The Best Texting Apps for Android

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How to Install Windows on a Mac With Boot Camp How to Try Out New Overwatch Heroes on the PTR Server Snapchat's New Map Feature, Explained (and How to Disable It) How to Create a Custom Color Scene From a Photo With Your Philips Hue Lights How to Use the Built-in Windows Defender Antivirus on Windows 10 What’s New in iOS 11 for iPhone and iPad, Arriving Fall 2017 How to Stop Your iPhone’s Portrait Mode From Making Multiple Files 10 Handy Uses for Your Old iPad or Android Tablet Geek Comic Today's Tech Term ZSL A ZSL (short for Zero-Slot LAN) is a local-area network (LAN) that makes use of existing serial/parallel computer ports instead of using network interface cards (NICs). What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. How Deep Can You Dig a Hole? It all depends on the temperature you can take. [Popular Mechanics] We Have Been Lead Poisoning Ourselves For 2000 Years, Glacier Ice Shows The Black Death, when people were too busy dying to mine for lead, was the only time period when lead in the air dropped back to its natural, undetectable levels. [Buzzfeed] A travel guide for our future Solar System The Vacation Guide to the Solar System is from a future we wish were now. [ArsTechnica] Mars covered in toxic chemicals that can wipe out living organisms, tests reveal Discovery has major implications for hunt for alien life on the red planet as it means any evidence is likely to be buried deep underground [The Guardian] How to Rename Your Amazon Echo Devices If you only have one or two Echos, it may not matter if they’re called boring and repetitive names like “John’s Echo” and “John’s Second Echo” in the Alexa app. But the more Echos you have, the more it can matter—especially if you use features like Amazon’s “drop in” intercom system and other calling features. Read This Article → How to Check Your iPhone or iPad for 32-Bit Apps That Won’t Run on iOS 11 iPhones and iPads will no longer run 32-bit apps with the release of iOS 11 later in 2017. Those apps currently display a message saying they “need to be updated”, and they won’t run at all once you’ve upgraded. Here’s how to check which apps you have installed will stop functioning, if any. Read This Article → How to Change the Arm and Disarm Delay for the Abode Home Security System When you arm and disarm your Abode home security system, it delays it for 60 seconds by default, presumably to give you enough time to leave the house before the whole system is armed. Here’s how to change the delay time or disable it completely. Read This Article → The Best Texting Apps for Android Over the course of the past decade or so, phone calls have died off as our primary form of communication with most people, with text messages being the replacement. And if you’re going to use texting as much as you do, you might as well be using the best apps to do it. Let’s talk about ’em. Read This Article → Why Does My iPhone Display “Security Recommendation” for a Wi-Fi Network? When you connect to a Wi-Fi network on your iPhone, you may see the words “Security Recommendation” appear beneath its name. This is a warning that you’re connected to either an unsecured network or one encrypted with weak WEP security. Read This Article → How to Install Windows on a Mac With Boot Camp Thanks to the switch from PowerPC to Intel many years ago, a Mac is just another PC. Sure, Macs come with macOS, but you can easily install Windows alongside macOS using Apple’s built-in Boot Camp feature. Read This Article → How to Try Out New Overwatch Heroes on the PTR Server Blizzard’s team-based first-person shooter Overwatch has quickly become one of the most popular multiplayer games on the planet. There are a lot of reasons for this: fantastic character design, tight balancing, excellent gameplay variety. But one of the nicer perks of the game is that Blizzard periodically updates the game with new content for free, including brand new playable characters (known as “Heroes” in the Overwatch lexicon). If you want to try them out before everyone else, you can do so on what’s known at the PTR server. Read This Article → Snapchat's New Map Feature, Explained (and How to Disable It) Snapchat is rolling out features at an incredible rate. Some of them are nice tweaks, like adding voice filters. Others, like Snap Map, are honestly pretty dangerous. Let's look at what the new Snap Map is, what's wrong with it, and most importantly, how to disable it. Read This Article → How to Create a Custom Color Scene From a Photo With Your Philips Hue Lights With a tap of a button, you can change the color of your Philips Hue lights. While the Hue app comes with a few color presets built-in, you can also create your own custom scenes from your own photos. Read This Article → How to Use the Built-in Windows Defender Antivirus on Windows 10 Windows 10 has built-in real-time antivirus named Windows Defender, and it’s actually pretty good. It automatically runs in the background, ensuring all Windows users are protected against viruses and other nasties. Here’s how it works. Read This Article → What’s New in iOS 11 for iPhone and iPad, Arriving Fall 2017 iOS 11 is on its way, and Apple announced a number of new features and changes at WWDC 2017 this year. From improvements to Messages and Apple Pay to powerful multitasking and file management on the iPad, here are the best new features of iOS coming this fall. You can play with them yourself today if you install the iOS 11 public beta. Read This Article → How to Stop Your iPhone’s Portrait Mode From Making Multiple Files The iPhone 7 Plus' Portrait Mode is really awesome. In the right circumstances, it makes it possible to take portraits that look like they were shot using a DSLR and a wide aperture lens just using your iPhone. Read This Article → 10 Handy Uses for Your Old iPad or Android Tablet Tablet sales are slumping at the moment, probably as a result of big smartphones and convertible laptops chip away at a tablet’s usefulness. But if you have one or more tablets at home gathering dust while you happily poke away at your giant smartphone, there are probably some good ways to put them to use rather than selling them or recycling them. Here are a few ideas. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Free eBook: "Robin Sharma's Little Black Book for Stunning Succes People who have achieved great success are not necessarily more skillful or intelligent than others. What separates them is their burning desire and thirst for knowledge. Learn from one of the Top 5 Leadership Gurus in the World about leadership and personal mastery. Leadership is a philosophy, an attitude, a state of mind. And it's available to each one of us.Click here to download