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Advertisement You can stop using your smartphone at night with a little help from Android. We know it’s hard to let go—even when research shows it’s better for your sleep if you unplug and wind down. Android 11 includes a raft of features that can help you set some common-sense limits. Here’s how to get started. 1. Check your usage The first step is to face facts, by checking how long you’re using your phone each day and what you’re doing with it. To get started, head into your syst...

With every new Android version comes a flurry of fancy fresh features. Some of them immediately transform the way we work, while others just quietly fade away without making much noise. And then there are the features that fall somewhere in between — features that seem useful, maybe even pique our interest when we first hear about em, but then get lost in the shuffle and forgotten as time wears on. Especially when said features are out of sight and not at all obvious, theyre all too easy to o...

Focus Ex is a digital reading aid for people with ADHD Hungarian designer Vatány Szabolcs has created a font and browser extension to make it easier for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, to concentrate when reading online content. The Focus Ex extension, which works on desktop and mobile, allows users to change entire paragraphs on a web page into a different typeface, called Focus Sans. The Focus Ex extension is available on mobile Focus Sans has generous proporti...

Android Community February 1, 2021 The Galaxy Z Flip was released almost a year ago by Samsung with the 5G variant following a few months later. Rumors are floating around that they will be releasing a Galaxy Z Flip 3 later this year and even though there’s no confirmation yet from the Korean OEM, a recent blog post about the flip phone may be hinting at that. Samsung wants to remind people about the Galaxy Z Flip by sharing some “hidden” features about the device that people may not k...

PC World New Zealand 6 ways to stop using your Android phone before bedtime Your phone called. It says you can put it down now. Credit: Ryan Whitwam/IDG You can stop using your smartphone at night with a little help from Android. We know it’s hard to let go—even when research shows it’s better for your sleep if you unplug and wind down. Android 11 includes a raft of features that can help you set some common-sense limits. Here’s how to get started. 1. Check your usage The fir...

29. Januar 2021 (Auszug aus der Pressemitteilung) Pohlheim, 28. Januar 2021 – Sharkoon Technologies, global agierender Anbieter für hochwertige und leistungsstarke PC-Komponenten und Peripherie, präsentiert mit der SKILLER SGK30 eine mechanische Tastatur, die sich dank langlebiger mechanischer Schalter mit oder ohne Feedback sowohl für Vielschreiber und Gelegenheitsspieler als auch für E-Sport-Enthusiasten eignen soll. Die integrierte RGB-Beleuchtung lässt sich dank herunter...

Opal raises $4.3 million for its ‘digital well-being’ assistant for iPhone Many people want to develop better screen-time habits, but don’t have a good set of tools to do so. A new startup, Opal, aims to help. The company, now backed by $4.3 million in seed funding, has developed a digital well-being assistant for iOS that allows you to block distracting websites and apps, set schedules around app usage, lock down apps for stricter and more focused quiet periods, and more. The service wor...

12:39 All Specs HP still sells the Spectre x360 13, but you can forget about it. The Spectre x360 14 (starts at $1,299.99; $1,699.99 as tested) is an elegant convertible laptop that ditches the older systems 13.3-inch touch screen—and its familiar 16:9 aspect ratio—for a 13.5-inch panel with a squarer 3:2 ratio, for a superior view of text and web pages. Basically, it says, "I see you and raise" to the 16:10 display of the Dell XPS 13 2-in-1. Add to that some immaculate engineering, gorge...

Since its release, I’ve maybe gone into the Digital Wellbeing section of my phone’s settings menu twice, only to take photos of the software for posts such as this. Beyond that, I don’t need my phone to tell me I’m looking at Twitter too much. While I get that Digital Wellbeing can be helpful and Google’s intentions are good, I just don’t see the use in it for myself. If you aren’t familiar with it, Digital Wellbeing is a collection of tools that are designed to better your life ...