This Sweet Philips Hue Plugin Brings Your Minecraft Lighting to Life
PC gamers drop big bucks to feel immersed in their games. But some new smarthome tech is enabling amazingly immersive effects with just a few lights. Take this Philips Hue plugin for Minecraft as an example….
Game Streaming Services Will Face The Same Problems As Streaming TV
The future of game streaming is an open road. But we already have some markets we can use to draw a map: online video streaming services. If we’re not careful, game streaming will hit the same speed bumps….
How To Make Chrome “Open As Window” Shortcuts (Now That Google Killed Them)
Chrome has the useful ability to open a website as a window that doesn’t show the browser interface or open external links in a new tab. Or, rather, it did: in a late 2018 update, Google disabled this functionality on Window…
Here’s How to Save Your Google+ Data Before It Shuts down on April 2nd
Pour one out for Google+, the latest Google social property to be axed. There aren’t many who care to keep their Google+ history saved—that’s part of why it’s dying!—but if you want yours, here’s how to download it….
What Are Dolby Dimension Headphones?
Dolby is a trusted name in audio, but its latest product is a little different. “Dolby Dimension Headphones” isn’t an audio standard, like 5.1 Surround or Dolby Atmos, but a new wireless headphone set you can buy….
Why You Shouldn’t Use MicroSD Cards In DSLR Or Mirrorless Cameras
MicroSD cards are becoming more widely adopted, on everything from action cameras to phones to video game consoles. But you probably shouldn’t use one in your dedicated camera, at least not if it doesn’t have a MicroSD card s…
Discord Steps Up to Epic and Steam Game Stores with a 90/10 Developer Split
Recently Fortnite publisher Epic made a splash in the world of PC gaming by introducing its own game store, with a competitive 88% share of profits going to developers. Now Discord is going one better with an even more gene…
Steam And Epic Are In A Game Store Battle, And Players Win
For the last decade and change, Valve’s Steam has been the de facto standard for digital games on the PC. Want a game? Install Steam and download it. New launchers have risen to challenge Steam lately, but none have been so w…
The PlayStation Classic Gets Hacked for Easy USB-Based Game ROMs
Sony’s PlayStation Classic mini-console has only twenty games pre-loaded, and there’s no built-in mechanism for adding more. But the system also uses a popular open-source PlayStation emulator to run its ROMs, so an unofficia…
Microsoft is Working on ‘Windows Lite,’ Because it Can’t Stop Beating Dead Horses
A new version of Windows may have limited features for inexpensive hardware. If that sounds familiar to you, you’re not alone: you could be forgiven thinking this is an article about Windows RT or Windows S. Nope, it’s someth…
Amazon’s New Part Finder Tool Helps You Upgrade Your PC
Upgrading your desktop PC isn’t nearly as hard as you might think, but one of the harder parts is choosing the right…well, parts. Compatibility conflicts can be intimidating for a $1000 machine. Amazon wants to help with it…
How To Make Perfect Perspective Shifts In Photoshop For Images And Logos
It’s easy enough to superimpose a logo onto something in Photoshop. But what if your base photo isn’t head-on, so a square logo (or any other image) will look skewed? Here’s how to get your top image aligned with the corr…
Pandora Expands Its Recommendation Engine to Podcasts
For many web users, Pandora’s streaming radio was their first taste of algorithmic recommendation engines that adapted to the listener. Pandora has a lot of competition now, but it’s expanding into a new area: podcasts….
The PlayStation Classic is Powered by the Open-Source PCSX Emulator
Kotaku spotted the open-source license for PCSX ReARMed in a recent hands-on look at the new PlayStation Classic. That’s an ARM (mobile hardware) re-release of the PCSX emulator that PC gamers have been using for almost two d…
Google Wants More Battery-Saving Dark Mode Options In Its Apps
OLED screen panels can display black pixels with almost no energy cost. So it follows that using apps with more black would save your phone battery. Google agrees, and it’s designing more of its Android apps with a dark theme…
YouTube is Now Available on the Nintendo Switch
The Switch, ostensibly a portable gaming machine but nominally a Wi-Fi tablet, seems like a perfect platform for smartphone-style apps. But strangely, Hulu has been the only major video service on the Switch so far. Today, Yo…
Dropbox’s Upcoming Extensions Update Will Add More File Editing Support, Including Pixlr Photos
Dropbox is perhaps the best-known cloud storage platform for consumers, but it’s hoping to become something more. With an upcoming overhaul to its user tools, Dropbox will add more complex editing tools, in addition to what…
Indie Farming Game Stardew Valley Stakes A Claim On iOS Today
Stardew Valley, the one-man passion project and spiritual successor to 16-bit farming simulators like Harvest Moon, is now available on iOS. The game became a surprise hit on the PC and has since spread to every major consol…
Do You Really Need A “Gaming” Router?
Gamers always want the best hardware for the best performance, but sometimes it isn’t necessary. 64 GB of RAM isn’t going to help you get headshots in Counter-Strike. So do you need an expensive gaming-focused Wi-Fi router?…
