There are more BitTorrent clients than we could possibly compare, but some of the most popular—and best—have been under the spotlight lately for sleazy ads and bad behavior. It’s time to check in on a few of our favorites to see how they fare, which deserves your downloads, and which you can trust. Read more…
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Torrenting Showdown: Transmission vs qBitorrent vs µTorrent
If you’re working on an image in Photoshop that’s cut into numerous sections, sometimes you find yourself needing to carefully align the different layers just by eye. Set one layer to the “difference” blend mode, though, and it’s infinitely easier. This video from Scott Kelby shows how it’s done. Read more…
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Use This Blend Mode in Photoshop to Perfectly Align Images
Jailbreaking a Kindle comes with a variety of benefits, including installing custom screensavers and software, but most recently the availability of the jailbreak has been restricted to a small handful of firmware. Now, its seeing a much wider release. Read more…
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You Can Now Jailbreak Just About Any Kindle
The newest version of Apple’s operating system, macOS Sierra , won’t drop until fall, but a public beta is open to anyone gutsy enough to install it right now. If you’d rather leave your Mac alone but you’re still curious about what’s new, don’t worry, we’ll take a look at all the new features. Read more…
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A Screenshot Tour of MacOS Sierra, Your Mac’s Newest Operating System
It’s easy to find movies to download or stream, but if you’re flying straight and narrow or want to support and watch films that are free, public domain, or whose creators want them free and openly shared, here are some great sites to bookmark—and visit when you want something new to watch. Read more…
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Top 10 Places to Download or Stream Movies For Free, Legally
Long-time Slashdot reader itwbennett writes: Lenovo is advising users to upgrade to version 3.3.003 of Lenovo Solution Center (LSC), which includes fixes for two high-severity vulnerabilities in the tool. [The tool] allows users to check their system’s virus and firewall status, update their Lenovo software, perform backups, check battery health, get registration and warranty information and run hardware tests. The CVE-2016-5249 vulnerability allows an attacker who already has control of a limited account on a PC to execute malicious code via the privileged LocalSystem account. And the CVE-2016-5248 vulnerability allows any local user to send a command to LSC.Services.SystemService in order to kill any other process on the system, privileged or not. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Lenovo Warns Users To Upgrade Pre-Installed Tool With Severe Security Holes
Adobe’s pushing out a big update to its suite of creative cloud apps, most notably to Photoshop, which gets a slew of new features, including content-aware crop, match font, and more. Read more…
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Adobe Rolls Out Big Update for Photoshop CC, Smaller Updates for the Rest of Its Apps
Windows/Mac/Linux: The Nintendo 3DS is a great little system , but with a maximum resolution of 400 x 240, it’s not exactly a looker. Citra is an emulator that’s still very early in development, but features a way to upscale 3DS games to 1600 x 960. Read more…
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Citra Emulates 3DS Games In Higher Definition
Android/iOS: PayPal may be a decent way to transfer money online, but if you use cash, PayPal doesn’t exactly have a local branch you can deposit money at. Until now. The latest app update now lets you deposit money at CVS and Rite-Aid. Read more…
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You Can Now Deposit Cash Into PayPal At Your Nearest CVS or Rite-Aid
OS X/Linux: CloudBerry Lab is giving away free licenses to its premium backup client, which normally costs $29.99. It offers encryption, compression, and unlimited backups to cloud storage providers such as Amazon S3, Google Nearline, Microsoft Azure, and Rackspace. Read more…
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Grab a Free License for CloudBerry Backup Pro for Mac or Linux, Normally $30