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Summary Effective multi-display multitasking at home or the office is relatively easy, but, when on the go, not so much. TheGPD Duoaims to boost your mobile productivity with a powerful dual-screen laptop. Unfortunately, notable issues hold back its potential. GPD DUO The GPD Duo is a powerful dual-screen laptop with unique features, but suffers from poor software integration and choice of select hardware components. Price and Availability The GPD Duo is available from Amazon and direct from GPD in a variety of configurations starting at $1750, excluding sale pricing....

Summary CRT TVs are sought after by retro gamers and retro media enthusiasts alike, but not every CRT is capable of producing a great picture. With CRT supplies dwindling, intrepid modders are figuring out ways to upgrade the input options some of the cheaper models had. What Is RGB on a CRT? RGB simply refers to red, green, and blue. The three primary colors that make up the image a CRT generates....

Summary Whether you use AI to support you when writing your work is entirely your choice. However, very little is more frustrating than your human-written work being flagged as potential AI content when, in fact, you wrote every word yourself. As an academic proofreader and ex-English teacher, I have become familiar with various ways you can adapt your writing to avoid sounding like an AI bot. Here are some of my best tips....

Summary Discord forum channels are an excellent way for server owners and moderators to create more organized Discord discussions. This guide covers creating, configuring, and moderating Discord forum channels. What Is a Discord Forum Channel? In regular Discord text channels, there’s little organization to what’s being discussed, and it generally focuses on one topic at a time—otherwise, everyone ends up talking over one another. While these channels are great for live chats that quickly scroll away, they’re not ideal for long-term discussion or making information easily accessible....

Quick Links Buying a new phone at launch may be exciting, but it’s rarely a good financial decision if it means paying full price for the device. With a little research (and maybe some patience), you may save hundreds of dollars on your next phone. Here’s how to get the best deal. 1. Time Your Purchase to Snag a Deal One of the best ways to find a good deal when buying a new phone is to time your purchase....

Quick Links Summary To get a PlayStation Store purchase refund, head to theSony Supportsite, navigate to PS Store & Refunds > PlayStation Store Refunds > Refund Assistant. Answer chatbot’s questions as to what you’re returning and why. Then, connect with a live chat agent and request a refund. Not happy with a purchase on your PS4 or PS5? Getting a refund for your game, add-on, subscription, and pre-order purchases on the PlayStation Store is possible....

Quick Links Got an old Android phone that you think you won’t be using anymore? Instead of throwing it away, repurpose it into something like a dashboard clock or a photo frame. I’ll show you how to do that. Prepare Your Old Phone The first thing to do is to prepare your old phone so it works fine when you turn it into a clock or a photo frame. Here’s what to do....

Quick Links Computers store characters by mapping them to different binary values. To display them properly, you need to know how they were encoded. The iconv command converts a file to a new encoding. It’s Binary All the Way Down No matter what type of data a computer is working with or storing, it is held asbinary information. Images, text, music, video, and everything else are stored as binary data. Whether the data is on a storage device or loaded into the computer’s memory, it’s still represented by binary values....

Summary After months of teasing, OpenAI’s Sora video generation technology is available to the public. I spent some time playing with this much-anticipated tech, and honestly came away a little underwhelmed. ChatGPT Plus Subscribers Get a 5-Second Taste Test of Sora All you have to do is put your prompt into the text box, and a few seconds later you have a video clip, pretty much howMidjourneyor other AI image generators work from the user’s perspective....

Summary Life prepared me to think that working meant sitting in front of a monitor with a keyboard and mouse, but that’s not what it looks like for me anymore. I found I’m more productive working on a smaller screen, like that of a foldable phone or tablet. More of us are doing this than you might think, even if not always 100% of the time. Here’s why it works for me....

Summary Apple bundles a lot of software with the Mac, iPhone, and iPad, including its entry-level video editor iMovie. Though it can be tempting to write iMovie off for its hand-holding approach, there are plenty of reasons to keep it installed. iMovie Is Free and Easy to Use iMovie is free and bundled with Mac, iPhone, and iPad devices. you’re able to download it from theApp Storefor iPhone or iPad, or from theMac App Storefor use on a computer....

Summary Apple is set to release a major update to iOS that addresses a critical pain point forelectric vehicleowners. Specifically, the upcoming iOS 18.4 update expands EV routing knowledge to include more EV charging locations for compatible cars with adapters. Currently, Apple Maps EV routing is a useful but limited feature that allows Maps to link with the car to trackEV battery range, suggest stops to recharge along the route, and show the availability of charging stations....

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon chips are supposed to be a more direct competitor to Intel and AMD. Lenovo has now announced two laptops with the new hardware: the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x and Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6. Lenovo has announced two laptops powered by theSnapdragon X Elite chipset, which was revealed last year as an ARM-based System-on-a-Chip (SoC) for Windows PCs. It has a 12-core CPU, Qualcomm Adreno GPU, and a dedicated Qualcomm Hexagon neural processing unit (NPU) for machine learning and AI tasks....