However, Fast Company has decided Apple is the World’s Most Innovative Company for 2018, and that’s thanks to AirPods, ARKit, and iPhone X, when none of these seem to have taken the world by storm. We asked some of our writers, “Do you think Apple can still be considered the most innovative?” Our Opinion Miguel answers “not by much.” He sees Apple as a definite “force to be reckoned with” yet doesn’t feel they’ve done anything real game-changing in the last few years, finding that their peak moment was with the iPhone phenomenon....

They’re still an electronic device, and because you need to be able to converse with them, they have speakers and microphones. But that means potentially they can hear what you’re saying even when you’re not talking to them. Additionally, sometimes they may have unexpected situations, like with the HomePod, as it will allow just anyone to listen to your text messages. We asked our writers, “Do you think smart speakers can be trusted?...

Feedspot has taken its time coming to market and, in so doing, has created a service that seems truly ready to step in and take over for what is lost. Getting Started While there are many alternatives, Feedspot attempts to come fairly close to the design of Google Reader, while adding a number of new features to modernize what had become a rather dated service. Upon your first visit to the site, you will find that you can sign up for an account in any of several ways – traditionally (with an email) or using a Twitter, Facebook or Google+ account....

What if there’s a need to access the Internet when your system is running in command line mode? Are there any tools that let you quickly browse the Web from the command line? Thankfully, the answer is yes, with one such tool being the Lynx Web browser, and we’ll be discussing it in this article. Lynx While its official documentation describes it as a “WWW client for users running cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices,” Lynx – in layman’s terms – is an open source Web browser that lets you access websites from the command line....

Much to my surprise, setting up Samba in KDE was a cinch, and Boxee, the media center application on my TV, recognized the shares immediately. To get started with Samba, you need to install two packages: samba and kdenetwork-filesharing. In most distributions, all other necessary packages will be installed along with those. To install in Kubuntu, use your graphical package installer of choice or type the following from within Konsole: To configure Samba shares in KDE:...

The latest version of elementary os (Luna) is based on Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS) and it has taken over 2 years of heavy development to get to the stable final release. Much effort has been put in to ensure that it is both elegant and user-friendly. Elementary OS doesn’t promote itself as a Linux distro. In fact, if you visit its homepage, you will only find the mention of “Linux” at the very end of the page and it is only mentioned once....

Some tools can help you download torrent in these unfortunate scenarios, and one of the best alternatives is FileStream.me. Download, Store, and Stream You need to register before you can use the FileStream.me service. The service has just launched its new version. Currently there are two versions of Filestrem.me that you can use: the classic one and the new one. Both have similar features, but the new one comes with a more modern and intuitive interface....

Udemy is an online marketplace where you can sign up for online courses at a low price and/or create your own courses and sell them to the public. All the courses are web-based and you can attend the course at your own pace, when you are free or when you feel like it. Go over to Udemy.com and sign up for an account. After you have created an account, you can start to browse the various courses and sign up for those that you have interests in....

Also, before going through this article, remember that on a very low-end machine, Chrome probably wasn’t going to run well anyway. If you’ve never experienced good performance in Chrome, you may want to consider switching to a lighter browser. Diagnosing Performance The immediate way to start earnestly diagnosing your performance is to open up Chrome’s Task Manager. That can be done with a quick “Shift + Esc” keyboard shortcut. Now that you’ve opened the task manager, you can determine what tabs, extensions and plugins are using the most memory and CPU....

The gaming industry grows at a rate of about three to five percent each year. Despite this growth, wearables designed specifically for gamers are still relatively hard to come by when compared to the high accessibility of devices like FitBits and notification bracelets. Fortunately, the gaming industry is catching up in the wearable world with the release of several wearable devices specifically for gaming use. Here are four high-tech wearables for gamers looking to take their favorite games on the go....

While a MEL Science subscription will normally cost you £538.80 per year, this fantastic Black Friday deal will see you save 50%, taking the price down to a more affordable £269.40 for the first year when using the code TRUSTYEAR at checkout. There are plenty more Black Friday deals to check out too, as we’ve rounded up the most impressive discounts in our Best Black Friday Deals guide. By clicking the link you can check out our top recommended offers for the likes of smartphones, laptops, televisions, headphones and more....

This guide will help you do things such as get a refund on an app, set a parental lock, search for appa by the developer, and more. 1. Recovering Uninstalled Apps Recovering an uninstalled app is easier than you think. To get an app back, open Google Play and tap on the hamburger icon. Select “My app & games” and go to the Library tab. That’s where you’re going to see all the apps you’ve previously installed....

Let’s open the hood on GPS and see how it works. How GPS Finds You Let’s say you’re hiking in the woods when you get lost. That’s alright, though: you had the smarts to download the official app for these woods. The app claims to help you find your way, no matter where you are. The way the app does this is via five beacons set up around the forest: one in each corner and one right in the middle....

With such sensitive information on the line, the stakes are obviously high. Sadly, as dangerous as they are, phishing attacks are common – very common. The 2012 RSA online fraud report indicates that there is an average of 33,000 phishing attacks each month; and these are just the ones reported. Because phishing attacks are so dangerous and prevalent, it is definitely important to protect yourself from them. This guide shows you how phishing attacks work and how to protect yourselves from them....

Trick 1 : Follow the steps below to tweak your Windows XP : Go to START -> RUN, Or simply press Windows key + R. Type in “cmd” in the RUN window. In the Command Prompt type “gpedit.msc” & hit enter. Now the Group Policy window will open. In the left pane, select the Administrative Templates under User Configuration. Now in the right pane, double-click the Windows Components & then Windows Explorer....

Thanks to the Interplanetary File System, the very real, surprisingly easy-to-use system just might be our key to a faster, more democratic Internet. As described above, the basic idea is that user devices will store, index, and deliver the data that currently lives on centralized servers. If that sounds a bit like cryptocurrency, you’re not wrong – the man behind the project, Juan Benet, has described IPFS as “In a sense, doing to websites… what Bitcoin did to money....

There are a few different ways to enable dark mode in Chrome, though weirdly it’s not quite as simple and obvious as it should be. Here’s how to do it. Enable Chrome Dark Mode in Desktop Whether you’re using Windows or macOS, the simplest – though not most effective – way of enabling dark mode in Google Chrome is to do it through your desktop. Note that this method will enable dark mode in all windows on your computer, not just Chrome, and it will only change the Chrome window into dark mode, not actual online content....

The Unread Count feature used to be an experimental feature in the Gmail Labs settings. After Google retired Gmail Labs, the Unread Count feature was promoted to be part of Gmail’s main settings. Enable Unread Count in Gmail Favicon Log in to your Gmail account. Click the Gear icon on the top-right side of the screen. A Quick Settings box will show up. Click on the “see all settings” button....

But why reboot in the first place? Everything seems to be working fine after an apt-get upgrade command. However, things are not always as they seem. Even though the system happily continues to run after every upgrade, not forcing a reboot like Windows does, it might still need one. For example, when a vulnerability in the core of the system (kernel) is discovered, it is patched and pushed to your server as a new package....

There are a few different ways to make this happen, but OpenMediaVault (OMV) and Samba are by far the two most popular. Here, we’re going to use Samba, mainly because you can run it on your current Raspbian install, whereas OMV replaces the main operating system and prevents you from using the Pi for anything else. OMV has many more features, though, most notably the ability to easily access files from external networks....