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Our technology, family, work, society, and health breed stress and anxiety. Forty-four percent of people who responded to a survey say their stress levels have increased. Stress levels have grown worse with each generation. Boomers, Generation Xers, and Millennials have stress levels of 4.3, 5.8, and 6.0 respectively. Now you have relief right at your fingertips. 1. Personal Zen Personal Zen is free and available only on iOS. This app contains a series of games drawn from clinical research on methods used in lowering anxiety levels....

1. Character Selector I frequently have to use foreign characters when I type. Whether I’m typing out the word “résumé” or the name of my (now deceased) cat, “Nüns Núñez,” I often find myself struggling to remember the particular unicode sequence for each diacritical mark. The Character Selector plasmoid removes the need to memorize unicode. Character Selector lets you display special characters from a number of different alphabets. You can click on a character to copy it to the clipboard or hover over it to see the unicode and decimal values:...

Whether it’s keeping yourself protected when using a public WiFi hotspot or trying to figure out why your battery is draining quickly, we have you covered with our rundown of the six best laptop apps. KeepSolid VPN Unlimited No one wants to spend any notable sum of money on a boring old VPN, but they’re more important than ever in today’s age of cybercrime and super-surveillance. If you’re looking for a sensibly-priced VPN to anonymize your browsing as you travel with your laptop, KeepSolid is a great option, starting at $3....

Note: If you don’t have the OneDrive client in your system, (Windows 8-powered devices have it installed in the system), you can download it via the official website. Technically, Microsoft users have 15GB free cloud storage, but you can expand that, too. Later, we will show you how. Note: If you have activated OneDrive, a folder is already created in the system (you can see the icon OneDrive) in the File Explorer, and it will add and sync the files and folders whenever you save them in that path....

Luckily, you can stop or pause Windows updates with a few tweaks to your system, as will be described below. 1. Pause Windows Updates in Settings If you want to pause Windows updates for some time (up to a few weeks), do the following: Note: This method is available for Windows 11 Pro and Home, as well as Windows 10. 2. Use the Registry Editor The Registry Editor is a powerful tool for optimizing your Windows experience....

1. Groove Music (Pre-Installed) Groove, which was previously known as Xbox Music, is a music service by Microsoft which hopes to compete with other music services like Google Play Music, Apple Music, Spotify, etc. While Groove is a music service, Groove Music is the official music player and organizer app. Using this little app you can play and organize all your music, be it stored locally or on your OneDrive account....

1. FLHUD For those who want to keep things minimal, you can try out the FLHUD Rainmeter skin. It is one of those themes that makes things easier for you if you spend a lot of time on your desktop or PC. There is a customizable bar widget, which you can place anywhere on your home screen, preferably on top. The good thing about this top-bar widget is that you can add customizable hyperlinks....

1. Clockology The excellent app Clockology not only lets you create your own Apple Watch faces but also use those created by other users. If you want to go on a little nostalgia trip back to the 90s, then you can’t go too wrong with the Casio Space watch face (pictured), which you can download here then enable through the app. Clockology isn’t actually unique to Apple Watch, and you can also use it to design and download custom clocks on your desktop, iPhone or iPad....

1. Hypothesis – Web & PDF Annotation The Hypothesis – Web & PDF Annotation Chrome extension is a general purpose one for web pages and PDF documents. You can use it to create notes, highlights, and replies. This is great if you want to make your research notes more organized and want to easily find stuff. You can also use it for discussions with friends or colleagues so you can collaborate privately....

Here are seven things you can do with the Option key on your Mac. 1. See Network Connection Details When you click the WiFi icon in your menu bar, you are only presented with a limited number of options. Using the Option key, you can have the menu show up more options for you to manage your network connections. Hold down the Option key on your keyboard and click on the WiFi icon in your menu bar, and you should see a couple of extra options in addition to the normal ones....

1. Check Compatibility There are currently two generations of Apple Pencils, and each is not compatible with all iPad versions. Before you try the below-mentioned fixes, you must check the compatibility of the Apple Pencil. The following are the iPads that are compatible with the 1st generation of Apple Pencil: iPad (6th generation)iPad (7th generation)iPad (8th generation)iPad (9th generation)iPad mini (5th generation)iPad Air (3rd generation)iPad Pro 12.9-inch (1st or 2nd generation)iPad Pro 10....

It is worthwhile to reduce everyone’s stress by going for the easiest and fastest modes to send large files online. Here are a few of them. Tip: Here’s how you can easily view large files in Windows. 1. Volafile Volafile is a file transfer solution that kills many birds with one stone. If you have to send large files to multiple recipients at a moment’s notice, look no further. To begin, simply create a new Volafile chatroom which will take less than two seconds!...

Red Bull ended up winning both the drivers title (in Max Verstappen) and the constructors, but the last few weeks haven’t been so quiet for the team as the budget cap saga rolled on and now it seems as if all is not well between their driver pairing. Mercedes recent run of form bodes well for 2023 as they seem to have fixed most of the problems that affected them throughout the year as George Russell got his first ever win and the Silver Arrows first win of the season in Brazil....

While Apple’s all-in-one desktop PC was originally priced at £1799, it has now been reduced to a far more affordable £1429 price point. That’s an incredibly good value price considering the specs, such as a 5K display and an i5 Intel Core desktop processor. Not fussed about this deal? Don’t worry, as there are plenty of more bargains available in our early Black Friday Deals roundup. Our team of experts are keeping an eye out for the very best deals, making sure to pick out high-quality gadgets on sale....

In a previous post I talked about a great disk usage analysis tool called TreeSize Free that visually summarized how your disk was being used. Free Disk Analyzer performs a similar task, however it also has some added features and some better graphics. In this walkthrough I’ll show you what Free Disk Analyzer is all about and we’ll look at some comparison shots with TreeSize Free. Installation Start by downloading the installation package for Free Disk Analyzer from the ExtenSoft web site....

Note: although I’m showing this in Windows 10, this works in other versions like Vista, 7 and 8.1 as well. Apply Policy Settings to a Specific User or Group Making Windows apply policy settings to only specific users or groups isn’t difficult, but it is a bit confusing as you need to create a new snap-in to interact with the console and then apply it to the target users or groups....

Did you know, however, that Avast now has its own browser? It’s called the Avast Secure Browser and can be found on Windows, Mac, and very recently, Android. Is it worth your time, or is it another browser lost among the Big Three? This is a sponsored article and was made possible by Avast. The actual contents and opinions are the sole views of the author who maintains editorial independence, even when a post is sponsored....

In fact, using your Android device, you can control various aspects of your Windows PC, like the keyboard, mouse, and media playback. Fortunately, the open world of Android has a bunch of apps that allows you to control your Windows PC from the comfort of your bed or elsewhere. Let’s dive straight into it. 1. Unified Remote One of the first apps that pops up when searching for remote control apps for Windows is Unified Remote....

For most people looking to capture their memories on camera, the smartphone is arguably the best way to do it – especially if you pick one of the excellent choices reviewed by our experts below. You don’t even need to splash out on an expensive flagship like the Galaxy S22 Ultra or iPhone 14 Pro Max to get a great camera phone. In the same way, buying a high-end handset won’t guarantee you a great camera – the Nothing Phone (1) and the OnePlus 10T are good examples of phones that offer admirable performance but fail to match the camera performance of their rivals....

However, with innovations and development in Internet technologies as well as improvements in web browser capabilities, the popularity of download managers has come down a bit. But this doesn’t take away the fact that many download manager applications still exist that are extremely useful as they provide a lot of useful and interesting features and are worth using. In this article we will discuss one such application: uGet. uGet uGet is a download manager that claims to be “very powerful,” as it provides a large array of features....