So far I’ve offered up my personal picks for this holiday season, as well as picks targeted at college kids and teens. Now, however, as we head into the home stretch of holiday shopping, you’re might be realizing that your budget is running a bit low… Fear not, as below I’ve broken down the best tech stocking stuffer picks for under $50, with a special section dedicated to tech under $10....
Poor Lindsay Lister got a lot of hate during her time on Gilmore Girls, but was it justified? Played by Arielle Kebbel of Midnight, Texas fame, Lindsay was introduced in the third season of Gilmore Girls as the new girlfriend of Rory’s (Alexis Bledel) ex-boyfriend and first love Dean Forester (Jared Padalecki). Lindsay was described by Rory as “cute and smart and really nice” and she even had a sweet anecdote about a fourth-grade field trip to Mark Twain’s house, during which Lindsay bought Rory a Mark Twain magnet because she had no money and wouldn’t let Rory pay her back....
The Monsterverse is one of the few attempted MCU-style universes that has managed to get beyond making just one movie or development hell. It has not only successfully made three interconnected films, but it’s about to reach the movie it was building toward: Godzilla vs. Kong. This isn’t the first time has paired off, as seen in King Kong vs. Godzilla, the 1962 Toho produced classic. The fight ended ambiguously with no clear winner....
As reported on 9to5Google last night, Google is rolling out a huge update to its maps app for Android but they are also promising the updates will hit iOS ‘soon’. Designed for tablets: A dedicated tablet design brings all the features of this new app to Android tablets and iPads, which makes exploring the world from the comfort of your living room much more fluid, smooth and fun. Enhanced navigation: In addition to current traffic conditions, we’ve added two new features to help you navigate around traffic....
Genshin Impact, an open-world action RPG game, has gained popularity recently. This online adventure is based on anime gameplay. Developed and published by the Chinese miHoYo studios, In the gameplay, players can control the number of party players and also their personalities, weapons, and gear, all equipped with different abilities. In this guide, we are not going to talk about the gameplay and any fixes or solutions. We are going to talk about the Genshin Impact – the characters’ ages and heights....
From 9to5toys: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R52I9sprmmI] In case you missed our last mega deal for Mac gamers, we’ve once again teamed up with our friends over at GameAgent to get an exclusive deal on one of the hottest Mac titles around. This time you’ll be able to get 75% off Borderlands 2 Game of The Year Edition for Mac. Here’s what you’ll get with the GOTY edition: Borderlands 2 Game of the Year Edition for Mac: $15 (Reg....
Apple released iOS 15.3 earlier this month, but it didn’t include one fix for a security flaw it has now addressed in iOS 15.3.1. Details from Apple, as usual, are scant but it gave enough information to suggest it is a serious bug because it can lead to malicious code execution simply by users opening a web page in the Apple Safari browser. SEE: 5G: Where we are, where we’re going next “Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution....
On the Basis of Sex releases is now available on home video, and to celebrate the release we’ve teamed with Universal Pictures home entertainment to give away a few must-have movie bundles! Follow the revolutionary lawyer turned U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as she fights to overturn over a century of gender discrimination in the uplifting drama On the Basis of Sex, arriving on Digital and the digital movie app MOVIES ANYWHERE on March 26, 2019, and on Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand on April 9, 2019, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment....
Google is rolling out updates to its Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides apps for the iPhone and iPad today bringing the ability to make a copy of a document and more. In addition to the new “Make a copy” function for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations across all three apps, you’ll also now be able to copy links to your device’s clipboard. Sheets and Slides also receive a new “accessibility settings menu when VoiceOver is enabled....
What is H.264? Also known as MPEG-4 AVC, H.264 is a video compression algorithm (codec). As a codec, it is designed to take large video files and compress them down in size while still maintaining quality that is visible to the human eyes and ears, and it does so quite well. You’ll see H.264 in use when you watch YouTube videos (although that is changing soon), iTunes movies, Blu-Ray, Flash videos, and really anything viewed with QuickTime....
Messaging app is a third-party app although is developed by Google only and when encountering a problem with it, it’s more likely just an application-related problem. We have readers that own Google Pixel 4 XL who reported having encountered problems while using the Messaging app. Sometimes it crashes frequently and sometimes it freezes which makes it impossible to use. In this article, we will walk you through troubleshooting your Google Pixel 4 XL Messaging App Crash and Freezes issue....
Gears 5 has emerged from development to launch on Xbox One and Microsoft Windows, and early reviews suggest that developer The Coalition have produced a title that will be as divisive, if not moreso, than Gears of War 4 was for franchise fans and critics. According to reviews, Gears 5 attempts a lot of innovations to the genre, and while some of them are successful, still others are problematic setbacks for a game that could ill-afford too many of them following the slowly decaying average review score for its titles....
Google has launched “search chips" for Gmail to help users better manage their inbox. This is an extremely popular email service and the only one the company offers following the closure of Inbox by Gmail. Since Inbox’s discontinuation, Gmail has continued to become an even smarter email service. While Gmail is a powerful email solution, it can be too overwhelming at times with features often getting buried and remaining unused by the majority of people....
An appealing feature of Google+ is the ability to completely lock down items you post. Here’s how to lock down a post and prevent it from being shared. The first method is locking down the post before you share it. Start by typing your post in Google+. Select who to share it with, then click the small arrow in the right corner to bring up the security features menu....
Jordan Peele has no intention of making a sequel to Get Out, according to producer and Blumhouse Productions founder Jason Blum. Released in 2017, Get Out served as Peele’s directorial debut. The film followed the character of Chris Washington, played by Daniel Kaluuya, as he prepares to meet his girlfriend’s family for the first time. While he’s assured that he has nothing to worry about, Chris still feels a little out of place as a black man in a mostly white environment....
Snooze Notifications If you get a notification you don’t want to deal with right away but need later, you can use Oreo’s notification snooze option. You can snooze a notification and set it to appear at a set amount of time. When you get a notification, swipe on it slowly either to the right or left until you see the gear and clock icon and tap the clock. The notification will snooze for one hour by default, but you can change it to 15 minutes, 30 minutes, or two hours....
Clearly, Gionee is trying to break quite a few misconceptions that exist in the consumers’ minds about Chinese brands, and that isn’t going to be a stroll in the park. It also requires guts to launch a new mobile phone brand in this unforgiving and crowded market, and no one can hope to succeed without a long-term strategy in place. Therefore, it’s with mixed thoughts that we picked up the Gionee Elife E5 – not the outfit’s first offering in the Indian market, but it’s latest, and also the very first to pass through our review gauntlet....
From 9to5Google: We knew from leaks in the weeks leading up to I/O that Google was planning some gaming related announcements and today the company has officially announced the service in a press release ahead of its Google I/O keynote taking place now. Not only will the service allow Android developers to build in real-time multiplayer, social features, achievements, and leaderboards while storing game saves and settings in the cloud, the SDK for Google Play game services will also be available to iOS and web developers....
The service Google is calling “Drive” is available at the moment for PC and Mac, as well as on Android devices. Google promises an iPad and iPhone version soon (and judging by the way Google moves, it won’t take too long until Apple approves it). Depending on your country, Google Drive may or may not be available yet from the Google Drive service page. I personally had issues getting in and was presented with the following message with an email notification....
Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google parent company Alphabet, has made a thinly-veiled attack on Apple Music in a BBC op-ed on artificial intelligence. He described human-curated music selections as a decade out of data and an elitist approach. A decade ago, to launch a digital music service, you probably would have enlisted a handful of elite tastemakers to pick the hottest new music. Today, you’re much better off building a smart system that can learn from the real world – what actual listeners are most likely to like next – and help you predict who and where the next Adele might be … Schmidt said that using AI to do the job was less elitist and more democratic....
