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May 07, 2016

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This helps Chromebooks save battery life and improve security. However, the sleep mode has proved more annoying than helpful â€“ particularly because you canâ€™t just go to settings and turn it off. There is no built-in way to stop the Chromebook narcolepsy, which means you need to get creative. Hereâ€™s how to keep Chrome awake.

Chromebooks have a whole lot of extensions waiting in the Google Store, and an active Chromium community coming up with fixes, new tools, and tweaks to make the experience better. Given this, itâ€™s no surprise that someone has created an ideal solution to the sleep problem, and itâ€™s called Keep Awake.

The Keep Awake extension is both simple and effective. When installed, it creates a new icon in the top right corner of Chrome browser window. This icon is either a picture of a bright sun, a setting sun, or of a moon. Click it to switch between the three. When the bright sun icon is on, then sleep mode will not work and your Chromebook screen will always stay on. When on sunset, the Chromebook screen can go blank to save power, but it wonâ€™t actually got to sleep. When on the moon, the traditional Chrome OS sleep mode settings apply.

Keep Awake will prevent your computer from absently slipping into sleep mode while you are streaming, or studying, or working on a long project. It will also prevent those awkward moments when you are giving a presentation on a second screen and your Chromebook suddenly decides to take a nap. How do you get it? Just follow this link to the Google Chrome Web Store and select Add to Chrome to download the extension and get it working.

If you paid close attention to our description of Keep Awake, you probably noticed that it doesnâ€™t affect sleep mode when you close the lid (except when using a second screen). This is a thornier problem, and one that may not be important to you. But, if you do want to keep Chrome awake even you shut the laptop, thereâ€™s something you can try.This move requires using the Chromebook terminal to execute a specific command that will stop the sleep function for all lid-related activities. This fix has been around for several years, and still appears effective.

First, make sure you are the admin user. You can open a terminal at any time on a Chromebook by holding down CTRL+ALT+T. This opens a command prompt window where you should type and enter in these commands, in order:This will solve your sleep problem, but be warned! It will only work as long as you donâ€™t restart your Chromebook. If you do restart â€“ say for an update â€“ then Chrome OS will wipe out your little administrator hack and youâ€™ll have to do it again.Portronics, a known manufacturer of audio, power and other accessories in the market, recently came up with a small wonderâ€”the Sound Pot. We had this unit for quite a while and here is what we have to say.

The Sound Pot is a tiny little Bluetooth-enabled portable mono speaker. The speaker looks like a miniature flower pot. Completely black in colour, the exterior has a rubberized finish with rubber feet for extra grip on a flat surface. Light in weight, round and slightly oddly shaped, the Sound Pot measures 95.5mm in height, 54.5mm in diameter and weighs just 180g. The top is a tad larger than the bottom and tapers slightly towards the front, which helps face the speaker grille to the listener.

The top features a black metal grille, while the bottom features a rubber feet and a physical power button. Apart from the power button, there are absolutely no controls on the unit. On the rear side you will find a micro USB port for charging the speaker and an AUX audio input jack. A tiny red LED on the rear alerts you with a blink when the unit is charging. When the charge is complete, it stays lit up continuously. It would have been nice if this could have been a dual-led so it can turn green when charging is complete. The plus point here is that the speaker will allow itself to be charged even when in useâ€”no more compromise on your favourite music when itâ€™s charging.

The Sound Pot features a 4 ohm driver with an output of 3 Watts. It runs on Bluetooth 4.1 in a maximum range of 10 meters. The Pot is powered by an internal lithium rechargeable battery that lasts you an easy 4 â€“ 5 hours of continuous music, depending on the volume output and the distance of the speaker to the phone. The speaker also features a built-in microphone which allows you to make voice calls directly from the speaker itself. You can use it as a speakerphone or a handsfree unit when in your car or at home. Sadly, the speaker does not have any buttons to answer or cut off the calls.

As for the performance, the speaker is an incredible little monster. The audio quality is great and has a decent amount of bass when compared to its small size. You can feel the speaker vibrating to the bass, and the weight and rubber feet ensure it stays in the fixed place. If kept on a table or on the mattress, you can actually feel the vibration with the beats, giving you that additional feel to the music.

At first we did not expect this small music box to impress us. But when we switched on the tiny midget, we had a different opinion. The Sound Pot is really loud. The volume can be shrill, but it wonâ€™t ruin the audio quality, even at peak volumes. The bass remains stable and the trebles are great too. In a large, closed party hall, you can easily hear the loud music with clear audio. Pair it with a tablet, mobile or a laptop, and listen to your favorite music or enjoy a music, you will definitely have no complains. In fact, when compared to the JPL GO, we found the Potâ€™s audio quality and volume very impressive, and that too at less than half the cost.

This week AMD announced their new desktop processor lineup. Top of the list is their new FX 8370 with the Wraith fan. This is a high performance low noise fan that comes bundled with this processor. It comes with a lot of performance for the price and it is very affordable. For $560 you can get their new Radeon R9 380x graphics card, this processor, and one of the 990FX motherboards designed to pull this all together. Toss in a nice case, memory, and a 500 Gig SSD drive and you should still be able to have a decent gaming or work from home desktop for around $1,000.

Personally I still prefer water cooling but it is often a ton easier to put together a system with an air cooler like the Wraith because you typically donâ€™t have to change out the fan mount and never have to worry about routing the water pipes (plus you can generally mount the fan last) I canâ€™t tell you the number of times Iâ€™ve gone to mount the fan after putting everything else together only to find the fan mount has to be changed and it all has to come back out again to do that.

The Wraith even has an LED light to make it look more upscale which really isnâ€™t bad for a bundled product. Now if you want to build a new PC on the cheap, and I have several of these set up as stations around the house for various reasons, you can pick up an AMD A10-7860K APU and an AMD A68H motherboard to put into a Corsair Graphite series case. (I really like this case) and you are out the door for around $500 and with a pretty decent highly portable desktop computer.

One final thing I almost forgot these systems, for gaming, will likely work best with one of the new FreeSync monitors. I use the 34â€ LG 34UM67 myself which comes in just over $400 which is a pretty decent price for a 34â€. This matchup eliminates tearing and stuttering that can occur if the monitor and graphics card are not matched. (Be aware that FreeSync only works with Display Port).

If you have the room, and you donâ€™t need much, a desktop computer is actually a pretty good addition to your laptop computer. It will not only help your laptop battery last longer but a desktop is just handy to have as your primary workstation, gaming station, at home and itâ€™ll likely become critical if you decide to move to VR. With AMDâ€™s configurations you can build a decent rig for around $1K or an adequate small PC for about half that. If you want a project while you are sitting in the house waiting for warm weather your own PC project is a pretty decent and reasonably low cost effort to kill time.

By the way, add $120 for Windows 10 Home on a flash drive if you donâ€™t have an OS disk set you can use for your new system. It still amazes me how far this platform has come and how easy it is to install on new hardware.

So, you've purchased a gaming laptop or desktop with Nvidia graphics, and you're ready to start gaming. You've set up your macros and overclocking settings, and you're about to launch your first game. But before you start serving up a heaping helping of kick-ass to friends and foes alike, don't forget to set up Nvidia GeForce Experience. This free download can optimize your gameplay in a myriad of ways. Here are answers to some key questions about this helpful software.

What is GeForce Experience?
GeForce Experience is Nvidia's proprietary software suite comprising five separate applications, including Game Optimization, GameStream, ShadowPlay, Battery Boost and LED Visualizer. The software is meant to complement your GeForce graphics card, providing one-button solutions for game optimization or live streaming.

Which systems support the software?
Realizing that the average life of a laptop is more than three years, Nvidia has some very generous system requirements. As far as operating systems go, the minimum you can get away with is Windows Vista, although you should make sure your device has DirectX 11 installed.
The minimum hardware requirements call for at least 20MB of disk space, 2GB of RAM and a display with 1024 x 768 to 3840 x 2160 resolution. The software will run on Intel systems with Pentium G Series processors, Core 2 Duo CPUs and quad-core i3 through i7 CPUs. It can also work with AMD CPUs, including Phenom II, Athlon II, Phenom X4, FX or higher.
GeForce Experience is designed to help you get the best combination of performance, special effects and battery life. Game Optimization, for example, configures your game's graphics settings with the quick press of a button based on your PC's components. If the suggestions aren't to your fancy, you can do some tweaking using the sliders on the side. However, there are some titles that have to be launched at least once before the feature kicks in.

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