Wednesday, 30 September 2020

You Can Now Buy Samsung's Killer New Ultra Short Throw Projector


Ultra Short Throw (UST) projectors are a great way to get a huge display into a small room. All you do is place a UST projector inches from the wall and call it a day. But they’re an expensive new tech, as evidence by Samsung’s Premiere Projector. It comes in two models, the LSP7T for $3,499.99 and the LSP9T $6,499.99. And you can buy them right now.

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Google Stadia Comes to iOS, Sort Of, Via a Third-Party Browser


Apple doesn’t want game streaming services on the App Store. But if you can stream via the web instead of a dedicated app, it’s okay—at least that’s what Amazon is banking on with its new Luna streaming service. A Stadia fan has decided that’s good enough to try and bring Google’s service to the iPhone.

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LG's $1,000 Shapeshifting "Wing" Smartphone Hits Verizon on October 15


LG’s $999.99 Wing smartphone is the latest in the smartphone industry’s attempt to try new form factors. But unlike the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 or Surface Duo, you don’t get fold actions. Instead, the normal-phone swivels out to create a T-shaped display. And it’s coming to Verizon on October 15.

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The $249 Kwikset Halo Touch Allows Fingerprint and Remote App Unlocking


Kwikset’s new $249 Halo Touch fingerprint-enabled smart lock is now available to buy. The lock manufacturer first announced its new smart lock at CES earlier this year, and it allows you to skip pesky entry codes and simply scan your fingerprint in order to gain entry.

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Wyze Opens Preorders for Its $50 Alexa-Powered ANC Headphones


Wyze is likely best known for its excellent and affordable smart home endeavors, like its sensors, plugs, light bulb, and outdoor camera. Now the company is ready to take preorders on it’s latest product—ANC headphones. That’s a little outside the box, but for your money, you do get Alexa onboard.

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Motorola's Flippin' Fast 5G Razr Goes on Sale October 2nd


Hello style, meet substance. Motorola’s latest take on the Razr foldable phone features a 48-megapixel camera and a 5G-ready Snapdragon 765G chip, providing marginally faster performance than its predecessor. The Razr Gen 2 launches October 2nd for the promotional price of $1,200 before climbing up to $1,400.

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Disney+ GroupWatch Lets You Watch Disney Content With Your Long-Distance Friends


It seems like every nearly streaming service offers a co-viewing feature now, and Disney+ is here to join in on the action. Dubbed GroupWatch, you can view a show or movie with up to six other people, but they’ll need Disney+ accounts naturally. But if you can’t get together to watch The Mandalorian’s next season, at least Disney is here to help.

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How to Add an Email Signature to Gmail


Google’s Gmail service supports configurable signatures, which it will attach to each email you send. You could add your name, job title, social media details, phone number, or anything else you want to your signature.

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The Latest Giant Mouse Pad from SteelSeries is More Than Five Feet Wide


Giant mouse pads, also known as “desk mats,” are a love-it-or-hate-it category. But if you love it, then you want yours to be as big as it can be—covering your entire desk, if possible. SteelSeries is here for you: its new QcK and QcK Prism series of mouse pads comes in sizes as big as 63 x 31.5 inches.

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How to Create a Simple Bot In Microsoft Teams


One of the most powerful features of Microsoft Teams is the ability to create and connect bots. These bots allow conversational and transactional capabilities to easily create more complex tasks.

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How to Use the YEAR Function in Microsoft Excel


If you need to quickly extract the year from a date in Microsoft Excel, you can use the YEAR function. This will give you the year value in a separate cell, allowing you to use it in a separate formula.

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How to Find and Download the Best Apple Watch Faces


Your Apple Watch has a large library of built-in watch faces, with different styles and complications, leading to thousands of potential custom watch faces. Want to skip the hard work of building your own? Here’s how to find and download the best Apple Watch faces.

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Automate Code Performance Reviews with AWS CodeGuru


CodeGuru is a service from AWS that can automatically analyze your code for common performance issues and other bugs like race conditions and memory leaks. If you’re paying for the server it runs on, wasted CPU time is wasted money.

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How to Change Your Home Page in Mozilla Firefox


By default, Mozilla Firefox opens with a special page called “Firefox Home,” but you might prefer a different web page. If you want Firefox to open up a custom home page instead, follow these simple steps.

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Holiday 2020: 12 Awesome Advent Calendars to Grab Before They're Gone


Christmas will be here in the blink of an eye, so now’s the time to start shopping! This is especially true if you want to get an advent calendar for your kids—they’re sure to sell out fast.

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Holiday 2020: The 7 Best Portable Bluetooth Speakers


If you have a music lover on your holiday shopping list, it’s really hard to go wrong with a good Bluetooth speaker. But there are quite a few options on the market today, and trust me when I say that they’re not all created equally. But fear not—we have everything you need to pick up the perfect speaker for this Christmas season.

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How to Link Disney+ to Google Assistant


Chromecast, Android TV, and Smart Displays work great with Google Assistant. You can easily use your voice to start playing movies and TV shows, no cumbersome remote required. We’ll show you how to do link your Disney+ account to the Google Assistant.

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5 Ways That Chromebooks Are Better Than Windows Laptops


Despite all the growth they’ve made in the last few years, Chromebooks still get a bad rap or are often thought of as “just a browser.” That couldn’t be further from the truth, especially now. In fact, there are several ways that Chromebooks are actually better than Windows laptops for many users.

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How to Safely Use Open Source Code in Your Project


There’s open-source code inside almost every software development project you can think of. Developers love it. But you need to understand the hidden risks and how to minimize them, or you could leave your application open to unknown security vulnerabilities.

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How to Safely Use Open Source Code in Your Project


There’s open-source code inside almost every software development project you can think of. Developers love it. But you need to understand the hidden risks and how to minimize them, or you could leave your application open to unknown security vulnerabilities.

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How to Show Mac’s Hidden Floating Performance Panels


If you like to keep an eye on CPU or GPU usage on your Mac, you can enable several little-known performance windows in Activity Monitor. These float above all other application windows, so you can check them at a glance.

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5 Things to Consider Before Upgrading Your PC’s RAM


There was a time when the prescription for speeding up a slow PC was just to add more (or faster) RAM. These days, though, that’s not necessarily the best upgrade to choose first.

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Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Fold is Up for Pre-Order, Even Lighter X1 Nano Revealed


We’ve been waiting to see the release version of the ThinkPad X1 Fold, Lenovo’s folding-screen Windows tablet-laptop-thingy, ever since CES at the start of this year. It’s still a small ways off, but Lenovo has been hammering out the final design details, and they’re ready to take pre-orders for the world’s first folding screen laptop. The price: $2500. To start.

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Tuesday, 29 September 2020

Buy a Year of PlayStation Plus for 50% Off and Activate It Whenever You Want


Sony’s PlayStation Plus service adds online play to your PS4 and several free games to the upcoming PS5. And while PlayStation Plus usually costs $60 a year, you can grab a yearlong access code from CDKeys.com for just $30.

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You Can Now Buy Merch from 'Star Wars:' Galaxy's Edge Online


Good news for those wanting to go (or return) to the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge park at Disneyland: you can now shop for goods normally only for sale at the park online. For a limited time, Disney is putting a curated selection of clothing, lightsaber, and other fun accessories online.

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'Sticky Widgets' Brings Sticky Notes to Your iPhone or iPad Home Screen for Free


When Apple released iOS and iPadOS 14, the company included a long-standing request: widgets. Now it’s a game of seeing how far you can take the widgets to customize your home screen. The latest idea might also be one of the most useful—sticky notes for your home screen! Or Sticky Widgets, to be precise. Best of all, it’s free.

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How to Take a Screenshot by Tapping the Back of Your Android Phone


How you take a screenshot on your Android phone or tablet varies depending on which model you have. With the help of a handy app, though, you can capture a screenshot by simply tapping the back of your device.

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Facebook is Putting the Original 'FarmVille' Out to Pasture


Even the greatest must meet their maker. Facebook is ending support for Flash games, including the original FarmVille, on December 31st. Now’s your last chance to experience the 11-year-old game in all its seed-planting glory—presuming that Flash Player doesn’t give you any trouble.

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So You Need Email for Your Business. What Are Your Options?


Email communication is an important part of doing business. Having email coming from your own domain name makes your business look more credible than using a personal email, and many business email providers will include much more storage as well.

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Dell Refreshes the XPS 13 Laptop and 2-in-1 With Faster RAM and Intel Processors


There’s a crisp breeze in the air, the days are getting longer, and the leaves are changing color. That means one thing and one thing only: new laptop chips. (Okay, maybe it means a couple of other things.) Today Dell has refreshed its popular XPS 13 series with the latest 11th-gen Intel processors, along with newer, faster memory.

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How to Set Gmail as the Default Email App on Your iPhone


You no longer have to deal with Apple’s email app on your iPhone or iPad. As long as you’re running iOS 14, iPadOS 14, or higher, you can now set a third-party email client as the default. Prefer Gmail? Let’s set it up!

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Holiday 2020: The 9 Best Nintendo Switch Accessories


The Nintendo Switch has become the favorite console of many gamers, and if you have a Switch owner in your life, you’ve probably picked that up by now. And as with most tech, a few accessories go a long towards making it more enjoyable to use. So if you want to help out the Switch owners around you, here are some great Nintendo Switch gifts to consider.

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How to Access Ports on the Host from a Docker Container


If you’re networking to the outside world, Docker behaves as if the request was coming from the host machine. But if you want to access processes that are running on the host, your firewall may need some extra configuration.

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How to Organize Shortcuts in Folders on iPhone and iPad


If you’re a Shortcuts user, there are two main reasons why you should organize shortcuts in folders on your iPhone and iPad. First is the ease of use, and the second is to make the best of home screen widgets. Here’s how to sort Shortcuts into folders.

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Roku OS 9.4 Includes AirPlay 2 Support, More Free Content, and Mobile Apps


Roku OS 9.4 is here, and adds AirPlay 2 and HomeKit support, new free entertainment channels, and improves performance. Once the update hits your Roku streaming device, you’ll have a lot more to enjoy between new shows to watch and theme packs that include corresponding audio tones.

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How to Check Which CPU Your Mac Uses


The Central Processing Unit (CPU) is the number-crunching brain of your Mac. Its characteristics determine how fast your Mac processes information. The type of CPU varies based on which model you have. Here’s how to quickly check which CPU is in your computer.

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The Best Solutions for Running a Database on Google Cloud Platform


Google’s Cloud Platform offers many solutions for modernizing your existing database infrastructure. By moving to the cloud, and taking advantage of Google’s PaaS offerings, you can reduce the headache of database administration.

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Roku Announces the $130 Streambar and Updated Ultra Set-Top Box


Whether you realize it or not, Roku is the most popular streaming platform in most parts of the world. Its popularity is thanks partially to a vast number of products that meet buyer demand. Roku is now expanding its family of streaming boxes with the addition of the Streambar and an updated Ultra set-top box, both launching with Roku OS 9.4.

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It's Time to Bring the Touch ID Power Button to the iPhone


Apple has spent the last few years trying to abandon Touch ID in favor of its hands-free Face ID system. But the company is backtracking with its latest product, an iPad Air with a Touch ID power button. And as mask-wearing continues to fowl Face ID, Apple needs to bring its new fingerprint sensor to the upcoming iPhone.

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How to Build Your Multiplayer Game's Server Architecture


One of the biggest problems indie game developers must solve when designing their game is deciding how the multiplayer is going to work. Do you have to run dedicated servers? Can you use peer-to-peer networking? Let’s talk about it.

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3 Easy Apps to Deepfake Yourself Into Videos and GIFs


Deepfakes make it possible to manipulate videos and GIFs. The technology has become so easy to use, you can now create deepfakes right on your phone. That’s right—you can now easily insert yourself into a meme.

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What Is an “Evil Maid” Attack, and What Does It Teach Us?


You’ve secured your computer with strong disk encryption and security software. It’s safe—as long as you keep it within eyesight. But, once an attacker has physical access to your computer, all bets are off. Meet the “evil maid” attack.

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Monday, 28 September 2020

Prime Day Is October 13 & 14, Will Feature Amazon's Best Deals of the Year


Amazon’s annual Prime Day event usually happens in July. Given the state of, well, everything at the time, Amazon decided to hold off. Today, the company is announced that Prime Day 2020 will take place on October 13th and 14. Prime Days, really. Heh.

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Prime Day Is October 13 & 14, Will Feature Amazon's Best Deals of the Year


Amazon’s annual Prime Day event usually happens in July. Given the state of, well, everything at the time, Amazon decided to hold off. Today, the company is announced that Prime Day 2020 will take place on October 13th and 14. Prime Days, really. Heh.

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Sling Watch Party Is the First Co-Watching Entry with Video and Text Chat


Hot on the heels of Facebook, Plex, Hulu, Movies Anywhere, and nearly every other streaming service, Sling TV now has a co-watching experience appropriately dubbed Watch Party. But unlike the others that came before it, Sling TV’s implementation includes video and text chat features.

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How to Customize Your iPhone Home Screen with Widgets and Icons


After years of looking at the same grid of icons, it’s time to finally customize your iPhone to your heart’s content. Add some cool-looking custom widgets, and replace your apps with custom icons, just for a good measure.

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Don't Worry, Microsoft Office Fans: You'll Be Able to Buy Office 2021 Outright


Microsoft Office updates don’t come around every year. It’s more like every three years. With Microsoft’s focus on the Office 365 plan, and other software-as-a-service initiatives like Game Pass, it’s no surprise that some dedicated Office users were worried that the upcoming Office 2021 release would be subscription-only, à la the Adobe Creative Suite. Not so, says Microsoft: They’ll take one-time payments.

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How to Control Who Can Comment on Your Instagram Posts


Keeping your Instagram profile public is key to reaching a wider audience. But it also leaves your posts’ comment sections exposed to spam. Fortunately, with Instagram’s privacy controls, you can have the best of both the worlds and pick who can comment on your posts. Here’s how to use them.

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Studio Ghibli Releases 400 HD Images from 'Ponyo,' 'Spirited Away,' and More


It’s time to take your iPhone customization to the next level. Studio Ghibli just released 400 free HD stills from Spirited Away, Ponyo, From Up On Poppy Hill, The Wind Rises, When Marnie Was There, The Secret World of Arrietty, and The Tale of Princess Kaguya. The images are available on Studio Ghibli’s Japanese website.

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How to Change the Server Region on Discord


Discord automatically selects a server region through which to route your voice communications. However, you might find selecting a different server region improves the quality of voice chats, especially if you’re chatting with people in other regions.

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