Author: ictdigital

Heading out into the wilderness or hitting the open road helps you leave behind the daily stresses of work and life. However, when your emergency weather radio battery runs low or your phone is down to a 5% charge, it changes everything. Portable solar panels and solar generators are great to keep you powered when dry camping or during the off-grid excursion. With these, you can easily dip your toes in the solar power waters. Bluetti PV120/PV200 introductory sale ends on 7:00 PM PDT, 30th September 2021 They are also great if you only need to generate electricity via solar energy…

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Dropbox has created a video message tool that lets users record and send short clips to colleagues, one of three new features aimed at connecting distributed workers.With Dropbox Capture, users record short films of up to five minutes using their webcam, with options to also record their screen, create a GIF, or send a voice message. The content, which is uploaded to the user’s Dropbox account, can be sent to colleagues via a hyperlink and viewed or accessed on demand.Dropbox Capture is another example of asynchronous communication, meaning messages are accessed whenever is convenient for the recipient. This contrasts with…

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We’ve previously reported on a series of annoying bugs in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15. Now come similar reports about Safari 15, which was recently released for macOS Catalina and Big Sur and will be part of macOS Monterey when it rolls out later this year. According to MacRumors, there are problems loading certain sites in the updated browser, including the websites of Target and Walmart. After a while, an error message appears saying that a problem has occurred. Disabling JavaScript may solve this problem: go to Preferences > Security and untick Enable JavaScript. But this obviously brings disadvantages of…

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At its 14 September California Streaming event, Apple announced several new products, including the iPhone 13, a redesigned iPad mini and an update to the standard 10.2in iPad. We take a look at how the 2021 iPad compares to the 2020 model it replaces.  Design Unlike the iPad mini (2021) that saw a major overhaul in terms of form and features, Apple has stuck with its long-standing design for the standard iPad. That means that the 2021 model is identical to its predecessor, with a 250.6mm x 174.1mm x 7.5mm frame that was also the one used for the 2019…

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FIFA 22 opens on a close-up shot of a steaming-hot cup of coffee, before panning out to reveal that it’s David Beckham stirring the teaspoon. The former Galactico is enjoying some breakfast pancakes on a Parisian balcony, while a few doors down your avatar is being woken up by a friend telling them that they’re late. It’s a bizarre opening to a football game that also features Eric Cantona feeding pigeons, Thierry Henry and cover star Kylian Mbappe attempting to act on the Parc des Princes pitch, and blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameos from boxing star Anthony Joshua and F1 driver Lewis Hamilton.…

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Some people will tell you that social media, chat platforms, and videoconferencing have replaced email as the most important means of communication in the workplace. Don’t believe them. Email remains the lifeblood of business and will do so into the foreseeable future.When it comes to email in the business world, there are two main products to consider: Microsoft Outlook and Google’s Gmail. Outlook has long been the standby in the workplace, but Gmail has been growing in popularity. Each has changed significantly over the years and continues to change. Because of that, you and your company may want to reconsider…

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The first benchmarks of the Steam Deck handheld console in several AAA and eSports games have been published by a Chinese user. The performance was benchmarked on a development kit that more or less matches the specifications of the final variant however performance may improve in the final retail variant. Steam Deck Performance Benchmarks Reveal 60 FPS In AAA Games With Decent Quality, 30 FPS in Cyberpunk 2077 at Native Resolution The Steam Deck is one of the most anticipated handheld consoles that is being developed by Valve & will run on the Steam OS. We already detailed the specifications…

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Microsoft has invited Android developers to build or enhance apps for dual-screen devices, especially the company’s Surface Duo systems.Following the September 22 introduction of Surface Duo 2, Microsoft issued a bulletin advising developers to use Jetpack Window Manager, currently in a beta stage, to adapt applications for dual-screen, foldable, and large-screen devices.Jetpack Window Manager provides a standard API to work with foldable devices and includes two important classes: DisplayFeature, which finds disruptions in the continuous flat-screen surface such as hinges or folds, and FoldingFeature, which offers information about the state of the folding part of the device. The FoldingFeature class…

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A Forrester study commissioned by Apple in July 2021 showed that Macs perform better than Windows PCs when the total cost of ownership is taken into consideration. This also applies to the new M1 Macs. According to the study, PCs might be cheaper to purchase, but they usually require more IT maintenance by administrators and technicians compared to the corresponding Macs in a network, on to which those Macs can be integrated much easier than before. Apparently choosing Macs over PCs saves more than $800 over three years. In addition, employees often find using the Mac operating system more logic…

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The right-to-repair is a crucial enterprise IT issue, as it always has been. Whether that means using a large IT operation’s team or one of the third-party repair providers that have been contracted to help, the demand that enterprises exclusively use one vendor to fix anything is abhorrent. And one can’t mention abhorrent without mentioning Apple’s repair history. I’ve always been impressed by how clever (evil?) Apple can get when trying to protect its repair revenue. With that ind mind, a new report from MacRumors doesn’t disappoint. (The site picked up on a YouTube video from Phone Repair Guru detailing what’s…

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