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This is the fourth-generation model of the long-standing favourite of high-end audio fans, and it’s perfect for creating a stylish soundscape at your home. The large disc-shaped speaker is fully wireless and offers home-filling sound via AirPlay 2, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Chromecast compatibility. Thanks to the innovative Active Room Compensation feature, the sound is tailored to any nook of any room you place it in. There’s also a multi-room feature, if you wish to take full advantage of this deal and spread the A9 speakers throughout the home....

Coinciding with the release of iOS 5, a native Facebook app has finally been released. It was worth the wait. It’s beautiful and does nearly everything it should. There are only a few minor things left out, and hopefully these will be eliminated in future revisions. After signing in to your Facebook profile, it gives you a list in a sidebar with all of the different Facebook destinations. Listed there is your own Profile, News Feed, Messages, Friends, Pages, Groups, Apps, and access to your account....

All operating systems come with a built-in screenshot function, but sometimes we need more than just the simple “photograph,” leading us to screenshot tools. There are several available online, each with its own positive and negative features. Today I bring you TinyTake, a small and useful program for Windows users to try. Overview TinyTake is developed by MangoApps and has a team of Indian engineers behind it. This is a free and fairly recent tool, but is filled with a whole set of capabilities that make it a trustworthy app....

Here are several things that you can do to get better photos with your iPhone. The Hardware As Apple continuously improves iPhone cameras with each iteration, it’s only logical that the newer your iPhone is, the better photo result you will get. But you can get even better photos if you use additional tools. They are optional, but obtaining a few (or all) of them doesn’t hurt either. Tripod, Monopod, and other Pods Carrying extra load might not be the idea of fun photography, but if you want to take better photos, you really could use the help of one of the pods to steady the camera....

I use Bluetooth headphones almost every day lately. From a simple jog to a shopping trip, I like to have some music or a podcast going to make things a little more interesting. As such, when I was given the chance to review the TREBLAB xFIT, I jumped at the chance to give them a shot. Thankfully, I was not disappointed by these amazing earbuds. The Headphones and Case The headphones are small true wireless buds that fit inside the ear....

1. CPU-G CPU-G looks almost exactly like CPU-Z, except that it works only in Linux. You can use it to view CPU info in Linux, as well as Motherboard, Graphic, Memory and general system information. In Ubuntu (Quantal and below), you can add the PPA and install from its repository: CPU-G allows you to view the information about your CPU, Motherboard, Graphic card, Memory and System. Most of the information are pretty straightforward (either you understand it or you don’t)....

BIOS vs. UEFI At their cores, UEFI and BIOS are two firmware interfaces for computers. The sole purpose behind them is to act as interpreters between the operating system and the computer firmware. Both are used at startup to initialize the hardware components and load the operating system onto the hard drive. UEFI is newer, better and is included by default on most modern PCs. But things are not as simple as them seem....

Introduction The Urbanista Copenhagen are a sleek pair of earbuds, taking inspiration from its namesake city. I always regard affordable earphones with a bit of trepidation, as you can never be sure if compromising on price will have a detrimental impact on the audio quality. This is not the case with the Copenhagen buds, as they manage to offer a balanced overall experience – even if you do need the companion app to get them to their full potential....

Meet PhotoMath, an app that not only allows you to easily solve a math problem, but also lets you know how it arrived at the solution. In this article, we will discuss the basics of the app along with its features and limitations. How PhotoMath works PhotoMath uses your smartphone’s camera to solve math problems in real time. All you have to do is open the app and hold the phone over a math problem (make sure you position the problem within the red frame), and the app does the rest — snaps a picture of the problem, solves it, and displays the answer instantly on the same screen....

iTunes Genius on a Mac The Genius option did go through one small change. They took some of it away. It’s not clear whether it just wasn’t as popular as they expected it to be, or whether they just thought the Ping service would be that much more popular, but they did take away the suggestions that were always made in the right side. With the Genius options as they stand now for iTunes 10....

Update: This extension is no longer available. Having a visual view of something is usually helpful to many people. It’s one of the reasons that charts, graphs, and mind maps are widely used as an aid to represent data that would just be numbers or text. Browsers (e.g. Chrome, Safari, and Opera) have started to have a way to visually view your most-visited web sites all on one page. However, Mozilla Firefox, which is one of the most used browsers, doesn’t have the functionality....

From the opening screen, the app still doesn’t seem like it will get complicated. It’s still clean, in fact so clean that it left questions as to whether it would do enough. As you get ideas, you can return to the app and jot them down quickly. This is really helpful for me. I get several good story ideas throughout the week, and it when it comes time to sit down and start writing, I can never remember them....

What Are CHD Files? In short, CHD files are arcade game disk images used by MAME. This explains why they are so big in file size. Nowadays, they have become quite popular among many emulators that use relatively large ROMs. This includes emulators like some of the PlayStation Libretro cores in Retroarch and, by extension, all the popular emulation-oriented distributions for the Raspberry Pi series of microcomputers. If your CHDs are MAME ROMs, they should (usually) be stored in folders with the same name under MAME’s main ROM folder....

Since it’s a big problem for many of us, and there are so many different solutions – charging through your computer, through a standard charger, through a power bank, etc. – that we asked a few of our writers what they use to charge their mobile devices. Our Opinion Damien reports that he prefers to charge his devices through the standard power socket. However, if he’s on the move, he tends to “charge using the USB port of my laptop....

Here’s everything you need to know. So you’ve blocked someone on WhatsApp. (To do it, open a chat with the person you want to block, click the three-dot menu icon -> More -> Block.) At your end, nothing more will happen. You won’t know that the person is trying to contact you, and it’ll be just like they’re not messaging you any more. The blocked person won’t directly know they’ve been blocked, but they’ll have a few telltale signs....

Defining a Moonshot For a technology to be a “moonshot” it has to fit into a very particular set of criteria: It needs to be groundbreaking (i.e. its use to humanity, if successful, is enormous) It must be relatively expensive Its chances of success are not clear Basically, a moonshot is as its name implies: You’re throwing money at something in hopes it will “reach the moon” if you choose to invest in it....

Now, I actually know what browser fingerprinting is, and very soon, so will you. What Is Browser Fingerprinting? Browser fingerprinting is what occurs when a web site, web page, plugin or advertisement takes a “fingerprint” from your browser. This isn’t like a cookie, which is saved information from a site stored on your computer. Instead, browser fingerprinting involves digging into settings and configuration information that the browser gives when the page or plugin suggests it....

What is NFC? NFC stands for “near field communication.” It’s a radio-based transmission protocol that enables extremely short-range communication. And “short” means very short: the operational range of NFC is about four centimeters. In most cases users touch the transmitting and receiving devices together. NFC is an advancement on RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology and is based on the same underlying concept: using radio waves to transmit data. There are two main differences, however....

Cancel Your Compromised Card First things first, however: you have to cancel the card that the scammer is using. This is often as easy as phoning the bank and letting them know that someone is using the card for fraud. Let them know that your card has been breached, and they’ll cancel it. Let the Bank Know Which Charges Are Fraudulent Take a look through your expenses and note any that look odd or ones you don’t remember making....

Setup Navigate to the Google Schemer site and log in using your Gmail credentials. Next, join Schemer by either of the two red “Join” boxes on the login page. Enter your home zip code and click “Create My schemer Account”. The next step in your setup process is to select your favorite interests from the list. Schemer will generate suggestions for you based on those interests so make sure you have a good variety of topics selected....