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After Fitbit’s release of the Fitbit Ionic, sales were not as high as Fitbit expected. By introducing the Versa into their line of products, Fitbit is back in the competition for providing one of the best smartwatches to date. The Fitbit Versa is a health and fitness smartwatch designed to help you live your best life. It provides many of the same features as the Ionic but with a new, lighter design. Read on for a review of all the features included in the Versa. Lighter Design At first glance, the Versa looks similar to an Apple Watch with its bright color touchscreen and lightweight alumin

Cryptocurrency mining is the process by which new cryptocurrencies are generated. It has been a very popular method of generating cryptocurrencies for close to a decade now – but questions are now being asked on the profitability of the mining operations. Let us take a detailed look at what mining is, what the problems that surround mining are – and what the future of cryptocurrency mining looks like. Understanding Cryptocurrency Mining Cryptocurrency mining, simply put, is the process using which virgin cryptocurrencies are generated. The process involves making use of processing power to so

Like many other people around the web, I decided to download my Facebook profile information and see if there was anything weird or shocking about it. At first glance, everything seemed perfectly fine and normal. In fact, I even tweeted that I didn’t see anything abnormal or creepy about the data Facebook had on me. I just downloaded my Facebook profile data and it’s literally everything I expected… am I doing it wrong? — Jeff Weisbein (@jeffweisbein) April 12, 2018 Surely, I must be doing something “wrong” or rather, I thought, maybe everyone else is just being extremely paranoid, over

With all the technological advances of our day and age, how it is possible that finding parking spaces and paying traffic tickets still have to be done manually? It becomes especially ponderous when one considers that a car is already a connected device. If the technology is there, how much longer until it can be implemented, rendering these problems obsolete? XYO Network has both the will and the means to hopefully make searching for parking a thing of the past. The company is bringing blockchain to the real world, with a decentralized location-verification oracle network. While Bitcoin

Life as a broke student or freelancer is never easy, jobs can be hard to find and you never know if the contract will fall threw. That’s where bitJob comes in. The blockchain-based application allows students to receive immediate payment while building their resumes. Employers can use the application to find the perfect match for their short-term or contract job. Founded by three childhood friends who realized the that both employees and employers could benefit from a decentralized way to seek one another, bitJob also offers the option to forgo cryptocurrency and receive instead USD or your

One of the biggest concerns that travelers have when going away is money. Whether it’s solo travel or a couples vacation, it’s certainly something you will experience. How much will you need? What if there isn’t enough to do all the things you want? What happens if an emergency hits and you need more funds? These are all common questions that can run through your mind when planning a trip, no matter how long. But, what if you could make money while you were traveling? You would have a lot less to worry about, you could spend a lot more time abroad and fit more into your trip. It’s tempting to

The phrase “there’s an app for that” is taken quite literally in the world we know today. Thousands of apps are available for everything from entertainment to productivity. Getting your app in the spotlight takes some work. To get there, there are some features you unquestionably include before your app launches to the public. Navigation Menu How many apps have you seen that don’t have some type menu? Probably not very many. An easy-to-use menu is crucial to help users navigate the features of an app. A lousy menu display can keep some cool features hidden, and the best menus can enhance user

Web design and SEO… These are topics that keep web developers, search engine marketers, and web entrepreneurs up at night. Irrespective of your chosen niche, the success of your website, any website, depends on the number of visitors it gets on a daily basis. It’s a simple equation. The more visitors you get to your ecommerce business site, the more chances you have of making sales. Qualified traffic is the secret here, and SEO is one of the methods website owners use to generate that traffic. We’ll talk about SEO later on in this article. But before we get to the topic of search engine optimi

So you want to speed up WordPress and make your site load blazingly fast. I don’t blame you. It’s critical that sites today load quickly as many users won’t wait around for slow sites to load. This article will provide you with plugins as well as tips and advice for how to speed up WordPress. WordPress is a great Content Management System (CMS), there’s no doubt about that. We use it here at BestTechie and roughly 30 percent of the web uses it to power their sites as well. That being said, while WordPress is an amazing CMS, it isn’t the fastest. In fact, right out of the box, WordPress sites

So you want to invest in Bitcoin? There’s now a service that I just found called Bitcoin IRA that makes it extremely easy and pain-free to invest in Bitcoin as well as other cryptocurrencies including Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Ripple, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash. The difference between Bitcoin IRA and investing in Bitcoin yourself is that if you use Bitcoin IRA, you are creating an official retirement investment vehicle. Now because of this, as you would imagine, starting a retirement account that hold Bitcoins and/or other cryptocurrency will require significantly more steps and procedures

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We gamers love to game — there’s no mistaking that. But we still have lives to lead and responsibilities to take care of, and that means we can’t always be stretched out on the couch in front of our TV. Handheld gaming systems allow us to stay gaming while we’re on the go. They’re the devices we toss in a bag and pull out in waiting rooms, on the train ride home, and while we’re waiting for our next flight in the airport. And at press time, in early 2018, they’re a dying breed. There are still a few consoles striving for your attention. But in our latest look at the state of handheld gaming

If you’re really into tracking crypto prices then you need this app. Aptly named, Crypto Price Tracker, allows you to do just that: track the crypto prices for more than 1,000 cryptocurrencies from over 18 exchanges in 32 fiat currencies. The app will also let you set alerts and manage your portfolio which is helpful as cryptocurrencies are very volatile. The Crypto Price Tracker app features sleek animated price graphs for all crypto prices and will show you the growth (or loss) during the last day, week, month, three months, and year. The app also has a built-in wishlist feature to easily t

Question marks are surrounding Japan’s cryptocurrency exchange industry following the closure of two bitcoin exchange operators at the end of March. Mr. Exchange and Tokyo GateWay were told to cease trading immediately after returning funds to retail investors, according to Nikkei. Heightened regulator scrutiny of Japanese bitcoin exchanges has meant both Mr. Exchange and Tokyo GateWay have withdrawn applications previously filed with the nation’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) to unveil crypto services to domestic customers. Since the hacking of Coincheck earlier this year, which saw $533 m

From Yahoo to Equifax to Sony and so on, data breaches have become one of the biggest threats of the our time. While big companies are at considerable risk, they are not the only targets for hackers. App developers, who utilize — particularly vulnerable — cloud services, are also in danger of having their sensitive data breached or stolen. Is it possible to keep one’s important data secure in this day and age? For Fluence, the answer is yes. The company aims to eliminate insecurity over data breaches by providing decentralized data storage and management on the blockchain for Web 3.0 applicat

When a patient is diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, he or she will soon find out that they will go through Hemodialysis until a donor organ can be found. This procedure keeps patients alive during the tedious await for a transplant but dialysis is also uncomfortable and painful, patients get their blood diverted into an external machine, where it’s filtered before being returned to the body, sometimes up to three times a week. This often causes serious damage to the veins. Aditlys’ medical technology is developing a restorative, polymer-based vascular access solution that will allow patie

Welcome to TechieBytes episode 13 titled The pivot from grow at all costs to sustainable growth (feat. Ethan Agarwal) Today I’m speaking with Ethan Agarwal, the founder & CEO of Aaptiv, an audio-based fitness app for iOS and Android. We discuss Aaptiv’s grow at all cost strategy and its recent pivot to a sustainable growth strategy as well as how other subscription based companies can do the same. TechieBytes is also available on iTunes, Google Play, Overcast, Spotify, and Pocket Casts. Subscribe today! The post The pivot from grow at all costs to sustainable growth (feat. Ethan Agarwa

A friend of mine recently shared this with me and I thought it was too good not to share with everyone else. An inspired developer with the username billcccheng created a nifty little app (or script, really) that you can run on your computer and use to browse your Instagram feed directly from the Terminal. The script, which is freely available on Github (along with the complete source code), is easy to install and works as expected. Here’s how it looks when you run the script on your computer: Without Color (Stealth Mode) With Color (Less Stealthy) Pretty nifty, right? Now you can look b

Writing can seem like hard work all by itself, and you’ve undoubtedly spent hours staring blankly at your screen hoping for inspiration. And that’s just the writing part! Before that, you need to search for resources, do research, and organize your findings so you can properly cite them later. We’ve put together a list of some helpful online tools and apps you can use to better streamline your essay writing process. Work some of these into your writing routine and — trust us — you’ll have a much better experience. Memonic When you start doing research for your essay, there are a number of

Although it’s been coming down the pipeline since 2016, the General Data Protection Reform (GDPR) is officially going into effect on May 25, and its impact will reach over 500 million users across Great Britain and the European Union. Designed to allow EU citizens more control of their private data, GDPR intends to reduce the likelihood of fraudulent web activity and enforce strict parameters that businesses must comply with to collect, manage and protect this data responsibly. You can find more information on the basics of GDPR here. So what does that mean for companies who operate in the d

Sales people like to sell and marketing departments like to create; so, looking for or determining the quality of leads is really the last thing either of them want to do. And yet, the act of purchasing an expensive list of leads or investing in web marketing ads through Facebook and Google has become one of the most frustrating factors of marketing and lead generation efforts today. This is due to the fact that more than half of the information on leads taken from these lists is wrong, outdated, or irrelevant, and a big waste of time for sales people. With the emergence of blockchain, indust

Anyone who has ever owned a business can probably tell you that is it no easy task. There are countless things that a business owner needs to be able to juggle, and it can be especially difficult if you’re doing it alone. To ensure that your new business is running smoothly, there are certain things that need to be taken into consideration. Budgeting is one of the most crucial aspects of running a business and can make or break the overall success of your business. Here are a few important budgeting tips for first time business owners. Use Technology As A Budgeting Tool Thanks to modern tec

Last Friday, the Bank of England’s (BOE) Governor, Mark Carney, called for greater regulation of cryptocurrencies, calling the huge price surges and volatility ‘speculative mania’: “The time has come to hold the crypto-asset ecosystem to the same standards as the rest of the financial system. Being part of the financial system brings enormous privileges, but with them great responsibilities,” Carney stated in his speech on Friday. While suggesting in his speech that the time has come to hold the crypto scene to the same standards as traditional financial systems, he also argued that “elements

We’ve all been there, you find a YouTube video you love and you want an easy way to save it to your computer. Or maybe, you found an amazing live recording from a band you like and just want to save the audio without the video. The latter situation is one I’ve found myself in time and time again and until recently I never had a good way download YouTube videos to my computer. Through my Setapp subscription (which is like a Netflix for Mac apps) I stumbled across an app called Downie. Downie makes it extremely simple to download YouTube videos to your computer–all you need is the URL of the Yo

It’s kind of funny to watch the dance of many banks and top financial institutions, and their changing views on cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. One minute Goldman Sachs is labeling crypto a “business risk” or insisting that the bubble burst will burst, but then the next minute they are investing in the technology itself. In fact, Goldman Sachs has an entire page dedicated to explaining the technology in a very positive light. It’s understandable why traditional financial institutions might be defensive of crypto considering the initial idea of blockchain was centered around cutting t