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The Razer Productivity Suite Is Sleek, Subtle, and Slightly Ergonomic
Razer Razer, the company behind some of the best gaming peripherals you can buy, has a new suite of devices for your consumption. But this time, instead of going with a vibrant black and green scheme, the Razer Productivity Suite sports a subtle, refined look, and includes some ergonomic stylings. First up in the list…
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7 Things To Bear In Mind When You Compare New Internet Providers
There are a lot of companies offering internet deals these days, so it’s very tempting to move over to someone advertising a (seemingly) better deal. However, how can you tell which internet service provider (ISP) is really offering the better choice? Let’s look at the most important things to keep in mind when you compare…
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What Is The Best File Manager For Android? We Look At 5
An Android file manager is an app that lets you explore the files on your Android device, similar to the Windows File Explorer or macOS Finder. WIthout an Android file explorer, moving, copying, and pasting files on your Android device is much more difficult. Furthermore, many Android file explorers give you extra file management options,…
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Troubleshoot Slow Right-Click Context Menu in Windows 7/8
I recently upgraded a laptop to Windows 8.1 and ran into a very annoying problem. Whenever I would try to right-click on anything on the desktop or in Windows Explorer, the right-click menu would take anywhere from 10 to 25 seconds to load! The problem was especially bad on the desktop where I once waited…
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How To Download Wikipedia
Wikipedia is one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date encyclopedias ever made. It’s also completely free and entirely community-created. It’s honestly one of the most inspirational projects in history, but you need to be online to use it. While it may sound a little crazy, you can actually download ALL of Wikipedia for offline use…
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How to Create Animated GIFs from Images using Photoshop CS6
I recently took some funny pictures of my cousin and wanted to create my own animated GIF instead of using the “Auto Awesome” one created automatically by Google+. Since I have Photoshop CS6 installed, I figured I would give it a shot and see what happens. At first, I thought it would be fairly straight-forward:…
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Doordash Wants to Deliver Your Groceries Now Too
Simone Hogan/Shutterstock Right on the heels of its plans to deliver convenience store goods, DoorDash wants to handle your full grocery runs now too. But the company thinks it can do better than other competitors and is promising to deliver your groceries in as little as an hour. To start, Doordash will work with Smart…
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How to Create and Use an Email Template in Microsoft Outlook
Email templates in Microsoft Outlook are easy to create, but not so easy to navigate to whenever you actually want to use one. Fortunately, you can create a template and pin it to the ribbon for easier access. Templates are really useful for repetitive emails that use boilerplate text. In Outlook, it’s easy to create and…
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Google Adds Wildfire Boundaries to Maps and Search
Google As fire blaze across California, Google is adding wildfire data and warnings to Maps and Search. People driving near an active blaze will see the fire’s boundary, ambient news alerts and road-closure warnings. You can find the same data from your browser by searching things like “California wildfire” or “Pine Gulch fire.” Wildfires aren’t…
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How to Use AWS Transcribe to Convert Speech to Text
Speech transcription is a problem that’s commonly solved with expensive human workers. With machine learning though, computers have caught up, and AWS’s AI-powered Speech Recognition Toolkit is now available as a service for your application to use. AWS Transcribe Converts Audio Files in S3 Transcribe is simple—give it an audio file (stored in S3), and…
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Burger King Confuses Game Streamers With Ads Disguised as Twitch Donations
Oglivy Twitch-style game streaming is still fairly young as a medium, so there are still lots of ways to innovate…and lots of ways that innovation can go wrong. Take a recent Burger King campaign, for example: it donated $3-5 to game streamers on Twitch, which then played out a text-to-speech ad for the fast food…
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How to View Your Credit Report and Credit Score for Free
About every few months, you hear of another enormous data breach of a large financial company and how you should check your credit reports carefully to make sure nothing is amiss. These days, you’re apparently not even safe if you add fraud alerts to your credit report or freeze it entirely. Some of the security…
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Sony Releases Software to Turn Its Cameras Into Webcams
Sony With more and more people working from home, webcams have been out of stock for months. Camera makers like Panasonic, Wyze, and Canon stepped up to fill the gap by releasing software to turn cameras into webcams. Now Sony is the latest to join in thanks to its new Image Edge Webcam Software. Out…
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How to Change Nearby Share Device Visibility on Android
Nearby Share is Android’s version of Apple’s AirDrop. It’s a universal method for sharing links, photos, and files between devices. Here’s how to control who can see and send things to your device. Nearby Share is compatible with all Android 6.0+ devices, starting with Google Pixel and Samsung devices. Be sure to read our guide on…
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What Is a PEM File and How Do You Use It?
Shutterstock/FGC PEM is a container file format often used to store cryptographic keys. It’s used for many different things, as it simply defines the structure and encoding type of the file used to store a bit of data. What Is a PEM File? PEM is just a standard; they contain text, and the format dictates…
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What Camera Settings Should I Use for Nighttime Photos?
Harry Guinness The word “photography” comes from the Greek words “phōtos” (light) and “graphé” (drawing)—in essence, “drawing with light,” Taking good pictures at night is difficult precisely because you don’t have much light to draw with. The “secret,” such as it is, is to select camera settings that maximize the amount of light reaching your…
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Process Video in the Cloud with AWS’s Elastic Transcoder
Shutterstock/phloxii Bandwidth costs money, and streaming video out from CloudFront is very pricey. You can cut down on that cost by transcoding your videos beforehand with AWS’s Elastic Transcoder, which processes videos to cut down on file size. Bandwidth Costs Money Video files are fairly large as fair as media goes, compared to images and…
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7 OS X Tips for Windows Users
If you recently purchased a Mac or if you have been required to use a Mac for work, you might be frustrated trying to use OS X if you have been a long-time Windows user. This is completely understandable and Apple really doesn’t care to change their OS to match that of Windows anytime soon.…
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How to Hide Your Facebook Online Status
Here’s a simple tip that I just figured out myself the other day: hide your online status on Facebook! Why is this useful? Well, now that Facebook has built chat into the online interface (kind of like Google Hangouts running inside Gmail), your friends can start chatting with you any time you log into Facebook. Personally,…
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How to Record Yourself Online Using a Webcam
Want to make a video recording of yourself online? For some odd reason, a lot of people still record simple videos using camcorders, transfer them to their computer and then upload them to the Internet. That’s totally understandable if you are filming a project, film, etc and you’re using an HD cam for that, but if…
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Fix “Security Code Invalid” Error in iTunes
Recently, my wife was trying to buy something on iTunes from her iPhone and she was asked to verify the billing information. When she tried to enter the security code on the back of the credit card, she would just keep getting “Security Code Invalid” even though it was perfectly correct. The odd thing was…
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How To Test If a PC Can Run a Game
Are you excited to try out a game on your PC? Try not to get ahead of yourself because it’s possible that the game might not work for you. In this post, you’ll learn how to test if your PC can run a game before spending your money. The Manual Way Before anything else, it’s…
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How to Quickly Find Specific System Preferences on a Mac
Need to change a setting on your Mac but don’t know where to find it? There are two fast and easy ways to locate the specific system preference you’d like to change. Here’s how. Search Within System Preferences The most in-depth way to find a setting on your Mac is by searching within the macOS…
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The Best Cycling Computers That Aren’t Made by Garmin
Ruslan Sitarchuk Recently, Garmin suffered a multi-day outage in its sports-tracking service, which prevented users of the company’s sports and fitness devices from syncing with Gamin Connect. This outage was due to a ransomware attack, in which Garmin reportedly made the decision to pay the ransom to cyber-terrorists. If that doesn’t sit well with you…