That’s not the cheapest the Ray has been since it was released – price tracking shows it was £235 not too long ago – but after jumping back up to the £260 range it’s now fallen back below the £250 mark. For more of the best Black Friday deals, check out our live page. The Sonos Ray is a compact soundbar that’s best suited for those who have TVs that don’t have a HDMI connection (the Ray only has a digital optical output)....

1. Lower Your Brightness Despite all the advances in battery and display technology, the large glowing object on your laptop is still the greatest power draw. Perhaps this comes as no surprise: its main job is converting electricity into visible light, and it takes quite a bit of energy to accomplish that. This may change when MacBook Pros switch over to OLEDs in two-thousand-and-never, but for now, we’re stuck with our power-sucking LCDs....

This is a sponsored article and was made possible by TheSocialProxy. The actual contents and opinions are the sole views of the author who maintains editorial independence, even when a post is sponsored. What Does TheSocialProxy Do? When you log out of one of your social media accounts and log into the next one, your IP address stays the same when connected to your wireless or mobile network. To prevent that, TheSocialProxy changes your IP addresses as you log into different accounts via automatic IP rotation....

All three programs can be downloaded and installed via the Ubuntu Software Center either from the “Sound & Video” category or by using the search box. Here is an overview of these three top rated music players. Audacious Audacious is a simple media player with support for a wide range of audio formats including MP3, AAC, OGG, FLAC, WAV and WMA. It works using playlists which you create manually by adding files and directories to the list....

Use HTML Editor Mode in Browser Working with WordPress via a browser can be difficult, although it will still work. While composing a post, it’s really hard to work in the Visual Mode, especially if there are already images added in. It can be very jumpy. The best option is to work in the HTML mode and scroll from within the text box. As you can see from the above screenshot, it can also bring the menu bar down and insert it where you’re working, so you also sometimes have to move to a different page and come back to get it to go away....

1. Automatix Automatix is an automation tool that allows you to install the frequently used applications with just a few clicks. There are 15 categories of applications for you to choose: Burning and ripping, Chat Clients, Codecs and Plugins, Commercial Software, Drivers, Email Clients, Eyecandy, File Sharing, Media players, Miscellaneous, Office, Programming tools, Utilities, Virtualization and Web browsers. This is a very useful tool for those who don’t like to type command line....

Boot The quickest way to learn about kernel messages is to examine the first few lines from the boot process. To view the first page of output, use the following command: The first three lines are likely about the initialization of the “Control Groups” for the processor. These aren’t that interesting unless you are a kernel hacker. However, the next line is very important. It will tell you what version of the Linux kernel you are running....

Sure, you can still visit the OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive), but you can also install apps within the browser and OS. Three of them have been made available – Word, OneNote and PowerPoint. If you’re using a Chromebook you can even pin the apps to the taskbar, where they will line up next to the apps that are pre-installed by Google. What It Is and How to Use It In this look, we will be using Word Online, but the other two released will work in a similar fashion....

Mac users are not limited to Boot Camp to run Windows on their Macs however, with applications such as VMware Fusion allowing the user to run Windows within OS X; as long as your Mac is powered by an Intel processor and has enough RAM to do so (4GB recommended, though less is possible), you can now seamlessly move between each OS’s flagship programs and enjoy the increase in productivity which this brings....

If you just want to whip up a quick HTML/CSS/JavaScript app and play around with it, the playground you choose will pretty much just be a matter of personal preference. If you want more features, though, like real-time collaborative coding, quick access to JS frameworks like React or Vue, back-end support, or even just an active creative community, you may want to shop around a bit. CodePen Probably the most popular front-end code playground out there is CodePen, and for good reason: it’s intuitive and easy to use, has a large and vibrant community, and has become an accepted standard for embedding functioning web code into pages....

In the same way that “you are what you eat,” you are also how you spend your time on your screens, whether you’re reading the news, checking out social media, playing games, working, etc. That’s what a screenome is, not the time you spend online but the quality of your time on screens. What does your screenome say about you? Our Opinion Andrew figures the social scientists could probably tell us more about him than he could, as for him “it’s more of a subconscious process” that he really doesn’t pay much attention to....

What happens when you reboot? In the abstract, a reboot is indicated by a power state flag set by your computer at the end of the shutdown process. This flag tells the motherboard to reset the attached components using the correct reset commands, then follow the normal startup (AKA “bootstrap”) process. This reset command is nothing more than a certain value at a certain register address which the motherboard checks before moving to its “off” state....

Graphics Processing in Gaming Laptops Most modern gaming laptops have two graphics processing units (GPU) onboard. One is the low-powered graphics processor built into the CPU package (also known as an iGPU or IGP). The second is a high-powered AMD or NVIDIA GPU (sometimes referred to as a discrete GPU or dGPU). The reason for the inclusion of both the iGPU and dGPU is flexibility. When gaming, the computer makes use of the dGPU to accelerate the graphics processing....

What Is Kindle Cloud Reader? How to Access Kindle Cloud Reader Offline reading is a really handy function for those with a spotty Internet connection. On the Cloud Reader page, you will see the book’s title, coverage and author’s name displayed in your library. The list is organized by your most recently opened or read titles, but you can also sort by author or title as well. The books are organized in a grid by default, but you can switch to a listview, too....

Upgrading RAM is not a straightforward decision, as it depends on a number of upgrade limit factors. By following this guide, you will be be able to check each factor properly, thus greatly narrowing your choices. If you are not sure what a RAM is, check out this post. Know Your Existing RAM and Maximum Capacity Before going for an upgrade, gain proper knowledge of your computer’s existing RAM and the maximum RAM limits it can support....

Chrome extensions are divided into three different alert levels. For example, you have High which means it can access everything on your computer and on the site you’re visiting. Medium alert level means it can access most of the data on the sites. Lastly, Low implies that it will only access precise data. What Are Chrome Permissions? Chrome permissions are just what the name implies. It’s a message displayed when you install a Chrome extension that will ask you for permission on accessing or changing information....

1. Price Of course the price is great. You simply can’t beat free. Many people think, “you get what you pay for“, but that’s not entirely true. For instance, even most Windows users will say that Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome are the best browsers out there. How much do you pay for those? That right, they’re free. Although these are free, that doesn’t mean there aren’t some really good developers behind the software....

You know you’re rooted when your girlfriend can’t get hold of you for an hour because you’re in recovery … and she becomes suspicious. and you don’t know what to do … 2. You know you’re rooted when someone asks if rooting is like jail breaking their iPhone and you laugh in their face. 3. You know you’re rooted when boot loops don’t scare you anymore. don’t worry as we have a solution for it as well… 4....

Helpful as it may seem, people tend to shy away from Notion due to the hassle associated with designing templates. Fortunately, this is no reason to miss out on the fun, as Notion provides several free customizable templates that improve productivity. We will explore ten of them in this post that can do wonders for your productivity. 1. Aesthetic Home Dashboard The Aesthetic Home Dashboard is a template that compiles various pages for organizing calendar events, to-do lists, daily routines, tarot card databases, and horoscopes, among others....

Here are ten tips for the YouTube fans. Finding a Specific YouTube Channel Sometimes you may want to find a specific channel on YouTube, but entering in keywords in the search box only fetches mixed results that contains playlists, videos, and channels. So how do you go about only finding channels? Use the following search query. It includes the word “channel” after the channel name and a comma. The query above will return all the channels that have the word “T-Series” in them....