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5 awesome widgets that will make your Android amazing
Widgets can sometimes get confusing and perhaps even a little cumbersome. That’s why I have compiled a list of 5 widgets that will help make that Android home screen incredibly useful.
Use a USB drive in ways you never thought possible
Are you sitting at your desk? Go ahead, reach down, and open your desk drawer. You know the one. It’s the drawer that holds a couple outdated cellphones, a tangle of paper clips, and mystery cables from long-gone devices.
Police told to avoid looking at Face ID iPhones
As our phones become more and more secure with biometrics, facial recognition has become the latest way developers are making phones more difficult to break into. But with these new innovations, it has led to police trying to keep up. This is why Apple has made some recommendations to law enforcement on how to make sure they can get into these new iPhones. And you won’t believe what they are telling them to do.
Stream thousands of documentaries absolutely free
Who doesn’t enjoy a good documentary? This site has thousands of documentaries you can stream for free, without Netflix, Hulu or other streaming service.
Facebook hack smaller but more damaging than thought - check your account
Facebook is saying that “only” 30 million accounts were actually hacked, and about 14 million of them had information grabbed that was far more intimate than had ever been accessed. How intimate? Try the last 15 people or things they had searched for on Facebook and the last 10 locations they had checked into. That’s a pretty personal violation. Other information that leaked included personal details like telephone number, email addresses, work, gender, religious affiliation and even the types of devices used to access the site.
9 million webcams wide open to attack, see if yours is on the list
Privacy and security are always at the top of the list of priorities when looking at getting new gadgets. The last thing you want to do is purchase something that isn’t built to keep your information safe.
Even worse is when those devices can be used to spy on you. That happens more than you’d like to imagine.
Is your laptop a filthy mess? Here’s how to clean it the right way
Like any tool we use on a daily basis, our laptops can quickly accumulate grime, dust, and oils from our skin. Upon reading this you are probably realizing just how overdue your MacBook may be for a cleaning. Notice any dirt or grime on your keyboard? Or that circle of oil on your trackpad? It’s time for a cleaning!
Microsoft is giving away eBooks - get yours now
Everybody loves a great bargain. And you can’t get a much better bargain than Microsoft offering FREE ebooks via Microsoft Virtual Academy. Take advantage of this offer and download some free ebooks right now!
As you might have guessed with these ebooks coming from Microsoft, they’re not novels. Microsoft’s ebooks are primarily guides to their software and operating systems, as well as some other tech topics like programming apps. These guides are incredibly thorough and detailed, some giving you great intro material to some Windows features and programs, and others giving you more information on programs you might already be familiar with.
Don't fall for this latest viral Facebook scam
How many times can Facebook breach our trust before we finally walk away from the site for good? The social networking giant appears to be teflon when it comes to the number of mess-ups it can get away with.
5 cool Google features that Apple and Samsung will copy
Google held its Pixel 3 event yesterday and the company announced a slew of new products — the new Pixel 3 phones, the Pixel Stand, the Google Home Hub, and the Pixel Slate. But it wasn’t all about the hardware. The event’s focus on the synergy between AI, hardware and software produced plenty of software surprises! Some of these features are so innovative and fresh that it will be inevitable that Apple and Samsung will follow suit. The tech industry is a copycat world, after all.