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Before you connect your hard drive to the TV, and especially before you spend hours loading it up with content, you'll need to make sure that it will work with your television. Check your user manual, or the manufacturer's website, to see what minimum specs you'll need to meet and then compare those to the hard drive you want to use. Many TVs will only support a hard drive of up to 2 TB, for example, so if you had a 4 TB drive you'd have to partition it into a pair of 2 TB spaces. Hard drives can also structure their data in a number of ways, so you'll need to know which file-systems your TV can support. Most TVs are fine with NTFS, which is how Windows 10 formats a disk by default. If you have a Mac or Linux computer you'll need to deliberately format your drive in NTFS, rather than the Mac's APFS or Ext4 on Linux. Your operating system's documentation can tell you how to do that. Connect Your Hard Disk to the TV Take a look at your USB connectors on th...

You can preserve your privacy by instead uploading your files to a cloud storage service (like Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive) and emailing a link that restricts viewing to that specific audience. The instructions vary a bit in each service’s app, but you’ll follow these general steps: Download your chosen service’s app through the Google Play Store app.   Sign up for or sign in to the service.   Upload your video. (Usually, you’ll tap a plus-sign icon, then choose from your recent files.)   Share this new copy of your video. You’ll typically do this by long-pressing on it and pressing the Share icon, or tapping a vertical three-dot icon next to the file and choosing  Share .   Choose “Invite people” or “Send to”—while creating a link also exists as an option, that works the same as sharing through Samsung’s Gallery app or Google Photos and does not restrict access.   Fill in the email addresses of the people you wish to send the link to. In some apps, ...

Whether you're using a PC or a Mac with Windows installed, the Apple keyboards should all work perfectly. The various models, such as the  Magic Keyboard , either connect through Bluetooth or via a USB cable, so there shouldn't be any need for installing drivers. Of course, there are a few keys that are not the same, so we'll look at that below. What keys are different or missing? For the most part the layouts for PC and Mac keyboards are identical, but there are a few key (pardon the pun) differences. The first and most obvious is that a Mac keyboard doesn't have a  Windows key . More accurately, it doesn't have a key with the Windows symbol on it, but the one marked  command  or  cmd  acts as one when you press it. Alt  and  Alt GR  are slightly different in that the Apple variant just has two  Alt  keys. To use one as  Alt GR  you need to hold down the  control  or  ctrl  key at the same time. It's a...