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The Portable Magnetic Charging Stand for Apple Watch is lengthy in name, but simple in purpose and execution. Ugreen’s latest Apple Watch accessory is a portable stand that can be adjusted to rest at a 45-degree angle to easily accommodate an Apple Watch with a closed-loop band installed. Featuring an integrated magnetic inductive charging disk and built-in 4-foot USB cable, Ugreen’s $55 charger is ready to go out of the box, as long as you have access to a USB port that delivers the necessary power....

Auto Unlock was one of the biggest features announced at WWDC 2016 that didn’t make it in the initial round of developer betas back in mid-June. Today, thanks to the highly anticipated release of the latest macOS Sierra beta, developers get their first hands-on look at Auto Unlock. Watch our video inside to see it in action. There are some things to note about Auto Unlock. First and foremost, you’ll need to be running the latest macOS Sierra Developer Preview Seed 2....

Alas, we’re one step closer to an App Store not filled with iOS 6 keyboards. Google released Translate 2.1 today, bringing support for the iOS 7 keyboard released last September to the iPhone and iPad. The update also expands support for its new handwriting input method to a number of additional languages including Arabic, Esperanto, Gujarati, Hebrew, Javanese, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Persian, Punjabi, Telugu, and Zulu. Google first introduced its handwriting input method last September....

Of all the love stories on Grey’s Anatomy, it feels like Meredith Grey and Derek Shepherd’s is the one for the TV history books. These two meet in a bar, sneak around, deal with the fact that he’s married, split up, get back together, become husband and wife via post-it note, start a family, and then he tragically dies. It’s a lot. But there’s another couple who give fans a lot of emotions: Izzie Stevens (Katherine Heigl) and Alex Karev (Justin Chambers)....

The Tor project was born in the military sector, sponsored the US Naval Research Laboratory, and from 2004 to 2005 it was supported by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Today the software is under development and maintenance of the Tor Project Team. The encryption processes implemented in the Tor Network allow it to protect users’ privacy. Tor traffic is encrypted multiple times passing through different nodes of the network, also known as Tor relays....

Halide is one of the most popular camera apps available for iPhone, as it lets users adjust focus, exposure, white balance, and more manually before taking a photo. As the iPhone 12 Pro Max is now officially available, developer Sebastiaan de With shared on Halide’s blog more technical details about the camera of this year’s most expensive iPhone model. Unlike last year’s models, the iPhone 12 Pro Max camera is different from the camera found on the regular iPhone 12 Pro....

Through a bizarre turn of events, Halo: The Master Chief Collection is currently the top-selling game on Steam. Halo is Microsoft’s most iconic video game franchise, one that is nearly synonymous with the company’s proprietary hardware console Xbox. But now five years after release on Xbox, the notoriously bugged Master Chief Collection is the number one selling game on PC’s largest gaming platform. Microsoft has changed their business strategy in recent years by offering first-party titles on both Xbox and PC....

If you’re looking for a quick and easy way to connect your MacBook or MacBook Pro to an HDMI-enabled input, then Aukey’s USB-C to HDMI Cable might be able to do the job. Aukey’s USB-C to HDMI Cable is a single-cable solution with a USB-C connector on one end, and an HDMI connector on the opposite end. The cable itself, at 1.8 meters, should be generally long enough to connect to TVs mounted on a wall....

While certainly not the main story told in Guardians of the Galaxy, Peter Quill’s parentage was a lingering question throughout. His ability to hold an Infinity Stone and not die coupled with references to his angel of a father began to plant the seeds for his next adventure. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 will largely deal with Star-Lord and the rest of his team looking for the hero’s estranged father....

Gus Van Sant toes the line between independent auteur and mainstream genius. His films are equal parts thrilling, emotionally evocative, and relatable, often focusing on characters struggling to understand themselves and find community in a rigid and cold world. Van Sant is also synonymous with queer cinema, and many of his best films feature LGBTQ+ characters. Van Sant’s prolific career has landed him Oscar nominations and the top prize at Cannes, the Palme D’Or, for his contentious feature Elephant....

Jailbreaking and rooting are slowly becoming a thing of the past. This is because most OEMs are adopting features that were only exclusive to custom ROMs. iOS users, however, still have a bunch of reasons to Jailbreak their device. One cool new reason is coming in the name of Groups. This fantastic Jailbreak tweak will allow you to sort your message conversations into groups. If your messages inbox always seems to be cluttered, the Groups Jailbreak tweak will allow you to clean up your messages....

Halloween 2 might have been a logical end to John Carpenter’s horror franchise, but it was not the end; in a way, it was only the beginning and started the origin of one of the most convoluted plot lines in the series: the Cult of Thorn. After the release of David Gordon Green’s Halloween in 2018, there are now five distinct timelines within the franchise. As fans know very well, some choices, such as the decision to jump 40 years between the original 1978 Halloween and the 2018 version, was sensible....

The Translate app is quite simple and there is not much you need to know to use it. Once you open the app, all you have to do is choose the language you want to translate and the language in which the content will be translated to. You can type text to be translated or use the dictation feature to translate what you say with your voice. iOS can read the translation with the correct pronunciation, which can be great not only for communicating with other people, but also for learning a different language....

Gossip Girl was bound to have some drama based on the title alone, and there was more than enough for viewers. It seemed that every other episode a new rivalry was born between the characters, and they fought it out by utilizing any blackmail they had to their advantage. There were some rivalries that fans were behind, but others made no sense at all to viewers. Fans watched as these characters went from ground zero to nuclear in seconds as new gossip was revealed....

Under the restructure, the Chinese internet giant has split its global and domestic e-commerce business into two separate units. During the restructure announcement, Alibaba said it would focus its investment on the “two strategic pillars” to better drive synergies across its consumer and wholesale commerce platforms in China as well as internationally. Starting this quarter, the company has updated its segment reporting to reflect this restructure, which now includes China commerce, international commerce, local consumer services, Cainaio, cloud, digital media and entertainment, and innovation initiatives and others....

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City: Rockstar Games announced on its blog today that Grand Theft Auto Vice City’s will officially make its way to iOS in celebration of the title’s 10th anniversary. Rockstar is promising a release this fall and more details in the weeks to come: Tweetbot version 2.6: -Support for Twitter’s new header image -Ability to create custom locations -Various other fixes and improvements Instamac: Released on the Mac App Store today, Instamac is a streamlined Instagram client for Mac that is currently selling for 99 cents....

The power button has the supreme authority on a smartphone after all the buttons were retracted leaving only power button, volume rockers, and home button in some devices. Now, power button lets the user lock and unlock the screen as well as turn and turn off the phone, etc. It is also used to cancel calls or to take a screenshot or to reboot the phone as well as to change the sound profiles even when the phone is locked....

As my colleague Zac Hall detailed in his hands-on yesterday, one of the highlights of the M1 iPad Pro is the front-facing camera technology. The new iPad Pro is equipped with a new front-facing ultra-wide to power the Center Stage software technology. The experts over at Halide have gotten their hands on the new iPad Pro and published an in-depth breakdown of the new iPad Pro camera hardware, including a “hidden superpower” with the rear camera....

For a relatively inexpensive Apple Watch band ($30 compared to $50 Sport bands), I was actually impressed with the overall build quality of the specific band I tested. The shiny lugs match the stainless steel Apple Watch just fine (although you can tell they’re cheaper), but might contrast with the matte Apple Watch Sport aluminum and wouldn’t match other colors. The three rings on the strap are a bit darker, however, and would look great matched with an Apple Watch Sport....

If you need to present your detailed spreadsheet data in a user-friendly way, create a Pivot Table. It’s not as hard as you think. Hammad Saleem shows you how. We had another great show this week on Attack of the Androids (AotA). The AotA crew discusses the Android news of the week. Attack of the Androids appears weekly here on groovyPost. We’re also in iTunes you can subscribe here. Speaking of Android, here’s a great tip for Kindle Fire owners....