Slide Launcher does thing with a twist. It is a launcher app that allows you to access your favorite or frequently used apps, contacts, or even shortcuts quickly. However, instead of running in the background waiting for your command, it bind itself to a shortcut key and will only launch when you run the shortcut key. This means that it will only launch when it is required and it will use almost 0% RAM and battery usage....

Mophie Juice Pack Powerstation Duo External Battery The Mophie Juice Pack Powerstation Duo works with all iOS devices. It features four times the charging speed of normal chargers (500mAh) and allows you to switch between that highest speed (2.1A), as well as 1A and 500mAh. You can also charge two of your devices at the same time. That’s handy for when two devices are about to die at the same time....

Accessing the Inspect Tool The Inspect tool can be found in Chrome’s context menu. Right click on any element in your browser and click on “Inspect” in the context menu. A window will pop out of the side of the Chrome browser as seen below. This is called the DevTools panel. If you’ve ever used Firebug on Firefox, you might recognize some parts of it. There’s a lot here, so let’s examine the individual pieces....

Introduction WeeKett’s Smart Wi-Fi Kettle is a multi-temperature modern jug kettle with a difference. As well as direct controls, it can hook up with the Samsung SmartThings app, enabling a range of smarter scenarios, including voice control. But even without its smart features, it’s a promising-looking device with some useful talents. Design and Features Reasonably stylishTwo water gaugesSmart controls This is a 1.7-litre kettle, with a minimum boil of 500ml. It has clear plastic water gauges on either side, covering both left and right-handed users....

Informal definition: algorithms are just recipes At its most basic, an algorithm is simply a set of well-defined steps that you can follow, generally taking some inputs and producing a different set of outputs. A cupcake recipe can be an algorithm. So are the directions to a friend’s house, playing a piece of sheet music, or the process of looking up a word in a dictionary. Raymond Queneau even printed a book of ten sonnets with lines that can be mixed and matched seamlessly to create 100,000,000,000 original poems....

What Is It? UTM stood for the Urchin Traffic Monitor, which was part of a software called “Urchin WebAnalytics Software” released in 1998. Google eventually purchased its technology in 2005 and sold the software for almost seven years until it was discontinued in March 28, 2012. Although it’s no longer selling, Google continues to use its URL conventions in its own analytics software to create campaigns, hence the “utm” in “utm_source” and many other variables....

What Mining Hardware Is Available Now? I usually start similar articles with a definition of the subject I am writing about, but now before we get to FPGA, I’d better describe briefly what other mining alternatives are available at present. The present choices will help understand the advantages and disadvantages to FPGA. If you want to mine crypto, you basically have three options: CPU, GPU, and ASIC. CPU mining, as in Central Processing Unit mining, is the most accessible form of mining, but it’s also the least profitable....

Definition of Open-Source Hardware There is certainly no shortage of definitions of “open-source hardware.” Maybe you can even guess correctly from its name that “open-source hardware” is part of the Open Source culture. To be more precise, here is a good definition by opensource.com: “Open hardware,” or “open-source hardware,” refers to the design specifications of a physical object which are licensed in such a way that said object can be studied, modified, created, and distributed by anyone....

Understanding Headphones Driver The driver is the most important unit in headphones. That’s because it’s the component that converts electrical signals into sound. In other words, it creates the sound you hear. Think of headphone drivers as tiny loudspeakers inside your ear. A driver unit is composed of three components: Magnet – generates a magnetic field that can affect the overall sound quality of the headphoneVoice coils – Moves the diaphragm to create the sound you hear when an electric current passes through themDiaphragm – vibrates to create sound waves that human ears can pick up...

Last year, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, a mobile platform that delivered faster performance, more advanced AI capabilities and an all-new name. Later came the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, which promised even speedier performance across the CPU, GPU and AI. Now, the American chip maker has unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Read on to discover everything you need to know about the second generation update to the mobile platform, including what it is, what improvements it’ll bring over the previous generation and when you can expect the first set of Snapdragon 8 Gen 2-powered smartphones to be announced… What is the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2?...

Disclaimer: there are exceptions to everything; the generalizations below all assume different levels of real-world use by average people. The Central Processing Unit (CPU) This is the “brain” of the computer, and it’s vital both for running more complex programs and multitasking more effectively. However, don’t be fooled by a higher clock speed (measured in GHz/second) – there’s much more to how well a processor works. Take, for example, a 2....

But what about the official derivatives of Ubuntu like Ubuntu GNOME, Kubuntu, Lubuntu and Xubuntu? What is new for this release and will they offer Long Term Support? The good news is that 14.04 is shaping up to be an extraordinary LTS release. For the first time, all of the official Ubuntu flavors will have LTS status. Not all of them will offer five year support, but as a minimum, they will all offer at least three years of support....

iPhone 7 PRODUCT (RED) The iPhone 7 PRODUCT (RED) offers a red aluminum finish with a 128GB and 256GB variant. It was released to mark more than ten years of partnership between Apple and RED. RED raises funds to fight AIDS/HIV in Africa as well as to further inform the public. Apple’s CEO Tim Cook states, “Our customers have made a significant impact in fighting the spread of AIDS through the purchase of our products” and “the introduction of this special edition iPhone in a gorgeous red finish is our biggest (PRODUCT) RED offering to date in celebration of our partnership with (RED), and we can’t wait to get it into customers’ hands....

1. Manually Download Photos and Videos (WhatsApp Web) If you’re using WhatsApp Web (the desktop version of WhatsApp which was recently updated to not even require your smartphone nearby each time you sign in), then it has its own host of problems and fixes. But before we move onto those, you should know that unlike the phone version of WhatsApp, WhatsApp Web doesn’t automatically download photos and videos. You’ll need to do this manually by clicking a given image or video then clicking the Download icon at the top right corner....

How the Attack Worked This is a particularly scary attack, as there’s not much the user can do to combat this bar uninstalling the app. There are no links to click or websites to visit; the hacker simply calls the victim’s WhatsApp number, and it injects the malware payload after the call has been received. This attack used what’s called a “buffer overflow” to get into people’s apps. Buffer overflow attacks are when hackers cause malicious code to “leak” into the source code of the software they want to attack....

That’s not to say gaming for Mac is entirely dead, as there are hundreds, if not thousands, of games available. That said, that number pales next to the number of games released for Windows last year alone. So why is it that Macs are seen as an undesirable machine for gaming? In order to answer that question, we need to take a trip down memory lane. Going Back in Time If we jump back to the 1980s, it was the Mac that was known as the gaming machine while Windows was anything but....

The Causes Despite the stability behind the front-facing webpages of big names like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, there are many things that can go wrong at any point in time. Even Google’s services, which are presumably the most stable on Earth, go down once in awhile (you can see statistics from the company itself here). For example, Gmail experienced a very brief outage that was barely noticed by anyone on December 18, 2014....

So, What Is The Start Menu Being Replaced With? I don’t know for sure how to explain this to you, but at least I can show you a screenshot of how Windows 8 will look without it: Notice the missing Start button. This is all courtesy of Microsoft, showing its final build of Windows 8 before the Consumer Preview version. In the Consumer Preview, Windows 8 will be released to the public for evaluation purposes, to see whether the public feels like the change was good, or whether they should just throw Bill Gates into the middle of the ocean....

The problem with hardware is that electrical impedance creates a sort of “friction” that results in excessive amounts of heat. As hardware gets more powerful, it needs to dissipate more of this heat. Most high-budget PC enthusiasts have built computers by hand or through bare-bones kits that include water cooling, a more efficient method of removing heat from multiple pieces of hardware. But what if we had a system with cooling that functioned a lot like our own vascular systems?...

How Youtube TV Works YouTube TV can be accessed using a mobile application for either iOS and Android phones, as well as from the Web on a computer. It has not yet started support for devices such as PS4, Xbox, Apple TV and Roku. To counter this, the mobile application comes with a Cast button that allows you to watch the videos on a compatible TV or a Chromecast. The application comes with three screens for Home, Library and Live and a Search button at the top that enables you to search for content on different categories....