During the last few months, WhatsApp's Google Play Store ratings have been tanking—all the way down to an average of 3.4 stars from the instant messenger's usual average of 4.1. Within the last week, though, WhatsApp has received thousands of seemingly fake 5-star reviews that have bumped up the company's overall average to a 4.4.
Bitcoin, the decentralized cryptocurrency notorious for its status as the currency of the dark web, seems to be shedding its shady past and is now enjoying soaring highs not seen since 2014. The highly volatile online commodity reached parity with an ounce of gold back in March amid speculation of a pending ETF approval from the Federal Trade Commission. Since then, Bitcoin has doubled in value and analysts predict a bitcoin could reach $100,000 in value in 10 years.
The internet's an amazing place. The entirety of human knowledge is now accessible in an instant, and all sorts of media can be streamed directly to the palm of your hand. But, of course, that also includes the darker side of humanity, so there's plenty of NSFW content floating around out there that's certainly not suitable for children.
Android is a highly customizable operating system. Sometimes, we use these capabilities to add core functionality or streamline the user experience, but there are other times when customization is just about having fun and making your smartphone's interface more enjoyable.
Autodesk offers some of the most popular software for computer-aided design (CAD) projects, which involve all sorts of 3D rendering. Their tools are clearly suited for use with the Microsoft HoloLens, but so far very little supports HoloLens development outside of Unity. Why is that?
An app can request a wakelock to prevent your Android device from entering sleep mode so that it can sync data in the background. This obviously drains your battery, because instead of running in low-power sleep mode, your processor is fully activated while it performs its tasks.
Canvas fingerprinting is the web's trickiest privacy threat, but it's not impossible to stop. With all the media attention it's gotten lately, it's time we lay out exactly how to detect and prevent this invasive tracking technique.
Update: August 1, 2014 Earlier today, President Obama signed into law the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act, making the act of unlocking your unsubsidized cell phone 100% legal.
Airports are terrible germ-infested purgatories where people sit around for hours without Wi-Fi while they anxiously await to get wherever they really want to go. Unfortunately, there isn't much we can do about waiting, but this little Wi-Fi hack could help make the waiting a little less boring.
If you've ever searched for a new job online, chances are you've been completely overwhelmed by the process. Clicking through pages and pages of semi-relevant job postings, sending out hundreds of emailed résumés, and filling out applications is tiresome and dull.
Steampunk music is an oft-debated genre, full of bands playing all sorts of different sounds. While this can make it difficult to generalize about the genre as a whole, it means that the average person is bound to like at least some Steampunk bands. That's why it's a great idea to support some independent Steampunk bands this holiday season by buying their music for yourself, or sharing it with someone else.
When the specs for Google's Nexus 4 came out, most critics were more than thrilled. A very fast processor, lots of RAM, a big display with very high resolution, and an 8MP camera made it the media darling of the smartphone world. It climbed the ranks of the best smartphones available, but couldn't quite reach to the top due to one reason—no 4G LTE. Samsung's Galaxy S III and Apple's iPhone 5 both come with 4G LTE, so why couldn't the LG Nexus 4? While there are many reasons, Google was stated...
Our server is primarily a fun server, so we don't often get huge, epic builds of amazingness. And yet that's exactly what we've got with Mgabrys's build, the Portland. Or, more specifically, Zeppelin City OR-2019 "Portland".
A redstone clock is a pretty easy mechanism to make. A digital readout for that redstone clock is a little harder, and that's what Lesnoydude has made that won him the staff choice award.
Give your website a truly professional look by designing your own favicon. Your favicon will appear in the address bar and when your site is bookmared. Using a simple software like MS Paint and following the instructions of this video for editing HTML, you can make your custom favicon appear.
Visit this site and download all of the necessary files, then check out this videos helpful instructions for install the More Creeps and Weirdos mod to Minecraft. Your modded Minecraft world will have more Creeps and Weirdos in it than you'll know what to do with.
Mods can let you change around the way your game looks, and you can download quite a lot of mods for free off Minecraft fan sites. This tutorial shows you where to find the best ones and how to download and install them.
Edit your video footage like a pro with Windows Live Movie Maker. This informative video from Vimeo's excellent Video 101 series of tutorials reviews the steps involved in using the software to create a basic 5x5—that is, a video composed of five clips of five seconds each. The different steps highlighted include importing your video clips, trimming the footage, editing audio, adding transitions, adding text & titles, and uploading to video sharing sites.
If you're looking to shave a few milliseconds off the Zend Engine's work load, check out this tutorial for some PHP programming speed tips. This efficency will pay off when you have tons of traffic to your site and save you valuable server resources.
Use the AutoFill feature in Safari to quickly fill in web forms for sites that you visit again and again and save time when logging in. Form entry data is stored in your address book contacts, and from information you have filled out in web forms before. You can see the passwords used by AutoFill in the OS X keychain, and you can also specify and limit general access to those passwords.
Sometimes server space can be an issue, especially when you're talking about costly actions such as iteration, file scanning, and numerous queries. In those instances it's often best to cache! This tutorial gives you a simple example which can help your site load faster and take less abuse.
This tutorial shows you how to set up an interactive chat box on your website, so you can allow members to communicate with each other in real time. It can be a bit tricky to master, but will definitely be worth it for your site in the long run.
First, make sure that your image is hosted on a secure place online (such as your own Photobucket account). Then go to ImageMaps.com and use this free site to create your own image map that can now be added to your website.
Want to play a treasure hunter in the new World of Warcraft expansion, Cataclsym? You'll want both the archaeology and survey skills in order to locate dig sites and then unearth fragments of artifacts and turn them into something new.
Want to personalize your Minecraft game? This tutorial shows you how you can find custom skins and texture packs on Minecraft fan sites, and then import them to your game. This method will only work for machines running either Windows Vista or 7.
There are seven different snowglobes scattered throughout the various maps in Fallout: New Vegas. This video shows you precisely where you can find each of the seven snow globes - the Goodsprings cemetery, Mormon fort, Mt Charleston, test site, the Strip, Nellis AFB and Hoover Dam.
MetaRL is a site you can sign up with that will let you accrue points that you can cash in for free online currency in your favorite online game. It's a very secure and perfectly legal way to get game currency without having to hack your games.
Circumvent your school's Internet filter with a proxy. This hacker's how-to will show you how it's done. For all of the details, and to get started learning how to acess MySpace and other blocked sites like YouTube and Facebook when on a computer at your own school, take a look.
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use special search parameters like "site:" to improve the quality and specificity of your Google search results. For more information, and to get started using these handy search tricks yourself, watch this hacker's how-to from CNET.
Funfetti cakes are a common site at children's birthday parties, but most of the busy parents who make those happen go with the boxed cake mix version. It's really not too hard to make from scratch for extra flavor! Watch this video to find out how.
In this clip, you'll learn how to define a site when working in Adobe Dreamweaver CS5. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular WYSIWYG HTML editor or a seasoned web development professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the CS5 workflow, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, include detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this free video guide.
In this clip, you'll learn how to block a site on an Apple Mac OS X computer by altering your DNS settings. With a little know-how, it's easy. So easy, in fact, that this video guide can offer a complete overview of the process in a matter of a few minutes. For more information, including a complete demonstration and detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this home-computing how-to from MacMost.
In this clip, you'll learn how to make a call to an external website from within a Silverlight app. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular web application framework or a seasoned web developer merely looking to improve your chops, you're sure to find benefit in this free MS Silverlight programming lesson. For more information, including a complete demonstration and detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
Change the appearance of the user interface for your Dungeons & Dragons Online game. This is a completely free tutorial. This site shows you where you can get the code for custom skins, and then demonstrates how to install it to customize your DDO gameplay experience.
This tutorial demonstrates how you can use ActionScript and Adobe Flash CS3 to set up links on your website to allow users to download various files, such as making .pdfs, .docs or .mp3s available for download. You're also shown how to link to an external website, or set up an email-to link.
Designate a back end or administrator sector of the website, a place you can use to manage the content on the rest of the site. This tutorial shows you how to use Dreamweaver to set up this area of your website and cordon it off from the rest of your website.
Favicons are cute little icons which appear in the browser bar when your website is open. Having this icon adds a little extra branding to your website. You can create your own favicon in Photoshop using the right plugin, and then save it into the root of your site.
Protect your privacy by editing or completely erasing your Amazon search history. It's easy. And this brief video tutorial from the folks at Butterscotch will teach you everything you need to know. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started managing your own web pages with Google Sites, take a look.
Want to get started using the free Nook eReader app to read digital books on your Google Android smartphone? It's easy. And this brief video tutorial from the folks at Butterscotch will teach you everything you need to know. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started managing your own web pages with Google Sites, take a look.
Need a hand figuring out how to set up a wired home LAN network? It's easy. And this brief video tutorial from the folks at Butterscotch will teach you everything you need to know. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started managing your own web pages with Google Sites, take a look.
