1. Win+Up/Down Arrow If you’re looking for a way to maximize and minimize your windows quickly, pressing “Win” and the “Up” arrow on your keyboard will maximize any window. In exchange, using the “Down” arrow will first restore it, if it was maximized, and then minimize it once you press the “Down” arrow again. 2. Win+Left/Right Arrow Let’s say you want to split a monitor down the middle by arranging windows vertically, one next to another....

Established leaker Digital Chat Station has taken to Chinese social network Weibo to reveal that Xiaomi’s luxury flagship will pack a 1-inch Sony IMX989 sensor, which was already widely tipped for the more advanced phones in the line. More interesting is the news that it will feature four cameras rather than the usual three, plus an additional dToF (Direct Time-of-Flight) sensor. All four sensors will have PDAF autofocus. Might Xiaomi be adopting a dual telephoto system, like the Samsung Galaxy Note 22 Ultra?...

You won’t find active noise cancellation or a transparency mode with these true wireless, but if you are in need of good sound at an excellent price, the Melomania 1+ don’t disappoint. Following in the footsteps of the award-winning original, the Melomania 1+ are an improvement with richer bass and a smoother sounding performance that’s more detailed and offers a better sense of stereo depth with music. Dynamically they’re flexibly in conveying loud and quiet sounds, and while they aren’t as crisp at the top end of the frequency range, we’d rate them as a better balanced listening experience....

The runup to Black Friday has been littered with fantastic deals across the board, but now we’ve found an incredible SIM offering from Three. This deal features a 250GB 5G SIM with unlimited minutes and texts for just £14.75 a month, and no upfront costs. It’s important to note that this deal works on a cashback basis, meaning that you will be paying £16 a month for 99 days, after which you will be paid £15 cashback, bringing the overall price to £14....

The short answer is that you shouldn’t be forced at all to do that, and you no longer have to be thanks to this quick tip from Mac Tricks & Tips. They’ve shared a single-line terminal command which you can use to add this functionality to iTunes, and it’s really quick and easy to use. All you have to do is open Terminal (Applications -> Utilities or search via Spotlight) and then copy and paste this command and press enter: If you have iTunes open, you can now restart it, or open it if not open....

You can buy one of the year’s top Android phones, and get 200GB of data every month, for just £36. Including the upfront cost of £80, that works out to £944 over the course of the two year deal, which is cheaper than buying the phone outright SIM-free! If you want to find even more tempting offers during this busy sales period, then remember to head over to our liveblog where you’ll be treated to a great selection of savings on all sorts of products....

You can’t complain there are no PayPal alternatives. In fact, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of payment systems out there, but there isn’t a single PayPal alternative that is the best. It all depends on what you need the alternative for – to send money to a friend, to shop online, to pay your bills, etc., but one way or another, all seven of these payment services are good options....

In this article we will teach you how to add MIDI files to Reaper and how to orchestrate and mix a final product, in this case a fine example of Classical Chipmusic. MIDI Is Old MIDI is an outdated format, at least as a way of storing musical performances, and online music has moved on quite a lot since the ’90s. Most browsers used to support MIDI files natively but now most of them don’t, which is a shame for those online music sites which host large amounts of MIDI files like the one in our example....

There are several options available, some of which have already been covered here on Make Tech Easier, but today I bring you a distinct software. UberWriter, developed by a bright 21-year-old Swiss student, is a very light, simple and minimal tool for writing beautiful documents using the Markdown syntax. Markdown? Surely you have heard about “Markdown” before, but maybe you do not know what it is, so a quick explanation follows....

What Are IP Codes? First of all, we’re not talking about IP addresses – those numbers that you use to identify your home network when connecting to the Internet. IP codes are used to describe the environments a particular object or device can withstand. It’s that simple. The Anatomy of an IP Code IP codes are divided into two separate digits. They can contain letters after the digits, but we’re not going to talk about that since the devices we’re concerned with here don’t necessarily use the trailing letters....

What we are going to talk about today is a solution to gain access to more applications using less widgets. This way you’ll have more space on your home screen to do whatever you like. Previously we talked about making a custom widget which might be an option for some people but the options below are less technical and more suitable for everybody. 1. App Space App Space is a fun widget....

FFMPEG is a powerful command-line tool that you can easily use to manage and convert your media files. It can also easily be scripted or incorporated into full programs. Here are some useful FFMPEG commands that will help you get the most from it. 1. View File Information FFMPEG has access to all of the information about the files that you’re working with. You can display that information in the terminal without modifying the file or running a conversion....

While RetroPie is generally pretty user friendly, users can still run into a myriad of problems. Fortunately, we’ve rounded up some of the most common problems and come up with potential fixes that will get you back to button-mashing in no time. Note: if you are looking to install RetroPie on your Raspberry Pi, here are the setup guide and configuration options. Check Your Hardware RetroPie is capable of emulating a dizzying number of systems from yesteryear....

Besides what is included with the OS, you can get some Windows 8 apps that will transform your PC into something very similar to Windows Media Center without missing out on much. The following are a few applications that will once again put your computer at the center of your home and as the chief source of on-demand entertainment! 1: Xbox Media Center Xbox Media Center, also known as XMBC, is a powerful multimedia solution that was designed (as the name implies) for the Xbox....

1. find The straightforward approach to search for files within any specified directory is to use the find command. If the directory to perform the search is not explicitly specified, then the search will be performed on the current directory. The following screenshot shows how within the current directory (.), a search is performed for all filenames ending with extension .txt. The search can also be performed based on timestamps, file permissions, file size, file type, file owner, etc....

What’s a Variable? Variables are easy-to-remember names that can contain different alphanumeric values. They’re useful because they allow the same function to be applied on different values, without having to rewrite a script/piece of code. They also make writing the script/piece of code easy, since instead of dealing with individual values, you can use the same name for all of them. Realtime Variables Bash allows the use of variables. You can create variables on the fly and reuse them during your current Bash session....

Our Opinion For the most part, the biggest complaint on the part of the writers is the lack of storage space on free cloud storage accounts. Shujaa in particular uses Google Drive, and you only get 15 GB for everything, including mail, Drive, and documents. If you want more space, you have to pay for a monthly service, and many try to find a way to avoid that. Judy notes that she understands the services can’t give everyone a free 1TB limit yet finds the current limits ridiculous....

What “Roaming” Is First, let’s tackle what it means when your phone is “roaming.” Roaming is when your phone leaves the range of your network and loses its signal. This goes a little further than simply going into rural parts of the country; it means leaving the country altogether! When you’re in a country that’s out of range of your network provider’s territory, your phone is now roaming. “Data roaming”, therefore, is the act of getting data while outside of your network’s range....

Our Opinion Alex acknowledges it’s not really a gadget, but he’s looking forward to the promised update to the Mac Pro. “I think it will speak volumes about Apple’s plans for macOS, the desktop, and their Pro customers.” He thinks it could be an exciting piece of tech. As an S8 user, Charnita is looking to the next in the line, its successor. She wants to see “its improvements and decide if it’s worth upgrading....

A Clarification Before we get to the juicy bit, we have to clarify something: at the time of writing, 6G is nowhere close to being properly tested or implemented. Reports that China launched the “first 6G satellite” in November 2020 are not false but have a tendency to sensationalize the whole ordeal slightly. Yes, China launched a terahertz-capable testbed satellite into space, but this was only testing a part of 6G technology....