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Amazon Echo is a virtual assistant that is looking to rival Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Windows 10 is used extensively by individuals of all professions around the world, and there Hardware Compatibility If you want to start from scratch, then there are plenty of resources Short View '> How To Recover Your iPhone Files, Photos, Contacts, Notes, SMS, Call History, Etc. Amazon Echo is a virtual assistant that is looking to rival Apple s Siri and Microsoft s Cortana, but there are elements that really help the Echo standout from its most competitors. Let us look at some of the elements and also the reasons why Amazon Echo is successful. 1.     The design of the device When the Amazon Echo is placed in a room, it almost looks as though it belongs there. You get the feeling it has always been in the room. With a black finish that looks extremely simplistic and also an LED powered ring that lits up at the top of the device, there s no denying that it is an extremely well-designed product. You also don t have to fuss about the size since it is only 9 inches in height and 3 inches in width. The compact size enables you to put it anywhere you wish. 2.     The simplicity in the device s usage You can ask Amazon Echo to do various things such as information on what route you must avoid during peak traffic hours, what your schedule for the day looks like or even trivial questions that the Amazon Echo will find out for you. The device is powered by Alexa, who is more than capable of fetching information, no matter how trivial it may seem. 3.     Virtual Assistant App Although there has been criticism when it comes to the companion app that is tied with the Amazon Echo, which can be download for free on both iOS and Android, the app has been on an upward trend because of the work that is being put in. Many of the bugs and issues that are being reported are either being worked on or ironed out. These bugs, without the updates, were the root cause for the app to crash continuously. The app is used for changing the volume and also for launching apps. 4.     Effective Alarm Clock Apart from being an excellent assistant, the built-in alarm clock is extremely useful as you will be able to control everything through simple voice commands. This is useful since you do Read More Reasons Why Ubuntu Is Better Than Windows 10 November 2, 2018February 22, 2019 Windows 10 is used extensively by individuals of all professions around the world, and there is no question about its popularity and success as an operating system. But when it comes down to the nitty-gritty details, it becomes apparent that Windows 10 isn t the best operating system. Although not the perfect system, Ubuntu is an OS, free and open source mind you, that can ask questions of its mammoth competition. There is also no doubt that Windows will rule the OS market when it comes down to desktops and notebooks. But Ubuntu is still an OS that shouldn t be ruled out just yet. Here are respects where Ubuntu is better than Windows 10. 1.     Privacy Starting with the main one, the most significant drawback that Windows 10 suffers from is their privacy setting. The OS is responsible for letting Microsoft access data which you may think is private and to turn this feature off, you most certainly would have to make use of a third party software. This practice is shady is, without an ounce of doubt, extremely questionable since users aren t given the option to opt out of this. Ubuntu is also responsible for sharing private info with Amazon. In this regard, both operating systems are guilty of the same crime, but the option can be disabled using only one option. Corey Batt from https://clickburst.com.au/ notes that he personally uses Ubuntu specifically for this feature, coming from an information security background. 2.     Interface inconsistencies Windows 10 suffers from UI problems that can be downright impossible to deal with. This problem is well-known among the users of the OS and Microsoft continues to fail in this regard. Since there are two panels for changing option, the control panel and the settings menu, users are often unclear as to which screen they re supposed to go to in order to improve the settings that they want. Whereas in Ubuntu, you only have access one menu to change what you like, with exceptions stemming from application-based settings. 3.     Security and viral threats Operating systems made by Microsoft has always been a target for malware and Read More The Best Hackintosh Distribution August 13, 2009November 17, 2018 Hardware Compatibility If you want to start from scratch, then there are plenty of resources on the Web where you can find hardware compatibility lists (HCL), that tells you what specific Desktop or Portable Computers and Components that have been proven to run OS X. Then you can go hardware hunting to get the same specs and hope for the best because there’s still no guarantee it would work 100 percent. The key is to keep on searching and reading from others’ experiences. The good news is, there is no shortage of Hackintosh user experiences on the Net. Sources for Hardware Compatibility List (HCL): OSx86 Project Wiki InsanelyMac OSx86 Database Hackintosh Distributions Hackintosh distributions are patched/modified Mac OS X versions that will let you boot and run OS X on your PC. The problem however is that different PCs have different specs and components and not all of them are supported by the device drivers (kexts) included in the distribution. The last time I checked, there are around 5 or 6 different Hackintosh distributions available on the Net. Choosing what is best for you often is a trial-and-error process, until installing from a Mac OS X retail DVD became possible. Most Hackintosh distributions I tried before works well for the existing Mac OS X versions at the time but updating to a newly released Mac OS X version means doing additional hacks or waiting for a patched version of the Hackintosh distro. Not good. But since I built my Hackintosh on Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.4 using a retail DVD and the Boot-132 CD, all future updates of the Mac OS X Leopard can be done from the Software Update in the OS itself–just like a Mac user would. That is true for all other updates such as security patches and application updates. Read More How to Reduce the Size of Your iPhone’s “Other” Files June 1, 2009November 17, 2018 When your iPhone is connected to your computer, iTunes displays a color-coded capacity bar at the bottom. The problem often occurs with the Other category that is colored orange. These are the rest of the files that do not belong to the other displayed categories like Video, Photos, Apps, etc. Examples are the Operating System files, Contacts, Calendars, Email, SMS, Notes, Bookmarks, Cache, History, Cookies, Recent Calls, etc. Usually, the Other files do not grow larger than a gigabyte, depending of course on how you use your iPhone. Corrupt files can sometimes contribute to a much larger Other. When this happens, you may have to do a Backup, Restore and Re-sync. Ooh, that’s a pain! So before doing a restore as a last resort, you can check for duplicate files using the free app for Mac and Windows called Disk Aid. Just follow this steps: Connect your iPhone to your computer. Open Disk Aid. Click on iTunes_Control - Music - Fxx (F00, F01, etc.). Look for duplicate mp4 files. If you’re not sure, you can copy the files to your computer by clicking on the icon Copy to Mac or PC and view them first. Delete duplicate mp4 files or delete them all and re-sync later. Do the same in iTunes_Control_2. If you now check your iPhonce capacity, the orange bar should now be smaller. Read More How To Save and Read Your iPhone Text Messages On Your Computer December 4, 2008February 22, 2019 This tutorial will help you save all those important and juicy text messages on your iPhone to your computer for later reading. Why would you need to do this? For all kinds of reasons. You may be an individual who changes phones often and prefer to keep all your data on a PC, or are visually impaired and need a large screen, or a business owner who likes to track and record all calls for auditing and quality control purposes. Alex Sanders from Adelaide Plumber notes he saves and records his messages onto PCs as each of his plumbers have their own sub-mobile number, and to ensure they re all providing the best service they go into a centralised message hub which is audited. If you followed my previous tutorial, “How To Recover Your iPhone Files, Photos, Contacts, Notes, SMS, Call History, Etc.”, you learned how to recover iPhone files from a backup on your computer to restore back to your iPhone. By now you should already downloaded and installed two free applications called DiskAid and iPhone Backup Extractor. For this tutorial, we only need DiskAid to transfer your text messages or SMS from your iPhone to your computer, but we need another one to read those messages from a database and save them in a file format that can be read and properly formatted by an application like MS Excel or any other spreadsheet. This is where we need SQLite Database Browser. Use DiskAid To Copy “sms.db” From iPhone To Computer (1) Connect your iPhone to your computer. (2) Open DiskAid (3) Click the pull-down at the bottom of the screen where it says Media Folder and select Root Folder (click Go Ahead when a warning window pops up). (4) Click User - Library - SMS - sms.db. (5) Click the Copy to Folder icon above and save the “sms.db” file to a folder in your computer. (6) From your compuer, right-click on sms.db and open it with the SQLite Database Browser application you just installed. (7) From the SQLite Database Browser, click on the menu File - Read More How To Recover Your iPhone Files, Photos, Contacts, Notes, SMS, Call History, Etc. December 2, 2008November 17, 2018 Some reason, you lost some important information on your iPhone, whether from 3rd party applications, your photos, contacts, notes, SMS, call history, calendar, etc., and doing a restore from iTunes is futile, don’t give up yet! As long as you have performed a backup in iTunes recently, your data is safely tucked away in a database in your computer—but you need another tool that can read and extract the data so you can copy it back to your iPhone. Use iPhone Backup Extractor (1) Open iPhone Backup Extractor (2) Click Read Backups (3) Select from Device Name or Date where you want to retrieve your backup data and click Choose. (4) Select the Application where you want data be restored from or scroll down and select Other Files if you want to restore data from the built-in iPhone apps such as photos, address book, notes, SMS, etc. In this example, we will extract the Notes backup to our computer so we need to select Other Files. (5) Click Extract and select a folder where you want to extract the Notes data in your computer (remember this location). Use DiskAid To Copy Backup Data To iPhone (6) Connect your iPhone to your Computer. (7) Open DiskAid. (8) Click the pull-down at the bottom of the screen where it says Media Folder and select Root Folder (click Go Ahead when a warning window pops up). For this example, we will recover data from our Notes application. (9) Click User - Library - Notes. (10) Click the Copy to Device icon above. (11) Go to the folder where you extracted the Other Files backup files (in step 5) and select “notes.db“. (12) Click Open. (13) Click Replace. (14) Check your iPhone to verify the recovered data. (15) Do the same for the rest of your data that you want to recover. Read More Hackintosh Tutorial: Install a Mac Leopard September 4, 2008April 29, 2019 After building Hackintosh machines using different modified OS X installers, the hackintosh community has come a long way and is within grasp of achieving the holy grail of running Mac OS X on PCs—installing the original, unmodified OS X DVDs created by Apple for Macs on ordinary IBM compatible personal computers. Well, almost. While we can now use a retail Mac OS X DVD to turn our PC into a hackintosh, we still need a bootloader to get it to recognize and install OS X the first time. The good news is, after a successful installation, we can now install any updates from Apple without breaking our system or reinstall the operating system without having to add the same kexts (drivers) that we already have that makes our non-Mac standard hardware peripherals work. PLEASE NOTE: follow the steps exactly and backup before starting otherwise your mac can be corrupted and require a computer repair specialist. Pre-requisites A PC with Intel Core Processors and Chipset (AMD is not yet supported). A Blank CD (for Boot-132). A retail Mac OS X DVD Installer (not an Upgrade OS X DVD). Download the Leopard 10.5.4 ComboUpdate here. Download the Chameleon for Hard Disk here. Download the Boot-132 Generic ISO here (generic.iso). Download EFIStudio here. Step 1. Before You Begin Burn the Boot-132 Generic ISO on a CD. This BootCD should work fine for most hardware configurations; after which, it should be able to install the retail OS X DVD. If this doesn’t work for you, you may need to modify the contents and add the necessary kexts for your hardware. More info here. Step 2. Install Leopard. 1. Insert your BootCD and boot/start your PC. 2. On the boot prompt, press Enter. You will be asked to enter a two-digit hexadecimal boot device (do not enter anything yet). 3. Remove the BootCD and replace it with the Mac OS X Retail DVD. Wait for the blinking light on your DVD drive to stop and then hit Enter (this will read your DVD drive and not your HD). Hint: If you keep going back Read More Excellent Digital Painting Video Tutorial for Beginners June 23, 2008November 17, 2018 You’re a noob in digital painting and struggling to create your first digital masterpiece, you need a very good video tutorial to get you up to speed fast. Otherwise, you will quickly run into problems and get frustrated fast. I have tried many tutorials on the web but a lot of them assume you already know what settings to use for paint brushes in Photoshop, such as what size, shape, opacity and flow, and how to apply colors, textures and blending to your painting. Other video tutorials were recorded several times faster than normal or recorded without sounds so you wouldn’t really learn from them. This is where I will share one digital painting video tutorial that I found when I was starting that really got me up and painting in no time. I found this in the CGSociety Forum created by Neil Fontaine or “architectus”. The size of the file is 50 Mb and you need to have Real Media Player to view it. I was hoping he uploaded it to YouTube or Google Video in several parts for easy viewing but I did a quick search and yeilded no results. I have the file but I cannot upload it myself to YouTube because I have no rights over it. Nevertheless, it is an excellent video for beginners and it’s free so it will be worth your while. I promise. Read More

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