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The long Memorial Day weekend is over, but that doesn’t mean the deals and discounts are over. This week, we found huge savings on the latest Apple Watch, Samsung smartphones, smart robot pool cleaners, headphones, and much more. Take a look below and grab something new while you’re able to. Apple Watch Series 10 (42mm) for $299 ($100 Off) Apple Watch Series 10 Discover the Apple Watch Series 10, the thinnest and most advanced Apple wearable yet....

Summary The humble alias is a powerful ally when it comes to using the Linux terminal, but it’s one you could probably stand to rely on more. Let’s take a look at a few of the ways aliases can make your life easier when it comes to getting around the terminal. You May Already Be Using Aliases Without Knowing To start, you’re probably already using at least one alias without knowing it....

Your streaming set-top box or stick, such as Apple TV, Roku, Google Streamer, or Fire TV, is like a little computer that delivers to you a world of streaming shows and movies. But just like a computer, it can get laggy, sluggish, and buggy, causing playback issues and an overall bad viewing experience. And just like the wise nerds fromThe IT Crowdso eloquently coined: sometimes you just need to turn it off and on again....

Google has added a new personal radio feature to user channel pages on YouTube Music, but it may take a while for you to get it during the staggered rollout. YouTube Music’s channel pages, launched in April 2023, let anyone host bonus content their followers can enjoy and download. With the new radio feature, the channel owner can share daily music playlists based on their recently played music across all of YouTube....

Quick Links As good as macOS is, you’ll need a few extra apps to get the most out of your Mac. With so many to choose from, it can be hard to know exactly what to look for. Here are the Mac apps I couldn’t be without. 1Pixelmator Pro Like many people, I need a decent image editing app butI don’t want to go down the Adobe route.Pixelmator Prois the perfect solution for me....

Quick Links One of the coolest things about Android is the sheer amount of ways you can make your phone look awesome. You can change everything from your home screen launcher, icons, fonts, and, of course, the wallpaper. But don’t settle for boring stock wallpapers—there are apps for that, too. Changing up your wallpaper is the easiest way to give your phone a facelift, and I’ve rounded up five killer wallpaper apps with some seriously unique designs to make your phone pop....

Lately, I’ve been regressing, technologically speaking. There was once a time when I exclusively read ebooks, either on my Kindle or iPad. But nowadays, I’ve reverted completely to physical books again, and I much prefer them. 6I Don’t Need to Minimize My Library Anymore The big reason that pushed me to get into ebooks was that I could carry an entire library’s worth of books on a single device. This was particularly useful to me at the time I made the leap because I was moving house every year throughout my degree and while looking for work immediately afterward....

Quick Links Threads, Meta’s answer to the likes of Bluesky and X (formerly Twitter), comes with the same sort of privacy considerations that each Meta product requires. Fortunately, there are a few settings you can immediately adjust to improve your privacy on the burgeoning platform. 1Profile Privacy Toggle Like Instagram, one of Threads' most important privacy features is the profile visibility toggle, which controls who can see your posts. To find it, tap your profile icon, then the menu button (three lines) in the top-right corner, and select “Privacy....

Quick Links iOS 18 is the most personalized version of Apple’s iPhone operating system ever, with brand new ways to customize the UI to your liking. Here are all the new ways you can make your iPhone stand out from the crowd. 1Dark and Tinted Home Screen Icons Apple made a big deal about a more customizable home screen in itsWWDC 2024 presentation, which will delight iPhone owners who are yearning for a particular look....

If you hear the term “open-source,” you might think of Linux. However, Linux distros aren’t the only open-source operating systems. There are plenty in use today besides Linux. Some date back to even before Linux existed. 9Plan 9 From Bell Labs Plan 9 From Bell Labs, named after the sci-fi B-moviePlan 9 From Outer Space, was an attempt to reimagine what an OS could be. Headed by Rob Pike and other members of the original Unix team, Plan 9 took Unix’s"everything is a file"concept and went beyond it....

Summary You buy gaming computers for their performance, so it certainly sucks when a “performance boosting” feature actually harms performance. This seems to be exactly what’s happening for Linux users trying to use Alienware’s G-Mode feature. A feature on select Alienware laptops, known as “G-Mode” or “Game Shift,” designed to enhance gaming performance with a single key press, is being removed from the Linux kernel. Developers have found that on certain models running Linux, the feature paradoxically leads to worse performance than the standard “performance” profile....

Quick Links When a stranger, acquaintance, or even a friend borrows your phone to make a call, you want to make sure that they don’t go opening other apps (accidentally or on purpose). Android lets you do exactly that with “App Pinning”—here’s how it works. How to Enable App Pinning “Pinning” an app means Android will lock that app to the screen until you unlock it using your fingerprint or PIN....

Quick Links If you’re taking the occasional call, a Bluetooth headset works fine, but it can be uncomfortable if you spend a large portion of your day on calls or in videoconferencing chats. This is precisely the problem that theAudeze FilterBluetooth conference speakerphone aims to solve. If you’re familiar with the Audeze brand, this device may come as a surprise since the company is mainly known for itsplanar magnetic headphones. The Filter actually uses a planar magnetic speaker, but the focus here isn’t on music at all....