It’s hard to imagine just how much cash Apple brings in each second through its online store. So it can only mean one thing when Apple throws up the maintenance page…. New Apple Toys are being added to the site! A new iPhone will likely be hitting the site today along with a few other devices as leaked by a few blogs (gotta love those search results). If the data is correct, it looks like a few new iPods....
Update Apple TV The update is available for the second and third generation of the set top box. If you’ve never updated it before, check out this guide on how to update your Apple TV. I have a jailbroken Apple TV 2, and didn’t see the update. If you’ve jailbroken your Apple TV you might not want to grab this update because you’ll need to jailbreak it again if you want features like XBMC....
This year, there hasn’t been anything particularly earth-shattering so far. The announcements at Monday’s WWDC covered the usual—new features coming to iOS 12, WatchOS 5, and macOS. Still, that’s not to say that there aren’t some new big developments in store for Apple users. For your convenience, I’ve wrangled up a few of the highlights. What’s New from the Apple WWDC Event? Other outlets have given a blow-by-blow live account of what happened at WWDC, but here’s what stuck out to me: Those are the big things that stuck out to me....
How to Block Adult Content Using AiProtection on your ASUS Router And that’s all there is to it. In a few minutes, you’ve blocked a large swath of inappropriate content on your kid’s PC, phone or tablet without blocking yourself. For example, the Adult category is fairly broad. Per ASUS’s fabulously translated description, it will “Block adult content can prevent child from visiting, sexy, violence and illegal related content.” Expand it out and you can pick and choose from Pornography, Illegal and Violence, and Gambling, in case it wasn’t clear what “sexy related content” was....
BlogWriter – A Lightweight iPhone Blogger Client with Some Rough Patches BlogWriter bills itself as a mobile blogging client for Google Blogger (blogger.com and blogspot.com), WordPress.com, self-hosted WordPress blogs and “others” (i.e. MSN Live Spaces, MetaWeblog). As someone who’s not always satisfied with the official WordPress iPhone app, I found the prospect of an all-in-one blogging client appealing. First, I tried it with my Blogger.com account. Blog Setup with BlogWriter When you first launch BlogWriter Lite, you are invited to set up your blog by Touching My Blog....
The AC500 takes everything that made the AC300 such as success and adds even more power, making it BLUETTI’s most powerful inverter yet. The Indiegogo release will give you the option to be one of the first to get your hands on this next generation of solar power station and take advantage of early bird pricing. BLUETTI AC500 Specs at a Glance The BLUETTI AC500 builds on the success of the popular BLUETTI AC300 3,000W pure sine wave inverter and adds even more power....
Whether you’re preparing yourself for a winter vacation or a summer road trip, you can save hundreds of dollars by purchasing from BLUETTI this week. This includes portable power stations, solar panels, battery modules, and more—all with huge discounts. There are some great deals on offer. To help you choose, here are some of the best BLUETTI Black Friday deals you can get your hands on. BLUETTI AC300 & B300: Portable Power at a Practical Price Need to stay powered, wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, and with a number of devices on the go?...
BLUETTI is rewarding those who spend over $1000 at the official site bluettipower.com from now until November 30th, 23:59 PDT. Shoppers are eligible for a drawing for one of several prizes, including its EB3A, PS70, AC50S solar generator: $50 -$100 coupons or BLUETTI’s gifts. Buyers will also be entered in giveaways when reaching a specific spending limit. For example, a $5,000 purchase gains one mini fridge. Mystery boxes can also be bought without quantity limits to get a portable generator randomly....
Calibre has a simple intuitive interface and it’s fairly straight-forward to use. It takes books stored on your computer and lists them within the application’s library. Books may need to be added manually, but the program can automatically pull meta data out of the eBook file of every title and display it within its detail panel. Books can be instantly sent to your mobile device with a simple right-click....
If you want to vicariously experience what it’s like to be at the event, live on the floor, you’ll definitely want to check out Dave and his team’s live coverage this year. Microsoft MVP, host of The Home Server Show, and The Surface Geeks podcast, David McCabe, will be covering the Consumer Electronics Show, aka CES 2013. This will be his fifth consecutive CES event, and this year promises to include even more coverage, craziness, and fun!...
This is an updated version of the model that Steve has been using for years. In the next few weeks, I will take a closer look at some of the parental controls and threat protection features. But for now, I’ll give you a brief overview of the router and show you how easy it is to set it up and why it’s currently our favorite wireless router. Note: These steps are specific to my ASUS RT-AC3200 router, but they’ll be virtually the same for other ASUS routers, too....
Outlook 2007 provides access to our email, calendars, and contacts. But what many people overlook is how great of an RSS feed reader Outlook 2007 is. For a General Tutorial on what RSS is and how it can be useful, take a look at this article from the groovyArchives – What is an RSS Feed and How or Why Do I Subscribe to them? MrGroove’s Article covers the basics around the Who/What/Why etc....
How to Customize the Windows 8 Update Schedule From the Windows 8 Start Menu or search (Ctrl + W), type: automatic maintenance and click the link from the Settings results. The Action Center for Automatic Maintenance will open up. In this screen, the update schedule can be set to a different time. There’s also a checkbox you can uncheck, so your system doesn’t power on to update. Once set to the desired time, click OK to save changes and exit....
By default, the Windows 8 Bing app displays your last three recent searches. To delete it, bring up the Charms bar while in the Bing app and select Settings. Then click Search History in the Settings list. Here you can turn keeping search history off if you don’t want it to remember it anymore. Or click Clear all to get rid of your recent list. After deleting it, the next time you search, only Popular Now will display and not your history....
Open Internet Explorer and click the Settings icon at the top-right. From the drop-down menu select Internet Options. Internet Options comes up. Click the General tab, then click the Settings button. Uncheck Show previews for individual tabs in the taskbar. Click OK to save changes. Exit and restart Internet Explorer to apply the settings. Presto! No more multi-tab previews. Instead, IE9 will only display a single preview for the tab you have open in IE9....
Beginning with Windows 10 Anniversary Update (version 1607), Microsoft Edge loads a welcome page the first time you launch it. The page shows you new features in the browser as well as tips on how to use it. While this “First Run page” can be helpful to new users, it’s annoying seeing it every time you do a clean install or get a new feature update. Here’s a look at how to stop the welcome page from displaying if you’re running Windows 10 Creators Update (version 1703) or higher....
Editor Note 5/22/2014: Google recently updated Chrome and with the update came a different way to disable the Google Now notifications. If you are still running the previous version of Chrome, follow the instructions further down the list. Update: Chrome 35.0.1916.114 Today I upgraded Chrome to version 35.0.1916.114 and the Google Now notification icon came back. I poked around in Chrome://flags a bit, and realized searching for “enable rich notifications” no longer works because it has been removed....
iStorage diskAshur2 Portable USB 3.1 Hard Drive The 1TB diskAshur2 portable hard drive provides secure AES-XTS 256-bit encryption without the need for a third-party software utility. All data transferred to the drive is encrypted in real-time with the built-in hardware encryption engine. You need to enter your own PIN authentication via the touchpad on the case. It’s compatible with any USB port on a Windows, Linux, and macOS system. These drives are meant for security as well as portability....
Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian You might remember the company did a similar eight-part “making of” documentary for the first season of The Mandalorian. This new Disney Gallery installment sounds just as good and will be airing on Disney Plus just in time for the holidays on December 25th. This is how Disney describes the new season in an announcement: Get Disney Plus In this new installment of “Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian,” filmmakers and cast provide unprecedented access to the storytelling decisions and innovations that went into the second season of the Emmy Award-winning series....
Favorites and Collections In iOS 13 (and iPadOS 13 for iPad), Apple has added the ability to create favorites and collections in the official Maps app. Favorites are often-visited spots such as your business, local shopping center or restaurant, or residence. Favorites spots are identified in the Maps app with travel time to that location and suggested routes. Collections, by contrast, are for travel planners who want to learn more about a city....
