Coffrets Prestige, a small business in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, is doing it again this year with an original offer: a thematic box set of twenty PC video games 100% designed in Quebec for which we have a credit of $ 39.99 .
100% Quebec games
There are some known successes there, such as Outlast 2 and Foundation, and lots of indie games to discover. “The box exists in a physical version, with an explanatory booklet, and in a digital version that we receive by email,” says Émilien Roscanu, acting director general of the Quebec Video Game Guild, which promotes this offer. The next meeting: the sale Quebec Games on Steam towards the end of January, with discounts of up to 90% on a hundred games from here.
Kobo
PHOTO MARCO CAMPANOZZI, ARCHIVES THE PRESS
To work around the issue of transferring borrowed books from a library to a Kobo eReader, Protect yourself has a magic solution: all you have to do is borrow an old digital book or a PDF at the same time.
Thanks to knowledgeable readers – the magazine Protect yourself advised it in June 2020 – the puzzle of borrowing library books on Kobo e-readers is finally almost solved. It should first be noted that this bug only affects recent e-books, in ePub 3 format. To work around it, simply borrow an older e-book or a PDF at the same time as your recent book, and transfer both at the same time on your eReader. We have tried this method successfully on Windows with two books from 2018 and 2021, and on a Mac with a PDF combined with a book published in 2021. The solution seems implausible, but it is relatively simple.
Alexa
PHOTO BRIAN SNYDER, REUTERS
According to internal documents at Amazon obtained by Bloomberg, between 15 and 25% of Echo and other gadgets are no longer active within two weeks after installation.
As users of Amazon Alexa-enabled devices know, this voice assistant often adds little self-help comments these days on what he can do. The main reason, internal documents recently consulted by Bloomberg show: the overwhelming majority of users only use three functions, namely listening to music, the timer and the lighting control. And that when they really use it: Statistics at Amazon indicate that between 15 and 25% of Echo and other gadgets are no longer active just two weeks after installation. Interesting financial data, Amazon forecast in 2018 losses of $ 5 per device integrating Alexa sold, with a distant projection of a profit of $ 2 per unit in 2028.