Benefits of Verifying Your YouTube Account The following are the key reasons you should verify your YouTube account: 1. Create and Upload Longer Videos Verified accounts can upload videos that are up to 12 hours long or 256 GB in size, whichever comes first. Unverified accounts can only upload 15-minute long videos. If you intend to create long-form videos that cover your topics in greater detail, this is definitely the way to go....
To connect your Android device to a projector usually requires three things: Access to the Wi-Fi where you are, a second piece of hardware like an adapter or laptop, and an app. If you want to project your content onto a larger screen but don’t want to be tied to a laptop, here are several options. 1. Chromecast One of the easiest ways to send your phone’s screen to a projector....
Creating a ZIP Archive Creating a new ZIP archive is as simple as pie. Just follow a couple of steps mentioned below and you should be all set. Open Finder and go to the folder where the files are that you want to create an archive of. Select all the files you want to add into the archive. Right-click on any file to activate the context menu. Select “Compress X Items,” with X being the number of files that you have selected for compression....
Note: although BeeBEEP is a cross-platform tool, this article focuses on its installation, setup, and usage on Ubuntu Linux. What is BeeBEEP BeeBEEP is basically a peer-to-peer LAN messenger that allows you to communicate as well as share files with others on the Local Area Network. One of the main features of the tool is that there’s no need to set up a central server for it to work – all you have to do is to download, unzip and start using it....
To monitor how the fight against piracy is going, Sandvine analyses BitTorrent’s percentage share of traffic in America. It’s not a hard and fast way to detect piracy; after all, BitTorrent can be used for perfectly legal means. If we assume the majority of BitTorrent users are using it for illegal means, however, it can shed a little bit of light on the ebb and flow of piracy. Recently, Sandvine published an article that shows an interesting trend in BitTorrent usage....
AMD’s Meteoric Rise First, let’s talk about why people think AMD CPUs aren’t good for gaming. There was a time when this was definitely true. The pre-Ryzen era of AMD was defined by a limited socket and constant re-use of the same basic CPU architecture for each generation. Before Zen/Ryzen, the architecture that AMD released and iterated was called Bulldozer. Bulldozer’s big innovation when it launched in 2011 was superb multi-core performance....
But during standard daily usage, your fans should be running nice and quietly, because browsing the web and writing emails isn’t exactly going to melt down your PC. Here’s how to take control of loud fans on your PC, adjusting their settings to suit you. First Up, Clean the Inside of Your PC How often do you clean your PC? Be honest – because it’s important. If your fans are louder than usual during daily usage, consider that perhaps they’re having to work extra-hard because a) they’re clogged up with dust or b) Your PC components are covered in dust, overheating more, therefore forcing your fans to work harder....
Learning music is a great pastime. Training your ears to identify scales and chords and mastering an instrument or your own voice requires lots of practise and could become difficult. Music theory is extensive. There is much to memorize, and to turn it into a “skill” you will need diligence. Linux offers exceptional software to help you along your musical journey. They will not help you become a professional musician instantly but could ease the process of learning, being a great aide and reference point....
Introducing Gnome 3 and MGSE The most notable differences in Linux Mint 12 is the MGSE, also known as the Mint Gnome Shell Extension. As its name implies, this is a Gnome Shell extension built on top of Gnome 3 and I can tell you – it is awesome! The MGSE brings back the bottom panel and the popular MintMenu. It allows you to use Linux Mint the traditional way without losing the functionality of Gnome 3....
Installation Like many modern Linux distributions, Lubuntu boots into a live environmen, where you can both test it and start its actual installation on your computer. Unlike vanilla Ubuntu, Lubuntu uses the Calamares installer. It’s somewhat different but not more complicated or hard to go through in any way. Still, it wasn’t all smooth sailing during testing, for we met a bug during the partitioning step. We initially chose the “Erase disk” option, then switched to Manual partitioning....
The default view is a weekly calendar which you can fill in with three elements: event, task or note. Just drag the element to your desired date and edit the details by clicking on the pencil icon. In this case, I’m creating an event. A pop up box allows you to enter more details about the event such as start and end time and reminder settings. Once the element is edited, you can simply mouse over to view additional options – such as editing, moving and deleting....
Animesoft has thought about manga and anime fans in need of a Linux distribution and created a Linux distro with just the right theme: Mangaka. It comes in different flavours, with a common underlying theme: Manga and anime art. Mangaka flavours Mangaka is based on Debian and Ubuntu. According to Animesoft Mangaka is “especially developed for the specific needs of the anime and manga community from Japan and world wide, including by default professional free software for fansubbing, web browsing, multimedia playback and 2D graphical creations as well codecs, java and flash out-of-the-box....
He/she may want to quickly grasp the idea on what the page is all about and why you have shared the link with him. He may not like reading long paragraphs of introduction and may quit reading the page altogether. If you want to share snippets of content from a webpage, you need a smart note making tool at your disposal. Note making tools are different from bookmarking tools – you can select particular portions of a webpage, store it in your account and then share it with anyone....
During the Snapdragon Summit 2022 event, Oppo said the key advances offered by the new chip will be a “leap in video, gaming, and connectivity experiences.” Chief among them will be ray tracing within Android games. The next-generation Find X will arrive with capabilities akin to the current crop of gaming consoles and high-end PC gaming rigs. In short, it promises a new era of visual realism for Android gaming....
Data on your phone can be a fragile thing. One second you’re tapping through your family albums, the next second you’re uploading them to Facebook without realising, then POOF, before you know it, you’ve swiped them out of existence. PhoneRescue claims to offer a solution to that, letting you recover not only photos, but also contacts, call logs, messages, videos, music and app documents. The mobile data recovery app has already earned itself a solid reputation for the iPhone, and now it’s arrived on Android....
While image editing apps are in abundance, the one that is perfect for your everyday uses are hard to find. Using Photoshop just to resize images would be an overkill. If you are a Mac user, you could try ResizeMe – an image processing application that can manipulate images in several ways, and in bulk. The Features When you first open ResizeMe, the first thing that you will immediately see is the file list pane on the left and the image preview pane on its right....
The highly prestigious end-of-year gaming awards take place on December 8 and Sony Santa Monica’s new Norse mythology adventure leads the way with ten nominations – including Game of the Year, Game Direction and Best Narrative. Elden Ring and Horizon Forbidden West also feature in the top categories, while the sleeper hit Stray (6 nominations), A Plague Tale: Requiem (5) and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (3) feature in amongst the most-nominated games....
And when we’re talking about something as valuable and crucial as a vehicle, the question is no longer casual. You can start, locate, and even summon your car using your phone, which raises a question very few people ask when blinded by the glare of instant satisfaction and convenience: just how safe is this?! A Little Background Back in 2013 we discussed built-in mobile software installed in vehicles. At that point we could only conceive of dangers to the driver while texting and driving and how this evolution would affect the trend....
According to a recent tweet by tipster Ahmed Qwaider (via SamMobile), the Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23 Plus, and Galaxy S23 Ultra will each feature “improved cooling systems”. The tipster claims that “Samsung has addressed this point significantly during heavy use”, in reference to the fact that the Galaxy S23 line suffered from throttling issues. Back in March of 2022, it was found that Samsung’s Game Optimizing Service (GOS) was exceeding its remit and throttling back performance too aggressively – a telltale sign that the company had been struggling with the thermal output of its devices....
While we have the phone price chopped before, this is a very good price for the larger 256GB model and it’s available in either green or black. Like the classic retro flip phones, the Z Flip 3 folds in half when not in use and has a handy screen on the front for notifications and the time. There’s also 5G, 6GB RAM, an IPX8 rating and a Snapdragon 888 chipset....
