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How to Turn Off the Narrator on Xbox One

Have the Narrator stuck on your Xbox One and can’t figure out how to turn it off? This accessibility feature is designed to help people with visual impairments use the console, but if you accidentally turn it on and don’t need it, it can quickly get annoying. How to Turn Off the Narrator on Xbox… read more »

The Nintendo Switch Is the Fastest Selling Console Ever

The Nintendo Switch is now the fastest-selling games console of all time in the United States. In the 10 months since the Switch was launched on March 3, 2017, Nintendo has sold 4.8 million units in the U.S. alone. That’s 800,000 more units than the Wii managed in the same timeframe. The aforementioned Wii is… read more »

How to Convert an Image to a Vector in Illustrator

Images cover every nook and cranny of the internet. Unfortunately, most of them are very low-quality. If you want to start an art project, or play around with the Adobe suite, without having to rely on crappy online images, you’ll need to convert an image to a vector graphic. Read on to turn any JPG… read more »

How to Delete Recently Watched on Netflix

Netflix does a lot of things exceptionally well, but content discovery is not one of them. It’s surprisingly difficult to dig deep into the company’s library to find enjoyable new stuff to watch. Instead, users often have to rely on the not-user-friendly secret codes. In theory, you shouldn’t need to use the codes. The Netflix… read more »

Microsoft Kills the Kinect Adapter for Xbox One

Microsoft has discontinued the Kinect Adapter, effectively killing the already-pretty-dead Kinect peripheral. The Kinect Adapter is the USB accessory required to connect a Kinect to the Xbox One S, Xbox One X, or a Windows PC. So if you want one, you had better buy one while stocks last. The Kinect was originally released in… read more »

The First Bitcoin Was Mined 9 Years Ago Today

On January 3, 2009, a person by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first Bitcoin. It was easy to mine, was worthless, and contained a hidden message. Nine years on and Bitcoin is the cryptocurrency everyone’s heard of, and each one is (at the time of writing) worth a small fortune. For the uninitiated… read more »

What Is Cryptojacking and How Can You Avoid It?

A new security threat is in town: cryptojacking. The cryptocurrency explosion is moving nefarious individuals to power mining systems anyway possible. And the latest method for securing additional, free power is by hijacking your system resources. We wrote recently concerning the significant rise in browser-based cryptocurrency mining scripts. Well, those scripts are now in their… read more »

How to Curve Text in Photoshop Around Any Shape

Curving text around a simple shape in Adobe Photoshop is a handy skill to know. For instance, you might want to create a circular logo with some text that surrounds it. Or a quick mockup of a rubber stamp. Just remember that wrapping text along a circular path is different from warping text in Photoshop — the… read more »

WhatsApp Ends Support for Windows Phone & BlackBerry

If you still have a phone running an old operating system then it’s time to consider upgrading. Because WhatsApp is no longer supporting BlackBerry OS, BlackBerry 10, and Windows Phone 8.0. Which is entirely understandable given the small number of people still using them. Android and iOS now power 99.6 percent of new smartphones. And… read more »

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