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Audible Audible, the subscription-based audiobook platform from Amazon, has a new enticing offer for you. Audible Plus is cheaper than the company’s previous subscription plans and comes with access to 68,000 hours of exclusive content. Not bad for $7.95 a month. Audible’s existing subscription plans are seeing a change too. Instead of two plans that…

MSCHF The Chrome browser has a fun easter egg if you ever find yourself knocked offline—a dino game. Hit your spacebar, and the little dinosaur on the screen will start an endless runner game. But what if it did more? That’s what MSCHF wants to answer apparently, as it remade the game with weapons and…

Google Live Caption automatically adds captions for any audio playing on your phone, which can be incredibly useful in many situations. We’ll show you how to use it on any Google Pixel smartphone, including the Pixel 2 or newer. At this writing, the Live Caption feature only supports English, but it works with videos, podcasts, phone…

From the ‘This Is League of Legends’ Spotify playlist. Spotify Spotify’s arsenal of exclusive content is growing in an unexpected direction—esports. The streaming platform and Riot Games are teaming up to bring exclusive League of Legends audio content to Spotify subscribers, including a podcast series and live event audio. Riot Games and Spotify plan to…

In any professional environment, properly documenting your code with comments is necessary for long-term readability. For .NET code, Microsoft provides a system for XML-based comments that provide enhanced IDE support. What Are XML Comments? Essentially, XML comments are a special kind of comment denoted with a triple slash (///) and XML tags to give the…

Epic, the maker of worldwide gaming sensation Fortnite, and Apple, a company that recently passed $2 trillion in value, are fighting. The reasons are complicated, but to boil it down, Epic wants to pay less of a tithe to Apple for the skins kids buy on Fortnite via the App Store. Now Microsoft, a veteran…

Apple If you’re using Apple CarPlay (and your vehicle is safely stopped), you can easily take a screenshot of the CarPlay display on your iPhone. To do this, you just use your iPhone’s regular screenshot feature. Again, don’t do this while driving. Always pull over first or ask one of your passengers to do this…

Dean Drobot/Shutterstock While Amazon and eBay offer lots of options for bibliophiles, the shipping charges can make them unaffordable. Luckily, those aren’t the only two places you can get deals on books. If you’re a voracious reader, who loves out-of-print stuff, you’ve come to the right place! We’ve searched long and hard for the best…

If you want to set up a redirect to a different website, you don’t need to set up any routing rules on a web server or mess about with JavaScript; HTML has redirect tools built in using meta tags. We’ll discuss how and when to use them. You Don’t Need JavaScript, or Fancy Routing Rules Of…

Postmodern Studio/Shutterstock Well, that was a quick turnaround. On Friday, we reported that Apple was holding the WordPress iOS app hostage. It wouldn’t allow any updates until Automattic agreed to add new in-app purchases for its separate domain sales. By the end of the weekend, Apple backpedaled and even apologized. From beginning to end, it…

Khamosh Pathak Sometimes iMessage group threads are a bit much. You don’t want dozens or hundreds of notifications crowding up your lock screen. Here’s how to hide iMessage group alerts other than mentions on your iPhone and iPad. Instead of disabling notifications for the Messages app, just enable the Hide Alerts feature for a particular…

Zoom Thanks to the ongoing global pandemic, more people are working from home and video conferencing than ever. One of the beneficiaries (and victims) of that trend is Zoom, which has seen massive growth in the past year. Unfortunately for anyone that relies on Zoom for video calls, the service is down. Updated, 8/24/2020: A few…

If you want to make web requests in C#, or just want to do some background processing, you’ll need to use asynchronous background tasks to not block up the main thread. We’ll discuss what they are, and how to use them. What Is Async/Await? To use Tasks, you must first understand the concept of async/await.…

Microsoft Outlook and other modern email clients have a lot of plain, white backgrounds. It doesn’t have to be that way, though. Whether you want a soothing beige, an eye-catching image, or something in-between, Outlook allows you to customize your email backgrounds. Personalizing your email background can be a useful way to make a message…