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(Continued from page 8) your phone screen is being shown on the TV,
so go to your favorite Picture Viewer and
the TV or from a wall adapter). There is only show your pictures. (In fact, at this point any-
one light on the Chromecast and it should thing you do with your phone will be shown
eventually turn white. Start the Home App on on the TV, so be careful.) When you are fin-
your phone by touching the App. (Note: your ished showing the pictures, go back to the
phone and the Chromecast must be on the Home App on your phone and touch “Cast
same Wi-Fi network.) Once the App starts, screen/audio” again, and on the next screen,
touch the menu icon in the top left of the touch “Disconnect”, and the TV will no longer
screen. show the phone screen.
Just as an alternative, if you have your pictures
on a laptop and you have Windows 10, you can
display your pictures on your big screen TV by
using a Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter
(approx. $60) connected to the TV. The Display
Adapter is connected to the TV just as described
for the Chromecast. On the laptop taskbar, click
the Action Center, and then select the “Connect”
button, which will connect your laptop with the
Display Adapter via Wi-Fi and your laptop display
will be reproduced on the TV.
Opening Screen
A way better way to take
videos
By Jasmine D’Katz
I have turned my smartphone into a faux-pro
camera with DJIs handheld gimbal. It’s like a
Touch Menu screen
selfie stick on steroids. But if you have shaky
This will present a screen with “Devices” in hands your video will be stabile as a rock. I’ve
the list. Tap “Devices”. Follow the set-up in- taken a glance at the Osmo a couple of years
structions to set up the Chromecast. Finally, ago but it was out of my price range, but with
a Chromecast screen will be shown on your
phone and a background picture should be the new Osmo Mobile 2 and the $129 price I
shown on your TV. (Both displays will show can reasonable add it to my photography
the Chromecast Identification, of your arenol. Besides, I like new toys.
Chromecast device, towards the top on your
phone, and on the bottom on the TV.) Once Once I charged the Osmo Mobile 2 and installed
you see this display, go back to the screen the software on my phone it was time to insert
where you found “Devices”, and touch “Cast my phone into the spring-loaded clamp of the
screen/audio”, which will show a “Cast to” se- gimbal. I had to remove the phone case to in-
lection. Touch the Chromecast Identification, stall it. The instructions left me a little in the dark
and a connecting notification should show up.
When the connecting notification goes away, as to balancing the phone on two axis and I had
you are connected, and your phone screen (Continued on page 10)
should be displayed on the TV. Voila, now
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