If you have an old MacBook Pro with one foot in the grave, the single best thing you can do to breathe new life into it is replace its traditional spinning hard drive with a solid-state drive. There’s a reason that all modern MacBooks and the vast majority of all laptops sold today use SSDs. …
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7 March
No headphone jack on Pixel 2? The case for and against
There’s a rumor floating around 9to5Google that the 2017 version of Google‘s Pixel phone will drop the standard 3.5mm headphone jack. To its credit, 9to5Google specifies that the story comes from a single source, and that its staff hasn’t been able to verify it with any degree of secondary confirmation. In fact, the site didn’t even publish it as a …
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7 March
Sonos Playbase gets $150 stand for TVs that won’t fit
As the most popular multiroom speaker, the market for third-party Sonos accessories is thriving. The Sanus TV Base for the just-announced Sonos Playbase joins other add-ons including skins, wall mounts and even a turntable. Ordinarily you wouldn’t need this stand, as your TV should just sit on top of the speaker, but you could run into trouble if your TV …
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7 March
Get an Oculus Rift bundle for $599.98
CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Oculus In my experience, to try VR is to buy VR — or at least want to buy it. It’s that good. But …
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7 March
How to use an external drive with a Chromebook
Chromebooks are built with cloud storage in mind and offer a pittance of local storage — usually only 32GB or 64GB. So, instead of storing a bunch of Word docs and Excel files on a Chromebook, for example, you are meant to use Google Drive or Dropbox. Instead of a large music library stored locally in iTunes, you are meant …
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7 March
How and when to use Airplane Mode on iPhone
Airplane Mode is more than just a way to comply with flight attendants’ requests to disable your device during a flight. It can actually be used as a preventative measure while roaming, or a way to let your child safely play a game on your iPhone, as well as a means to help you save battery life. Enable Airplane Mode …
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7 March
This shirt will tell you if you’re too tired to drive
Can’t trust yourself to know when you’re too tired to drive? There’s now a shirt for that. Japanese company Toyobo has teamed up with Union Tool to create Cocomi, a drowsiness detecting shirt that identifies electric signals of the heart which indicate the onset of sleep. There are around 100,000 police-reported crashes in the US due to driver fatigue, estimates …
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7 March
How to share multiple photos in one Instagram post
The drudgery of uploading one photo at a time to Instagram has ended! Now you can add up to 10 photos and videos at once. Don’t worry about overwhelming your followers with a slew of photos, though. It’s kind of like a Story. A bulk upload is consolidated into one post. The first image is displayed in your feed and …
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7 March
LG G6: 7 camera tricks you have to check out
Now playing: Watch this: The LG G6’s camera has a few new tricks 2:08 The LG G6 has the same dual-lens setup as its predecessor, but the camera app is packed with new features for video pros and Instagram lovers. Tweaks to the dual camera The G6’s predecessor, the G5, had two rear cameras: a 16-megapixel standard lens and an …
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7 March
Could the Galaxy S8 be a dual
A Samsung tweet yesterday revealed that its new Exynos 9 chip will support dual-camera phones thanks to its Dual ISP technology. Dual cameras isn’t a new concept — even the HTC Evo 3D had two rear cameras back in 2011. But recently a handful of flagship phones such as the LG G6, Asus Zenfone AR, and iPhone 7 Plus have …
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