Apple unveiled its newest iPads today, with the new lineup comprising the 10th-generation iPad and the new M2-equipped iPad Pro. But those weren’t the only Apple announcements today. Apple also unveiled a new, supercharged model of the Apple TV 4K. The most significant improvement in the Apple TV 4K is the inclusion of an A15 Bionic chipset. That’s the same chip that powers the iPhone 13 and 13 Pro, as well as the iPhone SE and the non-Pro iPhone 14....

The Raspberry Pi is still the most popular mini PC board, with several models available and a massive development communities, but it’s not the only option. FriendlyElec has been selling small ARM PCs for years, and now it has a new model available. FriendlyElec now sells the “NanoPi R5C” as a tiny single-board computer, in a similar form factor as the Raspberry Pi and other single-board dev kits. It has a Rockchip RK3568B2 CPU, 4 GB RAM, and 32 GB of integrated flash storage....

There’s no getting around it — the Alienware m17 R5 is a beast in every way. As its name suggests, this model comes with a massive 17-inch full HD display for immersive gameplay on the go. Under the hood sits a powerful AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX chip alongside an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GPU for high-end performance. You also get a 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD for quick loading times and 16GB of DDR5 RAM....

A release candidate build of Ubuntu Touch based on 20.04 has been released by the independent developers at UBports, letting you make your phone Linux-powered. That’s not the newest version of Ubuntu, as it was first released in 2020. However, Ubuntu Touch has been stuck in 16.04 since Canonical abandoned the project, so this is the first time the underlying OS has actually been updated since UBports began maintaining it....

If you’ve ever searched the shareware sites for an application launcher (a small program used to start other programs), then you will have noticed that there are hundreds out there. Some of them even cost money. Which one should you pay for, download, install, configure and use? Perhaps none of them! There’s a little-known feature in all recent versions of Windows that can serve as a fully featured application launcher – not just for programs, but also for files, folders, playlists – anything at all!...

Even if you have a modern scanner connected to your PC, it can be a cumbersome process to scan a document. You have to be at its location at home or work, and then scan each document. Even some of the portable scanners that you hook up to your laptop can be a bit to much when traveling. If you own a iPhone or iPod Touch with camera, Genius Scan is a quick and easy way to scan your receipts or documents and email them to the right person....

Before Since Twitter and other social websites contain a lot of shortened URLs you might feel slightly nervous at times if presented with a link from some unknown person. It becomes a matter of deciding if you feel safe enough to click on those links or not… For our example we are visiting the How-To Geek Twitter page. Holding the mouse over one of the shortened links provides no clue where the link will lead you....

What’s Google Wave, You Ask? The all-knowing Google robots decided to come up with a new solution to the problem of collaborating on the web. You can edit and discuss documents in real-time with a group of people. The Google Wave team says Wave is “what email would look like if it were invented today.” Right now, that’s the extent of what it does, though the underlying framework will eventually allow a lot more interesting uses....

What is Edge Computing? Edge computing is a new paradigm that shifts processing closer to users. Currently, we’re firmly in the cloud computing era, where applications live on servers in a centralized datacenter. We still have personal computers, but they’re really all just running Chrome to connect to the cloud and access services like Gmail, Office 365, Slack, Dropbox, and countless others. And while running SaaS platforms is very profitable, There’s one major issue—latency....

All Batteries Lose Charge Over Time Before we dig into the different kinds of batteries, let’s look at the biggest overarching concept related to this topic. Energy doesn’t want to stay in one place, it wants to move to reach equilibrium. Take the simple example of heating and cooling your home. In the winter, you must continuously add heat as your home releases heat energy into the cooler environment. And in the summer, you must continuously remove heat, fighting against the energy outside your home....

Meet Your Personal AI Artist You may have heard of OpenAI’s DALL-E and DALL-E 2 AI art generation systems and the amazing original images they can create based on nothing more than a plain human language description, known as a “prompt.” While DALL-E has received the most media attention and is arguably the most impressive example of this technology, it’s far from the only AI art generation system out there. From relatively simple examples such as Craiyon to DALL-E competitors such as Google’s Imagen, there’s no shutting Pandora’s box of sophisticated image generation technology....

Microsoft released Windows 11 22H2 last month, as the first major upgrade for the latest version of Windows. The company has also been working on a 22H2 update for everyone still using Windows 10, and now it’s rolling out. Microsoft has released Windows 10 version 22H2, which is this year’s major update for Windows 10, just like 22H2 was the main update for Windows 11 this year. However, the upgrade for Windows 10 doesn’t have any significant new features — Microsoft described it as “providing a limited scope of new features and functionality delivered via a familiar, fast and reliable update experience....

The way Sleep Profiles work is that your Pixel Watch will give you one every month after closely monitoring how you sleep through several weeks. To get one, you must sleep with your watch on during 14 continuous days, and the more you sleep with it, the more accurate the analysis will be. If you get started today (November 16), you’ll get your first score on December 1. Sleep Profiles will focus on several factors, including variations in your sleep schedule, sleep disruptions, and time before sound sleep to tell you what kind of “Sleep Animal” (yes, you even get a silly nickname) you are, and how well you sleep....

Roku OS 11.5 arrived back in September, adding a new ‘What to Watch’ page that highlights content from all your streaming services in one place, instead of making you open each app individually. Roku is building on that with a new dedicated Sports page on the Home Screen, which is starting to roll out to Roku TVs and streaming devices. Just like the Watch to Watch page, the Sports page shows current and upcoming content from any connected streaming services, without the need to open each app or manually search....

“Alexa, Start Halloween” There are two layers to this command. If you don’t have the Halloween routine installed, you can say “Alexa, start Halloween,” and it will enable a Halloween theme for the duration of October. (Alternatively, you can say “Alexa, enable the Halloween theme.”) If you do have the official Alexa Halloween routine installed, saying “Alexa, start Halloween” will trigger a creaky door sound, a Halloween welcome from Alexa, and whatever smart lights you have selected within the routine will toggle to the settings you specified (now’s a great time to take advantage of all the shades of orange and red your smart lights can display)....

Add Color Coding Applying color coding is a cool way to help identify the content of each channel. To add color coding open up Windows Media Center and go to Tasks > Settings. Then click on TV… Then go to Guide… Then Guide Page Options… Click the check box to select Apply colored backgrounds to shows, based on their category. Then click “Save.” Now, when you access your program guide, the TV listings will be nicely color coded....

Before If you ever need to duplicate a tab in Firefox for some reason (i.e. e-mail) then you have to do it the hard way by manually opening a new tab and navigating to the desired webpage. After Duplication gets much easier to do once you add the extension to Firefox. Everything that you need is available in the context menu…choose the action that you need to perform and enjoy the simplicity....

Today, he works in business (having purposely eschewed the arts for a more logical path), and I’m an idiot writer. The correlation is painfully obvious. What it Means to Play Cheaply Every video game has the perceived cheap manner of playing, the overt way to take advantage of the game’s basic programming. In hockey video games this meant always doing the one-timer, in football using the best team or playing with Tecmo Bo Jackson, and in basketball games always dunking or shooting from that one spot where the ball never seems to miss....

About FairUse Wizard FairUse Wizard 2.9 uses the DivX, Xvid, or h.264 codec to convert DVD to an AVI file. It comes in both a free version and commercial version. The free, or “Light” version, can create files up 700MB while the commercial version can output a 1400MB file. This will allow you to back up your movies to CD, or even multiple movies on a single DVD. FairUse Wizard states that it does not work on copy protected discs, but we’ve seen it work on all but some of the most recent copy protection....

Google recently announced that they have ceased development of Google Wave, one of the more ambitious and confusing collaboration platforms. Wave is still currently running, but may be shut down in the near future. Google has promised to create a way to get your data out of Wave before they close it, but what if you’d like to go ahead and save your Waves elsewhere so you can switch to another collaboration platform today?...