The following shows the steps to diagnose your seemingly dead Android phone to see if you can fix it on your own or if you should seek professional help (for your phone, not your panic attacks, although, hey, that is also a valid option). 1. Charge Your Phone This might sound obvious, but it is a surprisingly common occurrence to have your phone’s battery run out without your knowledge and get worried when the device shuts down....

1. Andromo Andromo is the most popular Android app-maker platform. It only requires three steps to create your own app: Unlike many of the other app builders, Andromo does not have a preview screen for you to see what your app will look like while adding items or changing formatting. After you create your app, they will email it to you. They do not support uploading the app to the Play store....

The following Chrome extensions will help you personalize and improve Google Calendar. You can finally change the calendar function to reflect how you would like to use it. 1. Google Calendar The most important extension you should install on your browser is Google Calendar itself. With this extension Google Calendar will be one click away. The Google Calendar icon can tell you what you have to do today and tomorrow....

Installing a new Brush All the following brushes will include links for download. Where you place them depends on your OS, but some are as follows: Windows 7: C:\Users(username).gimp-(version)\brushes Windows XP: C:\Document and Settings(username).gimp-(version)\brushes Linux: /home/(username)/.gimp-(version)/brushes Mac OSX: /Users/(username)/.gimp-(version)/brushes/ If the brush came in a ZIP file, you’ll need to extract it and place the brush folder in the appropriate location as shown above. 1. Vector Foliage This lovely brush pack includes several plant-themed brushes capable of scaling to higher resolutions....

1. The Walking Dead: Dead Yourself Availability: iOS, Android If you want to give your friends and family a nasty surprise, why not take a photo of them through this app, then say “Hang on, something’s wrong” and show them a picture of their rotten zombified face? Yes, this official Walking Dead app gives you all the tools you need to turn you friends and loved ones into a shambling horde of brainless zombies....

Is It Legal to Download YouTube Videos? Downloading from YouTube is very easy and widely prevalent, with hundreds of sites and apps providing this service. Millions of users are doing it on a daily basis anyway. Does that make it legal? Technically, no. If you look at the YouTube Terms of Service (ToS), it clearly states that you’re not allowed to “access, reproduce, download, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license, alter, modify or otherwise use any part of the Service or any Content except: (a) as expressly authorized by the Service; or (b) with prior written permission from YouTube and, if applicable, the respective rights holders....

To give you a hand with that, we’ve put together a list of highly optimized programs that have no problem letting you view very large text, image, Excel, and video files. The Best Programs to Help You Handle Large Files For the purposes of this tutorial, we used a laptop running a Windows 11 virtual machine with a 3.2 GHz CPU (4 cores), 8GB of RAM, and an SSD. We chose a moderately specced computer with only 8GB of RAM to test how these programs fared with less power....

What the Difference? Firefox is an open-source browser designed for everyone, from power users to your grandma. The Mozilla Foundation, which runs Firefox’s development, is dedicated to providing an alternative to the telemetrics and analytics of the modern-day Internet. Their goal with Firefox has always been to provide a private, secure, and usable browser with wide post-install configuration options for a huge variety of deployments and uses. For the standard user, most upgrades to security and privacy come free....

Before we go further, let’s have a look at some examples: Smashing Magazine Author Box This is how the author box looks in the popular design blog Smashing Magazine. The byline of an article shows the name of the author, profile image, description, blog URL and a link to author’s Twitter account. ProBlogDesign Author Box The author box at Problogdesign looks very impressive. The author Gravatar and description is shown in the left column while the right column shows social bookmarking buttons....

AKASO Brave 7 LE is an upgrade over its previous Brave 6 Plus. Functionally, they are similar. The biggest difference between the two models is the addition of a front screen for you to take selfies easily. AKASO Brave 7 LE Measuring at 64mm x 43mm x 26mm, it is about the same size as a GoPro action camera. Coupled with a waterproof casing and plenty of accessories, it is easy to bring (or mount) it everywhere you go....

This large, but still very portable, speaker has now been reduced by £100 for Cyber Monday – that means it is £299, rather than £399. 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. The Move is the larger of the two portable speakers Sonos sells, pumping up far louder sound than the dinky Roam....

While this can make your Android home screen one-of-a-kind, you may want to share your home screen configuration with a friend or they with you. Buzz Launcher is a home screen app for Android devices that lets you share your home screen design with others. You can also use some cool-looking designs as a starting point to jump start your creativity. What is Buzz Launcher? Buzz Launcher is a home screen launcher....

As you get more familiar with Autokey, you’ll find that you can do much more with it. You can automate desktop applications to perform the same tedious tasks without your input or even create your own mini-apps. Let’s see how you can use Autokey to automate your daily life with your computer. Installation In this tutorial we are installing and using the application in Ubuntu. The process should be similar in most distributions for which you can find a prepackaged file of the application....

What is a VPN router? The VPN router is just like any router, except that it is connected to a VPN service (or have the ability to connect to VPN) internally. When you connect to the router, either via ethernet or WiFi, you are automatically connected to a VPN network. There is no software to install or configuration to be done on your machine. Everything just work. This is great if you need to access to a VPN connection on multiple devices at your home (or workplace)....

Hasciicam is a small command-line application written in C. It was originally developed by Rastasoft as part of the libre operating system “dyne:bolic”, but you can run it on any Linux operating system as a standalone program. Requirements A GNU/Linux system ASCII Art Library (AAlib) on your system A webcam A remote FTP server Getting Hasciicam Many Linux repositories stock Hasciicam. If yours doesn’t, or if you’d like to build it from source, get it from the dyne....

1. Live Wallpaper: Free Halloween Live Wallpaper Despite their lack of usefulness, live wallpapers are still extremely popular and this Halloween-themed wallpaper has added a great scanner effect. The wallpaper allows you to customise the scanner effect by letting you select the colour, structure, brightness and speed. Additionally, (it is indicated) that the wallpaper does not slow down your phone or excessively consumer your battery. Check out the embedded video for the full effect....

For example, corporate professionals have enough reasons to want to keep their chats private, and that’s exactly the thinking that gave birth to Confide, an ephemeral messaging app aimed at professionals, who can use it to message each other about job references, deal discussions, and other sensitive topics. History Confide is co-founded by Jon Brod, who was a senior executive at AOL, and Howard Lerman, current founder and CEO of Yext....

You will be forwarded to the tool where you can customize your photo collage. In this tool, you can add photos, crop a photo, or delete one. Note: The number of photos that you can add (up to 30 photos) depends on which template you select. You can also choose the background color and/or image for your photo collage. If you want to choose a HTML color that isn’t already listed, then you can always enter the code....

While Mac OS X has the ability to add color labels to your folders (right-click a folder and choose a label), there’s no internal way to change the actual color of your folders. However, the Folder Magic app changes all of that in a snap; it’s the perfect tool to help you make custom folders for your Mac to change and brighten up the more traditional folders. Using Folder Magic Download Folder Magic from the Mac App Store....

The Black Friday sale has come and gone, which means we’re now on Cyber Monday, marking the end of one of the biggest sales of the year. We’ve still been hunting for the best deals in the meantime, and now we’ve stumbled across this great offer on the Xbox Series S, which comes bundled with an Xbox wireless controller for just £224 – a saving of £75. If you’re in the market for even more great bargains before the sale comes to a close, make sure to check out our best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals round-up, as we will be updating it with all the fantastic final deals on the market....