Who likes waking up to an annoying loud buzzer every morning? Wouldn’t it be nice to wake up to a cool and calm message telling you how the weather is, that your flight is delayed, or the meeting was canceled so you can just stay in bed? Well, this is the vision of the developers of Sleep.FM the social alarm clock. You might be cautious about using an online alarm because your Internet connection might be disconnected for some reason....
What Is HDR? HDR allows a more lifelike visualization of images and videos. A display achieves HDR by representing brighter highlights, darker shadows, and a wider range of colors than SDR or standard dynamic range. Simply put, the HDR displays can showcase more realistic images and videos. But as each display has different capabilities, like contrast ratio, peak brightness, and color coverage, their HDR performance also differs. For example, a monitor offering an excellent contrast ratio, high brightness level, and a broader range of colors will typically be better at HDR than a monitor with an average contrast ratio, low peak brightness, and limited color coverage....
How Wardriving Works The “driving” part in wardriving is quite literal. Hackers drive around in a car (or sometimes other vehicles like bicycles) with special equipment that maps out unsecured Wi-Fi networks There are many different software tools in a wardriver’s arsenal. These include packet sniffers, network traffic analysis packages, and special software designed to crack Wi-Fi security. Wardrivers also use special high-power antennas mounted on their vehicles that can detect Wi-Fi networks at long distances....
Here’s what it looks like before: Just open up a terminal prompt, and type in the following command to install K3b and the mp3 writing library in one step: Now when you right-click you’ll notice that Burn This Album is working. You can burn the album easily by just selecting the CD writer that you want to use, and clicking the Burn button. You might want to disable the completely obnoxious trumpet sound that K3b makes when it’s done burning....
With powerful branding and design, Atari became a household name in video games and computers during the 1970s and early ’80s. We’ll explain how its founders came up with the name and what it means. Nolan Bushnell Was a Fan of Go Believe it or not, the roots of the name “Atari” stretch back 2,500 years, even though video games themselves are only about 60 years old. Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded Atari in 1972....
BleepingComputer spotted a new feature in a recent Windows 11 Preview Build in the Dev Channel, accessible to Windows Insider testers, which records when apps access sensitive information. The current list in the Settings app (under Privacy & security > App permissions) includes apps that access your camera, microphone, and contacts. Windows also tells you what time the data was accessed, so you can tell if an app is doing something in the background that it shouldn’t....
Track Your Routes as Workouts One of the most basic functions of a smartwatch is the ability to track your workouts. This can be motivating whether you’re just starting out or are a seasoned hiker. Any routes you record can be checked on a smartwatch later, allowing you to see exactly where you’ve been which is useful for planning repeat excursions or altering routes for next time. This goes hand-in-hand with using your smartwatch to improve your fitness....
You Can Keep Your Phone Battery Healthy Forever Let’s open with the most persistent overarching myth: that you can somehow baby your phone’s battery to keep it in good health forever. A smartphone battery is, ultimately, a consumable good. Like tires on a car, the battery exists to be used and, when it has reached the end of its life cycle, replaced. Like tires or any other consumables that will eventually succumb to wear and tear, you can certainly do things to extend the life of your smartphone battery....
My Five Favorite How-To Geek Articles It’s no secret that in between how-to articles about the latest macOS, Windows, and iPhone tips, I like to write about tech history. It’s fun to educate and inform (and I’ve been doing it since 2005 for other sites). After writing 122 history features for How-To Geek, a handful have stood out as particularly memorable or interesting for me. I’ll give you a peek behind the scenes....
The main benefit to using this icon instead of a shortcut is that you can quickly get to the Internet Options page by right-clicking and choosing Properties. You’ll notice that you can also use “Start Without Add-ons”, which is helpful for troubleshooting problems. To add this icon back, we’ll need to use a registry hack. You can either follow along and manually create the registry entries, or you can skip down further and just download the registry file....
DeskSlide Setup As soon as you finish installing DeskSlide and start it up, you will be presented with the Configuration Wizard. The Currently Displayed Photo Window will also automatically display at the same time. Click “Next” to get started. This is where you will be able to add any photo folders that you want to DeskSlide’s photo library list. Click on the “Plus Sign” to add a folder and on the “Minus Sign” to remove one....
The current ChromeOS environment on Chromebooks is a mix of light and dark elements. Google has been testing distinct light and dark modes for several months, which were accessible by toggling the #dark-light-mode flag in the ChromeOS flags. The feature is now rolling out to everyone, without the need to dive into the flags menu. Google said in a blog post, “The ‘light’ theme keeps things bright and airy, while ‘dark’ makes for easy reading at night or in low light, and can help conserve power....
The History of wget and cURL Government researchers were starting to connect different networks together as far back as the 1960s, giving rise to inter-connected networks. But the birth of the internet as we know it came about on Jan. 1st, 1983 when the TCP/IP protocol was implemented. This was the missing link. It allowed disparate computers and networks to communicate using a common standard. In 1991, CERN released their World Wide Web software which they had been using internally for a few years....
The app comes with 14 different tools designed to streamline a developer’s life and make their workflows easier. Some available tools include a Json to Yaml and Yaml to Json converter, a JWT decoder, a Text compare tool, and more. The developers say that some of the tools could be useful for non-developers. Something like comparing text could definitely be helpful for writers, and some of the graphic manipulation tools could also be beneficial for others....
This has become such a big problem that I’ve received dozens of emails asking how to prevent deletion of the recycle bin. In fact, one reader was so angry with me because he couldn’t stop himself from repeatedly deleting the Recycle Bin that he ended up calling me a bunch of names (which I found somewhat humorous). What we’ll do is disable this menu item using a small registry hack....
Note that this isn’t the fault of OS X, it’s because I’ve got ansi color turned on and my settings configured wrong. So, how to disable syntax highlighting in Vim? Look, somebody puked a rainbow into my terminal window… Disable for Current Session If you type :syntax off into the current editor, it’ll turn the syntax highlighting off immediately: You could use the opposite command, :syntax on, to turn it back on and make your eyes bleed....
Remember Steam Machines? Before we explain why it’s likely that Steam Deck clones are coming, we need a short history lesson. In 2015, Valve released its Steam Machine platform. These devices were pre-built PCs that looked like consoles and ran an early version of SteamOS. While Steam Machines were not a success for various reasons, they tell us a lot about Valve’s way of thinking. Valve did not make their own Steam Machine but instead published a set of specifications that third-party manufacturers had to comply with to use the Steam Machine name....
When installing the utility a feature that comes in very handy is adding it into the context menu to easily convert single audio files. Let’s look at converting an AAC file to mp3, simply Right-click the AAC file and go to Send To and XRECODE to open the file. Next choose MP3 and then the Settings button. Now choose your preferred bit rate settings for the file then OK....
Volumouse is a cool free utility that makes controlling the computer volume a bit easier. Not only does this application allow easy volume control, it also has functionality for you to control window transparency and screen brightness. Here is an example of controlling Firefox transparency over an Excel document. I guess I am not sure exactly what I would use this for … but it is definitely cool! Volumouse comes with an easy to use Zip Installer which allows you to decide how and where to install the application from one screen....
Here we’ll go over the types of EV charging stations and how to find one near you. What Kinds of EV Charging Stations Are There? There are four types of public charging stations widely available: Type 1 Type 2 DC fast charging (DCFC) Tesla Supercharger Type 1 (110-volt) stations are the slowest, offering around 30-40 miles on an overnight charge. Type 2 (240-volt) stations will get you 20-25 miles of range in an hour’s time, and DCFC stations can recharge an EV battery about 80% of the way in half an hour....
