WebUser – 21 August 2019

What’s New Online

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bit.ly/cycle

If you needproo f that you can shorten your

daily commute time by getting on your bike,

check out Cycle Republic’s beautifully

presented Cyculator. Enter your start and

end points, and it uses datafrom Google

Maps to compare your journey by bike, car

and public transport, before calcula ting the

annual time, cost and health benefits.

Check how your city’s

temperaturewill change

bit.ly/temp

The UK hit record temperatures in

July, and the future is likely to be

even warmer. Use this tool to search

for a city, then view the projected

temperature rises through to 2100.

StopAmazonreviewing

Alexa recordings

bit.ly/alexa

Amazon listens to voice recordings

from Alexa to improve its service.

You can stopthis via the website or

the Alexa app: go to Settings, Alexa

Privacy, ManageHow Your Data

Improves Alexa and turn this off.

Learn languages via Twitch

http://www.twitch.tv/duolingo

Duolingo has partneredwith

streaming platform Twitch to help

viewers learn new languages.

Verified streamers will encourag e

others to prac tise languagesin

Twitch chat and expose them to

foreign lingos in their broadcasts.

flappy-windows.netlify.com

Flappy Bird is an addictive side-

scrolling game from 2013 that just

keeps

coming

back. We

looked at

a Battle

Royale

version

in Issue

480, and

now this

ingenious new iteration has been

getting us in a flap all over again.

Crea ted by Charles Gerard over a

weeken d, this clever Chrome

experiment creates obstacles out

of moving browser windows that

contain imagesof pipes. Pres s the

Spacebar , and another window

containingthe flappy bird rises,

challenging you to av oid the

obstacles and stopyour flappy bird

touchingthe bottom of th e screen.

bit.ly/diablo

Role-playing action game Diab lo was

highly acclaimedwhen it was releas ed

for Windows, Mac and PlayStation in

1996. Fast forward 23 years and you
      can now play it in your browser. You’ll
      needto own the game if you want to
      enjoy it in all its glory (it costs £7.
      fromGog. com), but you can access
      the shareware version for free simply
      by selecting that option from the
      menu. This gives you a taste by
      allowing you to play the first two
      dungeons using the Warrio r class. Just
      be aware that this Diab lo retainssome
      of th e bugs of th e original ga me.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/charts

Amazon has started listing its top 20

fiction and nonfiction books. These are

separated into two further categories.

Most Read highlights popular Kindle

and Audible titl es, whil e Most Sold

accounts for bookssold, pre-orderedor

borrowed in paper, ebook oraudiobook

format. You can read a chapter or two

of each entry, hear samples and check

customer reviews.

Learn the benefits of cycling to work

Turn Chrome

into Flappy Bird

Relive the classic

game Diablo

Check Amazon’s best-selling books

We pick the 10 best things you must do on the web this fortnight

NEW VOICE

COMMANDS

Listento your messages

GoogleAssistant cannow

read messages from third-party

apps such as WhatsApp. With app

notification access switched on, say

“Hey Google,read my messages”.

Delete your recordings

Apple contractors canno

longer listen to your Siri recordings,

and you canremove pastdata. Go

to Settings, Siri & Search. Turn off

the Ask Siri options, then goto

Settings, General, Keyboard and

turn off Enable Dictation.

Enjoy a history podcast

Histor ian Dan Snow’spopular

podcastattracts a million listens

every month. Say “openhist ory hit”

and you canchoose to listen to the

latest episode or pick a past one.