A personalized wallpaper goes very well with custom app icons and custom widgets. You don’t have to be a designer to create your own solid or gradient color wallpaper. All it takes is the Shortcuts app on your iPhone and iPad. Using the MacStories WallCreator Shortcut, you can generate solid […]
Set-top boxes and smart TVs are only as good as the apps you can use. Android TV has a large library of streaming services and games that you can enjoy on your big screen. Installing them is as easy as visiting the Google Play Store. Install an app on your […]
Miguel Lagoa / Shutterstock PC gamers have enjoyed Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) games for years. Finally, Sony and Microsoft are bringing VRR to your living room with their next-gen consoles. So what is VRR, how does it work and will you need it a new tv to use it? Why […]
AMD Here we go again! AMD Zen processors already have the reputation of being the best performers in terms of multi-threaded application performance and productivity. Now, the chipmaker is monitoring Intel’s long-standing dominance in PC gaming. Consider Zen 3 before building this gaming PC AMD’s attack takes the form of […]
Riyard Ramnath / Shutterstock.com Windows 10 has a lot of overlapping version numbers and names. For example, the October 2020 update is also referred to as 20H2, version 2009 and build 19042. It often appears that different teams at Microsoft speak different languages. Here’s how to decode Microsoft jargon. The […]
Ubuntu 20.10 “Groovy Gorilla” is here! Released October 22, 2020, the Gorilla is all about minor tweaks, rather than breakthrough new features. As a draft version, it also does not enjoy long term support. So, is it worth the upgrade? Evolution, not revolution The Groovy Gorilla has hit the streets […]
Take a look at your keyboard and you’ll probably see a few keys you never use in the upper right corner: Sys Rq, Scroll Lock, and Pause / Break. Have you ever wondered what these keys are for? Although these keys have been removed from some computer keyboards today, they […]
Shutterstock / David Orcea Generating random numbers in bash seems easy to do using the $ RANDOM variable, but is the variable really that random? Find out what can keep you from generating high quality random numbers, and more! Random numbers at terminal It seems simple to generate a random […]