How to Force Quit an Application in OS X

When Mac apps misbehave, sometimes you need to force them to shut down. This can happen when the app enters an infinite loop, crashes, hangs or otherwise ceases responding to user input. While it’s never an ideal way to close an application, it doesn’t generally hurt the app. You won’t have a chance to save your work, of course, but with many Mac apps (especially Apple’s own macOS apps) auto-saving progress at regular intervals, that’s become less of an issue. So when you force quit apps on Mac, you will lose any data since your last save but won’t otherwise injure the program. There are… Read more

5 of the Best Alternatives for the macOS Terminal App

The default Terminal app on macOS works just fine, but it’s far from the only option available. Whether you’re looking for something with more features, something more customizable, or just something that looks cool, you’ve got a lot of options. These aren’t your only alternative terminal apps for your Mac, but they’re some of the best we’ve seen. 1. iTerm2 Of all the items on this list, iTerm2 is the closest to a go-to replacement for the Mac’s Terminal app. Plenty of people who work on the command line install iTerm2 when they set up their Mac and then never even think about any of… Read more

How to Block Notifications When Taking a Picture in Android

With how powerful smartphone cameras have gotten, it is so easy to take pictures. But notifications can appear at the wrong time, such as when you’re about to take a picture. Since there is an app for just about everything, there is also an app to prevent notifications from bothering you when you’re taking that perfect picture. It’s a free app and also easy to use. Related: How to Disable and Customize Notifications in Android Oreo How to Block Notifications When Using the Camera App It can be very annoying when you finally get all your friends in the same spot for a picture, and… Read more

Happy Birthday Steve Jobs, grills, sling bags, and more – Weekly roundup

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How to Create the Perfect GIF in Photoshop

There are lots of quick-and-dirty ways to create a GIF on your PC, mainly using small dedicated apps designed for that purpose. But if a freeware app can do it, then Photoshop can probably do it better, and if you already have Photoshop on your computer, then there’s no need for you to install anything else if you want to create GIFs. Here we’ll show how to make GIFs in Photoshop – both out of a video file and out of a series of images that you can splice together into a GIF. Related: How to Create a GIF… Read more