![]() Each one has a special ability, like access to more money, or some free technologies to get you started.įrom there you have access to space travel and have to set about visiting other worlds, contacting new races, gathering more resources, building cities, upgrading your ships, and bringing peace to the galaxy. It’s probably a good thing that the strategy elements are rather simple, because the game’s tutorial is lacking.You begin Sid Meier's Starships by choosing a leader. Contested planets can also be resolved in favor of one faction or another without going into combat, which allows for more planning and careful movement. ![]() Even though it’s definitely "strategy-lite", the system of maintaining and cultivating planets has some promise. Without much in the way of strategic combat, all that’s left is the strategy itself. The luster wears off after just a few games. While repetitiveness in and of itself isn’t always a problem (many video games feature the same mechanic over and over, after all), the gameplay in 'Starships' doesn’t hold up very long. The variables for each match don’t amount to much, and enemy AI is quite weak, even on the upper difficulty levels. ![]() Each match is pretty much the same - move ships into range, fire on enemy ships, repeat next turn. It also let me upgrade my ships accordingly for instance, to upgrade my close-range plasma cannons in anticipation of an environmental penalty to laser range.Įven so, combat is rather blasé. Before each fight was a reconnaissance menu that educated me on the enemy composition, the local environment, and my chances of success based on some arbitrary formula. There are no meaningful options for diplomacy or trade, and the economy is stunted. The strategy mechanics of 'Starships' are significantly stripped down when compared to its big brother, 'Beyond Earth'. Each map is strewn with asteroids that can block or reflect weapons fire, and there may be other permutations like randomized warp tunnels, environmental effects, or different victory objectives besides simple deathmatch. It is also turn-based, with each ship able to fire, move, and use special abilities like cloaking devices or torpedoes before the opposing team can move all of their ships. This is a simple 2D hexagonal grid, not the open, three-dimensional space of something like ' Homeworld'. When engaging in battle, play shifts to a different map where the fleet brawls against the enemy formation. The turn ends when the player’s fleet has accumulated too much fatigue and must take shore leave, at which point all other factions get a turn. Planets can be upgraded to increase their per-turn contributions, better defend themselves against hostility, and complete special projects that dramatically improve the federation’s fleet. When a faction has enough influence over a planet, that planet joins the federation and their resources are added to that federation’s pool each turn. The player controls a fleet of spacecraft that can move between each planet, defend them against aggressors, and complete missions to increase the player’s influence over the people of that planet. Instead of cities, the basic unit of power is the planet. 'Starships' is a turn-based strategy title, similar to 'Civilization' on the surface but with some distinct differences.
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![]() ![]() It offers natural language processing (NLP), which allows you to type words and have the software convert them into commands. It’s got a built-in Pomodoro timer and white noise to maximize focus. Tick Tick is the fullest-featured task manager on this list. There’s no amount of money you can pay to continue to use Wunderlist :’( 1. In addition, Wunderlist doesn’t support file uploads. The biggest con (and I mean that in both senses of the word) is that Wunderlist is shutting down. The Twitter integration saves all your most-loved tweets to Wunderlist. The Slack integration posts notifications to a Slack channel when you add, update and complete to-dos. Lastly, it’s nice that you can restore lists up to 30 days after deleting them. Or get creative and prioritize by #Urgent or #Red, #Blue, #Green. You could use #High, #Medium, #Low or #A, #B, #C. But then there’s also tags, which can be literally anything. You can also assign tasks a priority in a number of ways. You can view your tasks by week, or see all your tasks on one screen. The layout is attractive and you can customize the backgrounds. Here's a handy chart for comparing the options at a glance:īut before we get further into the alternatives, let’s talk about Wunderlist - for comparison, and old time’s, sake. (I’ll also let you know which I chose at the end.) I’ve listed the five incredible free Wunderlist alternatives in descending order based on average app store review score, or alphabetically when the score is the same. Every other feature I mention in this piece is available to users of the free version of the app. That’s why I’ve noted which features are behind an upgrade. One of the biggest problems with software comparison pieces is that it’s tough to know which features are available at the free level. Each option also supports Apple Watch, iPad, and Android tablets.Įvery app in this list also has the following task manager functionality: In addition, it must offer a free version, have up-to-date native apps for iOS and Android that have reviews of 4.0 or better in the stores. To be included, each app must be able to import your lists from Wunderlist. I narrowed a list of ten or so free task management apps down to the top five. There are four other excellent contenders vying to manage our precious to-do lists. Personally, I’ve disliked Microsoft since having to use Outlook in 2008 at my first desk job. So, where are we going next, comrades? Microsoft wants us to migrate to their task manager, Microsoft To Do. I’ve managed my to-do list with Wunderlist since 2014. This piece is, shall we say, personal for me. That’s when users stopped being able to update or edit lists or tasks. Microsoft bought Wunderlist and shut it down on May 6, 2020. The problem is that the company’s projection for the current quarter and full fiscal year came in below analysts’ estimates. Still, it has also seen its revenues grow (49% year over year to $181.9 million for the quarter ended Jan. Unlike Zoom, Slack is not yet a profitable company. Like Amazon in the United States, the company is hiring more engineers and salespeople in the midst of a crisis. Zoom has also been increasing its capacity with its two cloud infrastructure providers: Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure. “In general, we architect our data centers and have built them so they run at 50% of peak capacity,” Steckelberg said to CNBC. The idea is that if one of the locations is getting swamped with networking traffic, it can send the load to the others. READ ALSO: Tech industry increases efforts against coronavirus Two more will become available this week or next week, she told CNBC. According to Steckelberg, Zoom’s engineering operations team has been adding servers and other equipment inside every one of the company’s 17 data center locations. On Tuesday Zoom’s CFO Kelly Steckelberg told CNBC how the company is handling the increased demand for its online services. This Wednesday “ZOOM Cloud Meetings” topped the free charts in the Apple and Google mobile app stores in the U.S., ahead of Netflix or TikTok. Video conferencing softwares have expanded their free offerings to help businesses and schools in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. Alongside with Google’s Hangout, Microsoft’s Teams, and Cisco’s WebEX, Zoom has expanded its free offerings to help businesses and schools in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. Throughout the year, the company’s shares went up 74%, while the S&P 500 went down 21% in the biggest sell-off since the financial crisis of 2008. According to the Investors Daily, while the Dow Jones index has fallen as much as 33% off its February high, Zoom stock has found support at its recent buy point. Zoom Video Communications is one of the few stocks that has so far been immune to the coronavirus stock market crash. ![]() Otávio Torres, head of People at Rocket.chat. In addition, we created a special channel on our platform to daily inform employees about the most relevant points of the situation in the world, and provide guidance on best practices for challenging times like this,” Otávio Torres, head of People at Rocket.chat, told LABS. “The fact that we managed all of this through our own collaboration platform made the transition to 100% home office a lot easier compared to companies that had to do it from scratch. READ ALSO: Thiago Romariz – Will the entertainment business be forever changed due to coronavirus?Īs a platform born for remote work and originally with around 50% of the team working in this way, Rocket.chat has also taken 100% of its employees to home office mode in the past few weeks. Over time, the idea gained a life of its own. They wanted the company to create a chat feature for their customer relationship application. ![]() ![]() ![]() The platform was created at the request of customers of Konecty, a startup that Engel also helped to found. Outside Brazil, Rocket.chat also provides tools for Nokia, Boeing, the U.S. In Brazil, the company has customers such as the state-owned bank Caixa Econômica Federal, Samsung and the business solutions provider TOTVS. Rocket.chat was founded by the Brazilian Gabriel Engel in 2015, and is one of the top open source competitors of Slack. On Monday, in particular, the company recorded a growth of more than 130% in website accesses, in addition to an increase of more than 100% in installations and trials of the tool. Rocket.chat, an open source team collaboration platform with more than 350 mil customers worldwide, saw an increase of 30% in the tool’s usage in the last couple of weeks. As a result, broadband service providers, cloud storage and management services, as well as organizational and communication tools are seeing their usage and the number of new customers growing impressively. One of the measures taken voluntarily in the United States and Latin America to fight against the rapid advance of the new coronavirus was the effective implementation of remote work by startups and technology-based companies in general. 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The third component is actually my favorite because it shows iFixit cares about your computer's safety it's an anti-static wrist strap. Modern electronics are built to keep you out, not let you in to tinker. While I've used them a lot to open up cases, they're the only tool I'd use when detaching hard plastic connectors from a computer's motherboard. Spudgers are slim pieces of curved metal that can give you leverage if you're trying to pry open a stubborn case and would rather use physics rather than brute force. High Performance Toolkit for All Things Repair The perfect toolkit for pros to average joes. Pro Tech Toolkit comes backed by iFixit’s Lifetime Warranty. The Pro Tech Toolkit has everything from a Y000 bit for next-gen Apple products to the Gamebit for vintage game consoles. The second is the series of metal spudgers. 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The nonprofit organization aims to offer normalcy and positive memories by throwing birthday parties to children who have to spend their birthdays in hospitals, oncology clinics and hospice facilities. pOpshelf’s mission is to make every day special by providing shoppers a stress-free shopping destination for those special things that make life better. The first two Popshelf locations opened near Nashville, Tennessee last fall and another Georgia location, which What Now Atlanta reported is currently under construction, is set to open in Austell in the next few weeks.įor now, the McDonough store at 1772 Jonesboro Road is the only location and to celebrate the retailer’s Peach State debut, Popshelf is donating $4,000 to The Confetti Foundation. Explore Meals, Wheels and Reels: 16 things to do this weekend in metro Atlanta And, with the change in target audience, a change in what’s being sold will come, too. We are excited to welcome customers into these stores,” Emily Taylor, Dollar General’s executive vice president and chief merchandising officer said in the release. According to CNN, while Dollar General locations are targeted to those who earn up to 40,000 per year in salary, the Popshelf concept is set to target women in suburban areas that have annual household incomes that range between 50,000 and 125,000. ![]() A tagline or some other kind of identification might help while it builds out its chain of stores.“At Popshelf, customers will find a differentiated retail concept that seeks to bring joy to their shopping experiences, with surprising deals in targeted non-consumable product categories. Looking for Store Team Leaders excited to be a part of our new, fast growing company pOpshelf Gallatin, Tennessee, United States.
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Quickly move files, apps and more from a PC to a Mac*.Develop & test across multiple OSes in a virtual machine for Mac.Fast-run Windows apps without slowing down your Mac.Access Microsoft Office for Windows and Internet Explorer. ![]() ![]() How would I know that BTW? 'local knowledge' again? I cannot see 2.2M on my chart, so I guess that is knowledge people are born with (not me though). That would probably mean I am now about 1/2 meter out. OK, so the top of the slip may indeed be 2.2M high. I just want to get it *somewhat* right, that's all - to give myself some confidence in what I do in the future. It was only an exercise (for me) such that I can have some kind of faith in the data that I gather from charts and tidal predictions and how to apply that information. Like I said, I made many assumptions of which I claim no accuracy. but without local knowledge (which I don't have) I wouldn't argue with anyone who suggested any other figure between 0 and 2m !! We can see from the chart that the top of the slip is above MHWS, (because it is coloured yellow) and we can see that the bottom of the slip is above CD (because it is coloured green) Personally, I would guess at about 1m above CD. In December and June, it will generally get nowhere near it.Īt Town Quay Poole, for instance, Mean Low Water Springs is 0.6m - which means that although some Low waters will be more than 0.6m above Chart Datum, there will be roughly the same number that are less than 0.6m above CD. The logic is that they are as pessimistic as possible.īut it is a bit of an oversimplification to say that there is "always at least a metre more water than on the chart." At times (around March and September) low water will fall very close to LAT. HLB is broadly right when he says that there is always more water (and more headroom) than the chart shows, because the charted depths and drying heights are shown above Lowest Astronomical Tide, while bridge clearances are measured above Highest Astronomical Tide. The trouble is lack of information about the slip, rather than lack of information about the tide.Įven if you don't want to/can't be bothered to/don't know how to read a tide table will do it for you for free: you don't even have to register. ![]() The initial spread of outbreaks of the new disease around the world seems to suggest it has a preference for cool and dry conditions, although it is worth noting that the virus has since spread to countries with a wide range of climates, including hot humid ones.Īn early analysis comparing the weather in 500 locations around the world where there have been Covid-19 cases seems to suggest a link between the spread of the virus and temperature, wind speed and relative humidity. There are some early hints that Covid-19 may also vary with the seasons. A fourth coronavirus, which was mainly found in patients with reduced immune systems, was far more sporadic. These viruses seemed to cause infections mainly between December and April – a similar pattern to that seen with influenza. The closely related Sars virus that spread in 2003 was also contained quickly, meaning there is little information about how it was affected by the seasons.īut there are some clues from other coronaviruses that infect humans as to whether Covid-19 might eventually become a seasonal disease.Ī study conducted 10 years ago by Kate Templeton, from the Centre for Infectious Diseases at the University of Edinburgh, UK, found that three coronaviruses – all obtained from patients with respiratory tract infections at hospitals and GP surgeries in Edinburgh – showed “ marked winter seasonality”. ![]() The virus that causes Covid-19 – which has been officially named Sars-CoV-2 – is still too new to have much firm data on how cases will change with the seasons. How long does the coronavirus survive on surfaces?Īnd they are right to be cautious. ![]() Drinking water will not kill the coronavirus.Many experts, however, have already cautioned against banking too much on the virus dying down over the summer months. Many of the largest outbreaks at the start of the pandemic occurred in regions where the weather is cooler, leading to speculation that the disease might begin to tail off with the arrival of summer. Since it first emerged in China around mid-December, the virus has spread quickly, with the number of cases now rising most sharply in Europe and the US. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many people are now asking whether we can expect similar seasonality with Covid-19. Measles cases drop during the summer in temperate climates, while in tropical regions they peak in the dry season. Others, such as typhoid, tend to peak during the summer. Flu typically arrives with the colder winter months, as does the norovirus vomiting bug. 22 and March 21 and concluded that the lower number of COVID-19 cases in tropical countries might be due to “warm-humid conditions, under which the spread of the virus might be slower as has been observed for other viruses.Many infectious diseases wax and wane with the seasons. The researchers used weather data over 10-day periods between Jan. By contrast, places with warmer climates like Saudi Arabia, Australia, Qatar, and Taiwan have exhibited lower growth rates. Those locations were averaging temperatures between 37 and 50 degrees Fahrenheit at the time. It determined that places with high growth rates like Italy, New York, and Washington state exhibited “weather patterns similar to original hotspots of Hubei and Hunan (China),” where the pandemic started. Those are: greater sunlight, more humidity and the natural human urge to spend more time outside breathing in air that’s been filtered by Mother Nature as opposed to a building’s ductwork.Ī study from engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, still awaiting peer review, offered a direct comparison between the spread of coronavirus and local environmental conditions. Warmer climates, on the other hand, offer many possible factors that could explain why disease transmission could be reduced, Brownstein said. MORE: Triple combination therapy shows promise for COVID-19 patients with less severe illnessesĭoctors believe increased dryness and close contact indoors could be two factors that promote transmission of infections during the wintertime cold. ![]() Most popular audio file formats like mp3, aac, wav, flac. Incidentally: MediaMonkey supports MP3 Gain / Replay Gain (Track Gain & Album Gain) / Soundcheck (for iPod sync), so you can use it if you wish to play around with this. Audio Normalizer ensures that all your songs could be controlled and adjusted to the same volume level. does not change the volume level of a song in a uniform way. 3 Download the modified file Let the file be processed and you can download your modified file right afterwards. Mp3Gain PRO is the ideal solution to correct and normalize volume level problems in your MP3 files. The built-in MP3 Normalizer lets you normalize the volume levels of all MP3 files with a click. If you would like to convert to a particular Bit Rate, Channels, etc., change the Preferences / Format settings. As a result, it guarantees the best possible sound quality and saves your time and hard drive space. change their volumes to a steady level), and then resynced them to your device, it's possible that Soundcheck values aren't immediately recalculated, and the old Soundcheck values will cause the device to play the tracks at unlevel volumes!Īll that to say: unless you're playing those MP3 files on a device that doesn't support Soundcheck/Replay Gain, there's no reason for you to use MP3 Gain on them, since iTunes/iPod's Soundcheck does the job just as well (a second reason not to use MP3 gain is that it may cause you to lose Album Gain (the relative gain/loss in volume from one track to another on a single album) information. How to change the volume of an audio file online 1 Select file Select an audio file that you want to change the volume of 2 Set volume level Drag the slider to set the amount of decibels that the volume should be changed by. With X-Wave Mp3 Cutter Joiner, this is no longer a problem. MP3 Normalizer estimates Bit Rate, Sample Rate, and Channels to apply optimal settings to output MP3s. If your tracks are in iTunes, and Soundcheck values have been calculated, then, when you play those files in iTunes or on your iPod, they'll play at a steady volume (assuming Soundcheck has been enabled on iTunes and on your iPod). This is useful for things like creating mix CDs and. MP3 Normalizer is a software that works like the other volume normalizing tools but offers better quality and enhanced features. To clarify this (I hope), there are a couple of items at play:Ģ) The soundcheck values associated with your MP3sģ) Whether soundcheck is enabled for playback within iTunes and/or playback on the device Normalize-audio is a tool for adjusting the volume of WAV, MP3 and OGG files to a standard volume level. |
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