Now that Apple has made the rumored October 22nd date for its iPad event official, it’s now time to seriously start thinking about trading in your old iPad in order to get the most for your money. The chart above from NextWorth is a little taste of what you can expect from trade-in values for iPads in the coming weeks, so if you’re planning on pulling the trigger, now is definitely the time....
Google today announced a handful of new Assistant features, while making others more widely available. The biggest lets iPhone owners find misplaced devices using Google Smart Displays and speakers as Assistant Routines availability expands. “Hey Google, find or ring my phone” is a very helpful command in the home. On Apple’s platform, Assistant currently places a regular phone call to your mobile number. The experience is more optimized on Android with the voice command working even if Do not disturb is switched on....
Late zombie master George A. Romero directed six films featuring the undead in his long career, and here’s how they rank, from worst to best. It’s a rare honor to be able to invent a horror sub-genre, and Romero’s legendary status was immediately cemented by his invention of the zombie movie. Zombies had technically existed before, but most were tied to voodoo curses and the like. Night of the Living Dead introduced the idea of zombies as shambling, flesh-eating corpses on the hunt for the living....
With Azure, a small, large business or government can host their infrastructure on top of Microsoft’s platform for some number scenarios; whether it’s running a merchant website, setting up a rendering farm for animating a movie, system administration such as authenticating users, offsite backup and a plethora of different activities. Redundancy, of course, is built on Azure, ensuring systems are always available. The great thing about this, you pay for only the amount of computing you can use or afford....
I showed you one solution called Start8 from Stardock. Start8 gives you the best of both worlds, the Start menu with the Metro UI. ViStart is another free program that brings back the Start menu to Windows 8 in a more traditional fashion. When you start the installation, uncheck all of the boxes for the crapware it tries to install. Select Advanced Installation, then click Decline. You don’t need any of the extra software it tries to install....
Reduce Brightness to Improve Battery Life One could argue that I’m mentioning the obvious, but reducing the brightness of your laptop screen actually has a lot of hidden benefits. It’s a good idea to turn down the screen backlight whenever you’re running games and applications that require a lot of system resources. This will reduce the generated heat and improve the lifespan of your display. If you’re a photographer or video editor you’re also probably aware of the fact that using a laptop screens aren’t far form awful in terms of quality....
Legendary is looking for a new way to reinvent their so called “Monsterverse” that will ultimately include a crossover fight unlike anything seen before on the big screen when Kong and Godzilla clash. Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla in 2014 launched this new universe to mixed results since the movie hid the titular monster throughout a majority of it, instead focusing on the human characters led by Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen. However, Kong’s presence in Kong: Skull Island appears to be fairly significant, but even then the studio has put the likes of Brie Larson, Tom Hiddleston, and more in as the human leads....
Will Letty and Javier’s twisted romance continue to Good Behavior season 3? The premise behind Good Behavior has a criminal named Letty (Michelle Dockery, Downton Abbey) released from prison on good behavior. Letty wants to gain custody of her son but her self-destructive tendencies lead her back to crime. In the first episode, she tries to stop hitman Javier (Juan Diego Botto) from killing a target, but the two of them soon become involved in a dangerous romance....
Just like last year, Google is teaming up with different U.S. airlines to bring free WiFi internet to airports and on flights. From November 20 through January 2, this deal is live and groovy baby! Why do we need free in-flight WiFi? I can hardly think of anything more boring than sitting at an airport waiting for your flight to arrive. Oh wait, what about sitting on a plane? Squished in between a stranger or two and completely disconnected from the rest of the world, there isn’t much to do....
Google has the official post on their latlong blog, but here are the highlights of what’s new with the change of status for the program. Use Free Google Professional Photographers To Photograph Your Business In select cities, you can now apply for a free photoshoot of the interior of your business. These pictures load to the current gallery on Google, so if you don’t have a camera or an eye for photography you might want to apply now....
Gerard Way is an internationally known singer, songwriter, and musician who was the lead vocalist and co-founder of the rock band My Chemical Romance. In 2007, he wrote the offbeat superhero comic book The Umbrella Academy, which is now an upcoming Netflix series. Steve Blackman has been an executive producer on Legion, Fargo, and Altered Carbon. He was also the co-showrunner on ABC’s medical-drama Private Practice. Now he’s the showrunner for Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy....
One of the most popular Japanese mangas ever is set to get the live-action treatment later this month, when Ghost in the Shell hits theaters worldwide. The project has not been able to avoid a fair amount of backlash after casting Scarlett Johansson (usually a fan favorite actress in any project) due to outrage over Paramount whitewashing the lead role. While there are still those that remain unhappy with this decision, the visual style of the marketing has begun to win back former naysayers....
Even though the 3o minute sit-com is a classic format that seems to be used only for serialized cartoons these days, there are some old shows from back in the day that we still watch. Hotels, restaurants, and even AirBnBs are taking on The Golden Girls as a theme, and people love it. That cruise is already sold out, by the way. More than 20 years later, and this TV show still gets a lot of love....
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLxVQi0lRQ4&hl=en&fs=1] Google has chosen to integrate search across its platform and inside most applications, including Maps and Android Market. “We’ve made Search easier to use by providing suggestions. As you type, the list of suggestions refines itself, and you’ll immediately jump to that search with a simple touch,” the company reveals on its blog. Essentially that sounds like predictive search – should be useful on a mobile device. Google has also done something even smarted, and has integrated search across the platform so that applications can share search capabilities with each other....
Google will be removing support for tracking cookies from their Chrome browser in 2022, in a move that they hope will please both users and advertisers. This comes as a compromise to the stance Google took when they first announced their Privacy Sandbox initiative, where they suggested tracking cookies dissuaded advertisers from using browser fingerprinting. Cookies are bits of data that are sent from a website and stored onto a computer....
What is OCR? If you’re just joining us, Optical Character Recognition is an automated system that translates an image of text into encoded selectable text. Google uses OCR to scan your pictures and PDF files, it then turns the scan into an editable Google Doc format. Over the past 2 years, Google has been using human input from reCAPTCHA puzzles to increase their success at identifying complex words. What Languages were added?...
Google, with its somewhat successful (not really) launch of the Chrome internet browser, has just made it publicly known they intend to enter Microsoft’s realm with Chrome OS. The operating system is scheduled for release mid-2010. Interestingly enough, they will be releasing the source code later this year. The good news for Microsoft is that development has only been connected to Netbook laptops so far. But Google does plan on running this OS on Desktops as soon as possible, and it’s free along with the open-source code....
The Optical Character Recognition feature has been available in in Google Drive for a while now, but maybe the reason you didn’t use it yet is because your language wasn’t supported. But now Google has announced a major update, letting upload scanned documents in more than 200 languages and 25 writing styles. The same update has been issued for the Google Drive app for Android users, as well. Making use of the OCR feature is very easy, and you just need to follow these steps:...
