So It Came… In December of 2014, I wrote an article making some predictions about the mobile market in 2015, postulating that high-end mobile devices will end up having 4K screens. The release of the Xperia Z5 was not much of a surprise, considering that 1080p is a standard in most mid-range and high-end phones. Such is the evolution of the tech market, and wherever there are limits, there will always be a desire to break them....

Being that there is such a proliferation, though, do these reviews mean anything to you? Do reviews influence your decisions when buying new technology? Our Opinion Sayak does read online reviews but admits to being more of an instinct buyer. It’s a complicated internal process for him that ensures what he wants falls in the right place. He prefers to go through tech specs first to understand all aspects and to find something exceptional at the right price point....

How do you sit with this information? Do you feel safe with Facebook having your financial information? Do you trust your bank to share your data with a third party? Our Opinion Chris quipped, “Oh my stars and garters, NO! I barely trust them with my direct deposits!” Ryan asks if this isn’t one of the reasons that cryptocurrency has the appeal that it does, because it’s decentralized and anonymous....

Our Opinion Damien answers a curt “absolutely not.” He doesn’t trust browsers. He uses a password manager app to manage his passwords. Phil just keeps all his passwords in a book by his desk. “That way someone can’t just tap in and steal them; they have to actually come to my house to get them manually.” Plus, he figures it’s much easier to deal with them one at a time. Ada also keeps her passwords written down on a pad....

What you need is Doogl. Introduction Doogl is a social network that works in a unique way – through a browser bookmarklet. Doogl lets you add a bookmarklet to your browser’s bookmarks toolbar. Whenever you are on a website, clicking on the bookmarklet pops up the Doogl comments and questions relevant to that particular website. You will find opinions of real people along with their “trustworthy” rating for that particular site....

Here we’ll show you what downsampling means and how to do it using both AMD and Nvidia graphics cards. Note: this feature is mostly useful for gaming rather than increasing your desktop resolution, so don’t expect to turn your desktop into a fully functioning 4k display! What Is Downsampling? The magical process of downsampling makes your computer think that your monitor is capable of handling higher resolutions, so when you switch it on, you’ll see in your games and Windows display settings that higher resolutions have appeared....

Dropbox has recently updated its Android app and I thought it was a good time to review the app. 1. Set-Up After installing and launching the app you will land on the start page. Here you can choose to login or set-up a new account. 2. Basic Usage Once you have logged in you will be presented with the list of folders that are in your Dropbox account. Browsing these folders is just like browsing the folders in the Dropbox folder in your home computer or through the web browser....

Check out E-WIN Gaming Office Chairs and mention the code MTE to get a 15% discount. Assembly The chair comes in a large box that requires two people to carry easily. It can be lifted by one person, but it’s not easy to move. Unboxing and construction are straightforward and fairly obvious. The hardware and tools included are decent quality and easy enough to use. The instructions are photographic, which is helpful, but they’re also strangely laid out....

When running a website or blog, one of the important things you should never ignore is creating regular backups. These backups will help restore your site in the event of any file corruption, hack attacks, unwanted changes to file(s) or database(s), etc. Typically, many web-hosting services offer some sort of basic backup service to safeguard your data. However, you cannot rely on those backups because they generally don’t bother creating backups for individual websites, you have no control over how many backups are retained, and you cannot restore individual directories, files, or websites....

Moreover, every little change you make in your system, such as installing software or changing the wallpaper, is reflected and can be tracked in the Windows registry. Sometimes, tracking those changes will help you in debugging the problem from the root. So if you ever want to track the changes made to the Windows registry, here is a great tool to monitor those changes. What is Regshot Regshot is a simple open source utility which is capable of taking snapshots of the Windows registry as needed and can compare them to find any alterations that happened while changes were made in the system....

The Apollo Traveller power bank is the first power bank to make use of a graphene-compsite battery, and this allows it to store a high charge quickly without damaging the battery. We have predicted that graphene batteries could replace Lithium-ion batteries back in 2018, but it is only now that we started to see graphene used in batteries. Coupled with a 60W power source, it can fully charge itself from 0 to 100% in just eighteen minutes....

What’s The Matter? Bitcoin as it is may cease to be relevant unless the block chain’s maximum size is somehow expanded. At this moment, the block chain’s maximum size has one fixed value that is small enough to provide wallets to a particular number of users. If you’re confused about this, here’s a video that gives you an idea of what a block chain is and why it’s such a central part of the way in which Bitcoin operates....

Why Is Facebook Doing This? As a social network, Facebook has to constantly attempt to make sure that its competition doesn’t take time away from its own users. This means that not only does the company have to grow in its own direction (e.g. the decision to include a dislike button), but it also has to play catchup with its competition (e.g. the introduction of Twitter-style hashtags). While its motivation, according to the BBC article, is described as helping users get a better understanding of what the world at large is saying about a particular topic, the thinking behind the introduction of searchable public posts is a bit more cynical....

The problem is, if your inbox contains 7Gb of emails (probably tens of thousands of them), it can be a tedious and difficult task to sort out which emails take up the most space and can be deleted. This is where Find Big Mail is useful. Find Big Mail, as the name implies, is a web app that scan your Gmail inbox for large mail and mark them with a label....

Common Types of Fake SD Cards Sometimes these fake cards are from no-name brands; other times they’re counterfeits of recognizable and trusted brands. For instance, you might find a great deal on a SanDisk SD card, but in reality, it’s just a scam. Either way, they scam buyers in one of two ways: by offering a brand name at an unbelievable discount or by offering a generic brand with a crazy amount of storage for nearly nothing....

Reading online, you’ll see stories of novelists disabling the Internet entirely on their computers. Unfortunately, not everyone can do this. If you need to access the Internet for your work, your only option is to selectively block distractions. That’s easier said than done, but Freedom is an app meant to do just that. What Does Freedom Do? Like most apps meant to block distractions, one of the main features of Freedom is blocking websites....

Mac OS X Lion and Mountain Lion both give you the option to change your desktop wallpaper every 5 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, hourly or daily. However, you’d have to choose from the default wallpapers included, and they aren’t that great to look at. Of course, you could find your own wallpapers online to use, but it would be pretty time-consuming and would require you to download each one to your Mac....

It’s now officially Cyber Monday, which means that all the biggest deals will soon be coming to a close, making this your last chance to snatch up any discounted tech before the winter holidays start up. Thankfully, you can finish your Black Friday shopping with this incredible Nintendo Switch OLED bundle deal, which offers up the console and £30 worth of Game vouchers for just £299.99. It’s important to note that while the deal only specifies a £10 voucher, Game is running another promotion that gives you another £20 whenever you spend more than £100, meaning that you’re really getting £30....

If you’re not interested in this deal, make sure to check out our best Black Friday deals round-up, as our team will be adding more fantastic offers and discounts on all your favourite tech over the course of the sale, ranging from more laptops to phones, vacuum cleaners and everything in between. This particular ZenBook Flip 14 OLED comes with a formidable-looking spec sheet, complete with AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, which is a decent processor for productivity laptops and should allow for good performance for a range of tasks, including both productivity workloads and more intense ones, too....

It can be yours for just £149, which is a 54% discount on the monitor’s £321.99 original price. If this MSI monitor deal doesn’t tickle your fancy, then stick around for our best Black Friday deals round-up. There, our team will be adding more offers and discounts as the sales rolls on over the weekend – be it more monitors, laptops, smart speakers, air fryers or anything else. It would appear that MSI has taken the word portable rather literally with the Optix MAG162V, given it looks to be an especially slim monitor, complete with an integrated stand and a total weight of 1kg....