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If you’re already an experienced cook, use these Android apps instead to collect and manage your recipes. 1. Cookpad Cookpad provides thousands of recipes for homemade dishes, which include main courses, appetizers, desserts, soups, and more. Create your own cookbook with personalized recipes or simply search for recipes by specifying the food title or one or more ingredients. In addition, users can bookmark recipes for quick access, follow other users, and share recipes with friends and family on social media....

1. Transcend JetFlash 710 The JetFlash 710 by Transcend is a USB 3.1 compatible flash drive that weighs in at a mere 3.3 grams. It’s so small, that it barely protrudes from your computer’s USB port. This minimizes the chance someone may bump into it and break it on a desktop PC. Furthermore, it means you can leave it plugged into your laptop without having to worry about stowing it away when moving from place to place....

How to Find Your Steam ID Your Steam ID is a a 17-digit identifier by default or any custom ID you set that’s tied to your account. It’s not the username you use to log in to your account, and you can find it just by logging in to your Steam account through the Steam client or website. In the Steam client: Through the Steam website: Set Your Steam Profile to Public You need to set your Steam profile to “Public” so that third-party tools are allowed to see your information....

What Is Metaverse? Metaverse, simply put, is a virtual space that can represent either a real, physical space or a digital world. A good example would be the movie “Ready Player One,” but the concept was first popularized by Neal Stephenson in his book “Snow Crash” in 1992. Your digital avatar represents you and everything you do and own in the metaverse. It is a virtual environment that you can access with – or even without – AR/VR headsets....

For the rest of you, here are some of the best photo editor apps to turn your smartphone or tablet into a solid photo post-production suite. 1. SKRWT With its cool cardboardy interface and solid array of tools, SKRWT is a great option for the more experimental Android photographer. It has a number of fun gimmicks like image mirroring and automatic cropping, as well as more advanced functions like perspective correction and various lens distortions....

Along with all these commands, there are several useful, but somewhat unfortunately hidden behaviours which can be beneficial to some people. These behaviours include information about various system controls, manipulating items in Spotlight and moving windows around on screen. We’ve compiled 8 of the most useful tips for Mac OS X, so check them out: 1. Tips Regarding Window Controls: If you have a window open but do not really know what a specific button does, holding the mouse cursor over the button for a few seconds will show you a small yellow tooltip box that describe what the control is....

1. How to Add/Remove Applications to/from the Launcher Bar The launcher bar comes with a set of default launchers that you may not have use for. To remove application from the launcher bar, simply right-click on its icon and uncheck “Keep in launcher”. To add application to the launcher bar, first open the application, then right-click on its icon and select “Keep in launcher”. You can drag and rearrange the icons to the order of your preferences....

1. Call Notes Call Notes is similar to another application previously covered here called Call Reminder Notes. Call Notes is a bit different because of the information displayed. In Gmail or on your Android device, you have the option to add notes to a contact in your address book. These are the notes to be displayed. A great time to have the notes displayed is when you are making business calls....

Luckily, with a neat trick, you can now change both volume and brightness on your Mac in smaller increments and to the level you want. The trick allows you to change the levels in as small as 25% of the default bar. That means you can now set your volume at 25%, 50%, 75%, and so on instead of the default 100%, 200%, and so on. FOllie along below if you would like to do that on your Mac....

Aelec S350 wireless Bluetooth headphones The Aelec S350 are wireless earphones that can connect to multiple devices via Bluetooth. At a weight of 13g, they are small and light enough that you can bring them around without taking up a lot of space. The best thing is, at a price of $16, they are one of the cheapest pairs of wireless earphones around that doesn’t compromise on the music quality....

1. MicroWeber Microweber is one of the newest kids in the block. What makes it unique is its full drag-and-drop design and real-time creating/editing of content. It also comes with a shopping cart built in so you can easily set up your blogshop without any coding. You can register a Microweber account and start your own blog in a sub-domain of microweber.com (like what WordPress.com does) or download the package and install it on your own server....

General Fire TV Stick Troubleshooting 1. Restart Fire TV Stick Unless the Fire TV Stick just doesn’t come on at all, restarting is usually the first step to troubleshooting. Often, it’s just a simple matter of the device just not starting up correctly or experiencing a glitch that needs a refresh. Select “Restart.” Confirm that you want to restart when prompted. The second method is the simplest of all. If you’re dealing with a black screen or the remote won’t work, simply unplug your Fire TV Stick’s power cable from the wall....

If you act fast, you can grab the 2022 edition of the Fire TV Cube for £119.99 – that’s a welcome £20 off the original RRP of £139.99. This is the lowest price we’ve seen this device drop to, and the first time it’s picked up a discount of any kind so if you’ve had your eye on a TV upgrade then this is a great shout. As the name suggests, this looks like a cube and it’s now far less fingerprint-prone than the previous version thanks to some extra material and less gloss....

App Permissions Revamped For those of you who are more privacy-minded (a recommendation I have for everyone reading this), you may have encountered a significant amount of frustration when installing an app on your phone because of the various permissions you had to approve in order for the application to work at all. You could either approve them all from the get-go or refuse to install the app in the first place....

Installation Install Apex Launcher from Google Play Store. Press the Home button. When prompted, select Apex Launcher from the list. While Apex Launcher looks and works the same as the stock launcher, the functionality is different. You can now remove the search bar from the top and enjoy a big 5 x 4 screen space. In addition, the dock is scrollable and allows you to place up to 35 apps. I am not a dock person, so a static dock with 5 apps placement is sufficient for me....

MacBook Air/Pro What you should do: buy now Deciding whether to buy a MacBook Air/Pro now is increasingly difficult. Recent 2020 updates have made all of Apple’s laptop lineup much better, including a base storage of 256GB. Eliminating the loathed butterfly keyboard has also made Apple’s 2020 laptop lineup well worth considering. All of that said, Apple’s decision to move from Intel chips to “Apple Silicon” is incredibly enticing. Yes, there are many outstanding questions about how Apple Silicon will perform....

Right now, the original Apple Watch SE is just £199 at John Lewis for the Boxing Day sales. That’s down from the original asking price of £319 and it includes a 2-year guarantee. This model has GPS and Cellular, so you’ll be able to connect to online services without having your iPhone nearby and you can upgrade to watchOS 9 out of the box, meaning you’ll have access to the latest features (where compatible) conjured up by the boffins in Cupertino....

Q: I noticed that I can start a service with a delay. Can I do this with startup programs? A: Without any third-party applications, you won’t be able to do something like this with startup programs, unfortunately. I have the opinion that using such applications is messy and the fewer you use, the better off you are. However, if you really want to have a startup delay (which isn’t such a bad idea) you can download Startup Delayer....

One of the iTunes features that I like most is the rating system. Users can tag any song with one to five stars based on their preferences, and users can sort or filter the playlist based on the rating. A quick glance at someone’s iTunes display and you can clearly tell which songs he/she likes and dislikes. The rating system really is a great idea; but, and this is a big but (no pun intended), the bigger the song list, the more difficult for users to give rating to each and every song....

The two leading smartphone operating systems, Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, both have some backup functions built-in. In the case of Apple, it is possible to backup to the cloud through MobileMe. However, this is a relatively expensive solution and reviews suggest that it has some serious limitations. Google’s offering is also limited, but it is completely free. In both cases there are restrictions as to the type of media that can be backed up....