The impeccable Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones are now on sale with 24% off for Black Friday, bringing the price down from £380 to £290.68. If you’re not interested in this deal, make sure to check out our best Black Friday deals round-up, as our team will be adding more fantastic offers and discounts on all your favourite tech over the course of the sale. The Sony WH-1000XM5 supports 360 Reality Audio for immersive 3D audio and comes packed with a V1 Integrated processor to help reduce distortion, enhance sound quality and enable LDAC codec processing....

Damn Small Linux (DSL) is a simple, small system that you can boot up easily, fast and light enough that you can bring for your travel. DSL is not a new kid on the block, but I have only realise its usefulness when I carry along my 4GB USB Drive (with DSL installed) for my travel. In the many cybercafes that I have visited along my travel, I am able to plug in my DSL, load it from Windows (Yes, it can be loaded inside Windows, without rebooting), do my work, back it up and shutdown....

If you take great pleasure in following up on new installments in technology and media with every chance that you get, I can relate to your thirst for knowledge. Your browser’s bookmarks menu must be flooded with dozens of links to various websites whence you like to investigate fresh topics. The biggest challenge is finding the time to consult the Technology section of interesting news websites. However, now that I’ve subscribed to Techi’s daily newsletter, not a day goes by that I miss important information....

But that doesn’t mean you can’t function perfectly well with some of the free Office alternatives which often come with their own perks that outdo those of Microsoft’s baby. There are many reasons not to want to be part of Microsoft’s ecosystem – privacy concerns, monopolization, lack of open source – and these fine software specimens will help you leave it. Let’s take a look at four of our favorite (free) alternatives for Microsoft Office....

The A7 III would typically cost you £1699 for the body only. Head to Jessops today and you can pick up the mirrorless camera for just £1399 when you claim £200 cashback from Sony. That’s a £300 saving compared to the current price and a massive £600 drop from the camera’s £1999 RRP at launch. That’s cash you could put toward your first lens, a memory card or a bag to protect your new camera....

In this article I’ll explain the progress made by the latest and greatest emulators and what it means for the scene as a whole. With the rate that these emulators are going, the Wii U, PS3 and 3DS should all be fully playable well before the end of 2016. Cemu’s Progress Emulating Wii U The progress of the Cemu emulator is what encouraged the creation of this article in the first place....

As part of Vodafone’s Black Friday sale. the UK network is offering a stunning deal on the Pixel 6a. You can get the phone and a month of data for a mere £259. This is the cheapest we’ve seen this phone drop to, by quite some margin. You’ll want to cancel that monthly data though, otherwise you’ll be paying a tenner a month. If this deal hasn’t won you over, then we recommend checking out our best Black Friday Deals page instead....

This new Google Chat service will have the name of Babel, although it was previously being identified as Babble. Babble might have been an easier one to pass through, however, as there is already a site with the name of Babel that allows chatting internationally. That’s going to get very confusing, although there is no current trademark on the name. The new Babel chat will unify all chat services under Google....

Calculate Difference Between Dates Go ahead and click the “View” menu in Windows 7’s calculator and click “Date calculation.” The calculator’s window will extend to show you an interface where you can enter two dates. Once you enter them, your computer will calculate how much time has passed between the dates, in two forms. The first form shows you how many years, months, weeks, and days have passed since then. The second form will show you how many days altogether have passed....

Timelines might have many uses from educational purposes, through data representation to event planning. Whatever your usage, TimeLine is a great alternative to commercially available software or any web-based online tools. Installation TimeLine has few dependencies. You will need Python 2.5 or greater (which should be available on most systems) and wxPython 2.8.9.2. Just to be on the safe side, check what version of Python you have installed. If the output shows 2....

The usage is simple. Create an account with Toggl. The basic account is free and allows up to 5 users. Beyond that, it will cost $5 per user/month. Once you are logged in to Toggl, you will see an input field “What are you working on?” and the Start button. To get started, simply enter a description for your task and click the “Start” button. How difficult can that be?...

1. App Sideloading Ever since Microsoft introduced Modern (Metro) apps, everyone is wondering whether you can sideload apps just like in the Android phone or tablet. To the users’ disappointment, Microsoft decided not to allow users to sideload apps in their Windows 8 tablets or desktop PC’s. Of course, you can sideload your own Windows 8 Store apps for development purposes, but you cannot sideload them for your regular usage....

By using one of the following apps, you can read or create a QR code of your own. You can create one for an event, a location, a message and more. With one of these apps, you can even read a QR code from an image in your device’s gallery. QR Reader Tiny Scanner Barcode QR Reader Tiny Scanner Barcode can not only read QR codes but can also create them....

In this article we’ve put together a list of apps that will allow you to become an Instagram power user in no time. 1. in Tags Price: Free / $2.99 in Tags is a popular Instagram hashtag generator for Android. Using the right hashtags on your posts is essential if you want to increase engagement. There are many hashtagger apps out there for Android users of Instagram, and in Tags is among the most downloaded....

TotalFinder is a free application that adds tabs to your native Finder. It is still in alpha mode only works in Snow Leopard. After the installation, you will immediately see your Finder in a Google Chrome like interface. You will also notice a new icon for the Finder app. Yes, a sunglass wearing Finder. Look cool, isn’t it? Add and manage tabs like Google Chrome TotalFinder was coded using the Chromium codebase, so it is no surprise that it looks and functions like Google Chrome....

Using Progress Bar Timer Progress Bar Timer provides three options for tracking time: “Counter” bars, “Clock” bars, and “Timer” bars. Click on the “Add a Bar” button and a window will appear prompting you to create your first bar. We’ll start with a “Counter.” Lets say I am a delivery man who must deliver five packages every day. Having a handy counter would make it easy to track my day’s progress....

In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to redesign your desktop and transform it to a nice eyecandy that makes people ‘wow’. The distro I am using is Ubuntu Gutsy. Changing of theme The first step to redesign your desktop is to change the desktop theme. Go to http://www.gnome-look.org where you can find great themes that you can download for free. Gnome desktop theme can be found under the GTK 2....

Gog.is is great for sending a Google search link to someone about a topic. Normally when you search for something like Cars on Google and simply copy the URL, you will have a mess that looks like this. People sometimes get scared when they see all that gibberish and can’t tell what the link actually is. Gog.is simplifies this. All you need to do is type Gog.is/cars. When the link is clicked or copy and pasted into the address bar, they will see the same results....

On a tablet, you can move around in the Start screen by swiping left/right. On the desktop, you can use the mouse wheel or keyboard shortcut to navigate the screen. Keyboard shortcuts “Home” button – Move to the start of the Start screen “End” button – Move to the end of the Start screen Arrows (Left/Right/Up/Down) buttons – Moving from tile to tile. Windows + Tab button – Reveal thumbnail of running apps on the left sidebar....

It is readily available for just about any Linux distribution and for Ubuntu, it can be installed via the Ubuntu Software Center or the terminal: Before using wireshark, the dumpcap utility needs to be given permission to run as root. Without this, Wireshark won’t be able to capture network traffic when you are logged in as a normal user (which is always in distributions like Ubuntu). To add the “setuid” bit to dumpcap, use the following command: Note that the quotes marks around the “which dumpcap” aren’t normal single quotes but rather the grave accent character....