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If you’re looking for a way to access the note-taking service from the command line, try Geeknote, an open-source Evernote console client for Linux, as well as other platforms like FreeBSD and Mac OS X. In this article, we will discuss the basics of Geeknote and its installation on Linux, as well as the features it provides. Installation Note: All these installation steps have been tested on Ubuntu 14.04. Use the following commands to install Geeknote: Once done, just run the following command: This command will ask you to enter your Evernote login credentials, as well as a two-factor authentication code (you can skip this by just pressing Enter in case you have not set it up with Evernote)....

The latest release of Gnome – 3.18 “Gothenburg” – brings a host of changes (25,112 of them) and improvements that will definitely delight staunch users of Gnome 3. There are also updates to its core suite of apps such as Nautilus, Calendar, Music, To-do, Maps and more. I’m going to go over the major improvements made in this release as well as how to update to 3.18 or install it for the first time....

Still, there’s something to be said for sticking around. While Java isn’t nearly as old as the languages that influenced it, it’s much older than Go. It’s also heavily entrenched in many industries, so you’ll still find plenty of people picking the language for their programming tasks. Let’s see how the two languages compare to each other. Golang vs. Java: Introduction Go was designed at Google, with the project kicking off in 2007....

With that being said, if this MX Anywhere 2S deal isn’t for you, then we’ve got a modicum of the best Black Friday deals available on our main roundup article, with everything from games consoles to phones and projectors all heavily discounted. As for the MX Anywhere 2S office mouse, it may be a little bit older than Logitech’s newest lineup of peripherals, but remains an excellent mouse for office duties....

Sony’s flagship of last year, the Xperia 1 III, is now available to buy for just £699 after an amazing Black Friday discount of £500. That’s 42% off its original starting price, which is an incredible saving to make on a flagship phone that is not all that different to its recently-released successor. If you’re looking for more deals on top of this one, then you can always swing buy our liveblog to check up on the latest and greatest offers that we’ve managed to pick out from around the web....

While we used to use books and translators to help translate, these are no longer necessary, as mobile devices can serve as great translators whether doing business or traveling. The following is a selection of free iOS apps that will help you translate many different languages. Not all apps that were demoed worked; those have been omitted from this list. 1. Google Translate If you’re on your computer and in need of a quick translation, most likely you’re looking it up on Google....

We’re here to tell you what you need to know about HDR, not just to understand a cool piece of tech, but so you can make an informed purchase of products that don’t make it easy to understand what HDR support actually means. What Is HDR? HDR, or high dynamic range, is quite possibly the most significant development in video quality since the jump from SD to HD. What the technology does is allow for both video and still images to have far greater brightness, contrast, and color accuracy....

The ability to hear and experience music as the recording artist and sound engineers truly intended is at the heart of Bowers & Wilkins’ approach to premium over-ear headphone design. That’s why the brand’s new range of Px7 S2, Px8, and Px8 007 Edition headphones should be on everyone’s wish-list. For the recording engineers at London’s world-famous Abbey Road Studios, Bowers & Wilkins’ flagship 801 D4 loudspeakers have been trusted as the reference monitors for over four decades....

Since the launch of this site in 2007, there has been no proper logo for Make Tech Easier. It was fine in the past when this site is small and we only have few visitors. Times have changed. We have seen substantial growth in traffic and readership over the years. While we have gone through several server upgrade and site design, the (ugly) logo never change. Until now. We are going to re-establish our identity with a new logo, and your help....

We’re wondering now what will happen with this industry in the future, even though it hasn’t really even started other than in just a couple limited instances. To get the conversation going, we asked a couple of our writers, “How do you think delivery drones will fare in the future?” Our Opinion Derrik thinks it will be interesting to see what happens in the future with delivery drones, but he doesn’t see it being cost effective for quite awhile as “drones are expensive,” so he doesn’t think many companies will invest in the service right away....

Taking a look at the actual specs in the upcoming PS5 and Xbox Series X can leave those in the know a little disappointed: it being technology that PC gamers have been using for years. And then there are the games, few of which we’ve seen that give off a real next-gen feel. However, if you look closer at the next-gen consoles, what you might not know is the advertising hype is totally justified: in the coming years, the PS5 and Xbox Series X are set to fundamentally change gaming and PC gaming in particular....

The aptly named widget TapToShare, once installed, settles right inside the Notification Center and matches Apple’s flat design as seen in the screenshots below. The widgets add shortcuts to both Facebook and Twitter in the Notification Center’s Today tab, and if you’re quite an avid social user, you’ll be pleased to have the buttons back. Unfortunately, tapping on either one of these buttons won’t allow you to directly share something from the Notification Center....

However, there are other ways to transfer your photo files from Google Photos. One of the best destinations is the Windows 10 Photos app which is synced with OneDrive, giving you at least one terabyte of space. Follow the steps below to smoothly add Google Photos to the Photos App in Windows 10. Is There a Way to Automatically Sync Google Photos with Your Desktop? At present, it is not possible to automatically export files from Google Photos to either Google Drive or any desktop app....

To save you from browsing from window to window, Office Tabs steps in – yes, the name could not get much more logical. This fills a rather basic need that Microsoft should have had the sense to do, not only in Office 2013, but back in the 2010 iteration of its flagship software package. Office Tabs Means Business To be fair, while Office is a popular service in almost every business, it is certainly a suite for the consumer environment as well, and resides in many homes, not to mention schools....

But sometimes we need to dive into this mysterious place and tweak things, perhaps to change the behaviors of certain applications or to change functions such as disabling the Action Center or automatically hiding certain folders. Even if we’re not doing this, things can go wrong in the registry, and we need to be prepared. So either way, we need to have our registries backed up and safe. Basic Method: Create a Restore Point The simplest and broadest way to back up your registry is to create a system restore point so that if you start getting errors on your PC, or you play around with the registry but things go wrong, you can easily rewind your PC back to a time before you made those changes....

Some cloud providers might offer virtual private servers with the fastest storage, while their CPU power is not the greatest. Another provider might offer the best CPU performance on the market, but their storage devices are slower. Furthermore, with everyone trying to steal clients from their competition, the provider with slow storage might upgrade their devices and become the best in their market, six months later. But, with benchmarks, you can compare different providers and choose what is best for you at this moment....

Aside from acting as a unique address to each network device in your PC (like wired ethernet port, WiFi, etc), MAC serves different other purposes like MAC authentication, address filtering, static IP assignment, device tracking, etc. That said, not every network device supports changing of MAC address. So if your network device doesn’t support changing of MAC address, then you just can’t change it. Let us see how to change MAC address in Windows and Ubuntu....

In this quick guide, let us see how to change WordPress permalink structure from date or category-based to post name-based URLs with proper redirects from old URLs to new URLs. Note: This guide only covers the scenarios for WordPress installed in the root directory and not for the WordPress installed in the sub directory. It is also assuming that you are using Apache as your web server. Change Permalink Settings in the WP Dashboard The first thing you need to do is to change the WordPress permalink structure to “Post name” in your WordPress dashboard....

Tip: Facebook not working for you? Try our list of fixes and go back to browsing the social app. How to Change Facebook Email on PC Unless you’ve instructed your browser to save your credentials, you’ll need your email address every time you want to log in to Facebook. This is the primary address associated with your Facebook account that you may wish to change at some point. Sometimes you just want to get rid of an old email address and move all of your correspondence to a new one....

WhatsApp offers an option to notify your contacts after you’ve changed your number. This is apparently only going to inform the contacts you have on the messaging service and not elsewhere. How to Switch to a New Phone Number on WhatsApp Changing your WhatsApp phone number is quick and easy. Open the messaging app and tap on the three vertical dots at the top-right. Choose “Settings > Account > Change number....