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Fitbit has released several lines of wearables over the past decade that have taken all sorts of shapes, features and designs. With that in mind, you have to consider that not every Fitbit model will suit you best, so it’s important to really assess each line to see which has the best features to match your workout routine. Every Fitbit included in this list has been thoroughly tested by a member of our expert team and used in a variety of workouts and environments, so you can be sure that you’re getting real-world advice....

These five open-source gaming emulators for Linux open up thousands of classic games from a load of popular platforms, and they’re all easy to use. Many can even be loaded on a Raspberry Pi to make a compact and portable console. 1. MAME MAME used to stand for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, but now it’s just MAME. Obviously, the original goal of MAME was to emulate classic arcade machines. Now it covers more than just that, but the arcade is still its strong suit....

It’s been a truly chaotic couple of days with a seemingly neverending supply of deals pouring in from every corner of the internet, but if you stuck with us throughout the sale then you’ll know that we’ve been hard at work to cut through all the noise and bring you the best of the bunch. Hopefully you were able to make use of our coverage to find exactly what you were looking for....

In Google Chrome, go to its Settings page. Scroll all the way down to the bottom and click “Advanced Settings”. Under the Privacy section, click “Content Settings”. Under the Javascript section, click “Manage exceptions”. Now you can enter the site’s URL that you want to block javascript and select “Block” under the Behavior selection. Click Done. That’s it. Javascript will now be blocked on the site(s) that you added in the list....

Note: This method only applies to NTFS file system partitions. FAT and FAT32 partition do not support access control lists (access restrictions). Permissions Before knowing how to restrict users from accessing selected NTFS partitions, let us cover a bit about basic access rights: Full Control: Users with full control can read, write, execute, delete, modify and add files and folders. Also, they can alter file and folder permissions. Generally, this permission level is granted for admin users....

According to research from YouGov, 54% of gamers turn to the pastime to receive stress, so it’d make sense for those same folks to seek out the sounds from their favourite games when they’re attempting to relax or drift off to sleep. The partnership is the first of its kind and Microsoft says the soundscapes are exclusive to Calm Premium users. “Officially available on December 7, players can immerse themselves and enjoy the meditative sounds of whirling waves and chattering birds from the ocean expanse of Sea of Thieves and the ambient alien sounds of Zeta Halo from Halo Infinite both available through Calm Premium,” the company says in an Xbox Wire blog....

Is Another App Using the Camera? One thing that’s quite easy to forget is that the camera can usually only be used by one app or program on your Mac at any given time. Check to see whether camera-based apps like Skype, FaceTime, Photo Booth, or another app is running either in the foreground or background and close any that you’re not using at that moment. You can check the Activity Monitor (Command + Space, type “activity monitor”) to see whether one of those apps is running in the background....

Open a terminal and type: In the file that open, scroll down till you see the line: Change it to where X is the time (in minutes) that the sudo password will timeout. You can set X to the value you want. Note: If you set X to “-1”, it will revoke the password prompt, which is not advisable. If you set X to “0”, the system will prompt you for password everytime you use the “sudo” command...

The BIOS interface allows you to tweak your machine’s hardware outside the operating system. Overclockers spend a lot of time in the BIOS adjusting voltage and CPU frequency multipliers. Even if you’re not an overclocker, significant system fixes often require BIOS access. Note: throughout this guide, the term “BIOS” will be used to refer to both BIOS and UEFI. Common BIOS Settings Explained To enter the BIOS, wait until your computer beeps during boot, then press the key required to enter the BIOS or Setup, typically displayed on the BIOS boot screen (e....

When you launch the application for the first time, it will show you the SoC section that includes detailed information about the name of the processors, number of cores, clock speed per core, vendor information, CPU load and more. System information enable users to find out the brand and model of their Android handsets. The system window also displays the total RAM, storage space, Android version, screen resolution and other kernel details....

How It Spread to Ads For the past few reports, cryptojacking has been somewhat easy to dodge. Simply stay away from shady sites and don’t accept files from shady Facebook contacts, and you’re all set. However, this recent attack on Google Ads itself poses a much larger problem. Criminals have tried slipping ads with the cryptojacking technology embedded within them into the Google Ads channel. Google Ads make up a large part of our daily online lives, meaning this attack affects a lot of people....

Introduction Thanks to the rise of hybrid working, 16-inch laptops are making a huge comeback. The Dell Inspiron 16 Plus is one of the most affordable big-screen laptop options, coming in at around £1000/$1000. If you’re happy to spend a little more, Dell is also offering a discrete GPU configuration for anyone who wants to take on graphical tasks like Photoshop or light gaming. But does the Dell Inspiron 16 Plus offer enough quality to qualify for our best laptop and best Dell laptop lists?...

What Does It Let You Do? This app lets you save battery power as you don’t have to turn on your phone’s display just to see what time it is. You can see that and much more in a brightness that will not harm your eyesight at all, something your eyes wI’ll appreciate. If your Android device has an LCD screen, unfortunately, you won’t be saving any battery power, but if your device has a Super AMOLED display, then you will see benefits to using the app....

Price Isn’t Everything A stock CPU fan costs an attractive sum of $0 plus the cost of shipping its weight. What could be better than that? Aftermarket fans run you anywhere from $10 to $100. Some of them even cost upwards of $200. Essentially, if you’re looking for a bargain, you got one the moment you bought your CPU. But is this bargain really all there is to CPU cooling? Do you actually get something out of buying a decent aftermarket cooler?...

What is DOCSIS? Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) is a long way to say “how cable Internet works.” DOCSIS 1.0 was developed by Cable Labs in 1997, and it’s been under development since, getting faster and more power-efficient with each incarnation. Without getting too much into the physics of it, the DOCSIS standard works this way: a cable box gets signals from an ISP’s fiber optic network, translates them into signals that coaxial cables can carry, and relays those signals over the “last mile” of coax cable to users....

There are many services that will let you customize a map of any area to make it intuitive. You can add marks, track packages, define routes, add text and much more. To help you create custom maps, we are going to list the best tools for this purpose. 1. Click2Map This is a reliable custom maps service, but you will have to pay for the service to unlock all the features....

You are going to use a web-based webpage-to-PDF converter that will take the webpage link as input and generate the PDF file for you to read at a later time. Save Webpages as PDF in Safari To get started, launch the Safari web browser on your iPad. Enter the following URL into the address bar and hit Return. We are using the following link only for the sake of creating a bookmark which you will be using for PDF conversion....

PPSSPP is one of the best PSP emulators that supports almost all platforms, including Android. The emulator is open-source and completely free to use, so you won’t have to worry about any tricks or upgrades. In this post we will show you how you can play PSP games on Android using PPSSPP. Getting the PSP Games PPSSPP is just an emulator, and it only emulates the PSP games provided by you, so you will have to get the PSP game first to start playing PSP games on Android....

What Is QTTabBar? QTTabBar is a tiny application (under 1 MB in the latest version at the time this article was written) that gives you the possibility of opening new tabs within Windows Explorer to browse your computer with nothing more than a single window. It doesn’t occupy a significant amount of resources even on the slowest computers and only requires that you have a compatible version of Windows installed....

All of the below instructions assume that you’ve already downloaded Gpg4win and set up a public/private key pair. If you haven’t, now is a good time to do that! How to encrypt plain text This is the most basic thing you can do with Gpg4win, but it gives you a great idea of how the program works. You have two primary options to encrypt a simple chunk of text: write it directly in Kleopatra’s notepad, or have Kleopatra encrypt whatever’s on your clipboard....