Lux Optics, makers of the popular third-party iPhone camera app Halide, has highlighted two major photography features that are in development. The first will bring special filters optimized to make your shot-on-iPhone photographs look as if taken using film cameras by letting you easily apply various professional color adjustments with a tap. The other will bring custom High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging to the app. One-tap color grades will bring gorgeous film looks, and you’ll be able to import custom looks created by others....

Apple introduced iPhone Mirroring in macOS Sequoia, allowing you to use your iPhone through your Mac’s display, keyboard, and mouse. However, there’s one missing feature that Ireallywant. If you have an iPhone running iOS 18 or later, and a Mac running macOS Sequoia or later, you can open theiPhone Mirroring appon your Mac to see your phone’s screen mirrored on your desktop. There were already many ways to see your iPhone’s screen on a Mac, using Apple’s QuickTime Player or third-party apps likeReflector, but the new macOS feature also gives you full near-control over the connected iPhone....

Quick Links A database is a core part of many apps, from full-blown enterprise websites to simple tools like shopping lists and finance trackers. Relational databases driven by SQL are popular, but Linux offers a simpler, more transparent alternative. What Kind of Database Can I Build in Linux? In Linux, the text file is king. With many robust tools and an ecosystem that encourages chaining them together, you’re able to achieve a lot with plain text files....

Quick Links Summary If you hanker for the wavering glow of the long-gone cathode-ray tube, you can recreate the flickering command line of yesteryear on your Linux desktop with this neat, just-for-fun terminal emulator. A Cathode Ray What Now? I’m old. I’ve used computers without any screen whatsoever, bashing my commands intopaper-based teleprinters, and then reading the response from the computer one rattling, clacking word at a time as it waspounded via an inky ribbon onto a paper roll....

Summary Mechanical keyboard switches are clicky and pleasing to the ear, but you can only hear them if you’re using the keyboard. These little, super cheap fidget toys solve that problem. Playing with clicky things calms my mind—it sounds nice and gives my hands something to do while focusing on something else. I used to do this with retractable pens (back in the days when we needed to handwrite essays), much to the dismay of my classmates....

Summary TheNarwal Freo Proisn’t the be-all-end-all of smart vacuums, but for its price point, it delivers an effective clean on par with competitors. I struggle to combat pet hair from two cats and a large dog, and this vacuum’s tangle-free brushes and powerful AI dirt-sensing are up to the task. Narwal Freo Pro The Narwal Freo Pro is both a robot vacuum and mop, with intelligent features like AI DirtSense (for extra scrubbing and vacuuming), a DualFlow tangle-free system with auto-detangling side brushes and a zero-tangle roller brush to combat dirt and hair....

The Nintendo Switch 2 sure looks like every Switch lover’s dream console. Nintendo’s sequel builds on what made the original such a hit, with some big improvements to hardware, controls, and even software. Before you spend your hard-earned money on the console, here are 10 changes you should know about. 1The Switch 2 Has Grown in Size Nintendo’s latestportable gaming console is noticeably bigger and heavierthan its predecessor, but it all works out in its favor....

PayPal has offered its own cryptocurrency for a while, called PayPal USD, intended for peer-to-peer transfers and commerce payments. The company is now rolling out a rewards program that turns your PYUSD balance into something resembling a high-yields savings account, but most people shouldn’t use it. PayPal USDis a ‘stablecoin,’ meaning its value is tied to the US Dollar, instead of fluctuating wildly each day like most cryptocurrencies. PayPal says it’s “backed by dollar deposits, US treasuries, and cash equivalents....

Quick Links With a new Tensor A1 chip and access to Gemini, the Pixel Buds Pro 2 are a strong candidate for the best truly wireless earbuds of 2024. However, do they offer enough upgrades over the original Pixel Buds Pro? Which one should you choose if you’re looking for new earbuds? Let’s find out the answers to those questions and more in this detailed comparison. Price And Availability The newly launchedPixel Buds Pro 2are available to pre-order for $229, $30 more than their predecessor, i....

Proton’s excellent password manager is now available to business. The introduction of Proton Pass for Business will curb cyberattacks and streamline operations in corporate environments, though it will also contribute to Proton’s bottom line and accelerate the development of Proton services. From a cybersecurity standpoint, a business is only as strong as its weakest link. Hackers will usually target an employee before working their way up to critical systems and sensitive data....

Google is adding visited link partitioning to Chrome, making it the first web browser to be fully protected from security vulnerabilities around visited links. The change should roll out to other Chromium-based browsers as well, such as Vivaldi and Microsoft Edge. You’ve probably seen some links in web pages change to a purple color, or some other visual indicator, after you have visited the linked page. Like many other features implemented by web browsers over the years (RIP Battery Status API), it accidentally turned into a great way to track people across the web as they visit different web pages....

Roku smart TVs have been popular for years, but Roku only handles the software side – TCL, Hisense, or other companies design the hardware and sell the final product. Roku now wants to try designing TVs, and has revealed its first lineup of Roku-made smart TVs at CES. 🎉 The Roku Select and Plus Series TVs areHow-To Geek Best of CES 2023 award winners! Make sure to check out our full list of winners to learn more about exciting products coming in 2023....

Summary VirtualBox lets you run Linux in a virtual machine, and you’ll often find your virtual disks continually growing in size, even though you’ve been clearing them of files. I’ll show you how to shrink these volumes back down to size, compacting them and saving your disk space. Why Your VirtualBox Linux Guest Isn’t Automatically Shrinking If you’ve usedVirtualBoxwith Windows guests (in virtual machine terminology the “guest” is the operating system running within the virtual machine), you’re probably used to your VirtualBox disk volumes shrinking as you delete files from them, so that they only use up as much space on your physical disk as they need to contain the files in them....