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What Is Google Classroom? Google Classroom is Google’s free e-learning platform where students and teachers collaborate and interact through online training, class assignments, and reciprocal communication. It is designed for both self-paced and live learning. To operate Google Classroom as a school administrator, you need a Google Workspace for Education account. Combined with other Google apps, such as Gmail, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Drive, Google Meet, and Google Calendar, Google Classroom achieves the same outcome as a physical classroom....

This trend began around the end of 2016 when several business sectors found that general malware attacks had fallen but ransomware attacks had increased. Malicious developers weren’t as interested in spreading general malware anymore; ransomware was becoming a great way to profit off of infecting computers. There are many reasons why ransomware is more favorable than general malware, including a more immediate payoff for the criminal should the victim decide to pay....

What Is A Refurbished PC? Anything that’s “refurbished” means that it’s been returned within a certain period of time by the customer to the distributor. The distributor repackages the product and sends it on its way to a special shelf where refurbished materials go. This is not to be confused with a “used” product!! Anything that’s described as “used” has been in the possession of the customer for a long time....

What Is The Surface Web? This aspect of the Internet is straightforward to explain. The surface web is what you’re looking at now, and it is the “Internet” we have all come to know. It’s the slice of the Internet you can easily connect to from your browser. In other words, the surface web is publicly accessible by anyone with an Internet connection. You may also hear a few other names in relation to the surface web – for example, the visible web, the indexed web, and “lightnet....

Moore’s law is the observation that computer chips get faster, are more energy efficient, and cheaper to produce at a predictable rate. About every eighteen months the number of transistors placed on a silicon chip doubles. Each new generation of computer chip has smaller performance boosts than the one before. Moore’s Law is not a law like Newton’s Three Laws of Motion. Instead, it is an observation of what was happening in the chip-making industry....

At a price of just £259.99, rather than the usual £369, the OnePlus Nord 2T is one of the best-value smartphones on the market right now. This saving applies to both the Grey Shadow (black) and Jade Fog (green) models, so you can pick your colour. For the price of an affordable phone, you’re getting a mid-range champ with a number of flagship-aping features. We awarded the OnePlus Nord 2T 4....

OLED displays are also brighter, more efficient, and offer better contrast than any other panel technology that exists. For a long time OLED technology has been limited to TVs and mobile devices. However, in 2016 we ushered in a new era where laptop manufacturers began showing interest in this technology. Today we have a host of high-end laptops that feature OLED displays. This is our list of the five best OLED laptops you’ll find on the market....

Google Chrome SafeGmail SafeGmail encrypts your email messages for privacy. The extension works with any email provider recepient, and requires that Gmail be free of any other extensions. Emails are sent with a question which the recipient must answer correctly before he can read the encrypted message. Color my Facebook This extension lets you change your Facebook pages into any color of your choice. The new color replaces parts that are normally blue such as the page header, bold text, and notification icons....

Edge still has a long way to go to be an appealing browser such as being able to recover closed tabs, plugins or save a site. Microsoft is working on that, and hopefully we won’t have to wait too long for it. In the meanwhile, Edge is a capable browser if you visit sites with a lot of text because of Reading Mode since it can eliminate anything that you may consider distracting....

To avoid such mishaps it is best to lets event participants pick their own tasks. This not only ensures their satisfaction but also the proper execution of tasks. Here to help you organize plans and events this way is a wonderful web service called “TODOFeed”. Introduction TODOFeed is a brilliant and free to use website that lets you create plans for friends and coworkers. The site lets you build a plan with a description and then add sub-tasks to it....

1. Cambridge SoundWorks OontZ Angle 3 2. Anker Soundcore Bluetooth Speaker Anker has gained traction in the world of tech gear from its high quality cables and chargers, but they have recently joined the Bluetooth speaker game. This speaker keeps a traditional rectangle design and touts a 24-hour playtime. Similarly to other speakers on our list, this one features more than one driver for superior sound quality and overall loudness....

Battery-Hogging Apps In order to save battery life on an iPhone, you have to know which apps are eating up most of your battery life. Head to “Settings -> Battery” and look at the list of the top apps by battery usage. It might take the apps a few moments to populate, but once they do, you will get a great sense of which apps are hogging your battery. There is a strong likelihood this list may be full of apps that surprise you, including fan favorites like Facebook....

This version of Ubuntu (Lucid, 10.04) is a Long Term Release (LTS), which means it will be supported by Canonical for the next 3 years. It is termed as the best in all Ubuntu iteration and everything from the boot time, the UI and the functionality are very polished. In short, you are not going to be disappointed. Now, for those people who are planning to switch to Ubuntu, we understand the fears that you are facing....

Soft vs. Hard links A soft link, or symlink, is just a symbolic link. It is simply a pointer to the target filepath. A soft link doesn’t care if the file or folder at the filepath really exists. If the file or folder doesn’t exist, it will just result in a broken symlink. You can edit or delete the symlink, and it won’t affect the target file. On the other hand, a hard link has the effect of giving the target file an additional name....

And the best past: Airplay Mirroring is incredibly easy to use as long as you have the right setup and software. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s needed and how to use Airplay Mirroring on the iPhone and iPad. Requirements An iPhone 4S/ iPad 2 or newer, running iOS 5 or any later version of iOS. If you want to mirror to Apple TV: a 2nd gen or 3rd gen Apple TV running software version 5 or later....

On your iPhone, your Japanese keyboard offers a secret keyboard of “Kaomojis.” Kaomojis are literally face emotions made using letters, numbers and symbols, mostly the same way it was done before emoji keyboards were invented. Something like this: (´?_?`)’ This is mostly made possible because the Japanese keyboard has many more characters available than the English (or many other) keyboards. And since the iPhone is super friendly, installing and using the Japanese Kaomoji keyboard is very easy....

Using Turnkey Linux appliances, you can deploy a new server in a jiffy. A Turnkey appliance is a self-contained system that packs in a fully functional web app that runs on top of Just enough Operating System (JeOS) components required to power that particular app. Currently all appliances are based on the latest stable Debian 7.2 release. The Debian base is combined with Turnkey Linux’s secret sauce in a Core appliance that is included in all other appliances....

Setup A Child Account Assuming you are holding the Administrator account for your Windows computer, you can setup a restricted a user account for your kids and limit their access to only certain parts of the operating system. To create an account for your children, click on the Windows Start button and type in “Add User”. From the list, select “Add Or Remove User Accounts”. When the window opens, click “Add New User” and enter the child’s name....

VR Shinecon is another maker of “VR glasses” with a headset that is compatible with Android and iOS devices (with screens 3.6 – 6 inches). It can be used to play compatible games and watch 3D videos and movies. With soft leather padding around the face mask area and a soft head strap, you’ll truly be immersed in whatever you’re doing or watching – without worrying about being in pain or uncomfortable....

What Is All Access? All Access is an expansion of Google Music that introduces streaming radio. Subscribers can select any song in their music collection and start a radio station. Google will pull in songs from outside of a user’s personal collection, effectively replicating what people have come to expect from services like Pandora. Listeners can then add any song or album that they like to their personal collection. In this way, All Access is a great means of both discovering new music and artificially inflating the size of your music collection....