Why I won't buy smartwatches anymore

For the first time I learned about smartwatches in general back in 2014, these were the first Samsung Galaxy Gear, but I didn't like the price. Naturally I wanted, it seemed incredibly cool and useful, huge functionality compared to ordinary watches and in general, I love technology, and this is just something new and interesting. Still, in 2020,... Read more...

How to play on MacBook?

I think it’s no secret to anyone that games are not the strongest side of the MacBook, and Mac OS as a whole. But what if you want to run into new games, but there is no desire to buy a second car? Relevant only for Russia. But it is not exactly. The article will focus on the Geforce Now service. This is not an advertisement, this is a... Read more...

Speed up page loading with iframes from YouTube

Very often the task is to make as quickly as possible loading pages on which there is a large number of videos from youtube, for example, as reviews. Even one video embedded through the iframe into the page greatly slows down its loading and scares off your potential customers. [spoiler title='Some tests] Two blank pages were created. On... Read more...

How do I know a user's location by MAC?

This is by no means a guide, but only a description of the yandex-metro bug, which the campaign is not going to fix at all. The bug is that the Yandex Metro app sends your wi-fi data to a point in the background (even without running the app), which gets information about your location. You can also use this to find the location of some wi-fi... Read more...

How to find a lost smartphone on the android platform?

Do you often lose your phone? Perhaps he just fell over the sofa, but is in silent mode. Stolen? Let's try to find it or at least clean and block it. To do this, we will use the “ find a device ” service from Google . To do this, enter the Google-account installed also on the phone. We open the service by the link , on the... Read more...

Debian 8 Jessie update to Debian 9 Stretch and possible errors

At first I was very afraid to do it on a live, working server precisely because with older versions I had a sad experience, where it was easier to reinstall the system than to correct the existing errors. That's why I originally made all the necessary backups. Namely: Folder /var - there I have all the sites. Folder /etc - configs And of... Read more...

The first programmer is a woman! Ada Lovelace

They say that women have quite a few discoveries or great achievements. Nevertheless, it is the first programmer was a woman - Ada Lovelace. Ada was the only legitimate child of the great English romantic poet George Gordon Byron . She was born on December 10, 1815 . Yes, yes, you are right - on December 10, “Programmer's Day” has recently... Read more...