HDG Explains : What Is Miracast? Say bye bye to the HDMI Miracast is one of a number of wireless display standards. If you have a Miracast device and display, you can send a video signal from one to the other, without the need for a long HDMI cable. Sounds pretty good right? The problem is that, in practice, Miracast is in competition with lots of other seemingly similar standards. This means that plenty of users are unsure of whether they can use Miracast or if it’s even the right wireless display technology to use....

How To Import Data Into Google Sheets From Another Sheet What you need to know about the IMPORTRANGE function Of all of theG Suite web applications, Google Sheets may be the most impressive. Released in 2006, it quickly became a fierce competitor to stand up against Microsoft Excel as an up-and-coming spreadsheet editor. Today, Google Sheets includes a wealth of editing and collaboration features that millions of students, workers, and hobbyists use on a daily basis....

Slack Desktop App: What Are the Benefits of Using It? There are small but convenient differences Slack is a powerful team collaboration platform with both a desktop and web based option on PC and Mac. The Slack desktop app is free to use and has mostly the same functionality as the Slack browser version. But what differences are there on the desktop version that make it stand out? There are certainly some differences, but are there enough benefits of using the Slack desktop app to make the switch?...

HDG Explains : What Is a Computer Port & What Are They Used For? We discuss both the physical and the virtual When you hear the term ‘computer port’, what do you think of? USB ports? TCP/IP ports? It can get confusing. There are two classes of ports – physical and virtual. A USB port is an example of a physical port while a TCP/IP port is an example of a virtual port....

How To Plan a Custom PC Build – The Ultimate Guide for Dummies We walk you through the entire process So you’ve heard that you can build a PC, but you have no idea how to do it, if you should do it and what (literally) goes into creating your own computer. The good news is that building your own computer is both very easy and quite rewarding, but it isn’t for everyone....