WhatsApp has finally got your back when you send a message to the wrong person or group. The Facebook-owned messaging app is rolling out a feature that will finally let its 1 billion-plus users delete a message for all people within a conversation. Right now, the app’s delete feature is fairly useless as it only removes a message for the person who sent it. Read More
So, we’re midway through earnings season, and as you’ve probably seen we’ve covered a majority of the big companies that have reported thus far: Alphabet, Twitter, Microsoft, Atlassian, Paypal, eBay, and Netflix. There are plenty more that have reported, and there are still more to come, but these are the periods that generally have the most impact on the best public barometer… Read More
What’s wrong with your computer? Has your PC stopped booting, or does your laptop crash after an hour or so every single time you switch it on? Perhaps there’s a problem with the power cable, or maybe your mouse isn’t working properly — or worse, you’ve spilt coffee on the keyboard. The default option for most people is to get on the phone and call a PC repair shop. Or to contact the vendor for some expensive support. But in the vast majority of cases, you don’t need to rely on these services. Just make sure you know what you’re...
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In response to concerns that Russia used Facebook ads in an attempt to influence last year’s presidential election, the social network has said it will increase transparency by allowing anyone to see any ad run by any organization. Now it’s releasing a few more details about its plans, like the fact that the new transparency features are expected to go live next month. Once they… Read More
Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday for spending time with loved ones, giving thanks, and of course, gobbling up a delicious dinner! From start to finish, this list of sites and sources can help you make this Thanksgiving unforgettable. Whether you are hosting Thanksgiving dinner for the first time or are just looking to change things up this year, get ready to bookmark these helpful websites and useful videos. How to Plan for Thanksgiving Day If you have never made or hosted a Thanksgiving dinner before, you may feel as nervous as you do excited. So, for a little help with...
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A former Apple intern, Christian Selig says he wasn’t happy with the selection of iOS apps for browsing Reddit, so he decided to build his own. The developer this week launched his own Reddit client called Apollo, which offers a beautifully designed browsing experience for either iPhone or iPad, as well as customizable gestures, a media viewer, a full Markdown writing editor, and… Read More
One of the worst parts of using a computer is just how mindlessly repetitive it can be: searching hundreds of folders for that one file, or typing the same bit of text day after day, or cleaning up and organizing a thousand different files… We can end up wasting a LOT of hours this way. Fortunately, we aren’t alone! Others have suffered just as much as us, if not more, and some have even taken great lengths to create tools that ease these pains — then released them for free. By adding a few of these utilities to your arsenal,...
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WhatsApp will now let you delete sent messages. You could previously delete individual messages, but only from your point of view. Now, you can essentially unsend messages, hiding them from view from everyone in the conversation. Which could prove to be useful in countless situations. We’ve all been there. Whether out of anger, upset, or drunkenness, there are times when you send something to someone without thinking. You may regret it instantly, or it may not be until hours, days, or even weeks later that you realize you made a mistake. Luckily, WhatsApp has your back. How to Delete Sent...
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Apple’s recent iOS 11 update made some dramatic changes to the user interface, but there are still some significant features missing from the operating system. Whether you primarily use an iPhone or an iPad, you’re bound to have noticed a few of these. Some of them might even be pet peeves that hold you back on a daily basis. They are all things that Apple should add to a future update. 1. Default Apps: The Pipe Dream If there’s one area that iOS has improved over the years, it’s sharing. You can now use the share sheet to email a...
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Apple has been making gadgets for decades. And as one of the world’s favorite consumer electronics makers, the company has also made plenty of cases and sleeves to protect those gadgets, most notably for the iPhone and iPad. But Apple has never made its own laptop/MacBook sleeve, until today. While many hit up the Apple website today for the launch of iPhone X pre-orders, they may not… Read More
U.S. iPhone users will spend an average of $88 per year on paid apps and in-app purchases by 2020, according to a new forecast out this week from Sensor Tower. The firm found that the dollar amount spent on apps and in-app purchases is continuing to increase, year-over-year. iPhone users spent an average of $63 this year, up 33 percent over 2016. And by 2019, the increase over 2016 will have… Read More
It’s hard to believe, but the first Amazon Echo device hit the market less than three years ago. The voice-controllable personal assistant powering the experience, Alexa, continues to learn and gain more and more features. Currently, there are more than 20,000 different skills users can take advantage of — everything from the incredibly useful to the not-so-smart. And as the Echo lineup continues to become more powerful and popular, many users find that more than one person in their household wants to take full advantage of all the different services and skills. Echo Dot (2nd Generation) - Black Echo Dot...
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As Android TV continues its never-ending march into our living rooms, users are increasingly looking for cool apps that aren’t available on the smartphone version of the operating system. Or at least, apps that are far more useful on the big screen than on a tiny mobile screen. The list of Android TV apps is growing every day. Most of the big hitters (e.g. Facebook, Spotify, Netflix, etc.) are already available. But what other apps are out there? Which non-mainstream apps should every Android TV owner put on their device? Luckily, we have the answers. Here are five unique apps...
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It’s the same thing every year. Apple, Google, and Samsung launch their flagship phones, and people go wild over the cameras. Soon enough, we hear someone saying the death of the DSLR camera is near. But are these smartphones really catching up to DSLRs? What makes a DSLR better? It takes only one look at a comparison in output to know that phones aren’t yet good enough. And it makes sense once you find out what are the important specs in any digital camera. Sensor Size Does Matter The biggest difference between a DSLR camera and a smartphone is the...
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Move over America, India is now the world’s second largest smartphone market. That’s according to a new report from Canalys which claims smartphone shipments in India crossed the 40 million mark for the first time in Q3 2017 courtesy of 23 percent annual growth. That means that India has overtaken the U.S. on sales with only China ahead of it. Given the huge gulf in populations… Read More
Despite recently discovered Wi-Fi vulnerabilities like KRACK, the odds of your password being compromised in real-time by a hacker are incredibly small. Almost all password hacks come through two sources: brute force attacks (whereby an attack hits your account with tens of thousands of password combinations in the hope one works), and database hacks (when a company’s database of user data is breached). Either way, unique passwords makes you more secure. A strong password like gW$4*9Ps£7! is much harder for a brute force attack to break than ILoveMyDog123, and using a series of unique passwords means all your other accounts will...
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Google Assistant is great. Whereas cutting-edge folks can use a Google Home to control a Chromecast with voice commands, the rest of us only need an Android phone running Google Assistant to achieve the same thing. Android Police recently discovered that all you have to do is pull up Google Assistant on your phone and use a voice command to watch TV or play music. For example, say “Play Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by the Beatles“ or “Play MakeUseOf videos.” If you have only one Chromecast-enabled device, that’s all you have to say. If you have multiple Chromecast-enabled devices, you can specify where you want the song or video...
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As you might know, your computer contains a lot of files and folders that it doesn’t show you by default. Some of these are protected system files that would cause problems if you deleted them, while others are hidden simply so they don’t clutter your file browsing. You can always type out the full path of a file to visit it, but this is clunky if you navigate around a lot. Next time you need to access a hidden folder in Windows, all you need to do is flip a setting in Windows Explorer. Just follow these steps for Windows...
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Believe it or not, some people still print documents on physical pieces of paper. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software takes those printed documents and converts them right back into machine-readable text. We’ve found some of the best free OCR tools and compared them for you here. No OCR program is perfect, so you’ll have to check the results and fix a few problems. Still, it’s a lot faster than typing the entire document back into the computer. Each of these free OCR software tools has its own strengths. All of them will get the job done. The Methodology To compare these tools,...
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Shortly after Google’s new Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL began shipping, some users noted that the devices seemed to have some… quirks. Onscreen colors on the XL seemed faded, some users reported. When switching screens, evidence of previously displayed images sometimes seemed to linger (as if they were burned into the screen). Others reported that the screen seemed to turn an odd shade of… Read More
Reddit is embarking on a new mission to rid itself of the nastiest communities, users, and even memes. The social media site is banning any group or individual inciting violence, and the brunt of the communities taking the initial hit are those populated by self-confessed racists. Reddit was once the Wild West of the web. There was an anything goes mentality, with an attitude of “If you don’t like it, don’t read it”. However, Reddit has since cleaned up its act, which hasn’t gone down well with everyone. And management has decided it’s time for another crackdown. Violence Is Never...
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Alphabet delivered a knockout quarter today, handily beating the estimates from Wall Street — but, perhaps more importantly, showing actual growth in a critical metric that has seen a consistent decline for quite some time. Google’s cost-per-click — a metric that helps define how valuable its ads are — grew 1% quarter-over-quarter this year. While still down 18%… Read More
If you want to pick up a new language, there’s no shortage of options. But one aspect of the process that has been neglected is pronunciation, which is especially important for professionals. Online, learning pronunciation is generally “hear a recording, then repeat it.” A new platform, Blue Canoe uses an established curriculum and machine learning to make things easier and… Read More
Anyone can write code. But good code? That’s where it gets tough. We’ve all heard horror stories about spaghetti code, massive if-else chains, entire programs that can break just by changing one variable, functions that look like they were obfuscated, and so on. That’s what happens when you try to make a shippable product with only a semester of programming experience under your belt. Don’t settle for writing code that works. Aim to write code that can be maintained — not only by yourself, but by anyone else who may end up working on the software at some point in...
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