Given the rising popularity of grocery delivery, you might be hearing more about community-supported agriculture (CSA) boxes. Not sure what they are? We’ll explain! Read This Article on LifeSavvy › https://bit.ly/2ZmyyRV
If you’ve been waiting for someone to offer competition to LG in the growing OLED TV space, then your prayers have been answered. Vizio announced its first consumer-ready OLED TV back at CES in January, and today it’s announcing that the sets will be available sometime this fall. The best part: the 55-inch model starts at $1300. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3igT131
You can use pandoc on Linux to convert between more than 40 file formats. You can also use it to create a simple docs-as-code system by writing in Markdown, storing in git, and publishing in any of its supported formats. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/2YKHAc2
Apple proudly advertises that its latest and greatest Mac models come with a T2 security chip, but what does it do? And, more importantly, does a T2 chip create more problems than it solves? Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/2Aho9OQ
You might be starting the week in June, but you’ll be ending it in July. That means Netflix releases aplenty. Here’s what you can start binging in July. Read This Article on LifeSavvy › https://bit.ly/31txwGu
Two cops stand at a computer. Before them is a blurry security camera image. “Enhance,” barks the senior officer to the rookie, who presses a few buttons. Suddenly, the image transforms, revealing a critical piece of evidence. But is “enhancing” video footage realistic? Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3ic8Jwd
GarageBand began life on the Mac in 2004 and quickly rose to prominence as a simple yet feature-rich music-making app. Almost two decades later, GarageBand for iPhone and iPad continues to impress. It’s s completely free, totally user-friendly, and offers hours of fun. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/2ZbrmI8
If you watched the 2013 Snowpiercer movie, you might have walked away scratching your head, wondering what the hell you just watched. Many people loved it. Some hated it. Others were convinced it’s a Willy Wonka sequel. Regardless of how you feel about the movie, you should at least consider the show. It’s very different but still quite good. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2CJChB7
One of the headline features of the Nest Hub Max is the built-in camera. With it, the Nest Hub can recognize who you are and surface specific information for your day. Naturally, you can also use it to make Google Duo or Meet video calls, but until now, it was a one-on-one affair only. Now Google is rolling out group calls to the Nest Hub Max. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/31lAH2N
Slack’s notifications can be overwhelming enough during the workday. If you have the weekend off, the last thing you need is notifications arriving on your phone at 9 a.m. on a Saturday morning. Slack finally lets you stop notifications on the weekend—here’s how. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3fXY9qO
Google frequently updates its phone app with new and useful features, and the latest one should be a crowd-pleaser. As spotted by Android Police, Google is working on a verification system that will help you know what business is calling and why. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3eQc2Hi
Zoom is perfect for teachers. It has a large call capacity, robust moderation tools, and customizable video backgrounds. But Google Meet, which is included in G Suite for Education, is launching a grocery list of new features that may help it land a spot as teacher’s pet. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2VpI2dR
The iPhone was designed to work best with Macs, iCloud, and other Apple technologies. However, it can be a great companion for a Windows PC or Chromebook, too. It’s all about finding the right tools to bridge the gap. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3fY4By4
Google collects and remembers information about your activity, including your web, search, and location history. Google now auto-deletes history for new users after 18 months, but it will remember history forever if you previously enabled this feature with the default options. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/2BKLlFG
We’ve all seen it at least once. A piece of news shared on Facebook that hits our feed, except it’s old. Really old. The headline makes it sound recent, but the event happened ages ago, and the article might even be accurate anymore. Facebook wants to stop that, so now it will pop up a warning when you’re about to share old news. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3i2NGMF
If you’ve ever taken a close-up portrait of someone with your smartphone’s wide-angle lens, you might have noticed they look a little . . . off. Maybe their nose seemed a bit big, or their face was just a tad too wide. You weren’t imagining it. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/31fqGnG
Who’s the hardest working robot on Mars? That would be the Curiosity rover, an advanced robot that takes photos of the Martian surface, collects important data, and routinely finds itself stuck in piles of sand. NASA is getting pretty sick of Curiosity’s carelessness, and hopes that you can help teach it some safe driving skills. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3i0XHKj
Last year, Google pushed a new feature that allows users to automatically delete search, location, voice, and YouTube history after 3 or 18 months. Today, that feature is being enabled by default for new users (or users who enable history tracking for the first time). Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2B1j6CF
You might think the biggest announcement of WWDC 2020 is Apple ditching Intel processors in favor of first-party silicon, but you’d be wrong. No, the big news is that iOS and iPadOS 14 will finally let you choose your default browser and email apps. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/31cIq3a
Hey is a new email service from the team behind Basecamp. It’s billed as a fresh take on what email can be—and a way to fix some of the problems with email. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/31jsvzQ
In 2018, Nvidia rolled out its RTX graphics cards, which rocked some killer features for gaming, including ray tracing and mesh shaders. However, Microsoft needed a standard that supported these features on more than just NVIDIA hardware—and it’s here! Called DirectX 12 Ultimate, it arrived on Windows 10 PCs with the May 2020 update. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/2YrNaA1
The Mac is going through another huge CPU switch. By the end of 2020, Apple will release Macs that include “Apple Silicon,” just like iPads and iPhones. Here’s what the end of Intel CPUs means for the future of the Mac. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/2BBWtUU
After scooping up the exclusive rights to streaming titans like Ninja and Shroud, Microsoft Mixer is suddenly shutting its doors. Microsoft will close Mixer on July 22nd and move its existing partners to Facebook Gaming. Big names like Ninja can go wherever they want, and monetized Mixer streamers can join Facebook’s Level Up Program. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2Ys8Ps4
Today at Apple’s yearly Worldwide Developers Conference event, held digitally during the COVID-19 crisis, the company announced the biggest change to its Mac line in over a decade. Beginning this year, Mac laptops and desktops will start running on Apple’s own self-designed chips, based on the same ARM hardware that powers iPhones and iPads. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2YpsSHm
If you have tons of clothing, jewelry, tech, and household gadgets just lying around, or if you’re looking to pick up something new without breaking the bank, these apps make it easy for you to buy and sell used goods. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2YWWv1U
The heat is steadily rising, and if you want to avoid the heat, Netflix is there to help. While the streaming service has its biggest drop at the beginning of the month, there’s still plenty to coming soon. Read This Article on LifeSavvy › https://bit.ly/2NldhSQ
When you delete a file from your computer’s hard drive, it’s never really gone. With enough effort and technical skill, it’s often possible to recover documents and photos previously thought obliterated. These computer forensics are a useful tool for law enforcement, but how do they really work? Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/2V4SGGU
Historical documentaries suck. Not because they’re long and boring, but because they’re too short, too uninformative, and full of lazy storytelling. Crappy documentaries make history feel intangible, as if the past is a fairy tale with a beginning, middle, and end. One of the few exceptions, as far as I can tell, is Ken Burn’s and Lynn Novick’s The Vietnam War. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/314p4x0
Like pilots and NASCAR drivers, astronauts regularly use simulations to practice their job. NASA pioneered the use of Virtul Reality (VR) helmets decades ago, but now, Boeing is pushing the envelope with the first end-to-end VR astronaut training simulator. The simulator will prepare Boeing’s Starliner crew for their 2021 journey to the ISS. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2YU8Ofo
When Stadia launched last year, the only way to access the platform was to buy the Premiere hardware bundle. It includes Stadia’s Wi-Fi controller and the 4K-capable Chromecast Ultra, with three months of Stadia Pro for $130. It wasn’t a bad deal, considering the combined value was $170. Now, it’s slightly better, as the price on the Google Store is down to $100. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3emSyKm
An experimental new website called Keen just slipped its way out of Google’s labs. The AI-driven website, which is developed by Google’s Area 120 team, curates topics based on your hobbies and interests. In short, Keen is similar to Pinterest, except it’s much cleaner and easier to use. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/30ZFlmN
The Google Assistant is a useful tool that allows you to control your smart home, check the weather, and more. Unfortunately, the Assistant might not hear you in a noisy environment or it might activate too easily. The fix is to adjust the “Hey Google” or “OK Google” wake word sensitivity. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/311Y9C8
Apex Legends, a Fortnite-style battle royale shooter from Titanfall developer Respawn, has become a quick hit on PC and consoles. After a fairly subdued free-to-play launch, it’s caught on with players who appreciate the sci-fi setting and class-based, team-focused gameplay. You can play the game on PS4 and Xbox One, but later in the year it’ll hit Nintendo’s Switch, too. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3hF60ey
Zoom provides a way to generate meeting reports of previous meetings. These reports can contain specific information about the participants, as well as results from polling questions. Here’s how to generate meeting reports in Zoom. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/2BjjTyy
After years of speculation and rumor, Chinese tech giant Huawei formally unveiled its Harmony OS operating system in 2019. It’s fair to say that more questions have been raised than answered. How does it work? What problems does it solve? And is it a product of the current feud between Huawei and the U.S. government? Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3ejOiv5
One of my biggest issues with many true wireless earbuds is how thin they can sound. They’ve gotten better over the last few years, but many ‘buds just lack the depth and low end that gives music the fullness we all love to hear. Sony’s Extra Bass true wireless ‘buds look to fix that with, well, extra bass. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2Yf1EmC
Former Review Geek writer Eric Ravenscraft is a big proponent of the streaming shuffle: subscribing to just one service at a time, watching all of its exclusive content, then moving on to another one. It’s a great way to see a bunch of exclusive shows and movies while saving money—remember, that’s supposed to be the point of cord cutting. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3ec7D1m
The fabled “Year of the Linux Desktop” has never materialized, and it likely never will. Does that mean Linux on a desktop PC is irrelevant? Not at all! Desktop Linux is still awesome. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/2YKdMLK
If you want to spend some of your night laughing until you cry, these stand-up comedians will surely do that. There’s a comedian on Netflix for everyone’s taste. These are the 10 best original stand-up comedies you can stream on Netflix right now. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/2Y7gprE
Include captions in your Microsoft Excel graphs to provide rich and meaningful labels. The labels can be used to display extra information that is not plotted on the graph. By linking them to cell values, you can make these captions dynamic. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/2Ch8Xlr
Smart scales have been around for a while, but in order to get a good one with reliable results, you had to spend a pretty penny. Being true to what Wyze does—offer high-quality products at insane prices—the company looks to change that with its Scale. At just $20, it’s an unreal value. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/37DwuIM
Whether you’re doing work, live streaming, or just browsing the web, it’s important to your health to stand up every now and again while you’re at your desk. With these standing desks, you can keep working while you stand. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2UN6fue
Cameo, the service that lets you pay famous people to send you a personalized message, wants to take things a step further. Whereas before you’d submit a script or request and receive back a pre-recorded video, now you can buy a 10-minute Zoom call with your favorite celebrity. But you’ll pay dearly for it. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3d7QILK
Almost three years ago, I donated a kidney to my youngest son. But the journey to get there is a story on its own—from when we found out that his kidneys were failing, to the decision for me to be a living donor, and my training to get in the best shape of my life. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2N5tXhb
Services like Ancestry.com and 23andMe can be like that unmarked vegetable can in the back of your pantry: full of surprises and often not what you were hoping for. Thanks to a recent DNA test, for example, I now know that my dad is not my biological father. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/2YEIOEr
Smart blinds are some of the most luxurious, otherworldly products that you can install in your home. They get more affordable every year, but for now, the best smart blinds will run you anywhere from $300 to $600 per window. And with its new wooden smart blinds, Lutron is absolutely dominating that price bracket. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2ACu5Ca
How many times have you seen someone retweet a story and it was abundantly clear that they only read the headline? I’ve seen it more times than I care to admit (and may have even been guilty of it myself). Now, though, Twitter is testing a new feature on Android to help curb this behavior. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3hs2nbL
Every second that you spend cleaning or fine-tuning your guitar is a second that you could’ve spent playing. But how much do you get from a guitar that’s dirty and difficult to play? A new set of strings and a proper setup will remove your frustrations while playing, and encourage you to spend much more time with your instrument. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2B3mkoG
Cities and states are slowly coming out of isolation, which means more travel and more risk. Google Maps wants to help by implementing a few new features to keep you up to date with the latest COVID-19 information. That includes relevant alerts and warnings about local rules, like mandatory face masks. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3e0OjUt
Right now there are three HBO streaming services, all with three-letter titles: HBO Max, HBO Go, and HBO Now. It’s kind of a mess. But it will soon be less messy, according to a report from CNET: HBO’s parent company WarnerMedia is planning on trimming those down to just two. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2Yuk1TE
The next generation of gaming is upon us! And after the PlayStation 5 showcase yesterday, it’s clear Sony’s strategy for tackling this new generation is the same as the last generation. Produce tons of high-quality exclusives until people give in and buy your console. And with 26 games announced or shown-off yesterday, there’s bound to be at least a couple that piques your interest. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/37vfrZA