Month: January 2022

Daily Deals (1-20-2022)

The Epic Games Store is giving away first-person physics-based puzzle game Relicta for free this week. Humble Bundle is letting you name your price for up to 6 adventure, puzzle, and sim PC games. Harman Audio is selling a set of true wireless noise-cancelling earbuds for $48. And Amazon continues to offer discounts on Fire […]

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The Epic Games Store is giving away first-person physics-based puzzle game Relicta for free this week. Humble Bundle is letting you name your price for up to 6 adventure, puzzle, and sim PC games. Harman Audio is selling a set of true wireless noise-cancelling earbuds for $48. And Amazon continues to offer discounts on Fire tablets and Fire TV devices.

Here are some of the day’s best deals.

PC games

Laptops & tablets

Audio

Chargers, cables, batteries and USB-C docks

Other

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Developers unearth the bones of an overhauled Task Manager for Windows 11

Early peek at new app shows a new design with similar functionality.

A look at the Windows 11-style Task Manager, with Mica theming and dark mode support.

Enlarge / A look at the Windows 11-style Task Manager, with Mica theming and dark mode support. (credit: FireCubeStudios)

Microsoft's piecemeal approach to updating and unifying Windows 11's new look has led to updates for all kinds of old and obscure corners of the operating system, including everything from the volume indicator and the system icons to the humble Paint, Calculator, and Notepad apps. The next app to get its once-every-decade-or-two design renovation may be the Windows Task Manager, and it would be the first major update since Windows 8 came out a decade ago.

The Verge reports that engineering student Gustave Monce spotted the new Task Manager design lurking in a current preview build of Windows 11 (the FireCube Studios Twitter account later posted instructions for enabling it yourself). The app's basic structure is visible in these builds—like all Windows 11-era apps, the window uses Mica theming and has dark mode support, and it trades the current Task Manager's horizontal row of tabs for a vertical stack of navigation buttons that mirrors the modern Settings and Windows Security apps. Those text labels will also collapse into a vertical stack of buttons if the window is resized.

  • Redesign aside, the new Task Manager looks like it does the same things that the current one does. Also note how the navigation buttons on the left have collapsed to hide the text labels and make more room for the window content. [credit: FireCubeStudios ]

According to screenshots posted by users who have the new Task Manager working, it doesn't look like the redesigned app includes significant functional improvements; the vertical buttons all correspond to the tabs in the current Task Manager, and the views for monitoring processes and resource usage all look pretty much the same as they do now. But the new design is clearly a work in progress, and Microsoft may have more changes planned before it formally introduces the redesigned app to Windows Insiders.

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Acer Chromebook Spin 314 convertible now available with Intel Jasper Lake

The Acer Chromebook Spin 314 is a convertible notebook with a 14 inch touchscreen display and a 360-degree hinge that lets you switch between laptop and tablet modes. A few months ago Acer announced plans to launch an updated model sporting an Intel Jasper Lake low-power processor, and now it’s available for purchase (a few […]

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The Acer Chromebook Spin 314 is a convertible notebook with a 14 inch touchscreen display and a 360-degree hinge that lets you switch between laptop and tablet modes. A few months ago Acer announced plans to launch an updated model sporting an Intel Jasper Lake low-power processor, and now it’s available for purchase (a few months later than originally promised).

The new Acer Chromebook Spin 314 (CP314-1HN) is now available from Amazon for $480.

While that puts the new laptop firmly in upper mid-range Chromebook territory, the laptop does have some decent specs including:

  • 14 inch 1920 x 1080 pixel touchscreen display with USI stylus support
  • Intel Celeron N6000 6-watt quad-core processor with burst speeds up to 3.3 GHz
  • Intel AX201 wireless card (WiFi 6 & Bluetooth 5.0)
  • Stereo speakers with DTS Audio and dual microphones

The Chromebook also has 128GB of storage, which is more than you’ll find on most entry-level Chrome OS devices, but it’s eMMC storage which isn’t super speedy. And while the notebook’s 4GB of LPDDR4x memory should be enough for basic tasks, it would be nice to see 8GB or more at this price point.

Acer’s new Chromebook Spin 314 has an HDMI port, two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports, a USB 3.2 Type-C port for charging and data. The laptop measures 12.9″ x 9″ x 0.8″ and weighs 3.4 pounds and comes with a 45W USB-C power adapter.

According to specs announced last year, Acer may also offer lower-priced models in some regions with Celeron N4500 or N5100 processor options, as well as higher-priced configurations with up to 8GB of RAM and an optional backlit keyboard.

via TabletMonkeys

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Instagram: Petfluencer klonen ihre Haustiere

Wer mit einem Tier Follower bei Instagram sammelt, steht bei dessen Tod vor dem Nichts. Klonen könnte die Lösung sein, wie das Unternehmen Viagen gemerkt hat. (Instagram, Soziales Netz)

Wer mit einem Tier Follower bei Instagram sammelt, steht bei dessen Tod vor dem Nichts. Klonen könnte die Lösung sein, wie das Unternehmen Viagen gemerkt hat. (Instagram, Soziales Netz)