Like many problems in this day and age, there are apps available to help you figure it all out. The apps in this list can help you identify what types of plants you have or find, and many of them can tell you when and how to care for them. Some of these apps can even identify issues with your plant. Here are the best apps to help you identify and care for houseplants....

The Android operating system actually has an upcoming desktop environment where you can hook up a mouse, screen and keyboard to your Android device and use it pretty much as a PC. However, Samsung has done something special for their premium line of smartphones. It’s called Samsung Dex and offers a very intriguing value proposition. What Is Samsung Dex? Starting with the Galaxy S8 series of phones, users can buy a special Dex Station, which allows you to plug a screen, mouse and keyboard into the device....

Nvidia Reflex is a service available to all users of Nvidia graphics cards, but it shines most when paired between an Nvidia 3000 series card and a G-Sync monitor. If you’re trying to give yourself just that little bit extra edge in competitive games, Nvidia Reflex should be on your radar. What Is Nvidia Reflex? Nvidia Reflex is a low latency tool that claims to lower rendering lag by as much as 80%....

Where does the money come from? Advertisements! That’s right, almost every YouTube video displays one or more adverts, with the revenue going to both the creator and YouTube itself. Now however, the YouTube Premium subscription service has changed that dynamic completely. But what is YouTube Premium? Should you sign up for it? What Is YouTube Premium? These are the main features: No advertising.YouTube Originals.YouTube downloads and background playback in the app....

Prime Gaming offers a handful of benefits, including free-to-play games, in-game loot, and a monthly subscription to a Twitch channel of your choosing. The rewards are constantly rotating, so there is always something new for you to get your hands on. Free games: Prime Gaming gives you access to several exclusive games which you can download for free and play forever.Prime Loot: A subscription to Prime gives you a chance to unlock in-game content for several popular games (these are listed below)....

Today though, the internet is an excellent vehicle for making money if you have a knack with a camera because you can sell photos online. It’s not so much about your credentials, but how good your work is. It also gives you the freedom of working at your own convenience from the comfort of your home and the flexibility of making money on your terms. Where To Sell Photos Online Shutterstock Shutterstock is a large photo library that hosts hundreds of millions of images and videos....

Windows 10 still needs some tweaking to really offer a good level of security. On top of this, Windows 10 is now also a cloud service, which means that Microsoft now also wants to collect and sell your information. Unless you do something about it, you’ll be sending oodles of private information to Redmond. Depending on your personal level of comfort, that might be a significant security and privacy issue....

There was no way I was going to spend hours typing everything back in, so I ended up taking a nice high-quality picture of the document and then burned my way through a bunch of online OCR services to see which one would give me the best results. In this article, I’ll go through a couple of my favorite sites for OCR that are free. It’s worth noting that most of these sites provide a basic free service and then have paid options if you want extra features like bigger images, multi-page PDF documents, different input languages, etc....

In addition to being annoying and slowing down page loading speeds, ads and pop-ups: Can threaten users privacy.May carry malware.Clutter your screen.Distract users.Protect impulse buyers from making purchases.Take up bandwidth.Drain battery power. As a response to this intrusion, developers have created browser extensions to block ads in Edge. Below are six free extensions for Microsoft Edge that you can use to block ads: GhosteryAdguard AdBlockerAdblock PlusuBlock OriginAdblocker UltimateAdBlock Ghostery Ghostery advertises itself as a privacy ad blocker....

Rather than relying on Google Maps street view and Instagram photos, you can use VR apps to travel the world. Here’s a look at some of the best options for VR apps for travel. Google Cardboard – The Cheap VR App The one thing that holds people back from the VR life is the expensive price tag associated with VR goggles. However, this doesn’t mean you have to miss out on all the hype....

What Are Soundboards for Discord? If you haven’t used a soundboard before, they’re a simple concept. Imagine a board with a bunch of buttons on it. Each button plays a specific sound when pushed. There can be actual hardware tied into a sound system or, in our case, an app that does the job. How to Use a Soundboard in Discord Right now, there aren’t any plug-and-play soundboards for Discord. All require installing a virtual audio device....

Don’t let a quarantine kill the romance–here are some of the best Valentine’s date ideas using technology. Set the Mood With a Smart Candle If you’re worried about using real candles (or you can’t due to building regulations), you can still capture the ambience with a smart candle. The Yeelight Candela is a connected light that gives off a 1600k color temperature–same as a candlelight. You can activate “Flicker” mode that makes the light dance like a flame....

There are many resources and tools that you can find on the web to self-train in Python programming. We put together a list of the best websites that you can use to learn Python online. 1. The Official Python Tutorial Python tips and tricks from Python creatorsPerfect for complete beginners Slow pace of learning to make sure you learn every concept before you move on to the next Some might find it surprising, but one of the best places to start your journey into Python programming is the official Python website....

If you’ve used the app, it’s likely you’ve only used it for voice translations. It can actually do much more than that and you need to learn some of these tips on how to use Google Translate effectively. Download Translations For Offline Use You can use Google Translate to download various languages to your device so you can translate offline as well. This is a really handy feature as it helps you translate languages even when you don’t have an Internet connection....

The platform, called Shudder, has since become quite popular, and for good reason. The service offers tons of horror movies, both classic and new, as well as exclusives. If you are a horror fan yourself and have exhausted the offerings on other streaming services, Shudder may be the place you want to look next. They offer a wide variety of horror films as well as TV shows spanning multiple different sub-genres, including supernatural, slasher, thriller, among others....

Design, Price, and Specs See? Easy. For the most part, you will never see the Fire TV Stick 4K. Its design means it stays hidden behind your television, eliminating unsightly cords. The Fire TV Cube has 16 GB of internal storage as well as 2 GB of memory and supports both far-field and near-field voice support thanks to its internal speakers. You can also speak directly into the remote to control it, or to any connected Alexa speaker in your home....

Unfortunately, any chat conversation that gets stored on a server anywhere on the internet, encrypted or not, is susceptible to hacking. Therefore, the gold standard in chat privacy is end-to-end encryption. In this article you’ll learn how end-to-end encryption works, and the top 6 chat applications that offer it. What Is End-to-End Encryption? They key (pun intended) to properly encrypted digital communications is the creation of both a public and a private key....

In this article, I’ll cover a couple of really useful right-click context menu editors that I use all the time. These extra menu options can help you navigate Windows faster and perform file operations more easily. File Menu Tools FileMenu Tools is a nifty little app that makes it super easy to add a bunch of more options to the context menu. You can add built-in utilities to the context menu that perform certain operations over files and folders....

What’s nice about the text feature on TikTok is that you can customize the font style and color. If you save the video as a draft to work on it further before posting it, you can edit the text before your followers see it. We’ll show you how to add text to TikTok videos so you can take advantage of this built-in feature. How to Add Text to TikTok Videos If you want to pop some text in a new video right after you capture it, it’s an easy task....

The best part about the platform is that you can create as many classes as you want. If you feel your class has run its course and won’t need it again, you can deactivate or delete the class to free up space in your virtual classroom. In this guide, we’ll show you how to archive or delete a Google Classroom on desktop and mobile versions of the app. What Happens When You Archive or Delete a Google Classroom You can archive or delete a class when you’re done with it, but there’s a difference between these two actions....