Today’s modern home user may find a personal server at home to be quite useful. Whether it be a Media Server utilizing Plex or Kodi for your Home Theater PC needs, data storage for storing and syncing all of your irreplaceable family photos and financial records, or even running your own homelab just because you can (or even all of these!), a personal home server may be quite the valuable tool....
iOS 14.5 is bringing a variety of changes and enhancements to the Podcasts app on iPhone and iPad. With a recent server side change, the new Podcasts app displays the release schedule for a particular podcast on the show details page. As shown in the screenshots, the episodic release period — such as weekly, monthly, or daily — is now shown alongside the podcast category and ratings summary inside of Apple Podcasts …...
Find Bubble Level in iOS 7 Launch your Compass app in iOS. It will tell you to tilt the screen to roll the ball around the circle. This is to calibrate the compass. This takes about 15-20 seconds. The compass app will launch: However, you want to use the level. Just swipe Left. Now you have a level. When your object or surface is perfectly level, the screen until the display’s zero and becomes green....
With the launch of iOS 14 in September, Google’s key apps were updated to support the latest platform features. After adding default email app support, Gmail now has an iOS home screen widget. Google is also highlighting how Chrome on iPad supports opening multiple windows. Rolling out on version 6.0.201101 today, there is a single 4×2 Gmail widget that starts with a “Search in mail” bar that opens the app to the appropriate field when tapped....
Instagram is now considering a major change to how the Instagram Stories feature works. The company has been removing the option to share posts from the feed to stories for some users as part of a new test. As reported by Social Media Today (via The Verge), Instagram users have been receiving notifications about the upcoming change that disables the option to re-share a photo or video from the regular feed to stories....
In this tutorial, we are going to go through the steps to install Windows Server 2012. Microsoft continues to improve the installation process. If you have installed Windows Server 2008/2008 R2, you will find that the installation of Server 2012 is very similar. If you already have Windows Server 2012 on DVD media, that’s great. If not, you can download a fully functional trial version from the Microsoft website.Boot from the DVD media, ISO, or VHD (if you are running this as a VM guest)....
We’re closer than ever to the release of Apple’s first Mac powered by Apple Silicon processors. Amid that transition, Intel has unveiled its new 11th generation Tiger Lake CPUs, touting them as the “best processor for thin and light laptops.” Intel has previewed its 11th generation Tiger Lake processors in the past, but it offered up more details during an event today. The chipmaker also said that the new Tiger Lake CPUs will be available in laptops sometime this fall, bringing significant performance improvements over the previous Ice Lake processors....
We’ve played around with and talked about the preview platform of Internet Explorer 9, but now it is time to take it a step further. Last Wednesday (9/15) Microsoft Released Internet Explorer version 9.0.7930.16406 beta. Now you can officially take it for a real test-drive and be one step closer to flushing IE8 down the toilet! Internet Explorer 9 Highlights Since it’s still a very early beta version, we aren’t going to go through and nitpick IE9, but let’s take a look at some of the things that stand-out....
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvbter05UpA] Starting with iOS 7, deleting an iCloud account or restoring a device requires Find My iPhone to be disabled. Find My iPhone, in turn, requires the user to enter the password for the Apple ID attached to the iCloud account. This system ensures that phone thieves can’t remove the account and avoid being tracked through the Find My iPhone website. Unfortunately, there’s a pretty easy way to bypass this requirement, as demonstrated in the video above....
With the release of iOS 8.4 today, many users found themselves faced with the decision to upgrade now or wait until a jailbreak is available so they can continue using their tweaks. That choice just got a lot easier, as the Taig development team has announced that the exploits used in their 8.3 jailbreak are all still available in the new update. According to a post on the Taig team’s Weibo page, an 8....
Instagram today has released several new features. First, the social media service has brought some Halloween face filters along with new stickers for some seasonal fun. Second is a new “Superzoom” feature that works with stories or direct. Instagram detailed the new features in a blog post. Superzoom does what the name suggests by creating a dramatic video and audio effect. Here’s how Instagram describes the new feature and how to use it:...
Another small feature in iOS 11 that will prove useful for a lot of users is the new option for one handed keyboards. Follow along for how to easily switch between the standard and one handed keyboards and also change the default option. Although it’s faster to use two hands, we all experience times when we need to type with one. Apple’s new one handed keyboard feature built into iOS 11 adds a convenient left and right one handed option to the stock keyboard....
Apple will likely introduce iOS 13 at WWDC in June and concept creators are already imagining what features the update might bring. A new concept video showcases new iOS 13 features such as a redesigned Siri interface, Dark Mode, and more. The concept is rather hopeful and it’s unlikely Apple will implement anywhere close to the 40+ new iOS 13 features showcased here. Nonetheless, the video is a neat way to imagine what iOS 13 might include, and what might come to iOS later down the road....
In the past, cars and computers did not have many touching points. Nowadays, modern cars contain numerous computers. As Bruce Emaus, the chairman of SAE International, stated: “It would be easy to say the modern car is a computer on wheels, but it’s more like 30 or more computers on wheels.” The complexity of modern cars can be understood by comparing their software with the software used on the space ship (Apollo 11) that put humans on the moon....
Good News for all HTC Desire 626G owners. Now you can install the latest Lineage OS 14.1 on HTC Desire 626G based on Android 7.1.2 Nougat. Lineage OS is a new Open Source project morphed after the death of CyanogenMod OS. However, the man behind the LineageOS seems to be the CEO of Cyanogen.inc Steve Kondik. Today you can enjoy the build of Lineage OS 14.1 on HTC Desire 626G (CM14....
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install TWRP Recovery on Samsung Galaxy S20, S20+, or S20 Ultra (Exynos). The flagships from Samsung have set up the bar for others to follow. All these three devices boast some of the most impressive specs sheets. If we talk about the Ultra variant, it has a huge 6.9-inch screen with 1440 x 3200-pixel resolution, with a 120Hz refresh rate. Under the hood, the Global variant has Exynos 990 chipset, while the USA build comes with Qualcomm SM8250 Snapdragon 865....
Remember when Intel sang praises enthusiastically for a certain fruity company, having told the press recently how thrilled they’ve been because Apple has been “pushing us hard”? Intel wasn’t joking and they want the iPhone maker to make another switch. Earlier today, Intel’s finance boss told journalists at a London investor event that his company would absolutely love to build mobile processors for Apple – even if that meant agreeing to custom designs which marry Apple’s silicon blueprints to Intel’s proprietary processor architecture, Reuters reported....
WARNING! Spoilers for Into the Dark: My Valentine ahead. My Valentine, Hulu’s latest entry in its Into the Dark horror anthology series tackles the many emotions associated with Valentine’s Day, but its claustrophobic story culminates in a real whopper of an ending. Hulu’s Into the Dark series sinks its teeth into a different holiday for each of its monthly installments and the show’s second season is turning out to be even more satisfying than the first....
Apple introduced its Clips app just over a year ago, then we saw the first major update at the end of last year. Now with iOS 12, Apple is bringing some of the editing and enhancement features from Clips into Messages to more easily customize and share your photos and videos. iOS 11 introduced some handy new ways to markup, edit, and quickly screenshots. This year, iOS 12 is bringing some useful new functionality to quickly customize photo and video from right within the messages app....
The public beta version of iOS 9.3 for non-developer testers is now available. The first iOS 9.3 beta was first released earlier this week to registered developers and includes a number of new mid-cycle features and enhancements. These include secure passwords and Touch ID protection for Notes, a new Night Shift feature to adjust display temperate in the evening, and expanded 3D Touch quick actions on the latest iPhones. iOS 9....
