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According to a Pew Survey, Facebook’s user-base in the US largely remained stagnant at around 68% from 2016 to 2018. Negative publicity due to confrontations with GDPR in Europe and the Cambridge Analytica scandal may have also contributed to declining numbers. The bigger question is whether the lack of engagement is limited to Facebook alone or impacting all social media channels equally. YouTube recently made an announcement that its userbase is increasing twice as fast as Facebook....

And if that wasn’t enough, I soon found that all those “sticky notification widget” apps for toggling notification and launching apps showed up right in the lockscreen. This makes things really easy for me. I hace stock Android experience and the five to seven apps that I launch most often are right there on the lockscreen. Now I can skip the whole launcher experience. If you’re interested in getting a similar setup, let me tell you about the two apps that can help you out....

Sure you may have a nice UI for your home screens (eg. HTC sense), but if it is lagging, functionally crippled or take up plenty of resources, it is definitely not a good experience for the end users. Previously, we have covered some of the best home replacement apps that you can use, however that was before Froyo, LauncherPro and QuickDesk even existed, so some of the mentioned apps are already outdated....

What are BSDs? BSDs are a group of POSIX-compliant operating systems derived from the original Unix. They follow proven development strategies and focus on stability and performance. When talking about BSDs, we generally refer to one of the three main BSD distributions: FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. Although Linux and BSD systems are the same on many levels, there are notable differences. Most of them are by design. BSD systems are geared toward people who are technologically aware....

Wait… What are Ribbons? I notice some of you might not know what I’m talking about, so here’s the run-down. A ribbon is a part of the window that allows you to access certain options without having to navigate through menus. It often appears as a wide toolbar at the top, much like the one in MSPaint. Allow me to show you what I mean: The red arrow points to the ribbon in MSPaint....

Passive/Active 3D & Anaglyph There are a myriad of monitors that can render 3D movies and games, but most of them fall into two different categories: active and passive 3D. All 3D equipment works much the same – it takes two different images and shows you both at the same time with slight differences that trick the eyes into perceiving the presented objects at different depths. This concept is known as stereoscopy....

Let’s break this down. Think About Material Design Literally The bulk of what you need to know is explained right in the name – Material Design. Google’s new interface is designed to look like it’s made from materials you can actually touch. Through the use of shadows and animations, things onscreen should move around the way you would kind of expect them to in reality. When you tap a button, additional actions pop out from under it....

Note: this is a sponsored article and was made possible by Octoparse. The actual contents and opinions are the sole views of the author who maintains editorial independence even when a post is sponsored. Getting to Know Octoparse 8.4 Octoparse is a simple-to-use web scraping tool that is rich in features. It comes with a series of convenient templates that allow users to start web scraping immediately without much effort....

In a teaser revealed on Monday, ahead of the February 7 event, it was revealed the company’s key new features are those omitted from the OnePlus 10T – the Hasselblad camera system and the much-missed Alert Slider. The latter in particular caused chagrin among OnePlus users who loved the ability to conveniently switch the phone from silent to ring, so it makes sense the company is advertising the return before the event, dubbed Cloud 11....

That is actually time-consuming. You need to copy the URL, open a browser on your machine, paste the link, and hit Enter to load the webpage. What if there was a way for you to quickly open your current Safari webpage in the Google Chrome browser on your Mac? Well, there is a way. A Safari extension called “Open in Chrome” lets you quickly open your current Safari tab in Chrome on your Mac....

What is LEAP? So what exactly is LEAP? What’s it for? The easiest way to approach something like OpenSUSE LEAP is to think of it like a beefed-up, more stable Fedora-type thing. The main goal of this Linux distribution is to create an enterprise grade distribution designed for workstations and servers free of charge. And when it comes to being an enterprise workstation distribution, LEAP doesn’t disappoint.The main goal of LEAP is to create a stable, enterprise grade distribution designed for workstations and servers free of charge....

While it’s not quite a household name here in the West like Apple or Samsung, Oppo has been turning out immensely stylish and capable flagship phones for years now. We gave the Oppo Find X5 Pro a well-earned 4-star review earlier in the year, praising its superb 6.7-inch OLED display for being “colourful and rich, with perfect blacks and plenty of brightness for outdoor use”. Oppo always turns out great camera technology, and the Find X5 Pro is no different....

Introduction Plaxo is a wonderful web service that helps you create an online address book. The service also helps you keep your address book updated. In addition to letting you add contact information manually, the site connects with your mailing accounts to import contact information. Letting you synchronize your address book with your connected accounts is how your address book is kept updated. Other features of the service such as exporting your contacts’ information, supporting smartphones, and offering premium packages make Plaxo one of the best address books apps....

There are three situations where it might be necessary to map keyboard/mouse movements to your gamepad: A native Linux game that does not yet support joystick input. 2. A wine/cedega game that, for whatever reason, does not recognize your gamepad. 3. You just want to use your joystick to control your desktop, multimedia application, etc. With Qjoypad, you can have all three and even create separate profiles for each game/application....

You may write for or own more than one blog and you want to make it easy for readers to subscribe to all of your RSS feeds at once. You may want to combine multiple blog feeds into a single RSS feed for better organization, and to make them easier to read in your favorite RSS feed reader or by email. There are various tools available for this task, but the best and easiest is ChimpFeedr....

A Brief Overview Scrapnote allows you to share the things that you find online or multimedia that you just want to keep in one place. When you launch, you have a similar presentation we are used to from other notebook applications. Each notebook is presented on the home page, allowing you to select which one you want to edit. Click the “+” to create a new notebook. With the ability to also handwrite in each notebook, your scrapbooks look even more realistic....

Adobe Illustrator users are almost always by definition professional users. The software is pricey and made for professional designers and illustrators, and very few design civilians ever cross its path. But it is of course a recognised de-facto standard for vector graphics worldwide. The scourge of my design life, especially when I’ve ploughed a lot of man hours into a design, is the corrupted file. Anything that can rescue my artwork from the clutches of destruction is automatically a boon....

1.0 vs. 2.0 While all of the USB to dock charging cords that come with iPods look the same as what you have for your iPhone or iPad, and look like they would work to charge an iPhone or iPad, looks can be deceiving. The iPhone and iPad work off of USB 2.0, but some of the earlier iPods worked off USB 1.0. Whether or not the cord works depends on if it’s 1....

If you haven’t heard of it before, think of Salix OS as Slackware with the convenience of a package manager. The developers of Salix OS think of the distro a bonsai: small, light and a product of infinite care. They prune the list of apps that make up a release to make sure they aren’t packing in multiple apps for the same job. No wonder then, the distro is very fast and easy to use....

Generally Mac Pros and Mac Minis will be easiest to work with. Smaller systems like those found in the Macbook and Macbook Air include smaller (and sometimes custom) parts that are harder to work with. This article will detail how you can save a few bucks by buying a used, slightly older Mac, and upgrade some parts to get it up to speed with the current generations. What Is Worth Upgrading?...