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New Snapchat Feature That Let’s You Edit Your Face Into Videos

One feature that many Snapchat users can look forward to is Snapchat Cameos. The feature is big for the selfie-central platform. With Snapchat Cameos, this new big feature will allow you to use your selfies to replace the faces of people and incorporate them into videos that you can share.

How to choose a cheap mic for your smartphone videos

A Cheap Mic for great audio recording on your smartphone

As transcribed from my video: https://youtu.be/2DA3m3Axa98 “One question I get asked frequently is about audio. We’ve all heard that the built-in microphones on most phones don’t quite sound as dialed in as they should be. The video is quite great on a lot of smartphones, for quality. But on that note, it is very confusing …

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All Wi-Fi now hackable – this affects everyone!

This topic is so serious, I feel obliged to tell as many people as possible. This affects everyone! An extremely serious vulnerability has been exposed affecting everyone. We all use WiFi and we are all vulnerable to this latest attack.   KRACK ATTACK Two Belgian researchers discovered a vulnerability in the WiFi protocol (last year! …

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Apple Celebrates 40 Years

Apple turned 40 years old today, Happy Birthday! The company was started by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in the Job’s garage on April 1, 1976. Their homemade Apple One computer had a price tag of $666.66 and they got it on store shelves that July. Wayne sold his 10% share for $800 within a year. The current market value of Apple is around $615 billion. Apple has had a number of eureka moments with Steve Jobs at the helm however overall, they have done well with the constant iterations. The major breakthroughs definitely do help though.

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Why Apple made antivirus iOS apps unavailable

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Earlier this year, Apple cracked down on antivirus apps, pulling a huge number of them from the AppStore. Many believe the reason behind this move is to eliminate concerns about whether or not iOS devices are susceptible to virus and malware attacks.

Apple informed many of them that their app descriptions were misleading and could potentially lead customers to believe that viruses are present in iOS.

Why is Apple so confident in their ability to protect against vulnerabilities?

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The Evolution of Portable Computing

There was a time when we wanted everything to be smaller. We seem to be going in the other direction lately of wanting bigger. I am seeing a convergence of technologies occurring. It all comes down to convenience. Desktop computing is converging with portability.

Desktops evolved to laptops, and many laptops shrunk to netbooks. Mobile devices got smart and now we want bigger displays (iPhone 6 Plus / Galaxy S6). There is a convergence occurring with wanting the convenience of quickly accessing a touch screen tablet, yet enough horsepower and versatility to run common desktop applications.

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