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HP has launched a new all-in-one PC with a major difference: you can easily switch out the monitor for another one. Easily Upgraded The new PC, called the EliteOne 1000, has a wedge-shaped base containing most of its hardware components. The base can be easily opened to swap components out. But the most unusual feature is clearly the upgradable all-in-one display. If you’re thinking of grabbing that aging 32″ HDMI TV and delicately balancing it on the EliteOne’s stand, you’d be mistaken. Unfortunately, monitor upgrade options are limited to small number of HP-made devices. Regardless, it does allow for a level of customization previously unseen in all-in-one PC solutions. You might start out with a 23.8″ 1080p touchscreen… but then swap that out for 34″ non-touch curved WQHD screen, just because you can. At the time of writing, there are just three screens to choose from, but more variations are set to arrive in the future. Currently available are the afore...

Facebook is preparing to launch its best feature since it allowed unfollowing without deletion. You can now Snooze your friends, family, and other Liked pages for 24 hours, 7 days, or 30 days. Hit the Snooze Button The new feature is likely aimed toward helping busy business and organization pages keep hold of their Like tally. I cannot be the only one that has unfollowed, or even deleted a friend or page due to incessant posting, creating a dreadful amount of noise on your News Feed. Facebook specifically benefits from you keeping your network dense, full of useful links. This works for both advertising (primarily) and for keeping you in touch with friends during their big life moments (it can be utterly terrible for things like this at times). The addition of the Snooze button adds another easy option for News Feed management, too. Facebook have settled on a clear direction here. Remember the now depreciated “See Less” button? The idea was that you selected the See Less op...

Juggling several email inboxes can be a hassle. Luckily, all the main email providers — Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo — let you combine your email accounts into one single inbox, to send and receive email all from one place on the web. This will come in particularly handy to those of you who don’t like the idea of using a desktop client. Are you wasting too much time by checking several inboxes every morning? Stop it! Follow our step-by-step guides for Gmail, Outlook, or Yahoo, and you’ll have all your emails in one unified inbox. Gmail With Gmail, getting all of your other email accounts into your Gmail inbox couldn’t be easier. The feature is built into Gmail’s native settings. Head to your settings and follow these steps… Under  Accounts and Import > Check mail from other accounts , click  Add a mail account . A pop-up window will open up where you can enter your other email address. Gmailify With some email platforms, the proce...

At its annual fall event for 2017, Apple unveiled the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. These two phones were, however, somewhat overshadowed by  the unveiling of the iPhone X . The latter is the new, forward-looking, premium product Apple thinks is worthy of a whopping $999 price tag. The iPhone X isn’t being released until November, with pre-orders starting in October. Which means tech reviewers are focusing first on the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. The first reviews have been published online, so we thought we’d digest the juiciest details from the early iPhone 8 reviews. Reading iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus Reviews The Verge  reminds us that this IS an iPhone, and a very good one at that. However, the iPhone 8 isn’t the iPhone X, and therefore “it’s not the future, and it’s not the cutting edge”. It is, instead, “just the default”. Therefore, Nilay Patel “can’t think of a single compelling reason to upgrade from an iPhone 7”. Engadget  describes the iPhone 8 and iPhon...

Apple is finally releasing iOS 11 to the general public. And this isn’t the buggy beta version that has been available since the end of June. No, this is the real deal, the official release,  the final version of iOS 11 . And all you need to download iOS 11 is to own a compatible Apple device. Apple first unveiled iOS 11 at WWDC in June. The company then released iOS 11 as a beta. Now, it’s being officially released to all compatible devices, and, as always, it’s completely free to install. So if you own an iPhone, an iPad, or an iPod Touch, you should download iOS 11 as soon as you can. How to Install iOS 11 iOS 11 is compatible with all iPhones from the iPhone 5s upwards, all iPads from the fifth generation upwards, and the iPad mini 2, 3, and 4. It’s also available on the sixth generation iPod touch. To install iOS 11 just go to  Settings > General > Software Update , and your device will do the rest. There are two things you should do before you try to upd...

By now, you know that YouTube isn’t only for watching cat videos and smartphone voyeurism. If you’re smart, it can be your go-to place for learning new skills and finding gems for research. But one of the best uses for YouTube is as a source of free music that you can legally download for free and use for all kinds of projects and endeavors. Grab Royalty-Free Music for Any Use The  YouTube Audio Library  launched in 2013 with 1,000+ free musical tracks. Thanks to our growing smartphone video production skills, we need quality downloads for background music, right? Whether you’re uploading to YouTube or creating a private video, good background music makes a difference. The channel now hosts more than five times that initial number. All are high-quality 320 Kbps audio tracks and sound effects with a royalty-free license. You can also log into the channel with your Google ID for a better categorized view of the collection via the  Creator’s S...

Browsers have made it easy to  mute sites  on individual tabs that autoplay video or audio content the minute you load the page. If you find yourself visiting a lot of pages with intrusive autoplaying videos and simply want to put a stop to it, these tools can lend a helping hand. Chrome Silent Site Sound Blocker  gives you complete control over what sounds come out of your Chrome browser. Once you install the extension, all tabs are automatically muted. Right-click the extension’s button in your browser to bring up a context menu. From this menu you can whitelist and blacklist sites, and you can temporarily unmute sites by clicking  Allow this time only . When you open a new site that is playing sound, a popup will appear prompting you to choose from four ways you can handle the audio: always allow, allow once, reject once, and never allow. You can also disable this prompt if you prefer not to see it every time you load a site. The extension...