We’re rounding up all the best Black Friday deals over the busy shopping days so if you’re not a fan of this saving there’s likely still something to catch your interest. This might not be the latest Versa, however we actually prefer this older model and it’s even more preferable with this price crash. Features here include good battery life, GPS for run tracking and a clear display for checking on your progress throughout the day, Plus you get Fitbit’s strong suite of fitness features....

When we first reviewed the wireless speaker it was priced at £200 but the price subsequently went up to £239 during Covid, so this reduction brings it down to prices we haven’t seen since Black Friday 2021. For more of our best Black Friday deals, check out our page detailing all the latest deals. There’s a reason why we gave this portable wireless speaker five stars irrespective of its price, and that’s because it delivers a fantastic audio performance....

That’s down from the £849 you’d pay if you walked into an Apple Store and picked up the watch. It might not be a huge drop, but if you were going to bag the wearable before Christmas then this gives you some extra money towards another strap or accessory. If this deal isn’t for you, we’ve got a load of other Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals rounded up that might take your fancy....

Note: This guide assumes that you already have access to Android developer options. We also have a quick guide on how to enable developer options in Android if you haven’t already. USB Debugging This is probably the most common reason people need to access their developer options. The “USB debugging” option allows devices connected via USB permission to get information from and send commands to your Android device. You might need it for rooting your phone, using desktop-based Android screen recorders, debugging apps, installing APKs, etc....

Currently, you can grab the stunning laptop for £817.99 – that’s an 18% reduction of the typical £999 price you’ll pay if you went directly to Apple. It’s not often you have the chance to save £181.01 off a MacBook Air M1, so we can’t see this price sticking around for too long. The model in question here packs 8GB RAM, a 256GB SSD for storing your files and, of course, the fabled Apple M1 chipset inside....

So what you do? Simple – you go ahead and disconnect you phone and computer (by disabling KDEConnect). But is it worth disconnecting your devices when all you can do is temporarily disable notifications on your Ubuntu box? You may ask if that is even possible. We say yes. Say hello to NoNotifications – a tool that does it all for you. NoNotifications NoNotifications is a simple indicator for Ubuntu to temporarily suppress notifications of notify-osd (notify-send)....

In the modern digital age, such presentations have fallen out of favor, and commonly people just share photos by posting them on social media or showing them to each other on their phones. But how can you share your photos with older folks in your family who may not have those same tools for sharing? The answer is the clever DVD and video making tools in SmartSHOW 3D that allow you to share slideshows in many different formats....

Desktop twitting has been a rather easy task in Windows and Mac since there are plenty of Twitter client around. In Ubuntu Gutsy, I have found the below few methods to work: Using command line This is the most primitive way, but also the fastest way to post a message on my twitter. Launch your terminal, type in your message and off you go. To enable twitting from command line, you will need to install curl....

Different developers have different approaches to operating system security, from challengingly secure to problematically open. These distinctions often come down to philosophical choices expressed through security policies. You can understand how an OS sees itself, its purpose, and its users by examining how the OS handles security. Highest Security, Lowest Usability: Tails Tails is an extreme take on operating system security. It’s likely the most secure operating system available to the public....

What Is Optimus Optimus is a WordPress plugin (developed by KeyCDN) that optimizes the images that you upload to your site and potentially reduces up to 70%of the image size. When you upload a new image in WordPress, the image will be sent to the Optimus.io server where it will be optimized. The optimized image will then be returned back to your server where it will replace the uploaded file. All these steps are done quietly in the background and happen in real time....

How to Enter a Specific Startup Mode As we mentioned earlier, to enter into any specific mode using any of the key combinations below, you need to first turn on your Mac using the Power button and then immediately press the desired key combination. Recovery Mode Recovery mode lets you access Terminal, repair disks using Disk Utility and reinstall macOS using Recovery mode, which is located on a separate partition on your hard drive....

Wallch is a pretty new wallpaper changer app for Gnome. It has just released version 1.0 of its software days ago. Just like any other wallpaper changing app, it allows you to define a set of wallpapers to be rotated at certain interval. Installing Wallch There is no PPA for Wallch yet, so the next best option is to install via the deb file (unless you love compiling from source)....

How is a neobank different? There are a few things that set neobanks apart from what we’ll call “traditional banks” – large institutions that either work online or through brick and mortar locations. Interface: Traditional banks tend to have physical, Web, and mobile interfaces. Neobanks are almost all exclusively mobile, which may be a dealbreaker if you prefer using your computer to bank. Fees: Since their physical overhead is miniscule and they operate more like a startup than a bank, neobanks generally offer very low account fees....

Our Opinion Videos Let’s tackle videos first and many writers’ favorite, the behemoth that is YouTube. Many people prefer it. Mahesh likes it for the simple reason that it has everything. Charnita and myself agree with him there. Charnita also prefers that because she subscribes to many of the people she watches regularly. I don’t like to go to many different sources, and if you’re going to go to just one, it has to be YouTube....

While it was once a relatively specialized branch of mathematics and computer science, new predictive technologies are more accessible and easily applicable: businesses use it on customers, researchers use it on diseases, advertising agencies use it to target consumers, banks use it to prevent fraud, and the list goes on. So how does predictive analytics really work, what does it predict, and how reliable are its forecasts? How does it work?...

Image recognition Face identification and auto-tagging are only scratching the surface of Facebook’s machine learning capabilities. They’ve actually been using a dataset of 3.5 billion tagged Instagram photos to train their software to identify what’s in a photo, whether it’s a beach (#beachlife!) or a cat (#lolcats). This isn’t just for kicks – not only can it tag and categorize your photos, it can also provide keywords to help describe images to the visually impaired and check for inappropriate/offensive content (even if it does get a bit overzealous sometimes)....

What is a file system? To put it simply, a file system is how a hard drive is able to store, access, and manage files. While different operating systems can run off of the same hard drive, they tend not to share the same file system. Windows users rely on the New Technology File System (NTFS) while Mac OS X currently runs on the HFS+ file system. Btrfs is a file system that is only used in the Linux operating system....

What Is HTTP3 HTTP, or HyperText Transfer Protocol, is the network protocol used by the World Wide Web that lets you open web page links. Its primary purpose is to communicate with a web server. The protocol was developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and it was released to the public in1996. This first version of the protocol was the only version for almost twenty years until the second version, HTTP/2, was released in 2015....

What Is Nohup? nohup is short for “No Hangups.” It’s not a command that you run by itself. nohup is a supplemental command that tells the Linux system not to stop a command once it has started. It’ll keep running until it’s done, even if the user that started it logs out. It serves a somewhat similar purpose to tmux or screen, allowing you to start a process and not worry about whether it’ll finish if you log out or get disconnected from your server....

Mini users love them for the versatility they offer in terms of easily adding components. Minis are also popular for the speed and ease in which many of the versions can be easily upgraded in their RAM and hard drive capacity. Let’s see which Mac Mini models are easy to upgrade, as well as the general process for how to do it in the 2010-2012 range. Is an Upgrade Really Worthwhile?...