With that sort of market-defining power, designing for Chrome has become a priority. The same goes for extensions: Chrome offers the largest user base for extensions by far, with tens of thousands of extensions, themes and apps populating the Chrome Web Store. If you want to cash in on the trend, you can build your own basic Chrome extension. You’ll just need some basic web development skills (HTML, CSS and Javascript) as well as a teaspoonful of JSON to tie it all together....

Note: While this article deals with Ubuntu, it should work for any other distro as well. 1. Unlearn and Re-learn If you are coming from the Windows or Mac background, you will find that the architecture and user interface is totally different in Ubuntu. You can’t just click on .exe file, or drag the dmg file to your application folder, and expect it to install. Therefore, the first thing you should do is to unlearn all the things you know about previous OS and relearn everything about Ubuntu....

Where They Are Similar The two iPad Pro models might look very different, but they have more in common than you might think. Here’s a quick rundown of the features both iPads share: Compatibility with Magic Keyboard, Smart Keyboard Folio and the Apple Pencil (second generation)10-hour battery lifeFaceID enabled by TrueDepth cameraSame industrial design identified by flat edgesLiquid Retina display with 264ppi, True Tone, anti-reflective-coating, etc. 4K video recording from 24-60fps and 1080p at 25-60fps, slow-mo video support, time-lapse video with stabilizationTrue-Depth front-facing camera with Retina Flash, Portrait Mode, 1080p video recording at 25-60fps, Animoji and MemojiWi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5....

Iron browser is developed by a German software company SRWare. It is based on the open source Chromium source code and has the same feature as Chrome. What makes it different is that all the privacy features, such as Client ID, Google update, Google suggest are stripped off and it is able to provide a more secure environment for its users. Here is a comparison of both Iron and Chrome’s privacy settings:...

Introduction JBL makes a gazillion headphones and speakers each year. Just recently it announced it had sold 200 million headphones, making the company the numero uno brand in the overall headphone market. The JBL Tour One M2 are the company’s latest flagship over-ears, and in its own words, outperforms its previous headphones. Ticking the requisite boxes for a headphone in 2023, there is adaptive noise cancellation, personalized sound, spatial audio support and long battery life provided in a lightweight design....

Protecting your identity is both more important than ever and more difficult than it has ever been. As technology improves, those who would target you are developing more and more sophisticated tools to help them gain access to aspects of your identity. Fortunately, we have tools to help. Technology doesn’t just help thieves steal your identity, it also helps you protect it. Thanks to IdentityForce and its suite of identity-protection tools, not only can you keep your identity safe, but you can do so without much effort on your part....

What is the easiest way to learn all of the Mac keyboard shortcuts, you ask? For starters, you can use a Mac app called Hotkey EVE. It’s a cool app that will teach you the matching shortcut for any actions that you perform with your trackpad and mouse. For instance, if you use your trackpad or mouse to open a new tab in Google Chrome, EVE will display a notification letting you know the keyboard shortcut for opening new tabs in Chrome....

In this article we look at using the Volumio system to turn your Raspberry Pi into a home hi-fi playing music from memory sticks and Internet radio and streaming music from your desktop Mac or PC. Thank You For The Music Volumio (formerly known as RaspyFi) is a fantastic multi-platform HiFi music player software, which used on the Raspberry Pi, enables playback from USB sticks and NAS or network drives....

Even the most casual of Mac users will need to use Disk Utility at some point. Examples include setting up a backup disk or partitioning an external drive, so knowing the basic ins and outs of the program are beneficiary. This article will define what first aid, partition, erase, restore, mount, and info mean regarding disk utility in macOS. It will also cover some basic uses for each selection and clear up the difference between “restore” and “erase....

Part 1: Setting your iOS device up Part 2: Navigating around in your iOS device. Part 3: Mastering the Settings in your iOS device. The Settings should be your central “Go to” location for setting everything up just the way you want it in iOS. This is true for setting up your device itself, as well as the native apps that are included with iOS, and many times third-party apps as well....

The Problem Let’s say you’re interested in getting a new Internet service. You look at the speeds being offered spy a package that advertises speeds of “up to 50Mbps”. If you purchase this package, how fast do you think your download speeds would be? It’s easy to assume that “Mbps” stands for “megabytes per second” and that if you bought this package, you’d be able to download files at 50MB per second....

Here to solve these problems for people who want to simply share files by letting others view what they upload is a wonderful web service called “Minus”. Introduction Minus is a free to use web service that makes file sharing much easier than it previously was. The site is aimed primarily at people who want to share files that are not extremely large. Minus supports file uploads of 50 MB each for registered users, hence the site is best suits for sharing images, documents, and small videos – not entire movies or CDs....

We were given the opportunity to test one out for review, and I must say I’m pleasantly surprised. Although it’s small in size, it provides very clear and loud sound. Plus, it comes with two cool effects: a super heavy bass effect that vibrates on a flat surface and an internal lighting effect; it’s like having a mini light show inside the speaker. You’ll see what I mean in the short video below....

That’s a £49.01, or a 12%, saving from the RRP and it marks from first hefty discount we’ve spotted on this particular Android phone. The star attraction here is the clever transparent design, which allows a selection of LED lights through. Nothing calls this the Glyph interface, and it combines the lights with notifications on your phone. It’s fun, if a little gimmicky. Don’t completely judge the Nothing Phone (1) on the Glyph though, it’s good elsewhere....

We’re all expecting OnePlus to announce its new flagship phone, the OnePlus 11, over the coming weeks. However, it’s recently emerged that there’ll be a second, more affordable device on offer, the OnePlus 11R. Now, specs and component images for the OnePlus 11R appear to have leaked online, courtesy of MySmartPrice, which claims to have obtained the details from a prototype. As well as a curved display and the brand’s signature alert slider, it’s been claimed that the new phone will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 processor....

openSUSE First Impressions When booting up openSUSE for the first time, at least with the Network Install ISO, I’m very impressed with the guided setup that YaST provides. YaST, or Yet Another Setup Tool, is the hallmark of openSUSE. It allows you to configure and manage your system from a simple graphical interface that takes a lot of the guesswork out of administering your system. I would feel very confident giving YaST to a first-time Linux user and letting them figure it out....

Recoll is a text search tool for Unix and Linux and can find keywords inside documents as well as file names. This make it a perfect tool for you to search and retrieve your files and documents quickly, whenever you need it. The installation is easy. Recoll is available in the Ubuntu repository, so you can install it via the Ubuntu Software Center, click here, or simply type the following command in the terminal: Note: The Recoll version in the repository is not up to date....

What if you need to record your computer screen while using your friend’s laptop that doesn’t have a recording tool installed? If that is the case, you can use YouTube to record your computer screen. Unknown to many, YouTube does have a feature that allows you to record your desktop’s screen. Here’s how to do just that. Record Computer Screen Using YouTube Head to YouTube and log in to your account....

There is a way to reduce the dock clutter. Open the System Preferences and go to the Dock section. Check the box beside “Minimize windows into application icon”. That’s it. Now, when you minimize the window, it will minimize to its own app icon, rather than taking a space in the right side of the dock. To relaunch your application, you just have to click the app icon, or right click on it to select the window (if you have multiple windows of the same app minimized)....

Introduction An upgrade to the existing Ring Spotlight Cam, the new Ring Spotlight Cam Pro takes what was great about the previous product and adds in radar-based 3D Motion Detection to reduce the number of alerts the camera generates. Excellent video quality, a neat app and full integration into the Ring ecosystem make this a brilliant choice for anyone who wants the benefits of a security light and the option to record activity....