Less than a third of new iPhone buyers bought the iPhone X in the first month that the flagship iOS smartphone was released, analysts claim, with pricing and skepticism blamed for the cautious uptake. Apple has been reluctant to share how new iPhone sales broke down in 2017, with the Cupertino firm even suggesting that, as it has never had … Continue reading
It had just turned April when we declared that 2017 was a great year for video games. The post-holiday quarter is usually fairly quiet for new releases, but in 2017 it brought us legitimate contenders for game of the year in The Legend of Zelda: Brea…
If you haven’t had enough reminders of how the year 2017 went, Snapchat is here for you. The Next Web noticed that the social media service is offering its users “Your 2017 Story,” which takes Snaps saved to your Memories over the year (the permanent…
Given that it’s the most widely used online search engine in the world, Google rankings can make or break websites. There’s an entire search engine optimization industry that’s aimed at improving websites’ chances of being crawled and getting a decent ranking. However, some prefer to not surface in Google search results. The company had previously committed to the FTC that it would allow websites to opt out of showing in search results. Even though the commitment has now expired, Google says that it will continue to offer this option.
Google settled an antitrust investigation by the FTC back in 2012 by promising to change its behavior in several areas. The commitments it made included removing AdWords restrictions that made it harder for advertisers to run multi-platform campaigns and giving websites the option to opt out of being displayed in search results and having their content crawled.
Both commitments that Google made to the FTC back in 2012 have expired as of December 27th, 2018. It’s under no obligation to continue honoring them but Google has said in a letter to the FTC that it will honor them.
“We believe that these policies provide additional flexibility for developers and websites, and we will continue them as policies after the commitments expire,” Google confirmed in the letter.
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Snapchat has introduced a new feature which is going to roundup your 2017 on its social network. We’ve seen this before on social networks like Facebook and Instagram. While we often report on Facebook and its services copying Snapchat’s features, it seems that the latter has decided to turn the tables and copy one of Facebook’s features for a change. The feature will walk you through your moments on Snapchat throughout 2017.
Snapchat’s year in review feature is going to roundup 2017 using snaps and videos that you posted throughout the year. This is the first time that Snapchat has offered such a feature. It’s possible for it to do so now as it introduced a way last year to allow users to save their snaps into a section of memories where they can live long past the 24-hour limit.
Users can find this feature by tapping on the memories icon at the bottom of the screen in the app. They can then tap on A Look Back at 2017 to view a roundup of their year. All of the snaps are assembled automatically to create the Story. It can also be customized to remove any snaps that you don’t want in the roundup. The finished product can then be saved and shared with friends.
Users should keep in mind that they might not see this feature if they haven’t saved enough snaps in their memories section. Snapchat won’t be able to create a roundup for them if there isn’t enough content available to create a story.
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We’ve had an Xbox One in my house since the console launched a few years back, and as most penny pinchers do, we bought the console with the smallest amount of storage space available. At the time, downloading games wasn’t very high on our radar and we figured we would never fill up the internal storage. Famous last words.
Fast forward a few months and the internal drive was full and my son was feasting on season passes and downloaded games and griping all the while that he was having to delete stuff for each new game we added. This led to a long hunt for external hard drive that would perform well with the console.
Again, being a cheapskate and assuming that any old USB drive would work, I learned a hard lesson. Yes, any USB drive I plugged into the console “worked” as in it would let me store stuff and most often access that stuff. The myriad of external desktop drives that I tried would connect when we started the console in the morning, and then not connect in the afternoon after turning it off for a few hours. We were constantly rebooting the console and unplugging and plugging the external hard drive. Then Seagate reached out and offered me a review unit of the new 8TB Game Drive Hub for Xbox.
I’ll tell you straight away I’d have looked right past this drive at $239.99 being the Mr. Krabs type. This is another of those life lessons in that you most certainly get what you pay for. I’ve had this drive for months now and my son spends many hours each week playing the console and we have had not one single issue with connectivity. The drive came in for review way back in July, I promptly plugged it in and it was so trouble free I absolutely forgot I had it installed (sorry Seagate!).
This is a huge deal, as we went from nearly daily reboots and fits over the old hard drive not connecting, to five months of trouble-free perfection with the Seagate Drive Hub. I can’t tell you how big a deal that is for a family that is constantly downloading games, movies, and other content on the Xbox One. We previously worried with each use of the console that it would be a half hour fight with our old external hard drive to get things going.
Installing the 8TB drive is as easy as you think it will be, plug in the AC power, plug in the included USB 3.0 cable and you are good to go. The drive was immediately recognized and worked perfectly from the minute it was connected. This is an officially licensed Xbox One storage drive and gives you a pair of USB 3.0 ports on the front, so you don’t lose any connectivity either.
Speaking of connectivity, I can’t tell in the least when a game is running off the Game Drive Hub or the internal HDD of the console. The best accolade that I can muster for the Seagate Drive Hub for Xbox One is that it works so well, you will forget you even have it. The 8TB of space means no having to delete stuff when you want to add new games and content. The 8TB Seagate Drive Hub for Xbox is money very well spent.
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Ads may have become a nuisance on our phones and web browsers, but we can trace their roots back to the annoying commercials on TV. Somewhat ironically, it seems that Sony has found a way to bring that intrusive character full circle back to TVs. Smart TVs this time, though. It seems that an otherwise harmless and much desired update … Continue reading
It isn’t exactly easy to be a social media network here in a crowded 2017, and that’s especially true when Facebook owns the competition. Throughout the year, Facebook has been launching new features for Instagram, turning the app into its own little version of Snapchat. This, of course, is bad news for Snapchat itself, as it has been significantly lagging … Continue reading
Apple’s slowing of older iPhones to avoid battery-related shutdowns has drawn the attention of South Korean regulators, amid allegations that it defrauded owners with the practice. The Cupertino company began adding features in earlier releases of iOS that would delay processing in iPhones with older, worn batteries. That, Apple argues, was the best possible fix for a sporadic shutdown problem … Continue reading
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