Because of that, it has changed the way credit cards are accepted. There are no more of those slider machines that take an imprint of your card. Increasingly the store clerk doesn’t even have to handle it, as you either slide the card yourself, tap it on a reader, or insert it in a chip reader. That is, unless you have decided to rely on mobile payments such as Apple Pay or Google Pay....

Introduction There are times when a regular vacuum cleaner just won’t cut it – there’s simply too much dust to collect or too big an area to tackle. For those jobs, there’s the Henry XL Plus, a supersized version of the much-loved Henry. Design and Features Huge 15-litre capacityWide range of toolsOnly one bag in the box It’s difficult to tell from pictures just how large the Henry XL Plus is....

To see the list of current processes running, you can use the ps command. Try this in a terminal: The aux parameters tell ps to list all the system processes with extra information about who owns the processes and what calling parameters were used. As you can see, the list shows processes owned by different users including “pi” (the default Raspbian user on a Raspberry Pi), “root” and “www-data”. Here is a slightly modified screenshot which shows the processes along with fuller details about the commands and their parameters....

Highlight simply lets you apply color to selected text for emphasis. You can select a highlight color from the drop-down box. Bookmark lets you save the page URL and add notes, tags and descriptions along with it. When you view this bookmark on Diigo, all your annotations (highlighted text and sticky notes) will appear below it. Note that this action will not save the entire article into Diigo, but only the URL....

Hotshots is a screenshot tool written with Qt. One of the things that differentiates it from the default screen capture tool is the built-in image editor that you can use immediately after taking screenshot. This will save you the effort of saving the screenshot and open it with another image editor. Installation of HotShots HotShots is available for both Windows and Linux. For Ubuntu (and all other Ubuntu-based distros),you can install via the PPA: For Windows users, you can grab the installer from its SourceForge page....

How does Face ID work? Face ID is powered by Apple’s TrueDepth camera. When the user enrolls in Face ID, this infrared camera scans their face and creates a depth map with more than 30,000 points. The iPhone X uses these points to create a mathematical model of the face and then stores that model securely. On future unlock attempts, the camera re-scans the user’s face and compares the result. If it’s sufficiently similar, the device unlocks....

Our Opinion Almost all our writers are usually using two monitors. Damien uses two for programming work as it allows him to open multiple applications and browsers without having a crowded screen. Derrik uses one monitor for what he’s working on and the secondary monitor for the side programs. Phil finds that using two monitors really helps him with video editing, especially when he’s working on long-form pieces. It allows him to “keep better tabs on the assets like rushes and audio....

Even though they might all stream in the same quality ranges (generally 480p to 4K for video, 128Kbps up to 320Kbps for audio), not all compression algorithms are created the same. How much data is your favorite streaming service using? Netflix Might as well start with the biggest data user of them all in the room, Netflix. According to the company’s website, the Netflix streaming service breaks down like this in terms of the amount of data they use for each connection:...

Adding a Specific Website If you have a specific website in mind that you’d like to add to the home screen, it can be done very easily. You can add individual webpages to your home page where it won’t look too unlike the apps you’ve downloaded. Adding Multiple Websites While adding a single website is useful, there may be times where you would like to add multiple bookmarks in one go to your home screen on Android....

In the Internet era where all sorts of information is available to be accessed, differences in languages are a problem. And as a web owner, you should provide solutions to make your visitors’ life easier, or they will leave you for the ones who will. One of the solutions to the language barrier is to use tooltips to give an immediate explanation or definition to a less-common term. And if you are a WordPress user, there’s a plugin for that....

In this article we give you an introduction to node-based compositing and show you how to do a basic green screen composite shot with Blender. Not Easy Being Green Obviously, to get the best green screen composites you have to shoot good “plates.” “Plates” are the main bits of the shot that you bolt together in movie visual effects. You have the foreground plate and the green screen bit with an actor filmed in front of a green screen....

If you are frequently browsing the Web, you will notice that many blogs are showing image thumbnails for the Related Posts section, just like what we did in Make Tech Easier. In WordPress, there are several ways that this can be done. Let’s check it out. Using a plugin The easiest way to implement the image thumbnail (without any coding) is via a plugin. LinkWithin is one such tool that you can use....

Note: In this article we’ll be using maketecheasier as the user. When you set this up, be sure to change it to your own username. Also, the method listed below will work in any Linux distro. Ubuntu is only used as an example. Creating a new user with useradd Creating a new user with the useradd command can be done very easily and has a lot of different switches and flags in order to set the user up in a certain way....

Once installed, press “Alt + F2” and type “ccsm“. Scroll down the list until you see the icon “Ubuntu Unity Plugin”. Click on it. Under the “Reveal Mode” section. You should be able to see the option to hide launcher. You can select “Never”, “Autohide”, “Dodge Windows” or “Dodge Active Windows”. The default option is “Dodge Windows”, but you can change it to “Autohide”, or “Never” if you want the launcher to be always there....

Altering the Font Style Start your Chrome browser and go to the top of the webpage, to the right of the address bar, where you will find the three dots in the top corner. Tap on the dots and a drop-down menu of options will appear. Scroll down the list until you find the Settings tab and click on it. A new page will open in a new tab. This is the settings page that controls the appearance and internal workings of the Chrome browser on your device....

In this article we will show you how to use the networksetup command to change the servers. This command brings with it a number of things you can do on your machine, but we will only be using it to modify the DNS servers. Changing the DNS Servers Using Terminal on a Mac Click on Launchpad in your dock, search for and click on Terminal, and it will launch for you....

How to Change Default Apps in Windows 11 Like its predecessor Windows 10, all system changes in Windows 11 follow the default “Settings” in search menu. The only thing that has changed is the centered search icon on the taskbar which can be a bit tricky to locate. To change the browser or any other Windows 11 default apps, select “Apps” from the system menu. Once inside the Apps menu, select the “Default apps” option....

Easy as a Snap One of the quickest and easiest ways to check battery life on your AirPods is to simply open the case. Whenever your AirPods are in the case next to your iPhone or iPad, open the case and look at your home screen. After a few seconds, you will see a prompt at the bottom of your screen showing you the battery status of your AirPods and the charging case....

Alternatively, you can combine all of your documents in Microsoft Words and export them to a PDF. How PDFtk Works PDFtk stands for “PDF Toolkit.” PDFtk Server allows you to merge PDF documents, split PDF pages into new documents, rotate PDF pages, decrypt and encrypt, update metadata, apply watermarks, and much more. It is free, open source software available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Best of all, it does not require Acrobat or any other Adobe products to work....

Installation Ananicy needs systemd to work, so it isn’t compatible with every distribution under the sun. To install it on Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, and compatible distributions, use: If you are on Arch, Manjaro, or another similar distribution, you can install it with: Ananicy also relies on schedtool, so if it’s not already installed, make sure to add this, too. You can do that on Debian-compatible and Arch-compatible distributions, respectively, with: With everything set up, enable its daemon to have it always active and monitoring your applications: To start the actual application, use: If you are on a low-powered system, where every piece of software is fighting for resources, it may start feeling somewhat more responsive right away....