Continuity Camera makes performing this task easy, and it integrates directly into your workflow, snapping the image right from an application or the Finder itself with an immediate import. This article will show you how to use Continuity Camera on your Mac and iPhone/iPad. Note: To use Continuity Camera, your Mac should be running macOS 10.14 Mojave or later, and your iPhone must be running iOS 12 or later. Both devices should be connected to the same Wi-Fi network, and Bluetooth should be enabled....

Click in a text area – wherever you’d like to insert an Emoji character. For instance, you may want to include one in a tweet via the Notification Center. Press the following keys on your keyboard altogether: Control + Command + Spacebar. You should now see small window pop-up containing Emoji characters. Much like on a mobile device, you can switch between people, nature, objects, places, symbols, and more; plus you can access your recently used and favorite Emoji characters....

How Google Reply Makes Messaging Easier When you receive a message in one of your messaging apps, Reply formulates and displays appropriate replies that you can send with just a tap of the screen. You won’t even need to open the app to respond. Simply tap the answer you want to send from the notifications screen. Reply also has autoresponders that can send a message to someone without you even touching your phone....

Homebrew is now available for Linux users as well as Windows users thanks to the Windows Subsystem for Linux. There’s one key difference, though: the name. On Linux systems, the app is known as Linuxbrew. Why use Homebrew instead of your distro’s package manager? There are a few reasons you might want to opt to use Linuxbrew instead of your system’s standard package manager. First, you don’t need to use the sudo command to install packages....

netcat, the so-called “TCP/IP swiss army knife,” can be used as an ad-hoc solution for transferring files through local networks or the Internet. It’s also useful for transferring data to/from your virtual machines or containers when they don’t include the feature out of the box. You can even use it as a copy-paste mechanism between two devices. How to Install netcat on Various Linux Distributions Most Linux-based operating systems come with this pre-installed....

In this article, we see how the band The Sinatra Test created a cover for its forthcoming album which creates a unique version for every user via a Mac app distributed with the music. Album Cover Generator For their forthcoming album “ambientertainment,” The Sinatra Test wanted to have a cover design that reflected the generated nature of the music on the album. Processing offered a simple and easy to learn method to do just that....

What Is Spotify Blend? Spotify recently rolled out Blend alongside “Only You” – a new in-app experience featuring listening statistics and personalized playlists. The feature shows individual stats, such as “Your artist pairs,” that highlights the range of your listening interests, or “Your Genres/Topics,” which brings home the unique combination of music and podcast genres that defines your listening experience. Blend, on the other hand, taps on the all-too-human desire to share our favorite tracks with our closest friends and family....

Installing Vimium Install Vimium on Chrome To install Vimium on Chrome, or any other Chromium-based browser like Brave, go to the Vimium page on the Chrome Webstore and select “Add to Chrome,” opening a pop-up window. Select “Add extension” to add it to Chrome. Install Vimium on Firefox You can add Vimium-FF, a Vimium port for Firefox, from the Vimium-FF page on the Firefox browser ADD-ONS website. On the Vimium-FF page, select “Add to Firefox....

Location services for remote areas around the world were too complicated using these long chains of numbers, so he and Mohan Ganesalingam developed the idea for a new addressing system called What3Words. Today people are finding more revolutionary uses for the technology. What is What3Words? The What3Words system divides the globe into a grid with fifty-seven trillion squares measuring three meters on each side. It encodes geographic coordinates into three English words for each three-meter square....

Here to tidy up that situation and provide a neater way of using those Google service is a tool called “Integrated Gmail”. Introduction Integrated Gmail (IG) is a browser add-on for Mozilla Firefox. The add-on supports Firefox versions 3.0 onwards. The function of IG is to provide all the Google applications under one interface and make them accessible through Gmail. Thus all you have to do is sign into your Gmail account in Firefox; other services will be opened within Gmail without opening new browser tabs....

User Interface The first thing you see as soon as you install Microsoft Edge is the user interface. Fortunately, it doesn’t deviate all that far from the likes of Chrome. The omnibox doubles as a search bar and place to enter website addresses. You can see shortcuts to all of your extensions directly to the right of the bar, while options for home, refresh and back and forward are all right where they should be....

1. RiteTag With RiteTag you’ll never use the wrong hashtag. It shows the most popular hashtags and categorizes them to help you decide which to use (“hot now” and “long life” are good choices, “overused” not so much). You can get detailed hashtag analytics and group selected hashtags to compare their performance. RiteTag can show you the newest tweets for a selected tag and alert you when new hashtags appear for your topic....

Introduction It can be difficult to know where to put everything on your desk, especially if you don’t have much space or if you want to use a multi-monitor setup. But the innovative LG Ergo Dual 27QP88D can make your life easier. Ease open its sizable box and you’ll find two 27-inch displays and a sturdy dual-screen arm that can position the panels at every angle imaginable. It’s an impressive bit of kit, especially considering that its pricing of £549/$666/€699 doesn’t have to break the bank....

The PC giant says the update is causing users to “experience lower than expected performance or stuttering” and it is working on a resolution in an upcoming release. In a post on the official bug tracker for Windows 11 (via PC Mag), the company says “affected games and apps are inadvertently enabling GPU performance debugging features not meant to be used by consumers.” Effectively, that means Microsoft has to get a handle on a rogue feature that’s acting out of turn....

Overall… From what I’ve seen, it’s not really that bad. I mean it. The tablet sports a nice wide 10.6″ screen. It is composed of a lightweight material, and doesn’t have that iffy “Microsoft” feel to it. I didn’t expect the Microsoft Surface tablet to be this impressive, but it certainly swept me off the ground with its integral capacities, ease of use, lightweight material choices, sensor integration, and angular design....

Why did emoticons falter while emoji have become so popular? We’ll take a quick look at the history of emoji. History Emoji is not an English word, despite sounding similar to “emotion” and “emoticon.” The word is a combination of two Japanese words which can be loosely translated to “picture” and “character.” In addition to being a little bit of etymological trivia, it also perfectly explains the purpose of emoji....

In this article we’ll tackle just what happens when you install a program. We’ve already looked at the two main distribution methods for software on Windows as well as portable software if you want further reading material. For this article, we’re looking at how Windows handles software installation. Opening the Installer When you open the program’s installer, it will not change anything without your input. From Vista onwards, Windows requires administrative approval in order to run an ....

Note: This tutorial is done on Ubuntu, but it will work on any Linux distro, and even on Mac. The way to do this is very simple. All we need to do is to create a bash script that opens these applications simultaneously. This can be easily achieved with the command “&” Open gedit (or any other text editor). Paste the following commands: Replace “application1”, “application2” etc. with the name of the application that you want to launch....

The Oppo Find N2 is the expected follow-up to the Oppo Find N, a full-sized foldable in the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 mould. The Oppo Find N2 Flip, however, is the company’s first attempt at a Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4-like compact foldable. Starting with the Oppo Find N2, it offers the company’s second generation Flexion Hinge, which uses carbon fibre and high-strength alloy used in aviation. Oppo claims that it’s thinner, lighter, and smarter than before, with an “almost invisible” crease line that’s 67% narrower....

Installation From the get-go, it’s apparent this is not a distro for novices. For instance, the homepage gives a terminal command to transfer the ISO image onto a USB flash drive rather than recommending a graphical program. Whatever ISO format it uses is weird and wouldn’t work properly with several USB boot creators, though Etcher got it working in the end. Once running, the installer is quite different than any Ubuntu derivatives....