Enter Shouter, an Android app, that reads your notifications out loud and helps you keep focus on your actual work. Any Android phone that runs Android 4.3 or above can use this app. Here’s a break-down of the features that Shouter has for its users: Caller Name Announcements Your phone’s ringing and is in the kitchen, and you don’t want to go there only to find out that it was from someone you aren’t interested in talking to....

Hunting for the perfect gift for any snap-happy friend? Or maybe you’re just looking for a more nostalgic way to capture your own memories? This Instax Mini 11 bundle will have you sorted with everything you need to get started with instant photography this Black Friday. This bundle includes the Instax Mini 11 instant camera in Sky Blue, a matching case, a 10-shot film cartridge, display stickers and a photo album to keep your images in....

Waze vs. Google Maps: Searching for Destinations Waze’s search can be buggy and unreliable, returning zero results for existing addresses and formatting search results in a confusing way. It also suffers from a problem common to most GPS apps: preferring a result that is thousands of miles away because it is a closer match for the search string. Google Maps’ search is as close to perfect as you can get. It typically only needs a partial address to come up with the correct search result....

There’s not just one type, though: some scanners rely on light, others on electricity, and still others on sound to map the ridges and valleys of your fingers. Capacitive (electronic sensors) are popular in smartphones because they’re accurate, small, and fast, but optical and ultrasonic technologies have the advantage of enabling in-display scanning. But what’s actually going on in those milliseconds right after you put your finger on a scanner?...

Can Headphones Really Impair Your Hearing? We all know about painters going blind and musicians going deaf, but we somehow don’t think any of these can happen to us. Of course, when you are a professional musician and are exposed to loud noise all the time, the risk is higher. However, the difference is that audio pros have protective equipment, while our ears are exposed directly to the sound of music in our headphones....

Google already allows you to search for jobs, and now another new feature allows you to create a new watchlist feature to make a list of your favorite feature films you wish to watch later. The feature only works for mobiles so far. Creating a Watchlist On your phone, open your Google app or your ‘Net browser. Search for a movie or show on Google. The search results will show a panel at the top that carries details regarding the cast and production of the feature, its critics rating, date of release, etc....

Pin Website Links Using the Edge Browser Pinning website links using the Edge browser is the easiest and fastest way in Windows 10. To pin a website link using the Edge browser, open the browser and launch the website you want to pin. Once the website has been loaded, click on the “Menu” button appearing on the upper-right corner. The above action will open the Menu options. Here, click on the option “Pin this page to Start....

If you are looking for a solution, here’s the fix: That’s it. You should be able to choose your custom color in the color palette now. Image credit: Paper strips in rainbow colors as a colorful backdrop by 123RF

The problem is adding links is a tedious task. Sure, you have no problem doing it at the beginning, but after creating hundreds of links, you begin to wonder whether there are better ways to do it. If you are a WordPress user, today is your lucky day. We will discuss in this article some plugins that can help you automate the process. Manual vs. Automatic Is automating the whole linking process worth the trouble?...

iPhone applications can easily be backed up using iTunes, but what about the Cydia Applications? No, these ones will NOT be taken care by iTunes. There are actually two ways to back Cydia applications. 1. AptBackup The first one is by using AptBackup which you can also get from Cydia itself. This may be the easiest way but here’s the downside: AptBackup makes a list of all your installed Cydia apps which you can backup through iTunes and restore it later....

Download and install XnConvert XnConvert is the batch image editing brother of the more popular XnView image viewer. Download the package that’s best for your distribution. Since we are doing this on Kubuntu on a relatively modern PC, we chose the 64-bit DEB package. Use your preferred approach to install the package you downloaded. In our case, we right-clicked on the downloaded file and selected “Open with QApt Package Installer.” Proceed with the installation of the program and, when it completes, run it....

If you don’t like the default user account icon, you can change it to the icon or picture of your choice. You can even standardize the default user account icon by preventing users from changing it. Change Default Account Picture Windows stores the default user account icon in the PNG format within a system folder in a variety of sizes. By replacing these default pictures with the icon of our choice, we can change the default account picture....

Why Clearing the Cache is Useful The cache is a storage area that downloads web page resources so that the next time you visit the page, it can load them immediately instead of downloading from the server again. Since most websites update their data often, when the site loads from the cache, you’ll be getting outdated information. Also, if the site updates its security configuration, you may have trouble logging in, viewing media, or making a purchase....

After all, sometimes you just really like what you’ve read and want to keep if for future reference, or maybe you want to keep it to read offline. Copying from the Page Source The source code behind the webpage includes the text on the webpage. You’ll have to copy and paste just the portions you want and delete the HTML and CSS tags. Depending on how the site owner has their site set up, this method may or may not work....

Basic Settings Click here to open the Web Image Builder. By default it will only show the basic options for building your CD. binary-images specifies the type of image you wish to generate. Under most circumstances, you’ll want to leave that at the standard ISO CD format. Under distribution, you choose which release of Debian to use for the install. In short, Debian always has three releases available – stable, testing, and unstable....

Virtualization Hardware Compatibility Before you start installing any packages, you’ll want to make sure your CPU supports hardware virtualization. Many modern laptop and desktop CPUs do, but it’s good to check. The commands below will check your “/proc/cpuinfo” file for the necessary technology. If you’re not sure what you have in your system, try both – it won’t hurt anything. My system has an Intel CPU, so my output looks like the following image....

Install the USB Download Tool in your Windows machine. Run the application. You will see the first step, which is to choose the ISO file. The next step is to choose USB as the media device. Make sure you have already inserted in your USB drive and it has at least 4GB of free space. Click Start Copying. The USB Tool will proceed to copy the files to your USB drive....

Change the Start Page Background Adding a start page background or wallpaper isn’t the most exciting addition, but Safari is years behind most of its competitors in this area. Apple offers ten default options out of the box and allows you to pick any image of your own. To get started, click on the Settings icon in the lower-right corner and make sure the box is checked next to “Background Image....

However that’s not always the case; and even if it were, any user action required from you can easily wait a bit longer. Notifications can be especially annoying when you’re hard at work or enjoying your favorite game or TV show. To stop these alerts from being intrusive, we recommend disabling them, hiding them temporarily, or enabling only the important ones. We’ll show you how to do disable computer notifications on Windows....

Open your Google Chrome and type “about:plugins” in the URL bar. Scroll down the list until you see the option “Chrome PDF Viewer”. Click the “disable” link beneath it. That’s it. From now on, whenever you click on a PDF link, it will prompt you to download the file instead of displaying it in the browser. To restore the PDF Viewer feature, just follow the same steps and click the “Enable” link....