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How To: Avoid spam email

Make it harder for spammers to clog your inbox with ads and scams. Learn how to avoid spam email with this Howcast video. You will need a secondary email address, a keen eye, and an anti-spam program. Tip: Never click on links in spam email - including "unsubscribe" links, and never, ever reply!

AR Snapshots: Celebrate Pride Month with These Snapchat Augmented Reality Lenses

June is Pride Month, an annual celebration of LGBTQ+ communities in commemoration of the Stonewall uprising of 1969.

How To: Load a custom ROM on a rooted HTC Aria Google Android smartphone

Unlock your HTC Aria's hidden potential by running a custom ROM on it! Loading custom ROMs lets you do fun things with your HTC Aria like overclocking it, and even turning it into a wireless hotspot with WiFi tethering. For all of the details, and to learn how to put a custom ROM on your own Aria, take a look.

How To: Make a Ticklebox as a gag gift for holidays or birthdays

This gift will give the recipient a nice little zap when they open it! All you'll need is some basic electronics that you can find at any retailer like Radio Shack, and a soldering iron for a little bit of detail work.

News: PTC Offers Free Trial of ThingWorx Platform

For companies wary of the temperature, PTC just made it easier for them to dip their toes in the waters of augmented reality.

News: Downloads for Encrypted Messaging App Signal Have Almost Doubled Since Trump Took Office

Signal, the encrypted messaging app, has seen 1.4 million downloads in just the first quarter of 2017—roughly twice the downloads it received in the same period last year. Rani Molla at Recode attributes this to Donald Trump's inauguration, as the private messaging service saw a 40% increase in US downloads between Election Day and the end of the first quarter of 2017.

News: Blippar Reborn as One of Britain's 'Brothers Bling' Buys Up Augmented Reality Assets for Relaunch

Augmented reality and computer vision company Blippar has a new lease on life, as previous investor Candy Ventures has completed a successful bid to acquire the assets of the beleaguered company.

How To: View Your Friend's Tweets in the Contacts App on Mac OS X Mountain Lion

A hidden feature residing in Mac OS X Mountain Lion is the ability to view and also reply to your friend's tweets through the Contacts application, previously known as Address Book. The only way to do this, though, is to provide your Twitter account login data to the Contacts app. To integrate your Twitter, just go to System Preferences, then click on Mail, Contacts & Calendars and choose Twitter. Put in your Twitter login information and then click on Update Contacts. Twitter will use your e...

News: DottyAR Lets You View 3D Models on Smartphones & Coming Soon to ODG Smartglasses

While augmented reality is mostly in the minds of consumers in the form of Pokémon GO, AR has been popular behind the scenes, with AR companies marketing it as a tool to help business operations become more efficient. This business-to-business market is the target of the new app DOTTYAR, which "provides 3D visualization tools for augmented reality viewers."

How To: Mark locations in Google Earth

This video describes the basics of marking locations in Google Earth.

How To: Play NES on an iPhone or iTouch

User FL1PPY explains how to play an NES on an iPhone. First, log in to your iPod with Win SCP. Locate the Applications folder. Drag the NES.app folder into the 'Applications' folder. Open the NES folder and find the NES file. Right click, choose 'properties', and set permissions to 777. Restart your iPhone. The application should appear on phone. Next, to install games, log back into to Win SCP and locate the mobile folder. Open media folder and create 2 new folders called "ROMs" and "NES". R...

News: Chrome for iOS Updated to Add a 'Read Later' Feature

Google just pushed out an update to Chrome for iOS, with the main change being a new feature called "Read Later". Read Later is a nifty little feature that allows you to download and save web pages that you can read even if you're offline. Being a subway rider in NYC, I know very well how annoying the lack of an internet connection can be when traveling, which makes this feature all the more handy.

How To: Install a Mirror screen protector on an HTC Evo 4G Google Android smartphone

In this clip, you'll learn how to install a Mirror screen protector on an HTC Evo 4G. Whether you're the proud owner of a Verizon HTC Evo 4G Google Android smartphone or are merely considering picking one up, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, including a complete demonstration and detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to see what it takes to install a screen protector on your own Evo 4G, take a look.

How To: Avoid adware, spyware, and keyloggers on your computer

In this episode, Brandon Jackson shows how to merge two images with the Photoshop gradient tool to create a banner montage. Doug Grammar joins D.Lee Beard again, this time to explain spyware, adware, and keylogging. They explain what these threats to your privacy & computer speed are as well as how to prevent and get rid of them. Speaking of security, Jason Rybicki shows one way to tell if your privacy is being compromised on a Mac using a free widget.

News: Facebook Messenger Update Targets Augmented Reality Features in Snapchat

Continuing its unrelenting (and mostly successful) campaign against Snapchat, on Tuesday, Facebook announced the addition of "World Effects" to its Messenger app.

Data Breach: Spotify Users Need to Update Their Android App Right Now

Adobe, eBay, and iCloud have been hacked...now add Spotify to that list. The company has stated that on May 27th, they became aware of "some unauthorized access to [their] systems and internal company data" but that "only one Spotify user's data has been accessed and this did not include any password, financial or payment information."

How To: Delete or "unlike" a fan page on Facebook

In this clip, learn how to reverse your "like" for a certain fan page on Facebook. This process is super easy and only requires a few simple clips. Follow along and get rid of things you are no longer a fan of, or are cluttering your profile page. This is effective for the newest Facebook (6/10).

How To: Jailbreak or unlock your 3G iPhone using sn0wbreeze

Sn0wbreeze 1.5 is another program you can use to jailbreak your 3G iPhone. This tutorial shows you how to use this software to jailbreak your phone. There's also an option to unlock your phone so you can use the phone with a different carrier.

News: See a Fully Realized Mixed Reality Future in This Award-Winning Short Film

It's impossible to predict the future, but it's fun to try. Adapted from Daniel H. Wilson's short story of the same name, filmmaker Giacomo Cimini's short film "The Nostalgist" shows a futuristic world where mixed reality serves as an escape from a less-desirable physical world.

News: Snapchat Extends 3D Camera Effects from Spectacles 3 to iPhone's TrueDepth Camera

After adding dual cameras to its camera glasses, Snap is finally taking full advantage of the depth-sensing abilities of newer iPhones as well, extending the use of its new 3D Camera Mode.

How To: Use the Easy Set Up feature on a Samsung Intensity II phone

Learn how to use the Easy Set Up tool on a Samsung Intensity II phone. Whether you're a proud owner of the Samsung Intensity II phone or are merely considering picking one up, you're sure to benefit from this video tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.

News: Here's When Your Samsung Galaxy Is Getting Android 6.0 Marshmallow

It looks like a lot of Samsung's Galaxy series of smartphones and tablets will be upgraded to Android Marshmallow 6.0 by the start of this summer.

How To: DC Versus AC and the Diode

Direct current (DC) by definition flows in one direction. Alternating current (AC), on the other hand, periodically changes direction, or reverses polarity. It is indeed possible for a portion of a circuit that is normally DC to periodically change direction, or reverse polarity like an AC circuit.

Apple AR: Watch Our World Change from Night to Day Using ARKit

We've seen some pretty cool space-related Apple ARKit demos in the past few weeks. One guy literally had the entire solar system rotating around the sun in his bedroom. Now, a recent demo shows that you can get up close and personal with our Earth, watching how it changes as it rotates.

News: The World's First $4 Android Phone Is Here... Maybe

A little-known company in India is making waves after announcing that it will sell an Android 5.1 Lollipop smartphone for less than $4 (or, more precisely, 251 rupees). The Freedom 251, from Ringing Bells, sounds almost too good to be true. Is that because it is?

News: Vermeer Beta iPhone App Lets You Use Augmented Reality to Map Out Your Drone Flight

Augmented reality and drones already go together like turkey and stuffing, but a new iOS app adds some spice to the combination with a new kind of flight path automation.

Market Reality: Mira Closes Funding Round as Cappasity Prepares Blockchain Crowdsale

If competition in the augmented reality space was a spectator sport, then ARKit, ARCore, and HoloLens dominate the prime-time broadcasts on ESPN.

News: Woah! Snapchat Wants to Map Your World with AR

Snapchat is attempting to take over the world via augmented reality technology. Well, it's more of a virtual makeover than a takeover, but still ...

How To: Check All of Your Social Media Notifications in Chrome at the Same Time

Checking notifications from all of your social media accounts is half the fun of the Internet, but can become quite tedious—hopping from site to site can take up hours of your time, especially when you're running away from something (in my case, it was always homework/studying).

How To: Translate languages using Google Firefox Extension

A video tutorial on how to simply translate any word using Google Translate Firefox Extension by alt-clicking. A great way to translate from any language to any other language.

News: What Huawei's Rumored Mobile OS Means for the US Market

Huawei has been in a losing battle with the US government for around ten years, with the last year being the spike of Huawei's problems. Because of US pushback against some Chinese-based smartphone manufacturers due to security concerns, Huawei is hoping to limit its dependency on US-based companies, and recent rumors of Huawei's very own mobile operating system may be the first step.

Online Dating Moves to Reality: 'Bumble' App Opens Dating Lounge in NYC

Single and living in NYC? Forget bars, the female-empowered dating app, Bumble, has just opened a place where you can meet up with your online lovers.

How To: Use the Nook eReader app on a Google Android smartphone

Want to get started using the free Nook eReader app to read digital books on your Google Android smartphone? It's easy. And this brief video tutorial from the folks at Butterscotch will teach you everything you need to know. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started managing your own web pages with Google Sites, take a look.

How To: Setup your LG KF510 mobile phone

If you cannot be satisfied with conventional cell phone designs, but want to captivate people's attention, bring yourself to accentuate your true style with the nouveau minimalist look of the LG KF510.

News: Apple Releases iOS 13.2 Developer Beta, Includes 'Deep Fusion' Camera Update for iPhone 11, 11 Pro & 11 Pro Max

Beta testing Apple's mobile OS has never been more interesting. After eight seeds of iOS 13.0, Apple unexpectedly released the first beta for iOS 13.1, a whopping 23 days before iOS 13.0 made its public debut. Since 13.1, however, we haven't had any betas to sink our teeth into. That is, until now, as Apple just released the first developer beta for iOS 13.2 today, Wednesday, Oct. 2.

News: Coming Soon to Mixed Reality—Audio Sticky Notes by Holo Voice

When you want to leave someone a quick message, you often write it down on a sticky note and paste it to the relevant location. Alternatively, you call to leave a voicemail. Holo Voice Memo lets you do both at the same time by leaving an audio clip on a physical object in the room so anyone with a HoloLens and the app can play it back.

News: Showing Support for Disabled Customers, Apple Teams with Cochlear for iPhone Implant Sound Processor

While many have their own strong opinions on Apple and their products, few have complaints about the way they embrace accessibility. Apple typically finds ways to make products functional to all customers, regardless of their situation. This philosophy can be seen in Apple's partnership with Cochlear, as the two develop a new cochlear implant sound processor for iPhone.