The Best Home Screen Launchers for Android

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Why some scientists say it's more likely than not A swath of technologists and physicists believe that 'simulation theory' will be proved, just as it was proved that the Earth was not the center of the universe [The Guardian] How to Stop GIFs from Automatically Playing in Slack for iOS By default, if you post an animaged image in Slack, it will automatically play–and some can be quite annoying. If you would rather not see every animated image play automatically, you can easily disable this feature. Read This Article → How T-Mobile’s Free Music and Video Streaming Works Data is data…except when it’s not. T-Mobile makes things a little confusing by giving you a certain amount of data, then offering unlimited music and video streaming that doesn’t count against the allowance–but only for certain services. Read This Article → The Best Home Screen Launchers for Android Android's launcher is one of the most important parts of the user interface. It's the first thing you see once the device is unlocked, and it's the primary way you interact with the home screen. It's where your widgets live, where the app drawer is found, and where you customize the look of your phone. Read This Article → What is the Difference Between "shutdown /r" and "shutdown /g" in Windows? When you start digging into all the options available in Windows, you just might be surprised at what you can find. Take the shutdown /r and shutdown /g commands, for example. What is the difference between them? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Read This Article → How to Control Your Smarthome Devices with Siri on the Apple TV Who needs Alexa when you have Siri? tvOS 10 allows you to control your various smarthome devices from the Apple TV using just your voice. Here’s how to take advantage of such a feature and control your home without even busting out your smartphone. Read This Article → The Best Command Line Tools You Can Get on Your Mac With Homebrew You can use your Mac’s Terminal to download files, test your internet speed, convert images, or even listen to Pandora. All this and more is just a couple of Homebrew installations away. Read This Article → How to Change Siri’s Voice, Accent, Gender, and Language Most of us are familiar with Siri as an American female voice. What you may not realize is that you can actually change Siri to have a different accent, gender, and language. Read This Article → How to Remove Programs from the “Open With” Context Menu in Windows If your “Open With” right-click menu is getting a little cluttered, why not get rid of entries you don’t use? With a little Registry hacking, it’s easy to do. Read This Article → How to Change the Default Number of Worksheets in a New Excel Workbook By default, new workbooks created in Excel contain one worksheet. If you typically use more than one worksheet, you can change the number of worksheets available by default in new workbooks with a simple setting. Read This Article → How to Add Website Links to the Windows 10 Start Menu Windows 10’s Start menu is very customizable. Add website shortcuts to your Start menu and you can quickly access your favorite websites by clicking a tile. This works with Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, or any other browser. Read This Article → What Are Adjustment Layers in Photoshop? Adjustment Layers are a special kind of Photoshop layer. Rather than having content of their own, they adjust the information on the layers below them. For example, you can use an adjustment layer to increase the brightness or contrast of a photograph without altering the original photo. They're one of the most important tools to master in Photoshop. Read This Article → How to Use Android’s Wi-Fi Assistant to Keep Your Phone Safe on Public Networks If you aren’t using Android’s "Wi-Fi Assistant", you should. It automatically secures unsafe public wireless networks by using a Google VPN, so attackers can’t access your data. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Free eBook: Android Programming Cookbook In this ebook, we provide a compilation of Android programming examples that will help you kick-start your own web projects. We cover a wide range of topics, from Services and Views, to Google Maps and Bluetooth functionality. With our straightforward tutorials, you will be able to get your own projects up and running in minimum time. Click here to download