ShareX is one of those rare apps that packs in tons of features and functionality for free, without ads. It's perfect for those who are looking for a more advanced alternative to the Windows Snipping Tool. But what exactly can you accomplish with it?

Digital photo frames such as the Aura will lose the ability to auto-update Google Photos albums later this month.Google is changing the way apps can access Google Photos libraries, which is creating problems for owners of some digital photo frames. While the change is designed to make your photo library more private, it’s also breaking how digital photo frames — such as those made by Aura and Cozyla — automatically update slideshows on their devices.Aura makes cloud-connected photo frames that display digital images you or anyone you’ve granted access to the frame adds. While the company offers several ways to get photos onto the device, one neat feature is that you can create a Google Photos album with, say, pictures of your kids and then turn on auto-sync to automatically add any new photos in the album to your frame. So, you could share the album with Grandma’s Aura frame, and she’d get a constant stream of new pictures of her grandkids.However, according to Jenisse Curry, senior director of communications at Aura, on March 17th, 2025, Aura will disable its Google Photos auto-sync feature. While Grandma will still have that album on her frame, it will no longer auto-update with any new photos you add to it. Instead, you’ll have to manually add photos to it via the Google Photos app.Having functionality removed from a device you paid for is never nice.Aura has to do this because Google is changing its Google Photos API, a move the company announced last September that goes into effect on March 31st. Curry says Aura is getting ahead of the change to help customers transition. The change limits how apps can access your photo library and no longer allows integrated access to your entire library or the management of shared albums. Instead, apps can only access photos or albums through the new Google Photos Picker API, which requires users to manually “pick” each photo.“We had a deeper integration with Google Photos that enabled direct access from within the Aura app and the ability to auto-sync a Google Photos album,” Curry said in an interview with The Verge. “That will go away because our app can no longer communicate with your cloud library.”According to this Reddit thread, Cozyla has also informed its users that its Google Photos auto-sync feature is ending. The Verge reached out to Cozyla but had not heard back from them by the time of publication.If auto-sync was your favorite feature, Curry says Aura’s iCloud integration works in a similar way. “You can select your Favorites album, for example, and then every time you heart a photo, it will show on your frame,” she says. There’s also the option to turn on auto-add with native albums in your camera roll on iOS or native albums in folders on Android, she says. Still, having functionality removed from a device you paid for is never nice.Google spokesperson Colin Smith told The Verge, “We’re always looking for ways to update our APIs to improve user privacy, and we have APIs specifically designed for digital photo frames and a program to help our partners update their products.” Last month, Google announced that Google Photos slideshows would soon be available as ambient displays or screensavers on more third-party devices. The feature is currently available on Google Nest displays and Google TVs. In a blog post, Google said it was working to expand the feature to smart TVs, tablets, fridges, and digital photo frames.Smith wasn’t able to provide more information regarding which devices this feature will be available on and how it can be enabled. Curry of Aura said that, as far as they were aware, this new function would not replace the auto-sync feature that’s being removed.Updated March 5th: Added a statement from Google.

There are two kinds of PC hardware consumers out there: those who are willing to camp out for releases, and those who aren’t. In the history of this great hobby of ours, we’ve seen a lot of components come and go, some of which revolutionized the way we experience our work and play, and others we wish we could forget about. The former sometimes results in extreme demand, especially in this age of social media-driven hype trains. Not everything on this list required an overnight stay outside a big box store, but these are the 6 PC components that everyone and their mother would’ve pitched a tent for.

The Raspberry Pi offers many possibilities, but looking at the more popular projects might have you wondering what you can do with the single-board computer if you don’t know how to solder. After all, one of the standout features of this SBC is its GPIO headers, allowing you to connect all manner of servos, sensors, LEDs, and more to the device. However, that’s not all the Raspberry Pi is about. There are plenty of projects you can incorporate your SBC into without any experience with soldering. The projects here include ready-made software and clear documentation, saving money and time, and not one of them requires a soldering iron.

So we've just seen a new wave of Apple products, including the new Mac Studio. You can choose between an M4 Pro or an M3 Ultra chip, and whichever one you pick has a drastic effect on the price. The M4 Pro variant will set you back $1,999, but if you choose the M3 Ultra, you're going to have to shell out a cool $3,999 to grab one.

In the world of PC hardware, hyperbole comes easy. It's fairly common to see a graphics card, CPU, or monitor being hailed as the next big thing. While the numbers might support such claims, the actual experience isn't often different from what gamers are already used to. Super ultrawide monitors, however, might be one of the few exceptions to this rule — gaming on one of these beasts is legitimately a singular experience.

Grand Theft Auto VI is one of, if not the most anticipated, games to be released in 2025. After seeing the first trailer for the next game in the GTA series, fans went wild and haven't recovered. Since then, the GTA community has eagerly awaited the second trailer. It has been over a year since the first trailer was shown, and fans have come up with some pretty wild theories about when they will see a second trailer for GTA VI.

Windows is, by far, one of the most popular operating systems in the world. But this doesn't mean that it's the best, and if you're looking for something more than just a standard operating system, then it might be time for you to give Linux a try. While Linux may not have as many users as Windows, it has a lot of features that just make it astronomically better than Windows in almost every way.

If you’ve been following my articles here on XDA, you may already know that I love building DIY projects with my Raspberry Pi. Whether it’s putting together a weather station or creating a somewhat functional Proxmox machine with the SBC, the Raspberry Pi has been by my side throughout my tinkering journey.

Reddit will now issue warnings to users who “upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies” within “a certain timeframe,” starting first with violent content, the company announced on Wednesday.“This will have no impact on the vast majority of users as most already downvote or report abusive content,” a Reddit employee says in the announcement post. In comments on the post, a user expressed concern that the new policy could make people “paranoid about voting,” but the employee says that “this would be an unacceptable side effect, which is why we want to monitor this closely and ramp it up thoughtfully.”“We have done this in the past for quarantined communities and found that it did help to reduce exposure to bad content, so we are experimenting with this sitewide,” according to the main post. Reddit “may consider” expanding the warnings in the future to cover repeated upvotes of other kinds of actions as well as taking other types of actions in addition to warnings.

While laptops are pretty good on their own, you can always breathe new life into the product by pairing them with a docking station. Not only do you get the addition of new ports, but it also expands the laptop's capabilities as well. Of course, docking stations can sometimes require quite a considerable amount of investment, but if it's something that helps with your productivity, then it may well be worth it.

The Trump administration may soon demand the social media accounts of people applying for green cards, US citizenship, and asylum or refugee status. US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) — the federal agency that oversees legal migration, proposed the new policy in the Federal Register this week — calling this information “necessary for a rigorous vetting and screening” of all people applying for “immigration-related benefits.”In its Federal Register notice, USCIS said the proposed social media surveillance policy is needed to comply with President Trump’s “Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats” executive order, issued on his first day in office. That order requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other government agencies to “identify all resources that may be used to ensure that all aliens seeking admission to the United States, or who are already in the United States, are vetted and screened to the maximum degree possible.” The public has until May 5 — 60 days after the notice’s publication in the Federal Register — to comment on the proposed policy. Ac …Read the full story at The Verge.