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We have all experienced the effects of mental fatigue after a long work week, and feelings of burnout near the end of a large scale project. 2020 has only amplified these effects with daily Zoom meetings and a lack of separation of work and home life. Many of us are stuck at home juggling our time…
The idea of using a fridge as some kind of combined viewing/food storage apparatus isn’t a new one. The first display-equipped fridge was the LG Digital DIOS, which shipped in June 2000. Twenty years later, we can do a hell of a lot more than slap weather reports on a large slab of metal. Thanks…
In the last few years, OnePlus has gone from being a plucky upstart with questionable advertising to a 5G powerhouse that regularly partners with US carriers to launch new flagship smartphones. All through that meteoric rise, co-founder Carl Pei has been a director at the company. Until now. Pei unexpectedly left OnePlus this week to…
Usability is an integral part of holistic SEO. It influences factors such as bounce rate, time on page and conversion rate, to name a few, and many of these metrics affect your website’s SEO. Optimizing usability is essential for all sites, but even more so for eCommerce sites. User testing is one way to optimize…
Your startup is going to be successful. You are almost entirely prepared and professional. To complete your preparedness and professionalism in your new business endeavor, you must first have a website. You can create your own website or hire a professional to do it for you. To prepare for your site’s creation, you must first…
KDE Plasma 5.20 is finally here and there’s a lot of things to be excited about, including the new wallpaper ‘Shell’ by Lucas Andrade. It is worth noting that is not an LTS release unlike KDE Plasma 5.18 and will be maintained for the next 4 months or so. So, if you want the latest…
Microsoft has announced that it will add hardware acceleration support for the Aomedia Video 1 (AV1) video codec to Windows 10 this fall. AV1 is an open, royalty-free codec intended to provide high-quality internet video at higher compression rates than those achieved by standards like H.264 and VP9. Typical quoted figures are a 50 percent…
Are you having trouble sending or receiving emails from your WordPress website? Though form submissions should arrive to your inbox without a hitch, you’ve noticed that you’re missing a few or all of your customer inquiries? This problem can be frustrating but thankfully there is an easy solution that will fix the issue and allow…
Reviews or testimonials are mostly said to work on the basis of social proof. Social proof is a psychological process in which people copy the behavior of others, in an attempt to reflect correct behavior. In this post, I’ll take a look at how reviews work, how you can get them and how structured data…
Everyone knows you can save a lot of money on Black Friday and Prime Day. But have you heard about the 10.10 Shopping Festival? It’s a new shopping day in the U.S., mirroring China’s Singles’ Day that happens every year on 11.11, which aims to celebrate the consumer while supporting the retail industry. More importantly, it means you…
Quadrotor drones are extremely maneuverable flying machines. In the hands of a skilled pilot, they can perform feats of aerial acrobatics not possible with any other aircraft. However, most of us are not skilled pilots. What if there was an AI that could do all that fancy flying for you? Researchers from the University of…
It is a no-brainer that Apache OpenOffice is still a relevant recommendation when we think about open source alternatives to Microsoft Office for Linux users. However, for the past several years, the development of OpenOffice is pretty much stale. Of course, it is not a shocker, considering Abhishek wrote about the possibility of Apache OpenOffice…
Amazon’s long-awaited Prime Day sales event is now officially in full swing, with deals available on just about everything imaginable. Of particular note are some exceptional discounts on laptops and 4K TVs. Apple’s popular MacBook Air is currently sitting at an all-time low price of just $849, and you can also snag a Ring Video…
Lisa Gade reviews the Onyx Boox Max Lumi, a 13.3” eReader with color temperature adjustable front lighting, a touchscreen and Wacom EMR pen support. This unusually large A4 format eBook reader and tablet is well-suited to PDF reading and annotation and note taking. It has a 2200 x 1650 Mobius grayscale e-ink display, stereo speakers,…
If you are stuck to the Linux terminal, say on a server, how do you download a file from the terminal? There is no download command in Linux but there are a couple of Linux commands for downloading file. In this terminal trick, you’ll learn two ways to download file using command line in Linux….
Learn how to use an SQLite database in Android Studio. This tutorial shows every step of programming a demo Android application that uses an SQLlite local database. You will learn how to create an SQLite local database on the Android device, configure new tables with the onCreate method, setup the columns and data types, extend…
Publishing WordPress content on Twitter just got a whole lot easier. You can already bring single Tweets or threads, also known as Tweetstorms, over from Twitter to WordPress, and now we’re bringing the process full circle. With just two extra clicks, you can transform your entire blog post into a Twitter thread. By publishing your…
Amazon’s Prime Day sales event officially begins tomorrow, but there’s already deals aplenty that you can take advantage of right now. Walmart kicked off its own sales event on Sunday, and early deals from Amazon, Best Buy, and Dell have been leaking out all weekend. The following are some of the most notable deals that…
Ever since Star Trek: Picard hit the airwaves 20 years ago, in January 2020, people have wondered whether other Star Trek icons will return to the small screen. Brent Spiner, Jeri Ryan, Jonathan Del Arco, Jonathan Frakes, and Marina Sirtis all reprised their roles in Season 1, while Whoopi Goldberg will return to the role…
Amazon has been an integral part of the gaming universe ever since it acquired Twitch in 2014. That’s also when Amazon Game Studios started working with Relentless Studios on a multiplayer shooter called Crucible. The game launched earlier this year, but Amazon stuffed it back into closed beta a few weeks later. Now, Amazon is…