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While Andor, the Book of Boba Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi have provided some great moments for Star Wars fans, the original streaming series The Mandalorian is still the jewel in the Disney+ crown. So it’s great to know that precisely three months from now we’ll all be settling in to watch the Season 3 premiere of The Mandalorian. Disney+ offers access to loads of original shows like The Mandalorian and Hawkeye, classic films and content from big brands like Star Wars, Marvel and Pixar....

What’s Inside the Phone? To better understand how to treat a phone’s battery, we first have to look at what the battery is made of. If you’re using at least a semi-modern phone, you’ll find that it’s using a battery that’s based on lithium-ion. This is a very popular choice of smartphone battery these days and finds itself in a vast amount of units. Lithium-ion batteries, unfortunately, don’t last forever. As it’s charged and discharged, it will begin to age and wear down....

Who’s right in this matter? This article explores the pros and cons of these options to decide which is better for your computer. What Happens During a Shutdown A shutdown is like an “off” switch for software and hardware components. In Windows, once you press the “Shut down” button in the Start menu (also called a graceful shutdown), all opened programs receive a timed notification from the operating system (OS) to stop reading and writing files before a forced shutdown occurs....

As consumers, most of us should be aware that buying official chargers and accessories is more about general safety as they protect the well-being of our devices. Using counterfeit ones can affect the integrity of your device’s battery, but as we’ve seen in incidents before, it can also damage property and endanger life. A hands-on inspection of a fake iPad charger by one expert explains precisely why one should proceed with such caution....

I have faced many Windows Explorer crashing issues in Windows 7, and it doesn’t get any better in Windows 10. Unfortunately, there are dozens of reasons why Windows Explorer crashes, so there is no single solution to this problem. No worries, though: if you are facing a. Windows Explorer crashing issue, the following are the possible solutions that could fix this issue. Note: if your Windows Explorer crashed and shows a black screen, you can use this solution first to recover it....

This post will highlight some of the most useful ones. Feel free to leave a comment with more at the end of the article. 1. Lollypop Linux has a ton of great music players available for use, but if you want something finely integrated with the Gnome desktop, Lollypop may well be your best choice. It features a clean modern design and allows you to listen to local media files in a wide variety of formats as well as radio stations....

1. Tomboy/Gnote Tomboy is a simple note-taking app. It’s not for Linux only – you can get it for Unix, Windows, and macOS, too. Tomboy is pretty straightforward to use – you write a note, choose whether to make it sticky on your desktop, and delete it when you are done with it. 2. MyNotex If you want a note-taker with more features but still prefer a small and simple app rather than a huge suite, check MyNotex....

Note: if you’re here because you are looking for a Dark Sky alternative, you’re in the right place. Apple made Dark Sky an exclusive iOS app in 2020. However, Apple’s now creating their very own weather app, and Dark Sky is being completely discontinued in 2022. 1. Weather & Radar Available on: Android | iOS An aptly named weather app providing both simple and detailed forecasts. Weather & Radar provides one of the best future radars among free weather apps....

1. Color Pick Eyedropper Do you fancy the color scheme of a random webpage and want to utilize it in your own project? A Chrome extension called Color Pick “Eyedropper” lets you extract the colors with pinpoint accuracy and an adjustable zoom feature. Extensions like these do require permission on all websites to perform the color extraction. If you want slightly more advanced features, there is a similar tool called ColorZilla which comes with a Gradient generator, palette viewer, and color history....

However, it can also be difficult to sort out the great ones from the bad ones, so we are giving you a list of the best plugins that you must have in the most essential categories. We also list an alternative for many of the categories. All the plugins considered here are free and can be installed on your website within a few moments. Best SEO Plugin WordPress SEO by Yoast is the most revered SEO plugin for WordPress....

1. Open Taskbar Settings Quickly 2. Change Taskbar Alignment The first change you may notice after installing Windows 11 is the position of the Start menu and app icons on the taskbar. Everything on the taskbar is centrally located in Windows 11. Thankfully, it’s not an irreversible feature. To move the icons to the left as present in Windows 10 and earlier versions: 3. Pin Apps to Taskbar Windows 11 doesn’t support dragging and dropping apps to the taskbar....

1. Don’t Use Index Feature in Windows Whenever you lose track of a file or folder, you can use the Windows search feature to track those files or folders. To improve the search function in Windows, an indexing service runs in the background to keep track of all the file and folder changes. As this service updates its database regularly, it results in a lot of writes on your SSD and may eventually degrade the performance....

1. Peacekeeper If you want an industry standard third party benchmarking suite to compare web browsers, then Peacekeeper is the best tool for the job. Peacekeeper is a child of Futuremark whch specialised in benchmarking PC hardware. To start benchmarking a web browser, simply open up the browser you want to test, visit the Peacekeeper website and click on the “Test Your Browser” button. Peacekeeper runs some standard tests like rendering, DOM operations, text phrasing, and other HTML5 stuff like canvas, video, games, webGL, etc....

Here, we are discussing top 5 ways to increase battery life in Linux laptops. After reading this article, you can surely choose whatever is the best for you and squeeze up more juice from your battery. 1. Auto-cpufreq Auto-cpufreq is a tool that actively monitor your CPU usage and scale the CPU governor as per your need. When there is a low CPU usage, auto-cpufreq set the governor to powersave....

1. Merriam-Webster Merriam-Webster should be a familiar vocabulary-building tool. The dictionary feature tells you the definition of any word you want to know, while the thesaurus provides useful synonyms. Unsure of how to spell a word? The Merriam-Webster app has a “speak” option that allows you to look up words with your voice. This useful tool is a must-have back-to-school Android app because no college professor wants to read the same twenty words throughout your college essays....

Note: These commands are really harmful, so please don’t try to reproduce them on your Linux machines. You have been warned. 1. Deletes Everything Recursively This is one of the most deadly Linux commands around. The functionality of this command is really simple. It forcefully removes or deletes (rm) all the files and folders recursively (-rf) in the root directory (/) of your Linux machine. Once you delete all the files in the root directory, there is no way that you can boot into your Linux system again....

There are several apps that make it easy for you to listen to the very best audiobooks on your Android device. I will go over a few of them here; feel free to add some more in the comments section below. 1. Audiobooks from Audible Audible is one of the world’s largest providers of audiobooks with around 180,000 titles offered. Audible has a paid membership service which starts from $14....

We have previously shown you the best Markdown editors for Windows, and now it’s time to unveil our best Markdown editors for Linux: 1. Vim Vim has been around since all the way back in 1991, remarkably maintaining almost the same form it had all those years ago. It’s definitely old-school compared to other options, with plenty of fiddling to do in the way of config files and other minutiae, but persevere and you have an excellent text and Markdown editor....

1. Organizing Your Filters There are forty different filters that you can apply to your photos within the the Instagram app. Forty! With that many to choose from, users can spend hours hemming and hawing over which one to use. If you find yourself ignoring some of the filters completely, you can make your life easier by eliminating them as an option altogether. To do so, swipe all the way to the end of your filter list until you see a little cog icon labeled “Manage....

Regardless of your specific level of interest, this tutorial will offer you a starting point on that journey. 1. top Perhaps the most well-known service/process manager in the Linux toolkit is top. Its name is an acronym for “Table Of Processes.” The Linux version (others have been written for Unix, Solaris, etc.) is hosted with the procps package, a collection of utilities that you can grab at the link above....