To take advantage of the deal, you’ll need to be a first-time Creative Cloud subscriber. If you qualify, you’ll be able to snag the bundle with everything from Photoshop to Premiere Pro for $29.99, which is 40% off the regular price of $52.99. If you’re an eligible student or teacher, you can get an even better deal, as Adobe is offering the Creative Cloud All Apps bundle for $15.99 per month, which is 70% off the full price....
QLC Flash Is The Problem Here’s the issue. Making SSDs is expensive, and few people want to pay $200 for a 512 GB SSD when you can get “2000 GB” mechanical hard drives for less than $50. Bigger capacities sell. SSD manufacturers are increasing storage capacities while keeping costs down—but this is bad for performance and endurance. Large SSDs may be getting cheaper, but there’s a tradeoff for each leap in SSD technology....
Artificial intelligence projects like Stable Diffusion are getting better at approximating what humans might create, but still can’t actually think or check information all that well. Case in point: the new ChatGPT AI chatbot is cool, but don’t put your trust in it. OpenAI, best known as the research firm behind the DALL-E image generator, has opened up its in-development chatbot for anyone to try at chat.openai.com. The group says on its website, “we trained an initial model using supervised fine-tuning: human AI trainers provided conversations in which they played both sides—the user and an AI assistant....
Cyber Monday PC Deals Cyber Monday is well known for its deals on expensive electronics, and that includes PCs. Whether you’re buying a new PC for a very lucky giftee or looking to upgrade yourself, there are plenty of deals to take advantage of: almost too many! It can be difficult to tell what are actual deals and what may be manufacturers trying to offload older inventory for cheap. We’re here to help with the best Cyber Monday deals of the year!...
For the morning of March 19th, 2019, Apple unveiled an updated iMac, NVIDIA showed off a Raspberry Pi competitor, Instagram will let you buy things without leaving the service, Call of Duty is coming to mobile, and a lot more. Apple News Yesterday, Apple announced a couple of new/updated iPads with the Air and Mini. Today, it surprised everyone with another announcement: an updated iMac. The new iMac looks the same, but its guts got better....
To help you manage your servers, Discord allows you to create custom roles and assign them to your server members. This way, the members can moderate your server’s content and help ease your schedule. We’ll show you how to do that. To create a role, you must be the owner or admin on the server. If you’re a regular server user, you can’t make or assign roles. RELATED: How to Create, Set Up, and Manage Your Discord Server...
Adobe recently changed how Free Transform works by default. It’s thrown a lot of users for a loop, but you can get the old Free Transform behavior back. Here’s how. How Free Transform Used to Work First, a quick recap: Free Transform is the tool that enables you to resize and reshape any layer, shape, path, text, mask, object, or anything else. With an unlocked layer selected, you access it by going to Edit > Free Transform, or with the keyboard shortcut Control+T (Command+T on a Mac....
If you need to access an FTP server, you can install dedicated FTP clients with lots of features –but you don’t necessarily have to. Windows itself offers several ways for connecting to an FTP server, allowing you to download and upload files in a pinch. How to Access FTP Servers in Windows’ File Explorer The Windows file manager–known as File Explorer on Windows 10 and 8, and Windows Explorer on Windows 7–allows you to connect to FTP servers....
It’s true that shutting down your Windows 10 PC the old-fashioned way only takes three clicks. But why spend the extra energy when you can do it in two? All you have to do is create a shutdown icon, and you’ll save yourself some time. Create a Shutdown Icon To create a shutdown icon, right-click your Desktop, hover over “New,” and then select “Shortcut.” RELATED: How to Shut Down Your Windows 10 PC Using Command Prompt...
Disabling both AMBER and general Government Alerts is a reasonably easy thing to do if you know where to look, although even with both options disabled you will continue to receive alerts of life-threatening events (which is probably a good thing!). For the uninitiated, AMBER alerts—or America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response—are alerts sent out to make the population aware that a child is missing, and the system can be instrumental in returning children to their loved ones....
If you can’t change the group policy setting (for example, if you’re running the Home edition of Windows 10), you can disable the Print Spooler service entirely on your computer using the Windows Services panel. Keep in mind you’ll need administrator account privileges for that. Disable the Print Spooler Service From Windows Services Panel You can use the Windows Services panel to disable Print Spooler services from running automatically, especially when you use word processors or similar apps....
Flash Is Going Away at the End of 2020 RELATED: How to Use Adobe Flash in 2021 and Beyond Flash isn’t completely gone—yet. Instead, Chrome blocks Flash by default with the message “Flash was blocked on this page.” If you re-enable Flash in Chrome, you see a message that says, “Flash Player will no longer be supported after December 2020,” with a button to turn off Flash. As Google explains, when the ball drops on New Year’s Eve, 2020, the countdown will also be counting down to the end of Flash....
The Picture-in-Picture (PiP) extension for Google Chrome lets you play any video in Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode, and it works on all platforms. PiP is a popped-out, always-on-top video player that floats on top of other windows. You can also reposition it along the screen border while you continue to surf the internet. Why Use an Extension When PiP is Built-In? Chrome 70 added a built-in PiP feature you can access with a right-click....
Minecraft is a fantastic game but there is always room for improvement. Today we’re taking a look at mods big and small that tweak the user interface, biomes, villages and more in Minecraft for a more robust and feature rich place experience. Modding the Mechanics The modding community for Minecraft is absolutely enormous and you can find mods of all kinds with ease. Among them there are minor mods that alter single elements of the game or enhance them, and then there are overhaul mods that completely change the look and feel of Minecraft in significant ways....
How to Connect Your iPhone to Ethernet Connecting your iPhone to Ethernet requires an adapter that fits into your iPhone’s Lightning port. This adapter then gives you access to the missing Ethernet input. Apple sells a pricey official Belkin Ethernet + Power Adapter in-store and online, which should do the trick. Plus, it’s compatible with the iPhone SE (first generation) or iPhone 7 and above. The Belkin adapter supports Power over Ethernet (PoE), which means you can charge your iPhone without using the included Lightning port....
If you’ve ever logged into your Netflix account on another person’s device, or left it logged in on a device you no longer use, you know how annoying it can be—especially if someone else is watching shows on your account and kicking you off. Here’s how to log out of all Netflix sessions with one simple button. To do this from a web browser, first visit Netflix.com and click on your profile in the upper-right corner, the click on “Your Acccount”....
Smarthomes Are Only As Powerful As The User If you’ve already installed smart locks, a smart thermostat, smart lights, and smart plugs, you’re well on your way to a home filled with convenience and remote control. But the problem is often with the people in your home who aren’t tech savvy enough to set up a smarthome. They may feel unsure of how to turn on and off devices and awkward trying to use voice commands....
Microsoft’s Xbox One can now play a limited number of Xbox 360 games. But it’s not as simple as inserting any old disc and starting it up. Only some games will work, and the Xbox One runs them in an emulator. How Backwards Compatibility Works The Xbox One isn’t normally capable of playing Xbox 360 games. Instead, Microsoft created an emulator that simulates the Xbox 360’s hardware and software. Xbox 360 games run inside this emulator....
Skype now lets you record calls with no additional software. Microsoft’s new call-recording feature works for both audio and video calls, and even records shared screens in video calls. Skype notifies everyone on the call that it’s being recorded. How to Record a Voice or Video Call You can start recording while on a call. On the desktop version of Skype for Windows or Mac, click the “+” button at the bottom right corner of the call window and then click “Start Recording....
Smarthome Tech May Contain Personal Data No matter the reason, occasionally it’s time to retire older smarthome hardware. You may want to toss it, you may want to give it to family, or you may even want to sell it. But before you do that, you need to properly remove the device from your smarthome system and erase its data. Otherwise, you run the risk of someone else gaining access to your saved credentials....
