1. Alarm Clock Pro for iPhone An alarm application would obvious be the perfect way to start off our roundup. Sadly, most of us don’t have spot on biological clocks, so an alarm clock is usually the thing that does the trick on waking us up most mornings. However, if you are like me, your alarm clock may be nothing more than a “alarming” noise. Alarm Clock Pro for iPhone does away with this and allows you to fully personalize your alarm experience....
If you want to add similar functionality to Firefox, you can do so using an add-on called Supertab. After installing (no restart necessary), you’ll be able to cycle through your open tabs in most recently used order. You can customize the add-on so that it uses either “Ctrl + Tab” or “Alt + Tab”. You’ll probably want to use “Ctrl + Tab”, which is the default behavior, because using “Alt + Tab” is sure to interfere with it also being used on your desktop....
Unfortunately, the feature is only available in Windows (as of now). Here’s how to use this new experimental feature: Go to this link in Google Chrome: Click on “Enable” under the “Enable experimental streamlined hosted apps” section. Note: Since the feature isn’t final yet, this is the only way to turn it on. Browse to any website that you’d like to create a hosted app for. Click on Chrome’s menu button, go to the Tools menu and click on “Create app for this website....
As soon as everyone started carrying electronic devices, whether they were laptops, iPods, or cell phones, the flight attendants started making announcements to turn them off after a certain time. As fun as they are to use, and at some times necessary, they can also interfere with the signal transmission of the airplane. There’s nothing that important that could warrant interfering with the plane you’re riding in with it possibly causing an accident....
Apple has simplified programming with its developer tools and extensive documentation over the past few years, but Objective-C and XCode still require a steep learning curve. This can really be uninviting to those who have other options for app development. Even if you’re a professional developer, with seasoned data manipulation skills in higher-level programming languages, you might find yourself annoyed by some of XCode’s nuisances, especially if all you want to do is give your logic a practical shape, without having to manage the difficult and tiresome syntax involved....
Why People Pirate Before diving head first into this subject, we have to understand the motivations for piracy. While I don’t have exact proportions for each category, it’s very important to become aware of what those categories are. The primary motivation for piracy, of course, is the financial incentive of not paying repeatedly for a movie you’re only going to watch once or a piece of software you may be taking a risk in purchasing....
This is a sponsored article and was made possible by AVC. The actual contents and opinions are the sole views of the author who maintains editorial independence even when a post is sponsored. Enlarge Video 400% AVCLabs Video Enhancer AI is a software utility that takes low-resolution videos and enlarges them, augmenting the missing pixels intelligently to raise them to higher resolutions. The results are surprisingly good. The amount of controls you have over the process are minimal....
Finding Commands with Apropos Apropos (app-row-POE) is a command that allows you to find commands with man or manual entries based on their description. If you’ve ever found a man page of a command, it looks a little something like this: That “NAME” section at the top is what I’m talking about. If I wanted to find the ping command with apropos, I would type apropos icmp into my terminal and hit Enter....
Although it is not yet an official standard, HTML5 video is available on many websites, including YouTube, and most major browsers have preliminary support for it. Unfortunately, the browser makers have not agreed upon a standard codec, so you will need to know what will work in which browsers. This brief guide should help you navigate through the jargon and get a glimpse of what might be the future of video on the Web....
One solution would be to simply open fewer sites at the same time, but if this does not fit with your way of working, you should take a look at Sidewise to better manage your Chrome browser tabs. This is an immensely useful add-on that makes it possible to neatly organize tabs that have spiraled out of control as well as placing unused tabs into hibernation mode to help free up resources....
Normally designers email their work-in-progress to the clients. But imagine emailing multiple pictures for a project and receiving feedback on different portions of different pictures. With only the words in the email to guide you, referencing the feedback with the pictures can quickly become very difficult. Here to offer you a better and more convenient way of sharing your designs and gathering feedback for them is a web service called Cage....
One of the problems with Emails is the ability to share it publicly or to share it with strangers who are not in your contact list. Say you are a web developer and received a project deal, which you want to forward to your team members. You can either add a Cc or forward it to the group of people. But the problem here is the email message is not public and only those people who have received a forwarded copy can read it....
Sure, you can easily do this using several tools available on all the major desktop operating systems, but why not save some time and make your conversions directly on your Android device? In this guide I’ll show you how to convert video to audio on Android using an app called “MP3 Video Converter”. Installation MP3 Video converter can be installed from the Google Play Store just like most other applications....
The unique selling point is privacy; with advertising on the Internet and tracking going hand-in-hand, Brave is designed to shirk these undesirable elements of Internet usage. History While Brave’s core concept sounds like a noble goal, it goes beyond this with the influence of Brendan Eich in its development. Eich was one of the Mozilla Project’s co-founders. A similar situation can be found with Vivaldi which was developed by the former Opera software team....
Boot into Ubuntu Karmic. Open a terminal and type: Add the following to the end of the file: Save and close the file. Back in the terminal, type: That’s it. You should now see an extra entry in your Grub screen. Scroll down to the last entry and it will boot into your Mac Snow Leopard.
There is no way to create new albums or to tag faces in Photos. It will tag Places for you, but not people, and it won’t let you create albums. It becomes very frustrating to see the ability to select different albums, but to have no way of creating albums. Unfortunately, it’s necessary to go back to iPhoto on the Mac to get this accomplished. If you plug in your device, either the iPad or iPhone, through the USB, you can then sync your photos through iPhoto, sending the photos from the device to your computer....
This leads to a question of whether you should upgrade as soon as it’s available or whether you should wait until all the kinks are worked out. Do you upgrade your system software right away? Our Opinion Alex plays it smart and has a machine set aside for immediate updates, yet he typically waits to upgrade his production machine until the “first point update.” Sayak keeps Microsoft’s forced updates disabled, yet they “constantly pester you to update at their pace, not yours....
A new all-around utility, just recently released, is version 3 of Ultimate Windows Tweaker. This latest update is made especially for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 and allows you to easily tweak Windows 8 and 8.1 without scrambling for all the configuration options. Those on previous operating systems can continue to use the last version of the software. What to Expect The file comes packaged as a ZIP, and is a quick download, extraction and installation....
Getting Google Maps Back On Board If you head to http://maps.google.com in your browser, it not only gives you the mobile version of the maps website, but also offers you a tip for getting Google Maps on your home screen again. However, this little trick doesn’t work with all browsers, yet does work with Safari the first time you migrate there. As the pop-up indicated, if you click on the “Share” button, either on the top on the iPad or the bottom on the iPhone, it brings up the typical sharing screen....
Tip: do you want to avoid the whole Fortnite mess? Check out these Fortnite alternatives. Epic Games vs. FTC The Depart of Justice on behalf of the FTC filed two separate settlements and is forcing Epic Games to create strong privacy settings for minors. Along with accusing the FTC of tricking minors into unwanted charges and retaining children’s information without parental consent, it also left voice and text chat open on the Fortnite game by default....
