Despite its wide use, Gmail lacks a few capabilities you’d expect in competing platforms such as Outlook.com or Zoho Mail. Anyone who’s used it to merge emails, coordinate meetings or manage contacts would have found the experience a bit unsatisfactory. And that’s just putting it mildly; it’s quite complicated to extract the full set of features promised by Gmail. Many useful productivity functions are either buried deep in labels or are only available with GSuite apps....

Sharp observers may have noticed that most notices don’t give you any other option anyway. There’s not usually a cookie-free version of the site or an item-by-item menu where you can adjust your preferences. In a word, your clicks on simple“cookie disclaimer” boxes don’t actually do much. That might change in the future, though, as active “cookie consent” forms are now the EU’s legal standard. What are cookies, and why are we worried about them?...

If this has happened to you, you might be surprised to learn that you were using the exact same network as you were before. There’s a high chance the provider you swapped to used the same infrastructure as the one you just left. This is the case of “piggybacking” mobile networks, where you may have less choice with coverage than you may first think. What Is Piggybacking? Mobile Network Operators Let’s say a country has three competing mobile companies, creatively named Alpha, Beta, and Charlie....

What Is AppImage? On Windows, you can download a ZIP archive, extract the contents to a directory, and run the application within, without having to install it. This is called a portable app because you can copy it to a USB stick and then run it on any computer that uses the Windows operating system. An AppImage, though technically constructed in a different way, works the same from the user’s perspective....

What Is Chrome Helper? Remember the last time you used Chrome, and it sounded like an airplane about to take off. That moment in time is likely due to Chrome Helper. Think of Chrome Helper as something Google added to the browser to grab content from a variety of browser plugins and to help it run more smoothly. For example, when you open a website that has embedded video, Chrome will load all of the HTML content first....

What Is Google Widevine DRM? Google Widevine is a digital rights management (DRM) service used to help protect online content from piracy. It’s used by a wide variety of popular streaming services to prevent users from downloading or copying their TV shows and movies. While some services support other types of DRM tools, some only support Widevine. It’s built in to many Android devices and Chromium-based browsers, meaning it’s already installed....

What is DLSS and how does it work? In short, DLSS lets you run games at higher resolutions and higher framerates for free. In version 1.0 of DLSS, it took stills of frames of games running at low resolutions and with a lot of aliasing, then used these images to generate high-quality, higher-resolution versions of these images. Finally, it fed the stills and their high-quality counterparts into a supercomputing cluster that trained itself to recognize aliased and low-resolution frames and generate high-quality, high-resolution frames in response....

While Sony has thrown up a few unexpected products in recent years, there’s a very consistent timetable on which they run that makes it easier to predict what’s coming. Though again, Sony does throw a few unexpected curveballs from time-to-time. Here is what we’re expecting Sony to come up with in 2023. WF-1000XM5 true wireless You can set your watch to it. Sony’s flagship true wireless/over-ears are on a two-year cycle....

You can also save some serious cash, especially if you’re overseas. You won’t have to deal with roaming or those annoying international charges that are usually ridiculously high. There are other benefits to WiFi calling as well. Once you discover what they are, you’ll wonder how you ever did without it. What is WiFi Calling? WiFi calling is just what the name indicates, but it doesn’t require any special logins or apps....

What is a super app? Find out here. Microsoft’s Vision for WeChat-Like App Once you talk mobile, it’s either Apple or Google – they have the market wrapped up, though others have tried to take a chunk out of the narrow market share. While Apple and Google do have a rivalry, they also have agreements in place, leaving room for no one else. Perhaps the biggest agreement between the two tech leaders is the one that puts Google Search as the default search engine on iPhones....

The Great Dinosaur In the digital world, where people use the Internet as their main source of communication, public switched telephone networks (PTSNs) have long been forgotten in favor of the speed and versatility of fiber-optic lines. However, a long time ago, the Internet ran on the same 4-pin RJ11 cables that people used to connect their land lines. The question on all of our minds is “Why did the Internet allow us back then to go to sites in locations vastly remote to ours at no extra cost, yet we were stuck having to pay up to 25 cents per minute to call family members abroad?...

So what’s a high fidelity-loving media connoisseur going to do? The answer lies in an unlikely place, especially if you’re not a fan of video games. Microsoft’s Xbox One is the best bang for your buck media player available right now. Microsoft always intended for the Xbox One to be a gaming/multimedia center. Even though early adopters can still remember the sting of less than stellar performance at launch, Microsoft has since ironed out the kinks....

If you’re still not convinced, here are a few reasons why you should use Linux (or any other Unix, including the BSDs) to learn how to program. It’s Free Linux is best known for the fact that all the distributions and most of the software is available free of charge. While Microsoft and Apple development tools can cost upwards of hundreds of dollars, Linux, since its user base is comprised of a lot of developers, has lots of programming tools available for free....

We have found eight of them which should make your WordPress dashboard much more useful and organised. 1. Client Dash Client Dash helps you customize the WordPress admin experience for you or your clients. You are provided with a drag-and-drop system that allows you to reorganize, remove or add new items to the menu on the left-hand side. You can also choose to display or hide items on the menu from other users according to their user roles....

Towards the end of July 2016, UK Lord Justice Briggs put forth a proposal that included several justice reforms, one of which was the establishment of an online court for claims totaling up to 25,000 British pounds. Is this an ultimately beneficial proposal or an idea that would spell disaster for the country? The Anonymous Elephant in The Room Anyone who has spent more than fifteen minutes on the Internet can tell you that it’s full of usernames and avatars....

We wondered, though, if it’s worth it. Is it worth doing something considered so dastardly to make that kind of money? We posed this question to our writers, many of whom have the technical knowledge to actually be a hacker, “Would you consider being a hacker if you could make a huge salary?” Our Opinion For the most part, ethics came into play. None of our writers reported that they would do hacking for illegal or nefarious purposes....

ZeroPC is one such online desktop that aims to replace your computer desktop. It comes with a variety of (web) applications to help you stay productive and allows you to connect to your social accounts (such as Dropbox, box.net, Sugarsync etc) so all your online files are readily available. Familiar User-interface Once you have created an account and logged in, you will be greeted with a Windows-style interface. Doesn’t matter if you are from a Windows, Mac or Linux background, the user-interface will be too familiar to you, and that is good because you can start using it immediately....

Warning: messing with the registry could corrupt your Windows. It is recommended that you follow the instructions precisely and don’t mess around if you don’t know what you are doing. Just to be safe, create a backup of your registry before making any changes. Accessing the Windows Registry As all the tweaks require a trip to the Windows Registry, it is important to know how to access the Registry. Press the Win + R keys and type regedit in the “Run” dialog that opens....

1. Personal Library Think of Personal Library as, well, your virtual personal library. The app helps you document all of the books on your bookshelves. You can do so manually, adding in the title, author, publisher, and whatever other information you would like to remember, such as whether a book is in paperback or hardcover. Alternatively, you can scan the ISBN. Once everything’s added, you can browse manually or search for specific titles....

How to Find the CSS file of your blog template If your blog is on WordPress then the CSS file is placed ideally in the themes folder under wp-content/themes/yourtheme. To know the exact location, open your blog and check the page source. You will find a link to the CSS of your theme as shown below If your blog is on Blogger, open the Blogger dashboard and go to the “Layout” tab....