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It’s finally November, which means that the Black Friday sale is in full swing, throwing us incredible deals left and right on all things tech. One of the most impressive deals we have found so far is for the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 3, which has been slashed by £100 from £349.99 to just £249.99. And if this deal isn’t taking your fancy, we recommend you take a look at our round-up of the best Black Friday deals that we have come across so far and bookmark the page to stay updated, as we will be continuously adding to it every time we find more fantastic deals....

One of the top flagship smartphones of 2021, the OnePlus 9 Pro, is now available to buy just for £479 in this fantastic early Black Friday deal. This represents a saving of £350, or 42%, compared to the product’s original RRP of £829. This is just one of the many brilliant offers available this Black Friday week, where we’ve already seen amazing deals available on headphones, fitness watches, laptops, and more....

Install Dolphin Emulator on Your PC For this guide we’ll be using the latest developer version of Dolphin, which at the time of writing is 5.0–14866 on Windows 10. If you are on Linux, check out our guide on how to install Dolphin on Ubuntu. It’s worth noting that in mere hours, the version will have changed, since nowadays Dolphin is developing at an even more rapid pace than before, with multiple developer versions released every day....

Usually, buying a brand new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 would cost you £999, but not with this contract deal. If you take advantage of this great offer, you’ll pay a total of £840 in £35 monthly payments, while also netting 200GB of data and unlimited calls and texts to use each and every month. It’s a wonderful money-saving offer for a truly unique phone. There are plenty more contract deals available this Black Friday weekend....

1. uTorrent Hands down, uTorrent is one of the most popular, feature-rich and lightweight BitTorrent clients out there supporting multiple platforms like Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. uTorrent has several useful features like remote monitoring, bandwidth schedules, automatic downloads from torrent RSS feeds, labeling, torrent search, etc. Even with all the advanced features, uTorrent’s user interface is simple enough for novice users and pretty enough for advanced users to play around....

What is the perfect balance between being a workaholic and a slacker? Many may argue that the answer is the Pomodoro Technique. And being in the tech era, you also need the Pomodoro app as the compliment. If you are a Mac user, here are several Pomodoro timer alternatives that you can try. Meanwhile, Windows users can jump to this article. What Is Pomodoro? Pomodoro is a time management technique designed by Francesco Cirillo in the 1980s to optimize your working hours....

1. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Microsoft and Asobo Studios have recently introduced their latest simulator – Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. The simulator offers realistic satellite imagery coupled with beautiful graphics for flight simmers. The scenery level and detail offered by MSFS 2020 has never been offered in any flight simulator by default. This has compelled a lot of simmers to switch over to MSFS2020 for visual flying over different landmarks and cities....

Introduction Topicmarks is a free to use website that helps obtain the crux of lengthy texts. The beauty of Topicmarks is the brilliant algorithm it uses to summarize texts and extract facts from them. When you provide the site with a long text, it passes it through its algorithm and obtains facts from the sentences; separately, you are provided with the summary of the text. All of this is done quickly and without any glitches....

In this article, we will discuss one such application – indicator-sysmonitor, which does just that for you. We’ll also discuss how you can use this application to display custom output. Note: all examples discussed in this article have been tested on Ubuntu 14.04, and the application version used is 0.6.2-stable. Indicator-Sysmonitor The Indicator-Sysmonitor application displays various system-related information on the panel. This information includes file system disk space usage, network activity, memory usage, CPU usage, and swap space usage....

Transferring Files You can try connecting your camera to your Chromebook via the USB cable it came with, but without the ability to install custom software off a disk, chances are it won’t do anything. Instead, you will need to transfer images off the SD card directly (which is the approach I take regardless of which operating system I’m using). The popular $249 Samsung Chromebook, the Acer C720 and the high-end Chromebook Pixelall have SD card slots, but the new HP Chromebook 11 does not....

Best Sega Genesis Cores Once you’ve downloaded and installed Retroarch, the first step is to find the best cores to play your Sega Genesis games. Go to the Main Menu icon at the far left, then click “Load Core” and scroll down to “Download a Core.” Scroll down to the Sega section. You’ll have a few choices of core here, so we’ve picked out a couple of the most popular ones so you can choose which one suits you best....

Some people genuinely either can’t tell or don’t care about the difference between any of these things, and while subtle it’s important to know the difference for professional looking video. In this article we define video aspect ratios with examples so you will always know what size your screen should be, regardless of the source or TV system. Aspect Ratios In terms of video, an aspect ratio is an expression of the ratio (or relationship) of the width to the height....

Here’s a look at the default app upgrades in Windows 8.1. Alarms Alarms is a brand new default app brought to Windows 8.1 that does exactly what it sounds like. It allows you to set up an alarm, multiple alarms, use a timer or a stopwatch as you need them. Calculator One of the missing apps from Windows 8 finds its way back into Windows 8.1 in a fully loaded app-style Calculator....

1. Donate a Photo for Charity Want to put those selfies to good use? Donate a Photo app by Johnson & Johnson allows you to upload a photo every day in exchange for donating $1 to your desired cause. You are only allowed to upload one photo each day (that’s $365 a year), and the photo is uploaded to Donate a Photo Gallery and shared to your preferred social media networks....

TV-Maxe is similar to Sopcast in the way that it allows you to view TV programmes and listen to radio via different streams. TV-Maxe is not distro specific, so it should work (theoretically) in all Linux distribution. In Ubuntu (12.10 and below), you can install with the following command: For other Linux distro, you can follow the installation instruction here or download the package and build it yourself. Once installed, you can run it from the Application menu....

Setting up iFTP to work with your website is easy enough. It’s just a matter of providing the sign-in information, the same as you will need to use FTP anywhere. What is needed is the host name, user name, and password. Once this has been provided, you’ll only need to resubmit your password with each successive time you launch the app. iFTP allows you to have several different FTP servers configured....

With so many recent changes in Internet privacy laws, the number of VPN users has skyrocketed. Sure, a VPN isn’t the only solution and for some isn’t a priority at all, but using one keeps you anonymous and more secure on the Web. Depending on which country you’re in, using one can even help you access websites that are blocked in your country. VPNTunnel is a service that you should definitely consider if you’re looking to get started with VPN or looking for a new service....

What Is 5G? The easy answer is that it is the next generation of wireless network technology. Currently, most of our smartphones and tablets work with 4G (or 4G LTE), which is fourth-generation technology. 5G is simply the next step and is far more evolutionary, rather than revolutionary. As part of a text definition, 5G, by design, should be able to handle more connected devices than today’s 4G networks. The hope is that it will allow new technologies that were unable to find success with 4G technologies to become mainstream....

Why Use a Source-Based Distribution? Nowadays, most Linux distributions provide precompiled packages. This means that the distribution builds the packages in the developer’s machine. While compiling packages is not necessarily an issue in today’s high-bandwidth world, there are a number of problems that should be considered in that distribution model: Compiled binaries mean that you do not have control over how the program is being compiled and what features are included in the program....

But what is Roblox? Despite its massive popularity, a lot of people have never even heard of this game, especially since its main demographic sits on the younger side. Read on to find out everything you need to know. What is Roblox? Roblox is an online game platform that sees around 40 million active users per day. The majority of players are under 16, but it is also suitable for adults....