Learn how to add these dark or bright overlay effects in Adobe XD. How to Add a Dark Overlay to an Image To add a dark overlay to an image, you will first need to import a photo or graphic element onto the canvas....

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iMessage has many more of these effects in stock. And in this article, we’ll show you how to unlock their colorful potential. About iMessage Effects You can’t add effects to every message you send from the Messages app, only the iMessages. These are the blue messages you can send to other people using Apple devices. Green messages are standard SMS texts, which you can’t add effects to. There are two ways to go about adding effects to an iMessage....

To give your career a boost, it’s important to open multichannel communication lines with your LinkedIn contacts. A good way to do that is by exporting your LinkedIn contacts to Gmail. Why You Should Export Your LinkedIn Contacts to Gmail Why make efforts to open a new communication line on Gmail? Well, for starters, not all LinkedIn users actively use the platform. Although you can use LinkedIn to pitch your services to people, it may take a while to get going on business conversations or even get a response to your messages from potential business partners....

While you can do that with third-party apps before uploading your video, you risk violating YouTube’s copyright terms. This is because third-party apps don’t tell you which songs YouTube flags for violating its copyright rules. Once YouTube identifies such a violation, it means you can’t monetize the affected video. If you want to prevent that, the best option is to use the built-in YouTube Studio editor to add recommended music to your video....

Argo AI, a robocar venture backed by Volkswagen and Ford, recently announced plans to deploy the first commercial autonomous taxi service in Germany by 2025. The battery-powered vehicles will be outfitted with laser lidar sensors, radar, cameras, and AI-enabled software. It’s part of the growing interest in self-driving public transportation that could be cheaper and safer than regular cabs. “When considering an imminent threat, like an animal running in front of a vehicle, the control systems of the vehicle make an instant decision to brake or take other evasive actions,” David Linthicum, the chief cloud strategy officer of Deloitte Consulting, told Lifewire in an email interview....

In this article, we aim to show you how Microsoft’s official website can assist you in your laptop search. Using Microsoft’s official website as a guide when buying a Windows laptop will help you make an informed purchase. How to Filter the Right Windows Devices Using Filters on Microsoft’s Website Microsoft’s official website offers the convenience of filtering the available Windows laptops by the brand from which they come, their features, the operating system they use, and most importantly, the price....

The arrival of the new Echelon Connect EX-7s marks a bumper year of home gym (opens in new tab) product releases from the brand, but it doesn’t come cheap. In fact, with an eye-watering starting price of $2,039.98, the Echelon Connect Bike EX-7s is the brand’s most expensive fitness bike, putting it more in line with the price of a Peloton bike, arguably one of Echelon’s biggest competitors. However, there’s a lot going on with the Connect EX-7s, with a ton of features, high build quality, and a gorgeous 21....

While the world is hoping for the service to expand globally, we would have to get creative to watch its content in the meantime. How to Create an Account From Outside the US? Setting up a Hulu account from outside the United States is challenging. And the number one thing you need for that is a virtual private network (VPN). VPNs are super helpful as they route your Internet connection to a server of your choice....

Many moons ago it used to be (mildly) amusing to swipe someone’s Nokia and set it up so it would request the owner ‘Insert 10p’ when they first switched it on. Now you might not be able to make a phone call for 10p these days, but Android Marshmallow builds in the ability to create a lock-screen message. And you can have loads of fun with it (we’re still waiting for PCA editor Jim Martin to notice our alteration to his Nexus 5X)....

How to Add a Pinterest Tab to Your Facebook Page With Woobox Let your Facebook page fans know about your Pinterest profile so that they can follow you on Pinterest. The more Facebook fans that follow you on Pinterest, the more likely they’ll see your pins and save them to their boards, which could result in more saves, followers, and clickthroughs. Navigate to Woobox. com in a web browser. Select Sign Up in the upper-right corner and create an account....

Add Bcc or Cc Recipients in Outlook.com Messages To add Cc or Bcc recipients to an email you are composing on Outlook.com: Select New message. In the new message, select Bcc to add the Bcc field to the message header. Or, select Cc to add the Cc field. Enter recipients’ email addresses in the appropriate carbon copy fields. The email will be copied or blind copied to those you indicated.

Even when you have work, you’re always searching for the next opportunity. But you can make the search a lot simpler and more effective by using an RSS client. What Is RSS, and How Does It Help Your Job Search? RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and most websites use it to provide a feed of the most recent stories. You can check out MakeUseOf’s feed here. You’ll see that it contains the most recent article titles, their date, a short summary, and a link to the main article on the main website....

And unlike magazines and newspapers, which were slowly throttled by digital publishing, paper comics continue to thrive and may even benefit from the extra exposure. One of the best iPad comic-reading apps is YACReader, which has a crazy new panel-by-panel navigator coming up in its latest version–a feature already found in rival readers, but YACReader’s is driven by AI. “A lot has changed since the very first version I released for desktops in 2009....

Wim Hot ascribes his ability to withstand extreme conditions to his Wim Hof Method, a way to keep the body and mind in their optimum natural states. Most people will never attempt such extreme feats, but can the Wim Hof Method App still be beneficial to your everyday wellness? Here’s what you need to know about how this app can help you with healthy living. What Is the Wim Hof Method?...

Find Your USB Drive on the Desktop By default, you should be able to find your USB flash drive or external hard drive on the Desktop of your Mac. So connect your USB drive, then click the yellow minimize button in the top-left corner of all your open windows to reveal the macOS Desktop. If you can see an icon representing your USB drive, just double-click to open it. If not, follow the next section to access your USB drive using Finder instead....

We’ll let you know more about the streaming giant’s new Live TV Zone and how to access it. Quick Access to Live TV The new Live TV Zone offers fast access to Roku’s Live TV Channel Guide (powered by The Roku Channel) with more than 200 free linear channels touching on a wide range of genres like news, sports, kids/family, lifestyle, music, crime, reality, sci-fi, Spanish language, and more....

So, how do you add a shortcut for uninstalling software to the Windows 11/10 context menu? We’ll outline the steps below to make removing apps easier and quicker. How to Add an Uninstall Context Menu Option With IObit Uninstaller IObit Uninstaller is one of the best uninstallers for removing Windows apps that incorporates numerous features. Among them is an optional Powerful Uninstall shortcut you can enable on the Windows 11/10 context menu....

What Are Highlights on Instagram? Highlights are stories you pin to the top of your Instagram profile for an indefinite period of time. Any story you post appears in your followers’ feeds for 24 hours, then automatically disappears. However, if you add a story to your Highlights, anyone who visits your profile sees it as a circular icon above your main feed, even after it disappears from their main stories feed....

Is Using VPN Legal or Not? Why Should We Use VPN What Is IP Address Masking? “Masking” as the term suggests is to put on a mask (Scream Mask, Hannibal Mask or the best one yet, The Jim Carrey Mask). Just Kidding! On a serious note, the term masking refers to hiding something or wrapping something so that it is not identified by others. IP Masking would simply mean that the user is trying to hide his/her original IP address under a completely different IP address to reveal content that is restricted to the original IP Address....