Apple Plans More Protection for Kids’ Apps, Leaving Industry Concerned of Their Business Model

This just seems like a case of “damned if you do; damned if you don’t.” If Apple offers no protection for kids’ apps, they get heat for caring more about profit than children’s welfare, and if they offer protections, then they aren’t doing well by app developers. Starting next month Apple planned to implement new rules for children’s apps: they would be banned from external analytics software and prevented from adding ads. But this has app developers asking how they’ll make money if they can’t collect information on kids and can’t advertise to them. Apple’s Rule Changes … Read more

5 of the Best Voice Recorder Apps for Android

If, for any reason, you need to use voice recording apps for Android, chances are you want to be using one of the best. A poor app may not utilize your phone’s hardware properly or may be prone to crashes. To help you avoid that, we’ve run through the most highly-recommended voice recording apps on Android and compared their results and their features so you can find the best one for you. How I’m Assessing Them I’ve opted to assess these apps through four key criteria: Voice quality – How well the app’s recording sounds Ease of use – How easy the app is… Read more

The 3 Best Sites to Rate Your Teachers and Professors Online

Teacher-rating websites can be a mixed bag. Sometimes they give you useful insight into how a course works and what to expect if you choose it. Sometimes they’re simply dumping grounds for students to vent their frustration, regardless of whether the teacher is actually good or not. If you’re interested in doing some research on a teacher, these are the best three sites to do that. Related: Do You Trust Ratings and Reviews at Online Stores? 1. Rate My Teachers Since its creation, Rate My Teachers has changed hands between different owners. It… Read more

How to Browse the Internet Anonymously with Garlic Routing

Garlic routing is an improved browsing technology that leverages multiple encryption routes to anonymize your Internet traffic from corporations, governments, hackers and ISPs. In this regard, it has a similar purpose as onion routing, which uses Tor-encrypted networks to deliver anonymity. However, there are a few key differences. In onion routing, the data passes through intermediary nodes which are peeled back one at a time much like an onion. Also, Tor uses bidirectional tunnels to ensure more efficient memory usage, low bandwidth overheads and centralized controls. What Is Garlic Routing? Garlic routing is an extension… Read more

How to Move Your Photos from Google to Amazon Photos

Most people are aware of the free photo storage offered by Google. However, many of you, even those of you who are Amazon Prime subscribers, don’t realize that Amazon has free unlimited photo storage, even of full-resolution RAW image files. With Google, you only get 15GB of storage if you don’t want the images to be compressed. If you compress the images, you can have unlimited storage, but the photos will not have the quality they initially did. If you would like to move your Google photos (or copy them for another backup), you’ll need to download them from Google and move them into the… Read more