Mesh Wi-Fi systems have been around for a few years now, offering whole-home coverage without the complications or downsides of using range extenders and powerlines. Since their inception, they’ve increasingly become better, offering reliable, consistent coverage across the entire home by creating one single, wide network using multiple routers or nodes. One of the top offerings comes from Amazon’s Eero brand, in the form of the Eero Pro 6E mesh Wi-Fi. It supports Wi-Fi 6E – the latest low latency wireless band – which promises to deliver a speedy and responsive connection to all devices that support it. While those are a bit thin on the ground, the adoption of...
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While modern open source code editors have taken the programming world by storm, Linux command line is still ruled by a selected set of text editors. Popular command line editors like Vim and Emacs are also infamous for their weird keyboard shortcuts. There are several jokes about those weird keyboard shortcuts in the programming world. Exiting Vim is perhaps the most common of them all. Here’s an example. Micro is a modern terminal-based text editor that attempts to take the pain of keyboard shortcuts and provide popular shortcuts as well as mouse supports. Micro is made with the GO Programming Language. It’s actively being developed by Zachary Yedidia and many...
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SpiralLinux is a new entrant in the world of desktop-focused Linux distributions. It is based on Debian Linux and created by the unnamed developer of GeckoLinux. Gecko what? GeckoLinux is a derivative of openSUSE and focuses on providing out-of-the-box usability to desktop users. The aim for SpiralLinux is also the same. Provide an out-of-the-box usable Debian experience to desktop users. Is Debian really that complex? While Debian is considered the most stable distro, the vanilla Debian often overwhelms new users with multiple download options. The focus on FOSS-only software by default policy also makes things difficult for beginners. It requires various tweaks after the first boot to make it useful....
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Xbox has a lot of popularity among gamers and their communities. There are many games that you can play on Xbox for free and subscriptions. As Xbox is available for both PC as an app and as consoles, there is no dearth of its availability and developments on it. New games, updates, and features are rolled out frequently to hook gamers and other users to it. Some users are facing issues while making payments on Xbox. They see an error code with code 8004AD43 while making payments. In this guide, we have a few solutions that can help you fix the issue and buy your favorite games or features. What...
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Google has announced that it will be improving its Classroom offering, bringing more tools and better integration to its service. Google Classroom add-ons will allow educators to better take advantage of tools, making it even easier to teach in a digital environment. Prior to the world changing, cloud-based video conferencing platforms like Zoom weren’t that big of a deal. Today, things are different, with large offices, schools, small businesses, and even friends and family huddling together interacting screen to screen. So it only make sense that companies would invest more so that platforms can evolve. In order to accomplish this massive and ambitious integration, Google partnered with 18 companies so...
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Everyone has a game inside them waiting to come out, just like a chestburster. Unfortunately, not everyone has the skills to create a game, especially one complete with graphics. Thankfully, there is a way to create a fun game using only words. Let me share an application that could help you with it. What is Twine? Twine story list As I alluded to above, Twine allows anyone to create a game without needing to know how to write code. Remember those Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books? That’s essentially how Twine works. You create a series of passages, which can be one sentence or a wall of text. You named each of these...
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Starting with Windows 10, the taskbar has a search box pinned by default and it allows users to search for their local files or folders easily, but it’s not all that fast compared to directly searching in File Explorer or using a third-party alternative like “Everything”. In fact, Microsoft’s own PowerToys Run utility is faster than Windows Search. Now, Microsoft is speeding things up with Windows 11 Build 22557 in the Dev Channel of insiders program. Windows Search is still placed directly on your taskbar and there are no changes to its interface, but you will notice that search results now appear faster than before. The process takes barely a...
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Highlights Google is ending sign-in support for very old versions of Android This is being done to protect users’ account privacy Users with active Android 2.3.7 and older devices won’t be able to sign in to your account on Gmail, YouTube, and other Google apps Google is forcing users to upgrade their old Android devices, in a way at least. The Mountain View company will soon end support for devices running an almost the decade-old Android 2.3.7 and older versions; that covers Android 1.0, 1.1 (unnamed), 1.5 Cupcake, 1.6 Donut, 2.0 Eclair, 2.2 Froyo, and 2.3 Gingerbread. In an email sent to people still these dated devices, Google said that...
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So, you’ve settled on a Dell laptop. But which one is best for you? When you look at the best Windows laptops you’ll always see Dell somewhere on the list. Alienware, XPS, Inspiron, Latitude, and Precision are all names you’ll come across when you’re hunting for the best Dell laptop. Generally speaking, the first three are the consumer brands, Latitude is for the business crowd, and the Precision lineup is for the mobile professional, designers or programmers for example, with high-end workstation components. While the last two listed have a very definite target audience, there’s a little crossover between the rest. Alienware is traditionally for gamers, XPS is for the...
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Square, which offers the Cash person-to-person digital payments app as well as the Square credit card reader and point-of-sale system, is now eyeing bitcoin hardware wallets as its next venture. Square’s hardware lead, Jesse Dorogusker, announced the news via Twitter on 8 July 2021. He said the company has “decided to build a hardware wallet and service to make bitcoin custody more mainstream”. The executive added: “We’ll continue to ask and answer questions in the open. This community’s response to our thread about this project has been awesome – encouraging, generous, collaborative, and inspiring.” We have decided to build a hardware wallet and service to make bitcoin custody more mainstream....
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