The announcement was made on the official blog for NordVPN, which states the service is now able to take advantage of the enhanced capabilities of the new Apple computers. Originally, NordVPN wasn’t required to have M1 support, since Apple implemented Rosetta 2, a software that allows apps meant for Intel processors to work on M1 Macs. However, NordVPN was not able to take advantage of the improvements the M1 provided in performance and speed....
You can also install Mountain Lion on a range of devices, including your startup drive, an internal partition or volume, or most any external drive you may have. Another option is to create bootable copies of the installer that can run on a DVD, USB flash drive, or another storage device. This choice lets you keep a version handy in case you need to reinstall the operating system. Minimum Requirements for OS X Mountain Lion OS X Mountain Lion has a few special needs that prevent it from running on some older Intel Macs....
The clean method of installing OS X Yosemite wipes all the data from the destination drive and replaces it with the fresh, never-before-used data from the OS X Yosemite installer. All your user data and any applications that you installed will be gone. While the clean install option may not sound like a friendly way to update a Mac to OS X Yosemite, it offers advantages that make it the preferred update path for some Mac users....
Keep reading to see our review of Popcornflix—for our thoughts on the quality of the videos, the advertisements, the mobile app, and more. Movies Are Easy to Find… Sort Of Using the Popcornflix website is really easy. The menu, if you can call it that, is just three buttons along the top of the page. Homepage, Movies, and Series. Selecting Movies reveals all the categories you can look through to find your next film....
When Will the ProMotion Display iMac Be Released? Trusted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicts an iMac Pro in 2023: ProMotion Display iMac Price Rumors This iMac will be an update to the 27-inch Retina 5K display iMac, which had a base price of $1,799. The other two models have more storage, and the priciest of the bunch, at launch, was $2,299. One rumor, according to Apple analyst @dylandkt on Twitter, is the starting price for the ProMotion display iMac will be at or just over $2,000....
Removable Media Sony is a fan of proprietary formats for removable storage media on its devices, and the PS Vita is no exception. It takes not one, but two different Vita-only card types. PS Vita Memory Card Where the PlayStation Portable used the Sony Memory Stick Duo and Pro Duo formats for storage, the PS Vita uses the PS Vita Memory Card. Memory sticks like those used in the PSP do not work with the PS Vita, nor do other common formats like SD cards or the memory stick micro used in the PSPgo....
How: You can order one from Apple.com right now Why Do You Care: This is the most powerful (and expensive) Mac available; while most consumers don’t need the power, larger scientific, educational, and entertainment institutions do. None of those prices include Apple’s new high-end monitor (which, with a rack mounted solution, becomes less of an issue), called the Pro Display XDR. Apple claims that the $4,999 device is the first ever 32-inch Retina 6K display....
RedPhone is made by Open Whisper Systems, a group that provides three privacy tools in communication: RedPhone, TextSecure, and Signal. TextSecure ensures privacy in text messaging, while Signal is a private calling app solely for iOS. RedPhone is available for both iOS and Android, making it quite restrictive in terms of the platforms it runs on. How It Works The operation of RedPhone is simple. It encrypts your voice calls end to end, and the encryption is done in such a way that even they do not have access to call information....
Windows: Release and Renew IP Addresses Under normal conditions, a device can use the same IP address indefinitely. Networks usually reassign correct addresses to devices when they first join. However, technical glitches with DHCP and network hardware can lead to IP conflicts and other problems that prevent the networking system from working correctly. When to Release and Renew the IP Address Scenarios in which releasing the IP address and then renewing it might be beneficial include:...
A new study published by a group of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology looks at how robots can become more social and how we define social interactions as a whole. The study’s findings will make it possible for a future where robots are more helpful and understand humans, which will prove crucial as robots play more of a role in our daily lives. “Robots will increasingly become part of our lives, and although they are robots, they need to understand our language,” Boris Katz, principal research scientist and head of the InfoLab Group in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), and a member of the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines (CBMM), told Lifewire in a video call....
According to Samsung, the A13 5G takes some of the Galaxy series’ most popular features, like a triple-lens camera, and makes them more accessible. Because of these higher-end features, with a price tag of $249.99, the A13 is more expensive than the previous A12 model. The A13 camera comes with a 5MP selfie camera. The rear cameras include a 50MP main, a 2MP macro camera for up-close photography, and a depth camera which is also 2MP....
On Wednesday, September 29, the Thom Browne Limited Edition Galaxy Watch 4 Classic will be available to purchase for $799. The watch comes with interchangeable straps designed by Browne that include leather, rubber, and fabric, as well as five custom watch faces in the famous preppy style that Thom Browne is known for. The watch’s case features rhodium plating with “Thom Browne. New York” etched on the side. A red, white, and blue-themed watch face matches two of the available straps that feature a striped design....
At its annual developer conference on Tuesday, Samsung announced details regarding its forthcoming One UI 4 software update. One UI 4 has been available in beta form since September, but this is the first time Samsung has officially detailed its various features. Samsung’s One UI 4 brings some nifty ingredients to the smartphone table, including a series of new haptic feedback and sound triggers that activate when you perform certain actions, such as setting an alarm or using the device’s fingerprint sensor....
The USB-C Slim Dock for 24-inch iMac is meant to just plug into your iMac setup and go—no extensive setup required unless you have to do a lot of desk rearranging. It also has spots for you to install optional external storage by way of an NMVe or SATA M.2 solid state drive (SSD). Satechi also states that the dock’s slim aluminum frame is better at dissipating heat than previous models....
A recently-published paper from security researchers at UC San Diego explains that Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) isn’t as secure as once thought. It turns out that, despite having built-in encryption measures, BLE often produces a unique signal that can still be found and tracked. BLE is intended to let devices utilize wireless communication connections consistently, with much lower power consumption than regular Bluetooth. Think wireless speakers or earbuds, AirDrop, etc....
What Is Multipart/Alternative? Multipart/alternative emails contain both plain text and HTML. What a user sees depends on their set preferences or what’s allowed by their email client. If an email client can’t render HTML messages, it will display the plain text version. HTML-enabled email programs will usually show the rich HTML version unless users have set a preference for plain-text email only. Sending multipart alternative messages is a great solution to reach all your subscribers without having to maintain two separate lists....
Which Types of Disks Are Best Suited for APFS? Because APFS was originally designed for use with SSDs and flash-based storage, it would seem that the new file system would be at home on these newest and fastest storage systems. APFS works with most storage systems, but there are specific usages that can make APFS a poor choice, or at least a less than optimal choice. Let’s take a look at how suitable APFS is for common disk types and usage....
Overall Findings Both Skype and Viber are free to download and install on both desktop and mobile platforms. Both let you call other people for free as long as they’re also using the app. Calls to a mobile number or landline are possible but require a subscription or fee. While Skype uses more data than Viber, it also allows you to buy a unique Skype phone number for receiving calls and texts....
Samsung has begun quietly rolling out a new feature called RAM Plus that extends the amount of RAM available on the phone by using 4GB of onboard storage as virtual memory. Windows-based computers do something similar when physical memory runs out. The feature was first discovered on Samsung’s high-end Galaxy A52 5G, but according to SamMobile, it’s already available on more flagship and mid-grade models, including the recently released Galaxy Z Fold 3....
Stop Apps From Running in the Background on Android Here’s how to kill background apps on Android: How Background Apps Affect Your Android Battery Your Android device can run multiple apps in the background for a few reasons. Most of the time, it won’t cause any battery or memory consumption problems. One factor causing your Android device’s battery to drain too quickly is when there are too many apps running. You can see the apps you have running in the background by tapping the square Overview navigation icon at the lower-right corner of your Android display....
