Author: Brad Lang

Ever had your senses overwhelmed by just seeing too many things at once? It happens to some people in book stores or during firework displays; it’s a pretty common phenomenon. Perhaps you’ve even had it while looking at the main menu of your phone, all those little blocks and apps just all blend into a mish-mash of colours and letters. Has Google created Action Blocks for such a problem? Absolutely not, considering we’re probably the only people plagued by such an issue. What Action Blocks is designed to do is to make navigating an Android phone much simpler for those…

Listen up all you tab goblins. You know who you are, the people who managed to accumulate 38 different tabs at any one point while using Google Chrome. It’s messy, it’s chaotic and it needs to be reigned in. If you’re not gonna take control over all your pointless tabs the least you could do is organise them so everything looks just a little neater. Fortunately for you, Google has updated Chrome to now support a “Group Tabs” option and we’re here to show you how to use it. Up To Date So the first thing you’ll need to do…

A bizarre little Twitter thread has made people realise that there are other ways to conduct a remote business meeting that isn’t Zoom or Skype. Sure, those apps have proven essential for workers navigating through the COVID-19 pandemic but let’s be honest: There isn’t a person alive who actually enjoys those kinds of meetings. What are you meant to do with your hands? Can people see that you’re not wearing pants? Can you even hear me? These are all frustrating factors that would be way easier if you worked with a bunch of cowboys. Fortunately, there’s a way you can…

Tactical situations. It seems like every other day we’re thrown into one of those and most of the time, we’re prepared. We have our camo backpacks, deadly weapons and enough face paint to adorn the faces of bemused children across several fully packed birthday parties. Yet when it comes to phones, well they can be a bit trickier. They’re all so fragile and…dainty. When in the thick of battle you need a rugged phone, one that can take a few knocks. That’s exactly what Samsung was thinking with the Tactical Edition of the Galaxy S20. Seemingly ripped straight from promotional material…

Vlogging can be a tough life. Not that we’d know, none of the Stuff crew are emotionally stable enough to share every intimate detail of our lives with thousands of strangers on the internet. Yet you can bet that if we did try our hand at vlogging, we’d only invest in the snazziest, neatest little webcam we could get our hands on. If we’d be willing to wait a bit, then Sony’s latest compact camera would probably be our first choice. Of course, the Sony ZV-1 hasn’t actually been announced just yet but all signs are pointing to confirmation very soon. Sony…

UPDATE: After reaching out to us, Lumen has confirmed that customers can purchase the device and have it shipped to South Africa for free for a limited time. Check out their website to place an order at no extra cost. The market for fitness apps is constantly shifting and growing. While snazzy devices like FitBits and a whole bucketload of other smart watches offer features like calorie counting and kilojoules burned, none have quite cracked the metabolic system. That’s Lumen’s gap in the market as the device and app that can “hack” your metabolism has just released overseas . The tech…

Flesh dogs are great, there’s no denying that. Your best friend, your early alarm system and even a way of staying warm during the colder nights of winter with some prime pet cuddles. Flesh dogs are excellent but they also have a fatal flaw: they’re not metal and controlled by a computer. Sure, that’s less fun to cuddle, but robots can do so many things. For example, spinning it off the top of the dome without context, herding sheep. You’ve got to train meat dogs to herd sheep and that whole process can take ages! A robot though? Well, that’s…

The Oculus Quest is a monumentally cool piece of hardware. All the adventures and experiences of virtual reality without all the messy cables tripping everyone up, the Quest is arguably the best VR platform you could invest in. We certainly thought so when we got our hands on it at the end of last year, impressed with the power and variety encased in a shell that didn’t feel like taping an anvil to your face. The Quest is about to become even better now that a highly anticipated feature is about to leap out of beta. Yes, controller free hand-tracking…

It feels like we’re writing more and more about how DStv is doing its absolute best to stay within the current conversation. You might not know this, but Multichoice isn’t exactly super popular with the masses of South Africa so the abundance of new deals and special offers seems to indicate that the service provider is trying its hardest to convince people to not cancel their subscriptions. Maybe a discount will do the trick! A discount on…online education courses? Multichoice’s latest offering will see DStv Premium members gaining access to 600 free online courses on a range of topics following…

At this point, it seems like common sense to just give text-heavy apps a dark mode. Beyond the fact that it just places less strain on your eyes, there’s something undeniably cool about browsing Twitter through the lens of darkness. That got far edgier than we intended, sometimes we can’t help ourselves. Dark mode brings out the edge in us all and now it’s finally doing the same for Google Search. Whilst it has been in beta for some time now, all Google Search users will finally be able to switch between dark and light modes in the app. Rolling out today…