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The 2020 sports season has been weird, to say the least. Fortunately, there’s somewhere you can go to get your sports fix. Complete with competition, the murmur of a crowd, and some brilliant announcing, reward yourself with some marble racing! Read This Article on LifeSavvy › https://bit.ly/3gfVGbO

Motorola’s hiatus from the premium phone market ended in April with the launch of its $1,000 Edge+. Now, the company is tackling midrange shoppers with the Edge (sans +), a $700 clone with slightly less horsepower. Reviewers agree the Motorola Edge is a killer device for the price, but you might want to wait for a sale. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/39JKRMD

Load Balancing is the concept of splitting application or network load between two or more servers, allowing for better performance and longer uptime. AWS’s Load Balancers cost money to run, but you can achieve the same effect for free using Route 53. Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › https://bit.ly/3gi2khT

AWS Secrets Manager makes working with access keys (like database credentials) easier by storing them remotely and controlling the access of them behind IAM permissions. This allows you to smoothly rotate access keys and fetch the latest one whenever needed. Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › https://bit.ly/3hQekr7

It’s not always easy to remember when to do important things. Luckily, your iPhone or iPad can easily remind you about a repeating task or event using the Reminders app. Here’s how to set it up. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/39F55ak

Tags are pretty simple—they store a single key-value pair, and are used as metadata for AWS resources to help you stay organized. We’ll show you how to use them, and how to set effective tagging policies for your organization. Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › https://bit.ly/2DnuYzG

AWS Lightsail is a simpler subset of AWS intended for IT beginners. This week, AWS announced support for CloudFront CDNs in Lightsail, with fixed monthly pricing starting at $2.50. We’ll walk through setting up a high-performance website on Lightsail. Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › https://bit.ly/2P39iLC

If you’ve been lucky enough to make it through your Netflix queue or to-read list, you might be wondering what you should do next. Luckily, with the Likewise app (Free), you can easily get high-quality recommendations for books, movies, TV shows, podcasts and more. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/335ydq5

If you want to reuse a slide that appears on your presentation, but you don’t want to manually redesign the entire slide, you can duplicate it instead. Here’s how to duplicate slides in Microsoft PowerPoint. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3jRqMcc

Your database server often contains your most sensitive data, such as confidential user information. It’s important to implement security best practices to minimize the risk of an attacker gaining access to your database. Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › https://bit.ly/332oscf

You finally got your hands on a new Fire tablet. But things can feel a little bare-bones out of the box. If you want to make the most of your tablet, then it’s time to start accessorizing! Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/30XOaMr

AWS Amplify is a framework designed to make building web and native applications a lot easier. It focuses on having a fully built backend out of the box—running an API and database with authentication is all handled for you. Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › https://bit.ly/3069UGt

Most people think of Amazon’s Prime subscription service as that thing that gives you free shipping and some streaming TV. And it is. But it also includes a staggering amount of extras for your $79 $99 $119 a year. One of these is access to a bunch of free Kindle books and magazines, under the label Prime Reading. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/30XEilY

You can remove unnecessary pixels from an image directly in Microsoft PowerPoint using the built-in cropping tool. You can also crop a photo to fit a specific shape. Here’s how to crop a picture in Microsoft PowerPoint. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/2CROqVc

Docker is a containerization service, designed for running apps in their own environment on any system. It’s intended to be platform-agnostic, but if you need to store data on a disk, that can be done with volume and bind mounts. Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › https://bit.ly/2P2kech

Before the rise of streaming, you had to watch shows and movies as they aired on broadcast television. Now, you can watch things whenever you want—well, that’s not completely true. Movies and TV shows regularly vanish from streaming services. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3f1J3jh

Anyone who knows me is familiar with my affinity for horror movies, but if there’s anything I love more, it’s a good horror show. Especially anthology horror shows (a la American Horror Story). And that’s exactly what AMC’s The Terror is—there are currently only two seasons, but they’re both worth watching. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2CFnCrf

The whole point of a smart thermostat is convenience, especially remote convenience. You can buy a programmable thermostat that isn’t smart, but stepping up to an ecobee or Nest gives you remote controls. Unfortunately, some Nest Thermostats are running into an error breaking that feature—and now Google is offering replacements. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/39sPr1G

Cassettes and vinyl are cool again, so what about MiniDisc? Sony’s pint-sized digital format hit the market in 1992, but failed to make much of a splash until around a decade later. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3jDiHHV

For various reasons, Google Photos is one of the best cloud storage services for all the pictures you take. One of the many benefits is Google Photos Photo Books, which lets you easily create a Photo Book from your albums. But, shipping could be expensive, sometimes as much as the book. Act now, and you can skip the shipping fee. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2CM3CDe

Alright, time to pull out your wallet. Amazon is selling its Echo Dot smart speaker and two months of Amazon Music Unlimited for only $21. That’s a $70 value when you consider the $10 a month fee of Music Unlimited and the Echo Dot’s usual $50 price tag. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3jyiPbw

Visual Studio has a handy feature for running commands before or after builds. This can be used to automate some of your development process, such as pulling in dependencies during the prebuild phase, or sending build artifacts to development environments. Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › https://bit.ly/2WV6Efn

For a couple of years now, the iPad had the ability to play videos in picture-in-picture mode. Once you upgrade to iOS 14 or higher, your iPhone gains the feature as well. It works with media apps, YouTube (via Safari), and even for FaceTime calls. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3f5hNk5

A hanging indent is used to position the first line of each paragraph against the margin, with each further line indented. If you want to add hanging indents to a Microsoft Word document, here’s what you’ll need to do. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/2WTVKXc

Perhaps the worst security mistake you can make is leaving highly confidential secret access keys on a web-facing server. So, when it comes time to install and authenticate the AWS CLI on a remote EC2 instance, how do you configure it? Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › https://bit.ly/3htmdCH

Gitlab Issues is a free tool built into Gitlab Cloud and Community Editions that makes it easier to track software development progress. It supports many of the same features as competitors like Jira, while being easier to use. Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › https://bit.ly/3jCtXV4

If you recently bought a new PC or just want to switch to Firefox from another browser, like Microsoft Edge or Chrome, you can easily set it as the default. Follow the steps below to set Mozilla Firefox as your default browser on Windows 10. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3huPgGa

Enjoy reading on the go but have a bad network signal? If you have an iPhone or iPad linked to an iCloud account, you can save articles to your Reading List for later reading offline using a feature buried in Settings. Here’s how. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/2BmNmI5

When connecting to a database, you must take extra precautions if it’s not running locally. Any connections made over a network should be secure, and you should never leave the database open for anyone to brute-force a connection. Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › https://bit.ly/3eYOLTb

If you’re heavily invested in the Google ecosystem, using Google Assistant is likely second nature for you at this point. Whether it’s smart home commands or listening to music, Google Assistant is just useful to have around. So, why not have it around everywhere and the addition of great audio quality with a Bluetooth speaker that has Google Assistant built-in? Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2Blrb54

If you keep accidentally opening the emoji keyboard while typing on your iPhone or iPad, it’s easy to avoid that in the future. You can remove the emoji button from your on-screen keyboard. Here’s how. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/32Fmb6t

Though there’s hope on the horizon, the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t going away anytime soon, especially in the US. Reports that Amazon had postponed its annual consumer bacchanalia of deals, Prime Day, floated way back in May. Now that July is fast coming to a close, Amazon is making it official: Prime Day won’t be happening this month. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2WGLiSQ

If you’re looking to run code regularly, like a cron job, you can use AWS’s CloudWatch Events to automatically run serverless Lambda Functions at fixed time intervals, without using any actual servers. Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › https://bit.ly/2WGLb9S

When PowerShell was first released, the goal was to bring powerful scripting tools to Windows, which typically had GUI-based administration at the time. Since then, PowerShell has grown to become one of the most popular scripting languages. At the time of writing, it is sitting at 35 on the TIOBE index of most popular languages. Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › https://bit.ly/2OE7etr

A well-decorated office might seem like a luxury—but what if it makes you more productive? Research suggests that something as simple as a new coat of paint can affect your mood and outlook. This isn’t conclusive, but it makes for some promising possibilities. Read This Article on LifeSavvy › https://bit.ly/2Bhd68T

A lackluster microphone can be frustrating to say the least—both for the person using it and the people who have the displeasure of listening to it. You might want to upgrade to a dedicated microphone for clearer audio, but that doesn’t mean you have to deal with a complicated bulky setup. Here are the best small USB mics you can buy today. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3jm9fbz

Before the rapid growth of the World Wide Web in the 1990s, a protocol called Gopher briefly made the internet easy to use by combining the world’s online resources. Here’s what made it special, and why it was quickly eclipsed by the web. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/2WzRrQI

If I told you that there’s a show out there that’s a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, you might look for it on something like The Disney Channel or Nickelodeon. If I told you that it was on Starz, and if you’ve ever seen an original Starz production before, you’d quickly adjust your expectations. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2CipdTJ

Everyone hates scam calls, and it seems like we’re all getting dozens of them on a nearly daily basis. T-Mobile wants to help its customers, so it’s repackaging some of its robocall-fighting tools as “Scam Shield“—and giving it out for free. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/39ajrPS

If you’ve ever wanted to change the look and feel of Windows 10, there’s an easy way to do it thanks to Stardock Curtains, a new paid utility from the makers of Fences and WindowBlinds. Here’s how to set it up. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3jjBsQz

I’m a (very) amateur woodworker. I’m also a (very) amateur gamer. Imagine my delight when I discovered Woodwork Simulator from the same developers that brought us PC Building Simulator, the game where you run a pc repair shot. The best part? Woodwork Simulator is a free beta right now, so why not download it? Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2ZFGKOj

The Skype iOS app can now blur your background, just like you can on its desktop app and the Microsoft Teams app. Whenever you take a Skype call on your iPhone and iPad, you can do so with peace of mind knowing others won’t be able to judge your messy room. It’s also a nice tool to have if you’re sick of people being able to see your personal stuff whenever you have to be on a video call. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3he4hMq

Basic HTTP authentication uses usernames and passwords to secure certain routes of your website. It’s commonly used to lock down admin panels and backend services, and—in conjunction with HTTPS—provides good security for web based resources. Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › https://bit.ly/3eLpnQJ

Working from home fulltime, with multiple projects going on, can leave your home office and the rest of your house looking a mess. Here’s how to stay organized when your house is also your office. Read This Article on LifeSavvy › https://bit.ly/32uAbQy

Bluetooth speakers are great for pool parties and Spotify jam sessions alike. Plus, they boast impressive sound quality and volume, are conveniently portable, and some even have voice assistant integration. Find the best Bluetooth speaker for your budget and needs below. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3h6UCag

iOS 14 brought new types of widgets to the iPhone Home screen, including something called “Smart Stack.” This feature allows you to cycle through the widgets chosen by the system, but that’s not all—you can also create and customize your own widget stack. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/2Cjpw0f

If you’ve searched for a computer lately, you might have noticed a lot more packing AMD processors than you remember. The company’s Ryzen line of CPUs has been making great strides in the marketplace. Lenovo is taking advantage of that for its latest gaming machines, pairing them with NVIDIA GPUs. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3j5Yn1H

If you’re hosting web services on a cloud server, such as GCP’s Compute Engine, you probably want to use a static public IP address, as the default dynamic one is subject to change whenever the server is restarted. Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › https://bit.ly/2WqSmCU

If you really want to lock down your cloud server, you can enable two-factor authentication for SSH in the same way you would add it to your Gmail account, preventing anyone from gaining access if they’ve stolen your SSH private key. Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › https://bit.ly/2B1iAEB

Creating hyper-focused channels in Slack makes it easy to stay on topic but hard to see all of the important messages. Use Slack’s Reacji Channeler to automatically copy important messages to specific channels using emoji reactions. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/2Cxb3xD

Want to safely delete unnecessary files from your Linux operating system, reclaim hard-drive space, and protect your privacy? BleachBit does all of this for you! Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3j3JJrz

Is the shine of working from home starting to dull? Moving your home office outside might be just what you need! Read This Article on LifeSavvy › https://bit.ly/38TZlJD