For a short time only, you can get the JBL Flip 5 in Fiesta Red for just £74.99. That’s 38% less than its usual £119.99 price for a total of £45 in savings. Keep reading to find out more and make sure to check out our Black Friday guide for all the best Black Friday deals live right now. The Flip 5 is the fifth model in JBL’s Flip range of Bluetooth speakers....
The attention economy, which relies on keeping human eyes staring at the same app or site for as long as possible, basically revolves around using different tools to push our dopamine release buttons and form habits that revolve around products. Habit formation isn’t always a bad thing, but infinitely scrolling through feeds certainly falls toward the negative end of the spectrum. The Silicon Valley School of Psychology: Behavior Design According to Stanford psychologist BJ Fogg, there are three conditions you need to satisfy if you want to get someone to do something: Smartphone notifications follow this formula perfectly:...
It’s available for £49.99, which offers you the chance to get an excellent wireless gaming mouse for half price, considering its £99.99 RRP. Of course, if you aren’t in the market for a new gaming mouse, but still want to grab any last minute deals, then you’ll want to check out our best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals article for all manner of excellent discounts on a wide range of tech....
Transferring Data and Memory One of the hardest things about switching to a Mac, let alone any computer, is transferring all of the files from one computer to another. Regardless which OS you are using previously, you sure have ton of files that need to be transferred to your new Mac. The fastest and easiest way is to use an external hard drive. All you have to do is connect, transfer, connect to Mac, and transfer....
All of the power banks below have one thing in common: They are portable and have high-capacity batteries. These power banks aren’t pocket-portable, though, but they are compact enough to fit in your backpack, glove box, or laptop bag with ease. Without much ado, let’s dive into the best high-capacity power banks with over 20,000mAh battery that you should buy. 1. Anker PowerCore+ 26,800 PD Anker has established itself as a leader when it comes to charging devices, and the PowerCore+ 26,800 PD is the epitome of their work....
By using your phone’s sensors (position and proximity), this app can detect the movements you make when you put your phone in your pocket and automatically blocks them. It also knows when you take your phone out and automatically lights up. This can also be a useful app when your Lock button is spoiled or about to break. Pocket Sensor When you first start the app, the first option you see is the Pocket sensor....
Sure, you can still use the bookmarklet or an extension to pin from here, but doing this will bring up all the images on the page, and you’ll have to find the one you want. Using Bing’s new Pin It button will save you time since it’s right below the image. Here’s how it works: Perform a search on Bing Images. This can be done several ways, such as from your browser’s address bar or search bar, depending on the browser you’re using and your default search engine....
But in all this time there has never been an official Trello Chrome extension. Well, now there is. The new official Trello extension is quite a simple one – nothing fancy. It only does two things, but if you’re like me and use Trello to manage your work life, you’ll find it to be useful. Quickly Open Trello Boards Once the extension is installed you’ll be able to launch any of your Trello boards really quickly....
Eliminate Blank Cells If you’re working with an Excel document with tons of Excel data, this is a trick worth trying. Select the column or row with the blanks and press Ctrl + G. When the window appears, click on the “Special” button and choose Blanks. Click Ctrl + -, then “Shift cells up,” and OK. Modify the Size of the Rows and Columns The size of the cells in Excel may not always be the one you need....
VeltOS (or vos) is based on Arch Linux and comes with a custom environment (Budgie Desktop at the moment), a unique, albeit limited, selection of packages and a core philosophy that sets it apart from most distributions: Everything, every package included in the system, and “every single feature in a product is campaigned for and voted on by the community of users.” Anyone can set up a poll about a feature, and if it gains traction form the community, it will be included in the system....
What Is A Packaged App? Packaged apps are web apps with the look and feel of native apps. They are programmed using the same tools as web applications such as HTML5, Javascript, and CSS, but they run natively off of a user’s Chromebook. They still run using Chrome, but they have access to Chrome APIs that traditional web apps do not. These APIs provide apps with access to system functions such as Bluetooth that web apps cannot touch....
The origin of Bitcoin Created in 2009 by the Japanese pseudonymous developer Satoshi Nakamoto (it is not known if, behind this pseudonym, was a person or a whole group), this currency is a free open-source project based in the peer-to-peer technology, with all its issues and transactions being carried and managed by the whole network instead being centralized, as happens with the regular currencies. This means that, if you want to be paid by a friend living in the other side of the world, that payment made with Bitcoins will not involve any other entity such as banks....
That doesn’t mean hackers have gotten any less determined, however; it just means they’ve had to work smarter. From spying on company infrastructure and sending emails to employees from the boss’s address, to abducting users’ Facebook accounts and messaging friends, abuse of trust is the method of choice for hacking these days. One method they have up their sleeve is redirecting your computer from a legitimate URL to a fake copy of it where they can acquire login details when you enter your information into the false site....
Here we will show you how you can install Matrix on your server. What Is the Matrix Protocol? At its core, Matrix is a set of protocols that define how messages are sent over the internet. Similar to HTTP, Matrix aims to be an open standard that promotes free and transparent sharing of information online. It does so by doing two things: The core protocol team provides an open source server that you can create and deploy for clients and users to connect to....
If you’ve installed the anniversary update, then you might have noticed a new folder named “windows.old” in the root of the C drive. In fact, every time you install a major update or when you upgrade your system from one version to another, you will see this folder. Here is what the “windows.old” folder actually is and how to properly remove it. What Is the windows.old Folder The “window.old” folder is nothing new....
It seems there isn’t really a place for yet another home assistant. Then again, it seems like a field that Apple is well-suited for. We asked our writers, “What will happen now that Apple is joining the home assistant market?” Our Opinion Corbin doesn’t think the home assistant market will be “terribly disrupted” at all. From what he saw during the announcement, “HomePod is portrayed mainly as a speaker for the home,” while it also has a limited version of Siri built in....
What Is “Net Neutrality”? You obviously know what the term “net” is, but if you’re asking this question, you probably don’t know what “neutrality” refers to. The term “net neutrality” is used to describe an idea demanding that all data on the internet be treated equally. This means that no one will be charged more for accessing certain websites, like they would on television for viewing channels outside of the base subscription....
The obvious next question is where do we go for our help. While our experts are very knowledgeable on all technology topics, there are types when we, too, are in need of some help. We posed this question to our writers, also known as our experts. Our Opinion Every one of our writers resorts to searching Google for technology help at some point, either first and foremost or as a last resort....
What are child themes? Child themes are simply custom themes that inherit the functions and style of the parent theme. By creating a child theme, you can easily make modifications to the parent theme and keep those changes even when the parent theme is updated. Now that you know what a child theme is, let’s look at a few ways you can create child themes and some of the best practices to follow....
But there’s one thing cryptographers have been asking themselves for a while: What use are encryption algorithms like RSA if quantum computers will be able to break them within seconds? Can they even do that? It’s a terrifying question that many people probably would rather not know the answer to. How Encryption Currently Works There are tons of encryption algorithms, each with their own quirky methods for working out how to best protect your data....
