I’m A Bad Driver, So BMW Sent Me To Cone College Automotive journalism can be humbling. You go into it thinking you’re a great driver and you know a lot about cars, but over time those illusions get shattered. The car knowledge side of things fades away after the third random conversation about cylinder head bolt tensions on a 1974 Ford Pinto engine. The “I’m a good driver” illusion tends to get shattered much more spectacularly....
Quick Links With a possibleTikTok banlooming in the US, many are wondering, “Where are we all going to next?” For some, the answer is RedNote, known as Xiaohongshu in China. It’s an app that seems a lot like TikTok but addsInstagramandPinterest-likefeatures into the mix. It lets you share videos, photos, and text, as well as shop directly, all while using an interest-based algorithm to serve up content. I first noticed TikTok users talking about RedNote last weekend, and now it’s all over my For You Page....
Is The iPad Air A Viable Alternative To The MacBook Air? Among the Apple portfolio of devices, both the MacBook Air andiPad Airdevices fit the needs of a very specific kind of user, which is someone who values portability. If this sounds like you, but you’re not sure which one fits your specific needs the most, don’t worry. As a technology journalist with over five years of experience covering Apple devices, I’ve looked into some of the most crucial factors that may affect your decision-making process, such as the overall portability, hardware specifications, software implications, peripheral options, and your work flow....
LaCie LaCinema Classic HD: 1TB, 1080p HD And DLNA LaCie seem to be going back and filling in any blanks in their mediaplayer line-up right now, neatly slotting theLaCinema Classic HDinto the range. Coming somewhere in-between the non-HDLaCinema Classicand the HDD-freeLaCinema Classic Bridge, the new device promises Full HD 1080p playback of various formats – including DivX, MKV, AVC and H.264 – from its 1TB internal hard-drive, together with DLNA media server support....
Ah,Life is Strange.We’ve been together for nearly a decade now and I can remember the very first time I sat down and enjoyed Max Caulfield’s first story as we got to see her make use of her new time powers. It was a bumpy road at times, but it was still an enjoyable, memorable journey. Since then, though, the series has struggled when it came to making entries that were as memorable as the first, though this writer would argue thatLife is Strange 2andTrue Colorswere good games as well....
Afterflipping its way onto the smartphone scene in inimitable style, the Motorola Razr is back for round two. But don’t call it the Razr 2 - as the 2020 model is the 5G variant, which also brings with it some design and feature tweaks. Central to the Motorola Razr 5G is, as the name spells out loud and clear, it brings faster connectivity potential as a result of using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 765 platform....
Intelliborn’s MyWi, the landmark tethering tool for jailbroken iOS devices, has been updated for iOS 8 in the form of a public beta. The update, which is now available on Cydia, brings enhanced tethering capability to iOS devices. Some may argue against using a tool like MyWi since iOS 8 makes it even easier to connect to hotspot-enabled iPhones and iPads. But MyWi has a definite one-up on stock tethering due to the amount of options and stats that it presents to the user....
It’s been a year sinceOculus Queststarted shipping. The popular, wire-free VR headset has done well in that time and now is seeing some great updates to make things even more interesting. Back in late 2019Oculus announcedthe Quest was going to get headset was going to get hand-tracking capabilities. At that point, it was justan experimental featurethat you had to opt into. Now the companyhas announcedthat it’s moving into general release, meaning it’ll be more widely available....
One Of The Weirdest Tanks Of WWII: The Praying Mantis World War II saw a wide variety of tanksdeployed by Allied and Axis forces, but one of the strangest of the era was a British model that, despite some useful features, never actually saw its way into battle. The Praying Mantis was privately funded and built by Ernest James Tapp, the co-founder of County Commercial Cars. He secured the patent for the design in 1937 and started building the unique machine a few years later as the war raged acrossEurope....
Keyboard shortcuts are something we all have on our personal computers, whether it’s a Mac or a PC, but it’s not something that we get to enjoy on our iPhones or iPads. A new jailbreak tweak dubbedProtonixis now available in Cydia that lets you set up dynamic keywords on your device so that when you type them, special things will happen. We’ll show you more in this review. Keywords? What does that mean?...
Creating a one-size-fits-all performance and gamingkeyboardseems almost too lofty of a goal, but Razer decided to give it a go anyway. The BlackWidow V4 Pro is billed as the ultimate battlestation mechanical keyboard, and I had the chance to go hands-on with it over the past few weeks. While there are plenty ofappsandprogramsthat can enhance your experience, some new, shiny hardware is hard to beat. A keyboard designed for work and play seemed right up my alley as an avid and a work-from-home business owner, and I wanted to share my impressions in this review....
Modern iPhones have become so massive that it’s becoming a challenge to operate them one-handed. For this reason, Apple implemented a feature in iOS calledReachabilitythat pulls the contents of your display farther down so you can reach them with your thumb. On any stock device, the Reachability interface leaves a large gap of unused space at the top of your display, but a new freejailbreak tweakcalledReachItby iOS developerNepetamakes use of that wasted screen real estate by incorporating a Now Playingmusicinterface into it....
InResident Evil Village: Shadows of Rose, the third and final mask you’ll need in the first section is the gold mask. Getting to it is a bit trickier than it would initially seem, however, as you need to look around carefully and be aware of the enemy spawns to avoid taking any damage. This guide will break down exactly what you need to do so you’ll get the mask quickly and without getting hurt....
