Lightning Calendar for Thunderbird Lighting brings two new tabs to Thunderbird. A Calendar tab and a Tasks tab. The two are interchangeable, especially since any task can be converted to an event and vice versa. The calendar view also shows events, dates, and multiple different views of as many calendars as you need to add. Adding events to the calendar is easy. The New Event window offers empty spaces for all of the details, times, reminders, invitations, and any other info you might need to attach to it....

To kick things off, our Photoshop expert DW96 has created a groovy Video / Screencast which walks through the high level basics of the Photoshop CS5 Interface and each of the basic tools / functions you should become familiar with on the Photoshop toolbar. The video and the write-up below will not dig very deep into any of the tools as we’ll cover each in detail in later groovyPost’s. So with that being said, let’s jump right in!...

It supports HTML5 and Adobe Flash Player, plus several other coding languages. -Jordan, groovyPost.com Comment Name * Email * Δ Save my name and email and send me emails as new comments are made to this post.

Kindle Fire HD After unboxing the Kindle Fire HD, I was immediately impressed with the form factor of it compared to the first one. It’s much lighter and thinner than the original. It is wider though, with bigger sides around the bezel. This makes it more difficult to hold in one hand like a book, but makes it nice when holding in landscape view while watching video, navigating the UI and browsing the web....

The new Fire HD 10 has a widescreen 10.1″ HD display with over a million pixels – 149 ppi and resolution of 1280 x 800. It has a 1.5 GHz quad-core processor with both the front and rear-facing HD cameras at 5 MP. Currently, the Fire HD 10 with 64 GB is the only one that comes with the silver casing. However, it’s also available in black and white for lower storage sizes of 16 or 32 GB starting at $229....

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Change SIM PIN Code on Android Note: This article was written several years ago on an older version of Android. The steps for this will be much more different in today’s modern versions. First, go to Settings in your Android device’s main menu. In the Settings menu, choose Security, then Set up SIM card lock. First, here’s how to disable the SIM card PIN. All you have to do is to uncheck the box next to “Lock SIM card” and then confirm the change by inputting the current PIN code....

Double Tap the Home button. You’ll see a list of apps running in the background at the bottom of the screen. Now press on and hold down an app until it wiggles — and a red minus icon appears. Tap the red minus icon to close each application. The apps will restart normally the next time you launch them. Cheers! Joseph Comment Name * Email * Δ Save my name and email and send me emails as new comments are made to this post....

What’s inside iOS 9.3.2? The update clocks in at under 100 MB on both the iPad and iPhone so, should you decide to take the patch, the update is performed relatively quickly vs. previous updates. That being said, if you’re tight on space, head over to Settings > General > Storage & iCloud Usage > Manage Storage to get an excellent report about what’s consuming all your space. What’s all included in the update/patch?...

At the time of this writing, I wasn’t able to get the update for Mac or Windows through the iTunes Software Update feature. But you can head to the Apple iTunes page to download iTunes 10.7 for Windows or OS X . The download is 165 MB for OS X and 77 MB for Windows and includes support for the newly announced iPhone 5 and iPod devices as well as iOS 6 which is coming soon....

What Changed? The Macs revealed in November feature an Apple M1 SoC, which integrates several components, including the CPU, GPU, RAM, Neural Engine, and more. With these components now using a unified memory architecture, all of the technologies in the SoC can access the same data without copying it between multiple pools of memory. Thanks to this, there are immediate performance and power efficiency improvements. The Apple M1 features 16 billion transistors, which is more than Apple ever put on a chip....

While there’s a bunch of startups that want to garner the same popularity of Facebook, Google+, and Twitter, it’s hard to compete with the established giants. Of course there’s also social networks that are aimed for specific areas of communication. For example LinkedIn is for networking professionals, Instagram for sharing photos, and Path for staying in touch with your closes friends. You also need to choose the best social service based on its capabilities....

While the point in the Angry Birds series is to destroy stuff and wreak havoc as much as you possibly can, things are completely different here. The point in the levels is to use strange items to build strange machines. The point of these machines is to get to the birds’ eggs. It’s more complicated than you’d think and very different game play, even from Angry Birds Space, a game that had a different approach to the series....

The announcement comes ahead of the CES 2023 convention, which features the world’s most influential annual tech event. CES 2023 starts at the beginning of next year and runs from January 5th – 8th in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES 2023 Innovation Award Nominee for BLUETTI AC500 Solar Generator The CES awards program is an annual competition that honors outstanding design and engineering in 28 technology product categories. The nominee with the highest rating receives the “Best of Innovation” distinction....

Fire HD Tablets in Show Mode To change Alexa’s wake word on other Echo devices, you need to do it through the Alexa app. With the Fire HD tablet, you can change it directly through the tablet Settings section. Open Settings and tap Alexa under the Device options. In the Alexa settings, you can also turn the Echo Spatial Perception (ESP) behavior feature on or off. The ESP setting is worth experimenting with if you have more than one Alexa device within earshot with the same wake word....

The Chrome PDF viewer is clean, minimalistic, and smoking fast. I like it, a lot. Below is screenshot of what it looks like viewing the IRS W-4 tax form. Don’t have the beta edition of Chrome? Pick it up from the Chrome beta channel. Don’t forget that if you’ve ever installed the beta it will automatically update to the latest version, you don’t have to repeatedly upgrade unlike some other browser....

Cloudflare DNS 1.1.1.1 Using an alternate DNS, instead of your ISP’s, is a good way to get faster browsing results. Cloudflare DNS is touting 28% faster results over other services like OpenDNS. It offers both DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS and is currently sitting at a 14ms response time compared to 20ms or OpenDNS and 34ms for Google DNS. But most importantly, Cloudflare DNS is focussing heavily on privacy for the user. The company says it will wipe all logs of DNS queries within 24 hours....

As soon as you visit codecademy.com the webapp will get you started with learning basic code. JavaScript is on the front of the menu, and it’s served as both an appetizer and main course. The training starts out easy, and in a fashion so simplified that it shouldn’t scare would-be coders away. Rather, it makes programming look easy — which it is once you learn the language. Among the rapidly expanding array of programming languages available at Codecademy are: JavaScript, HTML & CSS, Python, Ruby, jQuery,...

What do these two components do, and what are the differences between a CPU vs GPU? We’ll take a closer look at these two processing units at the heart of your computer below. What is a CPU? CPU stands for Central Processing Unit. It is often considered to be the brain of your computer. The CPU is in charge of doing most of the work of running your computer. It does this by performing instructions sent to it from the software....

Roadtrip Mixtape First of all, you must know that Rdio and Spotify are used with Roadtrip Mixtape but you can, after all, use it without them, too (it’s just not as much fun). Start by going to the website of the project, which can be found here. On the top left side, input the start and end points of your trip. I suggest that you are logged in to Spotify and/or Rdio before you do....